Understanding the United States of America (USA) - III

sooraj · Post by **sooraj** » 23 Oct 2016 23:43

For all Trump fans

Compilation video of Donald Trump's views and opinions being consistent over the past 30 years.

Suresh S · Post by **Suresh S** » 24 Oct 2016 04:47

thanks sooraj agree . This guy should be elected

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 24 Oct 2016 08:03

So good-looking! You can see clear through his skull. A great mouth with nothing behind it.

Mort Walker · Post by **Mort Walker** » 24 Oct 2016 09:10

^^^Certainly better than Amreeka about to descend in to evil!

Austin · Post by **Austin** » 24 Oct 2016 10:47

Oh come on , She is no Evil ..............Now for some humor

panduranghari · Post by **panduranghari** » 24 Oct 2016 16:14

Manish_Sharma · Post by **Manish_Sharma** » 24 Oct 2016 16:36

Theek baat Ulan ji, I'm deleting

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 24 Oct 2016 17:24

Now now... (thx for not descending) to POTUS-debate depths. This is a family-friendly forum (F3) and u have gentle folks like me posting here. Besides, u better not diss someone who started at $600K/yr straight out of a Bachelorette degree. Totally on merit. Like her Mom became Senator totally on her own merit. Only POTUS ever to be equally comfortable giving orders to those planning a WHOTUS Soiree or an aerial bombardment of non-childrens-hospital targets in Syria.

habal · Post by **habal** » 24 Oct 2016 20:58

Clinton foundation theft from Haiti earthquake relief

this was reported more than three years ago. It was semi public knowledge. Why is this only coming out now? People were interviewed who were actually there, and did not see a dime of over a billion donated to the Clinton foundation for the earthquake. She did not pay out 7 percent, SHE PAID OUT NOTHING, everything, EVERY LAST DIME given to the foundation was a theft pure and simple. The U.N. came in and built a total of about 5 homes at a cost of "millions each" and only the churches actually did any good at all. Haiti "relief" was a scam all the way through. This alone should bury Hillary, but if it did not bury her 3 years ago, it never will. Too big to jail is a government fail. America has indeed slipped on a banana peel.

Now again a hurricane has hit Haiti causing massive destruction and the Clinton Foundation is drooling for another charity scam to milk.

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 24 Oct 2016 21:12

Happy Diwali: The Festival Of Lights.
Special Guest: "Lara Trump"

We Request Indian American Community of
Northern Mongolia & Ulan Bator Metro Residents
To Join for a Joyous Diwali Celebration.

Pssst: Is this hu DT described as "Peace of A**"?

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 24 Oct 2016 21:34

Aiyyoooo! Trump is so sure of NC that he doesn't need big staff there.

I have a feeling that this reflects DT's plans for the Federal Govt as well.

Gagan · Post by **Gagan** » 24 Oct 2016 21:44

Guys,
Is trump really going to win?
All the polls say hillary has a >10% lead.
Republicans might lose the congress and then the senate too, is the buzzword doing the rounds inside the beltway

Manish_Sharma · Post by **Manish_Sharma** » 24 Oct 2016 21:47

Seems like it, with full control of senate and congress, hillary will go full steam against Bharat, tough times ahead for Modi ji.

GShankar · Post by **GShankar** » 24 Oct 2016 21:48

^^
All depends on how much damage could be done to HC in the next couple of weeks. There is probably nothing that DT can say or do to gain vote share.

Gagan · Post by **Gagan** » 24 Oct 2016 21:59

This whole thing about the US being somehow inmical to India's interests is wrong IMHO.

The US is really threatened by the changes that are going on these days, and Islamization and China's march are troubling things.

WRT india, Hillary seems to be a bit of an expert in destroying countries and sending them to oblivion, as seen in the cases of Libya, Iraq and now Syria. These countries are done for, they will never get their original borders back, they have split, the populations divided on the basis of sect and religion and too much blood has been spilled for reconciliation to occur in this generation.
I say that Pakistan is one such low hanging fruit for her expertise.
1. The US is antipakistan - just for the sheer number of US soldiers and citiziens killed by the Pak fauj via their proxies.
2. Pakistan loudly saying that they are in the Cheenis group, and talk of a Russia-China-Pakistan axis is a BIG folly.

