On the first day of the Republican convention in Cleveland the theme was supposed to be “Make America Safe”. Instead, it appeared to be both “Make America Afraid” and “Hillary is a murderer, liar, and the cause of all the world’s problems”. They had the indecency to exploit a grieving mother and to dredge up all the conspiracy tripe concerning Benghazi. They also mischaracterized and excoriated our military efforts against ISIS. I have two articles to recommend. One, TEACHERKEN 7/12/16 concerns Sec Clinton’s Emails. In particular, the following paragraph: ” One might have inferred her untruth from Comey’s original (and quite professionally improper) statement on Tuesday July 11, but in his own testimony before the committee made clear that no headers indicated that anything was classified and that one might well not note the markings within the body of three emails, markings that the State Department has said were there erroneously.” The other article is by Fareed Zakaria “Obama’s Terror Strategy Works”.
Day, today, was Number One
The convention has begun
The Republicans convening through the night
On this eve they had a bitter rulings fight
It was nasty and chaotic
And was somewhat idiotic
Anti-Trumples failed on changing rules too tight
Colorado delegates then left outright
Prime-time features started with
A most grieving Mother Smith
At Benghazi her son Sean his death he met
She blamed Hillary, in person, for his death
Giuliani’s whipping speech
Full of falsehoods, overreach
Claiming Secretary Clinton lied and failed
Toward her, delegates responded, “Go to jail”
Joni Ernst, who’s in the Senate
Said that Trump is in to win it
She excoriated Clinton like the rest
All-in-all it was an anti-Clinton fest
Melania Trump, I would opine
Most articulate, her line
As she spoke of Trumple, man of family
Quite a difference from the man known publicly
The convention’s first-day theme
Fear and falsehoods it would seem
Dominated what the speakers had to say
Over all, I’d say it was a wasted day
7/18/16
