Friday, October 7, 2016

Dinesh Kamath's Editorial 'Hillary has an edge over Trump' that was published in Newsband

Hillary has an edge over Trump
U.S. presidential debates gave the world the sight of an experienced politician, and first-ever woman nominee for the White House, Democrat and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Her Republican rival is Donald Trump. It was a tough fight between the two and undoubtedly Ms. Clinton emerged from the brawl with poise and a lawyer-like command. The elections are within six weeks i.e. on November 8
Presidential debates are followed by most US citizens and foreign people with great interest. The Clinton-Trump debate was not only very interesting but also raised many controversies. Some people feel that personal accusations and anchors partisan behaviour has lowered the standards of debate.
The USA, with 4.2% of world population, enjoys 25% of all wealth and resources, and they have the world's best Human resources, whereby almost every nation, including India, have unwittingly allowed huge "brain drain", and somehow consider that as a great thing for the world. While, one cannot question the sovereignty and world Right of the USA to progress in any fashion they wish, today the equations of world Socio-Economic and political systems are not just simple arithmetics and mere considerations of one nation - instead, we have reached a stage whereby the world's resources are entwined in an unparalleled interconnected system, and what happens in even a small nation has repercussions, worldwide. And, when it pertains to the Richest and most advanced nation, the impact would be tremendous.
Both Hilary and Trump took the debate in the right perspective pointing out the weaknesses with dramatic presentation. Hilary was taken by surprise by Donald on her weakness of using a private e mail server, her proximity to Wall Street issues and the like and she was put behind in that scores. But Trump's foreign policies, comments on Muslims, African American issues, tax cut for big business houses etc., all were criticised by Hillary. Ultimately, the moderator slanted the scale towards Hillary and now Hillary is one up in the score of three.

The best thing is like it happens in Indian elections, they did not debate on what freebies they would shower on the people if they get to the Presidential Palace.

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