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If you expected her to openly criticize US foreign policy I think you were charmingly naive. I would welcome it of course, but in what universe is that gonna happen? These debates only barely skim the surface of each issue anyway, so expecting a deep analysis of the historical problems in the middle east within the format is far fetched.
What matters at this stage is what are factual truths and lies. It is not a lie to point out that the Syrian and Russian military are mainly targetin rebels and not ISIS or terrorists. That is a fact. It is more of a lie to claim "they kill ISIS", because they hardly do that at all. The obvious lies in this instance is Trump claiming he was against the war in Iraq and the interference in Libya, which is so easily disproven that its only laughable and embarrasing. Its also lying to claim that ISIS has Lybian oil (thanks to Hillary) as there is no solid evidence to suggest it.
At the end of the day what matters is who seems to have a basic understanding of the mechanisms in the Middle East. Trump clearly doesn't have it...
PS: Did people see how Donald Trump moved behind Hillary when Hillary was talking? God, what an anger in his eyes. It's like he almost wanted to knock-out Hillary. Like a boxer. Having said that: Goodbye Mr Trump.
Same thing.
No, it is not. There are rebels opposing the Assad regime, and there are terrorists wanting to exploit the situation and expand their territory.
Paul Ryan is holding an important meeting today on what the GOP should do with funding the national vs. down ballot races/ A number of Senate races hinge on whether the Senators will publicly denounce Trump or not.
Only fitting, as this whole debate was advertised like a boxing rematch.
Trump's tone of speech and body language the entire debate just made him sound like a desperate man on the end of his rope, as opposed to the first debate where he sounded like a fighter. He didn't succeed in projecting confidence last night, and he certainly didn't project any sort of intelligence. Hillary projected both.
I didn't like that she was allowed to break the time limit more than he, but she was at least answering the questions most of the time. He would fly off on tangents blaming the Obama administration or Hillary herself for every little thing. So help me, I think he'd like to blame one of them for Mrs. O'Leary's cow knocking over the lantern and starting the fire.
I was in a chatroom last night during the debate, and one of my friends there said that neither of these two should be allowed in the top 500k candidates for mayor of a small town, and I agree with that. Hillary is the lesser of two evils here, but neither are truly fit to lead this country. I'll be voting for Hillary purely because she can sound like she knows what she's doing, while Trump can't even sound like he knows how to handle a debate.
What a great name! He sounds like a 1940's private eye.
Agreed.
So start paying attention to the VP candidates. One of them is likely to be in the oval office 4 yrs from now or sooner, because I won't be surprised if one of these two are impeached while in office to get them out.
That's the key and the main reason to be optimistic for those who don't want him in office. Everyone expected that he would try to alter his image a bit for the duel with Hillary, be more moderate so he could appeal to the many undecided doubters. He is doing the exact opposite. Its quite bizarre and an almost surprisingly thoughtless strategy. The only trump he has (pun intended) is that his fanbase is more passionate than Hillarys and that the many undecided voters who find it hard to warm up to her might not turn up to vote.
However it is the swing states that will decide the election as always, and as of now it seems very unlikely they will turn in favour of Trump.
Throughout the night, from beginning to end, Trump either...
1.) Blamed everything under the sun on Hillary or Obama-with some of his followers no doubt thick enough to suck it up.
2.) Every time a question came his way, he ignored the town hall members and used it as an opportunity to hijack that question and use the opportunity for more of #1 above.
3.) He yelled at the moderators for being unfair to him, when throughout the entire debate he spoke for a whole minute longer than Clinton ever did in total. Even then, of the massive amount of time he did speak, barely a minute of that time contained actual responses to the content in the questions he was asked to address.
4.) He saw fit to randomly bring up the supposed victims of Bill Clinton throughout the debate at moments where they didn't belong, and in many ways, he paraded the women around (who he put in the audience) like such objects only there to help his cause that the feelings he expressed in the leaked video only further support the disfigured view of women so many think he has.
5.) His body language was like that of a one-legged amnesiac, creeping around the stage seemingly without direction at where he was going, and in many cases, looking absolutely lost. The only expressions he showed were those of disgusting, bull-like sniffs, or the twisted, ugly scrunches his face somehow always folds itself into.
All the circle jerk panels from the Sean Hannity show don't block out the truth, and the truth is that last night, Trump was an utter failure who never kept on message when Clinton went out of her way to always address the voters there, always knew their names, and never chose to disrespectfully hijack their questions to go on a long-winded derision fest of Trump, like he always did to her, every time. Her frustration at his attempts to take the town hall away from the concerns of the people were visible and felt by me all the same. Can Trump seriously be called a populist when he treats the American people he's aiming to sell his "brand" to with such disrespectful indifference and invisibility?
