(08-02-2016 10:28 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  Back to the presidential election - thoughts on this?

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/7b3796947...-be-rigged

To me, this is a very dangerous road to go down when there is no evidence to suggest the national election is going to be rigged.

Yep, holding the nose and voting for Trump is not easy, no doubt. he's a less than perfect candidate, and definitely a political neophyte. Most career politicians have long since gotten these kinds of comments behind them in smaller races many years ago. trump is anything but a career politician and it shows.

Both Hiliary and Trump are full of hot air and more, no doubt. Difference seems to be, Trump speaks off the cuff, doesn't take himself too seriously, and is basically posturing. Not always fun to watch, but more understandable and far more harmless than Hiliary.

Hiliary's lying, doublespeak and ludicrous statements, unlike Trumps, are far more dangerous and insidious, because she has shown herself to be a calculated, secretive, power-mad despot-in-waiting who will stop at nothing to get what she wants. She has been plotting for years to carry out her agenda, and everyone else be damned, as she cares for them not in the end.

Trump's gonna be a goof, we all know that. But he is not insidiously pathological, and I really believe Hiliary is. I tried with all my might to watch her DNC speech. I felt i needed to hear at least what she said on that night for an hour. I found I had to keep turning away after small bits and chunks. I kept tuning in and out because she comes across as such a transparently despicable individual. As the evening dragged on, her speech grew more and more tyrannical, and her expression more and more crazed. I actually feel pity for her, as the woman needs major mental help.

I can deal with Trump's goofiness and off the cuff personality. He's a salesman, in the end, and like it or not, that is a part of the personality. Hiliary is a true danger, one that comes along only once or twice in a generation: apocalyptic.

I dislike Obama but even with him my thought was he could help do some good for race relations and attitudes. While that has been proven to be the opposite of true, and things are much worse now than before in that area, I don't think even Obama posed the threat to the country that Hiliary is and does. We are not safe with Hiliary in the White House. We are worse with Hiliary, weaker with Hilary, backward with Hiliary. The woman has not one redeeming quality I can readily see. I cannot vote for a worse America, and Hiliary, and Hilary alone means a much worse America.

Trump is a gamble, but there is plenty of upside to Trump as president. At this point I'm willing to take the gamble. Hiliary is drawing dead, with zero upside and only tragedy awaiting. I just can't vote for that.