When Charles became so ill with Alzheimer's and multiple myeloma and was moved to the hospital wing, four of the immediate family stayed with him for two days until he died.
Again, I cannot speak too highly of the staff for their care and compassion for us, as well as Charles.
Thank you, Broadview team -- we are forever grateful for making Charles' last few months bearable.
JULIET LARSEN
Ngamatapouri
Flawed analysis
Nicola Lamb's analysis of why Clinton lost is fascinatingly flawed, lightly touching or completely leaving out many facts regarding her subject. Some examples:
FBI director Comey was required to tell Congress the investigation he had said was closed was still open because of new evidence. Should he have done differently? What really mattered was what the investigation was about.
The Democrat and Clinton campaign emails released by WikiLeaks showed important members of both were untrustworthy, in their own words, not some vague "fake news" as Nicola suggests. In fact, her assertion that Bernie Sanders lost to Clinton because he lacked "wider credibility within the party" ignores the fact that the party head stood down after her sabotage of Bernie's campaign came out in those emails.
Clinton's mishandling of classified information hardly made her the best candidate for the top job, but the fact she kept lying about it (as shown for example by Comey's testimony to Congress) kept hurting her credibility.
Nicola tries to minimise the Benghazi incident, saying others have died in attacks on US embassies. Were those other deaths because of failure of the US State Department, including ignoring all warnings? Secretary of State Clinton lied about it to the public, claiming there were no warnings and it had happened because of a YouTube video. The attackers were simply protesting the video, she said, got carried away and just happened to have RPGs and other military weaponry ...
Gender and sexism played a part in the election, but not the way Nicola suggests. Many people voted for Clinton simply because she was a woman, which is sexism. Others spoke against that, like actress Susan Sarandon, who refused to vote based on biology.
Being perceived as a continuation of Obama's failing policies hurt Clinton, but her lack of a real message and lacklustre campaign did the most harm. She did not even visit states like Pennsylvania, while saying she was going to put most Pennsylvanians out of work. She spent US$1.2 billion on a campaign mostly attacking Trump, constantly rolled out wealthy elitist celebrities whose behaviour and song lyrics made Trump's comments pale by comparison, and lost hugely.
K A BENFELL
Gonville
