One of my favourite films is the 1958 release, “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof“, based on a play of the same name by Tennessee Williams, and one of my favourite characters from that movie is “Big Daddy”, portrayed by the scene-stealing Burl Ives. A legendary line of his focuses on the question of mendacity, which ranges in meaning from untruthfulness to insincerity.
“What’s that smell in this room? Didn’t you notice it, Brick? Didn’t you notice a powerful and obnoxious odour of mendacity in this room?… There ain’t nothin’ more powerful than the odour of mendacity… You can smell it. It smells like death.”
Reading the latest revelations about the shady dealings of the Clinton family, from the Associated Press, it must be said that the reek of mendacity hangs heavy upon them:
“More than half the people outside the government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state gave money — either personally or through companies or groups — to the Clinton Foundation. It’s an extraordinary proportion indicating her possible ethics challenges if elected president.
At least 85 of 154 people from private interests who met or had phone conversations scheduled with Clinton while she led the State Department donated to her family charity or pledged commitments to its international programs, according to a review of State Department calendars released so far to The Associated Press. Combined, the 85 donors contributed as much as $156 million. At least 40 donated more than $100,000 each, and 20 gave more than $1 million.
Donors who were granted time with Clinton included an internationally known economist who asked for her help as the Bangladesh government pressured him to resign from a nonprofit bank he ran; a Wall Street executive who sought Clinton’s help with a visa problem; and Estee Lauder executives who were listed as meeting with Clinton while her department worked with the firm’s corporate charity to counter gender-based violence in South Africa.”
Donald Trump may be the king of inaccuracies but Hillary Clinton is rapidly emerging as the queen of dissemblance. The pair are well suited.
AN SIONNACH FIONN 
Having to vote for Clinton makes my stomach turn. Unfortunately, it is just that – I have to. At least that’s the way I see it. I hate her, I think she’s a fucking sack of shit, but it’s that or He Who Must Not Be Named. H.W.M.N.B.N must be defeated badly, by every vote, even in “blue” (Democrat-voting) states like mine, so no one like him ever tries again.
Clinton, though, is firmly in the bag of corporate CEOs; this just proves it. My mom still cannot be convinced to vote for her to stop You-Know-Who. She sees no difference between the two candidates.
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And how is Trump worse than Hillary? Trump has called the war in Iraq a disastrous mistake,he called the WMD claims a lie. Opposes sabre rattling with Russia,opposes war with the Ba’ath regime in Damascus. All things Killary supported. She is a war mongering lunatic.
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In fairness, Trump’s “opposition” to the Iraq Invasion is pretty contentious. He seems initially to have supported it and then later, when it became apparent that it was a disaster, quickly jumped ship to the opposition camp as part of broader pro-Democrat criticisms of President Bush and the Bush-era White House. Certainly Clinton is a hawk in a very hawkish administration (Obama loves his killer-drones, if only to pacify the action-addicts in the Pentagon and Langley). But would rump be much better? Killer-drones along the Afghan-Pakistan border is one thing but along the US-Mexico border?
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One of the things i like about Trump is the mainstream media’s hatred for him. To me that says he must be doing something right.
The most supportive thing he said for the Iraq war was “yeah i guess so” on the Howard Stern Show. Hardly a ringing endorsement. I think he was publicly opposing the war by 2004. Remember this was a time when opponents of the war were called cowards,traitors and anti-American. Hillary supported that war and many others and never even apologised for it.
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