Choices for presidency are appalling
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March 17, 2016
To the Eagle:
At this moment, the race for the presidency is shaping up to give us some pretty appalling choices come November. On the democrat side we have old Bernie who bills himself as a socialist, but is actually an admirer of Joe Stalin whose achievements in the field of human butchery made Hitler look like an amateur (Bernie actually honeymooned in Russia), and Hillary, a thoroughly unpleasant woman who is not only "running for" but also "fleeing from" charges of various felonious activities, as well as a record of betrayal and incompetence in the Benghazi matter.
On the Republican side we have the disastrous Donald, a blustering businessman whose tatterdemalion empire is characterized by shaky and shady businesses and serial bankruptcies, who had to bail himself out by seeking stardom on a moronic reality TV series. Among scary little known background details: One of his chief advisors is Carl Icahn, the corporate raider who wrecked my old airline, TWA. He weaseled his way aboard by adroit manipulations on the stock market (hostile takeover), and then demonstrated total incompetence in the day-to-day running of the airline. Took most of a decade to get rid of him, but the airline was too weakened to survive and went belly up in January of 2002. Now he's helped the Donald do a hostile takeover of the Republican Party. These are sure not the kind of people I want running my country.
The month after the election I'll celebrate my 80th birthday, so whoever's elected will possibly be my last president, and I'd sure like to see someone in there capable of cleaning up the wreckage of the Obama years. None of these three characters even come close. If one of them is elected, we'll just have to hunker down and do what we can to protect our little county from further federal depredation and incompetence.
I'd go back to my old plan of blowing up the bridge and declaring Puget Island independent, but we can't keep the new ferry running well enough to keep supply lines open, so I guess that plan's out, too.
Howard Brawn
Puget Island
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