Relax: There's Still 96 Days Till Election Day

The media, having excoriated Donald Trump for weeks, now says the Republican Party is panicking. The media is hyperventilating; they’re writing an intervention will occur. They’re now saying he’s crazy. They’re highlighting the defectors from the Republican Camp. They're practically dancing on Trump's political grave. Warren Buffett was campaigning in Nebraska with Hillary Clinton. Where’s the news in that? He’s been a long time Clinton supporter who argues we need to raise taxes (His are sheltered). Jeffrey Inmelt, Chair of GE, is reported to be a Republican, but GE is highly dependent on government contracts in some of its products such that he has been a shill for the Obama Administration. It’s called “crony capitalism.” Meg Whitman, a Silicon Valley billionaire, ran for Governor of California as a Republican. She now says she is not only endorsing Hillary Clinton, but will contribute to her campaign. Meg Whitman, whatever her many accomplishments, ran a mediocre campaign for Governor. The latest polls show the Democrat up by 10%. Trump’s statements about Judge Curiel and the Khans have been damaging. They have diverted attention from his primary arguments: Clinton’s untruthfulness, the economy, trade, and immigration. Much of the mainstream media is now totally in the Clinton camp, but that’s no surprise. The New York Times is increasingly trivializing itself. Yesterday it ran a front page article, essentially saying Donald trump was a draft dodger during Vietnam. Here’s yesterday’s headline: “Seemingly Fit, Trump Avoided Vietnam Draft.” He received 4 student deferments, and then a 1-S (a medical classification short of the IV-F) for heel spurs, apparently based on a doctor’s notes. I received a IV-F, which meant I was physically not qualified for the draft. The IV-F was due to asthma. I am a chronic asthmatic. I received the classification based up the doctors’ files. Selective Service could have required me to undergo a physical, but didn’t.. Selective Service could have required the young Donald Trump to go through a physical, but they apparently didn’t. That’s not the problem with the New York Times. Let’s go back to the 1992 New Hampshire primary when Governor Bill Clinton was accused of being a draft dodger. The record showed he was. He had 4 student deferments, but would have been subject to the draft after graduating. No deferment would be issued for a Rhodes Scholar. He was reclassified I-A, which meant he was due to be inducted fairly soon. Instead, he signed up for the ROTC. Then he got lucky. The Selective Service lottery system was adopted. His number was 311, which meant he was fairly immune form induction. His response was to kiss ROTC goodbye He reneged on his signed agreement. This is what the New York Times wrote in 1992: “Bill Clinton, who despised the Vietnam War ‘with a depth of feeling I had reserved solely for racism,’ may or may not have exposed himself to actual risks of induction. But to single him out as some sort of devious draft-dodger does him, and the anguish of Vietnam, an injustice.” The New York Times had no problem with Vice President Joe Biden’s 5 student deferments and even begrudgingly with Vice President Dick Cheney’s 5 student deferments. Donald Trump must understand the Media will flyspect every second of his life and every word he utters while giving Hillary Clinton a pass. He has to know that. He needs to show some discipline. No more winging it! No more flippant remarks! Keep to his 3-4 main points: Change, Change, Change, and Change. Stop being a New York street fighter through November. His fight is with Clinton-Obama, not fellow Republicans. Relax. There’s 96 days till the election. Polls go up and down. There’s ebbs and tides in a campaign. The Clinton Campaign is trying to keep her muzzled except for trashing Trump. She can’t run on President Obama’s record. She can’t run on her accomplishments. She can’t run on her personality. She, and they, have to demonize Trump. Sometime in the next 96 days she will say something so arrogant, so stupid, so insulting to the American people that the media will have to cover it. Sometime in the next 96 days she will tell so monstrous a lie, so offensive a lie, that even the bury will not be able to ignore it. Let Hillary be Hillary. She will resurrect the Trump Campaign even if he can’t. Sometime in the next 96 days more bad news about the economy will emerge. Most of all, sometime in the next 96 days an external event will occur, such as a terrorist attack in the United States, that the American people will turn to Trump.

