Jennie Matthew, with Andrew Beatty in Washington•September 27, 2016
Hempstead (United States) (AFP) – Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump traded insults and sparred over temperament, stamina and judgment, in a fiery US presidential debate that often saw the Republican on the back foot.
With six weeks until election day and polls showing a virtual dead heat, the Democrat Clinton on Monday repeatedly questioned her rival’s fitness to serve in the Oval Office.
Before an anticipated television audience of up to 100 million, Clinton painted the celebrity real estate mogul as fatally out of touch and willing to say “crazy things” to get elected.
“You live in your own reality” said the 68-year old Democrat, accusing Trump of launching his political career on the “racist lie” that Barack Obama is not American.
As Clinton projected steady experience, casting herself as the voice of reason, Trump played the populist bruiser, pitching to frustrated blue-collar voters fed up with politicians and wanting change.
Ridgewood NJ, if you are looking to follow the great debate tonight on line here are some options for streaming and social media .Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump will square off at 9 pm Eastern at Hofstra University.
Of course all of the networks and major cable outlets have an online presence, so of course they are streaming the debates along with digital-first outlets like Buzzfeed News, The Daily Caller, Huffington Post, Politico, and Yahoo. Telemundo, theWall Street Journal, and Hulu will stream it, too.
Also look for Facebook Live broadcasts from journalists and those packed into Hofstra. Twitter will use the same live streaming system it uses for Thursday night football, trading sacks for fact checks and leaning on Bloomberg for footage. The candidates won’t be wearing Specs, but Snapchat will compile Live Stories for bite-sized debate nuggets. YouTube will feature coverage from NBC News, PBS, Fox News, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, and Telemundo.
Terrence T. McDonald | The Jersey Journal
on September 21, 2016 at 4:55 PM
Jersey City Assemblyman Raj Mukherji wants to make sure no voters get in trouble for taking selfies in the voting booth.
Mukherji, a Democrat first elected to the Assembly in 2013, this week introduced legislation that would make it legal for voters to take photographs of their own ballot and share that photo on social media.
The bill comes as a federal appeals court in Boston hears a challenge to a New Hampshire ban on ballot selfie bans.
“Voter turnout can be pathetically low, especially in state and local elections,” Mukherji told The Jersey Journal. “If young people or anybody want to display their pride about being active in their democracy then we shouldn’t hold them back.”
The bill is co-sponsored by Assemblywoman Annette Chaparro, of Hoboken, and Assemblywoman Angelica M. Jimenez, of West New York.
NSA Analyst: We now have incontrovertible proof the Bureau never had any intention of prosecuting Hillary Clinton
By John R. Schindler • 09/25/16 8:30am
From the moment the EmailGate scandal went public more than a year ago, it was obvious that the Federal Bureau of Investigation never had much enthusiasm for prosecuting Hillary Clinton or her friends. Under President Obama, the FBI grew so politicized that it became impossible for the Bureau to do its job – at least where high-ranking Democrats are concerned.
As I observed in early July, when Director James Comey announced that the FBI would not be seeking prosecution of anyone on Team Clinton over EmailGate, the Bureau had turned its back on its own traditions of floating above partisan politics in the pursuit of justice. “Malfeasance by the FBI, its bending to political winds, is a matter that should concern all Americans, regardless of their politics,” I stated, noting that it’s never a healthy turn of events in a democracy when your secret police force gets tarnished by politics.
Hillary is a hard-core political animal who made a deal with the devil many decades ago to accept her husband’s infidelity and sexual brutality with other women in exchange for a shot at being president herself. Her single-minded, conscience-free approach to politics and campaigning permits her to lie with abandon and ruthlessly mow down her opponents. This characteristic, the complete absence of shame married with an obviously bottomless contempt for republicans and conservatives and a willingness to publicly politically disembowel them when the time is right, is what makes her so valuable to her colleagues in the Democratic Party, and by extension to the legion of Democrat Party faithful whose visceral hatred for republicans is their only truly independent motivating force.
Trump is willing to expend political capital right now, and risk offending many a pearl-clutcher, by descending temporarily into the gutter to fight with fire by pitting Bill Clinton’s longtime lover Gennifer Flowers against Hillary’s new best friend Mark Cuban. This will cost Trump in the short term but he is strong and will rebound. Hillary (and by now, she knows this) will eventually suffer the schlonging of a lifetime at Trump’s hands in November. Together with Hillary, go-along-to-get-along Republicans will find that they have been sidelined permanently in favor of an approach that elevates the welfare of the average citizen to the top rank of our national interests. Very little will remain of the political elite’s much vaunted citadel of power after 8 years of Trump as president followerd by 8 years of Pence in the same office. And America will be so much better off…
Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to bring a woman that Bill Clinton had an extramarital affair with when he debates Hillary Clinton Monday.
