It was the night before THE Election, and 'cross this great land...
I would have finished this poem except that my feelings about this coming election are most definitely NOT poetic.
For instance, I am disappointed and disgusted that the American political system produced this "any way you look at it you lose" Presidential ballot. I mean, if we try to ignore all the news about Hillary and all the rumors and naughty photographs of Trump, and just vote based on both of their past "records," then pretty much "any way you look at it, you lose." Thank you Simon and Garfunkle for that classic line from "Mrs. Robinson." To further quote the Duo, "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?"
The Democratic candidate, based ONLY on her record as a career politician, is a proven liar. The Republican candidate is a proven "get to the top BAM" kind of guy. You know, BAM means "by any means." Plus, there are decades of news stories and photographs to show that Trump has been an associate of the Clintons for many years. Is he really so opposed to Hillary? It is my belief that we will see, as usual, "business as usual" no matter whether Hillary or Donald goes to the White House.
When I think of politics and especially about "Presidential" politics, I can't help but be reminded of President Richard Nixon from way back in the '70s. Good grief, I was just in junior high way back then. If you, my dear reader, are too young to remember, or if you skipped out of history class in college to do your laundry, let me refresh your memory.
Richard Nixon won a hotly contested Presidential Election in 1968, overcoming Senator Hubert Humphrey in a close race, electorally speaking. Flashing forward to 1972, President Nixon was a shoe-in for re-election, and pretty much everyone knew it. In fact Nixon did win the popular election by one of the largest "landslide" victories in election history. And he went on to serve his second term, happily ever after...well, almost.
It turns out that the only person who was not sure of Nixon's inevitable victory was Richard "Tricky Dick" Nixon himself. So, Nixon had his "CREEPs" (the Committee to RE-Elect the President) break into Democratic headquarters in Washington D.C. so that he could learn all about the Democrats' election strategies. The Democrats had rented a suite at a nice little hotel in D.C. called the Watergate Hotel. Long story short, the CREEPs were caught by an alert security officer, and...well, the cat was out of the bag, so to speak. Tricky Dick was busted!
Now pay attention, class, to this part of my post. President Nixon was NEVER CHARGED with a crime. The police and the FBI had all the evidence needed, and of course, the news was FULL of this evidence. What was President Nixon's crime? Burglary. More precisely, CONSPIRACY to commit burglary. That's it. No illegal use of emails (or teletypes back then), no deliberate inaction when Americans were about to get murdered in an American embassy overseas. No trail of corpses linked to other scandals. No leaked emails of sex with children or flying to the Bahamas with a registered sex-offender. No foundation accepting illegal contributions from foreign governments. Just a rather simple felony, conspiracy to commit burglary.
When Nixon's actions were exposed, the public, and Congress, were outraged, and rightly so. Nixon tried to ride out the remainder of his second term, but after a blistering Congressional hearing into the Watergate affair, the Senate made up its mind to impeach Nixon. And it was the right thing to do. The President was more than likely a felon, and evidence of his actions, if sent to a court, would have resulted in his conviction. President Nixon, the most popular American President since John F. Kennedy, was now disgraced and dishonored in the public's eye. But this disgraced man did something that should be an example to all politicians. With the last sliver of honor left him, President Nixon became the first (and ONLY, so far) President to resign from office, sparing the nation the expense and trauma of impeaching and removing the President from office, something Bill Clinton did not have the guts to do two decades later.
Now, nearly two decades after Bill Clinton left office, Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, former senator and former Secretary of State, has run up a list of scandals that makes Tricky Dick eligible for the clergy. The FBI Director, Mr. Comey, ADMITTED on television and in other media that his agency had enough evidence of wrongdoing to INDICT Hillary Clinton, and this for just the email scandal. Granted, he said he would not allow his agency to CHARGE Hillary (A WHOLE OTHER SCANDAL ITSELF) but he candidly pointed out that "other persons" (you or me, for instance) most definitely WOULD HAVE BEEN CHARGED if the same evidence were used against such other persons.
So now it is the eve of the most disgusting Presidential Election of this and last century. Will Hillary do the right thing with the last vestige of honor she could muster, and drop out of the election? Of course not. Two reasons for this: One, she does NOT HAVE a last vestige of honor to muster. Hillary Clinton is the most dishonorable person, bar none, to have ever held a political office in the United States. Two: If she is EVER charged with a crime, President Obama will no doubt pardon her prior to leaving office. If she is indicted after taking office, there is no reason to believe she would step down until the trial was over. But seriously folks, we know that neither the Director of the FBI, nor his boss, the Attorney General, will EVER indict Hillary.
Not only will Hillary Clinton never be forced from, or voluntarily leave, the Presidency, but also nearly fifty percent of registered voters will support her no matter what she does as President, or what she HAS DONE, on the road to the White House. My gut feeling and my prediction is that she will win this election and, not only that, but she will serve two terms, just as Bill did. Wouldn't it be great if I were wrong? The only thing that could cut Hillary's two terms short would be if she keeps poking President Putin and starts World War III. Don't laugh...we may have been distracted by all the news about Hillary and may have missed the threats she has directed toward Russia, but Mr. Putin has not missed them, I can assure you.
Before I go, I will indulge you quickly with my fantasy, and that is pretty much all it is at this point. My fantasy is that the FBI Director has simply thrown a smoke screen to Hillary, and at some point between now and January, 2017 Hillary Clinton et al WILL BE INDICTED. Ahh....we can all dream.
