Whether Donald Trump could be a serviceable or better President of the United States beginning in January, 2013 no one knows yet. The Trump we all think we know is the purely public man. He has long since determined that it is in the interest of his various business enterprises to foster the public image of a brash, supremely self-confident swashbuckler. The public Trump is surely part of the picture, but may not be all of it, because successful public men are usually adept and showing us only what they think is in their interest to show us in any given circumstance. Some of the critiques of Trump as potential candidate have seemed beside the point, for example that he  embraced  positions in the past that he has since abandoned, like  in 2000,  support for Canadian-type "universal health care. " Paul Ryan supported TARP in 2008, and TARP was within Ryan's area of expertise, while even Trump, for all his, "I am very smart; I did phenomenally well...(Read Full Post)