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The Case for Donald Trump (compared to Obama & Hillary)
Pravda ^ | 8/23/16 | John Chuckman

Posted on 08/24/2016 7:39:49 AM PDT by sevinufnine

Trump has the merit of being a very tough-minded man who has dealt for decades with powerful people to get what he wants, and he has made billions doing it. He is no mere respecter of title or position, but a man who judges by what you actually can do. By comparison, Obama appears a weak figure next to such people, and so he has proved. He leaves office having not done a single worthwhile thing for his own people. And that is the so-called legacy Hillary Clinton is there to preserve and extend.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; clinton; election; hillary; obama; trump
Hillary is a woman who has done little besides take huge amounts of money from many powerful people for years, special interests and ugly foreign governments. It is all packed into a foundation, treated but not functioning as a charity. It happens to function as a giant political slush fund, a money-laundering scheme for questionable funds, and a source of employment for relatives and friends. She starts on day one, as it were, as a completely bought-and-sold figure many times over.

I think no story better sums up these personal qualities of Hillary's than one found in her recently released tax records. She apparently made "charitable" donations last year of about $1,0040,000, which at first glance sounds vaguely impressive. Then you read that $1,000,000 of that was in donations to her own the Clinton Foundation. It just doesn't come more corrupt than that.

The moral and ethical characters of the American leaders involved here - Obama and Hillary plus the generation or two before them - surely rank with some of history's most hateful figures, and it is time to put a stop to their handiwork. As well, it is time for a government that actually works for the interests of its own people, a simple idea but one which is entirely foreign to contemporary Washington.

1 posted on 08/24/2016 7:39:49 AM PDT by sevinufnine
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To: sevinufnine

I think of the great Franklin Roosevelt, and people who have no history do not realize how intensely hated he was by a major part of the establishment. Apart from constant attacks in the press, his life was threatened. I think also of Abraham Lincoln, and again, people with no history do not realize how hated the man was at first. He was called “an obscene ape” in the newspapers, and he felt the need to travel to Washington for his inauguration in disguise.

I am not comparing Trump, but I am reminding readers of some of the unpleasant details that never appear on the plaques of monuments to such great figures. I do very much believe, despite the sometimes loose and careless words of an inexperienced politician, that there is great promise in this man. He is a doer, not a talker, but his Michigan speech especially had intimations of greatness in it. Just as he said, addressing America’s more than thirty-million black population, “What the hell do you have to lose?”

And just look at the alternative. My God, none are so blind as those who will not see, and anyone who can be enthusiastic for a woman of her bloody and corrupt achievements is indeed willfully and dangerously blind.


2 posted on 08/24/2016 7:40:11 AM PDT by sevinufnine (A moderately bad man knows he is not very good. A thoroughly bad man thinks he's alright. C.S. Lewis)
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To: sevinufnine

Lack of adequate government regulation and oversight literally created the 2008 financial disaster - much in the fashion of George Bush’s response to hurricane Katrina - and this leaves a gigantic threat overhanging the lives of hundreds of millions.

Obama has made no effort at repairing the structural and regulatory mess responsible, and all he has done to keep things somewhat steady is to print money - a la Weimar Germany - for eight years, creating yet another threat overhanging the future.

Obama has not only kept the Neocon Wars going, he has expanded them and introduced an entire new establishment for extrajudicial killing, differing in no way other than in its technology from the filthy work of the Argentine military junta of the 1980s. The Pentagon and CIA today receive and consume unholy amounts of resources so that they can kill, plot coups, and de-stabilize others while millions of Americans are not provided with decent schools or the most basic public services such as clean drinking water.


3 posted on 08/24/2016 7:53:08 AM PDT by sevinufnine (A moderately bad man knows he is not very good. A thoroughly bad man thinks he's alright. C.S. Lewis)
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To: sevinufnine

No one can solve all these problems, and I certainly think it would be foolish to expect that Trump can, but I am confident that he can make an important contribution. America’s priorities need re-ordering, and it needs to extricate itself from the bloody lunatic adventures of the wars.


4 posted on 08/24/2016 7:53:21 AM PDT by sevinufnine (A moderately bad man knows he is not very good. A thoroughly bad man thinks he's alright. C.S. Lewis)
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To: sevinufnine

“She apparently made “charitable” donations last year of about $1,0040,000, which at first glance sounds vaguely impressive. Then you read that $1,000,000 of that was in donations to her own the Clinton Foundation. It just doesn’t come more corrupt than that.”

THIS is something Trump needs to question her about in the debates IMO. I’d be interested to know where the other $40K went. I can only imagine....


