Skyline Happenings

Given the sad state of the debates, let’s see the candidates break out in song. Either laugh or cry – or both!  This was sent in by Lorraine W. 

Presidential candidate Jimmy Carter caused a stir in 1976 when he gave a controversial interview to Robert Sheer for Playboy magazine. After admitting that he had “committed adultery in my heart many times,” the Georgia Governor encountered serious political fallout that threatened to derail his underdog campaign.

A lot of men agreed with Carter, but it was an embarrassing political moment and looked like an unnecessary admission. Nothing like the truth to make you look silly.

But now Donald Trump, Rudy Guiliani, and the Clintons are now in the mix.

Rudolph W. Giuliani, a former New York mayor and an ally of Donald J. Trump’s, suggested on Sunday that “everybody” commits infidelity, setting off a backlash on Twitter.

The remark came during an exchange on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” after Chuck Todd, the show’s host, asked Mr. Giuliani whether he was “the right person” to bring up former President Bill Clinton’s infidelities in this heated campaign.

“You have your own infidelities, sir,” Mr. Todd said.

“Everybody does,” Mr. Giuliani responded. “You know, I’m a Roman Catholic and I confess those things to my priest.”

“Just bizarre,” Glenn Greenwald, a journalist, lawyer and founder of The Intercept, a news media site he began in 2013, wrote on Twitter. “Trump & Giuliani have 6 wives between them & are sermonizing about marriage to the Clintons, who have been married 41 years.”

Others highlighted the illogic of Mr. Giuliani’s assertion that “everybody” cheats. If everybody cheats, then why attack Mr. Clinton for it?

Note: I hope and pray that we are not setting a new campaign standard for the future. This election’s fiasco is setting a low point for political discourse – far below elections in recent memory; we must rise above this to survive as a civil nation.

When a 96 year old veteran who has voted for President 18 times and finds the coming 19th vote the most important of then all, it’s worth listening. Tom Gibbs brings our attention to this article in the New Yorker by Roger Angell.

He ends his essay with this scary view of President Trump: “If Donald Trump wins this election, his nights in the White House will very soon resemble those of President Obama. After he bids an early goodnight to his family, he sits alone while he receives and tries to take in floods of information from almost innumerable national and international sources, much of it classified or top secret. His surroundings are stately, but the room is shadowed and silent. There are bits of promising news here and there, but always more bloodshed, sudden alarms, and unexpected lurking dangers. The import of the news is often veiled or contradictory, or simply impenetrable. The night wears on, and may contain brief hours of sleep. There’s time to tweet. A new day is arriving, and with it the latest rush of bad news—another police shooting out West, another suicide bomber in Yemen, and other urgent briefings from a world already caught up in the morning’s difficult events. He needs to respond, but the beginning of this President’s response is always reliably at hand: How will I look?”  (Click here to read the full article).

From Mike Caplow and KUOW:

“The most Republican block in Seattle is at 116 Fairview Avenue North in South Lake Union. It’s the site of a large, upscale retirement community called Mirabella. Nothing outside screams Republican – no Trump hats or ‘Hillary for Prison in 2016.’  They’re more subtle than that. After all, they’re in Seattle.” Click here to listen or view the KUOW article.

It’s interesting  that Republicans at that facility amount to only one-third of the residents, but still make it the “most republican block.” The song says, “The Bluest Skies You’ve Ever Seen are in Seattle.” It appears Seattle voters are amazingly blue also!