[Leica] Fourth of July Sunset

[Douglas Barry]

Thanks for your insights, Chris. I shouldn't be attributing political 
overtones based on email subjects.

Over here, we are minnows compared to the large sharks in world 
politics, so tend to have an avid interest in shark movements as the 
flick of a tail can do great damage to a minnow. Ironically, Mike Pence 
has stronger Irish connections than most as his Irish grandad arrived at 
Ellis Island on the 11th April 1923, and Pence himself spent holidays 
here cutting turf and saving hay. It would appear his anti immigration 
stance is more muted than the other fellow. Still, it will be interest 
to see Pence's reaction to our gay Taoiseach, as we are definitely an 
equal opportunity country over here.

Douglas

On 10/07/2017 13:25, Christopher Crawford wrote:
> These photos had nothing to do with politics, but here’s my take on Trump:
> Honestly, the damage he can do is limited by the system of government we
> have. The congress and the federal courts serve to check the president’s
> power, and they’ve done so with several things Trump has tried to do.
>
> Most of what he is trying to do is standard-issue Republican Party
> ideology. Half the country identifies as conservative Republicans, so it
> was just a matter of time before they elected a Republican president who
> would try to implement that ideology. If it wasn’t Trump, it would be
> someone else doing it. A lot of people here are hoping Trump will be
> impeached and removed from office. What they forget it that Trump’s
> removal won’t put Hillary Clinton into the Oval Office. The Vice-President
> gets the job.
>
> Mike Pence is a FAR bigger son of a bitch than Trump, but he is an
> experienced politician so he knows how to look like a responsible
> statesman. Don’t judge a book by its cover; looks can be deceiving. Pence
> was my state’s governor before he became Vice-President, and before he was
> governor, he was a congressman from Indiana. We Hoosiers know all about
> him, and trust me on this: He’s worse than Trump. Trump is just a clown;
> Pence is a religious nutcase and a lapdog of big business, and unlike
> Trump he has a well-planned and thought-out ideology that he will work
> hard to implement if he becomes President.
>
> If Pence had his way, Homosexuals would be executed, the poor would be
> left to starve in the streets, the working class would be reduced to
> slavery, and fundamentalist Christianity would be the official and only
> permitted religion.
>
> I don’t like Trump, but this is a free country and he won the election in
> accordance with our constitution. In a few years, we can throw him out. As
> a photographer, Trump is kind of a gift from God. I wish I could have had
> the money to go photograph some of the big protests against him. The
> election campaign itself was a gold mine for a documentary photographer
> like me!
>
> The decline of the USA began with Reagan’s election nearly 40 yrs ago.
> Every president since then, republican AND  democrat, has followed the
> script.
>