Before you shed a tear for Hillary Clinton -- ensnared yet again in a web spun by the Vast Alt-Right Wing Conspiracy -- remember this: There is no "femme" without "fatale." There is no martyr without sacrifice. There is no shattered glass ceiling without broken shards of glass.
Never in modern American political history has a more issue-oriented, serious candidate for president faced off against a more dishonest, platform-less, self-absorbed celebrity who is cashing in on ill-gotten wealth and fame despite serious concerns about mental and physical health.
Is it really any surprise that newspapers and the television and radio have glutted their pages and airwaves with this constant fire-hydrant-force deluge of the most intensely negative coverage of Donald Trump?
CNN -- which has dropped all pretense of fairness and embraced its slur as "Clinton News Network" -- dispatched its staff shrink to analyze Donald Trump for signs of insanity.
Donald Trump is "woefully unprepared," President Obama said Tuesday. "Unfit to be president."
He might be long in the tooth, sallow in the face and his finger wag might have a bit more of an uncontrolled tremble to it, but boy does Bill Clinton still have that old drive.
If you are going to start a revolution, you probably want to finish it. Either win or die trying. That is why revolutions are always so bloody. Whatever you do, if you start a real movement and then try to sell it away, don't be surprised if you lose control.
Turns out Donald J. Trump is right. The system really is rigged! At least the Democratic Party's system is.
Say whatever you want about real estate developer Donald J. Trump, he is the candidate of "love."
In the end, it was all about Ted Cruz. Delivering an unvetted speech before the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night, Ted Cruz -- as is always his custom -- carefully calculated just how to do it so it would benefit himself the most. And it backfired.
Behold! A new American political dynasty is born! Goodnight, Camelot. Move over Bushes and Clintons. Meet the entire Trump clan.
Becoming an American citizen, Melania Trump told Republican delegates on the first night of the convention, was "the greatest privilege on planet Earth!" Boy, what a refreshing and starkly different attitude to have in the White House.
To hell with The Donald. Let's hear it for The Melania! You can't say the guy doesn't like immigrants.
From the moment he descended his glass escalator and transformed U.S. politics with his hostile takeover of the Republican Party, Donald Trump has been a big-picture, broad-brush candidate peddling a very simple, clear message. A simple message from a simple man.
By picking Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, real estate mogul Donald J. Trump would take a serious departure from the instinctual campaign style and gunslinging strategy that has served him so well and allowed him to pull some of the most unlikely spectacular political surprises in recent political times.
There can be no dispute that Barack Obama was forced to wade through unprecedented bigotry in his speedy ascent to the most powerful perch in the world. His predecessor, George W. Bush, called it the "soft bigotry of low expectations."
So it turns out that while you can indict a ham sandwich, indicting our top diplomat for "extremely careless" handling of national secrets at a time of war against the most determined and diabolical enemy we have ever faced -- well, that is just a waste of time. Inconvenient. Awkward.
Former President Bill Clinton is just doing what Bubba does. What Bubba has always done.
Lady Hillary Clinton's orchestration of a sprawling and fantastically dishonest cover-up of the terrorist attack on her State Department post in Benghazi on the anniversary of 9/11 is a clear reminder of just how totally indifferent the Clintons are when it comes to their responsibility to the voters they serve, the people they command and the country they represent.
If eight years of a Clinton presidency were not enough to teach you about the slow-rolling train wreck soap opera of dazzling indifference, monumental selfishness, convoluted lies and shameless coverups, then just maybe you deserve to live with yet another monstrous mistake.
