By PatD, a Trail Mix Contributor
This election is told by the plane your candidate flew in on. One is emblazoned with his name in big letters and the other with a message of unity “Stronger Together.”
Come fly with me, let’s fly, let’s fly away
If you can use some exotic shmooze
There’s a gal whose a pal ready to play
Come fly with me, let’s fly, let’s fly away
Once I get you up there where the air is rarefied
We’ll just glide side by side. Come fly with me, let’s fly, let’s fly away
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Ah, Hah! Whoopee! WOO HOOO!
Wonder how I can book our upcoming 20th anniversary trip on Air Hillary. I’ll have to check with my travel guy.
FINALLY the MoJo bunch is (are?) calling the Trump-Bondi bribe what it is. A bribe that was part of a quid pro quo that trumpf is now just fucking lying about.
a better look at the message
pbs newshour:
GWEN IFILL: Let me ask you another question about something Donald Trump had to say over the weekend. He said that Hillary Clinton didn’t look presidential.
And then he was asked about that, and he didn’t quite answer what he meant. What do you think he meant?
SEN. TIM KAINE: Well, Gwen, I will quote it precisely.
He said: “Hillary Clinton doesn’t look presidential, does she, fellows? Does she, fellows?”
And, to me, I didn’t have a hard time figuring out what that meant. He was basically saying that, because she’s a woman, that she somehow didn’t meet his standard of what a president looks like.
And I think that is very, very easily understood by the vast majority of people who heard him make that comment, and they find it offensive.
GWEN IFILL: Does it help or hurt you when there are veiled or unveiled comments referring to your running mate’s gender?
SEN. TIM KAINE: Well, you know, whether it helps or hurts us, it’s bad for our country, because we live in a country where we put our North Star out there in 1776 and said that North Star was going to be equality.
It took us 144 years to make the decision that that meant women could even vote. And now we’re 96 years after that, and thank goodness we have broken a glass ceiling and a major party has nominated a woman for president.
But for Donald Trump to suggest — and he’s suggested it before — that, for some reason, Hillary Clinton couldn’t cross over the hurdle because of her gender, when we have stated that our principle is the equality principle, and nations around the world have been able to elect women as heads of state, I think that shows that he’s living in a different time, a time that is not a match for what Americans now believe about who our leaders should be.
Dallas Morning News Endorses Hillary
First time in 75 years endorsing a Democrat.
pogo, you have company.
vanity fair:
Did Donald Trump Bribe an Attorney General to Protect Trump University?
Pam Bondi nixed a potential investigation after Trump’s foundation donated $25,000 to her re-election campaign, but Trump claims they “never spoke.”
Donald Trump has long boasted that his past political contributions have given him unique insight into the way Washington is rigged. “I give to everybody. When they call, I give. And you know what? When I need something from them, two years later, three years later, I call them. They are there for me,” he bragged during the first presidential debate. Trump’s candor won him fans, and burnished the billionaire’s claim to be the one candidate who both understands how the donor-donee relationship really works while not being beholden to donors himself.
Now, with just two months until Election Day, the Republican presidential nominee’s claims to have worked the system to his advantage are coming back to haunt him. Over the Labor Day weekend, Trump faced renewed questioning about why his family foundation had donated $25,000 to a political group supporting Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi in 2013—in violation of federal rules preventing foundations from donating to political candidates—at the same time that her office was considering whether to investigate Trump University for alleged fraud. Bondi, according to reporting by the Associated Press in July, “personally solicited” the political contribution, just before she declined to move forward with the Trump University case. (Trump also donated $35,000 to the gubernatorial campaign of Greg Abbott, three years after the then-Texas attorney general also declined to pursue an investigation into Trump University.)
photo (by sandberg/getty images) ran with above vanity fair article. looks like drumpf happily “bondi”ng
patd… “it’s the plane boss…. it’s the plane!”
