Oddities and irregularities, so many leading up to what will play out in an Atlanta studio some few hours from now that this “presidential” debate between two men, neither yet their parties’ official champion, doesn’t seem strange at all. Weird stuff everywhere. An Australian tourist goes through US Immigration and gets the standard hard time from the typically brusque passport-stamper.
A Yemeni twentysomething crosses illegally from Mexico and gets a free ride to the city of his choice, where local taxpayers will supply accommodation, a phone, some walking around money and free medical care. Go figure that one. Or ponder a justice system that installs a hand-picked judge, one who donates to Democrats and whose daughter is a major-league fundraiser, to preside over the trial of the Republican presidential contender.
You might marvel also at the eager and trusting nature of New York jurors, especially those who placed their faith in a woman who says she was sexually assaulted in the changing room at Bergdorf’s department store. She can’t quite recall what month it happened or even the year or what he was wearing, but she seemed sincere and that was enough for the jury not to wonder what store detectives were doing as coat hangers rattled against the cubicle’s walls. Bear all of the above in mind, plus the fact that the leader of the Free World has had to shed his regular duties for eight full days of rehearsal and preparation, and the conditions under which the e.
