Hillary Clinton to keep, and apologized for, calling half of Donald Trump supporters “a basket of deplorables.” Setting aside the lousy optics of criticizing a quarter of the voters, what’s up with that weird phrase? What American would ever use it?
They Have So Much Due Process in Common
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Rodrigo Duterte, President of the Philippines, is the villainous violent thug who campaigned on a promise to murder 100,000 criminals. He has already started on his program of genocide by having the police shoot hundreds of street-level drug dealers. Now he is scheduled to meet with Barack Obama, who plans to lecture him on human rights and extrajudicial killings. The problem is, Obama doesn’t have the moral authority to do so.
This is How Stupid Americans Are
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Want to know exactly how stupid American voters are? For months, especially since he secured the Republican nomination, the media has been urging Donald Trump to stop saying nasty things and to start acting more presidential, like a normal presidential candidate. What if he agrees to do so? Should we forget all the nasty stuff that he said before? No matter what he does, everyone hears what they want to hear.
Hillary’s Big Media Dump
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On the Friday before Labor Day weekend, the New York Times broke news that might have ended the candidacy of Hillary Clinton â if it had been released at a time when people might be paying attention. As it happens, the house organ of the Hillary Clinton campaign released a classic media dump that exposed her as corrupt and wallowing in criminal behavior. If a scandal falls in the woods, does it make a sound?
A Mandate for Nothing
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Hillary Clinton is currently expecting a landslide victory over Donald Trump. Her lead so big the Democrats even have a decent chance of recapturing the Senate. But she hasn’t campaign on a single signature issue. There isn’t a single major program that she has pushed for. So what would she do with her mandate?
A Choice of Temperament
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Clinton’s campaign is running a hard-hitting add reminiscent of the classic 1964 anti-Goldwater “Daisy” ad. Going after him based on his temperament, the ad implies that he might accidentally start a war because of his hot temper. Interestingly, the one quote that they emphasize is one that she would be very likely to agree with.
The Choice
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As Donald Trump’s campaign reaches out to African-Americans, Latinos and other minorities he has alienated with his nativist rhetoric, black voters are faced with a choice between two candidates, neither of whom seems to genuinely care about them or their problems.
Alt-Center
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What used to be known as the lunatic right wing fringe of the Republican Party is now called the “alt-right.” They’ve been greatly legitimized under the Donald Trump campaign, something that the Hillary Clinton campaign has been pointing out a lot lately. On the really terrible policies that they espouse, there is frighteningly little daylight between them and the Clinton campaign.
If We Did Other Things The Way That We Vote
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A lot of people don’t want to vote for a third-party candidate like Jill Stein or Gary Johnson because they believe their vote will be “wasted.” But they don’t apply the same logic to most other things in life, many of which involve setting yourself apart from the herd.
If You Say So
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Ignoring the Bernie Sanders wing of the Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton campaign is making moves to appeal to anti-trump Republicans. That, they believe, is where the party â or at least their candidacy â has room to grow. But if a Democrat sounds and looks and acts and boats like a Republican, is it really a Democrat?
