I intend to post these "Election 2016" links
often during the coming weeks, possible daily. As I have been posting links to
these articles I've avoided giving "My Take" on the writers and those
who they're writing about. I want the information on these people to stand on
it's own, and allow everyone to decide whether or not they like their stances.
Each candidate will be listed alphabetically. At some point before the first
primaries I intend to organize all the articles about each candidate
separately, and then publish each. After that I will publish a synopsis of
everything they've said, everything they are saying and their positions past
and present, along with a final "My Take" for your enjoyment. Please
enjoy today's posts!
Ben Carson
Ben Carson: Planned Parenthood Clinics Put in
Black Neighborhoods to ‘Control That Population’ - Wednesday
on Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” former Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon Dr. Ben
Carson, a candidate for the 2016 Republican nomination, sounded off on Planned
Parenthood, as the so-called women’s health organization has been under fire in
recent weeks for a series of videos suggesting they were open to selling
aborted fetal tissue for profit. Carson referred to the founder of Planned
Parenthood, Margaret Sanger and her position on eugenics, particularly as it
pertained to blacks, which he said may not allow for him to be objective when
it comes to Planned Parenthood. “Well, maybe I’m not objective when it comes to
Planned Parenthood. But you know, I know who Margaret Sanger is, and I know
that she believed in eugenics, and that she was not particularly enamored with
black people,” Carson said. “And one of the reasons that you find most of their
clinics in black neighborhoods is so that you can find way to control that
population. And I think people should go back and read about Margaret Sanger,
who founded this place — a woman who Hillary Clinton by the say says she
admires. Look and see what many people in Nazi Germany thought about her.”…..
Hillary Clinton
Hillary turns over email server to DoJ as 'top secret'
emails found - Hillary Clinton's
attorney turned over her personal email server to the Department of Justice
yesterday amid questions about at least 7 emails in Clinton's possession
containing classified information. At least two of the emails were
classified as "top secret" despite Clinton's longtime denial that any
classified material was ever stored in the server. Two separate investigations
into the email controversy are muddying the waters, as the State Department
inspector general and intelligence community IG are viewing the email scandal
from two different perspectives. The intel community wants to know if any
classified information was compromised. The State Department is trying to
respond to FOIA requests, specifically from Judicial Watch, as well as
investigate who was using the private server among Clinton aides and hand over
email communications that survive to the appropriate congressional committee. Washington
Post:…..
Hillary 'arms-to-jihadists' allegation at center of trial
- Hillary Clinton’s political problems as she seeks the Democratic Party
nomination for president could be compounded next month when the trial of
gunrunner Marc Turi begins. Court filings by Turi’s defense counsel,
Jean-Jacques Cabou of the law firm Perkins Coie LLP, indicate then-Secretary of
State Clinton’s alleged role in a secret and possibly illegal Obama
administration plan in 2011 to ship weapons to al-Qaida-affiliated militia
groups in Libya will be at the center of the case. The Department of Justice
prosecution of Turi is unusual in that it does not allege in its indictment
that Turi ever actually shipped weapons to the Libyan“rebels.” Instead, the DOJ
has charged Turi with lying on an export-license application, alleging he hid
his intent to ship weapons and ammunition to Libya in direct violation of
United Nations Security Council Resolution 170.
Hillary Clinton Asks College Grads to Use Emojis to
Describe Their Feelings on StudentLoan Debt - Faced with plummeting
poll and favorability ratings (plus the FBI seizing her server), Hillary
Clinton's campaign is trying out a hip new way to promote her student debt plan
to recent college grads: emojis. First of all, the grammatically correct way of
phrasing that tweet is "three emojis or fewer," but I digress. The
majority of responses have been what one would expect: angry faces, the skull,
sad faces, and the "money flying away" symbol……
Queen Hillary: Hillary Clinton is in trouble
- Or more accurately put, she should be in trouble, very big trouble, in fact.
The latest from the Department of Justice is that, yes, they have seized
Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail server and an accompanying thumb drive. But is
she above the law?
Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina Emerges as a G.O.P. Weapon Against ‘War
onWomen’ Charge- This week, Donald J. Trump said that
listening to Carly
Fiorina, the only woman competing for the Republican presidential
nomination, gave him “a massive headache.” It was music to Mrs. Fiorina’s ears.
For months, the former Hewlett-Packard executive has tried to gain traction by
pointedly attacking Hillary Rodham Clinton.
