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"No matter who wins the election, there will be little joy. Both Clinton
and Trump would enter the White House under dark clouds, they would be
the most unpopular president-elects in history. Talking Points believes
most Americans simply want the tawdry campaign to end. It should come as
no surprise to anyone that more women are emerging to hammer Trump.
Piling on is now an American sport, and all accusations are now
convictions. Therefore both Trump and Clinton, who have extremely
controversial resumes, will be battered without mercy right up to
Election Day. WikiLeaks apparently has thousands of emails left to drop
on Clinton. Expect a torrent of personal accusations against Trump. The
result: a diminished country. We do not deserve this, but there is
little we can do about it. Clinton and Trump won the nominations, that
is our system. Both have dubious histories but voters did not seem to
care. People ask me all the time, where are the inspirational leaders
like the Roosevelts and Ronald Reagan? The answer is that most decent
people don't want to be torn apart by Internet guttersnipes and a press
that celebrates scandal. Thus, many good leaders simply sit it out.
There are no journalistic standards anymore, as the WikiLeak hackers
have demonstrated. The cold truth is that our political system has
devolved into a chaotic circus where candidates with the most money
usually win. With no privacy, with little restraint in the media, and
with millions of Americans more interested in social media than actually experiencing life, we have now come to a point in history that would
give solace to Nero. The next president of the United States will either
be Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. As Cronkite once said, that's the
way it is."

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich joined The Factor with his
analysis of the tawdry situation. "This is probably the worst
presidential election in the last 100 years," he theorized. One friend
of mine has called this a news media coup d'état as he watched the
entire news media attempt to destroy a candidate of one of the two
parties. This would never have happened to JFK or Lyndon Johnson because
there was a convention that has totally broken down. Journalism has
collapsed and the New York Times has been the leader in that collapse.
The stuff they've been doing on Trump is absurd! I will be willing to
stipulate that Donald Trump has on occasion been crude if the media
would stipulate that Hillary Clinton has been dishonest and corrupt. She
is totally dishonest!"

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On 2016-10-14 10:00:00 +0000, Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> said:

No matter who wins the election, there will be little joy.

What are you talking about? I'm going to be fucking THRILLED!
--
Here's Donald Trump, who doesn't know the details of his own business,
but by golly, he keeps track of the weight of Miss Universe from years
ago. -David Cay Johnston

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