Jamie…. what?!!… the Dallas Morning News endorses Hillary?!!… sssshhhhh…. don’t anyone tell BiD… 😉
Will someone please wake me up when this election is over…. I’m trying to stay interested… but so far it ain’t working.
At some point BID will realize that all the charges against Hillary are a combination of being a private person deep in the weeds of political activism but trying to do good things and the smoke & mirrors of GOP garbage trying to make her look guilty at every turn. There simply is no criminal action there. Shenanigans maybe, criminality no and more than outweighed by a good heart that genuinely wants to help others. Compared to the venal Donald Trump she should probably be measured for a halo.
Blue gave her heart to Bernie who while the goals may be good is being shown to be as self interested as any other politician feeding off the public trough.
patd, I expect the drumpf-blondi connection will be examined in some detail in the upcoming days. I certainly hope so. I would think the Florida Bar might be interested. I would like to see a vigorous FOIA request directed to the Attorney General’s office regarding the emails and records related to the decision not to join the NY lawsuit.
Lotta freak out over the CNN poll released today showing drumpf with a 1 point margin. If there’s one thing I can say for the CNN polls released so far it’s that they are all over the place – ranging from Trump +3 to Clinton +9 in the span of one week (7/24 & 7/31).
With the exception of a poll after the ‘pugn convention that reported Clinton at +1 and a couple after the dem convention with Clinton +9 and +10, the NBC/SM polls have been much more stable in the +5 to+8 range for Clinton,and I suspect have a better sampling methodology.
Patd
In answer to your question about Bye Bye Birdie, no such luck. That was based on the Elvis to the Army phenomenon and happened when I was much older. Of course I was dating the boy who eventually became the husband and then the ex when Elvis returned from the military so we were all rather swept up in the generalized excitement over two of his biggest movies with GI Blues and Blue Hawaii. My only Elvis encounter story is this one which happened even before the O’Brian story. Just another one of those things that happen to California girls in a much gentler time.
A Chinchilla Named Elvis
reposting link from earlier this morning for a wapo article “New book reveals Bill Clinton’s rogue diplomacy against the Iraq War” about Man of the World: The Further Endeavors of Bill Clinton which imo will begin another round of media madness.
how will the big dawg’s sniffing out help to stave off dubya’s Iraq war play in the press along side his alleged advice to Hillary to vote for authorization for same? will conason’s book hinder or help bring about an historical first laddie (flotus) for us?
Trump had a big fundraiser for Bondi at Mara largo –he charged the state party less then he is charging his own campaign.
My little one generation removed Scottish heart is tickled pink over the idea of having a First Laddie … don’t even need to change the monogram on the FLOTUS towels 🙂
Bondi and Greg Abbott bye bye
BonThe new information reveals an earlier, direct contribution from Donald J. Trump to Florida Attorney General Bondi and suggests a general pattern of paying significant campaign contributions to both she and former-Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott in 2013 during a 60-day window when the Republican Presidential candidate went on what could be characterized as a pay-for-play shopping spree.
Donald Trump made four known contributions, totaling $51,000 beginning on July 2013, and ending on September 17th, 2013 in the two different states, and gave Texas AG Abbott another $10,000 the following year.
In July of 2013, Trump made a $25,000 donation to Texas AG Abbott, which was three years after his office abruptly – and shockingly to career officials – dropped what was expected to be a $5.4 million dollar case. Career prosecutors figured that the cost of their nine month investigation alone came to $1.7 million dollars, but taxpayers ate the expense because of that political decision.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump personally and Trump University in the middle of Trump’s summer-long pay-for-play shopping spree, on August 25th, 2013 for operating his unlicensed University from his New York City 40 Wall Street office building.
Hah!! Newt coughs while “diagnosing” Hillary for coughing. Newt and Hannity – do they get on the Emmett Kelly or Bozo bus?
