2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumFrom what I gather, CNN commentators are giving this speech a D-
One after another is calling this speech a big nothing with a lot of unconstitutional ideas. General Wesley Clark basically called it a pile of horseshit, but in a polite way of course.
The only ones defending it are Trump surrogates.
fun n serious
(4,451 posts)His surrogates should be ashamed of themselves!
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)And: "to the Victors goes the spoils, TAKE the oil" WTF?
forest444
(5,902 posts)And even them you can't count on them to "take the oil" for the benefit of U.S. interests.
Dubya, for instance, handed almost all of it to British, French, and Chinese interests. The British and the French, because they controlled Iraq's oil to begin with (until it was nationalized in 1972); and the Chinese because, after all, they financed Operation Iraqi Liberation (O.I.L.).
The same, by the way, happened in Syria.
nolabear
(41,987 posts)CNN is doing an autopsy while the corpse is still wriggling.
senseandsensibility
(17,066 posts)I never see him anymore. Glad they are panning trump.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)He was my early favorite vs Bush right after 9/11.
calimary
(81,322 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)and Trump bombast do not constitute a "foreign policy."
The notion that we should just "take their oil" as a better alternative than "nation building" really highlights his fascist-militarization inclinations.
Unbelievable.
Pakid
(478 posts)and that seem to be the only thing he know how to do. Lucky for us they are only about 30% of the population of course it would be a lot nicer if they were only 1/10 of 1% of our population
Moonwalk
(2,322 posts)...from day one. The best we can hope for from them is they won't vote. The upside here is that it DIDN'T play well to the mostly bias media (Faux news excluded as always).
SunSeeker
(51,574 posts)I guess they get paid well to unashamedly contradict reality.
They better not wait too long to cash those checks.
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Chemisse
(30,813 posts)Can't you criticize his ideas? his words? the fact that he is touting for an idiot?
groundloop
(11,519 posts)Please, we can be much better than this.
As has been said, criticize people for their actions and ideas, but leave the personal stuff out of it.
Chemisse
(30,813 posts)The post was removed.
By the way, I am assuming your comment was meant for that post, not mine.
A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)"Trump Surrogates' Class Action Suit For Back Pay From Bankrupt Punchline Reaches Supreme Court: Former Billionaire Will Represent Himself With Hair-Face-Orange-Dye-Disgusting-Media Defense"
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)vlyons
(10,252 posts)Clinton's stump speech was mostly stuff that I've heard her say before, but it was competent and clear what her main economic agenda is. Real goals that would make a big big difference for working families. But Biden was fabulous! His sincerity and anecdotes about American values that he learned growing up in Scranton were bright sunshine compared to Trump's "foreign policy" speech today in Ohio. His take down of Trump's candidacy was simply devastating. They were smart to hold their rally before Trump's today. Trump is such an empty suit.
Moosepoop
(1,920 posts)... but his shirt is stuffed.