Only One Sane Choice

The Enquirer has supported Republicans for president for almost a century – a tradition this editorial board doesn’t take lightly. But this is not a traditional race, and these are not traditional times. Our country needs calm, thoughtful leadership to deal with the challenges we face at home and abroad. We need a leader who will bring out the best in all Americans, not the worst.

That’s why there is only one choice when we elect a president in November: Hillary Clinton.

Do we really want someone in charge of our military and nuclear codes who has an impulse control problem? The fact that so many top military and national security officials are not supporting Trump speaks volumes.

This editorial board has been consistent in its criticism of his policies and temperament beginning with the Republican primary. We've condemned his childish insults; offensive remarks to women, Hispanics and African-Americans; and the way he has played on many Americans' fears and prejudices to further himself politically. Trump brands himself as an outsider untainted by special interests, but we see a man utterly corrupted by self-interest. His narcissistic bid for the presidency is more about making himself great than America. Trump tears our country and many of its people down with his words so that he can build himself up. What else are we left to believe about a man who tells the American public that he alone can fix what ails us?

While Clinton has been relentlessly challenged about her honesty, Trump was the primary propagator of arguably the biggest lie of the past eight years: that Obama wasn't born in the United States. Trump has played fast and loose with the support of white supremacist groups. He has praised some of our country's most dangerous enemies – see Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un and Saddam Hussein – while insulting a sitting president, our military generals, a Gold Star family and prisoners of war like Sen. John McCain. Of late, Trump has toned down his divisive rhetoric, sticking to carefully constructed scripts and teleprompters. But going two weeks without saying something misogynistic, racist or xenophobic is hardly a qualification for the most important job in the world. Why should anyone believe that a Trump presidency would look markedly different from his offensive, erratic, stance-shifting presidential campaign?

Trump And Nukes

A majority of voters say Donald Trump would allow the U.S. to default on its debt and that he would misuse the power of the presidency to punish his political opponents.

And nearly half of voters — 46 percent — say the GOP nominee would use a nuclear weapon to attack ISIS or another foreign enemy.

Sixty-five percent said that there would be race riots in major cities during a Trump administration, and 44 percent believe Trump would authorize internment camps for illegal immigrants.

Trump 2016 Is A Scam

Trump University was shut down by the Justice Department because it was a scam.

The Justice Department should fulfill its constitutional obligation and shut down Trump 2016 which is a much bigger scam.

Trump 2016 has been selling a 25 billion dollar wall that will never materialize. The sponsor of the wall has backed out big time. And Trump 2016 is selling a 600 billion dollar round up and deport everyone plan that is pie in the sky. Trump University scams never were so grand.

And if the Justice Department will not act, I threaten to sell off the Brooklyn Bridge. How would you like a few Trump Towers with that?

How To Win The Debate

Hillary 2016 pulled a master stroke of a party convention. Getting this Trump guy off balance was rather easy to do. Putting a Gold Star Muslim family on national stage is all it took.

That is how the debates will be won. By throwing this guy off balance. This dude would be a perfect opponent to have in jujitsu, where the idea is to use your opponent's force and momentum against him. You are dealing with a primate here.

"Man up, Donald!"

"You would like to sell the American people a wall and I would like to sell you the Brooklyn Bridge."

"Rape is a sex crime, but you wouldn't know that, would you?"

"No soccer, no Brazil. No immigration, no America."

"Why have you not released your tax forms? How much in Russian money are you hiding?"

"Trump Foundation buys paintings of Donald Trump, and you want to talk about the Clinton Foundation that beats the American Red Cross in ratings?"

"When was the last time you sent an email? What do you know about emails?"

"Your round up and deport everyone plan costs hundreds of billions of dollars. Where is that money coming from?"

"Has your dismantle NATO agenda been sponsored by Putin?"

"Your tax cut plan has a price tag of five trillion dollars. Where is that money going to come from?"

"Do you know anyone who has had a greater number of bankruptcies than you?"

"You have not written any of your books, have you? I met the guy who actually wrote The Art Of The Deal."

"You have called women pigs. Shame on you."

"What do you know about the religion of Islam?"

"The Mayor of London is a Muslim. How do you feel about that?"

"The smartest person on earth, Stephen Hawking, is a disabled person. Have you ever mocked him? Do you have any idea how much smarter he is compared to you?"

