USA Africa Dialogue Series - HILLARY-NATION: What I would do were I Hillary {Re: Uncovered Video: Trump Brags about Being Able to Grope Women

CH:

In my 37 years living in America, my own observations of attaining the American presidency are that

(1) it must be a life-time ambition, like almost starting in high school; then being conscious of

(2) arranging your lifestyle from youth to be as PURITANICAL as humanly possible (free of crime or scandal about sex, wine or money (including Taxes),  and participating in life projects with a PUBLIC SPIRIT to the greatest amount possible (like serving in the army, serving the underprivileged or on education boards. Etc., and showing evidence of SERIAL SUCCESS in many endeavors (intellectual, business, service) in life.

(3) wherever you have failings in puritanism or public spirit, writing a book about them TRUHFULLY and COMPREHENSIVELY to explain them, and showing humility. Often the failings are easily forgiven by Americans  as youthful exuberance or the mores of the times, so a charge of hypocrisy is difficult to level. However, if you allow the Press to discover some damning failing, then you are toast.

(4). Finally, there is an implicit idealism in the American spirit that says that if you must lead America, your moral standards and standards must be HIGHER than that of the average among us American.

Trump FAILS in all of these tests WOEFULLY, while Clinton is only having problems in Imperative #4.
She is by far the more qualified to be President.

The problem in my country Nigeria include

(1). Too many accidental leaders, who at 40, 50 or 60 years old suddenly seize leadership (through coups, money-bagism, god-fatherism, etc)  without understanding the system that they are leading

(2) an uncaring electorate, who do not look far enough into the criminal (or otherwise) background of those who would lead them, including IGNORING indications of future bad behavior

(3) a lack of idealism, where there is an ingrained anti-intellectualism, that a leader should lead only from the MIDDLE or near the BACK of the people, and not from the front. There is a preference for primordial populism.

In the Re-structuring of Nigeria that is being talked about, the very nature of getting our leadership at various levels must be re-structured.

And there you have it.


Bolaji Aluko


On Saturday, October 8, 2016, Cornelius Hamelberg <corneliushamelberg@gmail.com> wrote:
> At this point Bill & Hillary must be coming together saying Hallelujah, but this doesn't look too good : Donald Trump rape lawsuit ordered to move forward by federal judge, details released
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> Just for the record (where I'm coming from) I supported Barack Obama whole heartedly (100%) in his bid for the presidency in 2008 and 2012 and if it were possible for him to go for a third term, all things considered, I would still gladly support him (instead of lyin' crooked Hillary) but for these dark clouds on the horizon: Israel Braces for Obama's Parting Gift to Palestinians //New York Times to Obama: Hit Israel hard
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> For a cool perspective on the matter at hand ("Trump Brags about Being Able to Grope Women" and the horrified reaction of holier-than thou Republicans ) there's enough material here for a couple of Ph.D. theses on
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> American presidents and sex scandals
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> Presidential extramarital affairs
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> Presidents who have had extramarital affairs
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> To our great pride and in spite of the sometimes malicious (and racist) scandal hunting ("investigative") journalism, although they tried, no salacious news has surfaced about our first Black President messing around or inserting his Cuban cigar into the vagina of any hapless Jewish female intern at his mercy, in the oval office, during office hours, after which Mr. Clinton says, "These allegations are false, and I need to go back to work for the American people"
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> I should like to ask Chief Aluko, Oga Ola Kassim and Lady Ayo Obe who knows the law and what time it is : What do you think/ feel about the Clintons (leaders of America) on the campaign trail, touring the country like a futuristic, evangelising Pope lecturing America's boys and girls about sexual morality, family values, gentle Jesus, same sex marriage and all that avant-garde jazz?
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> A good piece of advice for wannabe president Hillary Clinton: People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones ! ( Yeah, so if I don't like her now, am I going to start liking her if she is elected president of the United States of America? The answer: GOD forbid!
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> Private citizen/billionaire playboy Trump would emerge as a saint, juxtaposed against the extra-marital sexual exploits of former president Bill Clinton in and out of the oval office. This little tittle-tattle about trump saying off camera (some ) that women can be up for grabs (it's true and you don't have to be Casanova or President Bill Clinton to know that - and here's exactly what Trump said
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> On Saturday, 8 October 2016 12:01:35 UTC+2, Joec...@yahoo.com wrote:
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>> I will advise against such a dangerous move. Debate him and persecute him as vigorously as possible. That would win Clinton the debate
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>> On Oct 8, 2016, at 4:02 AM, Mobolaji Aluko <alu...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Ola Kassim:
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>> All Gary Hart of yore did was to have Revealed a STILL picture of a buxom woman sitting on his lap in a yatcht called "Monkey Business", and his Democratic presidential primary went immediately south, completely toasted....he has not recovered since.
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>> This latest disclosure on Trump, a REBLICAN NOMINEE, is a thousand times worse...and I believe it is his political coffin's nail.
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>> If Trump does not quit before the Sunday debate, I would advise Hillary Clinton to say and do the following upon being introduced at the event:
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>> QUOTE
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>> Thank you Anderson (Cooper) for that kind introduction, to Longwood University for hosting this event, and to the Presidential Debate Commission for organizing it. My gratitude too to the tens of millions of Americans and citizens of the world for tuning in to this second debate between Donald Trump and myself.
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>> You know, Donald, I was not expecting you to show up at this event after the disclosure of that tape in which you were heard and seen to make lewd and unrepeatable comments. I am the Democratic nominee for President, while you are the Republican nominee. Under normal circumstances, despite our political differences we should be able to respect whoever wins this election. I am however sorry to state - as I have done several times in my campaign - that you are morally and temperamentally unfit to be my President and Commander in Chief. This tape has merely reinforced that conviction. I simply do not know any decent human being, not to talk of American, who will not now come to that same conclusion.
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>> Ad a result of my deep conviction, and starting with this debate, I hereby refuse to debate you one-on-one any further on matters of policy or programs, or share the same platform or podium with you, as I feel that I will be merely enabling your indecent behavior. My decision comes with Political risk for my presidential ambition, but it is one that I am prepared to take for the sake of the women, girls, mothers and daughters - as well as men - who would be assaulted by you using the enormous power of the US presidency if you were by any chance to attain it.
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>> So as I step away from the podium, I urge you, Donald,  for the sake of the country, your party and your family, to quit this campaign so that a more decent Republican candidate can take your place. If you insist on staying on - and if your political party does no have he moral spine to step you down - it will not stop me from continuing to work hard for a historic win in November, but I do not consider you a worthy opponent.
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>> And there you have it, Anderson.
>> Good bye for now. Good evening, America. God bless America!
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>> UNQUOTE
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>> High drama, no doubt, but Trum deserves the snub.
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>> Bolaji Aluko
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>> On Friday, October 7, 2016, olaka...@aol.com <olaka...@aol.com> wrote:
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>> > http://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/07/politics/donald-trump-women-vulgar/index.html
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>> > I think it's time for Donald Trump to quit the race and let Mike Pence face Hillary Clinton
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