Donald Trump is the most corrupt candidate for president in our nations history. He makes Nixon and Agnew look like choirboys. This article outlines just some of the scumbaggery he has had his filthy little hands in. And all the MSM seems to care about are how Clinton sends emails. It's time for the press to take a hard look at Trump and let the American people know his true colors. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/09/05/trumps-history-of-corruption-is-mind-boggling-so-why-is-clinton-supposedly-the-corrupt-one/?utm_term=.d80251ae3029&wpisrc=nl_az_most

DOYLE McMANUS
DONALD TRUMP’S revival last week of his hard-line stance on immigration looks more and more like a political disaster for the Republican nominee and his party.
Trump’s angry speech in Arizona, in which he promised to deport not only criminal aliens but millions of other immigrants living in the country illegally, prompted at least three members of his Hispanic Advisory Council to resign. It instantly became fodder for Democratic efforts to mobilize millions of Latino voters in swing states such as Florida and Nevada. And it probably didn’t convince many undecided voters that Trump can be a unifying force in a deeply divided country.
But winning undecided moderates may not have been Trump’s goal. Instead, his former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, said on CNN that the speech was aimed principally at “white males,” to ensure “he has locked them in.”
To non-Trump Republicans, that’s precisely the problem: Their nominee is focused on voters he’s already got.
“Preaching to the converted is fine if you’re leading,” GOP pollster Whit Ayres told me. “If you’re behind, it’s not what you need to be doing.”
Ayres, who worked for Florida Sen. Marco Rubio in the primaries, has never been a Trump fan, but he has spent years studying the demographics of the electorate — and he’s convinced that the nominee is leading his party to calamity.
“After alienating so many nonwhite voters, Trump needs to win 65% of the white vote,” Ayres estimates. “Only one candidate has done that in the last 50 years, and that was Ronald Reagan in a 49-state landslide in 1984. It’s not going to happen.”
And the stakes are even bigger than the outcome of this year’s election. Trump’s campaign could shape Latino voters’ behavior for a generation to come.
Already, Latinos have been trending Democratic. In 2004, then-President George W. Bush won roughly 40% of the Latino vote; in 2012, Mitt Romney won about 27%.
This year, according to a poll released last week, Trump is on track to win no more than 20% of their votes, a modern low.
Over the long run, Ayres and other GOP strategists worry, Latinos’ Democratic allegiance could become a habit that’s hard to break.
“We’re in a hole,” Ayres said. “We can dig our way out of it if we make the Republican brand distinct from the Trump brand. But at this point, Trump is making the hole even deeper.”
Wait a minute, some may object: Trump hasn’t been demonizing Latinos in general; he’s praised Mexican Americans as “great people.” And Trump hasn’t attacked immigrants in general; he’s focused on criminal aliens, who he says have been allowed “to freely roam our streets [and] do whatever they want to do.”
But in his speech last week, Trump said he would subject immigrants who are in the country illegally but haven’t been accused of crimes to deportation, too. He called for new restrictions on legal immigration, which he said is too high. And he argued that the quality of recent legal immigrants, often admitted thanks to family ties, has been too low. “We take anybody,” he complained.
Trump supporters who say he makes a clear distinction between immigrants here legally and those in the U.S. illegally haven’t been paying close enough attention.
And guess what? The sponsors of those “family reunification” immigrants — often their parents or siblings — are citizens who have the right to vote. They’re not only Latinos; they’re Asian, African and European. Trump’s complaint that their relatives aren’t classy enough isn’t likely to make him many friends.
There’s a legitimate debate, of course, about whether legal immigration has leaned too far in the direction of family reunification at the expense of places for highly skilled professionals. And there’s a legitimate debate about how best to handle the more than 10 million immigrants who are here illegally and haven’t committed serious crimes.
But Trump’s problem — and the Republicans’ — isn’t policy, it’s that he frames immigration as a crisis that has unleashed millions of nonwhite foreigners to roam our streets, commit grisly crimes and steal Americans’ jobs. That portrayal is inaccurate, and it exacerbates racism.
Several times in recent months, House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) has worried out loud about the growth of “identity politics” in his own party — meaning political allegiances defined by race or ethnicity.
“If we try to play our own version of identity politics and try to fuel ourselves based on darker emotions, that’s not productive,” he told the New York Times. “I don’t think it will be successful, and I don’t think it is the right thing to do.”
“Unfortunately, these days, it’s bubbling up on the right,” he told reporters at the Republican National Convention..
Whether Trump wins or loses, Ryan and the rest of his party have their work cut out for them. doyle.mcmanus@latimes.com   Twitter: @DoyleMcManus

The Clinton global initiative founded by the Clintons has provided educational and business opportunities for girls and women in over 100 nations, provided housing, health care and start up funds for thousands in Haiti and this is just scratching the surface. Yes she has a storied career of service to people around the world that few can match in generosity or effect. Sadly right wing hate radio and TV hosts have slandered this incredibly successful organization. The choice voters face is simple elect a brilliant woman who has dedicated her life to serving our country and disadvantaged people around the world or piss your vote away on a boorish egomaniacal carnival barker and con man with a sordid history of shady dealings self aggrandizement and sociopathic tendenancies. It is a damn good thing for our nation and world that a majority of voters share my values not yours or Donald Trumps.

