Author: craigcrawford

Robert James Woolsey, former Director of Central Intelligence, on CNN about the insane truck killer in France:

“We are not going to win just by getting more and more vigilant, or even improving our intelligence, and so forth. We’ve got to destroy ISIS. Bin Laden said it very well once, oddly enough, he said people see a strong horse and a weak horse, and I like the strong horse better. We’ve got to be the strong horse. We’ve got to win not only in Syria and Iraq, we’ve got to crush ISIS in the West.”

The most disturbing news these days for Hill camp is that a multi-million dollar ad buy in Florida utterly failed ($1 million per week in Orlando market, their biggest buy nationwide). Despite the saturation of air waves, amid no ads aired by Trump forces, Clinton’s numbers in the state actually faltered. This is exactly what Trump’s GOP foes discovered in the party’s primary races — attack ads don’t hurt him, no matter how much is spent.

They have budgeted $158 million for battleground state TV ads and just learned in their first test run they’re worthless. Can’t imagine the heads rolling in Brooklyn.

Bernie Sanders is set to endorse Hillary today, but the New York Times’ Amy Chozick wonders if it’s “too little, too late.” The Sanders “revolution is appears to be ending with a whisper rather than a roar.” Clinton is polling well enough among Sanders supporters, has secured the enthusiastic support of Elizabeth Warren and hired several of his former campaign staffers. Still, Chozick asks, “Will they hug?”

UPDATE (1pm): They hugged!

Hillary Clinton (CNN, July 8): “I will call for white people, like myself, to put ourselves in the shoes of those African-American families, who fear every time their children go somewhere, who have to have the talk about … how to really protect themselves, when they are the ones who should be expecting protection from encounters with the police. I’m going to be talking to white people. I think we are the ones who have to start listening to the legitimate cries that are coming from our African-American fellow citizens, and we have so much more to be done, and we have got to get about the business of doing it. We can’t be engaging in hateful rhetoric or incitement of violence. We need to bring people together.”

Snipers kill five police officers in Dallas, wound seven others during protest

Neil Franklin, former Maryland Police Major, on Dallas shootings of officers (CNN): “This is what I feared when I heard about these two shootings over the past couple of days. … We need leadership from our law enforcement community all across the country. We need leadership from the protest community. To step forward and say we are not going to tolerate violence anymore.’

Celebrity reax to latest police shootings:

“We are sick and tired of the killings of young men and women in our communities. It is up to us to take a stand and demand they ‘stop killing us.’ We don’t need sympathy. We need everyone to respect our lives.” — Beyonce, on her website.
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“The assault on the black body in this country is as American as apple pie. It is time for a #CallToAction. Let’s prove #BlackLivesMatter.” — Nate Parker, actor and director of the upcoming “The Birth of a Nation” film.
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“My heart is broken for all of these suffering families. Something has to change. #AltonSterling #PhilandoCastile #StoptheViolence” — Reese Witherspoon on Twitter.
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“In the interest of time, would ye noble patriots please provide a list of infractions punishable by spontaneous public execution? Thanks! … Upon receipt of this list, we’ll return to our quarters and study up, eager to enjoy freedoms of white mass murders. #LIFEHACK” — Actor Jesse Williams, on Twitter.
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“This is what lynchings look like in 2016! Another murder in the streets because the color of a man’s skin, at the hands of the people who they say will protect us. When will they be held accountable? or did he fear for his life as he executed this man?” — San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, on Instagram.
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“Don’t forget to set your clocks back 300 years tonight.” — A meme posted by Questlove of The Roots on Instagram.
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“This is not acceptable. One more life taken. One more family heartbroken. Another fatherless child. Accountability. #PhilandoCastile” — Susan Sarandon on Twitter.
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“I can’t keep calm I have a black son.” — A meme posted by actress Niecy Nash.
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“I would say good morning but it’s not. Bs like this keeps happening. This is sickening. When will it end?” — San Francisco 49ers player Torrey Smith.
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“Yo man, something’s gotta give, bro, it just has to. … We’re getting killed every day. … This (expletive) is (expletive) horrible, and it needs to (expletive) stop.” — Singer Chris Brown, in an Instagram video.
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“And now I come home to this??????? !!!YES!!!!! We all NEED to see this OVER and OVER … because it’s REAL…And it’s happening NOW!!!! I’m sad and sadly not shocked. The gig is up and we need to fix it!!! My prayers to this man’s family.” — “Empire” producer Lee Daniels, posting a video of the Alton Sterling killing.