Trump cheats at golf - the ONE and ONLY politics thread

doctorquant · Oct 11, 2016

Dick Whitman said: ↑

I definitely would not know.
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I'm sure many have heard the cliche of graveyards being full of indispensable men. I'd not heard of a similar one until years ago, when I contacted via e-mail an old English professor of mine who'd been a good friend. He wrote back on a postcard, the cover of which was a picture of Keats' gravestone: "Here lies One whose Name was writ in Water."

Killick · Oct 11, 2016

doctorquant · Oct 11, 2016

Inky_Wretch said: ↑

Sorry, you're right. I should have said "excuse" or "deflect criticism from" instead of "justify." My bad.
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Precision of Language, Jonah!

Moderator1 · Oct 11, 2016

Crossthread??

BadgerBeer · Oct 11, 2016

YankeeFan said: ↑

MSNBC host just said that the "hunt is on for the 'missing' Apprentice tapes".

LOL. What's "missing" and has the main stream media ever shown such interest in finding Hillary's "missing" emails or the "missing" transcripts from her Wall St. speeches?
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You are right again, nobody in the MSM has even talked about her emails...or Benghazi or Bill's affairs or her health or...

Cosmo · Oct 11, 2016

Unchained: Attacking John McCain on Twitter. This is going to be glorious to watch unfold.

LongTimeListener · Oct 11, 2016

dixiehack · Oct 11, 2016

538 has a staff chat up about their reactions to Trump's tape and what it says about our culture. Towards the end is a discussion that I doubt will satisfy YF but is probably the closest he will get to the discussion about Bill he says he wants.

maggiekb: One thing I would like to talk about before we end here is the Bill Clinton-size elephant in the room. Because I’m torn on this, as well. Hillary Clinton is obviously not responsible for Bill’s behavior. But I think there’s a lot to be reckoned with about how people in liberal circles have thought about and treated Bill because of Bill’s behavior.

And Trump’s reaction — hypocritical though it may be — is pointing that out.

christie: Right, but Trump’s use of Bill is so awful and sexist.

maggiekb: For sure. But there’s definitely been a sense of “Oh, ol’ handsy Bill!”

That needs to stop.

He shouldn’t get a pass. We should be paying attention to the fact that there are women who say he raped them. Just like we pay attention to that with Bill Cosby.

blythe: No one should get a pass. The Washington Post has a guide to some of the Clinton claims, and here’s Fusion on other cases related to Trump.

christie: I totally agree.

maggiekb: And I don’t know how to grapple with that while simultaneously saying, “This is not Hillary’s fault.”

christie: But Bill is not running for president. And it’s not her fault.

My guess is that Trump’s strategy of bringing up Bill Clinton’s infidelities and the rape charges against him are going to backfire. That strategy will play well with his die-hard supporters who already hate Hillary, but most people will look at that and wonder, what kind of man brags about his own infidelities and then blames a woman for her husband’s transgressions?

colleen: “This is not Hillary’s fault but also she’s heard these accusations and has done nothing to address them,” to complicate Maggie’s already complicated point.

maggiekb: Right. It’s hard to get across the nuance here.

Colleen: There are a lot of layers. Crappy, gross layers.

maggiekb: It’s slimy filthbuckets all the way down.

blythe: Happy Monday, everyone.
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What Trump’s Brag About Sexual Assault Reveals About This Election And Our Culture

UPChip · Oct 11, 2016

The housefire started at the first debate. But I think today you're seeing the flashover.

FileNotFound · Oct 11, 2016

Dick Whitman said: ↑

It reminds me a bit of the abortion gambit YF and I have debated. I say that it doesn't make intellectual sense that conservatives support the rape and incest exception. YF explains that the ends justify the means, politically.

Same here. Is it honorable to calibrate your support and your statements to stay in office, even if you have to be dishonest doing so? Perhaps, if you think it's vital that you stay in office to battle for positions important to you.
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That's the answer to the public/private position question that Clinton danced around during Sunday's debate.

Starman · Oct 11, 2016

Heres an interesting suggestion:

O’Reilly: Trump could learn from the Samurai

FileNotFound · Oct 11, 2016

doctorquant said: ↑

The "So-and-so's not on the ballot" is a b.s. non-sequitur.
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Why?

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