Jamie, thanks for that story about the dallas morning news endorsement. yee-hawww as patsi, ann richard and liz carpenter would say. so good considering the locale. have to repeat parts thereof:
Noting Clinton’s “real shortcomings” and calling her “use of a private email server” as secretary of state as a “clear example of poor judgment,” the editorial board called on Clinton to take additional steps to distance herself from the Clinton Foundation should she take office. “And she must be more forthright with the public by holding news conferences, as opposed to relying on a shield of carefully scripted appearances and speeches,” the board said.
“Those are real shortcomings. But they pale in comparison to the litany of evils some opponents accuse her of. Treason? Murder? Her being cleared of crimes by investigation after investigation has no effect on these political hyenas; they refuse to see anything but conspiracies and cover-ups,” the board wrote.
Pronouncing Trump’s values as “hostile to conservatism,” the newspaper wrote that the Republican nominee “plays on fear — exploiting base instincts of xenophobia, racism and misogyny — to bring out the worst in all of us, rather than the best.”
“His serial shifts on fundamental issues reveal an astounding absence of preparedness,” the editorial board continued. “And his improvisational insults and midnight tweets exhibit a dangerous lack of judgment and impulse control.”
After 25 years on the national stage and even more years in the public spotlight, it concluded, “Clinton is a known quantity,” who “for all her warts … is the candidate more likely to keep our nation safe, to protect American ideals and to work across the aisle to uphold the vital domestic institutions that rely on a competent, experienced president.”
kgc, that smell emanating from the drumpf bondi-doggle discount isn’t just an odor of bribery. it also reeks of false reporting re campaign expenses… padding bills, in kind additional benefits?
anyone at f.e.c. listening?
https://youtu.be/pvErUBCbdR4
Apparently Trump has aa history of violating campaign laws -paying the fine no problem
when he was fighting the Indian tribes for gambling rights he an his pal Roger Stone ran horrilbe racist ads and in addition violating the campaign finance laws.
Republicans must be so proud of the way he reflects their values
be sure to watch the above mojo starting at 6:52 to see the drumpf dig his own hole.
damn, just realized he’s getting more free publicity, more swamping the news coverage distracting the country from whatever substantive stuff we should be talking about.
will this insanity never end!
I’ll say it again: Never trust anyone that owns their own plane.
the media excuse or not properly covering Trump is “there is just too much”
the media lamer than lame
Pat: Love the telltale plane thing and the second photo is perfect!
Jamie: I was born to be an Elvis fan…literally, since my birthday if Jan 8 LOL! In 1960 we moved to Germany and I had fantasies about becoming his next main squeeze. I figured if Priscilla could do it so could I. Didn’t matter that she was a stunning beauty and I was just a skinny blond gawky teenager I knew if we met it would be all over. Unfortunately we were in different parts of the country. My father was Air Force Intelligence and Elvis was a mere Army enlisted man. Alas, shortly after arriving I learned that he had just left Germany, so “never the twain shall meet” was my destiny 🙁
PS all: Has anyone read the stories today of the military officers endorsing Trump list and his latest overly simplistic ideas of how the military should beat ISIS? His stupidity knows no bounds. Sadly lots of stupid people think he knows what he’s talking about, go figure. Fortunately one retired General addressed both these issues: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/07/politics/mark-hertling-trump-30-day-isis-plan/index.html
Also…Yay Dallas!
One of the Trump military nuts was the leader of the anti-gay military people and a religious nut in general — “the war in the middle east is a Christian War” Gosh I guess he wants a metal suit and to go on the crusades I guess he has only seen the movie version
Trump on the military –size matters
Why people want to throw bricks through their screens when CNN & MSNBC are on. Trump lost the coin start to go first on the CIC forum tonight. Now he is giving a full defense speech that is being carried by CNN & MSNBC so as to be first … What pure unadulterated garbage from the cheating asshole.
gotta keep that ad revenue rolling in –make it seem like there is a real race instead of the big time loser at the top and the rest of the party losers
The media sucks
Trump won the coin toss and elected to go second
The privatization of the VA should be discussed
Most of the active military are already covered by Tri-Care for themselves and dependents. Of course in areas such as where I live, they tend to use the medical facilities at Madigan since it so huge and easy access. There would probably be no problem with using local services with a Medicare card upon honorable discharge.
