On Thursday, February 6, 2020 at 1:20:26 PM UTC-5, Ralph Mowery wrote:
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don't recall any other SOTU where the president gave the Medal of Freedom
to a loud mouth radio blowhard. It's another example of Trump sticking
his finger in someone's eye. The trumpets will love it, but it comes at
the cost of more division, more hate, less ability to govern and get this
done. There are thousands of people who are more deserving. How about
people like Bill Gates, who'd donated much of his wealth, billions to
help people, as well as being a great boost to America's place in
technology and business? How about Bob Noyce and Jack Kilby, the co-inventors
of the integrated circuit that changed the world? Where are their medals?


Bill Cosby has one of them.



Here is a list. The Gates have one. Past President Carter has one and
I think he is one of the worst presidents in modern time.

I agree, Carter was a disaster. But I assume his MOF was for his life's
work, not for how his presidency ranked. He's done endless charity work
since leaving office. And while in office he did achieve peace between
Israel and Egypt, no one has been able to do anything even remotely close
to that since.





From the looks of things, many of those are for "participation".

Maybe Rush Limback deserves one for being a radio blowhard.

If you look at the dates of them, it seems that some that should deserve
it for the catagories they are in are way too late.


If Trump wanted to give one to Rush, knowing how divisive it would be,
he should have done it at the WH, not at the SOTU. And worse, that is
exactly why Trump gave it there, because he knows it will rile up the
Democrats and play to his base.