If all it took to do it
is say it we could all be heroes.
Donald Trump said this
about debating Hillary Rodham Clinton, "I think beating her in a debate
would be one of the easy challenges of my life.” He made this comment to Greta
Van Susteren back in 2015. What a difference an actual debate makes.
Is who won or lost is
really in the eye of the beholder? People will see and/or believe what they
want to believe, but there really is an objective answer to the question.
The real problem for
Donald Trump is that he needed for there not to be any question as to who won.
He needed to knock it out of the park! His personal narrative is that he
doesn’t lose. He needed to be able to rub her nose in it after the dust settled
since it was such an easy challenge for him. He is in adulation of himself and
is the best at what he does so why prepare? It was obvious that she baited and
rattled him. The only time I saw a break in her composure was when she had to
tamp herself down when she realized how bigly badly he was doing. The problem
for Donald Trump wasn’t just that he shot himself in the foot. The problem was
he just kept doing it again and again.
I think it’s hard for
some people to accept that a man who easily, and I do mean easily, waded
through so many skilled adversaries in the Republican primaries, including a
woman, came up so short against Hillary Clinton. It’s just salt in the wound
that he was humiliated by a woman. He obviously wasn’t prepared. But to repeat
a line used previously, “Well, that's Donald Trump." He should sue her for
beating him. That would show her.
If he really believes
that he won the debate why all the excuses afterwards? Immediately after the
debate he claimed that he had a bad mic. What? I’ve watched the debate twice
now and if he had a bad mic I couldn’t tell. But if he thinks he won does bad
equipment really matter? At first he said that the moderator “…did a great job. Honestly, I thought he did a great job. I thought
they [the questions] were very fair.” Then he had time to think about it. And
suddenly Lester Holt “was fine. Nothing outstanding. I thought he gave me very
unfair questions at the end - the last three, four questions." By the
third day after the debate he came to the conclusion that it was rigged.
"I had to put up with the anchor and fight the anchor all the time on
everything I said. What a rigged deal." He may deny that he was even at
the debate by the time I get this posted.
Nixon had his flop sweat
and Donald Trump had his runny nose. What was with that anyway? Perhaps he was
really sick and managed through sheer grit, courage and determination to make
it through. Give the draft avoider a purple heart. He was wounded in debate. He
would want a Medal of Honor.
Did he get asked the
right questions? Did he get his message out? The country’s a mess. We need law
and order. Everybody is beating us. Black people are living in hell. Jobs
shouldn’t be sent away. HRC has done nothing for 30 years (or conversely, she
has been fighting ISIS and losing for all of her adult life). People lie about
him. His ten year old is good with computers. Stop and frisk minorities. HRC
has been mean to him. The Latina was fat. Rosie had it coming to her. He solved
the birther issue and people should thank him for it. I’m sure I’ve left out
some of his deeper and more meaningful comments, like his thoughts on “cyber”
and I would really like for someone to delve into that 400 pound hacker in bed
answer. Where did that come from?
The whole point about
debate preparation is to prepare for whatever comes your way and have a way to
work in the salient points that you want to make. I was asked a question once
in a candidate forum and used the time to address a different issue. Another
candidate asked the moderator if I was allowed to do that. (I had already done
it.) The moderator said, “Yes. It’s his time. He can do whatever he wants with
it.” I made the decision to get my position out on something that wasn’t being
covered that I felt was important. It was a risk. It worked out. Since Trump
didn’t bother answering some questions anyway, he passed up opportunities to
talk about a number of his favorite things like building the big wall that
Mexico is going to pay to for. His
supporters love that! Instead he wandered off mentally to talk about fat
people. He really doesn’t like fat people. I don’t know if anyone has noticed
but the man is a tad overweight himself. Just a tad. Just a little obese. Being
a man of a certain age myself I know how that can happen.
He had the same time and
opportunity to get his message out that Hillary Rodham Clinton did. Instead he
gave rambling non-answers. It’s like when an attorney asks a question that gets
overruled by the judge. They may get overruled but their question or statement
is out there. Same thing applies here. Hillary consulted her internal memory,
exercised her amazing powers of recall and answered the questions
intelligently, getting her talking points across time and time again.
It seems that the
intention of those managing Trump’s campaign is for him not to act like himself.
They want him to act like someone that he isn’t in order to get those that are
undecided to vote for him; to accept and vote for a false Donald Trump. So, I’m
glad that he was unable to sustain acting reasonable. He more accurately
portrayed his true persona and temperament for most of the debate. It’s being
honest. He is unapologetic about who and what he is. He is the best Donald Trump
in the world and she was laughing at his ineptness.
I may go ahead and watch
the next debate because I don’t think that Hillary Rodham Clinton even got into
her “A” material. The “who-won-the-debate-polls” are starting to come in now
and it looks like Trump’s best chance of winning the next one is to have HRC
thrown out. That could get ugly with a battle of the assigned Secret Service agents.
One thing for sure. She will come prepared.