The shame of the season
Hillary Clinton has said and done some egregious things. In 2008, her campaign floated to Matt Drudge a photo of Barack Obama wearing traditional Somali garb (taken during an official African visit) and she thus became the architect of the right-wing conspiracy theory that Obama is a secret Muslim born in Africa.Until she was called on it by the Washington media, she claimed during that '08 presidential race that she opposed the Iraq war from the very beginning. And for the decade preceding her Senate vote to wage war on Iraq, she made a living defaming the women her husband had sexually violated.
But my new favorite example of Clinton's immoral character is her assertion 10 days ago during the Democratic debate at Des Moines' Drake University that her support for the victims of 9-11 explains her cozy relationship with Wall Street. In case you missed it, her answer, when asked to defend the millions of dollars she has accepted in campaign donations from Wall Street firms, was this...
"I represented New York, and I represented New York on 9/11 when we were attacked. Where were we attacked? We were attacked in downtown Manhattan where Wall Street is. I did spend a whole lot of time and effort helping them rebuild. That was good for New York."
Good god, just how low will this woman stoop? I fear that Democratic Party voters will allow us to find out.
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A Trump presidency will be a boon for the construction business in Mexico. The building trades there will be compelled by the United States chief executive to erect a wall along their entire 1,989-mile northern border... you already know about that, but now think also about all the 35-foot step ladders they'll be manufacturing.
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One of the yet-unnoticed tragedies surrounding the Trump campaign is that it's maligning the concept of the subversive protest vote.
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Two of these men should be president.
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People who recognize that the Rams will be leaving St. Louis after the current football season ask me all the time if I will continue to be a Rams fan when they are representing the city of Los Angeles. The answer is: oh god no. I can't even understand that concept. Sportswriter Will Leitch, a native of southern Illinois (Urbana), still follows (even publicly) the football Cardinals, who abandoned St. Louis for Phoenix 27 years ago. Weird. Maybe it's because he was a kid when that relocation took place. He and I are roughly the same age. I am a fan of the St. Louis Rams, and the St. Louis football Cardinals, and it ends there. When neither exists, I will live with my memories.
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Gobble. Gobble.
posted by CM @ 7:40 PM
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