I've seen your list of supposed Hillary lies before, Pkr, but thanks for reposting; it reminds me to tell you that, believe it or not -- and although I haven't personally verified each and every one of your claims here -- I have never particularly been a Hillary fan, and, as is apparently the case with many Independents (and Democrats), find her less than 100% trustworthy. The "landing in Bosnia under sniper fire" was one of the worst and that shook me about her for a very long time. It still does. I suppose there's an outside possibility that she literally dreamed that (happens) and thought it was true, but if that's so, it certainly doesn't add to any feeling of solidity and sanity there. One doesn't forget whether or not bullets were truly flying.
For once in my life I'm pretty much in concert with what a local conservative talk radio host said yesterday (paraphrasing): In a country of 319 million people, how did we end up with these six losers as candidates??
So the bottom line for me is who is the least of the evils.
I can't vote for Mario because he has never impressed me one bit, and doesn't care enough to show up for work, and can't handle his own finances, and is possibly an unprincipled opportunist so I don't really know what he thinks about anything.
I can't vote for Kasich, even if he had a chance to win (he doesn't), because he just plain gives me the willies. That one I can't fully explain. I also think he flip-flops too easily. But the willies (call it my instinct) are enough for me.
I can't vote for Cruz because he would take all our significant social progress back into the dark ages, and because he sounds and acts like a TV evangelist. That's the LAST thing we need, and scares me almost worse than Trump.
I can't vote for Bernie because he's so dedicated to toppling the economic and governmental establishment of this country that he would only manage to create chaos. Too much, too soon, too single minded -- and nowhere near the international awareness he needs. He's also counting on a revolution that isn't going to happen.
So that brings me down to Hillary or Trump.
I could never, ever, in a million, trillion years vote for Donald Trump, who is not only a consummate liar to the extent that I cannot believe one single word that comes out of his mouth -- I mean a CONSTANT, apparently pathological liar on things both big and small -- but is also pandering to interests that he probably doesn't even believe in (including, for example, the evangelicals), for the SOLE purpose, the SOLE end, of WINNING. That's all it's about for him and his monstrous ego -- WIN AT ANY COST and heaven help us when it comes to that attitude and his true intentions in office, and when it comes to international relations. Terrifying. Not only that, but personally I find the man an ignoramus in so many ways. And I could go on.
So that leaves Hillary. Do I think she will be a great president? I doubt it, but at least it's a possibility. Do I think she has a much more informed and measured view of international relations than Trump, and is therefore a much less dangerous person to have her hand on the red phone? Hell yes. Do I think she genuinely cares about the downtrodden and underprivileged among us --actually yes, I do, whereas Donald only cares about them if they'll vote for him, and only for that long. (Polls show his followers are more likely to be poorly educated -- and thus, I say, more easily duped.) Do I believe she has at least some small chance of bringing the country back together, of uniting people? Yes, though it's a small chance indeed, given the hatred and divisiveness that have been sown by the Obama haters since before he even took office. Trump, on the other hand, says he's a uniter while at the same time he denigrates entire groups with a broad brush. (Of course he's toned that down now some, because, remember, it's all about WINNING.)
Trump said last night in his "press conference" that he "can be presidential if I want to." He can likely be ANYTHING "if he wants to." But what IS he, who IS he, really, and who will he change into when he attains the power of the Oval Office?
I have a much better handle on who Hillary is and, while she's far from perfect, and while I wish we had a truly great candidate to choose from, we don't. We simply don't. So will we put ourselves out to sea with a chameleon-like egotist who says whatever he needs to in the moment, or will we elect the known entity who will at least help prevent us from slipping backwards into bigotry, charlatanism and small-mindedness?
I have to go. Sorry to have written a book. As Markle says, it's probably a waste of time as I'm not going to change anyone's mind. Y'all go ahead and have at me; I'm probably not going to respond because it's useless.
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