Donald Trump attacks Hillary Clinton as wins set stage for brutal election

[Peter_J]

I just know that RealClearPolitics has Trump’s rating at 29.4% favorable, 64.5% unfavorable.

 

[HolyCrusader007]

I thought it was interesting that an Afgani American diplomat introduced Trump today at a foreign policy speech.

If only Trump had positive views of Mexicans and Muslims I might just vote for Trump. Trump is right to call the Iraq war a mistake, we should not have gotten rid of Saddam. Saddam kept Iraq together and the # 2 guy under Saddam was a Christian.

 

[tomarin]

I’ve never felt so hesitant about voting for the Democratic candidate since I voted for Jimmy Carter in his first term, and that was before he proved his incompetence. But in the present election, who else can I vote for: Trump or Cruz?

Jimmy Carter is actually starting to look pretty good …

 

[Thorolfr]

Well, Cruz did make the astonishing promise that, if elected, he would lower taxes! However, Trump promised to destroy ISIS. So the electorate is faced with a real dilemma.

Time for my medication…

I especially like this part about Trumps healthcare proposal:

Block-grant Medicaid to the states. Nearly every state already offers benefits beyond what is required in the current Medicaid structure. The state governments know their people best and can manage the administration of Medicaid far better without federal overhead. States will have the incentives to seek out and eliminate fraud, waste and abuse to preserve our precious resources.

donaldjtrump.com/positions/healthcare-reform

We already know what a good job states like Mississippi are doing so why not give them even more leeway to do their own thing:

Demographically, Mississippi is already at a disadvantage. A black man in Mississippi has a shorter life expectancy than the average American did in 1960. The state has an obesity rate of 35 percent, one of the highest poverty rates in the country.

Healthcare in Mississippi and in other Southern states is unlikely to become more equitable anytime soon, however. As the study authors note, 16 of the states in the bottom half of the ranking have opted not to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act to adults making up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level [Mississippi was one].

In Mississippi, for example, “Medicaid eligibility for non-disabled adults is limited to parents with incomes below 29 percent of poverty, or about $6,800 a year for a family of four, and adults without dependent children remain ineligible regardless of their income,” as the Kaiser Family Foundation points out.

Those Mississippians making between 100 percent of the federal poverty level, or $23,850 for a family of four, and 400 percent, can qualify for subsidies to buy health insurance on the exchanges. But 30 percent of uninsured Mississippians fall into the “coverage gap” between the state’s current income cutoff for Medicaid and the federal cutoff for health insurance subsidies. They don’t qualify for any kind of financial help to buy health insurance and are likely to remain uninsured.

Mississippi also had the largest percentage of adults who went without medical care because of cost issues, according to the Commonwealth Fund report.

theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/05/the-states-with-the-worst-performing-healthcare-systems/361514/

I’m sure that if the Federal government just leaves Mississippi to manage healthcare for its own poor people even more than they already do, even Mississippi will be able to “broaden healthcare access, make healthcare more affordable and improve the quality of the care available to all Americans” (that’s Trump’s promise for healthcare reform).

 

[Ridgerunner]

I thought it was interesting that an Afgani American diplomat introduced Trump today at a foreign policy speech.

If only Trump had positive views of Mexicans and Muslims I might just vote for Trump. .

Why should we require that of him? Having a “positive view of Mexicans” is every bit as racist as having a “negative view” of them inasmuch as it lumps a whole ethnic group into a category of approval or disapproval. The real question is whether he is actually biased against Mexicans, and I don’t think we have any real proof that he does. He certainly has a negative view of the Mexican government, but then so do a lot of Mexicans. Never will I forget when, at one time, our parish priest was a Mexican national. He went on and on and on about how corrupt and uncaring that government is.

And neither do we know he has a negative view of Muslims, generally. What he actually said was that we shouldn’t be letting them in here from foreign countries as a temporary measure until we had some means of vetting them.

I wonder what the percentage of Americans is who think the very same thing. I would bet it is well over 50%.

But Trump’s comments did not and do not register well when it comes to such things, because we have all been sensitized to think of almost every mention of race or ethnicity as 'racist". Remember when some woman or other was castigated for wearing a sort of westernized version of a kimono? Why, that was racist because it was “cultural theft” or something of that sort. So, it appears, is the western version of sushi.

We’re awfully well trained to be stupid, it sometimes seems.

I recall one time, right here on CAF when people were talking about racism and ethnicism. I commented that my Polish barber tells “Polack” jokes. Oh, some just went wild, castigating him for telling them and me for not being offended by it.

We’re getting very well trained.

 

[Thorolfr]

And neither do we know he has a negative view of Muslims, generally. What he actually said was that we shouldn’t be letting them in here from foreign countries as a temporary measure until we had some means of vetting them.

We vetted our own Japanese Americans during World War II by locking them up in “War Relocation Centers.” That was only temporary, too…just a few years.

 

[Sy_Noe]

I like Hillary’s response to Trump running around talking about her playing the woman’s card. If fighting for women’s health, family leave, and equal pay is playing cards then deal me in! Seemed her crowd liked it at her victory speech last night in Philly too.

 

[Sy_Noe]

I find it hard to believe the Bernie supporters will be jumping over to Hillary. Especially since he is now promising to go all the way to Calif. For the Democrats he is making this in particular very painful. Maybe he’ll even go on Hillary attack mode next!!

