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Presidential Front-Runners Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Face Off
wsj.com ^ | Byron Tau

Posted on 12/22/2015 3:30:40 AM PST by RoosterRedux

Mrs. Clinton has been dogged by media coverage and Republican-led congressional inquiries focused on her handling of the 2012 Benghazi, Libya, terror attack and her use of personal email for official business at the State Department.

In a Wall Street Journal/NBC News October poll, Mrs. Clinton was rated poorly for being "honest and straightforward," with 50% of registered voters giving her low marks, including 40% who gave her the lowest possible rating.

Experts who study terrorism say the evidence is thin that Mr. Trump, who urged a ban on Muslims entering the U.S. and mosque surveillance after the Paris and California attacks, has been a specific focus in terrorism recruitment and propaganda to date.

"The claim that ISIS has featured Trump in its videos is untrue, to the best of my knowledge," said J.M. Berger, a terrorism researcher and fellow at the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at the Brookings Institution in Washington. "They do talk about him and his comments on social media, as a vindication of their views on how the West treats Muslims, but so far, not in an organized or overwhelming way."

Civilian casualties from Western airstrikes are more often used to promote a sense of victimhood and the narrative that Islam is at war with the West, a study by the counter-extremism think tank Quilliam Foundation found. Many of those strikes are carried out by the U.S. military, an anti-Islamic State tactic endorsed by most presidential candidates.

"Collateral damage is the Islamic State propagandist's friend; dead babies and maimed children are instrumentalised, routinely integrated into a catalogue of crimes that have been perpetrated by the 'enemy,' " the report's author concluded about the damage inflicted by bombing and airstrikes.

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1 posted on 12/22/2015 3:30:40 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: hoosiermama; onyx; Jane Long; V K Lee; conservativejoy; RitaOK; Black Agnes; nopardons; ...

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2 posted on 12/22/2015 3:31:21 AM PST by RoosterRedux (Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light - John Milton, Paradise Lost)
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3 posted on 12/22/2015 3:32:27 AM PST by Helicondelta
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To: RoosterRedux

Comments at source are interesting.


4 posted on 12/22/2015 3:38:04 AM PST by RoosterRedux (Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light - John Milton, Paradise Lost)
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To: RoosterRedux

This bitch should not be near a lever of power ...


5 posted on 12/22/2015 3:40:22 AM PST by VRWC For Truth (FUBO)
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To: Helicondelta

Talk about your concussions!


6 posted on 12/22/2015 3:51:22 AM PST by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: VRWC For Truth

If she keeps up as she has been, she would be likely to sell us out and then offer up a mountain of evasion.

And this might be why Donald Trump is the man for the moment. He might be wrong, might be hyperbolic, might have some lingering suboptimal political ideas. But he has no patience for bull spit artists. We need more than a shield, we need a lance.


7 posted on 12/22/2015 3:52:48 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
He might be wrong, might be hyperbolic

Hyperbolic, yes. Wrong, no.

8 posted on 12/22/2015 3:56:18 AM PST by RoosterRedux (Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light - John Milton, Paradise Lost)
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To: RoosterRedux; Impy

Trump’s timing interests me. He nearly helped destroy Hillary during the summer and then held back his punches.

Why? I think he wanted her battered but not destroyed.

If Hellery failed to take out Sanders, the rats were going to find someone stronger to primary Sanders out — some fresh unknown or possibly Biden. Either would have been more difficult to defeat than Hellery.

But then Sanders apologised for the communal database breach. I wrote an impish little summary over that ...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3374777/posts

Sanders is toast. So far as I know he still might be barred from his campaign database. Either way, he’s limping now and done.

So, in a few minutes’ time, now Trump delivers painful blows. He’s also rattling her cage. When Hillary goes ballistic, she lashes out at her advisors. This election could be the most lopsided in history.


9 posted on 12/22/2015 3:59:16 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (The DNC 2012 Convention actually booed God three times)
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10 posted on 12/22/2015 4:00:02 AM PST by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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To: RoosterRedux
Experts who study terrorism say the evidence is thin that Mr. Trump, who urged a ban on Muslims entering the U.S. and mosque surveillance after the Paris and California attacks, has been a specific focus in terrorism recruitment and propaganda to date.

It can't be ruled out that Clintons accusation wasn't an accusation so much as it was a public instruction to her allies in ISIS to make such videos.

