There is every reason why Donald J. Trump should not be President of the United States and myriad reasons why Hillary Clinton should be. Secretary Clinton’s dedication to America and her professionalism are too strong to allow her to get down into the mud with Mr. Trump and mudsling with him to try to prove to naysayers that she is trustworthy and infinitely more qualified than he is to be president.
Besides, she does not have to do that because she has proven time-and-time-again to those who questioned her trustworthiness but still gave her a fair chance that she has true grit, that she can be trusted, and that she will deliver on her promises to them. Her track record supports this! She has proven over decades that she is a hardworking and dedicated woman who means what she says and says what she means. Like all of us, Hillary Clinton is not perfect. She has flaws.
She has many scars and is hardened by (political) battle but those scars and her public battle hardened persona are a result of years of fighting for what is right; fighting to make America even greater than it already is. That persona has nothing to do with the lack of trustworthiness and everything to do with being a politician – and let’s tell it like it is, especially a female politician who has been swimming with sharks for years. That persona does not make void her impeccable qualifications and render her untrustworthy. She deserves to be president! She deserves to become the first female to occupy the Oval Office and hold the title of Commander-in-Chief!
Most of the turmoil that has generated the outcries about how incompetent and untrustworthy she is has been instigated by many of the same people who spent millions of taxpayer dollars on investigating what happened in Benghazi in hopes of finding a smoking gun that would damage Secretary Clinton. When that did not work because someone in their Party – House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy – committed a gaffe that pulled back the curtain and revealed the real reason behind the Benghazi Select Committee, they finalized their findings shortly after this gaffe. But they are currently spending millions more taxpayer dollars investigating the so called Clinton emails scandal still in search of a smoking gun that will damage Secretary Clinton and derail her run for president. The real reason behind this investigation is the same as the one that was behind the Benghazi investigation. Eventually, the curtain will be pulled back on that investigation as well and the real reason for it will be revealed.
Even with Donald Trump as their standard bearer, a man that they loathe and are still trying to somehow remove and replace in a way that they can spin as fair, they refuse to publicly admit that he is far less qualified than Secretary Clinton is to lead America. They are so blinded by their ambition and desire to unify their party that they are willing to risk shortchanging America and possibly destroying the Republican Party. Even though in the recent past some of them have publicly said that he is unqualified and unfit to lead the country, because of partisanship and to maintain party unity they continue to attack secretary Clinton in an effort to put Mr. Trump in the White House.
Secretary Clinton is a tough and dedicated woman whom America should admire and whose love of country and dedicated service to America is beyond reproach. Although I am fairly sure that she would dismiss it with the wave of a hand as unnecessary sympathy because she is just doing her job, sometimes when I look at that involuntary weariness expressed on the face of that worn and scarred public persona, knowing that there is a real person underneath; that of a wife, a mother, a grandmother and a daughter, I can’t help but to feel sympathy for her.
Perhaps it is better put to say that I empathize with a hardworking, dedicated public servant who is doing everything that she can to serve her country despite those things that she is forced to deal with as a result of American politics yet obliged to deal with in order to provide that service, which she has sometimes labeled as and verbalized as ‘her privilege’ to serve. Maybe put this way she will not be compelled to dismiss it with the wave of a hand. She may be tough but after all, she is human. I’m with her. I will vote for her and I hope that she wins in November. Vaya bein, Secretary Clinton.
Eulus Dennis – author, Operation Rubik’s Cube and Living Between The Line