Two Frightening Quotes

“I think my strongest asset, maybe by far, is my temperament. I have a winning temperament.” (Monday, 9/26/16)

And from four months (?) earlier: “When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same. The temperament is not that different."

Hey! Here’s a thought! Let’s hand this man the keys to the nukes!

BILL

Fun Quote

"I just don't think she has a presidential look, and you need a presidential look. And I don't believe she does have the stamina. To be president of this country you need tremendous stamina. You have so many different things that you have to do, and I don't believe that Hillary has the stamina,” the obese man said.

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Now THAT'S a Range!

The same actor, Rhys Ifans, who in 1999 unforgettably played Hugh Grant’s uncouth lout flat-mate Spike in “Notting Hill” just as believably plays Edward Snowden’s sober-minded, hint-of-danger cloaked NSA superior in “Snowden.”

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Debate Post Mortem

No, Donald Trump. Not paying federal income taxes does not make you “smart.” It makes you a freeloader. And we’re all pleased that the housing crash that devastated so many was something you considered a “good business opportunity,” but so would selling Zyklon B for the Nazi gas chambers during World War II. Perhaps this is why the man who (ahem) “co-wrote” “The Art of The Deal” labels you a sociopath.
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A Great Question:

If America is, as most Americans would strongly assert, the “greatest nation on the face of the Earth,” how can it possibly become great “again” as Donald Trump suggests?

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Birth of a Notion

NEWS ITEM — Donald Trump says he finally admitted President Barack Obama was born in the United States because he wanted to "get on with the campaign." In a brief interview, Trump was asked why, after years as the chief proponent of the falsehood that the president was born outside the country, he decided to announce Friday that was no longer the case.

"Well, I just wanted to get on with the campaign," the GOP nominee responded. "A lot of people were asking me questions.”

EDITORIAL: Was one of those questions “How could you be so f’ing stupid?”

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Job Growth

NEWS ITEM: “Americans last year reaped the largest economic gains in nearly a generation as poverty fell, health insurance coverage spread and incomes rose sharply for households on every rung of the economic ladder, ending years of stagnation.”*

EDITORIAL: I have to admit by now I’m simply looking forward again to the right’s non-rebuttal rebuttal, i.e. simply questioning the accuracy of the numbers.

*Source 9/14/16 New York Times