Aug 19^th

I can find nothing new to say today about Trump or any of the right wing talking heads. Trump’s absurd suggestion to deport some 15 million people is no less silly today than it was when he made it. We do have George Will who wants to chase Trump out of the Republican Party but his only suggestion as to method is to not invite him to debates. As I wrote, if the RNC cannot get rid of a homophobic bigot in their own ranks (David Agema of Michigan) how can they remove someone from their party? Clearly, they cannot. If they do remove Trump and declare him a “non-Republican” he will surely form his own party and hand any vertical Democrat the Presidency.

Then there is Hilary Clinton who continues to stub her toe on her private server. Unfair as the flood of accusations are, and they are, witness the number of “maybe classified” or “FBI looking into” statements that are hardly smoking guns. That doesn’t matter because there are enough people who are beginning to waver about her so that such remarks, hammered incessantly at the public by Fox News and the Wall Street Journal, will have an effect. I doubt that she will drop out but her popularity may decline to the point that other, more viable, candidates will come forward, specifically, Joe Biden.  

Fox News, just five minutes ago, declared that three (more) of Clinton’s emails were just classified “secret.” This special announcement, made in somber tones by a very serious looking official, also admits that these emails had just recently been so classified and were not classified this way when Clinton sent or received them. Clinton, we are assured, should have known that they would be classified “secret.”  The Fox News anchor, who relays this information, doesn’t bother to ask her informant just how Mrs. Clinton was supposed to know this when it has taken some days for FBI officialdom to decide it. Oh yes, and much has also been made of the fact that the server was physically kept in a closet in a condominium in Colorado. No information at all about who put it there, but that it was not stored in Fort Knox is surely Hilary Clinton’s fault. Don’t misunderstand me; I am not one of Hilary Clinton’s strongest supporters but these criticisms are beyond ridiculous.

It’s time to go and listen to Donald Trump who is even now on all the networks doing a town hall presentation in New Hampshire. At least with him the irrational is to be expected.