Clinton Up 6 on Trump in Two-Way Race in Bloomberg National Poll

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Jeanne_S said:
America is a melting pot of cultures as is evidenced by all the “little Italy’s” "Chinatownes,etc.We celebrate and enjoy the many different cultures.Yet it seems that many of the newer immigrants want to hold fast to their native language as well.English is our predominant language.To not expect an immigrant to fully assimilate to our Countryby becoming proficient in the English language is a cause for chaos and disunity.
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I now read that language is a dialect with an army.

And English has many.
 
Millie123 said:
Yeah but people are complaning of more than just language…what is wrong with Taco trucks, Mexican television, mexican heritage groups. I do agree that it is ideal that they learn English, but I also truly don’t see anything wrong with naturalized US citizens maintaining their spanish language with their family and friends and cultural groups that they are members of. There are times when I wish my grandfather passed on his Italian language onto me, I have respect and honor for his heritage which is also mine. I still remember his giddiness when I went to mass with him at the age of 12, and there was a visiting Italian priest. They giddily spoke Italian together like old friends. My husband is teaching his own language to our son. That doesn’t make him any less American
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Of course not.What I meant to say is it seems many of the newer immigrants have no interest in learning to speak English rather they prefer to maintain their language of origin and that is a problem. My husband is a first generation immigrant from Germany.He came here in 1962 at the age of fourteen.He learned to speak the Emglush language,while maintaining his Getman language as well.
 
Jeanne_S said:
Of course not.What I meant to say is it seems many of the newer immigrants have no interest in learning to speak English rather they prefer to maintain their language of origin and that is a problem. My husband is a first generation immigrant from Germany.He came here in 1962 at the age of fourteen.He learned to speak the Emglush language,while maintaining his Getman language as well.
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Most children do learn the language of their new country. Most adults end up preferring the language of their youth and speak a broken version of the language of their new countries.

I remember reading a long time ago that we are most comfortable doing math and saying prayers in our mother language. Does your husband find this to be true?
 
Jeanne_S said:
Of course not.What I meant to say is it seems many of the newer immigrants have no interest in learning to speak English rather they prefer to maintain their language of origin and that is a problem. My husband is a first generation immigrant from Germany.He came here in 1962 at the age of fourteen.He learned to speak the Emglush language,while maintaining his Getman language as well.
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I think it depends on the family. I know that my great Italian grandmother never learned a word of English. My Italian great grandmother and my Russian grandmother never spoke a word of English to each other. My nepalese mother in law and myself have never spoke a word of English to eachother. There is strong possibility that we’ll be bringing her to the US to live with my husbands siblings and her grandchildren to live out her elderly years. Otherwise she may have to stay in Nepal and live alone, which is not a good option. Shes 70, are we going to stress to much about her learning English? No not at all, shes going to live her elderly years in US with her children, its a silly idea to force an elderly 70 year old woman to learn an entire new language when all she needs and wants is to live amongst her children. This language issue amongst immigrants has been an issue since the dawn of immigration to the US, it has been an issue from even before the immigration of my great grandparents to now. I know for some people it is a key voting issue for this election, but for me its not even a blip.
 
Little_Sheep said:
Hahahahaha! Thanks for the morning chuckle. 😃

Truth be told, the best thing Mr. Trump’s advisor’s could do for his campaign is shut down his Twitter account. The ongoing damage he does to his run via that platform is unbelievable.
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Then why is he closing in on Clinton?
 
Millie123 said:
I think it depends on the family. I know that my great Italian grandmother never learned a word of English. My Italian great grandmother and my Russian grandmother never spoke a word of English to each other. My nepalese mother in law and myself have never spoke a word of English to eachother. There is strong possibility that we’ll be bringing her to the US to live with my husbands siblings and her grandchildren to live out her elderly years. Otherwise she may have to stay in Nepal and live alone, which is not a good option. Shes 70, are we going to stress to much about her learning English? No not at all, shes going to live her elderly years in US with her children, its a silly idea to force an elderly 70 year old woman to learn an entire new language when all she needs and wants is to live amongst her children. This language issue amongst immigrants has been an issue since the dawn of immigration to the US, it has been an issue from even before the immigration of my great grandparents to now. I know for some people it is a key immigration voting issue for this election, but for me its not even a blip.
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There’s over 10 million people in the USA who speak a language at home that is not English or Spanish, and the Mass is said in 102 languages (at least) in the USA other than in English or Spanish.
 
