HILLARY: Smart and strong

I watched the Republican convention. As Trump spoke, I fully expected the crowd to get up and goose-step around the room. Trump supporters are calling for Hillary to be shot, hung or imprisoned. They are shouting liar, crooked and “bitch.” Trump said he would punish women and referred to us as “fat and ugly pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals.” Denigrate, intimidate and threaten to keep women in their place. If you can’t argue the facts, attack the person.

After all has been said and done, the FBI found only a “small number of emails marked as classified” but nothing criminal. Facts count, they said, not opinions. The eight Benghazi investigations determined nobody in the administration could have moved forces to Benghazi in time to save the four who were killed. That wasn’t Hillary’s responsibility anyway, security was the military’s role.

When G.W. Bush was president there were 20 embassy attacks, 66 killed but zero investigations. And while he was president, five million emails disappeared but there was zero outrage. If it is possible Hillary lied throughout the eight Benghazi hearings and the FBI investigation, then she outsmarted five Republicans eight times (the equivalent of 40 Republicans?) and after that, the FBI.

Hillary is strong and smart and will lead this country with positive ideas, solutions and policies without name-calling. I can’t believe any intelligent woman would vote for Trump. For more truth, go to: www.politifact.com

JANET CALLEN

Coeur d’Alene