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

September 15, 2016

The Trump Organization Is A National Security Nightmare For A Trump Presidency | Ivanka Trump Aborts Cosmo Interview

September 15, 2016/ Anne Enke

How the Trump Organization's Foreign Business Ties Upend U.S. National Security Newsweek

This very important article by Kurt Eichenwald is one of the first to look deeply into the Trump organization and the heap of conflicts of interest and ethical problems that would exist in a Trump presidency. The candidate replies that his kids will run the business while he devotes himself to making America great again. Trump refers to this as a 'blind trust' arrangement, which is technically incorrect. The article also touches on important info on the Clinton Foundation. It's doubtful that this article will have any impact on Trump voters, but any citizen concerned about how a Trump presidency could read it beginning to end.

"The Trump Organization is not like the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, the charitable enterprise that has been the subject of intense scrutiny about possible conflicts for the Democratic presidential nominee. There are allegations that Hillary Clinton bestowed benefits on contributors to the foundation in some sort of “pay to play” scandal when she was secretary of state, but that makes no sense because there was no “pay.” Money contributed to the foundation was publicly disclosed and went to charitable efforts, such as fighting neglected tropical diseases that infect as many as a billion people. The financials audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers, the global independent accounting company, and the foundation’s tax filings show that about 90 percent of the money it raised went to its charitable programs. (Trump surrogates have falsely claimed that it was only 10 percent and that the rest was used as a Clinton “slush fund.”) No member of the Clinton family received any cash from the foundation, nor did it finance any political campaigns. In fact, like the Clintons, almost the entire board of directors works for free."

The 'new liberal economics' is the key to understanding Hillary Clinton's policies VOX

VOX writes that both the Democratic primary and now the general election shows how the party is shifting on the subject of economic policy. Hillary Clinton's policy proposals and the Democratic platform reflect this new thinking.

Key planks now governing the Democratic thinking include:

Inequality is not a regrettable but inevitable byproduct of an efficient economy, nor a temporary, self-correcting trend. It’s driven by policy choices, and new choices can make a difference.

The economy will not simply bounce back from any weaknesses, as was assumed under Alan Greenspan’s Great Moderation. Rather, there are deep structural problems that include a global savings glut and unwillingness by US companies to make investments.

"Nudging" the private market is not always the best way to deliver core goods and economic security. Deploying government services directly can be more effective.

Ivanka Trump on Her Father's New Child Care and Maternity Leave Policy Cosmopolitan

On Tuesday, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump released a child care and maternity leave plan, one that offers new mothers only -- not fathers -- six weeks of paid maternity leave, tax deductions for stay-at-home parents, and dependent care savings accounts for families. America is the only industrialized country in the world that does not offer federally-mandated family leave, an idea that Republicans have lobbied against for decades. The campaign hopes that this idea, supported by a newly-launched Women Empowerment Tour, will help boost its highly-negative image among women voters — a deficit estimated at 65 percent in a late August ABC News/Washington Post poll.

Trump credits his highly-visible daughter, 34-year-old Ivanka Trump, an executive at the Trump Organization, mother of three and fashion designer, as the originator of the new policy. Ivanka joined her father in Pennsylvania on Tuesday evening and published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal outlining the policy. Cosmopolitan.com spoke with Ivanka over the phone Wednesday morning about her father’s new family leave and child care policy in what became a fiery interview.

Asked to explain how his newly stated policy lined up with Donald Trump's 2004 comments lamenting the toll of maternity leave on companies, Ivanka pushed back against the question, accusing the writer of 'editorializing' and questioning her with 'hostility'. At the time, Trump said pregnancy is "a wonderful thing for the woman, it's a wonderful thing for the husband, it's certainly an inconvenience for a business. And whether people want to say that or not, the fact is it is an inconvenience for a person that is running a business."

“My father obviously has a track record of decades of employing women at every level of his company, and supporting women, and supporting them in their professional capacity, and enabling them to thrive outside of the office and within,” she said. “To imply otherwise is an unfair characterization of his track record and his support of professional women.”

“You said he made those comments,” she said. “I don't know that he said those comments.”

Prior to her ending her interview ahead of schedule, the businesswoman was also asked to explain why the family plan did not include paternity leave and how it would apply to gay male couples. A competing plan long-ago published on the Hillary Clinton website includes fathers. In response, Ivanka Trump insisted that her father’s plan was “a giant leap from where we are today,” but acknowledged the priority was on the mother.

“The plan, right now, is focusing on mothers, whether they be in same-sex marriages or not,” she said.