But Mrs. Fiorina’s candidacy did not start to sizzle until her performance at last week’s second-tier
Republican debate, where viewers realized that as the sole woman in a
17-candidate primary field, she was singularly qualified to stand up to Mr.
Trump……
Why Carly Crushed It - While the
Republican National Committee might have limited the number of debates in this
season's primary process, the candidates' performances during the first debate
ensured that they would still carry great weight. With Donald Trump as the
current leader of the field, this might be considered the first reality-TV
primary. The first Republican debate for the 2016 nominee was held last week on
Fox News. Moderated by Martha MacCallum and Bill Hemmer, it featured Rick
Perry, Rick Santorum, Bobby Jindal, Carly Fiorina, Lindsey Graham, George
Pataki and Jim Gilmore, and drew 6.1 million viewers. The prime-time debate,
moderated by Bret Baier, Megyn Kelly and Chris Wallace, included Donald Trump,
Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Mike Huckabee, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Rand
Paul, Chris Christie and John Kasich, and drew 24 million viewers. and in my
mind the clear winner of the first debate -- was Carly Fiorina…..
Carly on Katie- In an interview with
Katie Couric, Carly Fiorina proved her communication wisdome once again. Don't
miss this great interview where Fiorina expertly tackles tough questions on
climate change.
John Kasich
Kasich defends immigrants as 'contributing significantly'-
Republican presidential candidate John Kasich defended millions of immigrants
in the U.S. illegally as "people who are contributing significantly"
to the nation, taking on a divisive issue Wednesday as he promised to redefine
conservatism during his latest New Hampshire appearance.…….He quickly dismissed
a questioner during an afternoon town hall-style meeting who suggested
immigrants in the country illegally are a burden on the system. "A lot of
these people who are here are some of the hardest-working, God-fearing,
family-oriented people you can ever meet," Kasich said to a smattering of
polite applause. Speaking later to reporters, he said he favors a pathway to
legal status for such immigrants, and would not rule out a pathway to U.S.
citizenship as part of an immigration reform package. "It's not practical
to move, or I don't even think desirable, to try to shift 12 million people out
of this country," Kasich said. "These are people who are contributing
significantly……
Praise of John Kasich - Why Liberals are Dangerous The Left - (liberal mainstream
media) practically had a ticker tape parade for Ohio Gov. John Kasich for answers
he gave on two issues during the GOP
debate. Liberals' praise of Kasich shows they have chosen emotion over
logical, reasoned thinking. This makes liberals irresponsible and dangerous.
These people must never be in charge. The Left praised Kasich for his
entitlement program that is $1.4 billion in the red, thus far --in only 18
months. Kasich defended his program saying it was the Christian thing to do. First
of all, the Bible does not support stupid business practices and irresponsible
spending of other people's money……. Gov. Kasich is furthering an entitlement
program that is void of economic sense is irresponsible to taxpayers, no matter
how well-intended…… Kasich's answer regarding gay marriage was the second issue
that won him great praise from liberals. Kasich said while he is a traditional
guy, the courts made gay marriage law and he will comply. Kasich added that he
attended a friend's gay wedding because we must love people. I am sorry, Gov.
Kasich and Leftists, but it is absurd to suggest that loving someone means
embracing everything they do……
Martin O'Malley
The Democrats AreHolding Six Debates–And Martin O’Malley
Isn’t Happy - Something that sort of fell by the wayside
since this was announced during the first GOP debate on August 6, but the
Democrats are scheduled to hold six debates–and former Maryland Democratic Gov.
Martin O’Malley isn’t happy……..Yeah, the 2016 Biden bus could be rolling out
sometime soon. The vice president said he would make his presidential
ambitions, or lack thereof, known
this month. Nevertheless, O’Malley isn’t happy about the debates, feeling
six isn’t an adequate number. Sen. Sanders appears to agree, but the Democratic
National Committee feels that their figure is more than enough to satisfy their
primary process (via the
Hill):…….
Marco Rubio
When Marco Rubio Owned CNN- When
CNN's Chris Cuomo, the second-most-useless man in journalism (Martin
Crutsinger’s claim to that title is indisputable), attempted to back Sen. Marco
Rubio into a corner on a question about abortion, Rubio deftly handled the
question……
Donald Trump
Polls starting to show Trump weakness
- Recent history shows that predicting a decline in
Donald Trump’s popularity is risky for pundits. Nevertheless, there are some
signs that his appeal may be wearing thin. But keep in mind that many pundits
(and probably pollsters) have an animus against Trump (and
his followers), and polls can be manipulated in
many ways. Here are the straws in the wind:….