Remember Hillary snapping at Paki Journos, when they were crying about kerry lugar money? She said, "You guys don't have to take that money then"

India has too much intertwining relationship with the US now, and it is only going to grow exponentially, no matter who is in the White house. And India has substantial money power too, if need be.
India and Indian companies are actually creating jobs in the US.

Hillary in the WHOUS won't be so bad, the world won't end

krisna · Post by **krisna** » 24 Oct 2016 22:07

^^^^
True it does not matter who takes office in WH.
But each WH occupier establishes their own folks inside SD over time which makes for better or worse relationships.

HRC will alter dynamics to affect India in a negative way easily.

Unfortunately many NRI are too deluded to see this factor. They can use their power and influence inch by inch to alter the dynamics in the long run. For this to happen the narrative of India and Hindus should change by changing the ecosystem which is a MUST. Otherwise asll efforts are a waste of time and efforts.

How many are willing to help in this cause.

Some give few 100 to millions etc to parties which will not change the core dynamics of India Us relationship.

Gagan · Post by **Gagan** » 24 Oct 2016 22:43

Haven't the dynamics been altered to a positive siuation today as compared to like a decade ago?
Why to necessarily assume only a negative outcome? Because of Abedin? Because of Saudi / ME / Cheeni contributions?

While that can not be ignored, I don't forsee a u-turn and outright hostility or undercutting India as was done by halfbright or raphal. NGOs and EJs one has to watch out for anyways.

pankajs · Post by **pankajs** » 24 Oct 2016 23:30

I remember ombaba sprouting nonsense about kashmir before his election too. Well .... While we might have forgotten the Bakis still remember those good ol days when kashmir was on top of ombaba's agenda.

I am not too sure that Ombaba was too enthused on NaMo's election but he had to adjust and embraced Modi no. Killary too will have to adjust after all national interest would still be the same.

Our relation with the US will continue at about the same level or cool down a little but the hugs will be gone.

Gagan · Post by **Gagan** » 24 Oct 2016 23:39

Back in the day, any uninitiated politician in massaland would have said == between India and pakistan, will mediate, blah blah

In 2016, an uninitiated Trump virtually says, partner India, keep troops in afg to keep tabs on Pakistan.

Quite a difference.

krisna · Post by **krisna** » 24 Oct 2016 23:43

Gagan wrote:Haven't the dynamics been altered to a positive siuation today as compared to like a decade ago?
Why to necessarily assume only a negative outcome? Because of Abedin? Because of Saudi / ME / Cheeni contributions?

While that can not be ignored, I don't forsee a u-turn and outright hostility or undercutting India as was done by halfbright or raphal. NGOs and EJs one has to watch out for anyways.

core dynamics not altered. The core issue of Hindus and Indians remains the same.What ideas the deep state has has not changed.
yes people who occupy WH can change themselves. But it is that only to some extent. nothing else.
India is a benefactor due to changed geopolitical situation not of genuine change of heart.
it can be reversed in a heart beat.

see the treatment psy ops on India ,Hindus in media and of experts, the books and the impressionable knowledge and impact on both Indian americans born and the non Indians. it is terrible, though outwrdly everyone professes to be good to us. In reality it sort of political correctness.
The major driver of change to have everlasting impact for good should be in these above areas to benefit both countries.

Gagan · Post by **Gagan** » 24 Oct 2016 23:54

Krisna ji
I feel that core issues have changed, and they can only be expected to further change in india's and indians' favour. The anti hindu haramigiri by people, is because these guys have a superficial understanding of our culture and ethos. They and the follow on generation will change for the positive
The US clearly has a certain growth, economic and power trajectory, and India has a very different one, specially the economic one.

