The VP Debate- the Facts support Hillary!

I watched the Vice Presidential Debate last night.  I watched part of it twice, since it was available for replay immediately on one of my Roku channels.  Much has been said by many more qualified than myself about the quality of the moderator and about the very different styles of Kaine and Pence.

I was interested in substance.  During the debate, Kaine asked Pence to explain or defend statements that Trump or Kaine had made during the campaign.

My interest is in the truth, but the answers from each were as different as their styles.

Kaine asked Pence to explain Trump's ideas.  Why does Trump want to create a "deportation force" to forcibly deport 16 million illegal immigrants? Why should more countries have nuclear weapons? Why should women that had an abortion be punished? He also asked why Pence had supported Putin. Why had he said that Vladimir Putin was a better leader than Barack Obama?

I spent about 2 hours listening to the debate, which included watching some parts twice, and learned nothing new. Kaine's rapid-fire questions and facts received little response by Pence, who calmly pushed previously recorded, well documented reality aside with a dense fog of long-winded, shameless denials. 

Today, CNN put together an interesting 2 minutes and 14 seconds video that fact-checked the debate using campaign trail recordings.

Kaine asks a question, Pence answers - and than a clip of Trump himself speaking, recorded months or weeks earlier, is inserted. 

For me, it was a new and interesting kind of "fact checker".  In each case, a relevant, undeniable recording of what was really said, finished the back and forth of fiction mixed with fact in the debate with the undeniable truth of the recorded past.

Do you care about the truth and what is fact and what is fiction? 

If so, and if you have 2 minutes 14 seconds to spare, go to this website page and find and select the clip under the large viewing frame at the top that is titled "Actually Mike Pence, Trump really DID say that".  (This should be the 2nd from the left when the page first loads, as shown below.) Click on it. You'll be glad you did.

If you only have 1 minute and 10 seconds, go directly to a shorter YouTube Video replaying Trump's comments about the release of his tax returns, punishment of women for abortions, proliferation of nuclear weapons and Vladimir Putin as a great leader.  

Whether you recoil from, or embrace Trump's views is up to you.  Being reminded of Trump's core beliefs at this point is necessary clarification for all of us.  A successful Democracy is founded on a voting public aware of the real facts.

If you have about 5 minutes, watch both. You'll get more substance than I got in over 2 hours!

Are you thinking about this election in terms of finding candidates with answers that are substantive, based in reality, fair - and that can stand up to fact-checking?  I am.

I'm voting for Hillary and Kaine!