Hillary Clinton and Al Gore: Two Peas in a Pod?

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Cleveland and Philadelphia: A Tale of Two Conventions; A Tale of Two Americas

We just watched the two national conventions. History was made in the Democratic Convention – the nomination of a woman for the Presidency of the United States – a moment as significant as the nomination of an African American 8 years ago. We also had Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton delivering perhaps the best speech of her life, but why would you believe anything she says? How good was her speech? Forget the commentators and the polls! Her husband fell asleep, snoring the speech! Let's see if that end up in some political ads. We end up with a Tale of Two Americas. The Republican Convention represented the traditional America – an America of hard working Americans who believe in the American Dream and see it disappearing – an America of what was once referred to as “lunch bucket Democrats.” The Democratic Convention presented a Rainbow representing the Democratic coalition. It also represented today’s version of the McGovern Democrats of 1972 – a fringe out of touch with reality. The Rainbow included every group Donald trump has supposedly offended. The Democratic Party has historically represented the working class of America. Not now, unless they are in the public employee unions. Hundreds of teachers from their unions are normally delegates to the DNC. Political conventions usually feature the main speakers surrounded by scores of American flags and at appropriate times police officers. The Democratic Convention on the first night had a dearth of American flags, but plenty of Russian and Palestinian flags. An Israeli flag was set afire outside the convention hall. The DNC the first three nights featured Black Life Matters and the mothers of young African Americans killed by police officers. The only police present were for security. Secretary Clinton tonight brought the American flags and police officers, but the real message was the first three nights. To combat inequality, the Democrats paraded a host of overpaid celebrities. The DNC delegates represent the fictional Julia of President Obama’s 2012 campaign. They believe they need the federal government to provide for them, whether it be jobs, healthcare, free college tuition, student loan forgiveness, justice and equality, or whatever. Yes, you can get everything you want from this week’s Democratic Party, except police protection and national security. Words like terror, ISIS, and national security were absent the first three nights from the speakers, except last night when former Secretary of Defense and CIA Director Leon Panetta, spoke of fighting terror and ISIS. He was roundly booed by the delegates. Tonight though Secretary Clinton mentioned fighting terror and ISIS. She had to, but look at the first three nights for the true feeling of the delegates. “Judge them by not what they say, but by what they do!” Two words missing from the DNC and the nominee's speech: "Inner City." The Democrats have no solution or hope for America's inner cities. The once, and hopefully never future, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi earlier this week explained Secretary Clinton’s problem with white males being “Guns, gays, and God.” She was echoing Senator Obama’s April 2008 comments at a San Francisco fundraiser about the workers in Pennsylvania clinging to their guns and religion. The Democrats have arrogance for the working people, who they profess to represent. Secretary Clinton’s speech had two pieces of plagiarism in one sentence, but the media won’t pick it up. Willie Sutton, the fabled bank robber, was once asked why he robbed banks. He responded because “That’s where the money is.” The 1976 movie “All the President’s Men” about Watergate popularized the famous line “Follow the money.” Secretary Clinton said she would pay for her programs by taxing Wall Street, corporations, and the super rich: “That’s where the money is, and we are going to follow the money.” It’s as much plagiarism as Melania Trump’s. Translated, Secretary Clinton's economic program is to increase government spending and raise taxes; in other words, to double down on President Obama's failing ecomomic rec0overy. Michelle, Barack, and Hillary all tell us how great America is, but the American people feel it slipping away. The Republicans recognize that not only the middle class is slipping away, but Americans in general know it. Their convention was of the real America. The DNC’s is one blind to reality. Secretary Clinton in normal years would be cleaning Donald Trump’s clock in this election. He has offended so many groups in America, many of them in the Democrats Rainbow Coalition. The Democrats offered not stay the course, but more of it. The Republicans offered a reversal in course. Which America will it be November 5?

The Wikileaks DNC Papers, Hillary Clinton, and The Big Lie.

