[The Urban Sombrero]

I have never said that Donald Trump does not have character flaws. (See "The Case Against Donald Trump.") Trump carries around a heavy load of character flaws. However, I asked you a series of questions about some undisputed facts abut Hillary Clinton, which Trump has made a focus of his campaign, and asked you if you would define those factual attacks as "slime." You have now repeatedly refused to respond and have attempted to change the subject.

Let me make this easy for you to understand. I have heavily criticized both Hillary and Trump and have been so tough on Trump that I have been personally attacked and called a Hillary supporter - a true sliming, IMO. You on the other hand have simply taken an everybody does it approach in defending Hillary's attacks on Trump, but defended her against some very legitimate criticism.

If I have missed examples of you criticizing Hillary for specific actions or defending Trump against criticism, then feel free to set me straight. I think that I would have remembered you defending Trump, because I have criticized him more than anybody else here.

Do I need to repeat my questions of you, or do you intend to invoke the 5th?

I said that, in my view, Trump is not racist nor sexist. Now, isn't that a sweeping rejection of a great deal of the slime? On the other hand, he is not above a phraseology that gains him support among clearly racist groups.

Hillary and Bill have a penchant to play fast and loose with the rules. This includes email scandal and a great many other shenanigans. Now, I am not as ready to throw out "criminal," but would go "unethical."

Benghazi. I do not blame HRC for Benghazi, though the duplicitousness of all spin assumes on the inability of the news cycle and public to navigate nuance.

The partisan has an internal spin that is almost immune to objectivity. I have said previously that, as to our inner cities, the ideas of Jack Kemp were better than pandering to poverty. I think Jack Kemp would have been an excellent President, though I often disagreed with him. Again, I am not claiming absence of biases and preferences, nor that legitimate issues as to HRC's handling of email = slime. However, slime exists, has been used, appears in threads in this Forum, and wears both red and blue.