November 24, 2015

Americans Trust Hillary Clinton Over Any Republican To Handle Terrorism

Link: http://www.politicususa.com/2015/11/23/americans-trust-hillary-clinton-republican-handle-terrorism.html

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When it comes to keeping Americans safe from the threat of a terrorist attack, a Washington Post-ABC News Poll released on November 23rd, found that voters trust Hillary Clinton more than any Republican presidential candidate. The survey asked voters who they trusted most “to handle the threat of terrorism,” and regardless of who she was paired up against, American voters answered “Hillary Clinton” every time.

When asked who they trusted more to handle the terrorist threat, Americans chose Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump by a 50-42 percent margin. Clinton was also preferred over Ben Carson (49-40), Ted Cruz (48-40), Marco Rubio (47-43) and Jeb Bush (46-43).

The Republican candidates have engaged in a lot of tough talking rhetoric about bombing ISIS or shutting America off for Syrian refugees, but their bellicose posturing has not earned them the trust of the American people. Hillary Clinton remains more trusted than the GOP when it comes to confronting the terrorist threat.

For Republicans who have spent the past several years trying to discredit Clinton through the Benghazi hearings and a relentless litany of attacks designed to paint her as weak on security, the poll must be very disconcerting. Fox News, AM talk radio, and Trey Gowdy’s investigative committee, have all failed in their efforts to get Americans to think the Republicans would do a better job than Hillary Clinton at keeping America safe .

The Republicans will almost certainly continue to try to hammer home the theme that they are the tough guys on the block who can take on the terrorists, and they will no doubt continue to try to portray the Democrats as weak on foreign policy and on protecting the homeland. However, Hillary Clinton is used to those lines of attack, and she is also aware that her steady resolve in the face of those attacks projects the very strength the GOP is desperately trying to say she lacks.

Americans recognize that in dangerous times, Hillary Clinton is a better choice to be commander in chief than any Republican. An endless barrage of GOP attacks against Clinton have been unable to alter that perception. Americans still think Hillary is their best bet for dealing with the threat of terrorism.

November 20, 2015

A Whiter Shade of Pale in the refugee refusal playoffs: The GOP as an oily friend of Boko Haram

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http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/19/1452132/-A-Whiter-Shade-of-Pale-in-the-refugee-refusal-playoffs-The-GOP-as-an-oily-friend-of-Boko-Haram

As kos has pointed out, the Syrian refugee “crisis” is a manufactured conflict of the most cynical type and the reality is that ISIL/Daesh may not be the primary “radical Islamist” enemy not unlike the ultimate failure to stop US domestic terrorism is by increasing domestic repression in order to leverage RW power.

In the case of GOP governors posturing about refusing refugees because they are potential terrorists, the real danger in numbers is more likely from white supremacists in each GOP state and a probable state-level reluctance to install state-level border controls. So far, the GOP has managed to forgive the French and its Frites in order to seek domestic political capital.

SELECTIVE OUTRAGE.

If North Dakota can finally choose a mascot “The Fighting Hawks” for one of its two major state universities, then US hawks should be able to reconcile their fetish for selective, cultural domination over the world. Since Charlie Hebdo, we now see the real problem of all those Hebdo(sic) people of color everywhere scaring already frightened US low information voters (LIVs or LoFos) in the discourse of GOP POTUS candidates to the tune of Lindsey Graham wanting 10,000 US ground troops in Syria.

As with all international entanglements, conflicts are about natural resources, whether or not renewable and it’s always about trading individuals’ blood for big oil. As 2016 approaches, posturing over military action under the umbrella of national security should not drive the policy memes.

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November 19, 2015

Boko Haram Actually Kills More People In Terror Attacks Than ISIS

Let's not forget the horrific terror group taking lives in northern Nigeria.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/boko-haram-isis_564cd890e4b00b7997f8c15d

This week, the world’s deadliest terror group wrought extraordinary carnage on crowds of people going about their daily lives.

The fruit and vegetable market in the northern Nigerian city of Yola was packed with customers buying food for dinner when a suicide bomber struck on Tuesday evening, killing at least 34 people. "The ground near my shop was covered with dead bodies," Alhaji Ahmed told Reuters.

Then on Wednesday, as afternoon prayers approached, two young women strapped with explosives detonated at a busy mobile phone market in the nearby city of Kano. At least 15 people were killed in the twin blasts, according to The Associated Press.

Both bombings are widely believed to be the work of Nigerian militant group Boko Haram, which rarely claims responsibility for specific attacks but has waged a bloody six-year insurgency in the region.

A new report this week found Boko Haram has overtaken the so-called Islamic State as the “most deadly terror group in the world.”

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November 16, 2015

Marco Rubio Plays The Nazi Card On Hillary Clinton

http://crooksandliars.com/2015/11/marco-rubio-plays-nazi-card-hillary

Sen. Marco Rubio proves yet again why he's not ready for primetime. We expect a lot of over the top rhetoric coming from the GOP primaries with the clown car in overdrive, but Rubio's use of the Nazi party to equate that to extremist jihads is so damn idiotic. The idea that the Democratic party has to use GOP talking points on anything - ever - especially related to terrorism is nonsense. And the fact that Fox News conservatives love the notion that Obama's weak on ISIS because he refuses to say "radical Islam," is quite sad and pitiful.