Adolph Hitler in Mein Kampf advanced the idea of The Big Lie. People are used to little lies. It’s the Big Lie with a sense of credibility that they fall for because they can’t believe that anyone could advance such a preposterous statement. Joseph Goebbels followed up in 1941 by saying “When one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it.” Don’t back down. The WikiLeaks dump of 20,000 DNC documents again shows us the predictable Hillary Clinton: the lie and the casting of fault on another through the Big Lie. The DNC papers are damning not just for the proof that the DNC and its Chairperson Debbie Wasserman-Schultz were in cahoots with the Clinton campaign to elect Hillary Clinton, and not just because they illustrate the often incestuous link between the Democrats and the mainstream media, but because of the use of racial, anti-Semitic, and religious slurs. If memos leaked from a Republican operative using the phrase “Taco Bell outreach,” the media would be screaming outrage. Not a peep from the media! If the Republicans wrote about using a candidate’s religion to win Baptist votes in Kentucky or West Virginia, the media would be all over it. Not a peep! If the Trump campaign had been caught planting moles in an opponent’s campaign, the media would cry “Dirty Trick!” Not a peep from the media! Instead, Hillary’s Campaign followed her standard operating practice. First, Hilary denied all knowledge of any of it, just like with her emails. Total ignorance is her defense. She sticks to it. We have the most self-proclaimed ignorant Secretary of State in recent decades. CBS’ Scott Pelley spoke for the media when he said: ”I’ve got to tell you, if I am any reader of body language, I’ve known Secretary Clinton for 25 years, and I was struck, as I was reading the emails to her during the interview, her eyes widened as if to say, what is this all about? What are you talking about? She seemed genuinely surprised.” Reading a known liar’s face is no substitute for investigative reporting. She didn’t stop there. Then came her Big Lie. Robby Mook, campaign manager blamed the leaks on Russia trying to tilt the American election to Donald Trump. The “Russian Connection” also served the purpose of deflecting attention from the specifics of the leaks. Mook said: “Experts are telling us that Russian state actors broke into the DNC…. It’s troubling that some experts are now telling us that this was done for the purpose of helping Donald Trump.” Mook refuses to say whose those “experts” are, which is reminiscent of Senators Richrard Nixon and Joseph McCarthy. Remember, Hillary blamed the Monica Lewinsky scandal on a “Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.” The Benghazi attacks were blamed as a response to “The Innocence of Muslims,” an anti-Islamic video nobody had ever watched. Her State Department then spent $70,000 on ads in Pakistan denouncing the video. The media ran with the video theory. The media highlighted the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy and echoed the Clinton’s trashing of the Special Prosecutor Kenneth Starr. And now the media is lapping up the Russian Connection, kook, line, and sinker. Many also seem to want to believe Secretary Clinton that no one, not the Russians, not the Chinese, no one, hacked into her private email. The media believes because they want to. They seem to fail to learn from the past. The American people though recognize the DNC leaks compound the Secretary’s credibility issues. Hillary believes in the Marx Brothers: "Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?" Let us remember a famous quote attributed to Abraham Lincoln: “You can fool some of the people all the times, and all the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”

