Election choices
Election choices
I’ve never witnessed an election year like this one.
The feelings I have of great concern and anguish are real. The election is surreal, a bad dream that could come true.
Where are the Kennedys, Reagans, Eisenhowers and Roosevelts? Where are the trustworthy candidates?
How can we compare in any way the values of past presidents to the choices we have now? We can’t.
The candidates we have are clueless as to how to lead America into the future. Their lectures are repulsive, demeaning and very dividing.
Such rhetoric is not of a future president, a sad moment for America.
Politicians say they are “taking back” their country. Instead, they are setting our democracy up to fail its citizens and the future of all.
Today I sit and stare with total dismay and disgust at the travesty created by politicians who have turned their jobs into constant vacations and fundraising paid for by taxpayers.
Raul Ortiz, Hurst
The last six elections I’ve followed the political games played in presidential campaigns. It always seemed that the Republicans were playing chess while the Democrats were in a cage match.
Finally, Republicans are playing the same game. Following Hillary Clinton’s direct attacks on Donald Trump, he responded in kind.
I wish both sides would spend more time on their policy plans, but it looks like they’re both going to play the same game.
Trump was not my first choice, but I can’t imagine four years of the same economic and foreign policies that we’ve lived with the last seven years.
Jack Russell,
North Richland Hills
Donald Trump’s act is no longer entertaining. The punchlines are redundant, stale, boring, tiring, offensive and toxic.
He obviously scorns advisers and belittles writers. He needs a team of tutors to teach him the foundations of American culture and history.
The manliness he displays is infantile and insults the true attributes of masculinity.
A real man is gentle, kind and empathetic. A real man strives to see the world through other’s eyes. A real man tries to walk a mile in other people’s moccasins.
Tony Zurlo, Arlington
This story was originally published July 18, 2016 at 4:43 PM with the headline "Election choices."