WJBC Forum: Name calling

Posted on August 9, 2016
Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton
(Photo courtesy La Real noticia/flickr)

By Jim Fisher

Hillary Clinton calls Donald Trump a racist. Com-on Hillary isn’t that particular “name” kinda used up at this point. Then Donald Trump calls Hillary Crooked Hillary. Since the Republican convention which made Donald Trump the Republican nominee, Donald calls Hillary “the devil”. And that Bernie Sanders made a deal with “the devil”, then continues to call her the devil. Then in what some called a back off of the devil innuendo Trump calls Hillary the “Founder of ISIS”. Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, the Republican vice Presidential candidate recently said he doesn’t believe “name calling has any place in public life”. Thank you, Mike.

Then Hillary’s vice presidential running mate said after the Democratic National Convention. That they “won’t stoop to Donald Trump’s level of name calling during the race for the White house”.

Whew! It looks like the Vice Presidential candidates finally got things under control.

But it didn’t last long.

Hillary responding to some animal rights protesters at one of her rallies said:“Apparently these people are here to protest Trump because Trump and his kids have killed a lot of animals,”

Donald responds by now calling “Hillary Rotten Clinton”.

But wait! There is a third party candidate that has emerged from the fray of the two national conventions. Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson. Mr. Johnson in a recent interview said that he stopped using his recreational marijuana while he is running for president.

You’ve got to be kidding! It feels like were in third grade on the playground at recess.  But this is our choice of candidates running for president of the United states!

Here’s my response: Donald! Go stand in the corner and don’t make a peep til the bell rings.

Hillary! Write on the blackboard, “I will not call people names” until the board is full.

Gary…Go to the principle’s office, now!

Jim Fisher has lived on a small farm outside of Hudson for 30 years. Jim has been married to Jayne for 36 years. Together they have raised two daughters.  (no grandchildren). Jim has served on the Unit Five Board of Education. Jim works with the McLean County Tea Party.

The opinions expressed within WJBC’s Forum are solely those of the Forum’s author, and are not necessarily those of WJBC or Cumulus Media, Inc.

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