Let Me Get This Straight: Melania Trump is accused of Plagiarism

This week is supposed to be a media lovefest for the Democrats and Hillary unlike its treatment last week of the Republicans and Trump. If only WikiLeaks and DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz had stayed out of the news, the media would only have good news to report out of Philadelphia this week. It was different last week for the republicans. The media delivered a message to the Trump Campaign, not that they needed to: Any miscue, even if slight, by the Trump Campaign will be treated as a cardinal sin on the order of capital punishment. The media does not want Donald Trump, or any Republican to win. No matter how flawed and untrustworthy Hillary Clinton may be, she is preferable to Trump. No matter how much free publicity the Donald received during the primaries, that time has passed. He and his campaign will be flyspecked for the silliest of mistakes. He will receive the Sarah Palin and Gerald Ford treatment. The GOP Convention must be made to look unorganized and divisive. Whatever message the Convention is trying to deliver will be obscured by side issues. The plagiarism episode is an example. A few lines were identical to Michelle Obama’s 2008 speech at the Democratic National Convention. That is plagiarism because of the uniqueness of the phaselology of the words. Of course, everyone knew Melania did not write her speech. That doesn’t matter. She was attacked for plagiarism. It led off the evening news. Not a word about the magnificence of the contents and sentiments in the speech. Donald Trump, Jr. delivered an outstanding performance. The media’s response – there’s too many Trumps on the program. How about instead: Trump, Sr. raised a number of intelligent, productive, successful children. Chris Christy delivered an electric, mocking speech against Hillary Clinton. The response to the chant of “Lock her up!:” “It’s too negative!” Governor Mike Spence had a great acceptance speech. The media’s response was to drown it out by harping on Senator Ted Cruz’s failure to formally endorse Donald Trump. All side issues with an aura of negativity and failure on the part of the Republicans. Let’s look closely at the plagiarism charge. A couple of lines are identical. That’s plagiarism. Thus, they damned Melania and the Trump Campaign. Yet, the media can conveniently have a very short memory. Michelle Obama plagiarized from Sol Alinsky in the 2008 Speech. Her husband, President Obama, lifted entire passages from a speech by Governor Deval Patrick. The Massachusetts Governor brushed it off, and the media then quickly forgot about it. Then we have Vice President Joe Biden, a serial plagiarizer. He was accused of plagiarism in his first year at Syracuse Law School. Plagiarism, a major form of cheating, is all too common in the academic world with students often claiming they did not know or understand what plagiarism is. The faculty voted that he had to retake the course. He graduated 76 out of 85, but has claimed to have been in the top half. His explanation was he had done nothing “malevolent.” Sounds like Hillary Clinton on her emails. Senator Clinton is the one who noticed Senator Obama’s plagiarism. Vice Prsient is an argument why these tw Senator Biden in his failed 1988 run for the Presidency lifted an entire speech from British politician Neil Kinnock. He is also alleged to have lifted parts of speeches from Hubert Humphrey, Robert Kennedy and President Kennedy. But the media slammed Melania! It’s a side issue that detracted from the campaign’s message until Senator Ted Cruz came along. Donald Trump and his staff better realize that the mainstream media will give him no cover this Election cycle.

Trump versus Clinton: The Choice is Easy

Trump versus Clinton: A No Brainer Trump Clinton A Breath of Fresh Air Stale An American Original Programed Created tens of thousands of jobs Created 1-10 jobs (aides, assistants and Chauffeurs) Built the Grand Hyatt, New York, Built a House of Cards Trump Tower, Trump Plaza, Trump Place, Trump World, Trump International, Trump Parc, et al New York Values Clinton Values Made it in New York Made it in Illinois, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Arkansas, D.C., New York, D.C., and made it with Bill Talks to ordinary Americans Talks about and above ordinary Americans Work Free Law and Order Black Lives Matter Judicial Restraint Judicial Activism Won’t release tax returns Won’t release transcripts of speeches to Goldman Sachs, not to mention emails and billing statements Owns world famous golf courses Husband known for playing golf with Mulligans Tax reform Tax increases Straight shooter Congenital or pathological liar Risk taker Plays it safe Career entrepreneur Career politics Transparent Political expediency True outsider Consummate insider Coal miners mining coal Coal miners receiving welfare Keystone Pipeline No Keystone Pipeline Fracking No fracking Energy Independence Energy dependence Freedom of Speech Repeal Citizens United Right to Bear Arms Repeal Heller Veers off message Disciplined Thin skinned Clintons hold grudges The Apprentice The Last Hurrah Republican Nomination- Earned Democratic Nomination – a rigged coronation Business bankruptcy Moral bankruptcy Publicly insulting to foes Privately insulting, abrasive and arrogant; known to throw things Hair ? Hair – always changing Own Man “I am Woman” He’s for you You’re for her

The Turkish Coup Was Against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan; The Purge is Against Fethullah Gulen

