[Magdalen] The Donald Again.

[Charles Wohlers]

He's also my former governor, and this has long been my opinion of him also. 
He never seemed to understand that he couldn't just order heads of 
independent state agencies to do what he wanted. OTOH, he did manage to work 
reasonably well with the overwhelmingly Democratic legislature.

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: ME Michaud
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2016 4:33 PM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] The Donald Again.

Our experience with Governor Romney (who's the soul of humility compared to
Trump) convinced me that businesspeople make terrible politicians. They're
used to giving orders and not very good at all at moving forward by
compromise. They do not see the art of politics.

My mother always complained that Eisenhower tried to run the country like a
military campaign, but allowed that the war's end gave him a little leeway
in this. Still, he didn't do a good job of helping the country transition
to peace time when the people wanted peacetime, and that benefited Kennedy.
-M


On Wednesday, August 10, 2016, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think he likes to hear himself speak, and he doesn't put words together
> very well, even if he tries to 'be careful'.
>
> I do think that the most important part brought up/out about him is that
> is inability to take what he perceives is criticism.... what would that
> look like in DC?
>
> He's used to playing 'hardball' and is definitely a bully - that is
> 'effective' in some environments, especially when one is wealthy and can
> insulate from the riff-raff...  Wonder if that *skill set*, so 'out in the
> open', has ever been in national office before.
>
>