Her name was Neerja Bhanot, and she’s credited with saving 360 lives. She alerted the pilots of the terrorists and they escaped, so the plane couldn’t take off. She hid passports to save Americans, the terrorists’ primary targets. After 17 hours, the terrorists opened fire, and she lost her life when she used her body to shield children from the bullets. She is a hero, and I’m all for people recognizing her.
Her name was Neerja Bhanot, and she’s credited with saving 360 lives. She alerted the pilots of the terrorists and they escaped, so the plane couldn’t take off. She hid passports to save Americans, the terrorists’ primary targets. After 17 hours, the terrorists opened fire, and she lost her life when she used her body to shield children from the bullets. She is a hero, and I’m all for people recognizing her.
Hillary Clinton is UNQUESTIONABLY guilty of (at least) misdemeanor handling of national security items (Brian Nishimura calling) and benefited because the FBI has judged IT does not want to EVER be perceived as altering a presidential election (that’s the best case, people).
Hillary Clinton has INSTITUTIONALLY fudged the line in the best power and money tradition of the USA from Teapot Dome and Tammany Hall to Watergate.
Hillary Clinton has NO IDEA strategically of how to defeat militant Islam, except to accelerate what Obama has already failed at, and CONTINUES, as late as yesterday to reveal to the enemy what she will never do.
Hillary Clinton puts the mothers of killed criminals on the podium of the national convention of her party to rouse RACIAL ILL feeling (as Obama has done, rather than bring us together and LEAD us to that point), and weeks later a race riot breaks out in Milwaukee in which leaders urge the mob to get to ‘white burbs’ to burn them down.
Hillary Clinton ALSO puts the unfortunate, broken hearted father of an American hero on the podium to prove that Americans who happen to be Muslims are loyal Americans also, but a man who ALSO has written and spoken that the Quran and Sharia are above the Constitution for practicing Muslims.
This is the person who, as of right now is OBLITERATING Trump.
Why?
At a party this past Saturday night I listened to a small crowd which included several university political history FULL professors at a major state university. They are regularly published professors in the NEWSPAPERS.
Not once was any POLICY difference mentioned. All the animus towards Trump (and it was unanimous) was PERSONAL.
Trump has, unless an outside event occurs, HAD his SIGNIFYING moment.
We may have Wikileaks obliterate Clinton, but now, she also may be able to withstand it.
At this moment FL is close, and Trump is losing every other key state, and he is behind in FL.
There is time but I see now **no sign** of Trump being able to MANAGE this situation. There is OPEN talk on national talk radio BY ANNOUNCERS that his behavior is so inexplicable that perhaps he really IS trying to get Clinton elected. Call after call of Trump voters express anger with Trump for not putting the NATION above his personal pique.
So instead, we are going to get the person who matches the INCREDIBLE list that began this read?
You have FAILED. You are all members of an elitist, and by FACT, FAILED political class.
Your dunning is the scare tactic of FAILURES
‘We failures, being failures, cannot abide the idea of some other set of ideas we cannot comprehend and scaring us, scaring others, and resulting in scenarios we have failed and cannot predict, control or figure out.’
These people are, as a group, one ROBERT GHORMLEY to Trump’s EJ King
This nation, in foreign policy has UNQUESTIONABLY declined since 2001.
Afghanistan - FAIL
Iraq- FAIL
Iran - FAIL
KSA - despises us and has no respect
Japan - worried we are undependable
China - challenges us without fear in every manner
Australia - openly considering if their future lies with China and not WESTERN IDEALS, and the USA
Israel - seeking better allies, but temporarily stuck, and MAY end up with China
Egypt - gone to Russia after we favored those who HATE US, the Muslim Brotherhood
Russia - resurgent in brutal manners with neighbors (Crimea, UKR), loss of respect for NATO, making closer alliances with BOTH Iran and Israel (high end, high tech DRONES, anyone?), moved BACK into the middle east as Obama FAILED UTTERLY in making the ‘RED LINE’ then abandoning it
CIA - FAIL with Iran NIE of 2007, FAIL with caving in on Benghazi talking points as Director Morrel PERSONALLY writes fictional talking points for Susan Rice for the express purpose of lying to the entire USA, and now endorses the ultimate product of this long list of FAIL, HRC.
WMD in IRAQ - FAIL
FAIL, FAIL ,FAIL and they have the gall to imagine their ‘gravitas’ should bear consequence.
Hip hip hooray for Kenya Barris, creator of TV’s “Blackish”, a genuinely very funny of an American family, that happens to be black, you know, un-diverse in a way unlike most of you.
If you are really that idiotic, Trump, you don’t deserve it.
The Khan’s, REALLY?
REALLY?
Sometimes growing a pair mean shutting that trap.
This is judo. If I am Hillary Clinton, my debate masters right now are working on triggering Trump phrases to allow you to commit suicide on LIVE TV.
And then we get HER.