Things will start changing very rapidly.

By 2050, India will be a bigger economy than the US! That is only one generation away.

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 25 Oct 2016 00:24

Gagan wrote:Haven't the dynamics been altered to a positive siuation today as compared to like a decade ago?
Why to necessarily assume only a negative outcome? Because of Abedin? Because of Saudi / ME / Cheeni contributions?

While that can not be ignored, I don't forsee a u-turn and outright hostility or undercutting India as was done by halfbright or raphal. NGOs and EJs one has to watch out for anyways.

Gagan, halfdim and even roraphael would profess to be shocked

if told that they were "anti-India". They think they are out to SAVE Indians - from their stupid govts. HiC is just a worse version of those 2, plus the power of Barboxer and Difeinstein. Baaaad.

Someone who probably still visits BRF regularly, once told me that the SDOTUS is full of midlevel / near top-level Pakis, from the Cold War/Afghanistan dins.

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 25 Oct 2016 01:42

Republicans would be stupid not to capitalize on this example of Hillary-Democrats screwing the Veterans

Van Meter, the Purple Heart recipient, was floored when he got a letter saying he owed a combined $46,000 -- including the $15,000 reenlistment bonus, a student loan and an officer bonus.
"They tacked on a 1% processing fee into that," he said.
"It's gut-wrenching because you have to figure out what you're going to do and how you're going to survive."
Van Meter said after he retired in 2013, he had three years to pay off the debt.
"We were paying upward $1,300 a month back to that recoupment. We weren't able to afford everything -- food for the kids, a day care."
Eventually, he and his wife decided to refinance their mortgage to pay off the surprise debt.
Van Meter's family is far from alone. According to the Los Angeles Times, the California Guard has told 9,700 current and retired soldiers to repay some or all of their bonuses; so far, more than $22 million has been recovered.

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 25 Oct 2016 02:11

Pennsylvania Democrat Mohterma Attorney-Jarnail sentenced to prison for taking revenge on someone.

A judge has sentenced former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane to 10 to 23 months in prison for committing multiple felonies stemming from a politically motivated act of retribution. Kane, who was convicted in August of perjury and obstruction, also will be on probation for eight years following her jail time, according to Kim Bathgate, spokeswoman for the Office of Pennsylvania Courts.

[Original story, published at 1:55 p.m. ET]
Back in August, Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane resigned from office in disgrace after being convicted of multiple felonies stemming from a politically motivated act of retribution....Prosecutors, however, said that her crimes -- which have tarnished the attorney general's office and ruined an activist's life in the process -- warranted time behind bars.

Four years ago, Kane, a former assistant district attorney in Lackawanna County, defeated Republican David Freed as a political rookie...Pennsylvania Democrats quickly pegged Kane as one of the party's rising stars. But halfway through her term, the Philadelphia Inquirer ran a story with the headline: "Sources: Kathleen Kane shut down probe of Philly Democrats."
That's where the trouble started. The article outlined an investigation launched by Kane's predecessor, former Chief Deputy Attorney General Frank G. Fina, into politicians caught in a sting accepting local bribes. In emails cited in the complaint, an irate Kane vowed to wage "war" with Fina, a criminal complaint later said.
After the article, Kane leaked sealed, confidential grand jury documents conducted under Fina that looked into whether J. Wyatt Mondesire, the former leader of the NAACP's Philadelphia chapter, misused grant money, the complaint said. Fina's investigation never lead to criminal charges against Mondesire, the complaint said.
'No one is above the law'
In August 2015, Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman, a Republican, filed charges against Kane. Ferman accused the then-attorney general of secretly leaking documents "in the hopes of embarrassing and harming former state prosecutors whom she believed, without evidence, had made her look bad."
Ferman also alleged that Kane after had lied under oath to a grand jury about leaking the grand jury documents to reporters in order to cover her tracks.
..Beyond that, Steele noted that Mondesire, who was never charged of a crime, had lost his job, saw his health decline, and died nearly two years later.
"During her tenure as attorney general, Kane behaved in a paranoid manner and repeatedly misused her official authority to advance her personal vendettas," Steele wrote in a sentencing memo, according to the The Legal Intelligencer.

