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Letter: We face a bizarre choice for president

The recent news about Hillary Clinton and her email puts yet another incredibly negative taint to an already bizarre choice we face for president. I can’t remember a time when we citizens were confronted with trying to decide on the best of the worst candidates we’ve had in years.

I am confronted with another presidential election where my only real choice is to vote for my wife as a write-in candidate. While it is not her ambition to be president, she would do a better job with one arm tied behind her back than the two presumptive leading candidates.

I wait for something inspirational to come from either one of these two candidates, like when Kennedy announced that we would put a man on the moon before the end of the decade. Sadly, there are only blistering attacks. No way I’m voting for Hillary, based on what I heard. If any Hanford worker with a clearance did what she did, we’d be indicted, prosecuted and put in prison. To vote for Donald Trump is meaningless, given the blue I-5 corridor and our state’s all-or-nothing electoral vote approach.

Hey, her first name is Janine ... go for it.

Stanley J. Bensussen, Richland

This story was originally published July 22, 2016 at 1:58 AM with the headline "Letter: We face a bizarre choice for president."

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