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New campaign spot from Hillary Clinton utilizing statements made by Republican officials and pundits.
From former CIA Director Michael Hayden: “If he governs consistent with some of the things he’s said as a candidate, I would be very frightened.”
Even Republicans agree – the Trumpster is unfit to be president.
Michael J. Morell, former deputy director of the CIA who served under three presidents, penned an op-ed for the New York Times wherein he strongly endorses former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for president.
Morell prefaces the piece by saying he’s voted for both parties in the past, and that he’s always stayed silent on his position regarding a president – until now.
After extolling Hillary Clinton’s depth of qualifications, Morell offered cutting observations of Republican Donald Trump’s dangerous lack of foreign experience and knowledge.
In sharp contrast to Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Trump has no experience on national security. Even more important, the character traits he has exhibited during the primary season suggest he would be a poor, even dangerous, commander in chief.
These traits include his obvious need for self-aggrandizement, his overreaction to perceived slights, his tendency to make decisions based on intuition, his refusal to change his views based on new information, his routine carelessness with the facts, his unwillingness to listen to others and his lack of respect for the rule of law.
The dangers that flow from Mr. Trump’s character are not just risks that would emerge if he became president. It is already damaging our national security.
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia was a career intelligence officer, trained to identify vulnerabilities in an individual and to exploit them. That is exactly what he did early in the primaries. Mr. Putin played upon Mr. Trump’s vulnerabilities by complimenting him. He responded just as Mr. Putin had calculated.
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In the intelligence business, we would say that Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation.
Take a Friday brain-break with Ariana Grande’s awesome tribute to Whitney Houston on the season finale of ABC’s Greatest Hits.
While it’s true we’ll never see another Whitney Houston, I do think Ariana’s powerful vocals and stage presence makes for a pretty terrific tribute for the artist Ariana has called one of her greatest inspirations.
With several new polls coming out this week with strong support for Hillary Clinton, it’s no wonder super-stats guy Nate Silver’s forecast is looking very positive for the former Secretary of State.
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From the Denver Post:
Employers added a healthy 255,000 jobs last month, a sign of confidence amid sluggish growth that points to a resilient U.S. economy.
The Labor Department said Friday that the unemployment rate remained a low 4.9 percent in July. More Americans launched job searches, and nearly all were hired. But the influx of job seekers meant that the number of unemployed fell only slightly.
Average hourly pay picked up and is 2.6 percent higher than it was a year ago, matching the fastest pace since the recession.
Sales of existing homes reached a nine-year high in June, and sales of new homes accelerated to an eight-year high.
Check out this “behind the scenes” look at the 2016 Democratic National Convention for an up-close take on the upbeat tone of the four days in Philadelphia.
The video includes folks like VP Joe Biden, Katy Perry, Orlando Bloom, Cory Booker, Gabby Giffords, Elizabeth Warren, Sarah Silverman, Meryl Streep, Debra Messing, Al Franken, Tim Kaine, Rep. John Lewis, and both Presidents Obama and Clinton.
Quite the uplifting piece.
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File this under “With friends like this, who needs enemies.”
Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, currently running for Louisiana’s open Senate seat, told NPR’s Morning Edition that he would be Donald Trump’s biggest supporter in the Senate.
From The Hill:
“As a United States senator, nobody will be more supportive of his legislative agenda, his Supreme Court agenda than I will,” Duke said in an interview on NPR’s “Morning Edition.”
“I’m 100 percent behind it. I have a long record of being in favor of protecting our borders from this massive immigration.”
Duke is an enthusiastic supporter of Trump, once calling him the “white knight” for “European American” interests.
Here’s a treat from the upcoming Barbra Streisand.
In addition to the standard 10 track release of her “Encore – Movie Partners Sing Broadway,” Target will be releasing a Deluxe version with four additional tracks.
From Playbill:
Target will issue an exclusive 14-track deluxe version of the album that includes several show-stopping, dramatic songs, which fans have been waiting to hear Streisand record.
Along with the wistful ballad “I Didn’t Know What Time It Was” from Too Many Girls, the bonus material includes “Not a Day Goes By” from Merrily We Roll Along, the Follies torch song “Losing My Mind,” and the powerhouse eleven o’clock number from Ballroom, “Fifty Percent.”
While the musical Ballroom was technically a flop back in the late 70s (it was director/choreographer Michael Bennett’s follow-up to A Chorus Line), the show-stopping eleven o’clock number “Fifty Percent” from the musical has elevated to legendary status for singing divas. Dorothy Loudon was nominated for a Tony Award based in great part for her performance of the song.
One small quibble here, though – the Bergmans (who penned the lyrics for the song) have rewritten some of the lyrics which, after 40 years, feels a bit jarring.
That aside, la Streisand is a perfect fit for the song. Looking forward to the new collection.
p.s. I hear from sources her new concert is, not surprisingly, fantastic.
No “Happy Friday” for Donald Trump as two more national polls show Republican Donald Trump continues his precipitous drop in the race against Hillary Clinton.
About the best thing that can be said is the results of one survey indicate the Donald trails Hillary by only 9 points. (Sarcasm intended).
Via Huffington Post:
Clinton leads Trump by 9 points, 47 percent to 38 percent, in a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey. While both candidates remain unpopular, the survey finds, Clinton’s image has improved “modestly.” A majority of voters say they have more trust in her to handle a crisis and to deal with foreign policy.
A McClatchy-Marist poll gives Clinton an even wider 15-point lead against Trump, 48 percent to 33 percent. The survey finds Trump ceding ground among traditionally GOP demographics, losing men to Clinton by 8 points and holding just a 2-point edge among white voters.
Amazing. Now you get booted from Donald Trump rallies for holding up the US Constitution.
What next? Ejecting folks holding up the American flag?