11 posted on 12/22/2015 4:00:30 AM PST by Balding_Eagle ( (The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.))
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To: HiTech RedNeck

‘We need more than a shield, we need a lance.’

Yeah, I’ve been saying that for decades, literally, though not with such finesse.

[You make me feel like the redneck.]

Trump sees her juggular — not merely a mountain of coverups, a mountain RANGE of them:

‘My mind is a blender, I just can’t remember. Like jello.’

Did you know protesters stood outside the building of her legal firm when her whitewater papers were burned? [Clinton Chronicles.]


12 posted on 12/22/2015 4:10:23 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (The DNC 2012 Convention actually booed God three times)
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To: Liz

I am convinced the democrats, all of them, want the United States to collapse in on itself. Somehow they will be safe when all of us great unwashed are fending for ourselves.


13 posted on 12/22/2015 4:57:23 AM PST by exnavy (good gun control: two hands, one shot, one kill.)
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To: RoosterRedux

I’ll bet Clinton never tried to hustle Mrs. Trump.


14 posted on 12/22/2015 4:59:25 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: HiTech RedNeck

——we need a lance.-—

Good thought......attack, attack, attack

Hillary will rue the day she is contested with Trump. He has and endless choice of examples in which to rub her nose.

After all, her husband was impeached. She made a hundred grand trading cattle futures....... what a pitiful effort. If she was worth a damn, she would have made real money


15 posted on 12/22/2015 5:04:11 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump.)
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To: Balding_Eagle
It can't be ruled out that Clintons accusation against Trump wasn't much more....cueing in ISIS to produce such videos.....so that the Clinton Foundation can solicit huge donations.

The cunning Clintons are all about bringing in the big bucks. Hillarys blathering is just another multi-million dollar Clinton Foundation fund-raiser. Fornicator Bill coached debate Hillary in order to launch the Clinton Foundation into money-making do-goodism financed by Muslims.

This Clinton Foundation fund-raising letter is in the mail: "We need to make sure that discriminatory Republican messages fall on receptive ISIS ears. Republicans are recruiting radical jihadists to kill Americans. ISIS is going to people, showing videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims. Only the Clinton Foundation can facilitate this, so please give generously."

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TIDBIT That got the greedy Obamas into a billion dollar snit....seems their two get-rich-quick foundations, and the Chicago library fund, want first crack at the Muslim billionaires.....after all, Obama has done more for radical Islamic terrorism than anyone in recent memory.

16 posted on 12/22/2015 5:13:24 AM PST by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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To: RoosterRedux; VRWC For Truth; Arthur Wildfire! March; Liz; All
She Who Must Not Be Named is the most ruthless and incompetent woman ever to stalk the halls of power. Never forget that she is a student and disciple of Saul Alinsky. She has used the Rules for Radicals extensively in clawing her way to the top.

Her ultimate goal has always been the Oval Office. Her boast of being "Co-President" was not idle hubris. When her legal career was thwarted after Watergate, she married into power, using William the Impeached as a stepping stone.

She then used the NY Senate seat as another springboard to power but was foiled again, this time by the Chicago Machine, who had already chosen a bisexual Marxist Kenyan Muslim to carry the party banner.

Examine her personality. She has the need to dominate. It's not enough that people obey her commands; they must be forced to obey against their will, or the needed gratification is not derived.

She is a compulsive liar. She is a consummate fraud. She is a lesbian with a deep-seated hatred of the men who, in her mind, deny her her rightful place in history. Never again must she be allowed to approach the levers of authority, for that day will spell the doom of the Republic.

17 posted on 12/22/2015 5:23:13 AM PST by Old Sarge
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To: HiTech RedNeck
And this might be why Donald Trump is the man for the moment....... We need more than a shield, we need a lance.

Leonidas of Sparta.

And like Leonidas, Trump takes no prisoners.....and sports a mullet:


18 posted on 12/22/2015 5:37:56 AM PST by spokeshave (MDSM = Mentally Discombobulated Screaming Media)
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19 posted on 12/22/2015 5:43:53 AM PST by spokeshave (MDSM = Mentally Discombobulated Screaming Media)
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To: Old Sarge; Liz

THE REAL HILLARY CLINTON: Episode #6 - Defiling the White House Christmas Tree

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/812710/posts

[This is the last Christmas to remind people before race.]


20 posted on 12/22/2015 8:42:22 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (The DNC 2012 Convention actually booed God three times)
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