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To Democrats, Donald Trump Is No Longer a Laughing Matter
The New York Times ^ | 12/10/2015 | AMY CHOZICK and MAGGIE HABERMAN

Posted on 12/10/2015 7:25:25 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel

Until Monday, when Donald J. Trump proposed a ban on Muslims entering the United States, Hillary Clinton could hardly keep herself from laughing at the mention of his name. "I'm sorry, I can't help it," she told ABC News on Sunday, letting out a giggle that made advisers squirm.

She is no longer laughing.

At a town hall here on Wednesday, Mrs. Clinton delivered her most damning, direct criticism of Mr. Trump, saying that he traffics "in prejudice and paranoia," and that his Muslim proposal was "not only shameful, it's dangerous."

But Mrs. Clinton also strove to recognize something stirring in the electorate that Mr. Trump had clearly tapped into. "It's O.K., it's O.K. to be afraid," she said. "When bad things happen, it does cause anxiety and fear," she added. "But then you pull yourself together and, especially, if you want to be a leader of our country, and you say:'O.K., what are we going to do about it? How are we going to be prepared?'"

The remarks bore little resemblance to Mrs. Clinton's previous dismissals of Mr. Trump, She had portrayed him as a reality television sideshow who voiced more extreme terms beliefs that, she contended, his more serious G.O.P. rivals shared.

But since Mr. Trump's response to the Dec. 2 terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Calif., Mrs. Clinton and her campaign, confounded by his continued strength in the polls, have had to rethink how they handle Mr. Trump and what his candidacy, and the anger in the electorate that has fueled it, means for her chances in 2016.

Some of her own voters are giving her reason to.

Bennie Stickley, a 75-year-old in Gilbertville, Iowa, who retired from a John Deere factory, said he was supporting Mrs. Clinton but agrees with Mr. Trump's proposal to bar Muslims.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; election2016; elections; immigration; newyork; trump; trumpwasright
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He should have never been a laughing matter. The joke is on Trump-haters! Go Trump!!!
1 posted on 12/10/2015 7:25:25 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

she’s still doing town halls? lmao seating capacity of 45?


2 posted on 12/10/2015 7:27:37 PM PST by changeitback440
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Not afraid. Angry, outraged and tired of being betrayed.


3 posted on 12/10/2015 7:27:47 PM PST by Hugin ("First thing--get yourself a firearm!" Sheriff Ed Galt, Last Man Standing.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

He is going to mop the floor with her.

She’ll be laughing out the back side of her head by the time he’s done with her.


4 posted on 12/10/2015 7:28:05 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I support President Pre-elect Donald J. Trump. Karl Rove, the GOPe, and Leftist's worst nightmare.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Clinton is a demented old fool.


5 posted on 12/10/2015 7:29:54 PM PST by samtheman (I will build a great, great wall on our southern border... - DT)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Millions of Democrats ( working ones) are shifting to Trump— MILLIONS. People who want JOBS — not hand outs. The parasites hate Trump and must be prepared to put a full day into community service to get their welfare and food stamps. Is that a bad idea?-— Why?


6 posted on 12/10/2015 7:30:10 PM PST by WENDLE (Trump is not bought . He is no puppet.)
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"But then you pull yourself together and, especially, if you want to be a leader of our country, and you say:'O.K., what are we going to do about it? How are we going to be prepared?'"

By banning the entry of Muslims into the country, ya moron!

You can almost hear the voice of Huma Abedin in the desperation.

7 posted on 12/10/2015 7:30:16 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.


8 posted on 12/10/2015 7:31:36 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("We are not a nation of immigrants. We are a nation of citizens." -- Mark Levin)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

I am 55. There is an eerie similarity about now and 1980. Ronald Reagan was severely underrated by the libs. He was thought of as a bit of a joke. They laughed, in muted titters, at their cocktail parties, about the Reagan candidacy. I am not saying that Trump is Reagan. I am saying that the degree of underestimation is spookily similar.


9 posted on 12/10/2015 7:32:15 PM PST by fhayek
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I’ll suggest to you that he never was a laughing mater to them.

They put on a good show. But BOTH sides know what kind of man he is, and know that he can’t be owned.

They were wetting themselves from Day One. And now the enormity of it actually happening is driving them batsh*t crazy.

And that makes them dangerous as hell.


10 posted on 12/10/2015 7:32:44 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

I understand the number of Muslims coming into the USA has increased dramatically since 9/11.

On 9/12/2001 if someone had said that we would be bringing in more and more Muslims in the next 15 years, they would have been declared crazy or as deranged as a Muslim fanatic.

But today we have Republicans and Democrats falling over each other in their zeal to import even more Muslims and making the taxpayers foot the gold plated welfare checks to make the Muslims feel at home. Are you feeling safer?

Trump is exposing the dirty secrets of the Establishment Elite and they do not like it.


11 posted on 12/10/2015 7:33:10 PM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

It’s okay to be afraid....as long as we keep doing exactly what we’re doing. [/s]


12 posted on 12/10/2015 7:33:20 PM PST by rbg81 (Don't tell me, show me)
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To: changeitback440

Hilary giggling? http://youtu.be/orYcAiFqknU


13 posted on 12/10/2015 7:33:41 PM PST by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I hope when Trump is elected he goes after her and puts her in jail.


14 posted on 12/10/2015 7:34:41 PM PST by rovenstinez
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

It takes two..sometimes THREE ‘journo-listas’ to write a story these days, eh?


15 posted on 12/10/2015 7:34:44 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

He’s stealing their moderate voters. Dems can’t win without those.


16 posted on 12/10/2015 7:36:35 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Second that emotion!
GO TRUMP! Enjoying the ride on the man’s coat tails flying high up in the sky! What a ride!


17 posted on 12/10/2015 7:37:38 PM PST by V K Lee (u TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP to TRIUMPH Follow the lead MAKE AMERICA GREAT)
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To: fhayek

Great points.


18 posted on 12/10/2015 7:40:12 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel (I LOVE JESUS CHRIST because He first loved me!)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

What’s. With. The. Way. Cankles. Talks. These. Days?

Did. She. Have. A. Stroke. Or. Something?


19 posted on 12/10/2015 7:40:50 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("We are not a nation of immigrants. We are a nation of citizens." -- Mark Levin)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Hillary Clinton is a flyweight going against a heavyweight


20 posted on 12/10/2015 7:42:10 PM PST by VideoDoctor
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