"How many articles in the US Constitution?"

"What's the difference between Medicare and Medicaid?"

"How do you spell China?"

"Tell us about your friendship with Gaddafi."

"You bragged about knowing Putin before you said you did not know Putin. What's the truth?"

"You would like to start a trade war. Correct?"

"Economists give your plan 18 months before there is a major recession in the country. Why are you so hellbent on causing a recession? How will your businesses benefit in such a Trump induced recession? Do you plan to buy real estate on the cheap?"

"Why are you so adamant on wanting to use nuclear weapons?"

"Why do you want more nuclear powers in the world?"

"What are your cholesterol levels? Is it true you only eat fast food? What if you die of a heart attack in the White House?"

"How often do you change your wig? Who washes them?"

"Is it true you will continue to do your TV show when in office?"

"How much money has your campaign paid your various businesses?"

"You like Putin. You like Saddam. You like Kim Jong Il. You liked Gaddafi. Who else are your favorite? How do you like Khamenei? What about Bin Laden? Al Zwahari? What about Mussolini? Do you think he was charismatic?"

"You said you know more about ISIS than the generals. What do you know?"

"You have been promoting your hotels and golf courses while pretending to be campaigning? Have you been falsely accused? Have you been campaigning?"

"Has the media been unfair to you?"

"How many emails have you sent over a lifetime?"

"Are you on Facebook?"

Looks Like An Orangutan, Acts Like A Chimpanzee

If America elects Donald Trump president, America can go back to being the North American power it once was. India will step in. China will step in. In 10 years Africa will step in. Mexico will take Texas, then you will no longer have "immigration issues."

You can not claim you are the leading country and act like America is an island. People running for president regardless of party will have to respect the world. I don't know if this guy is an orangutan or a chimpanzee, he looks orange like an orangutan and beats his chest like a chimpanzee, so it's confusing, but this guy has been giving non white kids across the globe self esteem issues for a full year now. This pig person has been giving serious self esteem issues to young girls across America and across the world. The guy is a total pig. He is a total foul mouth and he is not going to get away with it.

This will not stand.

There can be legitimate philosophical and ideological differences. Differences in knowledge and intelligence are allowed. But this guy is not running on any of that. This guy is running on pure hatred of everyone who does not look a chimp like him. That is a lot of people.

His rabid sexism will not stand. His out of control racism will not stand. His xenophobia can go on his hair. There is no place for it in America, not in this world.  

Immigration

Here's Why Donald Trump Is More Right About Immigration Than You Think 

If you are right you have been right throughout American history.

Chris Matthews has been pretending to be a liberal, but he is just another white male.

Trump Win?

"The Keys to the White House" is a historically based prediction system. I derived the system by looking at every American presidential election from 1860 to 1980, and have since used the system to correctly predict the outcomes of all eight American presidential elections from 1984 to 2012."

Donald Trump has made this the most difficult election to assess since 1984. We have never before seen a candidate like Donald Trump, and Donald Trump may well break patterns of history that have held since 1860.

We've never before seen a candidate who's spent his life enriching himself at the expense of others. He's the first candidate in our history to be a serial fabricator, making up things as he goes along. Even when he tells the truth, such as, "Barack Obama really was born in the U.S.," he adds two lines, that Hillary Clinton started the birther movement, and that he finished it, even though when Barack Obama put out his birth certificate, he didn't believe it. We've never had a candidate before who not just once, but twice in a thinly disguised way, has incited violence against an opponent. We've never had a candidate before who's invited a hostile foreign power to meddle in American elections. We've never had a candidate before who's threatened to start a war by blowing ships out of the water in the Persian Gulf if they come too close to us. We've never had a candidate before who has embraced as a role model a murderous, hostile foreign dictator. Given all of these exceptions that Donald Trump represents, he may well shatter patterns of history that have held for more than 150 years, lose this election even if the historical circumstances favor it.

I think the fact that he's a bit of a maverick, and nobody knows where he stands on policy, because he's constantly shifting. I defy anyone to say what his immigration policy is, what his policy is on banning Muslims, or whoever, from entering the United States, that's certainly a factor. But it's more his history in Trump University, the Trump Institute, his bankruptcies, the charitable foundation, of enriching himself at the expense of others, and all of the lies and dangerous things he's said in this campaign, that could make him a precedent-shattering candidate.