5 posted on 08/24/2016 7:57:28 AM PDT by sevinufnine (A moderately bad man knows he is not very good. A thoroughly bad man thinks he's alright. C.S. Lewis)
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To: sevinufnine

You know the world is upside down when Pravda is more believable than our own media.


6 posted on 08/24/2016 8:02:38 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (It appears as if Trump is our Yeltsin.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Yup. I’ve been saying that for some time now. The author is originally from the mid-west here in America if I’m not mistaken. Not sure if he lives here still or over there now.


7 posted on 08/24/2016 8:05:27 AM PDT by sevinufnine (A moderately bad man knows he is not very good. A thoroughly bad man thinks he's alright. C.S. Lewis)
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To: sevinufnine

Pravda for Trump?

Robert Riech for Trump?

Blacks for Trump?

FDR for Trump?

Did he leave out Woodrow Wilson intentionally?

I’m not a fan for the past politics of any of the above, and may not buy into the article but .....crossing my fingers.... Go Trump


8 posted on 08/24/2016 8:11:13 AM PDT by jcon40
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To: sevinufnine

The issue is that Hillary has been caught lying to direct questions while in office just to save her career. She has jeopardized our secrets big and small just to preserve her career.

This is different than other scandals. Some people have marriage scandals, or did something while they were young or in business. Or they weren’t consistent. But Hillary lies straight to the camera, over and over, while in office, about official national security. She breaks the law in office. She sells access in office. She makes our national secrets available over the web-site in high office.

As President, what would constrain her. If she is elected, why would she tell the truth, follow a law, talk to the press. She will have proven that she is above all that.

The rule of thumb is that “nobody is above the law”. If Hillary is elected, that statement is no longer true. Hillary is above the law.


9 posted on 08/24/2016 8:20:43 AM PDT by poinq
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To: jcon40

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How about George Stepinawfulstuff for Trump?
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10 posted on 08/24/2016 8:21:50 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: sevinufnine

we also need more separation of powers, ie, fed gangstamint should have no fund raising mechanism, all it does is at the will of the states, and department heads should be elected so presidents cannot control the justice system


11 posted on 08/24/2016 8:24:09 AM PDT by aces ( Islam is the religion of the dead, Got Jesus?)
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To: poinq

“The rule of thumb is that “nobody is above the law”. If Hillary is elected, that statement is no longer true. Hillary is above the law.”

Sadly it appears she already IS above the law. We can only imagine the outcry if a Republican did the same. He or she’d be in the deepest prison someplace below hell....


12 posted on 08/24/2016 8:30:23 AM PDT by sevinufnine (A moderately bad man knows he is not very good. A thoroughly bad man thinks he's alright. C.S. Lewis)
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To: editor-surveyor

Georgie a closet Trumper?

Now that would be fun .... Yet dangerous for him


13 posted on 08/24/2016 8:38:48 AM PDT by jcon40
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To: EQAndyBuzz

“You know the world is upside down when Pravda is more believable than our own media.”

>>>for those who didn’t read the link, here’s how it opens. Clearly the author is anti-establishment through and through.

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Anyone who knows my writing and background knows I am not a conservative and certainly have little use for the right wing anywhere.

But they will also know that I despise war and that I believe America’s establishment has brought moral degradation to the country’s international affairs. It has also brought degradation to America’s own people, completely ignoring their welfare for decades, regarding them only as a herd from which to solicit votes with television advertising and from whom to collect taxes.

America’s establishment - as, for example, represented by the Senate, its most powerful and anti-democratic tool in government - is almost indistinguishable from members of the old Politburo in the heyday of the USSR. Crinkly faces, heavy-set bodies, more money than they can spend, dripping with special privileges, enjoying limitless terms of office, but enjoying no ability to say anything fresh or interesting or helpful, ever.


14 posted on 08/24/2016 8:48:09 AM PDT by sevinufnine (A moderately bad man knows he is not very good. A thoroughly bad man thinks he's alright. C.S. Lewis)
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“Anyone who knows my writing and background knows I am not a conservative and certainly have little use for the right wing anywhere.”

This also shows the trouble Hillary has for herself when a man/reporter who declares he is NOT conservative and “has little use for the right wing anywhere” would come out swinging at both she AND Obama.

Could it be the silent majority for Trump includes tons of DEMOCRATS?


15 posted on 08/24/2016 8:50:28 AM PDT by sevinufnine (A moderately bad man knows he is not very good. A thoroughly bad man thinks he's alright. C.S. Lewis)
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To: jcon40

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Georgie isn’t even human. he’s an android from the planet poop.
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16 posted on 08/24/2016 10:11:19 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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Lets fill'er up folks...

17 posted on 08/24/2016 10:15:00 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (He wins & we do, our nation does, the world does. It's morning in America again. You are living it!)
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