Readers sound off on Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, nuclear weapons
Let Trump go
Now would be a good time for the Republican Party to release Donald Trump from his pledge not to run as an independent candidate.
He seems to be doing that anyway.
This release would allow the Republican Party to nominate a true Republican-values candidate. The release would result in the best of two worlds for Republicans.
Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, could call his new party the “Me Party.” All the “Me” people who enjoy self-admiration, bragging, insulting others, putting down ethnic groups (Latinos, Muslims, blacks, etc.), demeaning women and caring little about world politics would have their presidential candidate.
The rest of the Republicans and party leaders would have their true Republican-values candidate.
Then the presidential voters’ choices would be for “The Good,” “The Bad” or “The Ugly.”
William Mason
Lenexa
Hold Trump card
If politics is a game, isn’t it time to bid no Trump?
Steve Sherry
Kansas City
October surprise
Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP candidate, has strong New York connections and deep pockets.
With Hillary Clinton as the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee, Trump has adequate resources and connections to uncover any Clinton speech transcripts and to dramatize any comments that would not play well with the public.
The Clinton speeches may indeed be innocuous, but the public must know there is not damaging material — such as the 2012 videotaped comments from GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney about the 47 percent — that would throw the election to the GOP candidate when they are released.
Democrats, and all U.S. voters, deserve to know the content of the Clinton speeches, so they do not become the tipping point for a successful Trump presidential run.
For the sake of the Democratic Party, and of voters everywhere, Hillary Clinton must release the transcripts now.
Amrita Burdick
Kansas City
Nuclear weapons
The U.S. military is going to expend billions of dollars to “upgrade” our nuclear weapons capabilities.
Currently, with the level of nuclear weapons around the world, we could destroy humanity 10,000 times and turn Earth into a cinder.
How about upgrading our sewers, bridges, roads and sources of potable water?
Wouldn’t that be a better expenditure of our precious resources?
I mean, you can be killed only once. Climate change will bring about our final exchange over potable water.
All mountain ranges are a source of fresh water. The declining accumulation of snow on those peaks puts a billion people at risk, especially in Asia.
The Colorado River stops many miles from the Gulf of California, and the Rio Grande River does not flow but only trickles into the Gulf of Mexico.
What justifies spending billions of dollars on nuclear weapons upgrades? We are losing the battle, and at what cost?
Maybe nuclear war might be the humane thing to do.
Glacier Park is barely glaciated. It is a national park in name only, and by 2030 it will truly be a “glacier” park in name only — a piece of history to the folly of mankind.
Roy Speer
Kansas City
‘Field of Dreams’
The Kansas City Royals remind me of the movie “Field of Dreams” based on the book, “Shoeless Joe,” by W.P. Kinsella.
Their message was that baseball is a sport of little boys who dreamed of playing the game for the sake of the game and the camaraderie of the players.
Ray in the movie hears a voice in his crop of corn saying, “If you build it, he will come.”
Ray believes he needs to level his cornfield and build a ballfield so Shoeless Joe Jackson can return as a member of the 1919 White Sox.
Eight members of the team, including Jackson, were accused of accepting payment for throwing the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds.
In the book, Kinsella has Ray build a position for each player as he comes out. In the movie, Ray builds the field all at once, and then the men come back.
The love of the game is what the Royals are showing, as in the movie and book. They are adult men, playing the game.
I predict the Royals will be in the fall classic again to repeat as champions in 2016.
Ronald B. Townsend
Independence
This story was originally published July 15, 2016 at 3:00 PM with the headline "Readers sound off on Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, nuclear weapons."