Northern Kentucky Tribune: Opinion – Bill Straub: It will soon be decided — Will American exceptionalism survive?
By BILL STRAUB
In Barry Levinson’s classic comedy Diner, a pair of working-class Baltimore boys find themselves cruising the back roads of Maryland horse country during the early morning hours after a night out on the town. They spot a pert young woman, in full riding regalia, atop a horse loping across a green expanse.
Pondering this pastoral scene, one of the carousers turns to the other and asks, “Do you ever get the feeling that there’s something going on that we don’t know about?”
That’s a question I have posed frequently to myself over the past few months as the country closes in on the Nov. 5 presidential election. Regardless of the outcome, it’s a sure bet that upwards of 70 million people will vote to send to the White House an adjudicated rapist burdened by 34 felony convictions who lies as frequently as most folks draw breath and spent 12 minutes during a recent rally in Latrobe, PA, talking about a dead golfer and his…well…his package, if you know what I mean.