SuperLuigi said:
There’s over 10 million people in the USA who speak a language at home that is not English or Spanish, and the Mass is said in 102 languages (at least) in the USA other than in English or Spanish.
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Excellent point I know in my parish alone they also offer masses once a month in Vietnamese, Swahili, Spanish…in addition to the english mass.
 
SuperLuigi said:
Then why is he closing in on Clinton?
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The polls are going to jump around a bit, of course. But “closing in” is not something I am seeing. Mr. Trump is many things but he is not the next President of our nation.
 
Thorolfr said:
She’s been fundraising for the rest of the campaign and raised $143 million in August.
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If my competitor were sinking his own campaign, I’d stay out of it too. Clinton is running a very traditional campaign, which means - as you point out - this was the time for fundraising. No one but us political junkies pays too much attention to the Presidential race until after Labor Day.
 
ProVobis said:
Speaking of which, has anyone seen her? Maybe Obama deported her too. 🙂
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Yes I saw her on television speaking to an American Legion convention in Cincinnati this week and according to her website’s scheduled events page she and Sen Kaine will be in Cleveland on Monday and she will also be in Illinois on Monday at Labor Day festivals. And as Thorolfr and Little Sheep have explained, she has been fundraising for the homestretch drive toward the White House to the tune of 143 million dollars for the month of August. Maybe not such a bad strategy in August when as Little Sheep explained not a lot of people are paying attention. They’re on end of summer vacations and getting ready for their children to go back to school.
 
_Abyssinia said:
Trump catches up to Clinton, latest Reuters/Ipsos poll finds

mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN1182PT

Per article, Trump 40, Clinton 39
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Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said he remains convinced Clinton is ahead, somewhere in the range seen among the polling aggregators.
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“There has been a closing that’s completely natural,” Sabato said. “Every four years, you have two national party conventions that produce a bounce of varying sizes. Clinton got a substantial bounce this year that lasted for a full month. It’s usually gone around Labor Day, and by then we’ll be where we should be, which is right around four to five points” for Clinton.
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Hillary Signed She Received Briefing on Classified Info, But Told FBI She Hadn’t
FBI: Hillary Clinton Lost Cell Phones with Classified Emails
FBI: Clinton withheld 17,500 emails
Clinton Told FBI She Couldn’t Recall Key Details 26 Times In interview with investigators Hillary struggled to recollect major briefings, especially after 2012 fall
Clinton told FBI she thought classified markings were alphabetical paragraphs
Below is the list of things Clinton could not recall in the FBI interview:
When she received security clearance
Being briefed on how to handle classified material
How many times she used her authority to designate items classified
Any briefing on how to handle very top-secret “Special Access Program” material
How to select a target for a drone strike
How the data from her mobile devices was destroyed when she switched devices
The number of times her staff was given a secure phone
Why she didn’t get a secure Blackberry
Receiving any emails she thought should not be on the private system
Did not remember giving staff direction to create private email account
Getting guidance from state on email policy
Who had access to her Blackberry account
The process for deleting her emails
Ever getting a message that her storage was almost full
Anyone besides Huma Abedin being offered an account on the private server
Being sent information on state government private emails being hacked
Receiving cable on State Dept personnel securing personal email accounts
Receiving cable on Bryan Pagliano upgrading her server
Using an iPad mini
An Oct. 13, 2012, email on Egypt with Clinton pal Sidney Blumenthal
Jacob Sullivan using personal email
State Department protocol for confirming classified information in media reports
Every briefing she received after suffering concussions
Being notified of a FOIA request on Dec. 11, 2012
Being read out of her clearance
Any further access to her private email account from her State Department tenure after switching to her HRCoffice.com account
 
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