The recent Presidential election left many Americans, including me, embarrassed and exhausted. The winner, Donald Trump, might just make America Great Again, one of many campaign promises he made, but he seems to be a mercurial person.
Many people I've spoken with have told me that they expect campaigns to get nasty. It was just so nasty, it left me wishing and hoping that we can all hit the restart button, and begin again, in brotherhood and peace, with not politicians but with leadership.
AM I JUST RIDICULOUS? Maybe so, but if there is any time of the year in the Christian world where we can have such hopes, I think that's the Christmas time. It's become the most materialistic time of the year. It should be the most idealistic.
It's coming up on us fast, and so is the swearing in of Donald Trump as the President of the United States. People I meet are not idealistic about his - regime. They are afraid they will go without health insurance or housing and be out on the street. It's enough to make me think MAYBE CALIFORNIA SHOULD BECOME ITS OWN COUNTRY... WE'RE ALREADY BIGGER THAN SOME! THE MENTALITY HERE IS JUST - DIFFERENT. Some people are suggesting we leave the Union - for four years or the end of Trumps regime, whatever comes first.
No, that's not likely to happen.
In particular to my state, California, there is a lot of fears about illegal immigration, that there will be "sweeps," and people will be taken away, like the Nazis taking away the Jews in the Holocaust.
One of my friends is a librarian for the city, of Mexican origin, her great grandfather walked into Arizona, worked full time there, and founded a family that has done well for itself. On the library desk I found print outs that had been left there by immigration advocates, in both English and Spanish, intended for illegal residents to hand to any police officer that might start asking them questions, stating that they are going to stay silent. I took one for my wallet, even though I'm legal, as a reminder that I don't necessarily have to answer the questions asked by an officer, though I don't think I'm headed for trouble with the law. I told her that I did not think there would be sweeps. Our mayor and police said they would not cooperate if ordered to. However, if someone commits a violent crime or is dealing drugs, especially if that person has broken Federal law, then I would not be surprised if they were deported.
What is so difficult about becoming a citizen? If you come legal, it's not! I have a neighbor from Hungary getting his citizenship. Another neighbor who got his a decade ago came as a refugee from Kosovo. There is a Moslem family, peaceable, who are refugees from Pakistan, also in process. Another neighbor, has just gotten dual citizenship - Great Britain and the U.S. Yes, there was time involved, and money, and tests, but it worked out. None of them ever felt their stay here was threatened because they were doing the right thing from the start.
I believe that if you do the right thing from the start, you will be honored.
Recent killing rampages by people of Moslem origin especially, have basically sanctified what Trump is talking about, and that is, that we have let in all sorts of people who do not deserve to be here.
Do we really need more immigrants? We welcome the educated, but Blue Collar American Trump advocates want their jobs back here and now. Here is the hitch. Illegal immigrants are not protected by labor laws and can be hired for cash and less than minimum wage and they are not likely to complain about the worst conditions. Some of them are afraid that becoming legal will mean no longer getting work. They also break the Unions, simply because they are willing to be underpaid. It's not hard to find them. I suspect that every construction site has some. Some dirty people take terrible advantage of them including dumping them off after a days hard labor without the promised pay, and the threat to call the INS on them.
It's kind of like the situation for background actors for film. Everyone who does it wants to get into SAG, the union, because the pay and benefits are then decent, but everyone says that once they got into SAG, their bookings diminished, so they worked less, and made about the same money.
California decided that a person didn't need to be legal to have an ID or a drivers license, which means they have to be insured for accidents, they can have library cards, they can have medical care at County hospitals, and they can have education. Why? Because California decided that these benefits benefit everyone, not just the illegal person.
Much is made of Mexican gangs. They exist. They shoot and kill each other and innocent people. However, there are gangs of Armenians and Russians, and other ethnic groups as well, and sometimes it seems like identity theft and more sophisticated frauds are committed by these more educated criminals
So, will a wall actually keep people out - or in? If you read around it, you'll learn that the wall has been an ongoing project in the Obama administration, and that it isn't always a physical wall.
Our illegal immigrants are not all criminals and our criminals are not all Mexican.
Showing posts with label Presidential Election 2016. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Presidential Election 2016. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
A SLAVIC BEAUTY WILL BE FIRST LADY OF THE U.S.A. - THAT'S A FIRST! WHY HUNGARIAN and SLAVIC AMERICANS MAY HAVE GONE TRUMP!
