Reply #72: I said I did not mean to insult. I am concerned that people don't study the issues and respond to [View All]

personality or charisma. JFK had it, early colonists wanted to make Washington a king, Mussolini had it (very popular in Italy as a manly man until things deteriorated).

My point about Hitler is that he was legally elected because many people responded emotionally to him and gave him the office and the benefit of the doubt until it was too late to turn away from disaster. It seems similar to me to the Bush presidency. He made people feel good , Gore didn't and now we are a country that tortures and kills for no good reason Fairly Hitler-like to me.

I know a lot of people who voted for Reagan and I found it discouraging at the time. I could understand people who voted on the economics, because of the gas prices or high interests rates but voting on feelings is, to me, a dangerous thing.

Morning in America seemed to me to be an empty phrase. His record and statements should have told people he would be a rich man's president.