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Syndicated columnist, Cal Thomas, headed an article today on FoxNews.com: "Donald Trump and America’s sewer politics A campaign beyond embarrassment”

Mr. Thomas begins: “I was going to write about how the Republican presidential campaign has become gutter politics, but given Donald Trump’s horrid statements, the gutter would be a step up, because things have descended into the sewer.”

From there, Mr. Thomas provides examples and commentary supporting his point that, in his opinion, this presidential campaign has reached the lowest level of unbridled mud-slinging and lack of professional capability in political history. 

And then, once again, a reader, DetroitGuy,  summed up the situation succinctly. But by doing so, and supporting Trump, the reader subconsciously defined the glaring problem his candidate poses for the nation. 

DetroitGuy wrote: “Obama built Trump.  Eight years of weaselly rule by executive order and leading from behind has made a lot of people angry. Trump is seen as the anti-Obama.”

However, while the description of Obama’s certainly correct, his major flaw were inexperience and unpreparedness for the job. Coupled with a refusal to entertain any type of discussion, negotiation, or willing compromise with the other side.

And, in the event that Trump’s elected, it would be natural to assume from his campaigning conduct he’d do the exact same thing Obama did. The only difference being party affiliation. 

On another aspect of the current campaign, the presidential candidates continually battle among each other as to what they’d do to control illegal immigration. The only one, however, taking a firm stand, feasible or not, is Trump. Which may explain why this blustering outsider with a significantly faulty personal history is doing so well in the polls. Because voters want the problem fixed.

Today, Mark Wiggins @.kvue.com via Drudge writes: “It's a mix that reached a crisis in 2014. Some 260,000 people, mostly unaccompanied children from Central America, flooded across the border through the Rio Grande Valley. Congress called for legislation, then-Gov. Rick Perry mobilized a thousand National Guard troops, and the Eighty-fourth Texas Legislature pumped nearly a billion dollars into the Texas Department of Public Safety for border security.”

Mr. Wiggins goes on: “That was more than a year and a half ago, and with everything that's happened, the question is what -- if anything -- has changed? 

"In the past few months the number of unaccompanied alien minors unlawfully entering the U.S. soared to over 17,000 and the number of family units increased to 21,000," Chair Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) informed the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security in a February 4 hearing on Capitol Hill. "If these trends continue it is predicted there will be a 30 percent increase in the record high numbers we witnessed in 2014."

And that's what American voters want stopped, even if the answers means being stuck with Trump.

Bringing us to today’s update on Bill Clinton’s wife.

FoxNews.com reports: “Ahead of a possible make-or-break Super Tuesday, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign announced that it had raised more than $42 million in February. 

“Sanders' campaign claimed the total was the most raised in a single month by any of the 2016 candidates, adding that the self-described democratic socialist had received more than $6 million in donations on the final day of the month.” 

“Sanders campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, said: “Not only are we going to smash Secretary [Hillary] Clinton’s personal goal of raising $50 million in the first quarter of 2016, our supporters are putting Bernie on the path to win the nomination.”

The most important point in the article, though, was that Sanders' campaign “has made much of its reliance on small donations, and the candidate himself has contrasted his comparatively shoestring fundraising operation with the far wealthier Clinton campaign.” 

Which goes to indicate that, regardless of what pundits may profess, or mainstream media outlets try to emphasize about Bill’s wife campaign, individual voters still find Sanders more popular if their donations are used as the measure. 

As far as Sanders money-raising is concerned, reader beach 56, commented: "hmmm...a socialist pandering for money?! did anyone ask Bernie where he thinks that money comes from?”

And then, in what may be another indication of potential weakness regarding Bill’s wife, Daniel Halper @weeklystandard.com, wrote yesterday: Only 75 people came out to hear Chelsea Clinton condemn the Republicans for being racist, homophobic, and sexist. Clinton called this election the most important one of her lifetime.” 

And in Chelsea’s case, she’s certainly correct. Because if her mother loses, in a very short time it will be: Chelsea who? 

Which raises the ongoing question again: Joe Biden, Mayor Bloomberg, Jerry Brown, and Starbuck’s chairman and CEO, Howard Schultz, are you guys reading this?    

 

That’s it for today folks.       

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