The 2016 Presidential Election is fast approaching, and early voting is in progress now. I cannot remember a worse Presidential Ballot than the one we have coming up this November 1st. Maybe someone older than me can, but that may hark back all the way to the pre-World War I years. That is just a guess, and it is really irrelevant.
The fact that our American political system cleared out the pack leaving just these two candidates escapes my belief. Out of all of the candidates who declared in the primaries, it is outrageously appalling to me that the "best" of the field were supposedly Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. First I would like to rant about Donald Trump. Mr. Trump is a loud-mouthed, contentious man who is full of himself. He represents great wealth with which he buys anything he wants, including influence. He appears to have no "class," by that I mean he says and does anything he wants without thought as to whom he may be hurting, or how silly he looks when he is so boisterous. As a business man he accomplished a lot by any means he had to use. I do not know enough about him to know whether he "started with nothing" and built an empire, and I am not really interested enough to do that research. Regardless, he made a fortune and now reaps the king's benefits from having made that fortune. But until last year he had no interest in the US Presidency; in fact, he was often busy decrying government intervention in the world of business. In his rise to billionaire, Mr. Trump learned to deal with people in a brash, rude, and arrogant way. Will this be the way he deals with his contemporaries should he become President?
There is something about Donald Trump, besides all the above, that concerns me. He has contributed funds over the years to Bill Clinton. To Hillary? I am not sure about that, but I know that Donald, Bill, and Hillary go back for at least the past couple of decades. Don't believe me...do just two or three minutes "research" on the Internet. I know this is just the very tip of the tip of the "ice berg" and there is so much more. The point is, Donald Trump was very, very chummy with Bill C back in the 1990's. It would not be a stretch to imagine that he was very chummy with Hillary C right up to...well, right up to the beginning of the primaries. Are Donald and Hillary REALLY arch-rivals now? Maybe, but I find that really hard to accept.
If it is really possible that Donald and Hillary's rivalry is a sham, then is it not also possible that all of Donald's rhetoric regarding Hillary is also a sham? If elected, isn't it possible that Donald will suddenly "decide" that some of his ideas as Candidate Trump are just "not feasible" for President Trump to carry out as promised. In fact, isn't it possible that someone who was "chummy" with the Clintons even as late as last year might also be "chummy" with Clinton ideas and goals? Said another way, is our choice REALLY a choice at all?
The only candidate besides Donald Trump that has a realistic chance (VERY REALISTIC, I am afraid!) is Hillary Clinton. About Hillary I have to ask, how is it even possible that she is a viable Presidential candidate? She has made former President Nixon look like a jay-walker with her various criminal and political activities, including involvement in scandals in Arkansas even BEFORE the Clintons ever made it to the White House! These activities are well-known, well-documented, and I do not have the time nor the patience to list them here. Suffice to say that Hillary Clinton is a disgrace to America and, had she done the "email thing" back in 1974, she could have resigned along side of Nixon, who was castigated because eighteen minutes of voice recordings were erased. I wonder how long it would take to read over thirty thousand emails into an old fashioned cassette recorder?
Hillary's involvement with events that have left a trail of bodies across this nation and in various countries around the world is also easily traceable through the various recorded media. Yet millions of Americans are literally fawning over her, literally can't wait for her to be the FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES! Her character, her actions, her words in woefully pitiful denial of those actions - all this notwithstanding - there are half, possibly more than half, of registered voters willing to put this unindicted criminal into the White House. The gutless Director of the FBI himself said that, although he would not recommend Hillary's indictment, he had found illegal activity of the kind that would have resulted in someone else's arrest.
This election would be laughable if it were not such a serious matter. One of these two unpalatable choices, barring something totally unexpected, will be our new President of the United States. One of these two undesirable choices will lead this nation for at least four years. I can only believe that, like the old Simon and Garfunkle song, "any way you look at it you lose" will hold true for this nation. Do I think the US is "doomed?" Do I think this is "the end?" No, but I think this election more than any other is a wake up call for America. Do we want to "stay the course" with either Trump or Clinton in 2020? I hope for this nation's sake that we do not. More than that, I hope for an awakening of Americans who desire to rein in the government and truly make it a government of the people, to make it a government that truly works FOR the people. I think we still have time to get this nation on course, and ultimately, to make this nation truly one that is governed under the law of the land, the United States Constitution, to make America great again with neither Clinton nor Trump at the helm.
