Editorial: If sanity is the goal, the only option is Hillary
Anyone who watched the first US presidential election debate live this week will have appreciated that the Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton, won hands-down. It was a victory for experience and hard work. The scary thing about the debate is that Donald Trump, Clinton’s Republican opponent, is very much still in the race. It is frankly hard to listen to Trump because he literally makes no sense sometimes. One New York Times commentator remarked that "there had been some speculation that all Trump needed to do was speak in complete sentences to beat expectations, and if that was the bar, the man did great. When Hillary Clinton suggested he might be withholding his federal returns because he never paid any taxes, he responded: ‘That makes me smart.’ Complete sentence." It is Trump’s total disregard for political convention that has got him to within striking distance of the White House. That remark — that it’s "smart" of him not to have paid taxes — would sink a normal candidate. B...
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