Juliajms

I certainly see him as a want to be dictator. I feel bad for his youngest son that this video came out, but happy for the rest of us. Please let this be the end of him.

He's not exactly breaking any news with this, so I don't think it will hurt her. I also see Hillary as extraordinarily ambitious. She wouldn't be where is if she weren't. I don't see anything wrong with that. I'll also agree that she's not going to transform anything, but with Trump running, the status quo never looked so good. As for Bill, well, if he couldn't control his impulses when he was literally in the oval office, there is no reason to think he's doing so now. Again, I don't much care under the circumstances. I expect HRC to play blocker against the republicans, more than I expect her to actually get a lot of her own agenda accomplished. If scandal comes along that shouldn't stop her from blocking the way it derailed Bill Clinton's time in office. At least, that's my hope.

And yet they are trying to sell this guy as the sane one. Honestly, this is so offensive and completely f*cked up. As if the government has any right to tell women who have had miscarriages how to grieve or women that have had abortions that they have to jump through these hoops. It's just sick.

My understanding is it's supposed to be by income, since she doesn't have any right now she should be able to get something cheaper than that. Has she looked into Medicaid? Well, she has her $30,000. Her husband is the one who lost his job and it was his job that came with insurance. I'll ask her about Medicaid. She lives in upstate NY, so I'm not sure if NY is one of the states that expanded Medicaid. I have to believe that once she has a chance to really dig deeper she'll find something at least a bit cheaper. Late Shana Tova Q. Totally agree about the timing and the way he said it. Damn. Why not just wait until she's elected and then start trying to push congress to do something?

I find it frustrating that instead of talking about solutions to the problems with the ACA, the conversation is about Trump's trash talk. That's this election cycle in a nut shell. I guess Bill Clinton was wrong for bringing the topic up right now the way he did, but he's right that there is a problem that needs to be fixed. My friend's husband just lost his job, so they lost medical coverage. She makes something like $30,000 and the best coverage she can find for her family of 3 is $700. I'm hoping that she's misunderstanding the amount of subsidy she's going to get, but if not she's seriously screwed.

I saw part of Hillary's speech today. You can tell she's energized by all this insane stuff with Trump.

I love Ana! Ana Navarro ‏@ananavarro 5h5 hours ago Ana Navarro Retweeted Christopher C. Cuomo Miami is abuzz . Some Cuban-Am's will still vote for him. Some will peel off b/c of his lies & hypocrisy. It's FL. Can't afford to lose 1!

I hope he and his surrogates keep doubling down on this Alicia Machado stuff. By all means keep offending women, Latinos and the overweight all in one swoop. That's like 70% of the country. I'm sorry for her pain though.

Really, he's just gross. Add to that how inarticulate he is and how clear it is that he simply is not qualified. I just have to believe that enough people are going to see through him.

I don't believe that Trump is a fast learner nor do I believe he can control his temperament, even for 90 mins when the stakes are high.

I'm so glad that first debate is over and went so well. What a relief. I did not watch the whole thing, but I read the analysis of how poorly Trump did particularly on the topic of foreign affairs.

I don't think I can watch either. I know intellectually HC can wipe the floor with Trump, but I think this is going to end up being a shameful debacle. I'll watch the coverage once it's over.

Bill Clinton said the other day that there is one bigotry left that America stands by: the dislike of people we disagree with. That is sort of what has contributed to the divide: people only want to talk to people they agree with, and watch news they agree with, and so news that is the truth is suspect now. I have democrat and republican friends and I don't let their voting patterns factor into my friendships with them because that is just a very impractical way of keeping friends. You will wind up discarding friends every election, and that means they really weren't your friends at all. My roommate at college is a diehard republican, but we have been friends 30 years. There is no way either one of us would even consider not liking each other anymore because of some election. Elections come and go. Hillary herself is friends with people who will vote for Trump; everyone should follow her openmindedness. Look at Bill and the Bushes. They were rivals in the 90s, and today are tight friends. That's a better policy than the Trumpian/Palinesque attitude of hating and demonizing everyone they disagree with, no? I think in past years it was a lot easier to go along with this idea. This year, I really can't. Unlike some, I can pity some of Trump's supporters, but I can't be friends with them in any real sense of the word. I know some people who would simply never vote for a democrat because of economics. Most years I could ignore that. This year, I find it truly unconscionable. You are really going to sell out your countrymen just to keep more money in your pocket? I try to put myself in the position of the prolifers. Most years I can, even though I think it's such a destructive position for poor women and families. I guess if I were religious and really truly believed that life begins at conception I'd have to be prolife like those people are, so I get it. Hillary getting to appoint a couple of Supreme Court justices is going to make a big difference in that fight, but hey, how about the people already here? Is Trump the one we want trying to handle Kim Jong-un? I ask you, which of the is more unstable and likely to start the apocalypse first? In someways, what he has unleashed is already out there to stay. No doubt, he'll start Trump TV and we'll be subject to his horrible ideas for the next 20 years, but I'll still take that over having him be our actual president.

