As reported in the Nov. 15 story “GOP candidates criticize Obama, Clinton after Paris attacks,” several Republican candidates for president “accused President Barack Obama and his former secretary of state, Democratic Party front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton, of failing in the fight against Islamic State militants as the terrorist attacks in Paris became a focal point of the nomination race.” For Republican candidates attempting to make political hay from an atrocity as occurred in Paris (rather than publicly offering their condolences for, and support to, the French people) is beyond loathsome: it makes one sick.
In addition, Donald Trump, unthinking, boorish and loud-mouthed as ever, thought that “a much, much different situation” would have resulted had the victims been armed with guns; thus taunting and insulting these hapless victims and implying that they should have known better.
