The Tombstone of Hillary Clinton’s Father Vandalized

The political vitriol that surrounds US Presidential campaigns started off at rock bottom this past week.

Hillary Clinton announced her Presidential candidacy on Sunday and sometime on Monday the tombstone of her father was pushed over in the small Scranton, Pa. cemetery where he is buried.

Let’s be clear: any heinous action that is done against something that is defenseless is a clear act of cowardice.

An action that is done out of political protest to something defenseless, such as a grave, is an act of equal parts cowardice, irreverence and witlessness.

Actions like this don’t serve democracy.  They provoke rage, cloud judgment and sow distrust … all of which work against intelligent discourse, solid conversation and healthy tolerance.

I don’t care how much you dislike Hillary as a person and how much you dislike her political persuasions, the desecration of a grave is simply one of the lowest acts known to humanity.  Acts like this say nothing of protest, but only blind hatred.

Let’s hope the 2016 Presidential race can have more intelligent conversation than less cowardly desecration.