Melanija Knavs, Melania Knauss, MELANIA TRUMP, will be our First Lady of the United States, as her husband DONALD TRUMP was elected to be the next President and will take office in a few months.
Hungarians are not Slavs, but because Hungarians and Slavs have lived around each other for hundreds of years and intermarried, and in the United States this is especially true, we're considered to be the same people. (So listen please if you're reading this post in translation while living in Slovakia or Romania because believe me when I say that if you came here you would only be grateful to find another one of you and grateful to find some of the people you may think of as enemies there!).
Hungarians are not Slavs, but because Hungarians and Slavs have lived around each other for hundreds of years and intermarried, and in the United States this is especially true, we're considered to be the same people. (So listen please if you're reading this post in translation while living in Slovakia or Romania because believe me when I say that if you came here you would only be grateful to find another one of you and grateful to find some of the people you may think of as enemies there!).
Never before have we ever in THE UNITED STATES had a Slavic person in as high a position in our country as First Lady. In the American mind Hungarians, Slovenians, Slovaks, Poles and Russians - and all manner of Slavic people - have been in the popular mind in the same category; work-desperate legal immigrants who came in such high numbers a hundred or more years ago that their country of origins seemed vacated, not very intelligent and speaking strange languages.
In reading genealogy records of those Hungarian churches in towns in which so many people left during the Industrial Revolution, I have seen the notes, of children born while "father is in America," and of those children named AMERICUS! (Note September 2022. I've learned that this given name might relate to the English name Henry or Henrik. However, I've seen it barely used until the industrial age immigration period.)
Those hardworking men and women came and shifted from the agricultural economy that had sustained them to factory work and manufacturing, and ask anyone who comes from this background, they worked for pay but were closer to slaves. (Some people think the word Slav and the world slave are of the same root.)
Granted Melania Trumps legal immigration occurred in a different time in history.
On my commute home yesterday I switched on my not-so-smart phone and Googled "2016 Election," and up came the most incredibly useful site imaginable which was a map of the United States that showed the voting results as they came in, both popular and electoral college, giving each state a pale red or pale blue color, which became solid red or solid blue, as that state became overwhelmed with Republican or Democratic votes. A few states changed color as the evening went on, but by about 6:30 in the evening, California time, I was sure that Trump would win. One could click on the state to get the details, such as what percentage of votes were in, and by county, and I saw what was happening.
IN THE LARGE POPULATION CITY AREAS and COLLEGE TOWN AREAS the voting was Democratic, but the more rural areas had gone Republican, and the "RUST BELT", the areas where so very many of those descendants of Hungarian and Slavic immigrants had come, worked, and lost their jobs to the export of the work to other countries - including Japan and Mexico- went Republican too. It was city versus country, educated versus not so much, but certainly part of a long held theory of mine that PEOPLE ALWAYS VOTE THEIR JOBS!
Honesty, though I'd been telling everyone I encountered for the last week who wanted to talk the election that I believed Hillary Clinton would win, when I said I thought the race would be very close, many people got mad at me. Everyone thought the whole campaigning process had been disgusting and humiliating for us as a county and wanted it to be over.
Here's the thing. DONALD TRUMP WAS NO MORE A REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE than BERNIE SANDERS WAS A DEMOCRATIC ONE. Both ran with a party because traditionally it is the way to win, yet Trump financed his own campaign with about one hundred million, and for a billionaire that's not so much, while Sanders did surprising well with near no campaign funds but the free labor of grass roots activists. AND BOTH TALKED ABOUT ECONOMIC ISSUES as the BOTTOM LINE PROBLEM HERE IN THE STATES.
I felt vindicated to have written in my candidate when I read this morning that former President George H.W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara had voted but not at all for President, a none of the above vote.
Remember that it was during President William J. Clinton's office that jobs were sent to Mexico. Some people thought that if Mexicans could make good wages in Mexico there would not be so much illegal immigration from that country. I was against that trade agreement. Remember when President Bush Jr. and other Republican's defended the way big corporations were sending manufacturing jobs overseas, calling it "work Americans won't do?" I knew that was, to put it politely, B.S. I knew that because I met out of work people everywhere who were loosing everything, including their houses and apartments, desperately at the libraries looking for any kind of work, often aged out or in need of retraining, and I remembered the truth of the work that immigrants from Hungary and other Slavic countries generations before.
So when DONALD TRUMP said to make America Great Again he meant that those jobs "Americans won't do" would SO be done by Americans again. That message, that campaign promise, is what got him elected, and it wasn't just against the precedent of the Democratic Clintons but also the Republican Bushs!
