I wish I'd taken a freeze frame photo or two at the end of the debate.
There was Trump, inert at his podium, intellectually whipped, pale and physically pooped, reduced ridiculously to a 'I know you are but what am I' retort when correctly called out as a Putin puppet, who then capped off a failed performance by interrupting Hillary Clinton - - and with all his personal and political problems with women and female voters dominating the news for weeks - - whined aloud "what a nasty woman."
That after insulting numerous women, and every opponent let alone entire national populations and religions for a year and a half, The Donald proved he could dish it out, but couldn't take it.
With so little credibility, he'd have us believe he might challenge the results of the election?
Please. On an election night that is looking like a GOP slaughter and intentional personal rejection, does Trump think he would be entitled to claim and exercise such power?
Then there was Hillary Clinton when the debate ended: ebullient, smiling, energized - - the obvious winner against an unprepared, unqualified, completely exposed loser who had had tricked himself and many others into believing until last night showed otherwise that he will always be the winner.
It's so ironic that the rap on Hillary was that she isn't authentic, when last night showed Trump again to be a completely deluded fake - - an artificial, no-there-there Republican, deserving candidate, politician, leader, strategist, analyst, thinker who, in reality, could not withstand the rigors of being US President, Commander-in-Chief and national moral leader.
I could swear I felt an earthquake as the debate was ending, but realized it was the sound of reasonable people fleeing the specter of Trump and Trumpism - - except for Scott Walker, Ron Johnson, Paul Ryan and the other Wisconsin Republicans who are sticking with the undemocratic Putin puppet and playing an indefensible partisan game.
There was Trump, inert at his podium, intellectually whipped, pale and physically pooped, reduced ridiculously to a 'I know you are but what am I' retort when correctly called out as a Putin puppet, who then capped off a failed performance by interrupting Hillary Clinton - - and with all his personal and political problems with women and female voters dominating the news for weeks - - whined aloud "what a nasty woman."
That after insulting numerous women, and every opponent let alone entire national populations and religions for a year and a half, The Donald proved he could dish it out, but couldn't take it.
With so little credibility, he'd have us believe he might challenge the results of the election?
Please. On an election night that is looking like a GOP slaughter and intentional personal rejection, does Trump think he would be entitled to claim and exercise such power?
Then there was Hillary Clinton when the debate ended: ebullient, smiling, energized - - the obvious winner against an unprepared, unqualified, completely exposed loser who had had tricked himself and many others into believing until last night showed otherwise that he will always be the winner.
It's so ironic that the rap on Hillary was that she isn't authentic, when last night showed Trump again to be a completely deluded fake - - an artificial, no-there-there Republican, deserving candidate, politician, leader, strategist, analyst, thinker who, in reality, could not withstand the rigors of being US President, Commander-in-Chief and national moral leader.
I could swear I felt an earthquake as the debate was ending, but realized it was the sound of reasonable people fleeing the specter of Trump and Trumpism - - except for Scott Walker, Ron Johnson, Paul Ryan and the other Wisconsin Republicans who are sticking with the undemocratic Putin puppet and playing an indefensible partisan game.