Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one presidential candidate from the stink of another.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think when a campaign is dishonest in the ads they run about another candidate, it diminishes the campaign, it diminishes the candidate, and it diminishes the presidency.
In a presidential campaign, you can't lie. You can't hide what you are and what you want. You can't hide what kind of President you'll be. You can't keep on talking about nothing indefinitely and committing to nothing, you can't keep running away from debate, masking the challenges.
I see it all the time in politics. If a candidate gets caught in a lie, he quickly tries to change the subject by throwing more mud at his opponent. The mud keeps flying until some of the slanderous material sticks.
So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature.
If it takes talking about unpleasant truths to change Washington, then so be it.
This election ain't no stinkin' TV show.
By the time a second term rolls around, the illusions about a president have largely evaporated.
One of the least appealing aspects of modern presidential candidates is that, to avoid saying anything that might prove to be an embarrassing, costly blunder, they cling to a rigid set of talking points that reveal as little as possible about what they really think and who they really are.
For members of the Democratic Party, and progressives all over the world, it is difficult to overstate or hyperbolize the despair and dread that has descended upon them in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump.
Writers speak stench.