Gorby and Putin

Here is a recent quote from Trump that many have criticized: "The man has very strong control over a country," Mr Trump said of Mr Putin at one point. "It's a very different system and I don't happen to like the system, but certainly, in that system, he's been a leader, far more than our president has been a leader." Back in the 80’s many of my liberal friends thought more highly of Gorbachev than of Reagan and even today they feel that the wall came down because of Gorbachev not Reagan. The Russian leader was affectionately referred to by these same liberals as Gorby. Here is a quote from Clinton. "We are not putting ground troops into Iraq ever again and we are not putting ground troops into Syria," This is reminiscent of Bush 41 when he said read my lips, no new taxes. This came back to hurt him when he decided to raise taxes when congress promised to cut spending. Unfortunately he not only broke his promise but so did congress but people forgot all about congress.