The word Campaign before the word Promise often negates the Promise. However, we can't always say that a candidate once in office then lied, because our President is not a Dictator or King, but must deal with the Senate and the House, our system of "checks and balances" in place to prevent the President from being either. Currently the Republicans will dominate the Senate and Supreme Court nominees may also be conservatives and so it is possible that Trump can get more of what he promises actually done with less opposition.
Now we come to his wife MELANIA TRUMP and what her role will be as First Lady. This morning I read Daily Mail UK and saw the headlines from newspapers around the world, in Europe and the Middle East, some in shock, while the leaders of many countries, including Hungary, were at least polite enough to send congratulations, if not having great enthusiasms for DONALD TRUMP as PRESIDENT.
May I suggest that MELANIA TRUMP can be an in the White House representative of the humble people who have immigrated and made good? She grew up in a communist apartment block, now lives in Trump Tower, and will go to the White House. She is intelligent and she speaks several languages, English not being her first language. She appears to have taken on the traditional role of wife and mother, as well as the traditional role of volunteer worker and charity fundraiser, and she is unlikely to be the "power behind the man," but she is as unconventional a first lady as there has ever been, not because of her first generation American status, but because she was a model who got naked, and is the third wife of a man who has children from three marriages, all who got behind him in this campaign. She is more of the modern generation than her husband. Her air of sophistication and presence may be more Jackie Kennedy than Pat Nixon or Lady Bird Johnson or Michelle Obama, but we are all hoping that the once womanizing Trump has left his old ways behind in marriage to her! If there is anyone to tell this man to start thinking about what he has to say instead of spewing and back-stepping, she's the one.
Like many Americans I will both keep an open mind and wait and see what happens. I feel lucky to live in California though!
C 2016 All Rights Reserved including Internet and International Rights. Magyar-American Blogspot
In reading genealogy records of those Hungarian churches in towns in which so many people left during the Industrial Revolution, I have seen the notes, of children born while "father is in America," and of those children named AMERICUS! (Note September 2022. I've learned that this given name might relate to the English name Henry or Henrik. However, I've seen it barely used until the industrial age immigration period.)
Those hardworking men and women came and shifted from the agricultural economy that had sustained them to factory work and manufacturing, and ask anyone who comes from this background, they worked for pay but were closer to slaves. (Some people think the word Slav and the world slave are of the same root.)
Granted Melania Trumps legal immigration occurred in a different time in history.
On my commute home yesterday I switched on my not-so-smart phone and Googled "2016 Election," and up came the most incredibly useful site imaginable which was a map of the United States that showed the voting results as they came in, both popular and electoral college, giving each state a pale red or pale blue color, which became solid red or solid blue, as that state became overwhelmed with Republican or Democratic votes. A few states changed color as the evening went on, but by about 6:30 in the evening, California time, I was sure that Trump would win. One could click on the state to get the details, such as what percentage of votes were in, and by county, and I saw what was happening.
IN THE LARGE POPULATION CITY AREAS and COLLEGE TOWN AREAS the voting was Democratic, but the more rural areas had gone Republican, and the "RUST BELT", the areas where so very many of those descendants of Hungarian and Slavic immigrants had come, worked, and lost their jobs to the export of the work to other countries - including Japan and Mexico- went Republican too. It was city versus country, educated versus not so much, but certainly part of a long held theory of mine that PEOPLE ALWAYS VOTE THEIR JOBS!
Honesty, though I'd been telling everyone I encountered for the last week who wanted to talk the election that I believed Hillary Clinton would win, when I said I thought the race would be very close, many people got mad at me. Everyone thought the whole campaigning process had been disgusting and humiliating for us as a county and wanted it to be over.
Here's the thing. DONALD TRUMP WAS NO MORE A REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE than BERNIE SANDERS WAS A DEMOCRATIC ONE. Both ran with a party because traditionally it is the way to win, yet Trump financed his own campaign with about one hundred million, and for a billionaire that's not so much, while Sanders did surprising well with near no campaign funds but the free labor of grass roots activists. AND BOTH TALKED ABOUT ECONOMIC ISSUES as the BOTTOM LINE PROBLEM HERE IN THE STATES.
I felt vindicated to have written in my candidate when I read this morning that former President George H.W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara had voted but not at all for President, a none of the above vote.