If you believe all of the stuff floating around now there is a reasonable possibility that Trumps trophy bride is actually a high priced escort who obtained a visa to immigrate under questionable terms. With Trumps long friendship with Hillary Clinton and the suggestions she granted favors in exchange for contributions to the Clinton foundation there is a reasonable possibility that Trump paid Clinton to grease the skids for him to bring his favorite call girl into the country. What if this comes out in the wash and the nation finds out they are in cahoots and shoveling sand over each others crap?

As promised, I have started this thread to be an appropriate place to take the abortion discussion that was started in the post 'Obama Signs Executive Order Abolishing the Death Penalty"

Righty posted this comment in that thread, and my reply is below.





First off I want to say (as I have said many times before on this forum) that I, as a man (and a gay one at that) my voice carries less weight than a woman's in the decision to terminate a pregnancy. I am not inclined to tell other people what to do when their legal action does not impact me. So my opinions are just that, and based on my view of how a just society works. From everything I have read the decision to terminate a pregnancy is an extremely difficult one for a woman to make, so I believe the cavalier attitude that many seem to think women have about aborting their fetus is rare. Demonizing people, and women in particular, for supporting choice is misplaced anger and not productive to the anti-abortionist's cause.

- I think the idea that the 1 microscopic sperm that the man contributed is a weak justification for a fetus being part of his body.
- The comparison with a crack-addicted baby and its mother is a false one. The mother is arrested because she has broken the law in using a controlled substance, and the baby is taken into protective custody because she is unable to care for it.
- The part about your comment regarding babies and voting only bothered me because you assigned a blanket justification to all on the socialist left. You are of course free to believe your statement, but you are not equipped to speak for an entire group of people.


The critical question for all is at what point does a fetus become a human.

Conservative Catholics have such a narrow view that birth control of any kind is not permitted. Every sex act of M/F copulation has the potential to create life, so to restrict that possibility is a violation of a human life.

On the other end there are some (though I think few) who believe an abortion should be allowed for any reason at any time up until childbirth.

I myself take a middle ground and feel the viability of the fetus outside the woman's body (with medical support, if required) is the marker for the point at which a fetus' "life" becomes its own (and therefore subject to being protected by the state.) When SCOTUS ruled in Roe v. Wade in 1973 the medical technology that was available put that at about 28 weeks, but possibly as early as 24 weeks. Today our medical advances make that point of viability earlier, with the earliest case having been viable at 21 weeks + 6 days. So now it is even more complex.

I know this is a difficult problem, fueled on both sides with great passion.
But it will never be solved until we can all agree on what constitutes a human life, and I do not see that happening any time soon. Until then we will continue to argue and struggle to balance the rights of women and fetuses. And I hope we will all continue to discuss it calmly.

I am a Viet Nam veteran. I proudly served our country and honored our flag and American traditions. I gladly risked my life flying over the jungles of Viet Nam while being shot at by a country that now makes much of our clothes and shoes. I lost several good friends and acquaintances there. The cap that i still proudly wear from my pilots association was manufactured in Viet Nam.

Between combat tours I returned to a country that I could not recognize. I was waiting for a bus at SFO when I was taunted and repeatedly ridiculed for wearing a military uniform by some young woman that was perhaps 18-19 years of age, . I did nothing and said nothing for over 10 minutes until this young woman spit in my face so I broke her nose. I was immediately arrested and charged with assault and battery. I was eventually turned over to the military and faced a court martial. I was required to pay all medical expenses,a temporary reduction in pay and faced hours and hours of psychological counselling.

I did not come to loving of America on my own. My father was a WWII navy veteran where he lost many of his shipmates during a Kamakazi attack at Okinawa He was never bitter but was proud that he and his departed shipmates help defeat the Japanese. He was proud to be seen as a hero and one of the defenders of America.

When I returned home there was only a small article in the local newspaper that I had returned from military service. That was it. There was no hero's welcome home or any mention of our sacrifice in serving the country. We all just silently began our transition to civilian life and tried to cope with the scars and wounds from the physical and psychological trauma that we had incurred.

To love a country, a country must be lovable. How can you love a country when illegal immigrants receive better medical care than our veterans. When was the last time you heard of an illegal alien dying while have to wait for treatment? How can you love a country that returns felons, murderers and rapist to the streets just because they are in our country illegally?

How can you love a country that allows any President to repeatedly violate the constitution while accumulating more national debt than the total of all previous presidents? How can you love a country that reduces the sentences of convicted felons to achieve racial balance in our prisons? How can you love a country that allows the president to make secret deals with Iran without the approval of congress or the American people. How can the president refuse to enforce the existing laws regarding immigration. The President of the United States has repeatedly lied to voters and congress about healthcare, the Iran treaty (remember "any time any where inspections") and tries to tell us that a growth of the GDP less than 2% is an economic recovery.

How can you love a country that 45% of the country favors Hillary Clinton as president. She has lied to the people, to congress,and to the press. While she served as Secretary of State she allowed the sale of 20% of our Uranium reserves to Russia while lining the pockets of foundation donors and the Clinton foundation with millions and millions of dollars. The Secretary of State has violated national security protocols and has threatened the very national security of this country. There is also the remaining question of the deleted emails.

How can one love a country that the US department of Justice that supported a false narrative that resulted in the loss of lives, burning of local businesses,and looting while demeaning law enforcement. Even the FBI's investigation into the emails was tainted by the secret meeting of Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton.

I do not love America as much as I did in the past. How about You? Are you willing to exert any effort to return America to become lovable again? We cannot make America great again unless we make America lovable again.