Poli-ticks

What did we do to deserve these two?

By Arlene Violet
Posted 9/6/16

The Republican candidate: "He can set himself on fire at breakfast, kill a nun at lunch, and waterboard a puppy in the afternoon. And that doesn’t even get us to prime time." — TIME …

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Poli-ticks

What did we do to deserve these two?

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The Republican candidate:

"He can set himself on fire at breakfast, kill a nun at lunch, and waterboard a puppy in the afternoon. And that doesn’t even get us to prime time." — TIME August 22, 2016

He’s got paper-thin skin, an absence of discipline, and an unending capacity to nurse grudges. He wanders off into the land of the ridiculous, urging Russia to hack his opponent’s emails or for the Second Amendment devotees to off her if she wins.

He fights with a gold star family despite having 5 military deferments, the final one allegedly for a bone spur in his heel — but he can’t remember in which foot.

Party officials view his campaign like the signs outside of manufacturing plants i.e. "X days without an accident” with the tally regularly resetting to zero.

He routinely makes up "facts” still insisting, for example, that he saw crowds of people in New Jersey dancing in the streets following 9/11.

He admires Putin as a strong and powerful leader, and the Chinese for quelling the students in Tiananmen Square, because the leaders showed strength.

He lamented the old days at one of his rallies because protestors can’t be beaten up — although he’d like to punch one in the face.

His verbal arsenal includes racist and misogynist taunts.

He would not release any income tax returns when questions arose about his tax loopholes and alleged charitable contributions. While folks seemed to mind Leona Helmsley who infamously opined that “only the little guys pay taxes,” they give him a pass.

His empire is a financial maze of debts of at least $650 million with ties to the Bank of China and other foreign investors. His multiple bankruptcies have stiffed many working people while he has laughed all the way to the bank.

The Democratic candidate:

“She was extremely careless in handling very sensitive, highly classified information.” — James Comey, FBI Director

She repeatedly said that she did not email any classified material to anyone on her private email. She even incorrectly paraphrased the FBI findings about her mishandling of information.

She promised the sitting president, Barack Obama, that her Clinton Foundation would accept no money from foreign entities since she recognized that there had to be a firewall between the non-profit and her official state duties. She promised she would make contributors names known to his staff. She and her husband then promptly set up a Canadian branch of the Foundation and accepted contributions there from the very people or groups or political poohbahs she had eschewed with the President. When the Obama administration sought information about contributions, the Foundation declared that under Canadian law the charity cannot give names of donors. With some fine investigative reporting news outlets have documented repeated contributions from people who sought and received “face time” with her when she was Secretary of State and favors for contributors through requests made by the Foundation.

She and her husband were friends to Wall Street raking in millions of dollars for speeches.

Since her days at the Rose Law Firm to the present, she has lied, equivocated, and dissembled.

So, here’s the question: What did we do wrong to get these two ethically-challenged candidates for the highest post in the land?

Arlene Violet is an attorney and former Rhode Island Attorney General.

Arlene Violet

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