Stora tråden om Donald Trump [mod]

However, even the pros drop the ball sometimes, and Mr. Clinton created a needless controversy last Friday at a campaign stop for his wife where he raked Poland and Hungary over the coals for their alleged lack of democracy. His comments were scathing, noting the countries, both NATO allies, owe their current freedom to the United States, which defeated their Soviet occupier in the Cold War. Mr. Clinton went further, however, alleging Poland and Hungary find “democracy is too much trouble” and “want Putin-like leadership, ‘just give me an authoritarian dictatorship and keep the foreigners out’…sound familiar?”

That last line was a transparent dig at Donald Trump, whom Team Clinton has every reason to disparage right now, particularly since new polling indicates that the likely Republican nominee and Ms. Clinton are running neck-and-neck and the Democratic heir apparent will have a tough fight on her hands this fall if she wants to move back into the White House in the new year.

That said, bringing Poland and Hungary into the American political race was a bad idea. In the first place, Bill Clinton’s comments were a crass overstatement of current realities. Much to the chagrin of Western bien-pensants, both Warsaw and Budapest have been vocal opponents of the European Union move, led by German chancellor Angela Merkel, to bring millions of migrants into the EU. Poland and Hungary have committed the unpardonable sin among progressives of stating that their countries ought to remain as they are, demographically speaking, and have no need for any mass influx of migrants, particularly Muslim ones.

The Poles are hardly taking Team Clinton’s insults lying down. Beata Szydło, the prime minister, demanded an apology for Mr. Clinton’s “coarse words” about her country, which she termed “unjustified and simply unfair,” while Jarosław Kaczyński, leader of the ruling Law and Justice party, suggested that the former president had lost his marbles: “If someone believes that there is no democracy in Poland, they should be medically examined.” More diplomatically, President Andrzej Duda stated Mr. Clinton was “grossly misled” about his country.

Polish hard feelings regarding Mr. Clinton’s comments aren’t difficult to decipher. In the first place, the statement that any Polish government wants to emulate Russia in any way seems calculated to offend. Memories of long and brutal occupation by the Kremlin are fresh and fears of Mr. Putin run deep, in light of on-going Russian aggression against Poland’s neighbors. Poles are not much fonder of Russians than Jews are of Germans, a fact Mr. Clinton—who touts his foreign policy accomplishments in the White House—should understand.

Warsaw is likewise touchy about accusations of a lack of democracy, given how difficult it was for Poland—like all countries who spent the Cold War under Soviet occupation—to transition from Communism to multi-party democracy. To say nothing of the fact that Poles are understandably proud of their very democratic resistance to Soviet rule, embodied in the Solidarity movement that did so much to subvert what President Reagan termed the Evil Empire back in the 1980s, entirely peacefully.

Then there’s the domestic angle to Mr. Clinton’s gaffe. There are ten million Americans of Polish background and they will be voting this November. They are no happier with the former president’s insults to their ancestral homeland than their kin back home. Not to mention that Polish Americans, accustomed to “Polack jokes,” are sensitive about slights.

It’s therefore no surprise the Polish American Congress has protested, announcing it may throw its weight in the election behind anybody not named Clinton. Many Polish Americans are exactly the kind of voters Ms. Clinton needs to win—traditionally Democratic but sometimes voting Republican, working class or one generation removed from it, and socially conservative—but were possibly leaning toward Mr. Trump anyway. President Clinton’s insults may push many of them decisively toward the GOP this fall.

Polish Americans are thick on the ground in several states Hillary Clinton will need to win in November if she plans to be our next president—including Pennsylvania, Illinois, Michigan, New York and New Jersey. While they are hardly single-issue voters, it’s safe to assume that memories of Bill Clinton’s insults will linger in the civic, cultural and religious circles where Polish Americans congregate.

Men det är alltid korkat att argumentera mot sin egrn frihet. Trump eller vem som helst måste pushas för att i någon mån bevara din och min frihet att tänka, säga och göra nåt annat vad det än var.

TRUMP'S PROBLEM WITH WOMEN
May 18, 2016

The New York Times' front-page article last Saturday on Donald J. Trump's dealings with women forced me into a weekend of self-examination. As much as I support Trump, this isn't a cult of personality. He's not Mao, Kim Jong-un or L. Ron Hubbard. We can like our candidates, but still acknowledge their flaws. No one's perfect.

I admit there are some things about Trump that give me pause. I'm sure these will come out eventually, so I'm just going to list them.

First -- and this is corroborated by five contemporaneous witnesses -- in 1978, Trump violently raped...

Läs fortsättningen här: http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2016-05-18.html

Om Trump vinner så kan vi starta en ny tideräkning.

Ondahamstern skrev

Låter som en lam ursäkt, sist jag kollade så var han nära vän till dem, att han är bered att offra sina vänner för att kanske bli president är inte långsiktigt smart, speciellt inte om våldtäkten är falsk (är inte insatt helt i den biten så sägrr varken eller där) och ännu värre om han inte blir vald.

Jo det är sant, det är väl lite som hans tydligt fejkade alias där han låsas vara en PR ansvarig, som han tyvärr nekar är han fast det finns solklara bevis för det.