Hillary Clinton and Katty Perry.Photo Source:the internet |
Over
the season of the campaigns, the most beautiful slogan I have known is ‘STRONGER TOGETHER’—against all else and
especially more Donald Trump’s sound-tough empty slogan, “Make America Great Again”.
Psychologists have proven beyond reasonable doubt over the years that whatever
the mind conceives, it’s bound to see it happen. Believing that America is not
great is something that begun in Donald Trump’s egoic mind and it has picked
upstream breaking to piece the Republican Party and sadly translating to other
innocent Americans and those who would love to be future immigrants of the
United States. Looking and thinking through Mrs.
Clinton’s slogan gave me hope that America can heal and live in Harmony.
America doesn’t in anyway need Donald Trump’s divisive and fear mongering
rhetoric to move forward; evidence and practical realities say so.
Joe Walsh thought
it fitting to rub this bigotry to the President Obama and his race, but its
crass and completely asinine: “this is
now war. Watch out Obama. Watch out black lives matter punks.Real America is
coming after you”. Over the past century America has paid her dues
expensively due to being blinded into hate of a man not born the same as the
hater: genocide; racism; police brutality; slavery and all the horrible things
anyone can think around this line. When someone looks at the heinous crimes
that continue to rob America of its safety and cheers on it, it’s rather time
to know that America is only stronger
together—a wake-up call to stay away from the rhetoric people like Donald
Trump are saying. Whether Donald Trump sells the divisive and hate-rhetoric for
just being crass, I don’t know but what I know by now is that he seems to be
having followers that have taken it to a new scary level, those that think that
the “real America” is when people
are shooting at each other. In the words of Anna
Quendlin, I will settle it with Joe Walsh and the Trump camp: “ignorant free speech often works against the
speaker. That’s one of the several reasons why it must be given rein instead of
suppressed”
When
Mrs. Clinton called out the hypocrisy with
the slogan ‘Make America Great Again’ some people didn’t pay attention and now
we can evidently see the contagion of stupidity of that slogan re-branded to the
word like, ‘watch out; the
real America is coming after you’. As Mrs. Clinton said earlier on June 28th 2016,I will quote
her very words: “the
whole slogan make America great again is code for go back to the time when a
lot of people were not included”. If you are aware of American
History and that doesn’t smack you awake, certainly you are looking in the
wrong direction, pay attention. The phrase what goes around comes back around is
not new to many of us; if we can’t learn from the mistakes of History, we are
bound to repeat them: as a matter of factly, History will laugh at us.
As
Peter Daou put the matter rather perfectly, in article he wrote: “Hillary’s republican opponent,
Donald Trump has spent year hurling insults at those who disagree with him. He
has embraced intolerance as a platform. He has a shameful History of demeaning women.
He lacks even the most rudimentary preparedness for the office he seeks. He has
a self-admittedly vindictive temperament which is profoundly ill-suited for the
Presidency. He lashes out at reporters in personal terms whenever questioned.
Yet astonishingly receives less negative coverage than Hillary Clinton
according to two independent studies”. In earlier piece of work here,
with all the reasons why Hillary Clinton will do the job, I did quote Hillary Clinton twice on the kind of
temperament very much needed for a president of the United States, especially
now, the raw fact is that it is not Donald Trump’s.
In
that endorsement I wrote about Mrs. Clinton’s verve
and swagger to do the job so well, I did mention and brought out excerpts from
her memoirs as well as President Bill Clinton’s. For purposes of putting it to
bed with the big-mouthed Newt Gingrich(one of the names running around as the
likely running mate for the Donald),I will fetch yet another disheartening
reality about his effort to fail the early Clinton administration,though Newt
fantastically embarrassed himself—whiles showing the hypocrisies of republicans
at once.
Hillary
Clinton writes on pg.296 (624), in living a
History: “Newt Gingrich and his
cohort of self-described republican “revolutionaries” appeared eager to
capitalize on the trend. In September, Gingrich stood on the steps of the
capitol, surrounded by like-minded members, to unveil his game plan for midterm
victory: a “contract with America”. The contract, which provided the basis for
republican proposals to abolish the department of education and environment and
slash tax credits for the working poor, came to be known around the white house
as the “contract on America” because of the damage it would cause to our
country. The numbers behind its contradictory agenda didn’t add up. You can’t
increase military spending, decrease taxes and balance the federal budget
unless you cut much of what the government does.Gingrich counted on the voters
to skip the arithmetic. The contract was a strategy to nationalize local
elections and turn congressional races into a referendum on republican terms:
negative on the Clinton administration and positive on their contract.”
On
pg.307 (264), she goes on to write—under the sub-heading, ‘Conversations with Eleanor’: “there is an old Chinese curse, “May you live in the interesting times”,
that became a running joke in our family. Bill and I would ask each other,
Well, are you living in the interesting times yet? She goes on to write: “one dreary November morning I stopped by
my force after a meeting with Bill in the oval office and glanced at the framed
photography of Eleanor Roosevelt displayed on a huge table. I am a huge fan of Mrs. Roosevelt, and I have long collected portraits
and momentos from her. Seeing her calm, determined visage brought to mind her
some of her wise words: ‘a woman is like a teabag’,Mrs. Roosevelt said. “You never know how strong she is
until she is in hot water”. That’s exactly what I would like to
remind the republicans, as I wrote earlier,
quoting a great writer; ‘Nothing
baffles the achemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls’,
I will emphatically say that it’s about time they realized that Mrs. Clinton is
simply phenomenal and no matter how long they try to taint her name in the mud,
their report will always stop at futile attempts.
Mrs.
Clinton has earned a string of endorsements all over the world that present her as the most qualified
candidate for the job and I totally agree. Take a good look at the words from
Vice President Joe Biden’s endorsement: “the hardest thing is
vouching. When you vouch for them you say I am putting my reputation on the
line. I believe this person is a good person, has character. You’re putting
your rep on the line. You’re saying I think this person has character and
that’s what I am prepared to do for Hillary”. It is very true that
the one person you can vouch for and feel good about it is Hillary Clinton
because you know you are doing the right thing, she has earned it.Dear America,
be vigilant and let’s vote the most qualified candidate to the job, Hillary
Rodham Clinton: “STRONGER TOGETHER.”
-Grace AbahoSr, is an INDEPENDENT
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