The 2016 Presidential Election Trainwreck

[old_gregg]

Good stuff. Sanders is just as clueless as Trump on most of the major issues.

it's his only issue. even if he doesn't have his own ideas, how is he not briefed on answers to these questions by his campaign?

[byu71]

it's his only issue. even if he doesn't have his own ideas, how is he not briefed on answers to these questions?

Anybody that would know the answers to those questions don't hang out with him or are part of his team.

How can Donald give some of the most idiotic answers when it comes to the economy? Because like Bernie he relies on himself. They count on the gullibility of the American public.

[old_gregg]

Anybody that would know the answers to those questions don't hang out with him or are part of his team.

How can Donald give some of the most idiotic answers when it comes to the economy? Because like Bernie he relies on himself. They count on the gullibility of the American public.

bernie's baseless sincerity is scarier to me than trump's populist dumbness

[Paperback Writer]

it's his only issue. even if he doesn't have his own ideas, how is he not briefed on answers to these questions by his campaign?

Perhaps you simplify Bernie too much. He also wants to give free college tuition to young people.

[byu71]

bernie's baseless sincerity is scarier to me than trump's populist dumbness

Academics, historians and perhaps political pundits will someday explain the follwing of Trump, Cruz and Bernie. That might be difficult for them though as they might have to look into the mirror as to why these people have such great voter appeal. I would include Hillary in there but the I don't know if I could take the blow back I would get from many on this board.

[Uncle Ted]

Academics, historians and perhaps political pundits will someday explain the follwing of Trump, Cruz and Bernie. That might be difficult for them though as they might have to look into the mirror as to why these people have such great voter appeal. I would include Hillary in there but the I don't know if I could take the blow back I would get from many on this board.

I would add Hillary to that list.

For example, I don't understand the appeal of a woman that jokes about how she defended the rapist of a 12 year old girl and won him a plead deal because prosecutor and the lab screwed up a key part of the evidence...

Newly discovered audio recordings of Hillary Clinton from the early 1980s include the former first lady’s frank and detailed assessment of the most significant criminal case of her legal career: defending a man accused of raping a 12-year-old girl.


In 1975, the same year she married Bill, Hillary Clinton agreed to serve as the court-appointed attorney for Thomas Alfred Taylor, a 41-year-old accused of raping the child after luring her into a car.


The recordings, which date from 1983-1987 and have never before been reported, include Clinton’s suggestion that she knew Taylor was guilty at the time. She says she used a legal technicality to plead her client, who faced 30 years to life in prison, down to a lesser charge. The recording and transcript, along with court documents pertaining to the case, are embedded below.
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Describing the events almost a decade after they had occurred, Clinton’s struck a casual and complacent attitude toward her client and the trial for rape of a minor.


“I had him take a polygraph, which he passed – which forever destroyed my faith in polygraphs,” she added with a laugh.


Clinton can also be heard laughing at several points when discussing the crime lab’s accidental destruction of DNA evidence that tied Taylor to the crime.
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The girl had joined Taylor and two male acquaintances, including one 15-year-old boy she had a crush on, on a late-night trip to the bowling alley, according to Newsday.


Taylor drove the group around in his truck, pouring the girl whisky and coke on the way.


The group later drove to a “weedy ravine” near the highway where Taylor raped the 12-year-old.


Around 4 a.m., the girl and her mother went to the hospital, where she was given medical tests and reported that she had been assaulted.


Taylor was arrested on May 13, 1975. The court initially appointed public defender John Barry Baker to serve as his attorney. But Taylor insisted he wanted a female lawyer.


The lawyer he would end up with: Hillary Rodham.
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Taylor, who pleaded to unlawful fondling of a child, was sentenced to one year in prison, with two months reduced for time served. He died in 1992.
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In the interview with Reed, Clinton does not mention the hotline, nor does she discuss the plight of the 12-year-old girl who had been attacked.


Now 52, the victim resides in the same town where she was born.


Divorced and living alone, she blames her troubled life on the attack. She was in prison for check forgery to pay for her prior addiction to methamphetamines when Newsday interviewed her in 2008. The story says she harbored no ill will toward Clinton.


According to her, that is not the case.


“Is this about that rape of me?” she asked when a Free Beacon reporter knocked on her door and requested an interview.


Declining an interview, she nevertheless expressed deep and abiding hostility toward the Newsday reporter who spoke to her in 2008—and toward her assailant’s defender, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

http://freebeacon.com/politics/the-hillary-tapes/

Yeah, it is hard to like a woman that laughs at a serious matter such as this even if the prosecutor made a dumbass mistake. Thanks to the very poor candidates both parties are fielding this year I am expecting the Libertarians to do better than they ever have.

[Northwestcoug]

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[imanihonjin]

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Awesome. I love the internet.

[Uncle Ted]

if this hasn't been posted before, can any of our bernie bros explain this?

some notable excerpts:



has bernie, the brooklyn native and man of the people, really not been on the subway in 15 years?



bernie can't name a bank other than jpm and gs?



not only does he not answer the question, he doesn't know neel kashkari by name at this point? holy smokes. this is the bread and butter of his campaign!



i don't think he knows anything about dodd-frank. he has zero idea how he'd go about doing the thing at the center of his platform. this should scare people.



he's ready to crucify anybody that works at a bank, but he can't even speak to whether anybody actually broke the law?

I love the NY Daily News.

[Omaha 680]

More evidence New Yorkers are nuts.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/...in-third-place

A Monmouth University survey released Wednesday shows Trump taking 52 percent support, followed by Kasich at 25 percent. Ted Cruz has 17 percent.

A majority of New York Republicans — 57 percent — said Trump’s myriad controversial remarks, from musing about punishing women who get abortions should they be made illegal to encouraging a nuclear arms race in Asia, will have no impact on how they vote in the primary.

Then there is this:

If the Ohio governor were the GOP nominee, 80 percent of Republican primary voters said they’d cast a ballot for him over Clinton. Only 70 percent said the same of Trump, and 66 percent of Cruz.

So naturally, Trump is running away with the NY delegates.

[Uncle Ted]

More evidence New Yorkers are nuts.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/...in-third-place





Then there is this: So naturally, Trump is running away with the NY delegates.

And the democrat side they throw one of their own, Brooklyn born Bernie Sanders, under the bus for a southern carpet bagger... maybe they mixed the two up and thought that Bernie was the one from the south?

[myboynoah]

Cruz runs rings around Trump’s bush-league convention prep

His act — ignorance slathered with a congealed gravy of arrogance — has become stale.

[Uncle Ted]

I guess they don't like Ted in NYC...

[Omaha 680]

I guess they don't like Ted in NYC...

I don't really find Seth Meyers funny, but I caught his headlines bit last night and a Ted Cruz joke made me laugh.

Ted Cruz spent the day after his big win in Wisconsin campaigning in the Bronx. Said his supporters, "None of us live there!"

[Moliere]

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