Gus · Post by **Gus** » 25 Oct 2016 02:40

Gagan wrote:Back in the day, any uninitiated politician in massaland would have said == between India and pakistan, will mediate, blah blah

In 2016, an uninitiated Trump virtually says, partner India, keep troops in afg to keep tabs on Pakistan.

Quite a difference.

yep..lot of difference. such clear thinking and straight talking.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-new ... Bt7DJ.html

But when pressed for plans for Pakistan, he said, “Well, I would love to see Pakistan and India get along, because that’s a very, very hot tinderbox... That would be a very great thing. I hope they can do it.”

“Look at the recent problem that you (India) had and other problems that you have had over the years,” he added, making an oblique reference to the Uri terror attack and the flare-up in Indo-Pakistan tensions.

Asked if he would like to play a role, Trump said, “If it was necessary I would do that. If we could get India and Pakistan getting along, I would be honoured to do that. That would be a tremendous achievement... I think if they wanted me to, I would love to be the mediator or arbitrator.”

India opposes third-party mediation on Kashmir .....

Lalmohan · Post by **Lalmohan** » 25 Oct 2016 02:45

hillary doesn't care for india, her job is to care for the US
trump doesn't care about anything
same to same only

Rudradev · Post by **Rudradev** » 25 Oct 2016 03:02

For the record. Here is what I said wayyyy back on January 27, 2016.

viewtopic.php?p=1972644#p1972644

My belief at this time is that Trump is not going to win the Presidential Election. He may well win the Republican nomination but the way he is going about it will divide the Republican base itself, perhaps to an extent that cannot be repaired in time for a consolidated vote in November.

It is not merely a question of pandering to the "far right" of the Republican Party (that's OK, in fact it is needed because of how the Caucus/Primary system works in the US). It is that Trump is cultivating a section of the Republican Party that even the traditional far-right (Evangelicals, Anti-Regulation Fiscal Ultraconservatives, etc.) do not identify with and may not fully trust... a sort of extremely frustrated Middle American equivalent of the Indian AAP voters, driven by emotions over logic, who have no idea what they actually want and agree only about all the things that really pi$$ them off.

Hillary could not have picked a better Republican candidate to face off against. The swing vote at the center of gravity will not go with Trump when it comes right down to it... whereas traditional Republicans would surely have backed a Ted Cruz or a Marco Rubio over Hillary, they are in the final analysis conservatives, and wary of radicals. As a very centrist Democrat, Hillary is on the balance MORE tuned to conservative American politics than Trump.

In fact, I have to wonder how much of the Trump tamasha that has completely eaten up the Republican discourse is pure AAP-style media management, and whose hand might lie behind it.

Did you know that Chelsea Clinton (Bill/Hillary's daughter) and Ivanka Trump (Donald's daughter) are the best of friends, like Hillary-Huma level bum chums? IIRC Chelsea did an internship at one of Donald Trump's companies after graduating from college.

The more I observe, the clearer it becomes that the stalking-horse theory is accurate. Trump is an old pal of Hillary's who has effectively taken over and sabotaged the GOP so that she (deservingly the least liked, least trusted Presidential candidate in living memory) gets a walk-over to the White House.

chanakyaa · Post by **chanakyaa** » 25 Oct 2016 04:30

+1 RDji. DT pretty much cleared the Republican field to give HRC a easy ride to WH. If you ask traditional republican voters, they are still in denial that DT took them for ride (fooled) emphatically stating that anything can happen. Lots of lawsuits, Bush-Gore style are expected to create an impression that DT lost b'cas of polling fraud...

DT's real estate org in the meantime has changed the name of hotel names from Trump to Scion or something. Bad brand does not sell well.

