tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676316.post8810102586670873788..comments2024-03-29T07:43:55.457-04:00Comments on Moristotle & Co.: Reflections on weeping over the US Presidential electionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676316.post-46125977353308703502016-11-16T11:01:21.935-05:002016-11-16T11:01:21.935-05:00Jim I don't disagree that what she did with th...Jim I don't disagree that what she did with the e-mails was not stupid. The Clintons do stupid things because they are smart enough to get away with it. Not unlike not paying your taxes, they seem to know where the line is and they keep walking right up to it. The FBI found there was not enough to charge her and the committee was not able to bring charges. While I believe someone that makes the money Trump has made and doesn't pay taxes should go to jail; he too knows where the line is. And while we may not like it, playing the system is not against the law. If it were, our jails would be full of white collared crooks instead of people of color. Ednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676316.post-25945478454612162132016-11-16T10:43:18.990-05:002016-11-16T10:43:18.990-05:00My opinion nor anyone else's opinion will chan...My opinion nor anyone else's opinion will change anything now. The snow ball is rolling down the mountain and there is no stopping it. All we can do is hope there is something left once it hits the bottom. There is the fact that Trump looks after Trump above all else and he has not forgotten how the Republican leadership treated him. We can hope for an eternal war in which nothing changes for four years or a big change in two years. Ednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676316.post-84996636021056679942016-11-16T08:53:03.999-05:002016-11-16T08:53:03.999-05:00Jim, in your reply to Ed's comments you state ...Jim, in your reply to Ed's comments you state that you "voted against Trump because he is a miserable excuse for a human being." But by voting for whomever you did vote for (not Clinton either), you effectively voted against her as well. And so did the millions and millions of eligible voters who <b>didn't</b> vote because they, like you, didn't like either of the two major candidates. If any of them also felt, as you do, that "there was little to choose between the two of them," then they, as well as you, are wrong. The Supreme Court appointment is by itself a <b>huge</b> difference. I can't imagine that you think otherwise. QED.<br /> And you <i>acknowledge</i> that Clinton was a better choice – or, in your words, "less bad" – than Trump. We of course don't know how many of the eligible voters who didn't cast a ballot at all (because they didn't like either candidate), nevertheless felt the same way you did: they were less repelled by Clinton than by Trump.<br /> American citizens bear the responsibility for the election of Donald Trump – not only those who voted for him under the illusion that he would help <i>them</i>, but also those who "voted against" both him and her, and those who didn't vote at all. The latter make up about 42% of eligible voters, over 95 million citizens.Moristotlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02211602374384087074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676316.post-51761800615696328892016-11-15T20:42:38.754-05:002016-11-15T20:42:38.754-05:00I voted against Trump because he is a miserable ex...I voted against Trump because he is a miserable excuse for a human being. However, I cannot accept Ed's whitewash of Hillary. The email scandal is not bull shit. What you saw there was a typical exercise in Clintonism. First is the effort to skate the law in order to keep things secret. Then, when things leak out, there is an extensive effort to cover up including the absurd claim that Hillary knew so little about how to handle emails that having two computers/phones was beyond her intellectual capacity. Then when the cover up is discredited, the blame is attached to some nefarious third party such as the vast right wing conspiracy or in this case the FBI Director who went from an angel who refused to prosecute Hilary to a villain who thought he had an obligation to tell Congress that in searching the computer of a sexual pervert who was the ex-husband of Hillary's closest confidant, he found hundreds of thousands of emails from Hilary. Now, no one asks how do these emails - which are certain government related and some of which are classified - end up in the computer of someone who has no position in the government. Ed, I don't blame Hillary for Bill's misdeeds - I blame her for her own which display the central premise of Clintonism: that they are above the law because they are on the side of the angels. America may have picked the worse of the two but there was little to choose between the two of them.James T. Carneynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676316.post-72864376754996470922016-11-15T09:09:22.751-05:002016-11-15T09:09:22.751-05:00There are many reasons I did not want Hillary to r...There are many reasons I did not want Hillary to run for President. One she was to close to Wall Street, and then there was Bill. But as far as the e-mails go and her so called lying---that is just so much bullshit. Trump's record for honest deals is nowhere to be found. As far as character---Bill and Trump run a close race, but Bill wasn't running and I'm sure you may hate him---I repeat, he wasn't running. I do not or didn't except Bill's conduct so why is it that Trump gets a pass? A pass by the way from the very people that pulled out their Bibles and beat their chest, crying sinner, sinner over Bill's crap. We had two bad candidates and America picked the worse of the two. I believe you will end up regretting that choice more than I will, Jim. Ednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676316.post-59460940059303703792016-11-15T08:52:20.516-05:002016-11-15T08:52:20.516-05:00A good analysis that doesn't spew hate rhetori...A good analysis that doesn't spew hate rhetoric and bigotry in my opinion. Indeed, well written James. Wallyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07156559649176359500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676316.post-13833367012309085392016-11-15T08:40:04.457-05:002016-11-15T08:40:04.457-05:00As democrats, we had little choice about Hillary. ...As democrats, we had little choice about Hillary. But the republicans had a wide open field and Trump was the best they could give us. I do agree with you that the Dems. need to shut up for now. I predict Trump well be turning to the Democrats for help within 6 months. The one thing that Washington DC does not like is someone they cannot control. Pence is the insider, and the man the Reps. want in the White House. Look for them to impeach Trump before his first year is over.Ednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676316.post-32423901748486412272016-11-14T20:28:54.339-05:002016-11-14T20:28:54.339-05:00Well written, James. Do you feel like a salmon swi...Well written, James. Do you feel like a salmon swimming against the current? Vic M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06736914347731234718noreply@blogger.com