By: Marie Shannon

Marie Shannon — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 02:17:00 +0000

While the campaign rhetoric was unbecoming, it was appalling on both sides if you watched the Veritas videos and tracked the Podesta emails. Ironically, the Democrats had the stronger, more passionate, and higher character presidential candidate in Senator Sanders. Sadly,he was assailed and literally “knocked off” by a DNC machine [Super-delegates, Wasserman & Brazile] which pre-maturely anointed HRC. The establishment (s) have been repudiated by all classes, genders, and colors. However, as Michelle Obama eloquently remarked last Monday, “We’re all patriots first”. Finally, and in lieu of any visible red poppies on campus or the Kaepernick wanna-bee’s on the gridiron sideline last Saturday, the first lady also recognized that “Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families — all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election,”

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By: Marie Shannon