I don't agree with HRC bad for India (or can do as much damage as before). Things could very well be moving towards Billery's America but it ain't Manmohan's India.

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 25 Oct 2016 05:52

Hmmm! My respect for Al Obama just went up.

Obama: Issa 'not somebody who is serious about working on problems

President Barack Obama directed harsh criticism at Rep. Darrell Issa at a fundraiser Sunday in La Jolla, California, claiming the former House Oversight Committee chairman's "primary contribution to the US Congress has been to obstruct and to waste taxpayer dollars on trumped up investigations that have led nowhere."
Issa hit back at Obama, accusing the President of failing to take accountability "for the serious scandals that happened under his watch," in a statement emailed to CNN Monday morning.

"I'm disappointed but not surprised that the president, in a political speech, continues to deny accountability for the serious scandals that happened under his watch where Americans died overseas and veterans have died here at home," Issa said. "You'd be hard pressed to find anyone who thinks I've done too much to hold Washington accountable. I've worked with the administration on good legislation where it was possible, and called out wrongdoing wherever I saw it, and will continue to do so."
Issa later told Fox News: "He's making a big deal over something that I'm a little surprised that he's punching down, but he is."
Obama lashed out at Issa, who after years of challenging the President, is now touting his cooperation with the White House in a campaign mailer featuring an Obama photo. The Democratic candidate challenging Issa for his Southern California district -- Doug Applegate -- was in attendance at the $10,000-a-plate-and-up fundraiser.
"This is now a guy who because (Donald) Trump's poll numbers are bad has sent of brochures with my picture on them touting his cooperation on issues with me," Obama said. "That is the definition of chutzpah. Here's a guy who called my administration perhaps the most corrupt in history."

Gagan · Post by **Gagan** » 25 Oct 2016 06:00

UB ji
Are u on Twitter?

Gus · Post by **Gus** » 25 Oct 2016 06:18

So Trump is winning, except he is not. He is an outsider, except he is not. He will put Hilary in jail except he is her friend. He is a brilliant business guy, except he is worth less than what he should have considering where he started. He is a victim like bill Cosby, except he is not. Or is he.

I mean are you folks going to make up your mind on him?

habal · Post by **habal** » 25 Oct 2016 07:34

Fact is nobody has a clue what is going to happen on election day. Not the pollsters or anybody else.

Hillary doesn't offer a new path, except for more confrontation and resulting log jam.

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 25 Oct 2016 07:41

I am unanimous on this.

Mort Walker · Post by **Mort Walker** » 25 Oct 2016 09:10

Rudradev wrote:For the record. Here is what I said wayyyy back on January 27, 2016.

viewtopic.php?p=1972644#p1972644

My belief at this time is that Trump is not going to win the Presidential Election. He may well win the Republican nomination but the way he is going about it will divide the Republican base itself, perhaps to an extent that cannot be repaired in time for a consolidated vote in November.

It is not merely a question of pandering to the "far right" of the Republican Party (that's OK, in fact it is needed because of how the Caucus/Primary system works in the US). It is that Trump is cultivating a section of the Republican Party that even the traditional far-right (Evangelicals, Anti-Regulation Fiscal Ultraconservatives, etc.) do not identify with and may not fully trust... a sort of extremely frustrated Middle American equivalent of the Indian AAP voters, driven by emotions over logic, who have no idea what they actually want and agree only about all the things that really pi$$ them off.

Hillary could not have picked a better Republican candidate to face off against. The swing vote at the center of gravity will not go with Trump when it comes right down to it... whereas traditional Republicans would surely have backed a Ted Cruz or a Marco Rubio over Hillary, they are in the final analysis conservatives, and wary of radicals. As a very centrist Democrat, Hillary is on the balance MORE tuned to conservative American politics than Trump.

In fact, I have to wonder how much of the Trump tamasha that has completely eaten up the Republican discourse is pure AAP-style media management, and whose hand might lie behind it.

