Posted on 03/31/2016 1:30:48 PM PDT by Kaslin
Toward the end of his rally here, Donald Trump took some questions from the audience, including an emotional one that revealed something good about him. He then proceeded with an answer that exposed the fundamental defect of his presidential campaign.
The question came from Melissa Young, who noted that in 2005, she won the Miss Wisconsin USA pageant -- which was then a Trump property. She explained that she has an incurable, terminal illness and wanted to remind him of a note he had sent her when she was hospitalized.
Handwritten in gold ink, over an autographed photo, it read, "To one of the bravest women I know. Best wishes."
"I just want to thank you," Young said, struggling to keep her composure. "You saved me in so many ways." Trump nodded sympathetically and asked, "Are you coming along OK?" She answered, "No, sir," but noted gratefully she had gotten financial contributions to pay for her 7-year-old son's college education.
Trump wasn't done. "Hopefully, you're going to be around," he said. "Those doctors are going to be so wrong." After descending the stage to hug her, he said, "It's heartbreaking, but something beautiful is gonna happen. You watch."
We're used to hearing Trump boast of everything he will do. But this was a stretch even for him. He was essentially telling a dying woman that she will be cured.
His attitude was: "I don't want you to die. I'm used to getting what I want. So you will not die." Oblivious to the reality of her condition, he insisted on conveying false hope.
Maybe it shouldn't have come as a surprise, after a Trump speech that was short on specifics and long on hype. "We're going to build a wall, and Mexico's going to pay for the wall," he claimed. On veterans: "We're gonna save a fortune, and they're gonna get great service."
Obamacare? "We will replace it with something so much better and so much less expensive." Ukraine? "Don't worry about Ukraine. Ukraine's gonna be fine."
Trump doesn't have a campaign platform. He has a Christmas list, and he believes that Santa Claus will bring him everything on it. He makes solving the nation's problems sound easy.
Hillary Clinton does not believe that. Earlier in the day, she attended a community forum on gun violence prevention at the Tabernacle Community Baptist Church in Milwaukee, sharing the stage with two women who have suffered their own tragedies.
Annette Nance-Holt is a Chicago Fire Department battalion chief whose 16-year-old son was shot and killed on a Chicago bus. Geneva Reed-Veal's daughter Sandra Bland died in jail, an apparent suicide, after being arrested in Texas by an officer who was charged with perjury for his account of the traffic stop.
Clinton spent more time listening than speaking. When she spoke to the almost entirely African-American audience, she was sober and knowledgeable, noting, "We lose, on average, 90 people a day from gun violence. That is 33,000 people a year."
She expressed support for requiring background checks on all gun purchases and repealing a law that granted gun makers and sellers protection from some lawsuits. She quoted from the Bible: "Let us not grow weary of doing good, because in due time we will harvest."
Reed-Veal recounted the private meeting the former secretary of state had in Chicago with a dozen families whose loved ones have died from gun violence or in police custody, where she let them tell their stories and took notes for two hours.
Clinton, it's obvious, is an accomplished listener. That may be one of her flaws as a candidate, particularly this year. She often gives the impression of someone who pays full attention to what she's being told so she can tailor her response to what the person wants to hear. Her remedies typify the dull incrementalism that frustrates voters yearning for dramatic change.
Trump leads his followers to think fixing health care will be easy. Bernie Sanders gives the same impression. Clinton, who as first lady labored to formulate and enact a health insurance program -- only to lose in the end -- knows that it, like most public policy challenges, is very hard.
This day, Trump enthralled voters with visions of instant magic. Clinton, on the altar of a church alongside mothers grieving for their dead children, knew better than to promise earthly miracles.
National Security. Should it come to it, that’s enough for me.
This has got to be one of the stupidest, most unfeeling libtard articles of the year!
So giving someone “encouragement” that one may beat the odds is “false hope” but passing an unconstitutional law violating the 2d Amendment will somehow bring their dead children back to life?
Well it’s by Steve Chapman
Trump believes in santa claus? That is idiotic. I am no Trump fan, I criticize him allot... but this article is moronic. Trump would be thousands of times better than hillary. Trump has a few issues that are moderate and a few to the left, ... but hillary is every bit as left as fidel castro.
Hillary's husband was the person he called right before launching his campaign.
And the way he has been immolating himself and his campaign the past week, especially with women, maybe Hillary has shown him the Queen of Diamonds?
“Hillary’s husband was the person he called right before launching his campaign.”
Prove it.
Not a Trump fan but I agree with you. What was he supposed to say? Doctors are never wrong, you had a good run but it’s time to face facts, etc.? Being upbeat and positive talking to someone with a terrible, probably terminal, illness is damned hard to do. I won’t criticize Trump for saying what he did and think this writer exposed himself as a petty a$$hole in doing so.
We lose, on average, 4,000 people a day from abortion. That is 1,460,000 people a year.
Trump spoke with Clinton from his office in New York, and the former president encouraged the celebrity real estate developer to play a larger role in the GOP, four Trump allies told the Post.
Read that again slowly boys and girls and let that sink in...
Bill Clinton wanted Rumpy The Carnival Barker to "PLAY A LARGE ROLE IN THE GOP".
So he could destroy it for Hillary!
If one is not able to see the differences between Herself and The Donald, this article did nothing to clarify the situation. Virtues ascribed to Herself simply do not exist, and lapses attributed to The Donald are largely imaginary.
Herself PRETENDS to listen, and that is supposed to infer some kind of wisdom akin to that of Solomon. But be assured, Herself will never take any kind of constructive action based on any narrative that may be related by another, as Herself is entirely devoid of empathy.
As far as making promises that have little chance of being kept goes, one need only go back to 2004, when the Democrat Vice-Presidential candidate John Edwards stood up, pointed down at the paralyzed actor Christopher Reeve, and proclaimed that a vote for the Democrats would mean that people like Reeve “are going to walk, get up out of that wheelchair and walk again.”
Great applause line, but Mr. Reeve had the bad judgment to die shortly thereafter.
The Donald did not offer any panacea to Melissa Young, but promised all the assistance that may be needed in the coming days to make her current situation more bearable, for her family and the inevitable aftermath.
Yet you dutifully posted it as you do EVERYTHING from Townhall.
One might wonder WHY such a pattern exists.
I had an uncle who came down with colon cancer and my father and I went to visit him. He 6’3” and usually weighted about 220#’s. His wife and her sister and their nurse would come into the living room and tell my uncle how much better he was looking today. Johnny was down to 90#s and looked like hell. My father left Johnny and me alone while the cheerleaders were out of the room.
Johnny asked me if I thought he was going to make it and I told him,”Johnny make your peace with God and settle your affairs because you are not.” In our younger years we had worked and ran around together so he trusted me. He looked toward the foot of the bed and thanked me.
All those women could not or would not tell him the facts and he just wanted to be sure.
He passed 2 weeks later but at least it was not kept from him.
Honestly, what a pile of nonsense. Almost laughable
That does not say Trump called Clinton, which is what you said.
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