Remember these two kids from every classroom in every school in every town in America?
One was the obsequious over-achiever who'd take a simple assignment and turn it into a masterpiece every time. This kid was loved by teachers and reviled by peers.
He or she took advantage of the teacher's blind adoration and was, in reality, self-serving and nefarious.
The other type would get an assignment to write five sentences and hand the teacher a rumpled piece of paper with five lines of three words each--technically acceptable, but just barely. This kid was the bane of teachers but extremely popular with peers.
We all can identify with these two types. We've got the adult versions running for president.
I don't need to tell you who's who.
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| Take a good look at the two worst candidates in American presidential election history. One's a crook and the other's a cheater. Make that, both are crooks and cheaters. |
Let's take a glimpse at Donald Trump. He lives his life by the letter of the law--no more.
If the law says he can take a myriad of gray-area deductions to pay no taxes on hundreds of millions in income, he'll do it. And if the law says he doesn't have to make his tax returns public, he won't.
If the law allows The Donald to walk away from a failing business and leave hundreds of small business people on the hook for the hundreds of millions of dollars he owes them, he will.
If the law allows him to pay himself back for tens of millions in campaign loans out of donor contributions, he'll do that too. And he'll charge himself exorbitant rent for office space and campaign venues, also reimbursed to him out of donors' money.
The same principle applies to his health records. He doesn't have to release them, so he won't.
Since he likes to project his flaws on anyone who happens to be convenient, and from the way he's been attacking Hillary's 'fitness and stamina', he's probably got some serious health problems of his own.
He is venerated by his supporters anyway.
Hillary is the opposite in her efforts to appear open and transparent. Her habit is to disseminate reams and reams of material.
She has already published detailed position papers on anything you can think of and posted them on her website. If it's even possible, she seems to be a bigger policy wonk than husband Bill.
She's done so much good in the world through her public works and is always juggling multiple projects to do even more.
So, why is she so disliked?
Could it be that Hillary works so compulsively to perform good deeds to compensate for how bad her behavior actually is?
I think so, and many see right through her.
She's extremely skilled at parsing words and obfuscating the truth. When she releases a thousand documents to get her out of a bind, she'll withhold the hundred that make her look culpable until ordered to release them by the court.
She and Bill have somehow pocketed more than $100 million without being employed at anything but public service. They are superstar earners in what's not supposed a lucrative profession.
They take no 'salaries' from the Clinton foundation, but a hundred million plus is an awful lot of money in speaking fees and book royalties. One has to wonder exactly how the Clintons amassed such a large fortune.
The answer: donations from the super rich. The question: at what price?
We may be about to find out, if the election goes Hillary's way.
At this point, though, I'm not completely convinced we'll be facing a binary choice between Clinton and Trump in November. We may face a binary choice, but not between the two of them.
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