Who would you trust more to be the next US President?
With the latest results today from ABC/Washington Post tracking poll, now showing Donald Trump with 46% of the possible votes which is a 1% lead over Hillary Clinton at 45%, the roller coaster continues with just a week left before we know the outcome of this Presidential election.
At the very heart of it with all the accusations flying about is who do the American public trust to be their next President?
The main issue regarding trust with Hillary Clinton is that she used her own email servers based at her house when sending and receiving official government emails. She was cleared of criminal activity by the FBI in July but they did give her a stinging rebuke. Now it appears there could be another tranche of dodgy emails on the computer of her closest aide, Huma Abduin who was married to a disgraced former congressman Antony Weiner.
Donald Trump has had many accusations levelled at him from paying some of his workers below minimum wage in the past to making suggestive and lewd comments to many women over the years. Indeed some of his comments were recorded by a TV studio and released some weeks ago harming his campaign.
Both candidates have apologised for past indiscretions. Last week Hillary Clinton was 11% ahead in the polls and now they are about level with Donald Trump pushing slightly ahead. This does not take the likely turnout on the day into account.
So what are your views? Who would you trust more to be the President of the USA? Are they both as bad as each other or is one of them fit to be President? How do they compare to past Presidents such as Bush, Reagan, Nixon or Kennedy?
Who would you trust more to be the next US President?
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The thought that Clinton could potentially become the most powerful person on the planet is truly terrifying, America would become a laughing stock.
Whatever we may think of Trump this side of the Pond, he is addressing the concerns and needs of the ordinary American working family. From that great steel city, Pittsburgh through to Detroit. Bill Clinton sold them down the river, causing endless hardship and misery. There are many more places, too numerous to mention here.
I expect to be red arrowed for this next.
Throughout Western Europe and North America our 'Establishments' have become Godless, immoral, self seeking and quite without a conscience. Only the purpose matters, not the people. It is time this cartel was broken and retired on a State pension, the same pension they have awarded us.
Diverse corporates along side the military industrial complex, of which Eisenhower warned against in his 1960 speech as he departed the Whitehouse, have become too big, too powerful and far too greededy. They wield too much political power.
It is time for a non-Establishment figure to step in and say, enough, we're headed elsewhere. We're gonna make friends with Russia, speak with China. As Churchill said, Jaw Jaw is better than War War, which is what the American corporates want, to their own gain of course.
So, I think Trump will be good for America and good for us Brits. How long it will be before he is assassinated I don't know. But most surely, he will be.
Trump and his supporters seem to spend their time knocking the establishment and hiding the dearth of their own policies. Is this because they have few or because they don't want the public to know them? He seems to represent fear, bigotry and hopelessness - such a nasty man.
Are you saying, since Germany went down the Nazi road in Post WW1 Germany we should all live in a moribund society, a society without change or ability to reflect the very different times in which we live?
I put it to you, very respectfully, if it were not for populist rebellions from time to time, we would still be living as uneducated serfs. Hereward the Wake, Watt Tyler, Kett, Cromwell and even some luminaries such as the Pitts and Shaftesbury have illuminated and informed their society to our benefit. There are so many more.
The tyrants Germany produced post WW1 could have been stopped in their tracks if the Allies had applied a concerted pressure and enforced the Treaty of Versailles. To our ultimate cost, they didn't.
I am not suggesting that Brexit, UKIP growing, and today Trump elected are necessarily inherently good. They are not. But each incidence has sent a message to the staid establishment, change for the greater good, or that change will come upon you and be outside your control.
Better a measured and steady transition than an explosive uprising.
Trump ... really??
Clinton ... really??
I feel sick at the prospect of either.
I guess Clinton will be slightly more credible on the world stage because of her political background.
Trump is not even a successful businessman. When you look at his business, he may be rich, but he hasn't grown his empire.
If someone like Hilary Clinton stands up to him he turns to dirty tactics.
Can you imagine how he would deal with real "world leaders" one of which he could never be if he makes a demand for something and they said no
Hilary Clinton may have got some things wrong, but at least she has parliamentary experience in dealing with world leaders and she does not "openly that we have seen" put others down by trying to expose or shame them