Remember that it was during President William J. Clinton's office that jobs were sent to Mexico. Some people thought that if Mexicans could make good wages in Mexico there would not be so much illegal immigration from that country. I was against that trade agreement. Remember when President Bush Jr. and other Republican's defended the way big corporations were sending manufacturing jobs overseas, calling it "work Americans won't do?" I knew that was, to put it politely, B.S. I knew that because I met out of work people everywhere who were loosing everything, including their houses and apartments, desperately at the libraries looking for any kind of work, often aged out or in need of retraining, and I remembered the truth of the work that immigrants from Hungary and other Slavic countries generations before.
So when DONALD TRUMP said to make America Great Again he meant that those jobs "Americans won't do" would SO be done by Americans again. That message, that campaign promise, is what got him elected, and it wasn't just against the precedent of the Democratic Clintons but also the Republican Bushs!
The word Campaign before the word Promise often negates the Promise. However, we can't always say that a candidate once in office then lied, because our President is not a Dictator or King, but must deal with the Senate and the House, our system of "checks and balances" in place to prevent the President from being either. Currently the Republicans will dominate the Senate and Supreme Court nominees may also be conservatives and so it is possible that Trump can get more of what he promises actually done with less opposition.
Now we come to his wife MELANIA TRUMP and what her role will be as First Lady. This morning I read Daily Mail UK and saw the headlines from newspapers around the world, in Europe and the Middle East, some in shock, while the leaders of many countries, including Hungary, were at least polite enough to send congratulations, if not having great enthusiasms for DONALD TRUMP as PRESIDENT.
May I suggest that MELANIA TRUMP can be an in the White House representative of the humble people who have immigrated and made good? She grew up in a communist apartment block, now lives in Trump Tower, and will go to the White House. She is intelligent and she speaks several languages, English not being her first language. She appears to have taken on the traditional role of wife and mother, as well as the traditional role of volunteer worker and charity fundraiser, and she is unlikely to be the "power behind the man," but she is as unconventional a first lady as there has ever been, not because of her first generation American status, but because she was a model who got naked, and is the third wife of a man who has children from three marriages, all who got behind him in this campaign. She is more of the modern generation than her husband. Her air of sophistication and presence may be more Jackie Kennedy than Pat Nixon or Lady Bird Johnson or Michelle Obama, but we are all hoping that the once womanizing Trump has left his old ways behind in marriage to her! If there is anyone to tell this man to start thinking about what he has to say instead of spewing and back-stepping, she's the one.
Like many Americans I will both keep an open mind and wait and see what happens. I feel lucky to live in California though!
C 2016 All Rights Reserved including Internet and International Rights. Magyar-American Blogspot
Note September 2022.
So much has happened with Trump in office, and of late, the scandal in which he is accused of possessing and using documents that never belonged to him personally and belong in our National Archives.
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Monday, November 7, 2016
IN LINE FOR 6 HOURS TO VOTE EARLY! I'll NEVER DO IT AGAIN!
I've voted, and wrote in a Candidate for President. Nothing else would satisfy my soul. I also avoided voting for several candidates for lesser positions because I didn't like any of them. In my area measures and propositions were also important. I voted in each case.
WHY, when I could have gone to my polling place on Tuesday morning did I choose this EARLY VOTE? Well, because I looked at my schedule for Tuesday and realized that I was going to be doing a lot of commuting and MIGHT not be able to also vote, at least not while I still had some energy!
My dog and I walked to the nearest early voting location and the line was very long looking, but at first, as people started moving up and leaving less space between them it appeared to be moving. Meanwhile, there were some interesting conversations to be had with people in line around me. However, one of them left after FOUR HOURS because she had a mail in vote in hand that COULD HAVE BEEN DROPPED OFF, and really, about the four hour point, with ONE FOOD TRUCK, no bottled water, no snacks, and without the foresight to at least bring a good book, which I could have done.
FIVE HOURS INTO IT, we got close enough to an actual tent full of EMPTY CHAIRS. We went and dragged some back to sit on. MY ENTIRE BODY HURT. Getting up and down out of this folding chair hurt. MY DOG had BEEN SO WONDERFULLY PATIENT THROUGHOUT. Someone gave her water. Someone else went out to the store, bought Halloween candy on sale, and the bag was passed back as we all needed the SUGAR for that false boost of energy!
THEN FINALLY WE WERE INDOORS where chaos continued. My dog stayed under my chair and later went to the voting booth with me.
I HOPE THAT EARLY VOTING MEANS MORE PEOPLE VOTE!
But I think most of the early voters were so disgusted with the election, THEY JUST WANTED IT TO BE OVER!
