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BOOM!
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This has always been my favorite Biden meme
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It will be interesting tonight for two things
1. To see how Chelsea Clinton does in introducing her mother. Obviously comparisons will be made with Trump's daughter Tiffany.
2. To see the tone Clinton takes tonight in her acceptance speech.
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A reasonable response by a reasonable man.
Hey . . . I'm being sarcastic ! ! ! C'mon.
Trump Says He Wanted to 'Hit a Couple of Speakers So Hard'
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said Thursday afternoon he wanted to "hit" some of the Democratic National Convention speakers "so hard" while watching them last night, including a "little guy...so hard his head would spin."
"You know what I wanted to. I wanted to hit a couple of those speakers so hard," Trump said. "I would have hit them. No, no. I was going to hit them, I was all set and then I got a call from a highly respected governor."
Trump didn't immediately clarify what he meant, but he said he was made particularly upset by an unspecified person he called a "little guy."
"I was gonna hit one guy in particular, a very little guy," he said. "I was gonna hit this guy so hard his head would spin and he wouldn't know what the hell happened."
Trump has been campaigning vigorously during the week of the DNC, and has been trying to grab media attention in the process. Yesterday, he held events in Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and hosted a short Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on Reddit in which he spoke to his most ardent supporters.
At the Florida event, he appeared to invite Russia to intervene in U.S. elections by asking the country to retrieve thousands of Hillary Clinton's deleted emails.
"By the way, if they hacked, they probably have her 33,000 emails. I hope they do," Trump told reporters Wednesday morning during a press conference at his golf club in Doral, Florida. "They probably have her 33,000 emails that she lost and deleted."
His campaign immediately tried to walk back his remarks.
Today, he wrote off what he said as sarcasm on Fox News.
"Of course I was being sarcastic," the Republican presidential nominee said on "Fox & Friends" this morning.
Before he made the comment about his desire to hit the DNC speakers, Trump accused Sen. Bernie Sanders of "selling out to the devil."
"I was going to say it before. What Bernie should have done instead of selling out to the devil which is what he did, Bernie should have quietly let everything happen, have his protest. He’ll lose, have his protest, go home. He would have gone home a hero," Trump said. "Really, now he's on the other side of the equation except for one thing, trade. He's the only one that gets it."
Trump repeated the sentiment at a rally hosted in Cedar Rapids several hours later, and expressed his desire to "hit this [little] guy so bad."
He said that he was urged to think of his fight against "Crooked Hillary" instead, and that he was advised "don't punch down."
The trip to Iowa was his first return to the state since losing it during the Iowa caucus which took place in February.
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What a treat for the people of Iowa to go to a rally and hear the candidate whine about how he has been done wrong
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Goose wrote:
What a treat for the people of Iowa to go to a rally and hear the candidate whine about how he has been done wrong
Guess he thinks he thinks it is ALL ABOUT HIM, rather than all about US !
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Thought Hillary's speech did what she needed to do as a culmination of all the speakers that came before here. The tone was right in my estimation and dovetailed in with the rest of the convention.
Her daughter's intro was a personal level endorsement of her mom and how she related to everyday people and problems.
The strongest endorsement of consequence last night was from General John Allen. Anyone who thought that Hillary was not supported at the highest levels in the military had their eyes opened wide. It is rare for such a recent high ranking General to come out and openly support one candidate over another, but apparently he felt he had to do it. I am sure current high ranking Generals will not offer their political opinion (nor should they when they are still in active command).
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I agree. The General's full throated endorsement was extremely important.
Great lines by Clinton:
"We are clear-eyed about what our country is up against. But we are not afraid. We will rise to the challenge, just as we always have."
"And most of all, don't believe anyone who says, 'I alone can fix it.'"
"A man who you can bait with a Tweet is not a man who we can trust with nuclear weapons,"
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Goose wrote:
I agree. The General's full throated endorsement was extremely important.
Great lines by Clinton:
"We are clear-eyed about what our country is up against. But we are not afraid. We will rise to the challenge, just as we always have."
"And most of all, don't believe anyone who says, 'I alone can fix it.'"
"A man who you can bait with a Tweet is not a man who we can trust with nuclear weapons,"
Agreed.
It is rather convoluted politics that the RNC like to believe THEY alone are the ones hard on terrorism, YET earlier this year when President Obama requested Congress to ACTUALLY VOTE t0 authorize use of force against ISIS the Republicans basically punted.
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That is something that has worried me and angered me for some time. Congressmen are eager to take to the talk shows to offer some vague, tough-sounding talk about ISIS. But, have they ever debated and voted on an actual plan?