Posted on 09/26/2016 9:20:53 PM PDT by pboyington
Hillary Clinton came on stage, dressed like Chairwoman Mao and leering at Trump like a possessed clown. Trump went long and deep on first down, but soon found himself in a running game slug fest against Madame Secretary in a debate version of the Ice Bowl.
The debate was divided into various sections that lasted roughly 15 minutes each:
The Economy:
Clinton – She burst out of the blocks, sounding like she had memorized her first opening statement, and by reciting typical Democratic tenets: raise the minimum wage, raise taxes, more family leave and company profit sharing. Batting her eyes slowly, she rattled on endlessly about her middle class upbringing as if she is some RFK tribune for the poor. She also stated that Obama has made progress with the economy for eight years.
Trump – He was at his best talking about the economy. He came across as a knowledgeable businessman who wants to bring back jobs and rejuvenate the Rust Belt. As President, he would renegotiate trade deals such as NAFTA. Trump hammered Hillary Clinton on NAFTA and TPP. He railed on that Hillary has no economic plan except to raise taxes and weigh the average American down with over-regulation.
Taxes:
Clinton – She mentioned over and over again that Trickle Down economics don’t work. She kept talking about her middle class background, when she is the second coming of Marie Antoinette. She scored the biggest points when mentioning Trump’s failure to produce his tax returns.
Trump – He channeled Reagan by reiterating his plan to lower taxes and create jobs, and mentioning that Hillary is all talk and no action and merely sound bites.
Race:
Clinton – She sound like bland malted milk about race relations. She quickly digressed into the subject of guns. There is no doubt Hillary Clinton is an enemy of the Second Amendment. Trump missed his change to go after her on the subject. She sounds weak on crime and law and order. She wants to ban military style weapons. She moved away from the subject by bringing up the Birther Issue, which she scored some points on, but was stopped by Trump who brought up the fact that she and Sidney Blumenthal, her all around muse, were the ones who first raised the issue in 2008.
Trump – He made some strong points by painting himself as the LAW and ORDER candidate. He specifically mentioned bringing back Stop and Frisk, which seriously diminished the number of violent crimes in Manhattan. Hillary came back by being against Stop and Frisk on the grounds that it is unconstitutional. Trump’s best comment on the subject came when he stated that he had travelled to many minority communities beset by high crime and she decided to stay home and that’s okay.
Securing America:
Clinton – Hillary discussed cyber security and brought up the age old DNC talking point that Putin hacked their emails. She went on to mention and with a frightening look in her eyes that we need to be hard on the Russians, which is basically parroting the globalists’ wishes to start a new Cold War. She said she had a plan to defeat ISIS, which Trump interjected is apparently on her website. She tried to hit Trump on the fact that he wants to break up NATO and that he would start a war with Iran.
Trump – Trump responded by stating that he was endorsed by 200 admirals and generals, by ICE and the Border Patrol. He blamed much of the Middle East’s problems and rightfully on Hillary and Obama and stated that the US pays for 73% of NATO and other nations need to cough up their fair share. On the subject of nuclear weapons, Trump stated that he would not authorize a first strike, breaking 60 years of US national security policy, either deliberately or inadvertently.
Conclusions:
Trump said that Hillary simply doesn’t have the stamina for the job. While she has experience, she has bad experience.
Hillary told us all again that she has a plethora of experience, she’s travelled to 120 countries as Secretary of State and she’s a virtual Walking Wikipedia on the subject of foreign policy. Finally, she pulled out the age old feminazi card and called Trump a sexist. What a shocker.
Hillary was on the offensive for 75% of the time, appearing marginally human and with shades of a heartbeat. Trump was on the defensive and failed to mention her email scandal or the Clinton Foundation. At times he seemed unprepared, as if he could walk in and wing it like he did in the primaries. But, during the primaries he was always on the offensive.
Trump was largely a gentleman tonight, restraining himself from perhaps looking like a bully beating up on a woman. In Round Two, he needs to go on the offensive and finish her off, once and for all.
90 Minutes at Hofstra was probably a draw.
Why won’t he release his taxes already so we can move on
A painful 90 minutes.