May God Bless and SAVE America
I would have finished this poem except that my feelings about this coming election are most definitely NOT poetic.
For instance, I am disappointed and disgusted that the American political system produced this "any way you look at it you lose" Presidential ballot. I mean, if we try to ignore all the news about Hillary and all the rumors and naughty photographs of Trump, and just vote based on both of their past "records," then pretty much "any way you look at it, you lose." Thank you Simon and Garfunkle for that classic line from "Mrs. Robinson." To further quote the Duo, "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?"
The Democratic candidate, based ONLY on her record as a career politician, is a proven liar. The Republican candidate is a proven "get to the top BAM" kind of guy. You know, BAM means "by any means." Plus, there are decades of news stories and photographs to show that Trump has been an associate of the Clintons for many years. Is he really so opposed to Hillary? It is my belief that we will see, as usual, "business as usual" no matter whether Hillary or Donald goes to the White House.
When I think of politics and especially about "Presidential" politics, I can't help but be reminded of President Richard Nixon from way back in the '70s. Good grief, I was just in junior high way back then. If you, my dear reader, are too young to remember, or if you skipped out of history class in college to do your laundry, let me refresh your memory.
Richard Nixon won a hotly contested Presidential Election in 1968, overcoming Senator Hubert Humphrey in a close race, electorally speaking. Flashing forward to 1972, President Nixon was a shoe-in for re-election, and pretty much everyone knew it. In fact Nixon did win the popular election by one of the largest "landslide" victories in election history. And he went on to serve his second term, happily ever after...well, almost.
It turns out that the only person who was not sure of Nixon's inevitable victory was Richard "Tricky Dick" Nixon himself. So, Nixon had his "CREEPs" (the Committee to RE-Elect the President) break into Democratic headquarters in Washington D.C. so that he could learn all about the Democrats' election strategies. The Democrats had rented a suite at a nice little hotel in D.C. called the Watergate Hotel. Long story short, the CREEPs were caught by an alert security officer, and...well, the cat was out of the bag, so to speak. Tricky Dick was busted!
Now pay attention, class, to this part of my post. President Nixon was NEVER CHARGED with a crime. The police and the FBI had all the evidence needed, and of course, the news was FULL of this evidence. What was President Nixon's crime? Burglary. More precisely, CONSPIRACY to commit burglary. That's it. No illegal use of emails (or teletypes back then), no deliberate inaction when Americans were about to get murdered in an American embassy overseas. No trail of corpses linked to other scandals. No leaked emails of sex with children or flying to the Bahamas with a registered sex-offender. No foundation accepting illegal contributions from foreign governments. Just a rather simple felony, conspiracy to commit burglary.
When Nixon's actions were exposed, the public, and Congress, were outraged, and rightly so. Nixon tried to ride out the remainder of his second term, but after a blistering Congressional hearing into the Watergate affair, the Senate made up its mind to impeach Nixon. And it was the right thing to do. The President was more than likely a felon, and evidence of his actions, if sent to a court, would have resulted in his conviction. President Nixon, the most popular American President since John F. Kennedy, was now disgraced and dishonored in the public's eye. But this disgraced man did something that should be an example to all politicians. With the last sliver of honor left him, President Nixon became the first (and ONLY, so far) President to resign from office, sparing the nation the expense and trauma of impeaching and removing the President from office, something Bill Clinton did not have the guts to do two decades later.
Now, nearly two decades after Bill Clinton left office, Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, former senator and former Secretary of State, has run up a list of scandals that makes Tricky Dick eligible for the clergy. The FBI Director, Mr. Comey, ADMITTED on television and in other media that his agency had enough evidence of wrongdoing to INDICT Hillary Clinton, and this for just the email scandal. Granted, he said he would not allow his agency to CHARGE Hillary (A WHOLE OTHER SCANDAL ITSELF) but he candidly pointed out that "other persons" (you or me, for instance) most definitely WOULD HAVE BEEN CHARGED if the same evidence were used against such other persons.
So now it is the eve of the most disgusting Presidential Election of this and last century. Will Hillary do the right thing with the last vestige of honor she could muster, and drop out of the election? Of course not. Two reasons for this: One, she does NOT HAVE a last vestige of honor to muster. Hillary Clinton is the most dishonorable person, bar none, to have ever held a political office in the United States. Two: If she is EVER charged with a crime, President Obama will no doubt pardon her prior to leaving office. If she is indicted after taking office, there is no reason to believe she would step down until the trial was over. But seriously folks, we know that neither the Director of the FBI, nor his boss, the Attorney General, will EVER indict Hillary.
Not only will Hillary Clinton never be forced from, or voluntarily leave, the Presidency, but also nearly fifty percent of registered voters will support her no matter what she does as President, or what she HAS DONE, on the road to the White House. My gut feeling and my prediction is that she will win this election and, not only that, but she will serve two terms, just as Bill did. Wouldn't it be great if I were wrong? The only thing that could cut Hillary's two terms short would be if she keeps poking President Putin and starts World War III. Don't laugh...we may have been distracted by all the news about Hillary and may have missed the threats she has directed toward Russia, but Mr. Putin has not missed them, I can assure you.
Before I go, I will indulge you quickly with my fantasy, and that is pretty much all it is at this point. My fantasy is that the FBI Director has simply thrown a smoke screen to Hillary, and at some point between now and January, 2017 Hillary Clinton et al WILL BE INDICTED. Ahh....we can all dream.
May God Bless and SAVE America
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