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Old 11-08-2016, 06:31 AM   #1
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US Election 2016: one sad last gasp from "USA Today"


USA Today is the quintessential "rag newspaper," which is plopped in front of the door of most hotel rooms. They must be on hard times as are all paper newspapers these days, since their pages are getting narrower and narrower, but they're still a fun read on the eve of an Election.

This year, however, it was quite disappointing.

This year's "day before" issue featured three full-page ads:
  1. A page by "Hillary," reciting the reasons why one must not vote for "Trump."
  2. A page by "Trump," saying once again why "Hillary" should be put in prison over e-mails.
  3. A page, apart from the other two, by a one "Gary Johnson" ("paid for by Gary Johnson") ... but not that Gary Johnson ... endorsing "Trump."
There was a bleat from the FBI, saying once again why those e-mails just didn't matter.

But, perhaps most disappointing of all, a top-of-page editorial explaining why the writer was not(!) going to vote at all.

I searched for one single "campaign promise," other than a promise to put one's opponent in jail, and could find none. I only found more pages of the same negativism, coupled with a pathetic attempt to snag Libertarian voters who presumably wouldn't know any better, and a column directly stating that one should just stay in bed all day.

In the future, I hope that real "campaign reform" comes to the US. If this is all that "billions of dollars of Media spending and Corporate political purchases" brings you (and, it is ...), then I've had enough.

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Old 11-08-2016, 06:46 AM   #2
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