Wednesday 16th September

Yesterday morning I thought the weather had changed, it was raining and chilly, and a lovely refreshing change.   But now it is back to hot.

Have not done a lot lately.  

Everybody here is all geared up for the Republicans Presidential Debate this evening.  Trump is still grabbing all the attention with his promises that he is "Going To Make This Country Great Again".   I didn't realise that Americans ever thought it wasn't.

It has been said of Trump that he has had more bankruptcies than Chris Christie (a portly guy) has had salads, but no one seems to be worrying about him managing the economy.  His answer - if anyone asked him - is sure to be that he will employ all the smartest people to do that.  That's his standard answer, he knows all the smartest people in the world and they are all going to sort it out.

This evening..........I saw the Debate one and a half times.  I was at Emmanuel when it started, so saw the second half live, then watched the repeat of it.   I must be really getting into American politics.  I don't think it is so much the politics as the fact that it is interesting to see the front runners emerging.  I think they all did very well, they all had facts and figures at their fingertips.

In the news..........

Ben Carson is catching up with Trump.   I think Bush and Huckabee might drop back, and Carly Fiorina will move up.  She came across very well this evening.

Her campaign team obviously told her she needed to be warm and funny and outgoing.   Her performance was so inauthentic it was absolutely cringe making.

And this scandal shows no sign of going away anytime soon.  She is appearing before a Select Committee (whatever that is) in October, about the four Americans killed in Benghazi.  I think that is when it will all be over for her.  That's why there is talk of Biden running.  He doesn't really want to, I think the Democrats are getting desperate.

And Hillary's rival is doing well.

 

I can't get my head round this at all.  Obama has just done a deal with Iran, giving them billions of dollars and lifting sanctions, and all the time they are hurling insults at the US.