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It’s beyond debate that Donald Trump is unfit to be president
Washington Post ^

Posted on 09/26/2016 8:36:18 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

It’s beyond debate that Donald Trump is unfit to be president

By Editorial Board September 25 at 7:17 PM

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; trump2016; wp
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To: Sub-Driver

Anthropogenic Global Warming? It’s beyond debate.

Joseph McCarthy as demagogue and trampler of innocents? It’s beyond debate.

Hillary Clinton’s state of health? It’s beyond debate.

Donald Trump’s un-fitness to be President? It’s beyond debate.

Anyone see a pattern here?

Any time liberals want to steamroll something they cannot debate intellectually, they piously intone “It’s beyond debate”, signalling that only a dimwit would deign to doubt their expertise that it is a settled issue.


81 posted on 09/26/2016 10:21:22 AM PDT by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

I used to pick up an occasional copy of the detestable Boston Globe, because I used newspaper and vinegar to clean the windows in my car, but...as with everything else associated with the liberal rags, it isn’t even fit for that anymore.

It turns into a mushy pulp now when it gets wet.

I say good. I will celebrate the day they declare bankruptcy.


82 posted on 09/26/2016 10:23:47 AM PDT by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: Sub-Driver

The MSM types should stop complaining. Most folks who follow their apparently chosen “profession” have to perform it on their knees in airport men’s rooms.


83 posted on 09/26/2016 10:27:03 AM PDT by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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To: Sub-Driver

Okay, let’s crown him King. lol Oh, I forgot, the job is not for life only 4 years with an option of 4 more if voted in.


84 posted on 09/26/2016 10:27:53 AM PDT by This I Wonder32460
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To: Sub-Driver

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

cheery way to start the day


85 posted on 09/26/2016 10:36:47 AM PDT by Nifster (Ignore all polls. Get Out The Vote)
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To: Sub-Driver

Nothing is beyond debate. Newtons law of Gravity was revised by Einstein.


86 posted on 09/26/2016 10:46:04 AM PDT by hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998 (VMFA 235 '69-'72)
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To: tumblindice

I expect Trump knows exactly what he’ll do. He has a very smart brain.


87 posted on 09/26/2016 10:50:45 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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To: Don Corleone

And it’s all about background, background, background. Not a word about who can get things done and create order out of chaos.


88 posted on 09/26/2016 10:51:50 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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To: Talisker

The banality of evil.


89 posted on 09/26/2016 10:52:43 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton

Suppose Trump continues to reject the status quo? Suppose he sues them all for antitrust and get them broken up. Then how would it be?


90 posted on 09/26/2016 10:53:50 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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To: Jamestown1630

I actually still buy this rag on Sundays, for the coupons and to line my pigeon cages. I’ll have to stop even that.


I feel you, JT, my mom with Alzheimer’s insists on seeing her morning paper no matter what, so we have to pay for the LA Times, which yesterday claimed that Trump is the biggest liar ever to run.

Check your grocery store’s online site. You can sign up for automatic coupons for lots of products you like. And get someone who works at a school or office to save a bag of junk paper for the bird cage?


91 posted on 09/26/2016 10:54:37 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Lazamataz
Has the editorial board of ANY newspaper EVER put out DAILY hit pieces on any Presidential candidate?

Not a Newspaper. It's the Jeff Bezos blog.

92 posted on 09/26/2016 10:58:24 AM PDT by Stentor
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To: Sub-Driver
I was just reminded of some perspective on this. MeTV is rerunning and old show some here will recall, Sledge Hammer! Given the alternative of HRC , I'd vote Sledge for Pres (and Dorreau for First Partner!) every time. Even though by every criteria the Compost can cite Sledge makes Trump seem like a well qualified Saint in comparison.
93 posted on 09/26/2016 11:03:21 AM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Obama been Liberal. Hope Changes)
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To: Yaelle

Thanks! We do the store card sign-up thing - but did you know that those, and online coupons, don’t get doubled, like the clipped ones do? At least not here.

Also, Coupon Mom is a good site. I haven’t used it in a while, but it used to be one of the few that don’t stick a ribbon on your desktop when you download the printer app.


94 posted on 09/26/2016 11:10:03 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton

Wouldn’t take impeachment with Trump. If he goes too far Pence could say Trump went nuts and invoke the 25th to take over and the Rats & Rinos in Congress would join to make it so. Fat chance they’d do the same to Hillary. Unlike Clintons, past and future, and Obama, Trump will face checks and balances.


95 posted on 09/26/2016 11:14:34 AM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Obama been Liberal. Hope Changes)
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To: ichabod1

Truly.


96 posted on 09/26/2016 11:27:10 AM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Jamestown1630

Oh I remember the doubling! You are right, the online ones don’t have that. :(


97 posted on 09/26/2016 11:33:38 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: freeandfreezing

I know a few Hillary supporters. HOW CAN THEY SUPPORT THIS MONSTER?


98 posted on 09/26/2016 11:36:45 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Jamestown1630

I think they sell blank newsprint paper at Michaels. No idea of the cost.


99 posted on 09/26/2016 11:38:33 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle

Thanks!


100 posted on 09/26/2016 11:39:36 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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