Bernie wants to read the minutes from the Clinton paid WS speechs. Stephanopoulos pushed Clinton also, we all want to read the transcripts.

Don’t find it too hard to believe. The moment she is officially the nominee, I jump. People didn’t think Hillary supporters would jump to Obama in 08 and yet by the general most did. I actually expect most Republicans will jump to Trump by then too. There is always talk about primary voters not jumping. But Hillary has it right. There is far more that unites Democratic primary voters and caucus goers than divides us. When the choice is Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump or Ted Cruz, the jump is an easy one for me.

 

[GaryTaylor]

“War Relocation Centers.”

That was back in ancient history, mankind is much more civil now in the west, its a self preservation move in relation to national security. No one suggested building WW-2 style camps here exept perhaps the Fema and NWO protesters

 

[Ridgerunner]

We vetted our own Japanese Americans during World War II by locking them up in “War Relocation Centers.” That was only temporary, too…just a few years.

meaning what? Are you saying Trump wants to put Muslim Americans in internment camps, or do you think his comments are equivalent, morally, to doing it?

 

[Ridgerunner]

I like Hillary’s response to Trump running around talking about her playing the woman’s card. If fighting for women’s health, family leave, and equal pay is playing cards then deal me in! Seemed her crowd liked it at her victory speech last night in Philly too.

Of course 'her crowd" likes her, otherwise they wouldn’t be “her crowd”.

And by “womens’ health”, of course, she means taxpayer-paid 'abortion on demand" and “change of religion” so we don’t oppose it. Family leave and equal pay are already mandated by law.

Just more empty sloganeering that means nothing at all…other than taxpayer funding of abortion, of course.

 

[Thorolfr]

meaning what? Are you saying Trump wants to put Muslim Americans in internment camps, or do you think his comments are equivalent, morally, to doing it?

Who knows where these kinds of policies that single people out because of their race or religion might eventually lead.

 

[Ridgerunner]

That was back in ancient history, mankind is much more civil now in the west, its a self preservation move in relation to national security. No one suggested building WW-2 style camps here exept perhaps the Fema and NWO protesters

What was really wrong with the internment camps (which we had for Germans and Italians, too, just not on the same quantity level) was the mistaken belief that there was going to be an imminent Japanese invasion.

The government was aware that everywhere the Japanese invaded, there were “sleeper agents” in large numbers among the ethnic Japanese population that turned out to be members of the Japanese military. And they did a lot of harm.

But there was no Japanese invasion of the West Coast, and the government should have realized that was not really a danger and internment was purposeless. But there is no question there were imperial Japanese sympathizers among those interned. They even had a newspaper in which Japanese victories were cheered and praised.

 

[GaryTaylor]

Who knows where these kinds of policies that single people out because of their race or religion might eventually lead.

No sense in fear mongering though. No one wants to hurt these people but theres a very real issue as John Miller pointed out to Cruz for campaigning by fear.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Who knows where these kinds of policies that single people out because of their race or religion might eventually lead.

national origin was the point of distinction, not race or religion.

And neither Mexicans nor Muslims are a 'race". It is only because of over-the-top political correctness that some people believe such a preposterous thing. We’re like Pavlov’s dogs, it seems. All anybody has to do is mention Mexico in any negative way and it brings cries of “racism”.

And of course, ISIS has plainly said there are Islamic terrorists among the middle eastern emigres. So, are we to call upon our own population to sacrifice some of their number to killers just for the sake of political correctness? Just so we can avoid the racist epithet?

There are worse things than being politically incorrect, and being blown to bits is one of them.

 

[Peter_J]

Who knows where these kinds of policies that single people out because of their race or religion might eventually lead.

Probably to Trump being nominated by the GOP (but I’m not giving up – the primary isn’t over yet).

 

[Theo520]

Who knows where these kinds of policies that single people out because of their race or religion might eventually lead.

Trump was clear in his challenge, he wanted Obama Admin to plug the known gaps in our screening of immigrants. The issue was all with Obama, there was never a proposal to permanently ban Muslim immigrants.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Trump was clear in his challenge, he wanted Obama Admin to plug the known gaps in our screening of immigrants. The issue was all with Obama, there was never a proposal to permanently ban Muslim immigrants.

Some 74% of the public fears future Islamic terrorist attacks in this country. Obama wants to allow thousands of refugees from Islamic countries to come here. ISIS has already said those groups are laced with terrorist agents of ISIS.

Trump was simply (but not well) reflecting something a lot of Americans are thinking about, but which Obama and Clinton simply want to ram down their throats, like it or not.

 

[Theo520]

Some 74% of the public fears future Islamic terrorist attacks in this country. Obama wants to allow thousands of refugees from Islamic countries to come here. ISIS has already said those groups are laced with terrorist agents of ISIS.

Trump was simply (but not well) reflecting something a lot of Americans are thinking about, but which Obama and Clinton simply want to ram down their throats, like it or not.

Those are slightly different topics though

• Immigration screening that has holes, refugee or spouse/economic migrant
• Our response to Syria Crisis. IMHO the UN agreement on this already solves the issue, we support the refugees in the region and work to bring stability back to their home country. This approach protects war refugees and doesn’t encourage mass economic migration.

 

[grotto]

Listening to Trump was very encouraging. This man has what we need for President. It has been a long time since we heard honest, clear, solid, American, leadership demonstrated.