Sick daze

As we continue our downward spiral in the 2016 election for the President of the United States, one of the "major" issues that the trash-talking Republican nominee for president, his merry "basket of deplorables," and most of the popular media (both in the U.S. and Canada you should know) are fixated upon is Hillary Clinton's bout with pneumonia.

So she kept it a "secret." More than likely because Hillary Clinton is damned if she does and damned if she doesn't. Go public with your diagnosis of pneumonia? Get pilloried in the press and by the right-wingers. Don't go public with your diagnosis? Get pilloried in the press and by the right-wingers.

For the record, pneumonia is not necessarily a life-threatening condition and certainly doesn't disqualify someone for public office, even the highest office in the land. After all, Franklin Delano Roosevelt lived with polio during his presidency. And yet he completed three terms and almost a fourth and was so damn good at his job that they had to pass an amendment to the U.S. Constitution (the 22nd) to prevent anyone from holding the office of president more than two times.

Somehow we made it through both the Great Depression and the Second World War led by a man in a wheelchair. But how we'll all survive a woman with a case of pneumonia is a complete mystery!

It's just an old war, not even a Cold War, as Marianne Faithfull once sang ("Broken English"). This time, it's a war against women and the center-left of American politics. But when you don't any real policy to run on, any ideas, just diatribes and insults, all that's left are allegations of wrong-doing over e-mail servers (not good but not a treasonable offense, as far as I can tell, certainly not worthy of hanging) and innuendo about "mental and physical capacity."

I didn't think I could despise any one person in American politics more than I despise Dick Cheney. But Il Douche has broken new ground and plumbed new depths in my disgust and anger.

In case you hadn't figured it out already, I'm with her. I may have had my qualms in the past, but I am now firmly in the Hillary Clinton camp and short of her strangling a puppy on stage at a rally, nothing will change that.

(And even she did harm a puppy, I still wouldn't vote for Spray-Tanned Putin.)