Reading Robert Gellert's letter is testimony to the "outstanding" job the Republicans have done to impugn Hillary Clinton ("Clinton makes Trump look good," June 2). To quote Mr. Gellert, Ms. Clinton is: "...one of the most...corrupt politicians of the last 50 years." By that measure, Ms. Clinton should have been put in jail many times over by now. And I always love to watch the "guys" pass judgment on women, in this case attempting to shift the scandal of a husband's indiscretions, to the wife. And Ms. Clinton's failure to pass health care reform served to inform President Barack Obama's successful efforts in this regard, where rather than put something forward like the Clintons did that would be attacked from all sides, he left it to the Democrats in Congress to craft enactable welfare reform.
And "responsibility" for the Arab Spring is probably better attributable to former President George W. Bush's actions in the Middle East. Also, to credit Ms. Clinton for the current situation is to impugn the efforts of those in the Middle East who have sought to improve there own political situation.
And to put a positive "spin" on the Donald Trump "reality" show, the real comedy in the whole "set-to" in this year's political theater is, I believe, a canard. In my opinion, no one who is honestly watching this show cannot help but conclude that Mr. Trump is, at best, a very divisive person. The success of the Republican mudslinging campaign against Ms. Clinton is a measure of why companies spend billions on advertising campaigns — if you tell people often and long enough that white is black, eventually they will come back and tell you white is black. Add to this the commentary of the press, left or right, who cite the "claims" of Ms. Clinton's supposed corruption over and over again and you have a formula for a very successful mudslinging campaign, aided by every day partisans like Mr. Gellert.
For America's sake, I hope in this year's political contests, Americans correctly differentiate between what is "white and black."
Joseph Costa, Baltimore