Clinton won the first debate against Trump
The CNN polls scored the first debate as a 62 percent win for the 68-year-old former State Secretary and former US senator from the State of New YorkHillary Rodham Clinton and only 27 percent for the 70 year-old real estate mogul from Atlantic City Donald Trump.
And so, while the race was said to be on a dead heat prior to the first of the three debates between the two US presidentiables, it now appears that the first female presidential candidate of a major political party in the US has gained much headway, barely 43 days prior to the November polls. This column scored it 75 percent for Clinton and only 25 percent for Trump. We do believe that Clinton will win not just the debates but the White House.
Clinton has demonstrated superior preparation, not only for the debate but for the presidency itself. Her answers to all the questions in the 95-minute, six-segments demonstrated beyond cavil that she is the better candidate with a lot of mastery of foreign policy and world politics. She has better plans for the national economy and national security and has definitely a stronger grasp of the socio-economic and political problems that confront both the US and the world. Trump's attacks that Clinton has no stamina fell flat on Donald's face when Hillary exposed his total lack of experience. Trump was interrupted five times that he was not telling the truth.
The former first lady pushed Trump to the wall when she reminded the 100 million Americans watching the debate that Trump was the man who used to call women pigs, slobs and dogs. He was said to have called former Miss Universe Alicia Machado "Miss Piggy," and referred to Machado as a housekeeper because of the Latina's ethnic origins. Clinton said that Trump was sued by the US Justice Department for racial discrimination for refusing African-Americans to rent any of his real estate properties merely because of their color. Trump, according to Clinton offended President Obama himself for claiming that the president was not born in the US.
Trump tried to fight back by mentioning again Clinton's e-mail hullaballoo and repeatedly called her the typical politician who failed to solve the many problems that beset the nation. Trump claimed that indeed Clinton has had a lot of experiences which were allegedly replete with failures and wrong decisions. But Clinton came back with a barrage of ferocious attacks on Trump's unabashed refusal to release his tax returns. Such refusal, according to Hillary, would logically lead to the conclusion that Trump is hiding a lot of things.And that most probably he is not really rich nor as charitable as he claims to be. And perhaps he has never paid any federal tax.
Thus, Trump was left with no other choice but to parry the blows and to spend most of the six segments, on the defensive, explaining himself. He was reduced to a defensive fighter and his precarious temperament was brought to fore. And more damaging to Trump was that exposed by Clinton that the inexperienced real estate billionaire does not have the bearing nor the temperament and character of a president. His fingers should not be allowed to go near the nuclear codes because he is easily provoked and has the tendency to act recklessly and without restraint.
In other words, Hillary unmasked Trump as an eager-beaver, trying-hard pretender to the Oval Office.
What matters to us here and to our family members, relatives, and friends in the US, is that Trump hates immigrants. He does not like colored people.
On the other hand, Hillary and the Democrats do love the Filipinos. That, to me is what really matters.
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