“If dopey Mark Cuban of failed Benefactor fame wants to sit in the front row, perhaps I will put Jennifer Flowers [sic] right alongside of him!” Trump initially tweeted.
Shortly after, Trump deleted the tweet and reposted it with the correct spelling of Flowers’s first name.
Ridgewood NJ, there is new data about how politics cause family drama – and where Americans get their political news.
Ten percent of Americans said every event is complicated by political differences; while a chilled-out minority – three percent – said they didn’t think any were.
More than half (54 percent) of Millennials voted Christmas/Hannukah as the tensest social event due to political differences, nearly half (49 percent) said it was Thanksgiving and 47 percent said 4th of July, while their parents’ generation felt cocktails parties (38 percent) invited the most unpleasant discussions about politics.
The current political race is pitting generation against generation:
20% of millennials say parents cause them grief
20% of Gen Xers admit to disagreeing with their in-laws the most in politics
20% of Baby Boomers say they fight most with their siblings due to political differences
Couples are in jeopardy too: one in four Americans say their significant other is supporting the “other” candidate.
Across age demographics, Americans voted CNN and Fox News as their favorite news sources when it comes to politics
As for most trusted political influencers, Americans said they read/listen to Bill O’Reilly the most for a conservative point of view (28 percent) and Anderson Cooper for a liberal point of view (45 percent).
The least popular? Americans rank Anna Navaro and Peter Wehner (both at .1%) as the lest watched conservative influencers and Sally Kohn and Kristen Powers (both at .1%) as the least popular liberal influencers.
This data comes from a new app called Contempo, which has a proprietary algorithm which analyzes the social media sentiment of liberal and conservative political influencers to show what’s actually trending on both sides. The app provides a quick snapshot of the political news landscape to inform and empower Americans during this election—and with an in-app browser to bring users back to the stories’ original homepage, it’s the perfect tool for on the go news.
Contempo is the first app from Aleya Labs, the company helmed by former Microsoft veteran, Sal Arora
Contempo can help. The app features a full integration with Rock the Vote, giving users the ability to register to vote, check polling locations, and check their registration status, without leaving the app.
Contempo is a free app and can be downloaded via the App Store.
Ridgewood NJ, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton spoke about foe Donald Trump during a video conference of the Laborers’ International Union of North America, saying, “Why aren’t I 50 points ahead?”
Ridgewood NJ, Presidential candidate Donald Trump opposes President Obama’s plan to cede control of the internet .
“Donald J. Trump is committed to preserving Internet freedom for the American people and citizens all over the world. The U.S. should not turn control of the Internet over to the United Nations and the international community. President Obama intends to do so on his own authority – just 10 days from now, on October 1st, unless Congress acts quickly to stop him. The Republicans in Congress are admirably leading a fight to save the Internet this week, and need all the help the American people can give them to be successful. Hillary Clinton’s Democrats are refusing to protect the American people by not protecting the Internet.
The U.S. created, developed and expanded the Internet across the globe. U.S. oversight has kept the Internet free and open without government censorship – a fundamental American value rooted in our Constitution’s Free Speech clause. Internet freedom is now at risk with the President’s intent to cede control to international interests, including countries like China and Russia, which have a long track record of trying to impose online censorship. Congress needs to act, or Internet freedom will be lost for good, since there will be no way to make it great again once it is lost.” – Stephen Miller, National Policy Director
David Brock operates over a dozen pro-Clinton organizations from his office in Washington DC.
Uncovered records expose a constant flow of money between his organizations.
Brock’s unregistered Professional Solicitor, the Bonner Group, receives a 12.5% cut every time money is moved.
There’s a reason why David Brock chooses to house an unregistered Professional Solicitor in his office to raise money for his conglomerate of Super PACs and non-profits.
Professional Solicitors are required to disclose their active solicitation contracts. Brock wants his unregistered solicitor, the Bonner Group, to keep their client list hidden for a very specific reason.
David Brock is laundering money
David Brock has 7 non-profits, 3 Super PACs, one 527-committee, one LLC, one joint fundraising committee, and one unregistered solicitor crammed into his office in Washington DC.
Uncovered records expose a constant flow of money between these organizations.
The Bonner Group, his professional solicitor, works off a commission. Every time money gets passed around, Bonner receives a 12.5% cut.
(WWJ) James Olson, a Sports Illustrated subscriber since fourth grade, watches action-packed NFL games on TV to escape from the endless round of political bickering playing out on other channels.
