Saturday, October 29, 2016

IN THIS CORNER

We have the first woman nominated by a major party to be president of America.

And in the other corner we have a cabal of male sexual predators.



Oh the irony.

In the main ring, we have Donald J. Trump, thrice married, (during marriages 1 and 2, he was publicly dating his next wife) who is heard on tape discussing grabbing women's genitals and kissing them regardless of their desires.

In addition we have women who are coming forward saying, Yes he did. This is a timeline of the accusations, including that of a 13 year old girl.

In one side ring, we have Newt Gingrich, again thrice married.  In each of his failed marriages he was involved with the next Mrs Gingrich while still married to the then current Mrs Gingrich.  Apparently forgetting his past, he decided to attack Megyn Kelly on national TV accusing her of being "fascinated by sex."  Think about that for a moment and consider the irony.

In the second side ring, we have the ex Mayor of New York and America.  He is also on his 3rd wife. He was able to obtain an annulment of his first marriage, by claiming that he was unaware that his wife was also his cousin.
His second wife found out that he was divorcing her when he announced it in a press conference.

And now we have the ultimate omg moment.  The Director of the FBI, who apparently does not understand the meaning the word of "secret," announced that the FBI was in possession of additional emails in a unrelated matter and would be looking at them relative to the previous Hillary Clinton email investigation.

His letter created a stir probably only equaled by Nixon's Saturday night massacre.

While we were all trying to digest what had just happened, we found out that the emails were not sent by Hillary Clinton, but were emails on a 'device' of her aide Huma Abedin and her estranged husband Anthony Weiner, who is being investigated by the FBI for sexting with a teen.

We, of course, have the candidate's husband's sexual exploits being again front and center as the GOP candidate and his surrogates try to muddy the waters and distract us from his abhorrent behavior.

And so, instead of being able to celebrate the fact that we are within days of busting out of the male dominated presidency, we are back in the ring with a bunch of disgusting white men, creating chaos in our lives.

The ultimate irony of course, is that except for Weiner and Clinton, all of them are members of the Party of Family Values, whose male members from Vitter to Sanford, seem to unable to control their sexual drive.

Millions of Americans have already voted, but on November 8th, we will know the result of the election.  Will Americans decide to remain with the status quo and elect another old white man who cares only about his power and millions, or a woman who has spent most of her life working in the public sphere trying to improve the lives of children and women both in the United States and around the world.

Stay tuned and vote.  Our futures depend on the decision we make.

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