I was going to go over some more thoughts in the wake of Gary Johnson’s self-sabotage, namely on the point that despite that apparently reduced threat, Hillary Clinton is still losing her lead over Donald Trump. But in the midst of all the, uh, excitement surrounding this campaign, I forgot that the first presidential debate is September 26, or next Monday. At such occasions, the media will often pose questions from members of the audience. As I plan to be washing my hair and/or laundry that day, I do not expect to be present for the debate, but I did at least want to pose these questions for discussion.
Donald Trump
- Did you know that the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal does not involve China?
- Even if we renegotiate bad trade deals with China and other nations, what would your administration actually do to bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States?
- In March, you posted a memo to the Washington Post saying that you would use the “know your customer” provisions of the Patriot Act to prevent wire transfers from Mexican workers in America to their families back home, in order to pressure the Mexican government into paying for the border wall. Was this how you were actually expecting to get Mexico to pay for the wall, and do you honestly think their government will take you seriously?
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In August 2015, you told a CNN interviewer that the secret to your success was that, quote, “I do whine because I want to win. And I’m not happy if I’m not winning. And I am a whiner. And I’m a whiner and I keep whining and whining until I win.” Mr. Trump, I do not consider that a proper attitude for an ADULT, let alone the President of the United States, and that is one reason I will not vote for you, one reason of many. What is your response to that statement?
Hillary Clinton
- Secretary Clinton, I ask you the same question I asked of Donald Trump: What would your economic policies do to bring manufacturing jobs back to the US?
- Secretary Clinton, when you did the “Commander in Chief” interview with Matt Lauer, you told the audience that we would never go back to having boots on the ground in Iraq. But several sources have confirmed that we do have special forces in both Iraq and Syria assisting against ISIS as well as official advisors to Iraqi forces, along with of course air support against the Assad regime. What would your policy be toward the region in general- specifically, what is your policy toward the Bashar al-Assad regime? Would you support it as the legitimate government of Syria or work to have him leave office? And in answering that question, how would your policy be supported by diplomatic and military means?
- Mrs. Clinton, FBI Director James Comey, in his report to Congress on the issue of your email account as Secretary of State, said that you and your staff were “extremely careless” with emails you later said were “retroactively classified.” At the Commander in Chief event, an audience member said he was a naval officer who had held a top secret clearance, and had he not communicated information according to protocols, he could have been prosecuted. Yet you are saying the nation’s top diplomatic official is under lesser restrictions, and that the system your department was using was unclassified, which is why you were using a separate system. Can you at least understand that this issue- among others- is a major example of why so many Americans think you ARE secretive, you are suspicious, you are controlling, you can’t be trusted, and – more important than such opinion – that the system IS rigged to protect people at the top, like you?
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Thank you, and God bless America.