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    True dat. I console myself with one thing. Obama was ineffective because the Congress hamstrung him and made the executive office irrelevant (which is why he tried so many executive orders). These two will be the same. The presidency is largely a figurehead...there is real power there, but the checks and balances in place are pretty effective.

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    True dat. I console myself with one thing. Obama was ineffective because the Congress hamstrung him and made the executive office irrelevant (which is why he tried so many executive orders). These two will be the same. The presidency is largely a figurehead...there is real power there, but the checks and balances in place are pretty effective.

    If I'm not mistaken, the Congress was Democrat majority during Mr. O's term and just recently went Republican. Democrats, Harry Reid in particular, sat on virtually everything and took very, very little to the President's desk. This was a major reason Republicans took the Congress.
    However, it seems that still nothing happens!

    Crooked Donald!


    In 2006, when a judge ordered Donald Trump's casino operation to hand over several years' worth of emails, the answer surprised him: The Trump Organization routinely erased emails and had no records from 1996 to 2001. The defendants in a case that Trump brought said this amounted to destruction of evidence, a charge never resolved.
    At that time, a Trump IT director testified that until 2001, executives in Trump Tower relied on personal email accounts using dial-up Internet services, despite the fact that Trump had launched a high-speed Internet provider in 1998 and announced he would wire his whole building with it. Another said Trump had no routine process for preserving emails before 2005.
    Judge Jeffrey Streitfeld was stunned. “He has a house up in Palm Beach County listed for $125 million, but he doesn’t keep emails. That’s a tough one,” he said, according to transcripts obtained by USA TODAY. “If somebody starts to put forth as a fact something that doesn’t make any sense to me and causes me to have a concern about their credibility in the discovery process, that's not a good direction to go, and I am really having a hard time with this.”
    Now, a decade later, Trump regularly hammers Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, for using her own email server while she was secretary of State and deleting emails from that server that she deemed to be private. In a war of tweets with Clinton a week ago, Trump wrote, “And where are your 33,000 emails that you deleted?” On the CBS News program Face the Nationearlier this month, Trump said, "What she did is a criminal situation. She wasn't supposed to do that with the server and the emails."


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    It is amazing how people grasp at straws to make their point. One person's actions were illegal when they occurred in public office and the others action were at best unethical.
    Fail.


    I am not a big fan of Trump, it is the lesser of two bads.
    But if you are going to judge by the failures then have a look around and see how many failures have come by HRC.
    Heck I know there are many things I have failed at, only because I try. I have never been told I am a failure.
    It's down to what I taught my kids. Before you are critical in an argument you might want to do some research on why the other believes what they do. It could open your eyes to different way of thinking.


    I do love this stuff. It can be what makes a difference in what we perceive, if only but a little.

    Regulations, Obamacare and taxes are destroying economy: Donald Trump Thursday, 11 Aug 2016 | 7:03 AM ET|00:59
    Donald Trump told CNBC on Thursday he will either win with his frank and uncensored style of campaigning or enjoy a "very, very nice long vacation."
    Republicans have long hoped Trump will pivot on his behavior, but in the "Squawk Box" interview, he said:
    "I'm a truth teller. All I do is tell the truth. And if at the end of 90 days, I've fallen short because I'm somewhat politically correct even though I'm supposed to be the smart one and even though I'm supposed to have a lot of good ideas, it's OK. I go back to a very good way of life."
    A string of unfavorable poll numbers and growing opposition from within his own party's congressional membership have made Republicans increasingly nervous that they have toxic nominee on their hands that could endanger the party's future.
    In the wide-ranging phone interview, Trump insisted that President Barack Obama "absolutely" founded ISIS. He also discussed economic issues including regulation and infrastructure spending.
    Trump initially made the ISIS comments on Wednesday.
    Asked about them, he doubled down and said "[Obama] was the founder of ISIS absolutely, the way he removed our troops. ... I call them co-founders," he added, referring to his Democratic presidential opponent, Hillary Clinton.
    Trump also stood by his remarks about the Second Amendment that Democrats interpreted as calling for violence against Clinton.
    "On the Second Amendment everybody came to my defense because there was nothing said wrong. I'm talking about the power of the voter," Trump told CNBC. "Only the haters tried to grab onto that one."
    However, Trump allowed for the possibility that his uncensored views may not result in a win.
    "I think we're going to have victory, but we'll see," Trump said. "At the end it's either going to work or I'm going to, you know, I'm going to have a very, very nice long vacation."

    And if Trump does win Hillary just might be going on a very, very, long not so nice vacation.