Monday, January 2, 2017

BloggeRhythms

Most items in today's news present repetition regarding ongoing situations taking place around the globe. Others detail the POTUS’s last 17 days in office and his continual attempts to derail Trump and Republicans in general as best he can in the time still left to him.  

As a result, there’s not very much to address. However, an article was found 
@politico.com by Todd S. Purdum titled: “The Death of Clintonism, With Hillary Clinton's loss, Democrats are burying a once-winning way of politics.”

Purdum writes a long and detailed piece in which he describes both Clinton’s history in an extremely positive light, conveying the feeling quite strongly that he himself will most assuredly miss both of them dearly.

Crediting Bill for performing admirably well as POTUS, Purdum blames a significant part of Bill’s wife’s recent loss as a result of bringing too much of her husband’s style and objectives into her campaign. That’s because Purdum feels she lacked Bill’s ability to relate in either erudite or folksy terms as he did when needed at particular times. 

What’s more, Purdum noted that the majority of issues Bill found of concern have either been resolved or long forgotten by now. Yet Bill’s wife resurrected them despite voters no longer caring about them.

Purdum set the premise for his treatise by comparing the Clinton’s to the Kennedy brothers, illustrating that Jack really didn’t want to start a dynasty, although their father would have been extremely pleased to see Bobby follow Jack’s footsteps.

The Clinton’s though, according to Purdum feel quite differently than Jack regarding their destiny’s whereas: “By all accounts, Bill and Hillary Clinton never had any such qualms, and now their quarter-century project to build a mutual buy-one, get-one-free Clinton dynasty has ended in her defeat, and their joint departure from the center of the national political stage they had hoped to occupy for another eight years. Their exit amounts to a finale not just for themselves, but for Clintonism as a working political ideology and electoral strategy.”

Following the article that Purdum delivered like a eulogy, were reader's comments that in their own way were as important as the reportage, if not more so. Because, aside from addressing the ending of the Clinton “dynasty,” they indicate the hopeful anticipation of the clean slate with which Trump can now work.

Reader John Smith commented: “There's nothing fundamentally wrong with their process it's more that they are both criminals using pay for play to personally enrich themselves that is more the issue. If an honest, decent person where to use their political playbook they would probably do quite well.”

That received 267 “likes” from others.

Kathy Smelser responded to Smith: “John ,,,,,The One Entering the WH has used PAY TO PLAY to ENRICH Himself , His Family and a Few Swamp Members ,,,,,,and he is Not a Decent Person ,,,,,,,,So your Theory cannot be applied.” 

47 “liked” this one. 

John Smith came back with: “Kathy Smelser I don't think Trump is using the Clinton race baiting divide and rule strategy to win he's appealing to people who want a business approach to government and care less about which gender pronoun they should be using and more about jobs.” 

Another 293 registered “likes” in response.

Thus, readers feelings seem to mirror what took place at the polls in November, when voters across middle-America soundly rejected the Clinton mantra. 

In this case, if the same readers registered “likes” to both of John Smith’s comments, he received almost six times the amount of positive responses than the anti-Trump Kathy Smelser.

If those "liking" Smith’s response to Smelser were different individuals than the original 267, he received almost twelve times the favorability.   

All of which indicates that as a new year begins for everyone in politics and governance, the slate is cleaner than its been in quite a long time. And that’s because, after 40 years or so the Clinton’s are finally over regarding their national presence, which seems to be quite pleasing to the vast majority of plain old, regular American citizens.

That’s it for today folks. 

Adios

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