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Did Trump screw the pooch with his comments about Mr & Mrs Khan

Did Trump screw the pooch with his comments about Mr & Mrs Khan

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Gangplank said:
Trump should have not responded to the Khan family. Regardless of what he says, he loses. All people hear is Trump going after a family who lost a son in combat. There's no winning scenario except to be quiet and give your condolences to them for their loss.

Yes, the Khan family made it political by attacking Trump personally at the Democratic National Convention. Some would say when you do that you're fair game. But in the real world, attacking a family whose son lost his life in war is a lose-lose situation.
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I agree. Trump should have just expressed sorrow for the loss of their son and left it at that. It would have been a one day story rather then a two week story.
 
ObamacareFail said:
Wouldn't have something to do with that "D" in front of her name on the ballot, would it?
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Nope- I cannot stand her. If you wish check and see how many threads I started condemning her.
 
yankintx said:
Lol

Trump a question mark? Well, it took two weeks out of the GOP for him to implode, all his own doing. The media reports it because it's there job, so no I dont buy the media is in the can for Hilldog. Trump created this media monstor, it is biting the hand that feeds it.
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With the exception of Fox News, the mass media is entirely in the tank for Hillary. If you cannot see the bias in their reporting, I cannot help you. That does not mean that Trump is not creating some of his own problems. However if Trump had the email troubles, the Clinton Foundation troubles, the Benghazi troubles, that Hillary has, the media would have finished Trump off long ago. If Trump commits a gaffe, it's amplified many times over. If Hillary does the same, the media shrugs.
 
Once again...Trump is merely an meglomainiac buffoon. he does not have a classified email on a private server issue, a Clinton foundation, issue, a Benghazi issue, or an "I dodged sniper fire in Bosnia issue. I think even most democrats by now will admit that Hillary is a crook and is in poor health. But I agree that we have two poor choices. I am not voting for either one. My point is that if I were forced to pick, I certainly would not pick the crook with poor physical and mental health.
 
apparently the media considers trump's comments on a Muslim more important than Clinton's treason/complicity to murder a US ambassador. the future of america lol, groupthink welfare liberals living off a tiny minority of employed republicans.
 
JANFU said:
Not your boy. I am well on in years & have nothing in life to prove.
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Don't make claims that you cannot back up. Have a nice weekend.
 
ObamacareFail said:
With the exception of Fox News, the mass media is entirely in the tank for Hillary. If you cannot see the bias in their reporting, I cannot help you. That does not mean that Trump is not creating some of his own problems. However if Trump had the email troubles, the Clinton Foundation troubles, the Benghazi troubles, that Hillary has, the media would have finished Trump off long ago. If Trump commits a gaffe, it's amplified many times over. If Hillary does the same, the media shrugs.
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I call BS

CNN has reported on Benghazi and the email server. Just because Clinton was cleared of any wrong doing does not mean it was ignored by everyone but Faux News. If anything Fox News was reporting to much on those issues, so much so that they ignore REAL news, but Faux does play to its audience.
 
QuadpolarNutjob said:
apparently the media considers trump's comments on a Muslim more important than Clinton's treason/complicity to murder a US ambassador. the future of america lol, groupthink welfare liberals living off a tiny minority of employed republicans.
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Lol

Another neo con paying far too much tax.
 
sanman said:
Nah, he's less of a warmonger than the Democrat Cold War Hawks who continually keep crying "The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!"

Democrat Peanut Gallery is using every trick in the book - first saying he'll aggressively start a shooting war with the Russians - next doing a 180 and saying he's a Russian stooge who'll meekly surrender the country to Putin without firing a shot. Make up your minds on which fiction you want to peddle, because they're contradictory and can't both work together.
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Could be they're as confused about trump as I am.

He's a contradictory individual.
 
The Mark said:
Could be they're as confused about trump as I am.

He's a contradictory individual.
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When they're gunning this hard for him, he likes to keep them guessing. Because he's a moving target, the Democrats keep continually having to re-arrange their entire narrative of the world to keep up.

Yesterday, it was "African Americans are all oppressed! They can't get a fair shake! It's twice as hard for them to advance as anybody else! They keep getting shot by cops! They need Affirmative Action! BLACK LIVES MATTER - stop denying that!!"

Today, it's "Trump is stupidly saying that African Americans live worse lives than everybody else - where the hell did he get that idea?? What a nut!"

:roll:
 
sanman said:
Nah, he's less of a warmonger than the Democrat Cold War Hawks who continually keep crying "The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!"

