The CBS News contributor and former "Face the Nation" host called the debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump "disgraceful."
"How have we come to this? This is supposed to be a campaign for the most powerful office of the land. Here we're marching in women into the hall who supposed to have some relationship with one of the candidate's spouses. What's that supposed to prove?" Schieffer said, citing women who claim former President Bill Clinton of sexual assault sitting in Trump's box at the debate. "I mean this is what they do in a Banana Republic. This is the United States of America.
"I just hope to God I don't see another campaign like this one. America can do better than what we have seen here tonight. This was just disgraceful," Schieffer said.
Comment: The U.S. may not be a banana republic per se, but it sure as heck isn't a democracy. What do you expect, Schieffer? This debate was the perfect representation of the state of American democracy in generations. In fact, this election will go down in history as the first truly American election, in which American values were for the first time laid bare for all the world to see.
Comment: Trump says some disgraceful things. Clinton and her supporters do, too. You just don't hear about them as much as you do Trump. Could have something to do with the fact that Clinton has the support of practically the entire MSM complex. Here's Clinton's foreign policy spokesman Jesse Lehrich telling Trump, "go f*** yourself" after Trump made the point that Captain Khan would not be dead if he'd been president. And here's a collection of Killary's despicable language and the deplorable way she treats people she considers beneath her. It's too explicit to quote in full, but here's a representative sample: