October 03, 2016

Big Fat Zero: Trump Plummets In Polls As Post-Debate Positive Hillary Vibe Rises

October 03, 2016/ Anne Enke

Christie, Giuliani on Tax Bombshell: Trump A 'Genius' Politico

Trump's boys club hunkers down around Trump paying no taxes for roads, bridges, social security benefits, the military and all other federal programs. He's a 'genius'!!!

"There's no one who's shown more genius in their way to maneuver around the tax code," New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said in an interview on "Fox News Sunday."

Trump's campaign was playing defense after a Saturday New York Times story revealed hat Trump reported a $916 million loss on his 1995 income tax returns, allowing him to avoid paying federal income taxes for as long as 18 years. Trump has refused to release his tax returns.

"The headline should have been, 'Donald Trump takes advantage of legal provisions in tax code,'" former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani said on CNN's "State of the Union."

Group Apologizes for Giuliani's 'Unscripted' Remarks At Awards Dinner; Trump's Attack Dog Loses Major Upcoming Keynote Speech AOC

Is the Trump campaign in meltdown mode? Top Trump adviser and surrogate Rudi Giuliani spoke at a recent Commercial Finance Association event -- the 40 Under 40 dinner at New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel. A formal apology was issued for his appalling remarks where -- like his big buddy Donald Trump -- the former New York mayor went totally off script.

Whether or not it was these exact remarks that precipitated the cancellation of Giuliani's upcoming keynote address at a conference held by the International Council of Shopping Centers is unknown.
While the apology for Giuliani's Waldorf Astoria speech did not include his specific remarks, one attendee reported: “Rudy talked about immigration and made a really, really inappropriate comment about the quote-unquote Mexicans in the kitchen at the Waldorf,” the attendee said. “It was bad. You could hear a pin drop. I think he was looking for applause.”

Note that with all the accusations against Hillary Clinton over her $200,000 speaking fees, Rudy Giuliani earned more than $11 million in paid speech in the 13 months directly prior to kicking off his Republican presidential campaign in February 2007. Did anyone in the media care? No. ~ Anne

When Youth Violence Spurred 'Superpredator' Fear New York Times

A self-proclaimed mansplainer Bernie Bros who refuses to vote for Hillary for countless reasons wrote today that she 'coined' the term 'superpredator'. SHE DID NOT!!!!!!!!

If Hillary Clinton is guilty of anything, it's being her wonk self when she testified about youth violence in America and used the false and unfortunate term 'superpredator'.

The term 'superpredator' was first used by an inmate but then incorporated into the research work of "John J. DiIulio Jr., then a political scientist at Princeton. Chaos was upon us, Mr. DiIulio proclaimed back then in scholarly articles and television interviews. The demographics, he said, were inexorable. Politicians from both major parties, though more so on the right, picked up the cry. Many news organizations pounced on these sensational predictions and ran with them like a punt returner finding daylight."

I'm pulling together a FB note on this entire topic because we have millennials everywhere believing that Hillary Clinton coined the term 'superpredator'. SHE DID NOT!!!

This 2014 article and fantastic, informative video tells the story of how this deadly superpredator theory came into being. ~ Anne

I Wrote That I Despised Hillary Clinton. Today I Publicly Take It Back. Huffington Post

"When Hillary Clinton became the presumptive Democratic nominee, I was distraught. Months before I had written about her on Huffington Post, explaining that I despised her not for her gender — as some of her supporters accused — but for her hawkishness, her center-left policies, her husband’s crime bill that incarcerated so many people of color, her support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and her inability to get progressive on climate change policy.

I’ve spent almost every waking hour of every day following this election, reading about Hillary, Donald Trump, both parties’ platforms, and the under-qualified Libertarian and Green Party candidates running. During these months of obsessing over my choice, I’ve watched my position slowly shift. I’ve felt myself start advocating for Hillary more than advocating a vote against Trump, culminating in last night’s debate when she finally, totally, completely won me over.

In an election that features one of the most well-documented liars and scam artist businessmen to ever run for public office, much of the attention has been on him — how we can’t put him in office, give him keys to a nuclear warhead, trust him in the most powerful position in the world. Some of it has been more positive: how he’d turn the system on its head, be a Washington outsider, completely rewrite the script. While it’s easy to make the case for voting against Trump, it occurred to me during the debate last night how much we’ve taken Clinton for granted.

Let’s start with a simple but important position: Hillary Clinton is the most qualified person to ever run for president.

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All this work, and what did Clinton get? She got an actual smug, young journalist named Isaac Saul writing about how I despised her, when I hardly knew the depth of her accomplishments, when I was clinging to the pipe dream of a Bernie Sanders presidency that may have never been in the cards, when my own father got ignored while he tried his best to talk some sense into me.

Secretary Clinton, I’m sorry. And I retract my previous position of hatred and angst towards you. You have made mistakes, some of them grave, and some of them unforgivable. Unfortunately, that comes with decades of life in the public eye, pressure and microphones in your face. But you have also accomplished far more in your life as a public servant than just about anyone that’s run for this office, and certainly far more than I ever will. When November rolls around, you’ll have my vote.

And you’ll get it enthusiastically."

Hillary Clinton Headlines October 2, 2016

Post-debate, Clinton takes the lead CNN

Hillary Clinton edges ahead of Donald Trump after first debate CBS News

Trump appears to suggest veterans are not 'strong' Politico

Trump running out of time as controversies pile up CNN

Clinton Promises 'End to End' Criminal Justice Reform in Pitch to Black Voters Politico

Sanders Says Clinton Comments in Leaked Audio 'Absolutely Correct' ABC News

Virginia poll shows Clinton with 7-point lead The Hill

Donald Trump Reportedly Pressured His Second Wife to Appear in Playboy Huffington Post

LeBron James: Why I'm endorsing Hillary Clinton Business Insider

In a Time of Trump, Millennial Jews Awaken to Anti-Semitism Politico

Oregon gubernatorial candidate says educated, 'powerful' women not susceptible to domestic violence minutes after opponent reveals she was abuse victim NY Daily News

Trump's bad week is a 'nightmare' for the GOP Washington Post

Trump Is No Moral Exemplar -- He's a Champion The Atlantic

Vermont Democrats: Where's Bernie? Politico

August 13, 2016

Hillary Clinton Looks Poll Strong In Battleground States | RuPaul Talks Truth For Hillary

August 13, 2016/ Anne Enke

Hillary Clinton Widens Lead Over Donald Trump in Battleground States Wall Street Journal

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is increasing her lead in three battleground states, while maintaining an advantage over Republican rival Donald Trump in Florida, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News/Marist poll has found.

In Colorado, Mrs. Clinton leads Mr. Trump 46% to 32%— up six pts from a July poll taken before the parties' conventions.

Mrs. Clinton also gained support in two Southern battleground states: Virginia, where she now leads 46% to 33%, and North Carolina, where she is ahead 48% to 39%. Mitt Romney won NC in 2012. In Florida the poll finds a tighter race, with Clinton at 44% and Trump at 39%.

Trump campaign launches drive to recruit 'election observers' Politico

In a move that's unprecedented in a presidential election, Donald Trump's campaign is seeking to recruit 'election observers'. Trump's website proclaims, "Help Me Stop Crooked Hillary From Rigging This Election! " as a followup to his assertion that he will win Pennsylvania unless Hillary Clinton steals his victory.

Those who wish to be a Trump "observer" are asked to fill out information on the website that should match their voter registration. Next step, voters are directed to a donation page.

Trump backs off his backpedal on Obama terror claim Politico

Trying to follow Donald Trump's constantly flipflopping positions can give one a whiplash. Om Friday in Erie, Pa the Republican candidate went full throttle after President Obama, again accusing him of founding ISIS.

Friday morning Trump had eased up on his claim, suggesting that it was a 'sarcastic comment'. “Ratings challenged @CNN reports so seriously that I call President Obama (and Clinton) ‘the founder’ of ISIS, & MVP,” Trump tweeted. “THEY DON'T GET SARCASM?”

Fully absorbed in his own ego, Trump was bemused about the media and their studying of his personality. “I love watching these poor, pathetic people (pundits) on television working so hard and so seriously to try and figure me out. They can't!” Trump declared.

“So I said the founder of ISIS,” Trump explained to the Erie, Pa crowd, because the president is “so weak and so bad” that he allowed the Islamic State to grow. “Obviously I’m being sarcastic. Then — but not that sarcastic, to be honest with you.”

The Republican presidential nominee’s swerving attempt at damage control came after doubling down, if not tripling down, on his “founder” claim Thursday. It also came ahead of what one person characterized as a “come-to-Jesus” meeting between Trump’s campaign and Republican Party officials in Orlando, Florida, on Friday morning, as dozens of prominent members of the GOP pressed the Republican National Committee to dump Trump and redirect its funds downballot to save Republican majorities in Congress.

Bernie Sanders's Plan for Perpetual Revolution The Daily Beast

Senator Sanders has launched a new organization, Our Revolution. His first big target is former DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who defends her House seat in an Aug. 30 primary against Sanders-backed Tim Canova.

Hillary Clinton detoured her campaign in Florida this week to endorse Wasserman Schultz, at a time when Sanders is determined to remake the Democratic Party in his own image, even wielding more power than the future president. Canova's own poll done after the Democratic convention shows him trailing Wasserman Schultz in the 23rd district by 8 points. Clinton won the primary big in Broward and Palm Beach counties, which comprise the district.

Many hoped that Sanders’s Our Revolution could form a new, effective third party able to make a coalition with Democrats on key issues. As an Independent, Senator Sanders has operated in this way for years. But many fear that Our Revolution will operate as an angry Tea Party type or organization focused on taking out Democrats not to their liking -- making it a feared organization and not one interested in coalition building.

RuPaul on His First Emmy Nomination. Donald Trump, and Hillary Clinton Vulture

Asked what he thinks about Hillary Clinton and the Democrats, Ru Paul let it rip.

[Laughs.] I fucking love them. I have always loved them. And let me just say this: If you're a politician — not just in Washington but in business and industry, you have to be a politician — there are a lot of things that you have to do that you're not proud of. There are a lot of compromises you have to make because it means that you can get this other thing over here. And if you think that you can go to fucking Washington and be rainbows and butterflies the whole time, you're living in a fucking fantasy world. So now, having said that, think about what a female has to do with that: All of those compromises, all of that shit, double it by ten. And you get to understand who this woman is and how powerful, persuasive, brilliant, and resilient she is. Any female executive, anybody who has been put to the side — women, blacks, gays — for them to succeed in a white-male-dominated culture is an act of brilliance. Of resilience, of grit, of everything you can imagine. So, what do I think of Hillary? I think she's fucking awesome. Is she in bed with Wall Street? Goddammit, I should hope so! You've got to dance with the devil. So which of the horrible people do you want? That's more of the question. Do you want a pompous braggart who doesn't know anything about diplomacy? Or do you want a badass bitch who knows how to get shit done? That's really the question.