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Great news, two Generals will be voting for Hillary Clinton.
Clinton continues to eat Republicans’ lunch on foreign policy
By Jennifer Rubin September 1
While Donald Trump sends millions of Americans fleeing the GOP, Hillary Clinton scoops up more endorsements of the type Republican nominees usually enjoy. The Clinton camp announced endorsements from two retired four-star generals, Bob Sennewald (former commanding general, U.S. Army Forces Command) and David Maddox (former commander in chief of the U.S. Army in Europe). In a joint statement they said, “Having each served over 34 years and retired as an Army 4-star general, we each have worked closely with America’s strongest allies, both in NATO and throughout Asia.” They explained, “Our votes have always been private, and neither of us has ever previously lent his name or voice to a presidential candidate.” They nevertheless announced, “Having studied what is at stake for this country and the alternatives we have now, we see only one viable leader, and will be voting this November for Secretary Hillary Clinton.”
The endorsements follow Clinton’s hawkish speech at the American Legion yesterday and Trump’s confusing and meek appearance in Mexico. Read more
Top Jeb Bush donor says he's with Clinton
By Nolan D. McCaskill 09/01/16
Donald Trump is unqualified for the presidency, Mike Fernandez, a top Jeb Bush and Rick Scott donor, said Thursday, announcing that he’ll be voting across party lines for Hillary Clinton in November.
Fernandez identified himself as “a firm believer in the fundamental tenets of the Republican Party” and as someone who takes his civic responsibilities seriously before slamming the GOP’s standard-bearer.
“Donald Trump is neither representative of our values nor qualified to lead the nation,” he wrote in an op-ed published Thursday in The Miami Herald.
Republicans can no longer “seek solace in wishful thinking or the illusion that this is just an election cycle and that by divine intervention all will be better after we vote” or “hide behind the excuse that party loyalty is paramount, and that a bad candidate of our own is always better than any candidate of theirs,” he cautioned, warning that Trump is capable of single-handedly leading America “off the precipice.”
“I have watched this election unfold, from that first press conference where the population of an entire country was cast as insulting to our core. This led to a neverending spiral of vulgarity, intellectual dishonesty, invective, abuse, misogyny, racism, intolerance, bullying, ignorance and downright cruelty,” he said. “The fact that the person unleashing these forces, reflecting beliefs and biases that we had long ago identified as at odds with the Founding Fathers’ principle of ordered liberty was a member of my party, was at first cause for irritation evolving into alarm and frustration and finally arriving at a sobering moment of embarrassment for my party, and beyond that, of profound concern for my beloved country.”
Fernandez ripped Trump for his antagonizing rhetoric, calling his claims of a rigged system should he lose to Clinton “insanity and dictatorial machinations at best” and characterizing Trump as an “abysmally unfit candidate who has unleashed “racist and violent acts.”
“I harbor no illusion that Hillary Clinton is perfect; none of us is,” he continued. “I do not see eye to eye on some issues with the former senator from New York. However, Clinton is, without a doubt, a superior choice to Donald Trump.”
Clinton’s intelligence, experience and humility balance out her shortcomings and will serve her well in the White House, Fernandez said, noting that he is “equally convinced that our republic will be placed in fundamental peril if we are foolish enough to elect” Trump. Read more
RabzonKhan
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@CBU-105 , I really did not wanted to discuss this useless third rate trailer trash propaganda but today I did had some extra time so I looked into it and this is what I found.
The trailer-trash are all over the web claiming that Hillary had a “seizure”, and FOX News crackpot Hannity invited two medical experts on his program to discuss so-called Hillary “seizere”, after showing them the clip, he asked, “what is your take”,
Dr. Fiona Gupta, neurologist, replied, “you know it’s just so hard to speculate based on snippets of the clip that, you know, what is going on without having a full examination and workup”.
But being a shameless idiot, he asked her again, “watch her reaction” it almost seems seizure-esque to me”.
Dr. Fiona Gupta, there are different types of seizures, local. I mean, typically Seizures that sometimes can cause just one body part, but it would be very rare.
I mean, typically seizures will generalize, so I can’t say that’s seizures.
