roxannmi Loc: North Carolina

I hope I am wrong, but I think the powers that be will make sure that Hillary is placed in office, they will rig the voting machines just like the last four elections and put the person in that they want, I believe that is Hillary. That is, IF Obama actually steps down. Hope I am wrong. Would love to hear other people's thoughts on this. I just don't think our votes matter any more.

Babsan

As evil as the Democrats/Obama are and STUPID the voters are I would not be surprised.They seem to love Criminals and FRAUDS

moldyoldy

Babsan

That just about mirrors the Queen of Corruptions record.The only difference Trump has no charitable foundation for his gain

Kevyn

You are right on one point it is very likely she will be our next president, not by fraud however she will be elected by a population that rejects the failed conservitive ideology and obstructionism of the republicans and Donald Trumps insanity.

moldyoldy

Yes he does, it is called the government. He hires slaves from Romania to work in his hotels, instead of hiring US workers. They are stuck here, can not quit or change jobs. This is illegal, but he gets away with it.

buffalo Loc: Texas

Trump is not a politician.

Under Obama the dem leadership base has shrunk. As the Daily Caller reports, "under Obama, Democrats have lost a net of more than 900 state legislature seats, 12 governors, 69 U.S. House and 13 Senate seats. Such numbers suggest a sick party."

Look at the viewership of the repub debates--24 and 23 million.

The turnout at Trump's rallies has been astronomical.

Repub voter turnout in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada set new records for the party.

Voter turnout in Sanders/Clinton is below 2008 levels.

Trump is the anti-Washinton, anti-establishment candidate that has tapped into the majority of Americans that want a wholesale house cleaning in DC and ouster of Wall Street influence.

Clinton is the prom-queen of Wall Street.

On immigration, Trump is right. Americans do not want amnesty or open borders. Just plain commonsense!

He is right about trade and trade deficits. The establishment has always put corporate profits before American jobs.

Trump is riding the wave of a new era in America and Clinton represents yesterday.

However, the establishment will not go without kicking and screaming.

Hang on!!!

JW

I would like to see a source on that claim... or an apology for making it.

3jack

The powers that be are the American electorate, and they will place Hillary Clinton in office as President. To use the old worn out lies about voting machine rigging, voter fraud, and many other excuses tend to gloss over the fact that the Republican politicians are very exclusive toward minorities and have done nothing, and are doing nothing to win over the majority. Their continued attack against Obama, who is not running for anything, is used to fuel hatred and garner support and money from the ignorant. The GOP has not introduced anything noteworthy for the past 40 years, unless you consider tax cuts for millionaires, farm subsidies for wealthy farmers, awarding no-bid billion dollar contracts to Haliburton, cutting funds to those who are truly in need of assistance, and voting more than 50 times to repeal the ACA as accomplishments. The GOP is on it's final dive to the bottom and your leaders are too stupid to see it.

LAPhil Loc: Los Angeles, CA

You're going to be waiting a long time to see that dive. The people would have to be willing to accept all the fraud and corruption on the Democratic side first.

buffalo Loc: Texas

How about Trump on Trade? Did you hear what he said in the debate last night?

Pat Buchanan had this to say and he is right...

Republican hawks are aflutter today over China’s installation of anti-aircraft missiles on Woody Island in the South China Sea.

But do these Republicans, good free-traders all, realize their own indispensable role in converting an indigent China into the mighty and menacing power that seeks to push us out of Asia?

Last year, China ran up the largest trade surplus in history, at our expense, $365 billion. We exported $116 billion in goods to China. China exported $482 billion worth of goods to us.

Using Census Bureau statistics, Terry Jeffrey of CNSNEWS.com documents how Beijing has, over decades, looted and carted off the greatest manufacturing base the world had ever seen.

In 1985, China’s trade surplus with us was a paltry $6 million. By 1992, when some of us were being denounced as “protectionists” for raising the issue, the U.S. trade deficit with China had crossed the $10 billion mark.

In 2002, it crossed the $100 billion mark. In 2005, the $200 billion mark. In each of the last four years, Communist China has run an annual trade surplus at the expense of the United States in excess of $300 billion.

