Presidential election surrounded with hypocrisy

In recent weeks, there have been numerous articles in the Daily Messenger about Donald Trump, mostly from left-wing pundits — all highly critical and, sometimes, downright hysterical. For the most part, I agree. The problem is the hypocrisy. When it comes to Hillary Clinton, it’s “hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.”

Examples:

“Character Matters” by Michael Gerson, published June 18: Change GOP to Democrats, add a few other words and, bingo, a new article.

“Coronation of a Charlatan” by Eugene Robinson, published July 19: Change Trump to Hillary, and another half page of news print is available.

Richard Hermann uses the term “Herr Trump” in his guest essay published July 21, the inference being that Trump is "Herr Hitler.” You would think well-educated writer “Herr Hermann" would know the term “Herr” is the German equivalent of the English “Mister,” nothing more, nothing less.

After the Orlando shooting, Trump hinted that Obama was a secret Muslim and may have been involved. Big uproar, and rightly so. But then Clinton said there is no place for a conspiracy theorist as president. Isn’t she the one that said there was “a vast right-wing conspiracy out to get her and Bill”?

Then, Trump said he could not get a fair trial from a judge who was a Mexican. Stupid, but at the same time one of Hillary’s top aides said the State Department Inspector General's coming report about her might be flawed because some of his group were registered Republicans.

In the matter of a conspiracy, try this. Bill Clinton delays his flight to meet Attorney General Lynch; then the FBI director delivers a scathing indictment of Hillary, but then says no charges; the AG rubber stamps it; Hillary boards Air Force One with the president, and off they go on the campaign trail. All happened within days. No more investigation to see if any national secrets were compromised, case closed. If you believed that Bill and Lynch only talked about kids and cookies, there is a large amount of Solyndra stock for sale cheap.

Jobs: Hillary says she will put coal mine owners and miners out of business, and environmentalists give a big cheer. Then she backtracked and said she would provide clean jobs. She followed up with a speech to steel workers: "I will save your jobs.” Big cheer from union leaders. She and the environmentalist show their stupidity. To make a ton of steel, you need a ton of iron ore, a ton of coke and lots of other stuff. To get a ton of coke, you need a ton and a half of coal. It all has to be processed with huge amounts of energy. It takes up to 70,000 tons of steel to make an aircraft carrier. A “clean” wind turbine is about 89 percent steel; a large one requires about 200 tons. There is no such thing as clean jobs. Everything made, from socks to Boeing 777s, requires material and energy. There is no free lunch except in "Bolshevik Bernie" Sanders’ world.

Gun control: Hillary says she will reverse recent Supreme Court rulings upholding individual rights of gun ownership. How would she do this? Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg not only put her foot in the upcoming election but once said if she could rewrite our Constitution, she would model it after South Africa’s. Really, is this how so-called liberals think? Hillary has praised New York handgun law, appropriately called the Sullivan Act, which was named after an early 20th century state Democratic sponsor, Big Tim Sullivan, one of the most corrupt politicians of his day. If alive today, he would feel right at home. A permit issued upstate is no good in New York City. The best way to get one there is to bribe an official in the police chief's office. Hillary said she would allow lawsuits by crime victims against gunmakers. Their fault if a criminal uses a gun to kill someone. How about makers of knives, bats, axes, etc.? Just plain stupid. She also praised New York’s Safe Act, which was passed in a midnight session by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his now-convicted criminal cohorts he once called his amigos.

Foreign affairs: Trump vs Hillary. This would fill the entire Daily Messenger. Save it for another day.

Someone said we must choose between the lesser of two evils. It should read, “evils of the two lesser."

Richard Blakesley is a Bloomfield resident.