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This is silly, but then everything written about Trump at The Guardian is silly, when it isn't
full of hate.
Your list, “Five more terrifying would-be presidents,” is
almost beyond comprehension.
Please, just look at some of the current candidates. You
simply could not find a more questionable group of people. It is a regular
Madame Tussaud Chamber of Horrors.
Cruz is a scary right-wing religious wacko. There is a video
of him on-line sitting at breakfast holding hands with his perfect little suburban
family praying over the Sugar Pops. And if you are religious, isn’t prayer for
your closet, not your campaign publicity? Staff working for Cruz include
neo-cons and CIA-types, and his wife is associated with Goldman Sachs. He is intellectually gifted, but many of his
old associates say he is an extremely unpleasant man with which to work,
extremely arrogant, and one not to be trusted, being given to treacherous turns.
This man, who would have the nuclear code box at his disposal, is a believer in
the Second Coming, and that is hardly reassuring. And, as he showed in Iowa, he
is quite capable of truly underhanded behavior.
Then we have Carson, a narcissistic megalomaniac, and that's
apart from his genuinely bizarre beliefs about things like the Pyramids of
Egypt. It is actually difficult to listen to him, his words are so strange at
times. His house apparently is heavily decorated with pictures of himself.
Again, a believer in the Second Coming. Also a man demonstrated as given to
self-embellishing falsehoods.
Jeb Bush is insipid in appearance, and extremely dishonest
in behavior. He was, after all, Governor of Florida when the 2000 election
involving his brother was thrown into the Supreme Court over very questionable
treatment of ballots. That election was essentially stolen, but Al Gore, who
received the most votes by a good measure, didn’t have the heart to fight it.
Jeb also made a lot of money out of companies doing business with Florida, very
much in the fashion of your typical third-world leader. His campaign has
recently been paying (yes, paying!) people off the street to attend his
speaking events with their thin attendance. He even recently was caught moaning
to his paid crowd that they could at least applaud.
Hillary Clinton has been caught in so many lies, you can’t
keep track. Everything from the Benghazi fiasco to her former campaign fairy
tale about coming under sniper fire in Bosnia where actual news film showed her
being greeted warmly by a lovely little girl with flowers, proof which caused
her to say she “misspoke.” Misspoke about being under sniper fire? Ridiculous.
And ridiculous, too, is her long list of confrontations with former lovers of
her husband, some saying they were threatened or some bribed with job offers to
shut up. She has, however, no history of confrontation with billionaire and
convicted pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein, who lives on a private island where he
keeps underage girls at his disposal and at the disposal of guests. Bill has visited
the island many times, and Mr. Epstein has contributed handsomely to the
Clinton Foundation. The hundreds of millions in that Foundation come from many
questionable sources, from foreign powers looking to do business with the U.S. when
she was Secretary of State to rich scoundrels looking for a Presidential
pardon. The Foundation, not noted for any real charitable work, has served as a
slush fund for political efforts and as a place for her daughter to work as an
executive at an extravagant salary. Hillary’s whole record of behavior easily
qualifies her as a contemporary American Borgia.
Perhaps most depressing of all, she always votes for war. Of
course she supported her husband’s nasty little war in Serbia. And she had a
front-row seat for destroying Libya. I just love her sick, psychopathic comment
made with laughter at the time of Gadhafi’s assassination: "We came, we
saw, he died." Clinton is one of Israel’s favored candidates precisely
because she is a relentless war-monger. Israel never wants America looking
towards peace or decreased involvement in the world.
And that’s just part of the ugly crew running. Only Bernie
Sanders stands out for integrity and traditional progressive beliefs, but he
has the proverbial “snowball’s chance in hell” of winning. Imagine a brutal,
world imperial power like America, engaged in almost non-stop warfare and
interference in the affairs of others, electing a self-declared socialist? It
is literally impossible.
Trump definitely has some unpleasant characteristics and
views, but there is a part of him that is solid with something to offer. His
views on America’s wars and stupid involvements in places like Syria are sound.
Maybe in a place like America, you have to take some bad stuff to gain some
good in at least one crucial area. He is very a successful businessman and an
independent thinker, and those are both things Americans like.
I think compared to some of the alternatives, he is nothing
quite like the hateful figure The
Guardian keeps saying he is, and I suspect undeclared special interests in The Guardian’s treatment of him, likely
having to do with its ongoing bias towards Israel, whose government we know
dislikes Trump’s independent views.