Total trade deficits with China in the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama era? $4 trillion. Total U.S. trade deficit in 2015 — $736 billion, 4 percent of our GDP.

To understand why Detroit look as it does, while the desolate Shanghai Richard Nixon visited in ’72 is the great and gleaming metropolis of 2016, look to our trade deficits.

They also help explain America’s 2 percent growth, her deindustrialization, her shrinking share of the world economy, and the stagnation of U.S. wages as manufacturing jobs are replaced by service jobs.

Those trade deficits also explain the rise of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump.

Yet, with the exception of Trump, none of the GOP candidates seems willing to debate, defend or denounce the policies that eviscerated America — and empowered the People’s Republic.

Workers, however, know what our politicians refuse to discuss.

They are being sold out for the benefit of corporate elites who pay off those politicians with the big cash contributions that keep the parties flush.

Politicians who play ball with Wall Street and K Street know they will be taken care of, if they are defeated or when they retire from public office, so long as they have performed.

Free trade is not a zero-sum game. The losers are the workers whose jobs, factories and futures are shipped abroad, and the dead and dying towns left behind when the manufacturing plants shut down.

America is on a path of national decline because, while we have been looking out for what is best for the “global economy,” our rivals have been looking out for what is best for their own nations.

Consider OPEC, which is reeling from the oil price collapse. Russia is colluding with Saudi Arabia and Iraq to cut production to firm up the market and prevent prices from falling further.

This is pure price fixing, but we all understand self-interest.

What might a U.S. national-interest-based trade policy look like?

Controlling the largest market on earth, we might impose on foreign producers a cover charge, an admissions fee, a tariff, to get into our market.

Example: Impose a 20 percent tariff on foreign cars entering the USA. This might raise the cost of a Lexus or Mercedes produced and assembled abroad from $50,000 to $60,000.

However, if Lexus or Mercedes buys or makes all their parts in the USA and assembles all their cars here, no tariff. Their cars could still sell for $50,000. This would be a powerful incentive to shift production here. As an added incentive, all tariff revenue could be used to reduce or eliminate corporate taxes in the USA.

Between the Civil War and World War I, under Republicans, the U.S. became the world’s greatest industrial power and a wholly self-sufficient nation. How? We taxed foreign goods entering the United States, but did not tax the profits of U.S. companies or the incomes of U.S. workers.

The difference between economic patriots and globalists who inhabit corporate-funded think tanks and public policy institutes is that the latter think of what is best for their corporate benefactors and the global economy. The former put America and Americans first.

Academics revere Adam Smith, David Ricardo and Richard Cobden.

But none of them ever built a great nation. Patriots look to Alexander Hamilton and those post-Civil War Republicans who built the greatest national industrial powerhouse the world had ever seen.

Indeed, what great nation did free trade ever build?

As father of a united Germany, Chancellor Bismarck said, when he decided to build Germany on the American and not the British model, “I see that those countries which possess protection are prospering, and that those countries which possess free trade are decaying.”

So it is true today. Unfortunately, it is America, now wedded to the fatal dogma of free trade, that is decaying.

JW

I know, it's Bush's fault, isn't it...

LAPhil Loc: Los Angeles, CA

Wrong. She'll be rejected by a population who are sick and tired of her lying, cheating, sleaziness, and distortion of the truth with every word that comes out of her mouth.

LAPhil Loc: Los Angeles, CA

How silly. What do you mean "IF Obama steps down"? And right, I'm sure they've been rigging the voting machines. Do you always think you can't lose unless the other side cheats?

Wolf counselor Loc: Heart of Texas

No matter who becomes president, I will continue to thrive and manage my own affairs as I see fit.

I have endured many presidents and in my opinion, they have all been disappointing.

I won't speculate in regard to rigged voting but I do believe there is an overwhelming population of dimwits who will vote for the Clinton gal in the same way they voted for Obammy.

So if she wins, it will be because America's dimwits vastly outnumber the remaining citizens.

But I am not at all worried about who wins the election.

Because I am the president of my little Texas dwelling place.

And I will survive no matter who the dimwits elect.