EDITORIAL – We can now rest assured there will be no President Trump
Trump and Clinton in the last debate.
An ArmchairMayor editorial by Mel Rothenburger.
IT WAS his best debate of the three and, yet, Donald Trump was so bad.
As he tried to rescue his ever failing presidential campaign tonight (Oct. 19, 2016), Trump was able to get across his fundamental rightwing views on such things as gun control and abortion, and it may even have been close on the economy.
But Hillary Clinton once again succeeded in goading him into facial contortions and constant asides such as ”Wrong!” (which was a constant rejoinder as she reminded Americans of all the really outrageous things he has said and done).
At one point late in the debate, he actually uttered, “Such a nasty woman!”
But the clincher was when host Chris Wallace pressed him on whether he would accept the results of the election if he loses. Trump, after all, has been claiming the election is “rigged,” which we can assume to mean it will have been rigged only if he loses.
Although his campaign manager and even his family have offered assurances that he will, of course, accept the results and not attempt to plunge the U.S. into an acrimonious and perhaps dangerous division on the legitimacy of the results, he declined to provide his own assurance.
Instead, he said that if he loses he’ll look into it.
Look into it. Even Al Gore, who had legitimate complaints about the process when he lost to George W. Bush, graciously accepted defeat and ensured a positive transition.
Throughout, Clinton scored points against Trump on immigration and other issues including allegations against Trump for his treatment of women. She was the calm one, the “presidential” one. While Trump uttered phrases like “bad hombres” (in reference to illegal Mexican immigrants) and “Big League” (his new phrase for how he’ll fix things), Clinton totally deflected him on the email scandal and redirected him from one topic to another seemingly at will.
When Trump repeated his oft-used line, “Nobody has more respect than I do” for women, there were chuckles from the studio crowd.
Trump is a desperate man, but he’s no longer a threat to become president. In the dying days of the campaign, and with the last debate finished, we can rest easy knowing he won’t be in the White House.
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Well Barb,so much for prayers and polls and Mel,s resting easy..The American people have spoken.As Canadians,too many of whom do not fathom the USA or it,s people or it,s patriotism and love of country,we tend towards smugness, and ignorant criticisms of our neighbours to the south.As a learned friend from that great country once said,” you tend to make all the mistakes we made plus a few of your own”
Ain,t you glad they bought Alaska?
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This is now October 28th and now Hillary is possibly in the deep poop.Give your head a shake Mel.You,re my hero but you may have been a little premature on this one.One must always remember,at least us old folks should,the Dewey/ Truman election and it,s premature newspaper headline.The Obama/Clinton election is another good example.The Bush/Gore squeeker,s another.You just never know with those durned Yanks.We can look on the bright side though,heck we,ve got what,s his name and Sophie.
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Hilary isn’t as bad as the hysterical Trumpers think – after 30 years of insider politics swimming with sharks that would give their eye teeth to see her fall, after having 1000’s of personal emails released, after investigation by the FBI and every other 3-letter Agency you can name digging as deep as humanly possible she is, at the end of the day, guilty of almost nothing of consequence (in scale with the level she operates on – YOU try running the free world without making mistakes; good luck with that!). As Pink Floyd sang, “she’s just the same as all the rest – she’s not the worst and she’s not the best”. She will make a decent President, a first for women, and I think the US could do much, much worse.
As for Trump, I really believe he is actually the perfect candidate for the current Republican Party – a bombastic, combative, reactionary, dis-honorable, greedy, self-important, self-serving, rascist, xenophobic, tax-dodging, sexist, IDIOT. A perfect rightwing political Frankenstein Monster built from the ground up by a party that has zero interest in making America work – in fact they would rather see America fail that anyone else win. Anyone who buys his frippery about Making America Great Again, when he represents everything that is wrong with America, needs to get out of the echo-chamber of the right/left dichotomy and give their soft lil melons a shake-e-poo! (Apologies to those brave ones who have abandoned Trump – they shall be rewarded every day when they look in the mirror).
Of course one would think that the most powerful country in the world (due mainly to its voracious Imperialistic military culture) could, with 190,000,000 people to choose from, come up with a few candidates that were a trifle more inspiring, if not a trifle less compromised.
But this is the take-away and make no mistake: the system IS broken, and these candidates are living proof. Until the corporations are emasculated, the environment is protected in the Constitution and the election system is reformed, we will continue to kick this can down the road with increasingly bad candidates being the inevitable manifestation of the system break-down.
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I agree with David…I hope you’re not overestimating the American people. Also, much as he is a buffoon and absolutely astonishing with the things he says…he scored some points last night. Some Americans are very frightened of Hillary and what she represents. We can all just pray she gets elected.
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Mel, it is obvious that left wing Hillary appeals to you and your left liberal leanings. It’s easy to discount or rationalize her many faults, lies, sense of entitlement, ties to the big banks and the Establishment. It’s too bad The Donald is such a buffoon, he had a chance to rescue the country and he screwed it up. The next four years are going to be very, very interesting with the Crook at the Helm!
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Wonder if wonder boy Harrison will agree with you here. I do.
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You are probably right, but I won’t yet completely discount the multitudes of middle age, white, low income earning men (which is his biggest support group by far) who have not yet committed one way or the other, and figured out to not go vote on November 25th.
The big concern is what he will do post election. Us up here may need to seriously consider that wall we joked about, should violence break out down there.
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