To the Editor:
In selecting Senator Tim Kaine as her vice-presidential running mate, Hillary Clinton shows an astonishing tin ear for the prevailing political mood.
In an election year in which the energy on both sides is fueled by distrust and rejection of the entrenched insider status quo, where she just got a run for her money from Bernie Sanders, a man proudly proclaiming himself a democratic socialist railing against the “rigged” system; and where Donald Trump is running close behind her based on loudly reviling Washington insiders, she is apparently ready to choose a vice president who is part of the Washington wallpaper.
Her choice is a backslapping good ol’ boy who just got finished sympathizing with the put-upon banks.
And so starts the same old calculating, triangulating Clinton administration.
SHEL KHIPPLE
Wilmette, Ill.
Note from KBJ: Donald Trump will defeat Hillary Clinton in a landslide. Karl Marx himself couldn't help her.
