19, September 2015 The
Second Republican Debate
Eleven presidential candidates had three prime-time hours on the
national stage to offer their vision for
their country. What followed was
extremely disappointing bordering on the surreal – no effort to adhere to the
truth, perhaps a new game of no truth, no consequences! It was a pity CNN who
seem very adept at slick visuals, didn’t offer a fact check for viewers. The issues glaringly omitted were income
inequality and race relations. A recent Gallup poll ranked these two issues
high on Americans concerns. Police brutality has soured relations among blacks
and Hispanics. Kentucky Senator Rand Paul was right in accusing former Florida
Governor Jeb Bush of hypocrisy in his position on marijuana legalization. Jeb
Bush admitted taking marijuana but escaped punishment because of his privileged
position and appeared to be quite content letting poor people languish in jail
for the same crime. Paul correctly stated that far too many poor in our inner
cities are jailed for relatively minor drug related offenses and called for
rehabilitation and less incarceration.
For the record, Trump
was right when he accused Cary Fiorina of grossly mismanaging both Lucent and
Hewlett Packard. In the same vein, Fortune magazine rated Trump’s companies at
close to the bottom by every category as measured against 500 large companies.
Following the debate, at
a town hall meeting, Trump got into hot water by failing to challenge a racist
spectator who ‘wanted to rid the US of Muslims’.
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