Did you know that Chelsea Clinton (Bill/Hillary's daughter) and Ivanka Trump (Donald's daughter) are the best of friends, like Hillary-Huma level bum chums? IIRC Chelsea did an internship at one of Donald Trump's companies after graduating from college.
The more I observe, the clearer it becomes that the stalking-horse theory is accurate. Trump is an old pal of Hillary's who has effectively taken over and sabotaged the GOP so that she (deservingly the least liked, least trusted Presidential candidate in living memory) gets a walk-over to the White House.

This is what I've been saying. It is a Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale type situation where IG put him up to it, but it took off on its own momentum in a bad direction. This time BC and DT meeting late summer 2015 and who knows what they discussed? The US establishment has done this before. The US ambassador to Iraq gives Saddam the green light to invade Kuwait, only to take him out later. Similarly offering amnesty and normalizing relations with Qdaafi and Libya, then orchestrating a coup against him.

Gus · Post by **Gus** » 25 Oct 2016 09:29

This is fantastic. All along folks were posting that he is thus no nonsense straight talker who just says it like it is and will put an end to Hilary or "deep state" shenanigans and all these allegations were by the "deep state" putting him down blah blah.

Now we learn that he was put up to this by bill clinton.

This is like that stupid lost series where the writers just started inventing plot twists to explain away incongruous and inconvenient stuff

Manish_Sharma · Post by **Manish_Sharma** » 25 Oct 2016 12:20

A ray of light in utmost darkness :

Professor Who Predicted Last Five Elections Says Trump Has 87% Chance of Winning

Helmut Norpoth still confident despite polls showing Hillary ahead
Paul Joseph Watson - October 24, 2016

Political science professor Helmut Norpoth, who has accurately called the results of the last five presidential elections, still asserts that Donald Trump has an 87% chance of defeating Hillary Clinton despite Clinton being ahead in the polls.

Norpoth’s model has correctly predicted the outcome of the popular vote for every election since 1996, including the 2000 race where Al Gore won the popular vote but George W. Bush took the presidency.

“It usually turns out that the candidate who does better in his party’s primary beats the other guy who does less well,” said Norpoth, adding that Trump’s margin of victory in New Hampshire and South Carolina compared to Clinton (who lost in New Hampshire) was crucial to his model.

The other factor is the “swing of the pendulum,” which makes it far more likely for a change of government if one party has been in power for two terms.

Norpoth said he has gone “all in” on a Donald Trump victory and is sticking with his bet.

“There are also quite a few colleagues of mine who have a prediction that Trump is going to make it,” added the professor.

Many Trump supporters are now claiming that the media narrative that the election result is a foregone conclusion is a trick designed to convince potential Trump voters to stay home on November 8.

A confidential memo allegedly obtained from Correct The Record, a Democratic Super PAC, reveals a plan to “barrage” voters with high frequency polls that show Hillary ahead in order to “declare election over,” while avoiding any mention of the Brexit vote (which completely contradicted polls that said Brexit would fail).

Emails revealed by Wikileaks show how Democratic operatives planned to encourage “oversamples for polling” in order to “maximize what we get out of our media polling.” In other words, sample more Democrats than Republicans in order to make people believe that Hillary’s lead is far greater than the reality of a tight race.

Norpoth’s forecast of a Trump victory mirrors what’s taking place in the betting markets, with British bookmakers William Hill revealing last week that 65% of all bets on the market have backed Trump to win the election, a similar phenomenon to what happened before the Brexit vote, where the polls were proven completely wrong.

http://www.infowars.com/professor-who-p ... f-winning/

Viv S · Post by **Viv S** » 25 Oct 2016 12:58

Trump’s Biggest Vulnerability Is Trump

Hillary Clinton may be the first candidate in American history to win a contest of personalities without having one.

She has been content to make the election all about Donald Trump’s character, and Trump has obliged because, really, what else would he consider as fascinating and important as himself?

