Summer of nothing
Re “De-Clintonize the Foundation,” editorial, Aug. 25
Are the former Seinfeld writers working on the script for the current presidential campaign? You recall that Seinfeld was a “show about nothing,” and the current campaign has risen to epic levels of nothingness.
We hear Republican nominee Donald Trump’s soliloquies, but since Trump speaks in thought bubbles, it’s difficult to make any sense out of his ravings. “We’re going to build a wall and they’re going to pay for it.” “What do you have to lose?” — what the hell do these outbursts mean? As for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, where Trump’s speeches lack any real content, hers lack life or inflection. There is no there there in her pronouncements or any understandable substance.
Reporters keep returning with Carl Sagan-like references to millions and billions of emails and ominous references to the Clinton Foundation. Before writing this letter, I went to the trouble of reading about the Clinton Foundation. I was horrified to learn that it’s a charitable enterprise that raises money for the poor to improve health, to fight poverty and address challenges to the environment. Clearly, Bill Clinton should be locked up if any of that is true.
I lived through the summer of love. I hope I can survive the summer of nothing
Jonathan Greenspan, Westlake Village