I expect Foreign ministeries and Chancelleries across the world are watching the proceeding of the US election like a hawk. Since we can, barring utter catastrophe, say with a certainty is will be either Clinton or Trump. And since they would have to deal with the US whichever arrives in the Whitehouse I expect they are hoping that the other houses cause a locking that would stifle the US's ability to act. Not that that had much luck with Bush when circumstances impinged and caused to the entire DC political system to act in lockstep.
Not exactly sure what you are getting at here, but unless something huge happens, the next US president will be Hillary Clinton. She is an extraordinarily weak candidate but the other choice has proven to be intolerable for many, including a press corps that has, for the most part, lost any semblance of objectivity. And many of us are faced with a difficult decision.
ReplyDeleteIn America whoever is in the Whitehouse is blocked by both houses, if needs be. But if you were a diplomat in Moscow, London or Paris I expect you'd far prefer the known quality of Clinton.
DeleteIn this post I'm not viewing it from an internal US stance but from mine.
I don't want to talk about the election ANYMORE! I'm SO sick of it that I feel like this.
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Now, unlike the rest of your readers, I don't feel like they are both lose/lose candidates. And we'll leave it at that. :) I'd like to think that we won't elect a reality TV host as our next president, but I'm not entirely confident about that. I didn't think the Terminator would be elected governor of California either.
I've ceased to worry or really process what's going on for I think both parties have simply lost the plot. Both have stopped considering the poor and working poor in any way other than as a incarceral question. And whenever something like erasure of student debts which might instil hope and with it pizzaz into every State is broached the spectre of the existing trillion or so is wheeled out. Me, I thought Sanders had something.
DeleteBut here I'm thinking well outside the USA, and into the Kremlin particularly. Then Kiev and perhaps Vilnius. Even Helsinki. Along of course with London Rome Paris etc.
I think all would far prefer Clinton to the volatile dilettante.
And I think like with the US, the coastal readers are leftist (centrist in European money)while the mid State readers are a bit further right. Me, I'm a bit right on some things and left on others.
Currently I'm hoping for a quick impeachment proceeding after whomever gets elected and a removal from office so we can have a much more saner and stronger candidate in whomever is the Vice President of either party. I'm also hoping that lessons are learned to prevent such a disaster from happening again but I'm not confident in that.
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