Doggone, I dozed off before I turned the TV on, so missed all but the last couple of minutes. I disliked former Governor Beshear's remarks in "rebuttal," mainly because he just tooted his own horn and seemed to try to just reiterate the left's failed outlook: "Trump's provably wrong because we think we're correct."
But I was still sleepy-groggy at that point.
cordex remarked,
To me it's like "hate crimes" - arbitrarily calling out certain crimes as more heinous, important or worthy of attention based on some irrelevant feature of the perpetrator as opposed to the crime itself.
Not to change the subject, but since cordex brought it up, "some irrelevant feature of the perpetrator" is not "irrelevant." The hatred of that "perp" is an inherent component of the crime, to my mind, and therefore compounds the severity of the crime.
That's just the way I see it, but we've hassled that out before --to no effective conclusion. To me it's sort of like "Fines Doubled" signs on the highway because "we" really think speeding is particularly bad in that particular area.
All in all, I think Trump's becoming more "Presidential" is not unlike the process of any new President taking office, except he's "coming up" from a different perspective from most Presidents, who've got years, decades, of very careful training in delicately-scented political bullshit.
To his credit, I might add.
Terry, 230RN