The Trump and Kelly Reality Show - The ongoing Trump and Kelly reality show reveals the
influence popular culture, particularly television, has had on politics. And
it’s not a good influence. It’s not good because it’s cheap fakery. By now, most Americans are aware that the“reality”
shows they watch are actually carefully scripted. For example, the people in
“Naked and Afraid,” though they really do take their clothes off, are being
followed by a
television crew and a day and night medic who is always available to ensure
no one actually dies. Viewers are most likely to watch out of a prurient
interest in nudity rather than from a passionate belief or hope that one of the
actors actually gets eaten by a crocodile. The naked truth is that everyone
understands cave man realities of life in the wild don’t really apply to a
reality show…..
Haven't We Seen the Trump Saga Before?
– Let me see if I’ve got his straight: There’s
a man who is a pure product of the City of New York, one of the great urban
cesspools of our time, a borderline third-world metropolis run as a combination
nanny state and dictatorship. He is the epitome of all that is hated about that
city: he is brash, loud, boastful, vulgar, insincere, and only as honest as he
has to be. Furthermore, he has few of the city’s virtues. Where the typical New
Yorker is hot-blooded, he is cold, where generous, he is close-handed, where
magnanimous, he is vicious. You could look long and hard for a more impressive
illustration as to why NYC is feared and hated, and you would find little or
nothing……He is also a product of the city’s political culture. He has spent the
past forty years soul-kissing the Democratic establishment, taking advantage of
a crippled, corrupt city government to line his own pockets. He has been awarded
hundreds of millions in contracts while slipping back millions in
“contributions” to the party coffers-- a process of “clean graft” developed
into a science since the days of Tammany. Worse than that, he is closely
involved with the epicenter of corruption in our time. He consults regularly
with none other than the Clintons-- Hillary, in fact, attended one of his
weddings. It can be said without exaggeration that he is major factor in
maintaining liberal dominance over the New York metropolitan area……
The Trump Catharsis -The coarser and
cruder Donald Trump becomes, and the more ill-informed on the issues he sounds,
the more he coasts in the polls. Apparently, a few of his targets must be
regarded as unsympathetically as their defamer. Trump is rightly mocked for
cynically spreading quid pro quo money around. But he quickly counters that his
critics -- from Hillary Clinton to his Republican rivals -- have all asked him
for such cash or for favors. Trump preps little. He has no real agenda. And he
makes stuff up as he goes along. For such a New York brawler, he has thin skin,
smearing his critics, often in creepy fashion. How can a former Democrat, once
a pro-choice, pro-amnesty liberal and a supporter of single-payer health care,
remain the godhead of the conservative base for weeks on end?.....
Scott Walker
Why Scott Walker has dropped to third in Iowa
- In a new CNN Iowa poll Scott Walker has dropped into third
place. This is devastating to his campaign, given that (1) he was leading
there; (2) his state borders Iowa, so he is presumed to have a near-home-state
advantage; and (3) the social conservatives of Iowa were supposed to be his
ideal demographic. And if he can't win in Iowa, where can he win? The reason
why he lost first place is because of Donald Trump. In a way that's
understandable, given Trump's surge in the polls. But what is not easily
understandable is how Ben Carson, a candidate with nearly no resources or
funding, has taken the number-two spot from Walker. That shows a much more
serious problem in the Walker campaign…..
Scott Walker:Hillary's Education Plan Benefits Her
Liberal Academic Friends, Not Students - When it comes to
education policy, Hillary Clinton has her sights set on Wisconsin Governor and
GOP presidential candidate Scott Walker. During a campaign stop yesterday,
Clinton accused Walker of wanting to "raise taxes on students" and
"delighting in slashing education funding" after laying out her plan
for education reform, which has been dubbed "The
New College Compact."….. Now, Walker is firing back by defending his
record and attacking Clinton's new higher education plan, which will cost
taxpayers $350 billion dollars in tax hikes……Instead of addressing the real
challenges, instead of making policies relevant to the real needs of students,
pouring in more money has just driven up the cost and caused colleges and
universities to be less and less relevant to what our students' needs
are."
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