… a little debate history from 56 years ago…. some post-debate advice from Eleanor Roosevelt to JFK:
Presidential Debate #1 Post Mortem – Trump’s Glass Jaw
Clinton won hands down. That is the consensus of anyone not fiendishly loyal to Trump. How did she win? She let Trump be Trump. Which, as it turns out, was Trump’s strategy. As might be gleaned from my Tweets there was not a lot of substance and policy sadly from Clinton, although it was clear that Clinton HAD policies and … Read More
Why You Can Blame The Media If Clinton Loses
The Shorenstein Center’s Thomas Patterson has analyzed Hillary Clinton’s press coverage during the month of the two political conventions. He presents his findings today in the LA Times: If Clinton loses, blame the email controversy and the media My analysis of media coverage in the four weeks surrounding both parties’ national conventions found that her use of a private email … Read More
Trump and Clinton Neck and Neck in NC
Yeah, it is exciting to be in a semi-big swing state. The candidates keep coming through. It’s like the New Hampshire primaries in the old days. A new PPP poll on North Carolina came out this morning. Bottom line: Donald Trump 45, Hillary Clinton 43, Gary Johnson 6. Clinton/Trump head to head is tied at 47: That’s okay news since Trump … Read More
Dear Glenn Greenwald
Dear Glenn Greenwald: I read your article in The Intercept which basically asserts hypocrisy on the part of Democrats/Obama when it comes to Putin. You are correct in pointing out that Obama himself suggested a “reset” with Russia, that Obama did not want to go to war with Russia over that country’s invasion of the Crimea, and that Obama suggested … Read More
The Latest Faux Clinton Scandal
Seriously? Earpiece? #CrookedHillary pic.twitter.com/6LqxRGTgA5 — James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) September 8, 2016 This originated with Alex Jones at Infowars. It’s now on Drudge. Watch the mainstream media talk about how her earring has “raised questions” in 3…2….1…. UPDATE: Aaaaand less than 20 minutes after my initial post, Fox News bites down hard. It’s source? A website nobody has ever heard of…
Last Night’s Commander-in-Chief Candidate Forum
Last night, the two presidential candidates — Trump and Clinton — met with NBC’s Matt Lauer for a live interview on the U.S.S. Intrepid in front of an audience of military veterans to discuss issues of interest to those veterans. It was, by most accounts, a shitstorm. Matt Lauer was not biased, so much as he was unprepared. Jonathan Chait … Read More
BREAKING SCANDAL: Bill Clinton Did A Thing That Wasn’t A Scandal As It Turns Out!
Here’s the front-page headline from Monday’s Washington Post: Inside Bill Clinton’s nearly $18 million job as ‘honorary chancellor’ of a for-profit college And here’s the first sentence of the fifth paragraph: There is no evidence that Laureate received special favors from the State Department in direct exchange for hiring Bill Clinton…. And this from the 26th paragraph: Clinton’s contract with … Read More
62 Days And Counting
Summer is over. Labor Day has past. And now, says conventional wisdom, is when people start paying attention to the election. So where are we? Well, we were all greeted this morning with a bunch of polls, including a 50-state poll from NBC/SurveyMonkey. Several of them are grabbing headlines, most notably, the CNN/ORC poll (rated A- by 538.com) which has … Read More
Trump/Bondi And The Media Double Standard
Here is a timeline of events for your consideration. All of these events took place in 2013: Mid-late August: Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi “personally solicited a political contribution from Donald Trump” “several weeks” before Bondi’s “office publicly announced it was deliberating whether to join a multi-state lawsuit proposed by New York’s Democratic attorney general.” September 10: In an unusual … Read More
The Clinton Campaign’s Response
Let’s be real. Trump was a coward. Every rally he would bake a huge blustery deal about making Mexico pay for his Wall. But when he got to Mexico, Trump went silent when he actually met face to face with the President. He apparently even to lied about the issue even coming up in their meeting. But it came up according to … Read More
“It Was Better In The Original German”
Many people are saying that last night’s “Immigration Policy” speech by Trump in Phoenix Arizona was historical. I’m one of those people. Just WHY it was historical is a point of contention. To me, the speech was historical because it contained the 21st century version of some of the worst ills of the world’s past. Divisiveness and demagoguery. Mad red0faced … Read More
Breaking: Big Victory For Voter Rights — No Voter ID In Upcoming NC Elections
NC voter ID law will NOT be enforced in fall election after the U.S. Supreme Court denies stay request (in a 4-4 split — obviously, had Scalia lived, it would have been a loss for voting rights advocates, but he didn’t so……) The stay was a request by Republican Gov. Pat McCrory and state officials to delay a permanent injunction blocking provisions in … Read More