The VA problem is backlog because the load of war survivability wasn’t anticipated when piled on top of the load already facing the advancing years of Korean War survivors. The one thing the VA does that other facilities can’t do, is the wounds of war. Brain injuries, amputations, PTSD etc. They have specialists in just those fields that no other hospital or doctors can match in volume.
The VA is there to keep a promise. You took care of us now we will take care of you. Nothing should violate that promise.
I heard a few minutes of drumpf’s speech. Obviously reading someone else’s words about things he doesn’t have a clue about.
Be encouraged: the GOP nom no longer dominates the internet news cycle, and on some (good) days, he isn’t even top-of-page. Ruh-roh, Stooge…
wapo:
The first ad will air in Miami and stars Carlos Gutierrez, a Cuban-born Republican who served as George W. Bush’s commerce secretary for four years. He delivers a straight-to-camera appeal, imploring fellow Hispanics to vote for Clinton because Trump is “dangerous.”
“Donald Trump doesn’t have the qualities necessary to be president. I know, because I served in the Cabinet of George W. Bush for four years,” Gutierrez says in Spanish. “I was born in Cuba, but this country gave me my success. I’ve been a Republican my entire life, but first I’m an American. Vote for Trump? I can’t. It’s dangerous and we don’t want to go back. Hillary Clinton has the experience and I trust her. For me, country first, and then party.”
Gutierrez announced his support for Clinton last month, becoming one of the most prominent Hispanic Republicans to do so. A former Kellogg’s chief executive, he is now co-chairman of the advisory firm Albright Stonebridge Group. Gutierrez initially supported the campaign of former Republican Florida governor Jeb Bush and frequently warned fellow Republicans that Trump’s anti-immigrant message would be detrimental to their party.
https://youtu.be/6PYvaEOWqB0
The second ad, “Verdadera Fuerza,” or “Real Strength,” will air in the Orlando, Tampa and West Palm Beach markets in Florida and the Las Vegas and Reno markets in Nevada, according to the campaign.
“Because he shouts insults, Trump thinks he has real strength,” the announcer says before Trump is heard saying that Mexican immigrants are “bringing crime, they’re rapists.”
“But Hillary Clinton understands that real strength is revealed in what you do for others,” the announcer ads before touting Clinton’s early work on behalf of disabled children and as first lady in support of a children’s health-care program.
“A life of work — that’s where you find real strength,” the announcer says before reminding viewers to register to vote.
https://youtu.be/jGjdtIx1VPU
meanwhile, back in critterville from abajournal:
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid says he has a plan to show Americans’ “absolute disgust” with the Senate’s failure to act on the U.S. Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland.
Reid said on Tuesday that he will object to committee meetings until the Judiciary Committee schedules a meeting to consider Garland’s nomination, report the Huffington Post and the Hill. The Nevada Democrat added that he would consider requests for committee meetings needed to be held because of “extraordinary circumstances.”
The Senate requires unanimous consent for committee meetings after 2 p.m., or after the Senate has been in session more than two hours, the Hill explains.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, meanwhile, reports on another tactic that seeks to force action on Garland. New Mexico lawyer Steven Michel has filed a lawsuit asking a federal judge to instruct Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., that the Senate can’t ignore a Supreme Court nominee.
Inaction “has created a constitutional crisis that threatens the balance and separation of power among our three branches of government,” the suit says.
University of Nevada at Las Vegas law professor Ruben Garcia told the Review Journal that a judge will likely refuse to rule because of the political question doctrine.
Michel, an environmental lawyer, also questions whether a court will decide the case, but he told the Albuquerque Journal he wanted to try.
