Trump Attack - Going Low

[ProVobis]

Well it’s a very hot seat now.

 

[JonNC]

Well, that’s not what he said, is it?

Well, then. Did he mention her race?

He might at his current rate.

That would make him a progressive.

 

[umamibella]

Then, she should identify as American, not Somali American. I think it’s fair game.

Somali American is akin to African American. Somalia is a country in Africa.

 

[umamibella]

Going Low? This whole campaign on both sides have been doing nothing but Going Low!

All the campaign spots on TV have been about how bad the other guy is…even local runners. We have one candidate where most of his spots are about what he hopes to accomplish. Only one!

Mostly,I have no idea what all the others are running on other than the opponent is bad. Shouldn’t I have at least an inkling what all these guys and gals plan on doing? I’m thoroughly disgusted !

If you were to vote, would the way the campaign is run from both sides, influence you in any way?
Curious question as voting is compulsory here.

 

[signit]

If she represents this Nation,why is it she has never said anything good about a country that welcomed her and her parents when they sought refuge all those years ago? I don’t like her and I don’t trust her.She is very concerning

Absolutely; that’s something that really bothers me.

The United States is the most generous country in the world.

If I were a naturalized U.S. citizen I’d be saying “THANK YOU AMERICA!”

Then, she should identify as American, not Somali American. I think it’s fair game.

That’s another thing.

I have heard a lot of naturalized U.S. citizens say things like “in my country . . . ,” meaning the country of their birth.

It’s not “your country.” The United States is your country.

I don’t refer to the country of my ancestry where my grandmother lived as “my country.”

 

[PaulinVA]

I don’t refer to the country of my ancestry where my grandmother lived as “my country.”

No, but did your grandmother?

 

[signit]

signit:

I don’t refer to the country of my ancestry where my grandmother lived as “my country.”

No, but did your grandmother?

I don’t know; I didn’t know my grandmother.

But, to my knowledge, my two grandaunts and my granduncle who were born over there did not call it that.

 

[PaulinVA]

But, to my knowledge, my two grandaunts and my granduncle who were born over there did not call it that.

Okay, what would be the “signet approved” way of referring to the country of one’s birth once one comes to this country? Does it change if they are on a visa, have a green card, or are a citizen?

 

[Victoria33]

Let’s get this straight, going low on Omar who has been barred from entering Israel because of statements she has made? Is that possible?

Reps. Omar and Tlaib will not be allowed to enter Israel

Israel announced it plans to block U.S. Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib from visiting.

abcnews.go.com

Omar and Tlaib rightly blocked from visiting ‘non-existent’ country Palestine

At first blush, Israel’s decision to bar Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib looked like a mistake. Now, I believe Trump and Netanyahu made the right move.

nypost.com

Rep. Lee Zeldin: Tlaib, Omar all about weakening Israel, they stay silent on Hamas, Palestinian Authority

Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are attempting to tear down Israel and victimize themselves, whitewash history and spin reality.

www.foxnews.com

 

[PaulinVA]

Let’s get this straight, going low on Omar who has been barred from entering Israel because of statements she has made? Is that possible?

Who cares that a US Congresswoman has been barred from entering another country, except that’s it’s an insult to the US congress?

 

[F_Marturana]

Most of us are currently barred from going to Europe.

 

[F_Marturana]

Or if you have duo citizenship.

 

[Jeanne_S]

Fair enough.Perhaps, she should keep her negative comments re a Nation that’s been so good to her to herself,then.

 

[F_Marturana]

Legally yes.

But sometimes I feel that until we change our names, and jump into the melting pot, we aren’t considered “American”.

I used to teach Italian as a foreign language years ago.

My husband and I stayed at a bed and breakfast. We were chatting with the owner and I said I was a foreign language teacher. She responded that in America everyone should speak English. She misunderstood what my job was, she thought I was a teacher to foreign language students in their original language. That shouldn’t exist according to her.

The president shouldn’t be speaking that way.

“Go back to where you came from” means she’s not from here.

I call myself Italian American. I’m both. Doesn’t make me less.

Why is every syllable he pronounces defended as if one were defending a doctoral thesis.

This was wrong.

It’s ok to say that.

 

[Sarcelle]

Trump has done some good things.

However he is human and like the rest of us has his faults. He has said some not so noteworthy things that are indefensible.

We all make mistakes, so I don’t understand why his apologists have to defend everything he says no matter how egregious.

 

[signit]

signit:

But, to my knowledge, my two grandaunts and my granduncle who were born over there did not call it that.

Okay, what would be the “signet approved” way of referring to the country of one’s birth once one comes to this country? Does it change if they are on a visa, have a green card, or are a citizen?

No need for my seal of approval. People are free to use the term; I just think it’s odd for a U.S. citizen to use it.

I have heard the term “the old country.”

And I can see it in the case of members of the other categories who aren’t citizens or aren’t citizens yet.

I choose not to use the terms to describe myself unless they’re somehow relevant to the topic being discussed.

In my mother’s day (maybe because they were one step closer to “the old country”) members of her town identified as “Irish” or “Italian” (meaning “Irish-American” or “Italian-American”). The Italian-Americans tended to live in a certain neighborhood, went to this Catholic parish instead of this other one, etc. Members of my generation don’t think of themselves that way.

Once in the 1990s when the home care person visited my mother at the same time my uncle was visiting, my uncle joked with her and asked if her family was German. After he left my mother told me about it and said, “You’re not supposed to ask people that anymore!”

 

[Sarcelle]

My husband and I stayed at a bed and breakfast. We were chatting with the owner and I said I was a foreign language teacher. She responded that in America everyone should speak English. She misunderstood what my job was, she thought I was a teacher to foreign language students in their original language. That shouldn’t exist according to her.

I was taking Spanish at University and I remember being called weird because I liked learning languages.

Why are some Americans so averse to others learning foreign languages?

 

[JonNC]

No, but did your grandmother?

Mine didn’t. In fact my dad had to learn German at school because my great grandparents, who emigrated here from Germany, refused to teach him German. “We live in America. Learn English”

 

[F_Marturana]

There’s a scene in “I Love Lucy” where Lucy and Ethel are touring London.

When asking directions, Ethel can’t understand a gentleman’ s accent.

She responded, “I’m sorry, we’re American we don’t speak English.”

 

[JonNC]

except that’s it’s an insult to the US congress?

The insult to Congress is that a member would use anti-Semitic language and be a part of an anti-Semitic/ anti-Israel movement like BDS.