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WaPo: It's beyond debate that Donald Trump is unfit to be president
Washington Post ^ | September 25, 2016 | WaPoo Editorial Board

Posted on 09/26/2016 6:58:14 AM PDT by Zakeet

DEMOCRAT HILLARY CLINTON and Republican Donald Trump will debate on national television for the first time Monday night, and the stakes could not be higher. The presidency and, by extension, the country's future - maybe the world's - could hinge on what they say and how they say it.

Or so we have been told - in breathless pre-event speculation about everything from whether the moderator, NBC's Lester Holt, will intervene to correct a candidate who strays from the truth, to whether one candidate or the other will be able to goad his or her opponent into a campaign-altering gaffe before an audience expected to reach 100 million.

Permit us to dissent from this conventional wisdom, vigorously. Yes, Monday night's clash, and two additional debates to follow, will add drama to the election, and a bit more data to the massive pile of it already available to voters. In a fundamental sense, however, there is nothing much at stake, or shouldn't be, because there is not much more to learn: Mr. Trump has amply demonstrated his unworthiness to occupy the Oval Office. It's beyond his capacity in the upcoming 90-minute question-and-answer sessions to reverse or even substantially modify that conclusion.

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016endorsements; crookedhillary; debate; hillary2016; liberalmedia; mediabias; objectivity; trump; wapo
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To: JimRed
LA Times, NYTimes, and Washington Times all at once are endorsing Hillary.

I hope you meant Washington Post, as I searched Washington Times but found no endorsement there.

121 posted on 09/26/2016 10:45:29 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Imagine what they would call “Old Hickory” if he were running now.


122 posted on 09/26/2016 10:46:11 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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To: mdmathis6

I consider it a certainty that it has been considered! As to what the final decision is I don’t know but I plan to look closely at whoever might show up calling herself Hillary.


123 posted on 09/26/2016 10:53:40 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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To: JimRed

Yes, thanks.


124 posted on 09/26/2016 12:20:06 PM PDT by TakebackGOP
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To: HerrBlucher
Yeah, she is outspending Trump 53 to 1 and is still losing. Big money can’t do everything.>

53-1? Where did you get that statistic? Just curious.

125 posted on 09/26/2016 5:26:45 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: cloudmountain

It was on a freeper thread a few days ago. I don’t have the link.


126 posted on 09/26/2016 5:32:12 PM PDT by HerrBlucher (For the sake of His sorrowful passion have mercy on us and on the whole world.)
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To: billyboy15
All true.
Shrillary has most of the media. Thank goodness for Fox news.

Also, all the hype impresses those, mostly, who DON'T vote. The people who vote consistently in this country are older, whether they are conservative or liberal.
The worst voters are the teenagers; the second worst, the 20-something and so on. As people MATURE, they realize the importance of doing their duty as citizens.

I CAN'T imagine that there are ANY "undecided" voters left.

127 posted on 09/26/2016 5:37:54 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: Rebelbase
I think I'm right.
There is also the use of the media. There is no $$ that can be assigned to that.
128 posted on 09/26/2016 5:39:01 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: BenLurkin

“Beyond debate” is reserved for when liberals can’t use “it’s settled science”.


129 posted on 09/26/2016 5:41:30 PM PDT by uncitizen (JFK: The first victim of the New World Order)
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To: Zakeet

Coming from idiots who think that Barack Obama is fit to be President, this means less-than-nothing.


130 posted on 09/26/2016 8:11:21 PM PDT by Lysandru
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