Since Dr. Fiona refused to call it a seizure, embarrassed Hannity turned to his other guest, asking him, “aren’t there many seizures like that Dr. Siegel? ”
Dr. Siegel, “I’m not a neurologist, and I don’t think that necessarily looks like a seizure” Link
Conclusion, both medical panelists rejected Hannity’s propaganda. Keep in mind, Dr. Fiona is a neurologist and no one knows better than her since it’s her field.
I also saw the clip in slow motion on YouTube (speed 0.5) and noted that Hillary only shook her head four times, yes, that’s right, only 4 times. Everyone in the clip was laughing and joking as they all knew Hillary was intentionally doing it.
The trailer-trash are all over the web claiming that Hillary had a “seizure”, and FOX News crackpot Hannity invited two medical experts on his program to discuss so-called Hillary “seizere”, after showing them the clip, he asked, “what is your take”,
Dr. Fiona Gupta, neurologist, replied, “you know it’s just so hard to speculate based on snippets of the clip that, you know, what is going on without having a full examination and workup”.
But being a shameless idiot, he asked her again, “watch her reaction” it almost seems seizure-esque to me”.
Dr. Fiona Gupta, there are different types of seizures, local. I mean, typically Seizures that sometimes can cause just one body part, but it would be very rare.
I mean, typically seizures will generalize, so I can’t say that’s seizures.
Since Dr. Fiona refused to call it a seizure, embarrassed Hannity turned to his other guest, asking him, “aren’t there many seizures like that Dr. Siegel? ”
Dr. Siegel, “I’m not a neurologist, and I don’t think that necessarily looks like a seizure” Link
Conclusion, both medical panelists rejected Hannity’s propaganda. Keep in mind, Dr. Fiona is a neurologist and no one knows better than her since it’s her field.
I also saw the clip in slow motion on YouTube (speed 0.5) and noted that Hillary only shook her head four times, yes, that’s right, only 4 times. Everyone in the clip was laughing and joking as they all knew Hillary was intentionally doing it.
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We all know why these Trump supporters are so eager and happy to support him. By the way, you won't find much support for Trump from any other nation around the world apart from one specific nation. These people are more loyal than the king himself and it is hilarious. Following their support for Trump in this thread is fun. What nationalistic jingoism can sometimes do to your sanity.
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lol, clearly not, but whatever, no point obsessing over every small viral video that emerges. Let's stick to the important issues for sake of debate.
Internationally, non US citizens such as myself and millions of others across the world have a big problem with Hillary because of her record as secretary of state.
- She was in favor of the "arab spring" and strongly supported Morsi and the muslim brotherhood takeover of Egypt.
- She orchestrated regime change in Libya, "we came, we saw.." (look how that turned out). and Benghazi
- She then went into Syria and destabilized it by supporting the terrorist rebels and still maintains her stance on regime change there and is promising to enforce a no fly zone to directly challenge the Russian air force who are legally operating there as per international law.
- She failed to get Obama to sign a status of forces agreement (SOFA) that would have allowed for a residual force to remain in Iraq when virtually the entire US military intelligence apparatus was saying that they should stay. (we know how that turned out as well)
- She didn't do anything about China's rampant encroachment and illegal military base building in the SCS, China took over the Scarborough shoal from the Philippines.
The only thing her foreign policy proposals are suggesting so far, is that she wants to start WW3 with Russia.
Now let's compare that to some of what Donald Trump is proposing.
- No more senseless wars "the era of nation building will be brought to a very swift and decisive end."
- No support to the Syrian 'rebels', don't start ww3 over Russia.
- Instead, he is proposing a détente with Putin, and subject to negotiations, maybe even ally with the Russians to wipe out a common enemy, the jihadis in the middle east as well as try and get a hold on the mass migration from that region which is causing many problems in the EU/West
also, Rabzon bhai, I understand fully your strong dislike for Trump based on some of his rhetoric. I agree that he is not a very polished guy and has made a few missteps along the way but to paint him as some sort of crazed racist white supremacist maniac the way some of the press and mainstream media pundits have been doing is extremely disingenuous to say the least. Speaking specifically from a foreign policy standpoint, he is in fact clearly the lesser of the two evils as far as a lot of the rest of the world is concerned.
also, even if your vote and opinion is 100% locked into anti Trump mode, watch this very interesting conversation here, Scott Adams (creator of Dilbert, the office guy cartoon strip) on Trump and the race in general:
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It don't matter who is president of the US. Every president of the US bombs Arabs or someone else. Not a single president since JFK has not bombed. Obama dropped tens of thousands of bombs since 2014. Is that peaceful? That's not the definition of peace in my books.
