Good Morning.
I'm so tired of hearing about the Mueller Report that at this point, I'd like to unplug the television and read the dictionary. Of course we haven't actually seen the Mueller Report; we've had only a brief summary by the Attorney General, and despite the fact that the president's supporters are dancing in the streets, their idol is not someone who deserves an ounce of my respect.
I watched a PBS special on Prince Charles last night. I had always had mixed feelings about the man, but I liked a great deal of what I saw during the hour-long documentary. The prince was concerned about climate issues as early as 1970 when everyone else was asleep at the wheel. He loves animals and is particularly concerned about endangered species. He also tries to help young people get established in a trade that will provide them with a decent life. In one segment he toured several Caribbean islands that were devastated by Hurricane Maria and showed an unusual sensitivity toward people who had lost everything. He talked one-on-one with several islanders and seemed particularly drawn to the youngest among them. Contrast that with the president who went to Puerto Rico after Maria and threw paper towels around in a pathetic, almost frivolous, display of who knows what and was pitifully unable to connect on any level with people who lost over three thousand of their loved ones and who lived without electricity and clean water for months.
The president continues to hammer away at the late Senator John McCain for reasons that probably puzzle the finest psychiatric minds in America. It's true that McCain was the deciding vote in squelching Obamacare, the signature legislation of another one of the president's targets for childish, petty disparagement, but his need to constantly beat up on the senator from Arizona began during the 2016 campaign when he said that heroes weren't supposed to get captured. Excuse me. McCain was shot down and tortured for six years during a war the president avoided because of, um, bone spurs. When McCain was offered an early release from the Hanoi Hilton, he refused to abandon his fellow prisoners and stayed until the end of the conflict when all of them were finally able to come home together. McCain was not a perfect man. He was unapologetically brash and his positions were not always popular, even within his own party, but the guy was a certified war hero, and the fact that the president continues to defame him, even after his death, is indicative of a frightening immaturity.
The Mueller Report may have concluded that the president and his advisors didn't actually jump in bed with the Russians and may have said that he may or may not have obstructed justice - kind of wishy washy, it seems to me - but this man isn't capable of high-minded thinking about anything and doesn't pay attention to any human being unless he or she is bowing and scraping in a manner that would be soundly rejected by Prince Charles. Let us consider the situation inside the Conway household where a husband who is apparently a respected attorney and a devout conservative is trying to call attention to the president's psychological inadequacies and his wife continues to be sucked into her boss's self-aggrandizing machinations to the point of publicly siding against her spouse. I doubt that these people are dining by candlelight these days, and that's a terrible price to pay, Kellyanne.
Best regards,
Elisabeth
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