STEPHANOPOULOS: You saw Secretary Clinton there did not want to use the words “radical Islam,” your response?

RUBIO: I think that’s – I don’t understand it. That would be like saying we weren’t at war with Nazis, because we were afraid to offend some Germans who may have been members of the Nazi Party but weren’t violent themselves. We are at war with radical Islam, with an interpretation of Islam by a significant number of people around the world, who they believe now justifies them in killing those who don’t agree with their ideology. This is a clash of civilizations, and as I said at the debate earlier this week, there is no middle ground on this. Either they win or we win. And we need to begin to take this seriously. These are individuals motivated by their faith...

Never stops surprising me how low detractors of Hillary are willing to go.

November 16, 2015

Politico: Insiders: Bad night for Bernie

One day after the Paris attacks, Democrats viewed him as unprepared to talk in depth about foreign policy.
By KATIE GLUECK 11/15/15 06:50 AM EST

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/insiders-bad-night-for-bernie-215901

Bernie Sanders had the weakest night of the three Democrats onstage at Saturday night’s debate.

That’s according to a survey of the POLITICO Caucus, a bipartisan group of influential strategists, operatives and activists in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada, who weighed in immediately following the second Democratic primary debate.

Nearly half of Democrats surveyed said the Vermont senator lost the debate, and only 10 percent of Democrats said he won. Those insiders who said Sanders had the worst night argued that he appeared out of his depth on foreign policy a day after terrorist attacks rocked France. He spent just a few seconds addressing the matter in his opening statement before pivoting to his familiar pitch about the economy, in stark contrast to rival Hillary Clinton, a former secretary of state who devoted her entire statement to the Paris attacks.

“He made a mistake right off the bat in switching from Paris to the economy, and had an uneven performance,” a New Hampshire Democrat said.

"He was clearly not comfortable discussing detail on foreign policy matters," agreed another New Hampshire Democrat.

Others said the self-described democratic socialist made no effort to appeal to the broader Democratic Party, and reinforced perceptions Saturday night that he is unelectable....

November 13, 2015

Carson on China in Syria: ‘My Sources Are Better’ Than Obama Admin

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/carson-on-china-in-syria-my-sources-are-better-than-obama-admin/

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said on Friday that his “sources are better” than those of the Obama administration when it comes to whether China is involved in the Syria conflict.

Carson has claimed, based on his sources, that Chinese forces are operating in Syria. Asked on Thursday whether that is true, White House National Security Adviser Susan Rice said the U.S. has no evidence or intelligence suggesting that the Chinese are involved in Syria...

November 13, 2015

Panic in the GOP elite! Is this a job for Mitt?!?!?

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/13/1449492/-Panic-in-the-GOP-elite-Is-this-a-job-for-Mitt



The fact that Donald Trump and Ben Carson are still around and are still sucking the oxygen out of the primary race is causing real panic among Republican elites. All their hopes that either of the two would self-destruct are not materializing, because no matter what these guys say, people seem to like it, and that makes it very difficult for another candidate to try to destroy them. What's more, there's not a lot of time to do something about it...

Video:
Morning Joe
http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/gop-preps-panic-button-ahead-of-iowa-566126147776

November 13, 2015

Panic in the GOP elite! Is this a job for Mitt?!?!?

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/13/1449492/-Panic-in-the-GOP-elite-Is-this-a-job-for-Mitt



The fact that Donald Trump and Ben Carson are still around and are still sucking the oxygen out of the primary race is causing real panic among Republican elites. All their hopes that either of the two would self-destruct are not materializing, because no matter what these guys say, people seem to like it, and that makes it very difficult for another candidate to try to destroy them. What's more, there's not a lot of time to do something about it...

Video:
Morning Joe
http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/gop-preps-panic-button-ahead-of-iowa-566126147776

November 13, 2015

Hillary's Had a Really Good Month. Surges ahead in favorability.

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/11/11/hillary-clintons-favorable-rating-soars-bernie-sanders-is-stagnant

Democrats are really, really starting to like Hillary Clinton.

The front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination has seen her net favorable rating jump 14 points among Democrats and those who lean to the left since the first Democratic debate in October, while her top competitor – Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont – has seen his own rating stay fairly stagnant, according to Gallup polling released this week. Both candidates, along with former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, will take the stage again Saturday in Iowa for the second official debate of the Democratic primary...



The chart reflects the newest Gallup favorable rankings, collected Oct.25-Nov.7, 2015.

November 10, 2015

Play the GOP mentions HRC drinking game!

If you drink every time the GOP candidates mention HRC you will be drunk by the end of tonight’s debate

If you’re planning on watching the GOP debate tonight, you probably won’t want to do it sober. So we’ve got a drinking game for you to play while you watch: drink each time a Republican candidate mentions Hillary Clinton.

If the last three debates are any indication of how tonight’s will go, you’ll probably be drinking a lot. What’s your guess on what the total number will be?

http://www.salon.com/2015/11/10/if_you_drink_every_time_the_gop_candidates_mention_hrc_you_will_be_drunk_by_the_end_of_tonights_debate/