Another week, another attempt to deceive the American public by Cankles. This week's cover-up is relatively benign, considering all the other attempts she and her minions have made, but its implications going forward are ominous.
First, the truly minor cover-up had to do with Cankles' health. After a coughing fit last week, she had to leave a 9/11 memorial service and, as she was being led into the vehicle to whisk her away, she faltered so badly that she had to be held up by her security team. She then went not to the hospital but to her daughter's house, from which she emerged a few hours later looking drawn and tired.
At first, her staff tried to float the ludicrous story that she'd lost her shoe under the vehicle. Then it gave another cockamamie story that she was overheated at the memorial service. It wasn't until hours later that the fact that she'd been diagnosed with pneumonia was revealed.
The problem isn't so much Cankles' inability to tell the truth -- that ship has long since sailed -- but the ramifications for a Cankles presidency are daunting. First of all, the woman's sixty-nine-years-old. If she's this infirm during a campaign, how will she be during the rigors of an international crisis? Can the nation depend on her leadership being firm and unwavering? Or will she be sidelined due to a chronic or debilitating illness?
Assuming the worst case scenario (although there are those who would call it a best-case scenario) and Cankles has to resign, that leaves us with the underwhelming Tim Kaine, presently the Democratic candidate for vice president. Although votes are cast that elect him as vice-president in the event Cankles gets in, no one is voting for him as vice president, yet he'd be a heartbeat away from the presidency in that eventuality. From the little I've heard him speak -- both in Spanish and in English -- he's skilled in nothing more than circumlocution. He answers questions without even answering them. Here's a quote from Mr. Kaine answering the question about when he first learned his running mate had pneumonia:
"I don’t want to get into the character of communications, but I reached out to her as soon as the incident happened on Sunday and we had a good dialogue here but other than that, that was the first time we talked,” Kaine said. "I obviously knew from Monday [Sept. 9] when she was coughing that she had a cough and it was likely an allergy but the first time we talked after when we were together Monday was I reached out to her yesterday in New York.”
Huh?
This campaign has been a joke of epic proportions. For as badly as Mr. Trump has handled and mangled things, nothing he's done is as bad, comparatively, as what Cankles' campaign has produced. Remember, she's the seasoned politician. He's nothing more than a businessman cum politician.
There's a possible angle on this pneumonia scare that no one's mentioning, or at least I've heard mentioned. Cankles has dutifully avoided press conferences, other than the scripted Democratic debates that were little more than speech opportunities for herself. What if this whole pneumonia act is nothing more than an attempt to gain sympathy for the debates or, even better, avoid or limit the number of debates altogether? She can claim she's too sick to attend them, and although nothing would please her more than wiping the floor with Mr. Trump, she just can't hack it, on the advice of her doctor. Asking questions of her doctors would be futile, of course, due to patient-doctor privilege.
It's Machiavellian, I know, but consider how Cankles operates.
Some might actually say this is deplorable.
It is.
(c) 2016 The Truxton Spangler Chronicles
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