Yep. I remember (and much prefer) the good old days ...
Trump's Constitutional rights, you'd have every pinko-commie in the country claiming racism.
Posted on 03/12/2016 7:47:34 AM PST by GonzoII
“Trump did well talking about jobs in the wake of this attack ... “
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He should have gone immediately to talking about jobs and opportunities for all Americans. Instead, he went on for about 5-10 minutes before he made that point. I listened to him last night hoping he would get around to making those points.
It’s about jobs. If black lives matter to the protesters, they should want opportunities for their youth. Instead, the Obama economy has given us 58% black youth unemployment, $11 trillion added to our debt, jobs and taxpayer money being used for people in our country illegally.
Personally, I believe he’s got a good story to appeal to some blacks but he needs to use it. What Obama and the establishment is doing for blacks isn’t working. That should be clear.
Just after the rally was cancelled, I heard David Gergen on CNN announce that Chicago had cost Trump the nomination, that he was finished. How blind can some people be? Chicago has handed the nomination to Trump, if not the election.
RESPONSE TO TRUMP’S RALLY BEING SHUT DOWN
Ted Cruz: Ted Cruz is responding to Donald Trump’s cancellation of his Chicago rally, saying the billionaire has created ‘an environment that encourages this sort of nasty discourse.’ The Texas senator is calling it a ‘sad day.’
He says, ‘Political discourse should occur in this country without the threat of violence, without anger and rage and hatred directed at each other.’
Cruz says blame for the events in downtown Chicago rests with the protesters but ‘in any campaign responsibility starts at the top.’
Cruz says, ‘When the candidate urges supporters to engage in physical violence, to punch people in the face, the predictable consequence of that is that is escalates. Today is unlikely to be the last such incidence.’
Marco Rubio: Senator Marco Rubio said Friday night that this is a ‘very disturbing moment in our political discourse” and pointed to “real significant anger and frustration at the direction of the country.’
‘America is better than this,’ Rubio said on a call to Fox News. ‘We don’t have to tear each other apart.’
Rubio said Trump is not entirely to blame for tonight’s events but the Republican front-runner ‘does bear responsibility for other things that have happened at his events,’ he said before pointing to an example in which Trump said he wished he could punch a protester in the face.
Rubio also blamed President Obama for the current divide in America. He said: ‘President Obama has spent the last eight years dividing Americans along haves and have-nots, along ethnic lines, racial lines in order to win elections.’
‘I think this has gone to the next level here and I think we’re seeing the consequences in it,’ Rubio added.
Rubio called some of Trump’s dissenters ‘professional protesters’ he claims were paid to be there and said that leftists have a mentality that,’ if you don’t like what someone’s saying, you can just shut them down.’
John Kasich: ‘Tonight the seeds of division that Donald Trump has been sowing this whole campaign finally bore fruit, and it was ugly. Some let their opposition to his views slip beyond protest into violence but we can never let that happen,’ reads a statement from the Ohio Governor.
‘I urge people to resist that temptation and rise to a higher level. Now is the time for Americans to come together and stand firm for what we know is true: We are reat because we are a peacefule people who live by the rule of Law,’ it continues.
We are stronger together, we will reject those who try to divide us for personal gain and we will do it the right way- at the ballot box,’ it concludes.
Hillary Clinton: ‘The divisive rhetoric we are seeing should be of grave concern to us all. We all have our differences, and we know many people across the country feel angry. We need to address that anger together. All of us, no matter what party we belong to or what views we hold, should say loudly and clearly that violence has no place in our politics, we should use our words and deeds to bring Americans together. Last year in Charleston, South Carolina an evil man walked into a church and murdered 9 people. The families of those victims came together and melted hearts in the statehouse and the confederate flag came down. That should be the model we for to overcome painful divisions in our country.’
Police: A spokesman for the Chicago Police Department says the agency never recommended that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump cancel his campaign rally in the city.
CPD spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told The Associated Press that the department never told the Trump campaign there was a security threat at the University of Illinois at Chicago venue. He said the department had sufficient manpower on the scene to handle any situation.