Cast your vote in the coming election and ...
May God Bless America
The fact that our American political system cleared out the pack leaving just these two candidates escapes my belief. Out of all of the candidates who declared in the primaries, it is outrageously appalling to me that the "best" of the field were supposedly Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. First I would like to rant about Donald Trump. Mr. Trump is a loud-mouthed, contentious man who is full of himself. He represents great wealth with which he buys anything he wants, including influence. He appears to have no "class," by that I mean he says and does anything he wants without thought as to whom he may be hurting, or how silly he looks when he is so boisterous. As a business man he accomplished a lot by any means he had to use. I do not know enough about him to know whether he "started with nothing" and built an empire, and I am not really interested enough to do that research. Regardless, he made a fortune and now reaps the king's benefits from having made that fortune. But until last year he had no interest in the US Presidency; in fact, he was often busy decrying government intervention in the world of business. In his rise to billionaire, Mr. Trump learned to deal with people in a brash, rude, and arrogant way. Will this be the way he deals with his contemporaries should he become President?
There is something about Donald Trump, besides all the above, that concerns me. He has contributed funds over the years to Bill Clinton. To Hillary? I am not sure about that, but I know that Donald, Bill, and Hillary go back for at least the past couple of decades. Don't believe me...do just two or three minutes "research" on the Internet. I know this is just the very tip of the tip of the "ice berg" and there is so much more. The point is, Donald Trump was very, very chummy with Bill C back in the 1990's. It would not be a stretch to imagine that he was very chummy with Hillary C right up to...well, right up to the beginning of the primaries. Are Donald and Hillary REALLY arch-rivals now? Maybe, but I find that really hard to accept.
If it is really possible that Donald and Hillary's rivalry is a sham, then is it not also possible that all of Donald's rhetoric regarding Hillary is also a sham? If elected, isn't it possible that Donald will suddenly "decide" that some of his ideas as Candidate Trump are just "not feasible" for President Trump to carry out as promised. In fact, isn't it possible that someone who was "chummy" with the Clintons even as late as last year might also be "chummy" with Clinton ideas and goals? Said another way, is our choice REALLY a choice at all?
The only candidate besides Donald Trump that has a realistic chance (VERY REALISTIC, I am afraid!) is Hillary Clinton. About Hillary I have to ask, how is it even possible that she is a viable Presidential candidate? She has made former President Nixon look like a jay-walker with her various criminal and political activities, including involvement in scandals in Arkansas even BEFORE the Clintons ever made it to the White House! These activities are well-known, well-documented, and I do not have the time nor the patience to list them here. Suffice to say that Hillary Clinton is a disgrace to America and, had she done the "email thing" back in 1974, she could have resigned along side of Nixon, who was castigated because eighteen minutes of voice recordings were erased. I wonder how long it would take to read over thirty thousand emails into an old fashioned cassette recorder?
Hillary's involvement with events that have left a trail of bodies across this nation and in various countries around the world is also easily traceable through the various recorded media. Yet millions of Americans are literally fawning over her, literally can't wait for her to be the FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES! Her character, her actions, her words in woefully pitiful denial of those actions - all this notwithstanding - there are half, possibly more than half, of registered voters willing to put this unindicted criminal into the White House. The gutless Director of the FBI himself said that, although he would not recommend Hillary's indictment, he had found illegal activity of the kind that would have resulted in someone else's arrest.
This election would be laughable if it were not such a serious matter. One of these two unpalatable choices, barring something totally unexpected, will be our new President of the United States. One of these two undesirable choices will lead this nation for at least four years. I can only believe that, like the old Simon and Garfunkle song, "any way you look at it you lose" will hold true for this nation. Do I think the US is "doomed?" Do I think this is "the end?" No, but I think this election more than any other is a wake up call for America. Do we want to "stay the course" with either Trump or Clinton in 2020? I hope for this nation's sake that we do not. More than that, I hope for an awakening of Americans who desire to rein in the government and truly make it a government of the people, to make it a government that truly works FOR the people. I think we still have time to get this nation on course, and ultimately, to make this nation truly one that is governed under the law of the land, the United States Constitution, to make America great again with neither Clinton nor Trump at the helm.
Cast your vote in the coming election and ...
May God Bless America
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