“Certainly there are opinions to the contrary, but hopefully I put a credible enough position out there that a judge will want to hear more about it and figure out if this is, indeed, something that the courts should intervene on,” Michel said. “I feel pretty strongly that they should.”
Clinton should say she supports two years of national service either in the military or working on national infrastructure problems but everyone should serve men and women
1. I oppose any ‘debate’ unless it follows collegiate debate rules.
2. In any on camera meeting between the candidates, the moderator should question
a. trump’s proposal to give nukes to the saudi terrorists, and
b. trump’s plan to privatize the US Navy.
Why doesn’t the mainspring me,me,mejuh revisit donald trump, Indian Fighter ?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/donald-trumps-long-history-of-clashes-with-native-americans/2016/07/25/80ea91ca-3d77-11e6-80bc-d06711fd2125_story.html
Bink… we know 3 people that own their own planes. The kind that land only at small airports and that seat 4 people. 2 were in the air force… and one that learnt to fly from his father…. all 3 LOVE to fly. All of them I am proud to call friends. Now a private jet…. I’m with you on that.
Politico : msnbc unskews the cnn/orc skewpoll
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/donald-trump-poll-cnn-msnbc-227804
trump industries owns the plane. The trump campaign leases it from the trump company. It’s a money maker for the deadbeat.
The pilot will probably have to sue for his last paycheck.
I always thought a plane would be handy for quick trips to the supermarket 100 miles away – never could even think of buying one though. I did have a gas powered model plane onest – the kind that you controlled with a set of strings. Just went in a circle. It was a lot of fun, but not very practical.
“Never trust anyone that owns their own plane”
bink, does that include drones?
“does that include drones?”
-Yes, with drone armies of particular concern.
here’s part of a lanny davis op ed at foxnews:
So how did the media react in covering the Trump Foundation’s illegal campaign donation, as compared to stories about the Clinton Foundation? Here are the number of “media mentions” between Sept. 1-4, as reported by the LexisNexis database:
Trump Foundation: about 20.
Clinton Foundation: about 680 — 34 times more.
I am not making this up.
Aside from The Washington Post, which broke the story in March and added more details Sept. 1, virtually none of the mainstream media prior to this Monday, the Labor Day holiday, ran stories about the Trump Foundation’s undisputed illegal campaign donation and apparent pay-for-play story.
[….]
Only on Tuesday did the Times catch up. Why doesn’t it fess up to ignoring Trump’s undisputed illegal conduct while over-playing the implications of the FBI interview of Clinton? A few media outlets have noticed the Times’s omission, including Washington Monthly and the site Crooks and Liars.
The Times wasn’t alone. Where was The Associated Press, so quick to jump to unsupported conclusions about the Clinton Foundation and forced to revise its headline? Where was The Wall Street Journal, so quick to pound away at the email story without any FBI finding of illegal conduct? Meanwhile, Fox News and CNN, to name a few TV outlets, ignored Trump’s illegal donation and apparent pay-for-play story until Tuesday.
dear lanny, obviously drumpf doing bad things is not news. and anyway didn’t they admit “there is just too much” ?
boys will be boys.
ps: could be too they’re afraid they’ll be sued by the king of slapp suits
When I was in candidate school there was one overridding principle. Talk to sixth grade. The idiotic commercial from the bloater is second grade, and it stinks. Although I did not expect anything better. The weird thing is the buy includes Maryland, D.C. and Virginia. Dumb.
Since there is no chance for Clinton to respond to the craptastic baloney trump will be spreading around the moderator better be prepared to fact check on the spot.
Here’s a fairly extensive article from the Times about the extent of drumpf’s campaign contribution violations over the years.
I know that DT is slithery like a cave newt but I think Hillary’s gonna knock him down a peg or two…..
I’ve a vision of it as the Ali-Shavers fight.