Guglielmi says the university’s police department also did not recommend that Trump call off the event. He says the decision was made ‘independently’ by the campaign.
Trump cancelled the rally in Chicago due to what organizers said were safety concerns after protesters packed into the arena where it was to take place.
Trump afterward told MSNBC in a telephone interview that he canceled the event because he didn’t ‘want to see people hurt or worse.’ He said he thinks he ‘did the right thing.’
Guglielmi says Trump never arrived at the Chicago venue.Reports swirled that rioters were smashing cars parked in the venue’s main garage. One outburst caught on a police scanner suggested a protester in the resulting scrum brandished a firearm.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3488651/Trump-rally-called-Chicago-credible-threat-protesters-planned-storm-stage-Trump-s-speech-black-protester-bloodied-St-Louis.html#ixzz42hq6faBw
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All of it, the tepid intro is merely cover for what is know as a “Yes but”, defense.
Cruz is saying
Yes what was done was wrong BUT it is justified because..
Anyone NOT welded at the hip to a candidate hears it that way.
Cruz blamed Trump. It’s very simple. You’re either with Soros and BLM on this or you’re with Trump. There is no “but.”
At best, Ted Cruz equivocated in a particularly unpleasant manner; at worst, well… yeah. His new Bush/GOP-e BFFs ruin most of what they touch.
Mr. niteowl77
I totally agree, it was thugs, Moveon.org, Bill Ayers, Sander supporters that caused the disruption to the rally. I’m glad Trump cancelled it to help protect everyone.
What really upset me was Cruz and Rubio saying it was all Trumps fault. So they are siding with Moveon.org, etc.? Very disgraceful.
Then you didn’t really listen to what Cruz actually said. You heard what you wanted to hear, and then drew a false conclusion.
Last night:
Trump hate rhetoric responsible for Chicago
IF the right showed up and did the same thing to a rumplehair rally, the headline would be:
Violent Trump supporters disrupt peaceful Sanders rally.
The GOPe “Yes but” defense of the rioters is not going to do anything to cover them with voters.
You seem to assume that those 58% WANT jobs, and would take them without being forced to do so.
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(1) It’s a good counter argument.
(2) It’s a good opportunity to get them to think about how well Obama and the establishment are doing for them. Obama and the ruling establishment are more to blame for their current condition than Trump.
(3) It obviously want appeal to all blacks but it may appeal to enough of them to make a difference on election day — some may not vote for Hillary or some may not be that motivated to vote.
“’And when you have a campaign that disrespects the voters, when you have a campaign that affirmatively encourages violence, when you have a campaign that’s facing allegations of physical violence against members of the press, you create an environment that only encourages this sort of nasty discord.’”
You tell me.
Ok, I’m telling you. That’s called “blaming Trump”.
and now Kasich. What a jerk.
These Leftist thugs hate Trump because he is communicating something very clear: don’t try to disrupt our rallies and meetings and don’t try to bully us around. It’s about time America had a non-politically correct leader like that. When America stands up for herself and says “Don’t Tread On Me”, America is not to blame if her enemies attack her and those attackers get what they deserve.
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Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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in any campaign responsibility starts at the top. Any candidate is responsible for the culture of the campaign. And when you have a campaign that disrespects the voters, when you have a campaign that affirmatively encourages violence, when you have a campaign that’s facing allegations of physical violence against members of the press, you create an environment that only encourages this sort of nasty discord.”
“When the candidate urges supporters to engage in physical violence, to punch people in the face, the predictable consequence of that is that it escalates,” Cruz said. “Today is unlikely to be the last such incidence.”
Saying "I'd like to punch him in the face" is NOT the same as exhorting your followers to do the same.
Agreed!
The voters, you know, “the dumb, uninformed ones”, are all in
now, and “the smartest one in the room” picked the wrong room
in which to show how not smart he really is.
Trump is right. Thugs shut down Trump’s rally. Chicago thugs. MoveOn, BLM, Bernie Sanders folks. And, yet the media is calling for Trump to call for calm. How about Bernie Sanders calling for calm????? Our media is so corrupt.
“blaming Trump” for what exactly?
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