Posted on 06/16/2016 4:21:51 AM PDT by Kaslin
At first glance, 2016 sizes up as no other election year in American history.
For more than 30 years, both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have been high-profile and controversial celebrities. Both have been plagued by scandals and are viewed negatively by millions of voters. Clinton is facing possible federal indictment; Trump is being sued over Trump University.
If elected, Clinton would be first female president in U.S. history. If Trump prevails, he would be the first president to assume office without having held a political or Cabinet office or a high military rank.
Yet the race still could prove more conventional than unorthodox.
Trump is considered uniquely crude. But take some of our most iconic political figures and one can find comparable extremist rhetoric.
As California governor, Ronald Reagan once said of University of California at Berkeley protesters, "If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with. No more appeasement." When the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst and forced her family to distribute food to the poor, Reagan quipped, "It's just too bad we can't have an epidemic of botulism."
Barack Obama has scoffed this his own grandmother was a "typical white person," called on his supporters to "get in their face" of his opponents, invoked a variation of the phrase "bring a gun to a knife fight" in an attempt to fire up supporters during his first presidential campaign, and compared his own bad bowling to the supposed competition level of the Special Olympics
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“Trump is an undisciplined political amateur, Clinton a compromised and scripted establishmentarian...”
He certainly is a political amateur, which in my book is a positive, but I don’t understand how anyone can claim that a person who can build a ten billion dollar business is undisciplined.
Tell me the author is t really trying to equate the “Trump University” bogus lawsuit to an FBI criminal investigation of Hillary. Talk about apples and oranges.....
VDH rapidly becoming irrelevant.
There is a VAST difference between Trump being sued and the numerous criminal things Clinton has done her entire life. Note the carefully worded “possible federal indictment”, she belongs in prison and we all know it. The problem is there is NO ONE who will put her there. Even if she DID get convicted, odumbo will erase all penalty by using his presidential authority. Damn crooks!
VDH: Your state is crumbling around you, it’s become a corrupt Socialist cesspool run by idiots.
Did it become that way because of the politics espoused by Donald Trump or the politics espoused by Hillary Clinton? It’s a time for choosing. Wake the **** up.
VDH has jumped the shark.
Plus, who really considers Hillary a real candidate at this point?
the Donald is going to rip her a new butt hole immediately at the very very first debate. So much low hanging fruit!
That's one of the many ares where Reagan and Trump are in full agreement.
Again, this writer shows what a chaotic thinker he is. To equate these two cases is insane. I gave up reading him on a regular basis years ago. He could take a lesson in logic & writing from Mark Steyn.
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