They understand that, as Truman had to deal with Stalin, and Ike with Khrushchev, and Nixon with Brezhnev, and Reagan with Gorbachev, a USA president should sit down with a Vladimir Putin to avoid a clash neither country wants, and from which neither country would benefit.
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He believes we can treat the USA economy like one of his casinos and default on our debts to the rest of the world, which would cause an economic catastrophe far worse than anything we experienced in 2008.
Sonoma County residents seldom get a firsthand look at presidential candidates.
“This to me is about saving the country and preventing a third progressive, liberal term, which is what a Clinton presidency would do”, Ryan said. He said, “You’ve got to give Kim Jong Un credit” for taking over North Korea – something he did by murdering everyone he saw as a threat, including his own uncle, which Donald described gleefully, like he was recapping an action movie.
The Journal article quoted the same policy adviser as saying that “there are a lot of VA facilities that are being run very well” and that Trump doesn’t “want to take away the veterans hospitals and the things that are working well”.
For Clinton, who has acknowledged her weakness as a campaigner, it was a confident and well-timed performance. She delivered a scathing speech in San Diego – home to a large military population – mocking Trump’s “bizarre fascination with dictators and strongmen” and calling him “temperamentally unfit” to be president. He said she was “sleeping” during the attack on USA compounds in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans in the closing months of her State Department tenure. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), to be sure.
Wouldn’t it serve the Republicans right if all of a sudden – after all the energy the Republicans have spent trying to smear Hillary since it became clear a few years ago that she was the odds-on favorite to be the Democratic nominee – the Republicans were faced with someone entirely different?
“We’re still the last best hope for earth”. “But the reality is, on the issues that make up our agenda, we have more common ground than disagreement”.
He also accused Clinton of lying when she said he would allow Japan to have nuclear weapons; in an interview this year, though, he said he was open to it. “Yes, our friends need to contribute their fair share. I made that point long before Donald Trump came onto the scene – and a number of them have increased their defense spending”, she said.
As a Mexican American, Sanchez said the issue that is personal to him is immigration reform, because of how his parents came to the U.S. It attributes her strength there to her appeal with older Golden State residents (Hi, mom!). In particular, Israel’s security is non-negotiable.
We couldn’t reach Dan Schnur, poll director and head of USC’s Unruh Institute of Politics, on the phone to explain why they didn’t rely on their likely voters.
“It’s something that she thinks is going to be a key driver in the end to her winning, that people are going to decide that – even if they are uncertain about Clinton – that she is the safer choice”.
“Little gestures matter”, Carter said. That was a Donald Trump hit job. Do we want him making those calls? “They pay their taxes like every American does”.
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Where in all of this is there the slightest qualification, other than a honed instinct for political survival, for Clinton to lead America out of the morass into which she, and the failed foreign policy elite nesting around her, plunged the United States? She succeeded entirely with the former, and to the surprise of many of her critics, made a strong argument for the latter.