BLESS US ALL!
WHY, when I could have gone to my polling place on Tuesday morning did I choose this EARLY VOTE? Well, because I looked at my schedule for Tuesday and realized that I was going to be doing a lot of commuting and MIGHT not be able to also vote, at least not while I still had some energy!
My dog and I walked to the nearest early voting location and the line was very long looking, but at first, as people started moving up and leaving less space between them it appeared to be moving. Meanwhile, there were some interesting conversations to be had with people in line around me. However, one of them left after FOUR HOURS because she had a mail in vote in hand that COULD HAVE BEEN DROPPED OFF, and really, about the four hour point, with ONE FOOD TRUCK, no bottled water, no snacks, and without the foresight to at least bring a good book, which I could have done.
FIVE HOURS INTO IT, we got close enough to an actual tent full of EMPTY CHAIRS. We went and dragged some back to sit on. MY ENTIRE BODY HURT. Getting up and down out of this folding chair hurt. MY DOG had BEEN SO WONDERFULLY PATIENT THROUGHOUT. Someone gave her water. Someone else went out to the store, bought Halloween candy on sale, and the bag was passed back as we all needed the SUGAR for that false boost of energy!
THEN FINALLY WE WERE INDOORS where chaos continued. My dog stayed under my chair and later went to the voting booth with me.
I HOPE THAT EARLY VOTING MEANS MORE PEOPLE VOTE!
But I think most of the early voters were so disgusted with the election, THEY JUST WANTED IT TO BE OVER!
BLESS US ALL!
Sunday, November 6, 2016
Friday, November 4, 2016
BERNIE SANDERS said "DEMOCRACY IS NOT A SPECTATOR SPORT"
No doubt the Democrats do more for the people but I still can't imagine voting for Hillary Clinton.
Wednesday, August 17, 2016
GOING FOR THE BERN WHEN THERE IS NO BERNIE SANDERS!
It's almost old news that the AMERICAN DEMOCRAT-SOCIALIST CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT, Bernie Sanders, has failed to gain the ticket to Presidency.
However, considering the CLINTON's have been campaigning for years and have what we call THE PARTY MACHINE in their favor, SANDERS PROVED TO BE AMAZINGLY COMPETITIVE. he touched the hearts and souls of so very many who know that we need to do more as a country for our citizens who make average incomes or less and who are struggling.
Since he ran on the Democratic ticket, Sanders was obliged to say that all votes for him should now go to Hilary Clinton. I forgave him. The bad news was that he is not a "write in" candidate.
I like thousands of others thought they could, but it turns out that if you want to be a "write in" candidate you have to file to be on the ticket - of each state - individually. It was too late.
Sanders went back to be the Senator he was before his run.
But believe me when I say that he is not forgot, nor is his message forgotten.
On the bike path nearby where I live, his GRASS ROOTS SUPPORTERS took chalk and wrote their own messages encouraging people to vote for him.
He was the only candidate that had volunteers who had not been down to campaign headquarters making home made signs and holding them up for hours at high traffic intersections.
I had not seen this kind of GRASS ROOTS SUPPORT for any candidate in my lifetime.
Will the amazing show of support that he had when it came to the Democratic Primaries actually change the platform of that party and lead to some or any of the changes that the people who spoke up about what they wanted from him with their vote?
I've been vocal about my candidate and why I wanted him to be our President.
First, I must say that from the very beginning I suspected that DONALD TRUMP really wanted the Democrats to win the next Presidency. Every time I read another article about him I wince. The man has a real talent for putting his foot in his mouth and having to backtrack to say what it was he really meant. I've met many people who say they will vote for him because they see his personal business success as an indicator that he can pull our country out of the economic crisis it has been in for so very many citizens for years now.
However, TRUMP doesn't always succeed in business.
And our national debt went to nothing when we had PRESIDENT WILLIAM J. CLINTON in the White House.
There's just one problem for me with THE CLINTONS, and it's a big one.
I can understand that some people get married and take their vows seriously yet that marriage can be difficult and that sometimes one or both of them go ahead and fall in love with someone else, or have an affair. Several of my friends through the years have done just that.
There's that, and then there is the womanizing that "Bill" has apparently been committed to for years. It wasn't just Monica Lewinsky, who has had a very difficult life over the public exposure of her romance with Bill (for surely she was in love with him), that he was womanizing with.
Some people say to me, "Well, JKF did that too. and Jackie put up with it."