Democrat Peanut Gallery is using every trick in the book - first saying he'll aggressively start a shooting war with the Russians - next doing a 180 and saying he's a Russian stooge who'll meekly surrender the country to Putin without firing a shot. Make up your minds on which fiction you want to peddle, because they're contradictory and can't both work together.
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It all depends on which Trump you're talking about. The Trump of yesterday bears no resemblance to the Trump of today. Could be that one Trump is a Russian stooge, while the other wants to start a war. It's hard to tell with a candidate with more positions than the Kamasutra.
 
ObamacareFail said:
With the exception of Fox News, the mass media is entirely in the tank for Hillary. If you cannot see the bias in their reporting, I cannot help you. That does not mean that Trump is not creating some of his own problems. However if Trump had the email troubles, the Clinton Foundation troubles, the Benghazi troubles, that Hillary has, the media would have finished Trump off long ago. If Trump commits a gaffe, it's amplified many times over. If Hillary does the same, the media shrugs.
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You have to understand...there will be SOME idiots out there that will call organizations like CNN's full court press trying to downplay the significance of Hillary's debacles and excuse every intentional misdeed while at the same time committing 24/7 derogatory attacks on Trump as 'NEWS COVERAGE".
 
Dittohead not! said:
It all depends on which Trump you're talking about. The Trump of yesterday bears no resemblance to the Trump of today. Could be that one Trump is a Russian stooge, while the other wants to start a war. It's hard to tell with a candidate with more positions than the Kamasutra.
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Or it could be that you're just trying to spew any contradictory nonsense, while blaming it all on Trump - that's what scapegoats are for. The fact that your side doesn't even have a consistent belief about Trump tells us of your own anything-goes mentality.
 
sanman said:
Or it could be that you're just trying to spew any contradictory nonsense, while blaming it all on Trump - that's what scapegoats are for. The fact that your side doesn't even have a consistent belief about Trump tells us of your own anything-goes mentality.
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"My side?"

I suppose my side includes all Americans, Republican and Democrat, who weren't fooled by Trump and his con.

As for "contradictory nonsense", the Trump campaign is full of it.

Take, for example the issue of minimum wage:

MINIMUM WAGE
1. Against raising the minimum wage. Jobs would move to China.

During the thick of the primaries, Trump repeatedly argued that raising the minimum would move jobs to countries like China. Speaking in the cold language of a businessman looking at his bottom line, Trump even seemed to indicate overall American wages, regardless of the law, were too generous already.

"Taxes too high, wages too high, we're not going to be able to compete against the world," Trump said in a November debate hosted by Fox Business. Trump clarified afterwards that he did not believe American wages were too high, but he did make crystal clear he was fundamentally opposed to a minimum wage increase.

2. Wages should be raised through economic growth.

Trump in an interview with CNBC in May said he would prefer to try to raise wages through economic growth. His abrupt move toward a possible increase that he opposed in tough terms is a significant general election shift.

3. Raise the minimum wage.

"I am looking at it, and I haven't decided in terms of numbers. But I think people have to get more," Trump said on ABC on May 8, acknowledging that his statement was a shift when pressed.

"Sure, it's a change. I'm allowed to change," he said. "But my real minimum wage is going to be — I'm going to bring companies back into this country, and they're going to make a lot more than the $15 even."

4. Get rid of the federal minimum wage, leave it to the states.

On NBC on the same day, Trump said more specifically that he wanted states to mandate wages.

"Let me just tell you, I've been traveling the country for many months. Since June 16, I'm all over," he said. "I have seen what's going on. And I don't know how people make it on $7.25 an hour. Now, with that being said, I would like to see an increase of some magnitude. But I'd rather leave it to the states. Let the states decide. Because don't forget, the states have to compete with each other."

5. I want to increase it!

In a May 11th tweet criticizing Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Trump argued that he was "asking for increase" of the federal minimum wage.

6. States should change it, but it will hurt them.

"I actually think that the states should make the decision," Trump said in an interview with a Seattle radio station, but argued that "In some cases, states are going to become noncompetitive, and they're going to start losing maybe jobs and losing business, and they're going to have to readjust. Otherwise, they're just not going to have anything."

7. Let's make it $10 dollars an hour.

As the Washington Post notes, Trump's shift here are lengthy and significant: He says he would support raising it to $10 an hour, argues he never wanted to abolish the federal minimum wage, which he did.

8. It should go up, but states should call the shots here

In a June news conference, Trump said "the minimum wage has to go up. People are — at least $10, but it has to go up. But I think that states — federal — I think that states should really call the shot."

Current position: Raise it to $10 an hour, ignore what I said before.
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Or, pick any issue. Check it out here.

Or, if you don't trust the "liberal media," just go back and listen to his speeches for yourself.
 
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