Here are my observations and opinions from my select news of the day.

HAVE YOU HEARD that John Bolton, the president’s former national security advisor, told an audience at Vanderbilt University that  the Democrat’s impeachment against President Trump was “grossly partisan?”  It was reported by Matt Margolis in PJ Media.

In addition, he downplayed the impact of the testimony he would have had on the outcome of the impeachment vote.  “I would bet you a dollar right here and now, my testimony would have made no difference to the ultimate outcome.”

“The process drove Republicans who might have voted for impeachment away because it was so partisan,” adding that the House “committed impeachment malpractice.”

I found it interesting that Susan Rice, who was willing to lie about the attack on our Benghazi compound on five network news programs, was critical of Bolton’s stance, saying she “couldn’t imagine withholding my testimony with or without a subpoena.”  That says a lot about her political integrity.

REMEMBERING PAUL HARVEY – Thanks to Democrat presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg, who revealed his utter ignorance of what it takes to be a farmer during a 2016 appearance at the University of Oxford Said Business School, a video of which has appeared on Fox News Channel and is now circulating on social media, also resulted in the surfacing of the tribute to “the farmer” once broadcast by the late Paul Harvey.

“{I could teach anybody, even people in this room, to be a farmer,” said Bloomberg. “It’s a process.  You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, add water up comes corn.”  He intimated that farming takes less ‘gray matter’ than modern work.

Comments on how appalling, demeaning, elitist, and out-of-touch Bloomberg is, are now on the Internet.

I grew up in farming country, and attended school with farmers.  Mrs. Kramer and I picked berries on a farm for spending money in the summer.  During my career, I have met a number of individuals who were brought up on farms.

However, it wasn’t until I began working for Sperry Rand that I came to really know about farming, especially the technical capabilities of the farmer. The Sperry New Holland division, headquartered in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was considered to be the largest manufacturers of farm machinery, like combines and balers.

Please take the time to view Paul Harvey’s tribute the farmer by CLICKING HERE, and see why Bloomberg is, in reality, a billionaire buffoon.

BLOOMERG’S INSULTS of minorities extend beyond his recent apology statement about his support of stop and frisk in which he noted, “if you look at where crime takes place, it’s in minority neighborhoods.  If you look at who the victims and perpetrators are, it’s virtually all minorities.  The way you get the guns out of the kids’ hands is to throw them up against the wall and frisk them.”

Thanks again to a bit opposition research, we learn that in 2011, then Mayor Bloomberg, appearing on the PBS Newshour, referred to an “enormous cohort of young black and Latino males, age, let’s say, 16 to 25, that don’t have jobs, don’t have any prospects, don’t know how to find jobs don’t know  what their skillsets are, don’t know how to behave in the workplace where they have to work collaboratively and collectively.”

RICHARD GRENELL, who has been our ambassador to Germany, was named by President Trump to become the acting director of national intelligence.  Grenell has proven to be a strong supporter of the administration effort to persuade Germany and other European countries to contribute their fair share in support of NATO.

Grenell will only be able to serve three months in the acting director role as he will have to face Congressional confirmation for the permanent DNI role.  In the interim, I understand that he will continue to serve in a dual role as the ambassador to Germany.

Writer Kurt Schlichter writes @KurtSchlichter: “Remember, what the elite hates about Rick Grenell is that he’s got all the credentials they think are important and he is better at at all the things they think are important.  But he does not respect them.  And it crushes them.”

So, expect a rough go for him during confirmation.

SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS HIGH ON TRUMP – Sixty-four percent of small business owners approve the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president, the highest approval rating for Trump among entrepreneurs since CNBC and SurveyMonkey began conducting a quarterly survey in 2017, according to Riley deLeon at CNBC.

WHILE CAMPAIGNING IN LAS VEGAS, President Trump spoke at a graduation ceremony for former prisoners who have been participating in the program, “Hope for Prisoners,” organized to help former inmates to re-enter the workforce.

He told them that realizing the American dream is still possible.

BUTTIGIEG HIT ON TWO SIDES – “My advice for Pete Buttigieg … stop playing war hero.  You’re gonna get called out,” tweeted Robert O’Neil, the former Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden.

O’Neil’s harsh advice for the Democrat presidential candidate,w3s2qa who often touts his five months in Afghanistan while criticizing President Trump for dodging military service, was noted by Tristan Justice in The Federalist.

This follows an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal in which U.S. Marines Greg Kelly and Katie Hogan wrote that veterans “roll their eyes” when Buttigieg talks of his time in the Navy.  Buttigieg got a fast-track commission and did not participate in boot camp training.

The Marines considered Buttigieg’s boast of taking 119 trips off the military base driving or guarding a vehicle, as if he was logging combat sorties in an F-18.

THEN THERE’S THIS – Struggling to get support of the black community as he desperately tries to prove that he can put together a diverse coalition of support, Buttigieg had to walk back a claim that he received the endorsement of actor and comedian Keegan-Michael Key.

THE LEFT-LEANING COLUMNISTS at the Arizona Republic, Laurie Roberts and E. J. Montini, known for their disdain for President Trump and Sen. Martha McSally, found themselves in a bit of pickle this week.

Roberts, who wants to see Mark Kelly defeat McSally in November, has written a number of negative columns on McSally for supporting her president.

On Wednesday, Roberts was surprisingly critical of Kelly sidestepping the question of whether the Democrat Party is moving too far to the left.  Yet, with Sanders in the lead, Kelly has said that clearly, “I will ultimately support who the nominee of the Democrat Party.

Reminding her readers of Kelly’s claim to be a moderate, she questions his unwillingness to respond to socialism and free stuff for everybody.  “There’s little doubt,” she writes, that “Kelly must be privately cringing at the thought of running with Sanders at the top of the ticket in November,’ and suggests that his worst nightmare isn’t McSally.  It’s Bernie Sanders.”

AFTER THAT TURNABOUT from Roberts, I wondered what Montini had conjured up with his headline, “Kennedy sure had it, and now so does Trump,” knowing he detests Trump.

After relating a childhood story (he was just a year old) of going to see Kennedy with his mother and next-door neighbor, who was enthralled with the handsome John Kennedy, he slipped into his thoughts on charisma.  He’s right. Kennedy had it.  No, Obama didn’t have it, as he thought.

As expected, he attempted to play down the charisma of Donald Trump, not able to understand how he reaches people on an emotional level. “It’s difficult to dissuade their followers with reason.  With truth.”

A worshiper of the late John McCain, Monitini concluded with “And a man who still (in death) matches up favorably against Trump – charisma-to-charisma – John McCain.

McCain’s charisma, if he had it, lost him two presidential runs.

                May God continue to bless the United States of America.