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Jimmy fuckin Carter....
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Jimmy Carter got mugged by a fluffly cute rabbit once!
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Well he was a pacifist...he could've destroyed Iran...but he didn't....I don't think he regrets it.
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Lol, he’s really a strange guy, not only his looks, but the way he writes is also quite strange. The Late Show host Stephen Colbert sums it up succinctly.And this the guy that gave Trump a clean bill of health.
Docta Harold Bornstein
Clinton camp smashes fundraising record: $143 million in August
Dan Merica, CNN
9/1/2016
(CNN)Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign raised $143 million in August for her campaign, the DNC and state parties, according to a campaign press release, a haul that makes the month the best of her campaign.
The fundraising haul is a silver lining on what otherwise was a difficult month for Clinton, where questions about her exclusive use of a private email server as secretary of state and questions about pay-to-play at the Clinton Foundation hamstrung her campaign. Read more
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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-poll-idUSKCN1182PT
Trump catches up to Clinton, latest Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
By Maurice Tamman and Chris Kahn
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has pulled into an effective tie with Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, erasing a substantial deficit as he consolidated support among his party’s likely voters in recent weeks, according to the latest Reuters/Ipsos national tracking poll released Friday.
The poll showed 40 percent of likely voters supporting Trump and 39 percent backing Clinton for the week of Aug. 26 to Sept. 1. Clinton's support has dropped steadily in the weekly tracking poll since Aug. 25, eliminating what had been a eight-point lead for her.
Trump's gains came as Republican support for their party’s candidate jumped by six percentage points over the past two weeks, to about 78 percent. That is still below the 85 percent support Republican nominee Mitt Romney enjoyed in the summer of 2012, but the improvement helps explain Trump’s rise in the poll.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll is conducted online in English in all 50 states. The latest poll surveyed 1,804 likely voters over the course of the week; it had a credibility interval, a measure of accuracy, of three percent.
Different polls have produced widely different results over the course of the campaign. In part that's because some, like Reuters/Ipsos, have attempted to measure the preferences of who's likely to vote, while others have surveyed the larger pool of all registered voters. And even those that survey likely voters have different ways of estimating who is likely to cast a ballot.
Polling aggregators, which calculate averages of major polls, have shown that Clinton’s lead has been shrinking for the past few weeks. Those averages put her advantage over Trump at between three and six percentage points. Some of the more recent individual polls, however, have the race even tighter.
Voters don't elect the American president directly, of course, but through the Electoral College, an assembly representing each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia based on the number of legislators they have in Congress. As of last Friday, the separate Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation polling project estimated Clinton was on track to win the Electoral College, by about 332 votes to 206. Those numbers were scheduled to be updated later Friday.
In recent weeks, Clinton has come under renewed criticism over her handling of classified information while serving as U.S. secretary of state, and her family's charitable foundation has come under fresh scrutiny for the donations it accepted while Clinton served in the Obama administration. Meanwhile, Clinton hasn't been campaigning as actively as Trump.
TRUMP'S BUMP
Trump, meanwhile, has reshuffled his campaign leadership and sought to broaden his appeal to moderate Republicans and minorities. He recently suggested that he would be a better president than Clinton for African Americans, and has taken steps, including a meeting this week with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, to reach out to immigrants. It remains to be seen whether those efforts will click.
In the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll, more than 20 percent of likely voters opted for a choice other than the two major nominees, whether an alternative candidate, "would not vote" or "unsure." That figure is significantly higher than the 10 percent to 14 percent of respondents who answered similarly at this point in the 2012 campaign. Both President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney enjoyed substantially stronger support at this point in the summer of 2012 than either Trump or Clinton does now.
And while Trump has consolidated his support among Republicans, likely voters are expressing an increasingly sour view of Clinton: The share of likely voters with an unfavorable view of the former secretary of state has grown to 57 percent, compared with Trump's 54 percent, her worst showing on that metric in a month.
