Mad_Machine76
Mad_Machine76's JournalThis election seems to be getting treated a lot like 2000
Sane, stable, intelligent Democrat getting bashed endlessly while MSM props up and promotes brash, incurious, and disaster-waiting-to-happen Republican who happens to be "new" and "exciting" for the MSM to cover. I only hope that history doesn't COMPLETELY repeat itself.
It would be amusing to see that happen
But nobody really has the time or energy to do that, honestly. However, sometimes, the only way to make somebody sick of something is to expose it over and over again and really rub it in. Of course, if people didn't voraciously consume tabloid journalism, this would probably be a non-story.
Sadly, I have to agree for the most part
The Republican Party in general, however, appeals to a lot of the same kind of people, just not quite as blatantly as Trump's campaign does. Unfortunately, the GOP base finally got "their" preferred candidate nominated this year.
The press IS dying to take her down
but I still think that there's a fine line between being transparent about obviously important things as a Presidential candidate and other more mundane things. Trump and the press seem to be pressing (pun intended) the idea that Hillary has some horrible illness that she isn't being transparent about, presumably for fear of being disqualified for being POTUS (they wish) and they seem hell bent on getting her to release tons of private health information that nobody should be entitled to just so that she can prove to everybody that she is healthy enough to be POTUS. Of course, what they will REALLY do with any information that she provides is leak it all over the place and comb over it for potentially embarrassing details. In many ways, this really reminds me of the Obama Birth Certificate (coincidentally pushed hard by Trump in 2012) where, despite repeated denials by President Obama and tons of elected officials, including Republicans whom would have had no interest in covering up for him, the press wouldn't let the issue die until President Obama released his long form Birth Certificate, despite the fact that no other President in the history of our country has been subjected to such scrutiny over the location of his birth. They tried a similar gambit with his college transcripts but that didn't go anywhere. Now, they are going after Hillary about her health, despite the lack of any substantive evidence that anything is seriously wrong. IMHO she should resist the impulse to give the vultures more to pick at unless she has a really seriously debilitating disease but, logically, if she did have something debilitating, do people believe that she is so craven and power hungry that she would be running for POTUS if she were dying instead of spending her remaining time with friends or family? Or, better yet, does it even matter? If she were to die in office, she has a Vice President to succeed her, so what's the big deal anyway? Is her (maybe) being seriously ill really a reason to vote for Trump- despite the questionable nature of HIS supplied doctor statement? TBH I would vote for her even if she came out and told us that she had a debilitating illness because, by all appearances, she still can do a lot of good, including keeping Trump out of the WH and I would feel plenty comfortable with Kaine as POTUS if need be.
What *would* disqualify him?
I have no freakin' clue. Allegedly bribing an AG to drop charges against his "University" and telling people that he could get away with shooting somebody, among other things is not. However, Hillary having been SOS when Benghazi happened, having used a private e-mail server while SOS wherein nothing illegal happened, and having some mysterious health ailments that nobody but the "Hillary Healthers" seem to somehow know about are plenty to disqualify her.
Like normal people never get sick, right?
Trump, et al will play up every cough and sniffle.
Remember when some people
said that the Iraq War of being all about taking Iraq's oil and were accused of being paranoid/hyperbolic? Well, now we now have a Presidential candidate pretty much saying that that taking Iraq's oil (and, by extension, anybody's) would have been/would be justifiable. Why THIS would not immediately disqualify him as a Presidential candidate is beyond me.
Ummm.....we DO want high standards for our Presidents?
Don't we?
Did the MSM just get collective amnesia about 2001-2009 and how bad a POTUS George W Bush was?
And before they start talking about Trump selecting a bunch of "experts" for his cabinet to guide him, is anybody paying attention to the absolutely crazy people he picked to help with his campaign?
Am severely confused about this election- and recent polling
How is it that Trump is tied or (gulp) slightly leading Hillary in national polling now and we're supposed to act concerned by this, but he is barely clinging to leads in deep red states like Georgia and Arizona that NEVER go Democratic in Presidential election, not to mention his documented lack of a campaign apparatus?
The thought is too horrifying for me to consider
I have absolutely NO IDEA what I would do if Donald Trump were elected POTUS other than, maybe, to find a deep, dark hole in the ground to live in for the next 4-8 years and hope that our country is able to survive it mostly intact.
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