Three Little Words

First of all – there is no winner and loser declared here. Neither candidate is going anywhere, both camps are claiming victory and the Undecideds do not have rallies or press conferences. So we can not really measure.

     But there were two separate points, late in the debate where Trump’s choice of words left me uneasy. (Now ‘bigly’ left me very uneasy because it is not a word, but maybe I misheard.) 

     First - Trump’s use of the word stamina was a huge look into his makeup, his identity. That is one of those masculine sounding descriptives that has been used to keep women down, to keep them employed at seventy cents on the dollar for generations. In Trump’s universe (and this goes for a cadre of like-thinkers) women are not equal to men. They are lacking, incomplete, less than. In this example, they lack stamina. How he would be so certain about her stamina levels is beyond me. Oddly enough her handlers had her prepared – her comeback was spot on and got a rare (Holt forbid) applause point.

     Second – when ‘your president’ rolled of his tongue so easily, I cringed. (Worth noting that he seemed preoccupied with President Obama and former President Clinton from the get go, to his disadvantage.) But to aver that Obama was her (and certainly not his) president shows a lack of both intelligence and patriotism. That is simply not how this electoral process works. Two parties select one candidate apiece and both candidates compete and vie for our support. It can get ugly, that is what we do. Votes are counted, a winner is declared and he, or maybe even she, becomes our President. Our. President. Reagan was my president. Bush and Bush II were my presidents. Nixon was (I just got a little chest pain, maybe gas . . .) my president. Get over it – it has been eight freaking years! You lost. You have almost singlehandedly guaranteed another eight years of the same. (You had help, I get that . . .)

He was woefully unprepared, carried himself like the mean-spirited bully that he is and did little, in my opinion, to further his cause.