I was struck this morning by a thread I was a part of on Facebook...
The Republican Convention had (on the first day) a speech from Patricia Smith, whose son was killed in Benghazi. She has been fairly adamant that Mrs Clinton was directly responsible for her son's death and has said so in multiple forums, despite her daughter-in-law's disagreement with her on basic facts. I didn't see Mrs. Clinton attacking her character. I have, however, seen Mr. Trump spend 4 days now attacking the Khan family for their speech at the Democratic Convention - he attacked them directly (including implying that Mrs Khan didn't speak because she wasn't allowed to, even after Mrs Khan's explanation later that she was too emotionally affected by her son's picture behind her to speak), and has unleashed his surrogates to imply everything from "they're moles for the Muslim brotherhood" to "they're shills for Hillary because they have ties through his law firm". It's been an ugly, ugly spectacle because Mr Trump was too thin-skinned to accept criticism for his proposed Muslim ban. I don't want that sort of personality anywhere near the White House.
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