OK, maybe this isn’t news to anyone else, but I found it very weird, and had to check that it wasn’t April 1st or that I hadn’t accidentally surfed over to The Onion (immediately ruled out because I was reading a physical copy of the Seattle Times), to read that Hillary is being called the “ET Candidate” by UFO enthusiasts, and that she’s promised to maybe release classified information on Area 51….this seems really weird to me. As a Berner I can’t help but think that if the shoe had been on the other foot, i.e. if Sanders had been the one to say anything like this, he would have been flamed alive. Wasn’t Kucinich partly marginalized because of unconventional ideas about ETs? But our pragmatist, really?
It’s also weird because this site prides itself on being “reality based” and anything “CT” is verboten and even grounds for being banned. But does our reality based candidate believe that these things could be real? Or is this just a cynical ploy to get votes from Independents? I guess if it works to help her against Trump I should be for it.
From the article I read this evening:
Hillary Clinton has vowed that barring any threats to national security, she would open up government files on the subject, elating UFO enthusiasts, who have declared Clinton the first "E.T. candidate."
Full article:
ET Candidate
I’m just kind of surprised I didn’t hear even a joke about this on kos...at minimum it seems joke worthy, and at worst could be evidence of some serious cognitive dissonance in Hillary. But again, that might turn out to be a good angle with some voters.
Another one:
UFOs and National Security
By the way, it sounds like some people are pushing for this to become a presidential debate topic so things could get yet more weird and spooky...with this election cycle, wouldn’t surprise me a bit.
To end on a serious note, praying for the health and well being of both the Democratic primary candidates, that one of them may win the Presidency, and once in office to be guided and have support to do really good things for this country and the planet (and beyond).