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said he remains convinced Clinton is ahead, somewhere in the range seen among the polling aggregators.
“There has been a closing that’s completely natural,” Sabato said. “Every four years, you have two national party conventions that produce a bounce of varying sizes. Clinton got a substantial bounce this year that lasted for a full month. It’s usually gone around Labor Day, and by then we’ll be where we should be, which is right around four to five points” for Clinton.
In a separate question in the Reuters/Ipsos poll that included alternative-party candidates, Clinton and Trump were tied at 39 percent. Seven percent supported Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, and two percent supported Jill Stein of the Green Party.
(Edited by Michael Williams)
Trump catches up to Clinton, latest Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
By Maurice Tamman and Chris Kahn
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has pulled into an effective tie with Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, erasing a substantial deficit as he consolidated support among his party’s likely voters in recent weeks, according to the latest Reuters/Ipsos national tracking poll released Friday.
The poll showed 40 percent of likely voters supporting Trump and 39 percent backing Clinton for the week of Aug. 26 to Sept. 1. Clinton's support has dropped steadily in the weekly tracking poll since Aug. 25, eliminating what had been a eight-point lead for her.
Trump's gains came as Republican support for their party’s candidate jumped by six percentage points over the past two weeks, to about 78 percent. That is still below the 85 percent support Republican nominee Mitt Romney enjoyed in the summer of 2012, but the improvement helps explain Trump’s rise in the poll.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll is conducted online in English in all 50 states. The latest poll surveyed 1,804 likely voters over the course of the week; it had a credibility interval, a measure of accuracy, of three percent.
Different polls have produced widely different results over the course of the campaign. In part that's because some, like Reuters/Ipsos, have attempted to measure the preferences of who's likely to vote, while others have surveyed the larger pool of all registered voters. And even those that survey likely voters have different ways of estimating who is likely to cast a ballot.
Polling aggregators, which calculate averages of major polls, have shown that Clinton’s lead has been shrinking for the past few weeks. Those averages put her advantage over Trump at between three and six percentage points. Some of the more recent individual polls, however, have the race even tighter.
Voters don't elect the American president directly, of course, but through the Electoral College, an assembly representing each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia based on the number of legislators they have in Congress. As of last Friday, the separate Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation polling project estimated Clinton was on track to win the Electoral College, by about 332 votes to 206. Those numbers were scheduled to be updated later Friday.
In recent weeks, Clinton has come under renewed criticism over her handling of classified information while serving as U.S. secretary of state, and her family's charitable foundation has come under fresh scrutiny for the donations it accepted while Clinton served in the Obama administration. Meanwhile, Clinton hasn't been campaigning as actively as Trump.
TRUMP'S BUMP
Trump, meanwhile, has reshuffled his campaign leadership and sought to broaden his appeal to moderate Republicans and minorities. He recently suggested that he would be a better president than Clinton for African Americans, and has taken steps, including a meeting this week with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, to reach out to immigrants. It remains to be seen whether those efforts will click.
In the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll, more than 20 percent of likely voters opted for a choice other than the two major nominees, whether an alternative candidate, "would not vote" or "unsure." That figure is significantly higher than the 10 percent to 14 percent of respondents who answered similarly at this point in the 2012 campaign. Both President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney enjoyed substantially stronger support at this point in the summer of 2012 than either Trump or Clinton does now.
And while Trump has consolidated his support among Republicans, likely voters are expressing an increasingly sour view of Clinton: The share of likely voters with an unfavorable view of the former secretary of state has grown to 57 percent, compared with Trump's 54 percent, her worst showing on that metric in a month.
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said he remains convinced Clinton is ahead, somewhere in the range seen among the polling aggregators.
“There has been a closing that’s completely natural,” Sabato said. “Every four years, you have two national party conventions that produce a bounce of varying sizes. Clinton got a substantial bounce this year that lasted for a full month. It’s usually gone around Labor Day, and by then we’ll be where we should be, which is right around four to five points” for Clinton.
In a separate question in the Reuters/Ipsos poll that included alternative-party candidates, Clinton and Trump were tied at 39 percent. Seven percent supported Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, and two percent supported Jill Stein of the Green Party.
(Edited by Michael Williams)