All I can think is Jr. has been handed everything in life and then he compares people like that poor little boy on the beach to poison skittles. That entire family seems to lack an empathy gene. Totally disgusting.

She could have got the exact same point across without calling a large portion of the people she hopes to lead deplorable. Calling 50% of Trump's supporters various isims was off the wall. White supremacists scare the hell out of me because I spend several days a week at the Jewish Community Center with my baby. Several people were shot at the JCC in Kansas City (4 hours from me) just a couple of years ago. That doesn't change the fact that I do feel sorry for some of them. Many of them were raised in poverty, hate and ignorance since childhood. They never stood a chance. The person who is leading us should get that. She can call their ideas deplorable. She can call any actions they take deplorable. Beyond that I want the person who is leading us to bring us together, not throw insults. I get enough of that Trump. This white suburban woman was not impressed. The worst part was the way she laughed after she said. Ugh. But whatever. I've always know that she's an elitist and there is literally nothing she could do or say that would lose my vote. She could have been running a silk road on that damn private server and I'd still vote for her.

No, we don't need to see that. It could literally be the end of the world as we know it. This idiot will almost certainly get us into some kind of serious war. With everything happening with North Korea and China the last thing we need in the white house is some wingnut just to teach people a lesson. Next thing you know we'll be carpet bombing North Korea. And yeah, I'm also disappointed in what she said. Good God, could she have sounded any more elitist? Yuck. Here is a woman of high IQ who's had incredible opportunity in her life. The people she is talking about are by and large not coming from a place of such advantage to say the very least. The lack of self awareness is appalling. It's one thing for the average person to say something like that. It's a whole other thing for an actual leader to say it. She was doing a whole lot better with the "better together" theme and when she said she was going to be everyone's president. The worst part is it's a comment that really served no purpose except to make the people in the room feel superior to all the "white trash* out there. She's too smart to make this kind of stupid comment in public. Disclaimer: Yes, I know Trump says worse things hourly.

I love it when President Obama drags Trump. He does it so well. "Outright wacky"

I saw that Trump said HRC doesn't look presidential. I think she really does though. It's unfair that appearances matter so much in our culture, but they do, and I feel she has that certain something I expect to see in a leader. Maybe it's just confidence, I can't put my finger on it. One ad I'm seeing that's really effective is the one where someone asks Trump what he's sacrificed for his country and he says something like "I've built businesses and had a lot of success" and the interviewer says "Are those sacrifices?". If he had the humility to just say "you're right, compared to the Khan family and others who have lost children, I haven't sacrificed", he'd be like the majority of us. He's incapable of that though, so the Clinton campaign has another excellent ad. Whoever came up with the idea to keep making ads using Trump's own words hit the mark.

If she had every one of those problems I would still feel morally compelled to choose her over Trump.

No kidding. I bet that's what went through most people's mind when they heard that remark.

Do we know he wasn't? Here is an interesting take on his situation by a psychologist. I feel she's a little generous with her interpretation of things, but it's an interesting read. Originally, I didn't realize that he was sending unwanted pictures of his junk. That takes it to a different level for me, that and having his kid in the room. Anyway, the upshot is these issues aren't easily treated. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/08/internet-online-exhibitionist-anthony-weiner-psychology-mental-214201 I really don't know enough about Huma's position to say if I think there was a potential for extortion. Seems unlikely. Now we know she has been separated from AW for over a year so it seems like even more of a non issue. That goes double when I think of all the presidents who were cheating while in office. The spouse of some aid hardly seems like an issue after that.

^ I wish the President of Mexico would not give him that legitimacy. Why would you want to meet this jackass unless you really had to?

Yeah, I feel bad for Huma Abedin. If I found out my husband was sexting while my toddler was in bed with him, I would be very, very upset. Sharing a child with someone who lacks all sense of parental judgement has to be really nerve wracking. I have no idea if he's getting therapy, I certainly hope so, but if I were in her shoes I wouldn't give be very impressed with that. All these people run to therapy when they get caught, as if therapy wipes the slate clean.

I believe it too. I think it's great that there are people out there who aren't letting the fact that they are Republicans force them into falling in line for Trump. Some of them are taking a lot of heat. It's not surprising though, politics have become polarized to a disturbing level. We're living in a W time of "if you're not with us you're against us." The problem exists in both parties, but Trump is forcing some surprising people to take a stand on the Republican side.

An interesting article about the terrible effects of Bill Clinton's welfare reform bill, in large part thanks to John Kasich. I hope Hillary has the chance to change some of this. I knew JK was a jerk, but he should really be ashamed in the part he played in denying poor people Snap benefits. It really enrages me that he is making life hellish for his own constituents. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/welfare-reform-20-years-old-and-its-worse-you-can-imagine