So if you are serious Mr, Trump, try to figure out that every frickin‘ assault on your persona is NOT AN ARGUMENT YOU HAVE TO WIN by making fools out of the opposition accusers
What you SHOULD have responded, was that your heart could break for the Khan’s, and it is to protect Muslims like them, AMERICANS through and through, that your intentions and plans are to prevent immigration and ‘visits’ by those who cannot be differentiated from the Khan’s ..who you would be pleased to live near, and “then will I share with you the last cracker and watch with you to shield
your homes and families against danger from every quarter“.
In 1933 the Oxford Union held the following debate:
RESOLVED “that this House will in no circumstances fight for its King and Country”
It passed.
Of course, the bitter results of that ignorance followed as we know them.
In 1934 the Liberal MP Robert Bernays described how a Nazi youth leader had asked him about the debate:
There was an ugly gleam in his eye when he said ‘The fact is that you English are soft’.
Compare this now with Lord Mottistone who in 1944 claimed, in the Lords:
no one who was in Malta or in the Middle East will deny… that the young men at Oxford who passed that resolution very nearly decreed the downfall of Britain and her Empire.
It is often said TODAY that perception IS reality. It is not what things are, but what we MAKE OF THEM
Was Churchill some dark character to accurately predict what followed?
Others who are laughing at the twisted, DESPERATE pretzel logic of the that party’s claim Trump committed treason out of his sarcastic ridicule of Hillary and her servers.
Other nations and planners OBSERVE, and they recognize the objective reality at that chant, which occurred when Panetta disturbed the ‘wah’ of the convention by having the foolishness to mention the octogenarian priest beheaded during mass the DAY BEFORE (referencing ALL that has preceded it by doing so..silly warmongering man).
In 2001 more Americans were killed by a foreign force than died at Pear Harbor. Our reaction and mission creep diluted the response we had, and now, with atrocities being committed nearly every day the democratic party chants “NO MORE WAR”
In this world there is only one way to end war.
I knew what I was doing when I stopped the war that would have killed a half a million youngsters on both sides if those bombs had not been dropped. I have no regrets and, under the same circumstances, I would do it again – and this letter is not confidential.
Harry S Truman (liberal, big spending, New Dealer)
I don’t MAKE UP these rules because I like them.
I observe them to be harsh reality, and know the other choices are FAR WORSE.
I used to think these people could, at times be right in the center, and be objective.
I have no such hopes, now and going forward, and I cannot imagine what it would take to restore faith in their ABILITY to be objective.
Yesterday they published a ‘we can never endorse this fascist‘ editorial…
The real estate tycoon is uniquely unqualified to serve as president, in experience and temperament. He is mounting a campaign of snarl and sneer, not substance. To the extent he has views, they are wrong in their diagnosis of America’s problems and dangerous in their proposed solutions. Mr. Trump’s politics of denigration and division could strain the bonds that have held a diverse nation together. His contempt for constitutional norms might reveal the nation’s two-century-old experiment in checks and balances to be more fragile than we knew.
Any one of these characteristics would be disqualifying; together, they make Mr. Trump a peril. We recognize that this is not the usual moment to make such a statement. In an ordinary election year, we would acknowledge the Republican nominee, move on to the Democratic convention and spend the following months, like other voters, evaluating the candidates’ performance in debates, on the stump and in position papers.
This year we will follow the campaign as always, offering honest views on all the candidates.
But we cannot salute the Republican nominee or pretend that we might endorse him this fall. A Trump presidency would be dangerous for the nation and the world.
What was their reasoning?
One example:
“In a dangerous world, Mr. Trump speaks blithely of abandoning NATO”
Of course when the full transcript of the NY Times interview was published Mr. Trump was ADMONISHING certain NATO members, who depend on the USA to guard their independence, to ensure they fulfill the obligations the alliance requires and NOT TAKE ADVANTAGE of American taxpayers.
It’s called NEGOTIATION
But this is twisted into “blithely of abandoning NATO???
Perhaps this kind of ‘editorial’ contortions of facts is why Trump threw WaPo out.
On Asia, is there anyone who can deny that Japan’s (and others) resurgence was due to the American taxpayer paying to watch over them during the 50′s-80′s? And of course during this time they had EXTREMELY HIGH import barriers (and domestic salaries to match) to allow themselves to grow? And they were smart and admirable to do so. Mr. Trump wants to ensure we are as adroit.
Republicans have criticized President Obama for “apologizing” for America and for weakening alliances. Now they put forward a candidate who mimics the vilest propaganda of authoritarian adversaries about how terrible the United States is and how unfit it is to lecture others.
Trump is VILE. Get it? Of course his position that we should not lecture others took place AFTER cop shootings, demonstrations proposing cop killings, and then before OTHER cop shootings, amid claims cops are killing black Americans and feeling impunity about it, and in fact was the EXACT position regarding lecturing and acting against others as one JQ Adams (at the least).
Worse, he doesn’t seem to care about its limitations on executive power. He has threatened that those who criticize him will suffer when he is president. He has vowed to torture suspected terrorists and bomb their innocent relatives, no matter the illegality of either act. He has vowed to constrict the independent press.
