'American people were loser in Sunday night's presidential debate'

The American people lost in Sunday night's presidential debate between Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, according to an American political analyst and activist.

Myles Hoenig, a Green Party candidate for Congress, told Press TV on Monday that both candidates proved the other unqualified to govern the country.

On Sunday night, Trump and Clinton attacked each other with brutal exchanges during their second presidential debate a month before the Election Day.

The debate was held at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri. The two candidates even broke traditional debate decorum by refusing to shake hands as they took the stage.

Trump called her Democratic rival a "devil" and Clinton said the business mogul owes all Americans an apology for a campaign driven by insults and degrading comments about women and minorities.

“Between the two candidates at last night’s debate,” Hoenig said, “the winner was Jill Stein and the loser was the American people. Both gave excellent arguments why the other candidate is unqualified to be president.”

“The easier job went to Clinton who only had to refer to Trump’s degenerate personality and actions towards all people unlike himself,” said the analyst.

“He has insulted (and physically attacked) women, Mexicans, meaning all Latinos, Muslims, and veterans. He speaks patronizingly towards black Americans. ‘They’ll love me. ..I’ll be the best for them.’ His locker room behavior and speech is part of his total being which makes him such an easy target,” he stated.

“Trump on the other hand played up the criminal attributes of Clinton as well as her role in misogyny. Probably the best line of the evening was when Clinton said it would be horrible if Trump were in charge of the justice system. The response was, ‘Yeah, you’d be in jail.’ Trump was relentless on her destruction of emails, even after being subpoenaed,” he added.

What Trump failed to highlight

Hoenig said Trump “did fail to make the case that her emails that were erased were allegedly personal, as she claimed, yet represents spending an enormous amount of time on the job doing personal business, something any one of us would be held accountable for.”

“Along with her criminality, he also played heavily on her poor judgment. In each of her foreign policy positions, she has made a mess of it. She supported the invasion of Iraqi, Afghanistan, and Libya, and destroyed Honduras and now Syria. In each case the US government, under her leadership as secretary of state, left viable nations with anarchy and violence,” he noted.

“Before the debate Trump attempted to neutralize his crude language which governed the tone of the debate. He had 4 women that President [Bill] Clinton sexually assaulted as his guests in the front row. This was also a reminder of how Hillary Clinton abused and attacked these women as a way of covering for her husband, who was either president or attorney general of Arkansas at the time. Her misogyny is no less pernicious than his,” he said.

Parallel debate on Democracy Now!

Hoenig said while Trump and Clinton were debating, “on Democracy Now! they were simulcasting the debate with Jill Stein present to give her responses. Gary Johnson was invited but did not appear. His candidacy is also in free fall with major gaffs coming from him.”

Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein were not invited by the US Commission on Presidential Debates because they failed to garner the 15 percent support in five polls required to qualify for the debate. Stein rejected the standards set by the commission and said she would attend the parallel Democracy Now! debate.

“Stein answered the questions, not deflecting them. She gave her positions but attacked the actual policies and actions of her opponents without sensationalizing it all,” Hoenig stated.

“It is unfortunate where we are today. We have one candidate who uses vulgar language regarding women and is viciously attacked by all, including the press," he said. 

"Yet we also have the other candidate who was gleeful that we invaded a country, Libya, sodomized with a knife to the point of death its leader, and left the country in ruins and yet is hailed as being experienced. This is who are the most likely to be president!” the commentator said in his concluding remarks. 

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