July 27, 2016

On July 24, 2016 I watched Face the Nation on CBS. The host is John Dickerson. The only guest for this week was President Barack Obama. This week’s panel consisted of Ron Brownstein, Nancy Cordel, Ramesh Ponnuru, and Jamelle Bouie.

For this week they only interviewed President Obama. They started off the interview by asking if terrorism was a growing threat like Donald Trump claims, or if it is something that we shouldn’t worry about. President Obama replied that it was always a threat but currently it isn’t a growing one. The next object of focus was about the presidential candidates for this upcoming election. Though his opinion, like anyone else’s on this subject, was slightly biased by party. He claimed that Hillary Clinton is the most prepared candidate for presidency in history. Personally I don’t believe either candidate is prepared, and that both are mainly going to obtain votes due to them not being the other candidate. Later the remark that Trump is only popular due to him fanning fears of terrorism, which may be one of the reasons but not the main reason. John transitioned the interview’s topic onto what would be good qualities for presidency and how does feel about having to leave office soon. He replied that personally he believes three great qualities needed for presidency would have to be teamwork, discipline, and a great love for the people. He claims you need the ability to work well with others due to the job requires multiple people and is impossible to do anything without teamwork. He explained discipline is necessary due to problems or disruptions randomly occurring and you and your team needs to be able to keep calm and solve the disruption. Lastly he explained they need to love the people and the country to keep carrying through and remember why you are doing this in the first place. He claims that you can get lost and almost forget why the job is worth it. After the explanation John asked what was the advice his predecessor gave him. President Obama cracked a joke and replied always use hand sanitizer because you will catch a cold from touching everyone else’s hands. He then advised even though you will never be able to do everything you want to do; you alway need to try your best. Next was the panel. Their section wasn’t too long this week. Ron started off the discussion by stating that this election will divide the country into transformation and restoration. He claims the transformation group will be the people voting for Hillary Clinton who stands for transforming this country into a new diverse one, and Donald Trump’s voters who stands for America’s past legacy and greatness. Next was Nancy Cordel.  She pointed out that for the main portion of the speeches at the Republican convention were bashing Clinton. She claims that she believes they bashed Clinton due to Trump switching approaches and talking mainly about his goals to improve America’s cities conditions. Due to this most of his supporters who joined him to attempt to rid themselves of their fears of terrorism or an economic depression didn’t stand completely behind Trump and decided to speak about what they could think of, meaning Hillary Clinton. Personally I think that’s what they spoke about because a  main portion of his voters are voting for him due to him being Republican and not Hillary Clinton. Ramesh was next and just bluntly stated that he believes Trump is full of himself and should be preparing instead of partying. I personally think that both candidates are just focusing and exploiting that fact that they aren’t the other candidate.

Due to this blog I’ve started to understand the “interesting” qualities of this election and the amount of terrible scenarios that are now able to happen. I am now hoping that one of the two can get their act together and run a country better than it is already ran. If not another country or group may just take advantage of our situation.