Clouds, cooler and a word about quoting past presidents by candidates

Good Morning Augusta

This morning we have generally cloudy skies with a high of 63ºF. Winds ESE at 5 to 10 mph.

Tonight we’ll have cloudy skies and a slight chance of a rain shower. Low will be 51ºF. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph.

The readings from my weather instruments in the North field are:

Humidity is 81%, the dew point is 51ºF, its 58.7ºF outside.

The wind direction is Southeast  between 2.0 MPH and 2.7 MPH.

The Barometric pressure is 30.32 / HPA 1026.7 and rising with a weather graphic predicting sun.

The UV rating is 1.0 out of 16, Sunrise is at 4:59 a.m. Sunset is 8:14 P.M. Moon rise is at 1:09 a.m. a        nd the moon phase is Waning gibbous.

The Raw METAR readings from Augusta’s airport are:

METAR KAUG 291053Z AUTO 15008KT 10SM OVC023 14/10 A3027 RMK AO2 SLP251 T01390100

Visibility is 10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers with overcast to 2,300 ft / 701 m.

 We didn’t receive any rain here yesterday.

In a recent WBUR  article: “Commentary: Trump Endorsers Will Need To Avoid Quoting Past Presidents” The author makes a few points that are uncomfortable for those who support Donald Trump as well as for the rest of us. Below, lifted completely out of context, from that WBUR article are the Three past presidents that Donald and his supporters should probably avoid quoting.

Hmmmm.

  Ronald Reagan: “Tear down this wall.”

You won’t hear that because it would seem to contradict the spirit of Trump’s famous statement: “I would build a great wall. And nobody builds walls better than me, believe me.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower: “This world of ours … must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.”

You won’t hear that because it seems in conflict with Trump saying things like: “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best… They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”

Abraham Lincoln:

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle…”

That quote from Lincoln’s second inaugural address would clash with many Trump comments. “With malice toward none, with charity for all,” doesn’t seem in sync with Trump’s call for mass deportation of an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants. Care for those who “have borne the battle” clashes with Trump denigrating former POW John McCain. “He’s not a war hero,” Trump said. “He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”

So, putting Hillary Clinton’s shortcomings aside for the moment, are YOU ready to toss out the legacy for those three presidents?  I’m not.