I just watched Trump's latest interview on Face The Nation and….woweee….he looks so good in interviews vs campaign podiums. I fluctuate so much with him because he's a different person when interviewed one on one. This morning, I see him as the strongest, savviest, honest, straightforward, clear-focused candidate with success written all over him….a man who could negotiate anything, thusly accomplish much…and God knows there's much to be accomplished. He's such a jerk when campaigning but never in an interview. Darn it.
Paul Ryan may be the Democrats' favorite Republican but I think he'd have a hard time getting the Republican nomination.
Because he is as bad, or worse, than John Boehner. He just orchestrated a huge giveaway to the Obama Administration, giving him everything he wanted in the budget. Everything that Republicans were elected to defeat was funded in the recent budget.
Oh yes…that happened when I had no TV nor newspaper. I still picked up on it from somewhere but didn't realize it was quite that bad. How could he have given everything Obama wanted in the budget without the Republicans having any say about it since that's what they were elected to do? Something's fishy. Scratch Paul Ryan from the Treasury Department then. I like him though. He's smart, well spoken, always seems to make a lot of sense, and knows financing very well.
It was just like we saw from John Boehner. They introduced the budget without enough time for anyone to read it and depended upon the Democrats and whatever Republicans they could bring along with them to pass it without anyone even taking the time to know what they were passing.
Oh yes... Donald Trump. I start forming a favorable opinion of his campaign and then something comes up to make me change my mind. I guess the main problem is that somewhere in the back of my mind, I never took him seriously as a political candidate but that's not a good thing. I do feel that he'd do a world better for the people than... "the alternative" which scares the stuffing out of me. I have not read through all the Trump threads here after having just joined today, so I'm repeating this next thing, I apologize. But when people get so up in arms (well, Democrats I've only heard doing it) about the mention of banning Muslims from entering the borders, I do wonder if they *remember* that Jimmy Carter in... uh... when? '79 or '80, I suspect, (oh dear, a Democrat!) did the same thing with banning Iranians to secure this United States of ours. Don't remember... or evoke selective memory perhaps? Anyhow, it's something I found more than a little interesting. Oh yeah, and the Dems were all for it back then. Wow. Know what really bugs me? (Oh NOOOO, don't get her started!) It really bugs me that people go straight party-line no matter how heckishly frightening the prospects of a future with that candidate would be. Not being able to form personal opinions is weak-minded to me. One more note... my brilliant offspring a few days ago said "Mama, maybe we should get rid of both parties and start all over." Hmmmm.... food for thought.
This crowd shot from Donald Trump’s Massachusetts rally is absolutely mind-boggling Comments 1914 By Chris Cillizza January 5 at 8:25 AM Donald Trump went to Lowell, Mass. — a town about five miles south of the New Hampshire border — for one of his now-trademark big-arena rallies on Monday night. This is what the crowd looked like per WaPo's Jenna Johnson. The building — named after the late Massachusetts Sen. Paul Tsongas (D) — holds 8,000 people, and local officials were estimating that it was filled to capacity or beyond. That is a MASSIVE amount of people — especially considering that the high temperature in Lowell yesterday was 29 degrees and Trump's rally didn't start until the evening. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...donald-trump-rally-is-absolutely-eye-popping/ Surprising that the liberal Washington Post gave this much publicity to Donald Trump's amount of people at his rally. She seemed impressed.
I saw him on TV while he was speaking to a large crowd and he was saying that the media never shows the crowd…that they only get Trump in the pic. He said his wife kept asking why they never show the crowds. He asked the cameraman several times to back up and get some of the crowd. He barely backed up. Maybe he didn't have room but cameras do have telephoto lenses
I know that, at another Trump rally, the line to get in was five blocks long. It was reported but not like it would have been reported had that been a line for Hillary or Marco Rubio.
It shouldn't be legal for mainstream media to be biased when reporting the news. I guess they would argue free speech so why not make it illegal to call it the news. That's not the news, it's propaganda…especially NBC.
Wouldn't Fox News, as well as CNBC and CNN, be considered "Alternative Media"? They aren't part of the publics "Basic Channel Programming". Whereas NBC, CBS, and ABC report national news, and are considered Mainstream Media, and have a responsibility to be unbiased.