The coup failed. The purge is succeeding. Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press, and Freedom of Religion are now dead in Turkey. A three month state of emergency has been declared. President Erdogan said “The virus will be cleansed from all braches of government.” Prime Minster Binali Yeldirin said “I’m sorry, but this parallel terrorist organization will no longer for an effective pawn for any country." He vowed to root out the organization. The total purged, cashiered, terminated, arrested, detained so far is about 60,000. So far 118 admirals and generals, 1/3 of Turkey’s general corps, have been detained, with 85 arrested to date. Among those detained are the President’s Chief Military Aide and his Air Force Advisor. If the coup were that widespread, it should have succeeded.6,038 members of the military have been detained, including the two pilots who shot down the Russian fighter plane a few months ago. If that many of the top brass were involved, the coup should have succeeded. Ironically, the police were one of the main resistors to the coup. The Ministry of the Interior announced 8,777 workers have been terminated, including 30 governors, 52 civil service inspectors, and 16 legal advisors. About 8,000 police officers have been fired and 1,000 arrested. 34 journalists had their press credentials revoked. Some will probably join their colleagues who have been imprisoned in recent years. The Finance Ministry terminated 1,500 employees. No evidence exists to support the premise that lower level finance employees would be involved in the coup. The Ministry of Education canned almost 22,000 to date. The teaching licenses of 21,000 private teachers have been revoked. It has closed 626 private schools and dormitories, presumably the private schools linked to the Hizmet movement. President Erdogan wants Turkey’s children to be raised in pious, Islamic schools. The High Education Board has called for the resignation of 1,577 university deans, at both private and public institutions. Six university presidents were axed. The Board has asked administrators to review the status of every professor. Even more ominous today is that the Board has barred all academicians from leaving Turkey and asked all academicians outside Turkey to return immediately. It’s also known that the President wants a revamp of the 300 existing universities. The President has to be wary of the universities. He knows the secular professional class of Istanbul opposed his administration. He vowed Tuesday night: “We will get into their dens …. We will find them all.” The Directorate of Religious Affairs sacked 492 staffers, including clerics, preachers, and religious teachers. It also forbad religious funerals for supporters of the the coup. The Prime Minister’s Office got in the act. It axed 257 workers. The Family and Social Policy Ministry dismissed 393. The licenses of 24 radio and television stations were pulled. 100 intelligence officers have also been suspended. The total purged exceeds 60,000 to date. 2,745 judges and prosecutors have been detained, including members of the Supreme Court. 80 judges have been arrested, including members of the Supreme Court. 1,481 judges were suspended. Many judges have been following the rule of law, sometimes blocking proposals of President Erdogan. No more! The Rule of Law is dead in Turkey. A new two-fold test for employment, promotion, and retention is now in place in Turkey: 1) Obsequence to Erdogan; and 2) Obsequence to strict Islam. This purge may have been occasioned by the failed coup, but the planning would have been in the works for some time. The only way to know who to arrest or fire outside the immediate participants is either to possess outstanding intelligence before the coup, or to have prepared lists in advance. The former is unlikely. Therefore President Erdogan was waiting for the right time to complete his program of firing all supporters of Fethullah Gulen and his Hismet philosophy. He has been slowly purging the police, military, prosecutors, and judges of supporters of Futhuallah. He is seizing the opportunity to accelerate the purge while he has the Turkish Street supporting him. If the purged are fortunate, all they will suffer is the loss of employment. If they are lucky! The President has bought time for himself, but he cannot defeat the strength of Hizmet or economic reality. Turkey has been a beacon of light in a dangerous part of the world: proof that a democracy and Islam can coexist. That’s no more. President Ergogan is showing how fragile a democracy can be; how the Rule of Law can become the rule of man, one man. The purge is of Turkey’s educated, secular class. Once begun the purge will necessarily extend to the private sector for the “parallel state” is too dangerous a concept for the quasi-paranoid President to ignore. President Erdogan can suppress in the short term Gulen and his Hizmet Movement, but the concept is sufficiently compelling to outlast one man. President Erdogan is on his way to becoming President for Life in a darkening Turkey.