HildaBeast is a soul-sucking harpie.
No, not a draw. He’s luring her into a trap.
She was wooden, reading prepared answers. He was off the cuff and thinking on his feet.
She has no idea what’s coming:)
Do you really care???? His lawyers told him not to...good enough for me. It is petty. They have to file financial statements that cover generally what they have
“90 Minutes at Hofstra was probably a draw.”
That is laughable.
Only the most bias Clinton suck-ups and the media think it was even close to a draw.
Given the revelations about the police shooting in Charlotte, North Carolina, as reported in the UK Daily Mail and elsewhere, Clinton’s remarks on the topic sounded like talking points from BLM. The man was a convicted felon and a career criminal with an illegal gun and a history of domestic violence.
Facts evidently don’t matter since Hillary wants to shame the police.
He will when he’s good and ready. That’s the sign of leader.
But Hilary is going to ask over and over
So next Trump goes back to appearing before several thousand voters at a time as hillary goes back to several dozen photoshoped lackeys. That is if she doesn’t have to spend the next week under bed rest after this effort.
A tie goes to the runner, and Trump has been running for 15 months, while Clinton has been largely coasting.
I think most people will remember Trump’s repeated assertion that Clinton has been around a very long time, and has failed to improve any of the problems she talked about. They will also remember that it was Bill Clinton who gave us NAFTA.
I don’t know anyone who is really that concerned about Trump’s tax returns, and really don’t care if he releases them or not. So, for all Clinton and Holt’s efforts in that regard, will really fall rather flat.
Bush, and Rubio ran tens of millions of dollars of attack ads against Trump, and now Clinton has run over $100 MILLION in attack ads, so I don’t think the “sexism” bugaboo is of any big concern. Again, Clinton and Holt’s efforts in this regard will fall flat.
The whole “birther” thing is a total non-issue for the overwhelming majority of people. The only reason it was ever brought up a few weeks ago was at the behest of the Clinton administration, when they realized that Clinton was starting to fade in the polls. No one cares, and on this, once again the Clinton/Holt team will fall flat.
He did okay. He could have done better. Judge Napolitano thinks he lost. I wouldn’t call him a Clinton supporter would you?
If you don't think the Democrats already have copies of his tax returns back to the 60's, you've been on another planet. He's probably trying to draw them out, get them to release them illegally, and then lower the 16 inch guns and blow them out of the water.
Lester Holt said the IRS stated it was okay to release the taxes.
Why would anyone ever take advice from the IRS?
I think her little shoulder shimmy looked like a small seizure to me. Meghan Kelly brought it up immediately after the debate but it seems the talking heads have backed off that tract.
Good point. Anyone see how she was blinking her eyes slowly at the beginning? No doubt some kind of drug was taking effect.
If their was a volcanic eruption at Yellowstone, a major quake off the coast from Seattle, or terrorist attacks simultaneously and on a grander scale, or if aliens decide to attack us, anything in the teal world, Trump would be the man.
So to me whatever the MSM, the trolls, the twitterverse says means nothing to me about a debate, when the fur flies, the bullets fly, what do the liberals, the dems, the socialist want to do, debate?
Trump will be the leader, i’m glad people do hate him.
Hillary will just overdose on booze and pills.
Because he doesn’t have to release his f*cking taxes. That’s why.
Why doesn’t she release:
Clinton Foundation donor list
her speech transcripts
the books on the Clinton Foundation
33,000 emails, the emails with obama using a pseudonym-even though he found out about her email problem in the news
where she was the night of Sept 11, 2012
what she was doing the night of Sept 11, 2012
release the 1,000 emails she shared with Patreus while he was CENTCOM commander and CIA Director, pretty all of which should have been TS at least.
Tell us why she gets to share TS information with Blumenthal, who didn’t have a TS clearance
Why her lawyers, with no TS clearance, were allowed to ‘scrub’ her emails
Anyone else have anything to add, feel free
They keep bringing up the “birther” issue because Trump has made amazing inroads into the African American communities and they are trying to make anyone’s questioning Obama’s eligibility racist. They HAVE to paint him as a racist, as they do each and every Republican.
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