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Is this the NEW Presidental Image - - I hope NOT !
When have you EVER heard in any Presidential primary such vulgar and/or demeaning language coming out of the leader of a party. I mean "Lynin Ted", "Little Rubio", Rand Paul "the spoiled brat", Rick Perry ""He put on glasses so people will think he’s smart", and on Carly Fiorina "Look at that face!" "Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?!."
I could go on and on, but that is enough,
Reagan must be rolling over in his grave about the current demeanor amongst GOP contenders.
The sadder thing is --- people seem to LIKE this demeaning style.
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It is a disgrace
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Re: Is this the NEW Presidental Image - - I hope NOT !
The TRUE disgrace is a Presidential candidate. Hillary Clinton who is under an active FBI criminal investigation. Has there ever been a time when a candidate for president is being investigated by the FBI while running for office? Shameful conduct that placed over 2000 classified e-mail on a unclassified server!
"It has been more than a year since the infamous news conference at the United Nations, at which Hillary Clinton falsely asserted," “I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material.”
Report: Hillary Clinton aides interviewed by FBI in email probe
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident,” former vice president Biden said during a campaign event in Texas on Monday. "All men and women created by — you know, you know, the thing.”
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I wonder, is an attack on Hillary Clinton the only defense of Donald Trump possible?
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Goose wrote:
I wonder, is an attack on Hillary Clinton the only defense of Donarld Trump possible?
NO, he will go after Bill as well (guilt by association) .
As far as Clinton's emails. So far NONE of the emails sent were classified as SECRET at the time they were sent. So far the issue is a non-issue in that sense. Should she have had the good sense not to use her private email server - most certainly.
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Re: Is this the NEW Presidental Image - - I hope NOT !
The thread topic is a reasonable one. Is this the new reality of American politics?
Is Trump an aberration, or is this the future that many have predicted that our reality show, celebrity obsessed culture would bring us.
I repeat. It is a disgrace.
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Back to the topic at hand.
Has ANYONE remembered such an ugly contest within a party as this current one ? I can't and I have voted for more years than at least most here.
They have ALL FORGOTTEN Regan's 11th Commandment (and the guy at the top has been the WORST)
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The thread topic is a reasonable one. Is this the new reality of American politics?
Is Trump an aberration, or is this the future that many have predicted that our reality show, celebrity obsessed culture would bring us.
I repeat. It is a disgrace.
And even more than a disgrace on the candidates and their party, it is a disgrace on US as a nation !
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The first Presidential election that I voted in was 1980.
I remember George HW Bush ran and visited my college, Franklin and Marshall, during the primaries. I have followed politics since then, and I have never seen anything so vulgar, and frankly so crazy (Hinting that your opponent's father hung out with Lee Harvey Oswald).
I don't understand why people tolerate, even support this.
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The disgrace is a mystery that people in the U. S. honor the guy and it's all beyond any rational reasoning. I'm at a total to understand any of it.