She was ok –
his speech this morning seems to be a pre-meditated list of big hairy macho promises he wants her tonight to refute or at least to look weak on. seems he’s setting her up to say wussy wonky stuff. he’ll get the short sound bites and she’ll just be bitten with backlash. in his megalomania he throws the ball, he says she whiffs it and he wins tonight by wrapping up the with the final words and pundit stories afterwards.
Right now Trump is all glib, generalized nonsense. Anyone who falls for this no nothing probably should stay away from sharp objects.
so far we have learned he has no immigration plan and he has no plan for Isis
he has no plan……………
Where’s the goddam swear jar? What a fucking asshole. Couldn’t answer a question if his balls depended on it.
If I were him I wouldn’t use the words “corrupt enterprise “
Yeah, that wasn’t much…….crumby set-up from start to finish……..coin toss ass.
I rate this as Hillary 9, DUMBASS 5.
he wasn’t that good
“When I come up with a plan”,….”I have a plan”… i’ll have the generals subit a plan in 30 days…WHAT THE FUCK?
Ok, deep breaths. Settle down. There’s heart attack and stroke hIstory in my family….
Ok, 4.
House Dems just released email that Colin Powell sent to Hillary Clinton about using personal email at State
Only a 4 if you give him points for tap dancing ability. Otherwise – 2
The times fact checked donald and he is a big fat liar with his pants on fire
too bad the the rest of the media is too lazy to do the right thing
they could just copy from the times
she needs better answers –shorter
Kc, I agree but it’s hard to address complex issues with simple answers. You end up soundin like drumpf.
Jamie, I yield. 😉
I think Hillary is a smart smart person and i’m happy to support her.. Trump is lousy.. A BIG LIAR! Trump never answers the question. No plans at all.. It’s always the same, he will make everything great, America, The VA, The Military and so on.. Who falls for him, yah i know, millions..
rr – ha! Of course The Dallas Morning News endorsed her. They always endorse a Rep. She’s not really a Dem; she’s a DINO, as I’ve said in the past.
Donald Trump Bizarrely Heaps Even More Praise On Vladimir Putin
Tierney Sneed
I’ll say, its also just weird.. The respect and admiration for strongman Putin.. Even quoting his high approval numbers from a poll.. The guy is not all there..
The Democrats are surprisingly unified. That should help Hillary Clinton.
By Boris Heersink and Sidney M. Milkis
Real Democrats know a real Democrat when they see one.. You know ones that actually supported President Obama when he ran the first and second time even when he wasn’t their favorite.. Hillary has been a true liberal Democrat for most of her life.. I also thank Hillary for getting healthcare for children which helped my niece at 8 years old after a go cart accident.. Payed the whole $30,000 bill most of which went to the plastic surgeon.. DINO, rubbish…
Blue, bullshit.
Matt Lauer’s Pathetic Interview of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Is the Scariest Thing I’ve Seen in This Campaign
Johnathon Chait
I had a good time tonight. I spend it with 3 of my peeps from work. Two were moderates, and the other (a good friend and fishing buddy) is the deputy chair of our county’s Republican party.
Our get together was to have some dinner and watch the C & C forum. During the forum my friend the Republican, just held his head low, shaking it from side to side saying “sorry guys – we shouldn’t have done this”.
We offered to go to the parking lot and help him scrape the Trump bumper sticker off of his truck- he said it’s a party thing. We offered to find a razor blade ;o)
The worm has turned.
Geez!
A worthless waste of time. A travesty that such a dishonorable swine should occupy the same dais as Ms Clinton or breathe the same air as disabled veterans.
I am thoroughly disgusted.
Did we discuss deadbeat don’s desire to withdraw naval support from our allies sea train, because our effort isn’t making us money ?
Did we discuss genghis don’s desire to withdraw naval, army, and air support from our NATO allies ?
Did we discuss donald the great’s desire to give the saudis our nuclear weapons ?
That’s all I’d want to hear discussed at a Security Info Forum.