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To: TobagoJack who wrote (114604)	12/8/2015 9:04:32 AM
From: ggersh	1 Recommendation Recommended By Fiscally Conservative Respond to of 217791

salon.com Heil Trump! The Times of Israel uses a telling photograph of the Donald to highlight “the nativist racism inherent in his latest remarks” It turns out that Israelis aren't happy about candidates employing Nazi rhetoric, even if it's against Muslims Scott Eric Kaufman Follow Share 1K Post 74 Topics: Donald Trump, Elections 2016, Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Immigration, The Times of Israel, Elections News, News, Politics News Donald Trump (Credit: Times of Israel) In an apparent attempt to one-up the New Daily News, the Times of Israel published a highly suggestive photograph of Donald Trump alongside its account of the Republican front-runner’s statements about barring all Muslims, including United States citizens currently abroad, from entering the country. Is the photograph entirely fair? Of course not. But in the wake of Trump’s statements about miserly, money-wary Jews, it shouldn’t be surprising that the Israeli press has decided to remove the kid gloves and start fighting dirty. Trump will insist that the Anti-Defamation League “ cleared” him of making any anti-Semitic remarks last week, but unfortunately for Trump, last week was last week, and tonight the ADL released a statement saying that “in the Jewish community, we know all too well what can happen when a particular religious group is singled out for stereotyping and scapegoating. We also know that this country must not give into fear by turning its back on its fundamental values, even at a time of great crisis.” The director of the American Jewish Committee, David Harris, was even more blunt in his assessment, saying that “as Jews who are now observing Hanukkah, a holiday that celebrates a small religious minority’s right to live unmolested, we are deeply disturbed by the nativist racism inherent in the candidate’s latest remarks. You don’t need to go back to the Hanukkah story to see the horrific results of religious persecution; religious stereotyping of this sort has been tried often, inevitably with disastrous results.”

To: TobagoJack who wrote (114604)	12/8/2015 2:44:46 PM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 217791

Tsk, tsk ... :O) Donald Trump's grandfather got rich in the Yukon with hotels known for 'female companionship' adn.com

To: TobagoJack who wrote (114604)	12/8/2015 3:15:33 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	1 Recommendation Recommended By RJA_ Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217791

The Republican Party is now pulling out all the stops to collapse Donald Trump's run for President. Each Republican candidate has proposed their own plan to end Medicare benefits for the elderly and sharply cut Social Security benefits. Together these two entitlement programs soak-up 60% of federal spending which is the major concern of major Republican donors. Elderly Republicans could either vote to eliminate their Medicare benefits and restrict Social Security, or vote for a Democratic Presidential candidate. Then Donald Trump crashed their party, a Republican promoting the Democratic idea that elderly Americans are entitled to the Medicare and Social Security benefits they paid for - in spite of the fact that a large percentage of their Social Security and Medicare tax payments were immediately spent on income tax cuts for top earners. Trump, Clinton and Sanders have all proposed increasing income tax rates on the wealthiest Americans to recapture the Social Security and Medicare proceeds which were previously paid-out to these top earners. Republicans who want to maintain their Medicare coverage and Social Security benefit have to decide which of these three candidates would make a better President, based on the other issues and who these people are.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (114604)	12/8/2015 3:15:48 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	1 Recommendation Recommended By Fiscally Conservative Respond to of 217791

I think Donald Trump is pretty much what you'd expect the son of a billionaire to be. But unlike other children of billionaires, like his four siblings, Donald Trump has always enjoyed garnering as much public attention as he can, regardless whether it's negative or positive attention. As a businessman Trump has a reputation for being economical with the truth but generous with exaggeration. Unlike Mitt Romney who has left a group of very satisfied and grateful business partners and investors in his wake, you'd be hard pressed to find a business partner or investor in Donald Trump's businesses who speak highly of him. Donald is known in business as a grinder, someone who keeps pressing for concessions after a deal has been settled, which Trump sees this as proof of his "good negotiating skills". I'd gladly do business with Mitt Romney because he's a straight-up guy, but I would never do business with Trump or similar litigious chiselers. You and I could both quickly list a number of this type of shifty litigious business people of this sort me here in Los Angeles and you in Hong Kong. When people like this do business with each other it's a game to see which one can be the bigger pain in the ass, as they spend all of their energy trying to one up each other. My sense is Hillary Clinton is pretty much the same sort of person. This sort of business game is one civilians like you or I try to steer clear of. Who would make a better American President? A grinder/chiseler like Trump or Clinton - or men of their word like Romney or Sanders? In a job like that both types have their strengths and their weaknesses.