Well, WaPo, it seems you care about out of control executive power if Mr. Obama is not president, or some other dependable member of the political class who plays by rules you understand. Does the self arrogating, self extending power of the EPA bother you? Hello? If we declare war does this now mean the fates of Dresden and Yokohama and Tokyo are illegal? Or is this really that you might be found guilty of libel as this editorial flirts with? When you said “blithely of abandoning NATO” was this malice, knowing what he certainly said and undeniably meant?
I have problems with Mr. Trump, some major, but they PALE in comparison to the COMPLETELY disconnected WaPo editorial board, Hillary Clinton and her past, and the out of control executive branch of the govt.
I really HATE the idea I am done with WaPo, and will be cancelling the online and Kindle subscriptions I have, but your editorial, well …it’s distortions, purposeful, self serving, self identifying you as an arch-member of the political class which only knows it‘s own echo chambers values and expertise … was VILE and worse still, makes it OBVIOUS that this:
“This year we will follow the campaign as always, offering honest views on all the candidates.“
is a self deluded lie at best, and a purposeful treatment of voters as SCHMUCKS as a middle case.
I’ll find other sources to manage the search to vet claims in the news.
“terrible that someone abuses the opportunity to find protection here”
German Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann after a Syrian refugee chopped up a woman with a machete and then another detonated a suicide bomb trying to enter a concert all in one day
Fella, THEY AREN’T THE ONLY ONES KILLING THEMSELVES
These people did NOT flee to Germany to find protection.
Don’t engage in tortuous denial ‘logic’ with ‘depressed suicide’ ..HE HAD A BOMB, or crazy lover..Germany has a culture
They are killers who slipped in WITH those who wanted to find protection, and YOU can’t tell the difference. Since you insist on continuing there are several consequences.
You will continue to get this lesson over and over, and possibly FATALLY damage your society
The people of the USA will begin to wonder as to the ACTUAL value of NATO since you will not take SIMPLE, TEMPORARY, if unpleasant, action to defend your nations (not just get more active in demanding ALL NATO nations spend 2% of GDP .. as we ponder dropping NATO allotments to that). How much MORE unpleasant will it be to defend a strategically difficult to defend Estonia against 2 of Ivan’s mechanized armies over a longer period?
The people of the USA will wonder as to the wisdom of allowing EU nations’ passports free access to the USA without visa application and investigation.
Links lead to BOTH analysis and content of DNC emails showing DEPTH of cooperation/corruption between media, and HRC to destroy Sanders (get ready for Trump cooperation?)
NY Times:
NOTHING
WaPo:
Story on division contains references to the effect of emails, and no analysis of what DNC did or content
CBS News:
NOTHING
NBC News:
Minor pic link leads to similar exposition as does WaPo, and stops there
ABC News:
Major Feature but again with analysis of effect, and no reference to actual content.
Anyone wonder how Melania speech gaffe/copy was covered?
In 1992, while still a law student at Yale, Jones participated as a volunteer legal monitor for a protest of the Rodney King verdict in San Francisco. He and many other participants in the protest were arrested. The district attorney later dropped the charges against Jones. The arrested protesters, including Jones, won a small legal settlement. Jones later said that “the incident deepened my disaffection with the system and accelerated my political radicalization.” In October 2005 Jones said he was “a rowdy nationalist on April 28th” before the King verdict was announced, but that by August of that year (1992) he was a communist
When he graduated from law school, Jones gave up plans to take a job in Washington, D.C., and moved to San Francisco instead.[12] He became a member of a “socialist collective” called Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM) that protested against police brutality.
THEN:
On March 10, 2009, it was announced that Jones would serve as Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
His position with the Obama Administration was described by columnist Chadwick Matlin as “switchboard operator for Obama’s grand vision of the American economy; connecting the phone lines between all the federal agencies invested in a green economy.”
In September 2009, a video on YouTube was circulated of a February 2009 lecture at the Berkeley Energy and Resources Collaborative at which Jones used strong language to refer to Congressional Republican lawmakers, and himself, when conveying that Democrats need to step up the fight. Jones was asked how Republicans could manage to pass measures through the Senate without a supermajority, yet Democrats, with 58 votes of their own, were being blocked by Republicans. Jones explained, “Well, the answer to that is, they’re assholes. As a technical, political kind of term. And Barack Obama is not an asshole. Now, I will say this: I can be an asshole, and some of us who are not Barack Hussein Obama, are going to have to start getting a little bit uppity.
Then-Representative, now Governor Mike Pence (R-Indiana), the chairman of the Republican Conference in the U.S. House of Representatives, and Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas), Chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, publicly criticized Jones, while Senator Kit Bond (R-Missouri) urged Congress to investigate Jones’ "fitness” for the position.
He was forced to resign.
THAT VAN JONES
In what world is a Van Jones, a communist who is against every idea of John Adams and the founders regarding property and entrepreneurship QUALIFIED in any way to be a political analyst and PAID by corporations thru commercials to spread this venom?