Yes, but Jackie wasn't an IVY LEAGUE EDUCATED CAREER WOMAN who MADE AN OUTSTANDING AMOUNT OF MONEY (more than Bill for some time) AS A LAWYER.
I could even understand why Jackie or Hillary would "stand by their man" while he was still in office. However, I DO NOT ADMIRE HILLARY CLINTON FOR NOT DIVORCING BILL,.
NO these TWO are members of a POWER COUPLE for whom, grand mothering aside, ARE NO EXAMPLE TO US of PERSONAL MORALITY. And that to me should be considered.
SO I LIKE THAT BERNIE SANDERS got married and stayed married to the same woman all these years, with no scandals. I know that if he got into the White House we'd never have to worry about him receiving sexual services from an intern while on the phone with VLADIMIR PUTIN or any other world leader. And it would be sexist of me to think that HILLARY would never, just because she is a woman.
I agree that we must now focus on the candidates who are running for lesser offices than the Presidency - our Senators and Congresspeople and local representatives in City Councils.
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However, considering the CLINTON's have been campaigning for years and have what we call THE PARTY MACHINE in their favor, SANDERS PROVED TO BE AMAZINGLY COMPETITIVE. he touched the hearts and souls of so very many who know that we need to do more as a country for our citizens who make average incomes or less and who are struggling.
Since he ran on the Democratic ticket, Sanders was obliged to say that all votes for him should now go to Hilary Clinton. I forgave him. The bad news was that he is not a "write in" candidate.
I like thousands of others thought they could, but it turns out that if you want to be a "write in" candidate you have to file to be on the ticket - of each state - individually. It was too late.
Sanders went back to be the Senator he was before his run.
But believe me when I say that he is not forgot, nor is his message forgotten.
On the bike path nearby where I live, his GRASS ROOTS SUPPORTERS took chalk and wrote their own messages encouraging people to vote for him.
He was the only candidate that had volunteers who had not been down to campaign headquarters making home made signs and holding them up for hours at high traffic intersections.
I had not seen this kind of GRASS ROOTS SUPPORT for any candidate in my lifetime.
Will the amazing show of support that he had when it came to the Democratic Primaries actually change the platform of that party and lead to some or any of the changes that the people who spoke up about what they wanted from him with their vote?
I've been vocal about my candidate and why I wanted him to be our President.
First, I must say that from the very beginning I suspected that DONALD TRUMP really wanted the Democrats to win the next Presidency. Every time I read another article about him I wince. The man has a real talent for putting his foot in his mouth and having to backtrack to say what it was he really meant. I've met many people who say they will vote for him because they see his personal business success as an indicator that he can pull our country out of the economic crisis it has been in for so very many citizens for years now.
However, TRUMP doesn't always succeed in business.
And our national debt went to nothing when we had PRESIDENT WILLIAM J. CLINTON in the White House.
There's just one problem for me with THE CLINTONS, and it's a big one.
I can understand that some people get married and take their vows seriously yet that marriage can be difficult and that sometimes one or both of them go ahead and fall in love with someone else, or have an affair. Several of my friends through the years have done just that.
There's that, and then there is the womanizing that "Bill" has apparently been committed to for years. It wasn't just Monica Lewinsky, who has had a very difficult life over the public exposure of her romance with Bill (for surely she was in love with him), that he was womanizing with.
Some people say to me, "Well, JKF did that too. and Jackie put up with it."
Yes, but Jackie wasn't an IVY LEAGUE EDUCATED CAREER WOMAN who MADE AN OUTSTANDING AMOUNT OF MONEY (more than Bill for some time) AS A LAWYER.
I could even understand why Jackie or Hillary would "stand by their man" while he was still in office. However, I DO NOT ADMIRE HILLARY CLINTON FOR NOT DIVORCING BILL,.
NO these TWO are members of a POWER COUPLE for whom, grand mothering aside, ARE NO EXAMPLE TO US of PERSONAL MORALITY. And that to me should be considered.
SO I LIKE THAT BERNIE SANDERS got married and stayed married to the same woman all these years, with no scandals. I know that if he got into the White House we'd never have to worry about him receiving sexual services from an intern while on the phone with VLADIMIR PUTIN or any other world leader. And it would be sexist of me to think that HILLARY would never, just because she is a woman.
I agree that we must now focus on the candidates who are running for lesser offices than the Presidency - our Senators and Congresspeople and local representatives in City Councils.
C 2015 Magyar American Blog United States of America All Rights Reserved including International and Internet Rights.