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Home Front: Politix
Hillary Clinton has always been 'a crooked person': Trump
[Iran Press TV] US Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has denounced his main Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Abel P. Upshur ...
, as "a crooked person."

"We call her 'Crooked Hillary' because she's a crooked person. She's always been a crooked person," Trump said in an interview with Fox News on Friday.

"Clinton is a person who's got many, many flaws... The only thing she's got going is the women card," and that she's "the worst possible representative a woman can have," he added.

At a campaign event in the US sate of Pennsylvania on the same day, Clinton said she would not respond to Trump's comments about her.

Earlier this month, Trump had slammed the Democratic front-runner as "unqualified" to be the US president.

In the interview, the real estate mogul also promised his supporters that he would not bore them by becoming overly presidential, saying, "I can tell you that if I go too presidential, people are going to be very bored," adding that he worried his supporters would "fall asleep."
Posted by: Fred || 04/24/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...he would not bore them by becoming overly presidential,

Perish the thought!
Posted by: Raj || 04/24/2016 0:37 Comments || Top||

#2  she's "the worst possible representative a woman can have

IMO, anybody advanced through "affirmative action", is the worst possible representative for the "affirmed" group.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/24/2016 3:51 Comments || Top||

#3  One of the reasons to like Trump is he's not going to pull punches on her. She needs to be called "crooked and a congenital liar" in every interview and speech...cause it's true
Posted by: Frank G || 04/24/2016 10:32 Comments || Top||

#4  I will tell you the system is broken. I gave to many people before this-before two months ago, I was a businessman. When they call, I give. And you know what, when I need something from them [Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi] two years later, three years later, I call them. They are there for me. That's a broken system.

And Trump knows what he's talking about on this one. Apparently as a "businessman", Trump had unique access into the crooked Clinton machine. And you can imagine the tremendous insight he gleaned from that 100K "donation" to the Clinton Foundation.
Posted by: DepotGuy || 04/24/2016 14:47 Comments || Top||

#5  Nothing like an insider to wreak havoc on the machine. The man knows whereof he speaketh.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/24/2016 16:14 Comments || Top||

#6  Some are born crooked. Some have crookedness thrust upon them. Perhaps Hillary was an innocent before Bill thrust his crookedness upon her.

Naaah.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/24/2016 19:14 Comments || Top||


Krauthammer: New Fox Poll of California voters 'devastating for Cruz'
[FOXNEWS] Charles Krauthammer told viewers Friday on "Special Report with Bret Baier" that new Fox News poll numbers in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, are "devastating for Cruz."

The New Fox News poll shows Republican Donald Trump holding a big lead in California. Trump captures 49 percent of likely Republican primary voters. That’s more than the combined support for his two remaining competitors. Ted Cruz receives 22 percent and John Kasich 20 percent.

"That is a New York massacre," Krauthammer said. "So if that happens ‐ and let’s assume that Indiana and California end up where the polls are ‐ then I don’t see how Cruz has a claim."
Posted by: Fred || 04/24/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You have been a dumb jackass for the past 4 years Krauthammer. Your minds meld into utter shit when sitting around in NY listening to nattering nanobodies all day. Hardly worth a news channel.

In fact, I just shit canned your whole network because you are dumb suck pieces of non learning political shit with you don't know what values.

It's a club of crap. You are on notice, rupert. This crew SUCKS ASS so you are fired as a news channel from here on out.

Ergo, I have no cable news channel, and only 4 shows I Am willing to watch.
My Twitter is a better source anyways since they have real people on it.
Posted by: newc || 04/24/2016 3:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Interesting. Well, to me---looking from outside, Trump can't possibly any worse than his predecessors.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/24/2016 3:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Yeah, well... Hoover was a "businessman" too.
Trump is an idiot. This will be a not fun term for US trying to piece together shit like nations and economies with this show biz Biff coming out of the woodwork to un-thread needles and such.

Everytime I think I have a deal with Trump, It breaks because he is like dealing with Iranians on deals and shit.

You had to be there.

He BETTER read Rantburg or he is out for default on finding any intel at all.

He is dumb as a box of sweaters
Posted by: newc || 04/24/2016 4:01 Comments || Top||

#4  IF "Trump is an idiot." then America needs more idiots.
Its people the MSM call clever who we need less of.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/24/2016 7:36 Comments || Top||

#5  Yet another example of 'Establishment' insanity.

