[Magdalen] On and On it Goes.

Grace Cangialosi gracecan at gmail.com
Thu Jul 7 16:45:27 UTC 2016


Could we bring back Bill Clinton?

> On Jul 7, 2016, at 11:02 AM, Rick Mashburn <ricklmashburn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Sally, you at definitely right about one thing: I'd vote for Obama in a
> heartbeat (again) if he could run!!!
> 
> Peace, Rick
>> On Jul 7, 2016 9:20 AM, "Sally Davies" <sally.davies at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Not sure that everyone would agree with that David.
>> 
>> The Donald looks, talks and acts like a caricature of the cheap, phony,
>> fast-buck salesman with his foot in the door, and yet so many people still
>> like him and vote for him anyway.
>> 
>> Hillary (to me) looks Presidential and I believe she would make a good
>> President for all sorts of reasons, but her carelessness might have put
>> Service lives at risk and that's a serious problem, isn't it?
>> 
>> What an abysmal choice - one candidate who's already failed to handle top
>> secret material correctly, and another one whom no sane person should want
>> anywhere near the "nuclear codes". Though I suppose one can at least argue
>> that Hillary has (or should have) learned from her mistakes, whereas we
>> probably can't imagine what kind of mistakes Trump would make if he were
>> given any real power.
>> 
>> For people outside the USA, like me, the absolute puzzle is why, out of
>> hundreds of millions of people many of whom are fantastic leaders, thinkers
>> and fighters for justice, HOW does "the system" end up with these two very
>> flawed individuals?
>> 
>> I'm thinking the same thing about the UK, watching that "snake in the
>> grass" Michael Gove on TV and thinking - really - is THIS the best we can
>> do? A pox on the lot of them...
>> 
>> Not that I mean to compare Clinton and Trump as moral or intellectual
>> equals because they absolutely are not. But still. If only Obama could stay
>> on for another term!!
>> 
>> Sadly shaking head
>> 
>> Sally D
>> 
>> On 7 July 2016 at 16:01, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
>> magdalen at herberthouse.org
>>> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> The USA Today, US nationally distributed newspaper has a front
>>> page detailed examination of Donald Trump's dealings over the
>>> years with the Atlantic City, New Jersey casino business.
>>> This study paints those relationships as what can only be described
>>> as sordid.
>>> 
>>> In addition to his checkered dealings with his employees, there  is
>>> a history of discrimination (women and blacks), and, of course, his
>>> failure to pay for goods and services for the casinos.  The  final
>>> multiples bankruptcies of his casinos put the final nails in the  coffin.
>>> 
>>> Also chronicled are his endless disputes with the New Jersey  authorities
>>> over the legality (or better, illegality) of Trump's casino  maneuvers.
>>> 
>>> I suppose I'm biased, but the sweeping negative reports in both the
>>> New York Times and in USA Today, make Hilary's email "scandals"
>>> pale in comparison.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> David S.
>> 


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