But with more national anthem protests cropping up, he feels like politics has taken over his favorite sport, too. So he’s tuning out.
“I want to say to these guys ‘If you weren’t playing in the NFL, you would be working at McDonalds. I think people have had it,” said, Olson, a Birmingham, Mich., resident.
He’s not alone.
The NFL opener, a Super Bowl rematch between the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers, brought 25.2 million viewers — which is an astonishing number of eyeballs. “For comparison, The Walking Dead averages around 14 million live viewers as TV’s most-watched show,” Forbes wrote.
But that’s down 8 percent from 2015 and 6 percent from 2014. Sunday’s numbers, Forbes added, were down 13 percent from last year.
“This also marked the lowest overnight season-opening rating in seven years,” Forbes found.
‘I’ve been briefed about the bombings in New York and New Jersey’
A noticeably frail-looking Hillary Clinton discussed the bombing in New York City Saturday night, hitting Donald Trump for saying the explosion resulted from a “bomb.”
Clinton herself, however, began her remarks by likewise referring to the “bombings.”
“I’ve been briefed about the bombings in New York and New Jersey,” she told reporters
Obama campaign manager David Plouffe accused the Clinton campaign Monday of “shameful offensive fear-mongering” by circulating a photo as an attempted smear.
Plouffe was reacting to a banner headline on the Drudge Report saying that aides to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) had e-mailed a photo calling attention to the African roots of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).
“The photo, taken in 2006, shows the Democrat front-runner dressed as a Somali Elder, during his visit to Wajir, a rural area in northeastern Kenya,” the Drudge Report said. The photo created huge buzz in political circles and immediately became known as “the ‘dressed’ photo,”
Ridgewood Nj, On Sunday, an “Overheated” Hillary Stumbled or Fainted at a 911 Ceremony.Hours later, came news flash Hillary’s Doctor Discloses Pneumonia Diagnosis Made Last Friday but questions abound.
Since then, a video by Dr. Ted Noel has made the rounds. Dr. Noel makes a seemingly convincing case Hillary has Late Stage Parkinson’s disease.
Reader says Hillary Slide in the Polls ;Time to dredge up the old birther attack…
Ridgewood NJ, Journalists lashed out at Donald Trump on Friday after the GOP presidential nominee used his “major announcement” to get more than 25 minutes of free airtime on major cable news networks.”We all got Rickrolled and played,” lamented CNN’s Jake Tapper, referring to a popular bait-and-switch internet meme.
In his 2012 article , “The Democratic Roots of the Birther Movement” , author Joshua Green sums it up best :
The idea that Barack Obama wasn’t born in the U.S. and is therefore an illegitimate president—an idea thoroughly discredited after Obama released his long-form birth certificate last year—was mainlined into the femoral artery of the presidential campaign on Tuesday, as Mitt Romney prepared for his high-profile fundraiser in Las Vegas with Donald Trump. Trump is the loudest, brashest, most insistent exponent of “birtherism,” and Romney’s public embrace of him has brought it roaring back. “Is it the most important thing?” Trump said on CNBC on Tuesday. “In a way it is, because you’re not allowed to be president if you’re not born in the country.”
Green goes with the historic details ; “The idea of going after Obama’s otherness dates back to the last presidential election—and to Democrats. Long before Trump started in, Hillary Clinton’s chief strategist, Mark Penn, recognized this potential vulnerability in Obama and sought to exploit it. In a March 2007 memo to Clinton (that later found its way to me), Penn wrote: “All of these articles about his boyhood in Indonesia and his life in Hawaii are geared toward showing his background is diverse, multicultural and putting it in a new light,” he wrote. “Save it for 2050. It also exposes a very strong weakness for him—his roots to basic American values and culture are at best limited. I cannot imagine America electing a president during a time of war who is not at his center fundamentally American in his thinking and his values.”
Penn also suggested how the campaign might take advantage of this. “Every speech should contain the line that you were born in the middle of America to the middle class in the middle of the last century,” he advised Clinton. “And talk about the basic bargain as about [sic] the deeply American values you grew up with, learned as a child, and that drive you today.” He went on: “Let’s explicitly own ‘American’ in our programs, the speeches and the values. He doesn’t … Let’s add flag symbols to the backgrounds [of campaign events].” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-05-30/the-democratic-roots-of-the-birther-movement
Trump received a ton of free press today when he declared that President Obama was born in the United States, after raising doubts for years about whether he is an American citizen.
“Hillary Clinton in her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy. I finished it,” Trump said at a campaign event in Washington.
“President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period. Now we all want to get back to making America strong and great again.”
