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Jitter65

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June 3, 2016

Listening to CNN anderson Cooper.

Do you really think Hillary is not ready to answer the foreign policy issues they are bringing up.

First off, trying to blame Hillary for Russian invasion of Georgia is silly. That happened under Bush.

Libya: The Sec. of State does not make the final decision on foreign policy actions..the President does. She may have supported removing Gaddafi but so did most of our allies and many of the people in Libya. Obama has admitted that there should have been a better plan for the aftermath.

ISIS is not a creation of Hillary but rather part of the fallout from Iraq.

And most of the Military brass agree with her positions on Syria that Obama failed to implement.

It is still the President who makes the final foreign policy decisions.

I am confident that Hillary will step up and take responsibility for her mistakes but also set the record straight about really went wrong and what was really going on in all of those situations.

June 3, 2016

Really nasty protestor outside Trump rally on CNN. Reported to be Bernie supporters some carrying

signs "We want socialism." Not a good showing for Bernie supporters. But then we already know how disruptive they can be and now many more people know. They are behaving like the violent Trump supporters we have seen in the past.

I hope Hillary comes out and disavows this kind of vicious protesting. It denies people their right to expresses their rights. Hillary supporters protest at the ballot box and she should ask that they continue to do so.

Rise, Hillary, rise. Keep your campaign positive, perceptive, patriotic, and pragmatic. keep both Trump and Bernie on the ropes. Rope-a-dope.

June 2, 2016

Constant trashing of Obama and the economy make it difficult for people to "feel" like things are

better. But everyone I have spoken to for the last two months say they are much better off than they were in late 2008-2009. Yet Trump and Bernie keep trashing the economy and making people feel that things have actually gotten worse. The malls, restaurants, beeches, airports, cruise ships, ball parks, sports stadiums, auto dealerships, realtor offices are crowded and doing moderate to maximum business. And for sure the high-priced entertainment concerts are always sold out. iPhones, and all things digitized and Internet linked are selling at record numbers.

Are people just lying to themselves because Obama is President and Hillary might be? Or is the constant trashing of the economy and the government successfully brainwashing millions of voters?

June 2, 2016

So Trump is going to hit Obama? Good. Obama by the numbers is not widely known among

many GOP because any improvement in the numbers has been kept from the masses of FOX and Limbaugh listeners and viewers. All Obama has to do is give numbers in 2008 vas the numbers now. There are many charts out there that show the numbers. And they can beat the GOP to presses showing unemployment and job losses actually due to trade vs actual numbers due to technology and automation. Losses in some states are the direct result of some jobs moving to other states (not widely known among the electorate). Crime stats and gun violence and gun deaths...number show deaths by guns (including suicides) exceeds auto deaths. States with no gun regulations show more per capita gun deaths than states with tougher gun regulations.

There is so much out there to use. The ads should be bombarding the air ways once Obama gets started.

June 2, 2016

Well today, I have to agree with Tom Friedman. Hillary should pay attention.

I think he nailed it.

CNN this morning. If you get a chance to view the segment do so.

June 2, 2016

Can someone please explain to me what Hillary said was a lie about Benghazi?

Why is the media allowed too portray what she said as an outright lie? During that fog of war a lot of people believed that the video was incendiary cause of the attack. It is what, after all, our own media was purporting. What she believed was a terrorist attack she couldn't say for sure at the time was true. And the reason for the attack is being made more important than the actual attack and its outcome.

June 2, 2016

When has there been a time in American history they there wasn't a 1% with most of the money?

When has there never been a huge income gap between ordinary workers, landed gentry or Wall Street? When has there been a time that bankers weren't crooked, greedy and wealthy? When has there been a time when poor whites and certainly blacks were not treated unfairly by our justice system?

That's why Bernie's original message made little sense to me. His focused changed to other issues when he found himself surrounded by some POC.

We need to focus on getting rid of Citizens United, voting rights, bringing law enforcement under control, and raising the minimum wage, and getting funding for early childhood education and child care, veterans health and help, and getting more seats in the House and Senate. Wall Street and bankers are not the as important as the issues that touch people's daily lives.

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