Hillary Clinton might make better president, says billionaire industrialist Charles Koch.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/24/2016 8:07 Comments || Top||

#6  So you're saying that Trump is winning by going big in Dem states that he has no chance of competing in, in the general, while getting, a bit over 1/3 of the GOP votes in the swing states where any candidate must be competitive to win?

Similar ffor Cruz but flipped - he is doing amazing in the GOP easy states, but doing so-so at best in some of the swing states.

Seems to me the GOP has designed a primary system that produces nothing but a loser for the general election.

They need to stop letting Democrats and Indeps choose their nominees in some states, dont give so much wight to states that will never be GOP or will always be GOP, and put more weight on states that were close to being GOP in the last election cycle.

How they do that I haven't a clue.

I think I will just buy more ammo, gasoline stabilizer and stock up on antibiotics & alcohol.
Posted by: Fat Bob Thavilet4332 || 04/24/2016 10:06 Comments || Top||

#7  B, Koch knows he cant control him, now I am certain I'm voting for him.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 04/24/2016 15:14 Comments || Top||

#8  Your choices now have been reduced to Crooked Hillary, Lyin' Ted, Bernie the Bolshevik Sanders and Donald Trump. I like Ted's positions but he's just too slick, too slimy, too Canadian and too Cuban. Sorry. And if Hillary had the slightest little bit of integrity left in that decrepit body of hers she would have divorced Bill before he ever left Arkansas. Bernie is a Bolshevik. 'Nuff said.

newc, I gave up on Fox years ago. What took you so long? They're really no better than ABC except instead of Clinton they like Bush. What's the difference?

Fat Bob, I dunno about other states but in California you have to be registered Republican to vote in the Republican primary. There are still a few Republicans left in this state and we deserve a vote. No caucus. No backroom deals. Straight democracy. Not since 1976 has it mattered the least little bit how Californians voted in the primary because all of the other states vote before we do and the deal is done before June. This year I'm thrilled to be in a position where my vote will be important. And if Trump can bring a few Democrats along with him in November, so much the better.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/24/2016 16:36 Comments || Top||

#9  just too slick, ..., too Canadian

I've trouble with slick and Canadian going together
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/24/2016 16:46 Comments || Top||

#10  B, Koch knows he cant control him, now I am certain I'm voting for him. Posted by 49 Pan

Roger! Everyone should be BINGO for excuses for not voting Trump about now. Nobody every said you had to 'like' the sob. Probably more like Koch to come.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/24/2016 16:58 Comments || Top||

#11  #9 There's got to be a Canadian Bacon snark in there somewhere.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/24/2016 18:01 Comments || Top||

#12  Would be more than ironic if NY and CA wind up deciding this thing - because neither one will vote for a Republican this fall.
Posted by: Iblis || 04/24/2016 23:23 Comments || Top||


Obama explains removal of Churchill bust from Oval Office
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] President B.O. explained Friday that he removed a bust of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill from the Oval Office when he first became president to make room for a bust of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., because King means so much to Obama.

But Obama stressed that he still keeps a bust of Churchill right outside his private office in the residence because he also respects the legendary wartime leader and orator.

The removal of Churchill from the Oval Office has led to constant complaints from Republicans that he was disrespecting one of the U.S.'s closest allies. But in a Friday briefing in London with Prime Minister David Cameron
... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ...
, he said he imagines that the British people understand.
Posted by: Fred || 04/24/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sometimes silence is gold.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/24/2016 3:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/24/2016 7:30 Comments || Top||

#3  I can only imagine what Churchill might say about the Champ if he were alive today.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/24/2016 8:10 Comments || Top||

#4  XS BS; DR
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 04/24/2016 16:43 Comments || Top||

#5  'But Obama stressed that he still keeps a bust of Churchill right outside in his private office toilet.

FIFY
Posted by: magpie || 04/24/2016 18:00 Comments || Top||

#6  what Churchill might say about the Champ

We could ask Netanyahu. He seems to be cut from similar cloth as Winston.

Curious that this oh-so-clever explanation never came up when the Churchill bust was originally removed.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/24/2016 19:08 Comments || Top||

#7  Is it true that when BO visited Saudi Arabia recently the other heads of state were greeted by the King while BO was greeted only by the Mayor?

Heard that somewhere...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/24/2016 19:41 Comments || Top||



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