In a more normal year, Obamacare would be a byword for the failures of liberal technocrat rule. Insurers have been exiting the exchanges, and many of those that are staying are hiking premiums by 20 percent or more. Even a Democratic governor, Mark Dayton of Minnesota, has said that Obamacare is “no longer affordable to increasing numbers of people.”

In a more conventional election, President Barack Obama’s foreign policy would be under relentless assault. The Russian reset is in flames. Syria is Obama’s Rwanda. Iran, with its nuclear program intact, is making a bid for regional hegemony. ISIS established its caliphate in the space created by Obama’s passivity.

In any other campaign, the economy would be front and center, and the slowest recovery in the post–World War II period a constant flashpoint. Instead, none of these issues have had the resonance of Donald Trump’s early-hours Twitter war with a former Miss Universe, or even his aside in the third debate that Hillary Clinton is a “nasty woman.” And these have been third-tier controversies, compared with the ones that have truly rocked the campaign, such as Trump’s post-convention fight with the Khan family and the airing of the Access Hollywood tape.

It’s not as though Trump doesn’t talk about the issues. But nothing besides his core of immigration and trade has the force to escape the extreme gravitational pull of his persona, which is outsized, compelling, and — in a presidential campaign — ripe for deconstruction.

If Trump is defeated in November, he will lose, more than anything else, on the basis of his character flaws. His lack of discipline. His thin skin. His boastfulness. His refusal to admit error, even when it’s in his interest. His inability to project seriousness or to hit a grace note. The Clinton campaign has exploited them all, and Trump, ever himself, has lacked the self-awareness or wherewithal to keep from playing to type every single time.

The so-called beer test is the usual personality metric in presidential politics. Which candidate would you prefer to share a cold one with? Hillary’s campaign has worked instead to make the personality benchmark the “nuclear code” test. Which candidate would you prefer to have his or her finger on the button? It is meant to portray Trump’s outrageousness as affirmatively dangerous, and cast her own persona — which belongs in the same leaden category as Al Gore or Michael Dukakis — in the best possible light.

No candidate who has had such a seemingly commanding lead in a presidential race has ever been so little in evidence as Hillary Clinton. She is winning a presidential election when politics isn’t her strength because she can rely on surrogates to do much of the campaigning (especially Barack and Michelle Obama) while she raises the money to feed the massive Democratic political apparatus. Otherwise, she tries to stay out of her own way — with some mixed success — and counts on Trump to soak up all the attention.

And so he does. His “closing argument” speech over the weekend started with a threat to sue his accusers that inevitably drove all the press coverage. Any other candidate would want to change the subject from the accusations, but not Trump, who can never let a damaging controversy go, even two weeks before the election.

In the primaries, Trump displayed an uncanny ability to understand and target the vulnerabilities of his opponents. But he either never understood, or didn’t care to minimize, his own. This is why he chose to make the election about the single hardest thing for him to defend effectively, namely Donald J. Trump. —

Rich Lowry is the editor of National Review. He can be reached via e-mail: [email protected].

Viv S · Post by **Viv S** » 25 Oct 2016 13:06

sooraj wrote:For all Trump fans

Compilation video of Donald Trump's views and opinions being consistent over the past 30 years.

Gus · Post by **Gus** » 25 Oct 2016 14:47

Manish_Sharma wrote:A ray of light in utmost darkness :

Professor Who Predicted Last Five Elections Says Trump Has 87% Chance of Winning

http://www.infowars.com/professor-who-p ... f-winning/

yes. a ray of light. shone by the folks from info wars from alex jones.

who also bring you

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please..give it a rest.

Manish_Sharma · Post by **Manish_Sharma** » 25 Oct 2016 14:52

Gus wrote:
yes. a ray of light. shone by the folks from info wars from alex jones.

who also bring you

BRAIN FORCE

Flip the switch and supercharge your state of mind with Brain Force the next generation of neural activation from Infowars Life.

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please..give it a rest.

Gus, I am posting with civility without ever making a personal comment about you or any other hilary supporters.

These personal attacks you are starting, for the record I am letting it pass this once. Next time I will start abusing back....