It's clear that as a "reality star," Trump can play to a crowded audience or a camera, but when it comes time to appeal to normal people, and to have true human connections that aren't scripted or that don't serve to inflate his own ego, he's utterly lost. It was like he never even knew the undecided voters were there with him on the floor. More often than not (when he wasn't droning around like a lost puppy looking half asleep) he just faced the moderators and the audience behind them, never looked the people on the floor in the eye, and certainly made no appeal whatsoever to address them or their concerns when the moment proved too juicy not to resort to blaming Hillary and Obama for anything that popped into his mind.
How the night could be seen any other way, I haven't the faintest idea. The supporters Trump has left must all be sipping the same Kool-Aid as ol' Rudy Giuliani. I never thought I'd get such a sick thrill from watching a bunch of simple-minded passengers partying in triumph on their cruise liner while a leak in the ship's underside is sinking it more and more as each moment goes by.
As said before his entire performance seemed to be designed for the angry mob who hate the Clintons and Obama and arch conservatives who automatically opposes to everything the democratic party stands for no matter what. Those are the people he already has on his side, the loyal fanbase that will support him no matter what. It is hard to imagine any moderate or undecided voter being convinced by his evations, nonsensical rambling, reluctance to stay om topic and actually adress the questions asked, obvious lies and general ignorance of practically every issue raised. But then again America and politics is something I will never understand... so what do I know? :-??
I think you're greatly exaggerating. So my question for you would be: How would you react if, against all odds, Hillary's presidency is in fact better than Obama's first four years? How would you react?
If, against the odds, her presidency is better than Obama's four years, then I would embrace it and be extremely relieved. The world is a very dangerous place, The US is on the verge of bankruptcy, asset prices are inflated in the Western world, interest rates are below where they should be (short changing savers, mispricing risk & increasing financial instability), income inequality and social strife are at all time highs, and the EU is on the verge of collapse (which could be catastrophic for Western hegemony).
So please don't ask such a nonsensical question. Nobody here wants the chaos that could very easily occur on the watch of the next president. We all want it to be a success, even though the odds of that are slim to none on account of this divisive and filthy campaign.
Actually, no, I don't get it - which is why I asked.
So, you claim Trump is as much a war monger as Clinton. In what way is Trump more of a warmonger than Clinton?
If Trump wins, are you expecting the US to get involved in more wars than it has over the last 5, 10 or 15 years?
I don´t know if he is more war hungry than Hillary, but there is nothing to suggest that he isn´t at least as trigger happy. And at least she seems to have a basic understanding of the Middle East, he doesn´t. Given his general temperament and violent nature he seems more likely to act on impulse, and what does a rhetoric that says "Im gonna beat the crap out of ISIS" tell you? And what about his profiling of muslims and the general world outside of the US? So I guess the answer to your second question is; very likely.
Here's a little more on this topic: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/10/donald_trump_tells_hillary_clinton_you_d_be_in_jail.html Finally, folks, at long last: can we all just admit that he'd be a terrible president & move on?
It will be an unprecedented landslide victory of gigantic proportions, so relax people.
I keep saying the same thing. I'm not sure why people keep freaking out about the possibility of Trump winning - it's over.
=)) =))
I think the term landslide isn't what the end result will be. I think, as much as it frightens me, the end result will be a lot closer than you'd think.
Once you've seen video after video of some of Trump's nutty supporters, and how they were willing to support him even when they were tricked by pamphlets of his containing the words of Adolf Hitler instead, you then start to wonder how many of these dangerously simple people are out there.
Check the posting just above yours, @0Brady. The dangerously simple people are all around us.
And hey, how about the return of Dangerous Donnie's case of the raging sniffles? It's not exactly locker room humor, but at my place of business, if somebody had that bad of a case of sniffles, we'd tell him quite frankly to lay off the cocaine. At least this time his dose didn't wear off 2/3 of the way through the debate this time...
I wonder if people just were totally desperate to get something into their hands they can blow up artificially to finally create a scenario where Trump could be damaged enough so there wouldn't be a danger he'll win.
The media plays a very big role in this.
As unlikely as I think it is Trump will win the election, I still must warn of the possibility that many people will vote for him just because the media and about all of the hated political establishment is so aggressively against him.
Something similar happens in Germany with a political party that can very well be compared to Trump.
The more the political establishment and the media in Germany fights aggressively against that party the more successful it gets.
In 2017 the AfD (that's the name) will probably be the third strongest power behind the ruling parties CDU (middle-conservatives) and SPD (left).
It's a party for enraged citizens. And so is Trump.
*I am not for Trump by the way, just in case I make that impression. But I would not vote for Hillary had the Reps chosen someone different, moderate.