I don't know how knowledgeable people are about what's happening here in the US, but we're having a Presidential election this year after Obama's 8 years are over.
Although there will be several people from different parties that will run for President, we basically have a two party system here, the Democrats and the Republicans.
The Democratic candidate is Hillary Clinton, wife of former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State and senator of the state of New York. Her vice presidential running mate is Tim Kaine, senator from the state of Virginia.
The Republican candidate is Donald Trump, a real estate mogul who also had his own reality television show. He has held no political offices. His vice presidential running mate is Mike Pence, governor from the state of Indiana.
I have my own opinions about each candidate, but I don't want this to turn into a political debate, so I just wanted to provide information to the rest of the world as to what's going on here in the US.
May I add that Donald Trump has 2 failed marriages, largely due to his adulteries?
Conservative, largely Republican military leaders have come out against Trump as the worst possible decision.
He is a "birther" who was proven incorrect. He also alleged that Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio weren't eligible for election.
Over 60% of retweets by Trump are of White Supremists.
Trump has devoted several chapters in his books to the IMPORTANCE of getting REVENGE on those who cross him.
HE picks fights with women and the Pope
Trump is caught up in ongoing fraud trials over �Trump University:� There are two class action suits against Trump in California and the New York Attorney General has also filed suit against Trump over Trump University. One of the trials is scheduled to happen in August. So, fraud and theft are most allegedly a part of his legacy.
He publically lies and flip flops on Immigration reform.
He flip flops and in duplicitous on Planned Parenthood. Advocating for them before his candidacy and flip flopping since.
Don't like "Obamacare"? Trump has been advocating government controlled single payer health care for over 15yrs!
Eminent domain: Not only is Donald Trump in favor of having the government use the power of eminent domain to take property from private owners so it can be given to fatcats like him, he tried to use eminent domain to take a widow�s home away from her so it could be used as a limo parking lot. How is that for the dupes who think Donald Trump is for the little guy
As to how he feels about Hilary Clinton..try what he has said before he was a candidate
"(Hillary Clinton is) very talented, very smart.She's a friend of mine, so I'm a little prejudiced." (2007)
�Hillary�s always surrounded herself with very good people. I think Hillary would do a good job.�
"I know Hillary andI think she�d make a great president or vice-president." � 2008
Trump has many failed business ventures: Trump gives people the impression that he always wins. Certainly he has had a lot of success, but he also failed over and over again in ventures like Trump steaks, Trump Vodka, Trump the Game, Trump Magazine, Trump Mortgage, Trump Airlines, Trump University, Trump Casinos and the New Jersey Generals(Football team)
Is anyone proud to tell their kids that they're backing a guy who made money off of casinos and a strip club for President. Yeah, that's the Christian way?
Trump not only committed adultery on his wives but also BRAGGED about committing adultery with other men's wives in HIS OWN BOOK.
What sort of man mocks people for being handicapped? Trump has done it at least twice
If he somehow wins, Donald Trump will be 70 years old when he takes office. That would make him the oldest man ever to be elected to the White House for the first time.
History of domestic violence.
There is a rape allegation against him alleging he and his noted pedophile friend raped an underage teen.
His own products are Made outside of the USA.
There are very real allegations of Trumps connections with the mob.
His wife stole parts of a speech from the 1st Lady then claimed she didn't know. Later to acknowledge she studied the 1st lady's speeches.
Trump�s spokeswoman Katrina Pierson has said some really kooky things: Pierson bemoaned the fact that America is too reluctant to use nuclear weapons when she said, �What good does it do to have a good nuclear triad if you�re afraid to use it?� She also tweeted out this creepy in an Aryan sort of way stupidity: �Perfect Obama's dad born in Africa, Mitt Romney's dad born in Mexico. Any pure breeds left?� She has also said the GOP is racist and has taken swipes at Christians in general and Catholics in particular.
Cortexisboaz you are blind as a bat! You voting for kilary corruption? Trump has had personal failings. He certainly is not perfect but he has not done the things WHILE IN OFFICE that killary has. She is a satan worshiping lying corrupt woman who thinks she is above the law. She supports full term abortion. She is a lesbian.Bodies pile up around her and bill. Clinton cash..... Her health is failing.
Given Hillary Clinton�s disgusting and corrupt track record, this could easily have been a much bigger list. In fact, I�m not even sure you could adequately cover how unfit Hillary is for the Presidency in a 200 page book, much less a column. With that in mind, I decided to keep this list at 25 items to make it more easily digestible.
1) Hillary Clinton is almost 69 years old; she had a serious head injury after passing out in 2012 and she�s had a much remarked upon uncontrollable cough throughout much of this year�s campaign. The presidency is an enormously demanding job that visibly ages the person in the Oval Office. If someone who simply isn�t well enough to be President becomes the leader of the Free World, it could lead to devastating consequences as she futilely struggles to do the job.
2) If you really want a telling indication of what type of person Hillary Clinton is when she�s not lying or coughing in public, know that Secret Service agents considered being tasked with guarding her to be a form of punishment.
3) �Hillary demanded White House workers never speak to her and hide behind the drapes when she appeared.� You think someone like that cares about you? At all?
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4) Hillary is so mentally unstable that she believes she had discussions with Eleanor Roosevelt and Mahatma Gandhi.
5) She is so out of touch she hasn�t driven a car since 1996.
6) When she was practicing law, Hillary Clinton defended a man who raped a 12 year old girl. She tore the little girl apart on the stand, got the rapist off with a light sentence and later laughed about it with a reporter.
7) When her husband was governor, she took a $100,000 bribe that was paid to her via shifty dealings in the cattle futures market.
8) Under Hillary Clinton, the State Department did favors for a number of nations that either paid Bill Clinton ENORMOUS sums to do speeches or gave large gifts to the Clinton Foundation. That�s unethical on its face and it seems likely that the Clintons were receiving outright bribes, but as was mentioned earlier in reference to her email scandal, Hillary Clinton seems to be above the law.
9) Considering the sometimes shady dealings the Clintons have had with foreign governments, Bill�s inability to keep his pants up around willing women and the fact that Hillary Clinton�s private email server appears to have been hacked, she will be uniquely vulnerable to blackmail by other nations.
10) This is a woman who has publicly declared that Republicans are her enemies. With someone like that in the White House, there can be nothing other than hatred, gridlock and vicious political infighting from the first day she takes office until the day she leaves.
11) Some people may not like Republicans or Bernie Sanders fans chanting �Lock her up,� but Hillary Clinton didn�t just lie over and over to the American people about her email server; she broke the law and deserves to go to jail. When you take someone who is the living personification of �Important people are above the law� and make her President, what message does it send to the rest of the country? How should we trust a woman who doesn�t even deserve to have a security clearance with the Presidency? Why should anyone else follow the laws when Hillary Clinton gets to skate?
12) She claimed multiple times that she had to run for her life because her plane landed under SNIPER FIRE in Bosnia. Actually, when she landed there was a greeting ceremony and an 8 year old girl read her a poem.
13) She hasn�t accomplished anything that shows she�s qualified to be President. She got elected as senator in New York because her husband used to be the President and she did nothing of consequence while she was in office. Then she became Secretary of State where she did �little good and much harm.� Why is she qualified to be President? Because she married the right guy? Because she has lady parts?
14) What message would it send to young women if someone as corrupt, dishonest and incompetent as Hillary Clinton were elected President? That morals don�t matter? That you should hang in there with a husband who�s banging everyone in town but you because it may benefit you? That you should be handed everything in life despite your lack of qualifications or aptitude because you�re a woman who married the right man? Hillary is a loathsome human being and no parents should want her as a role model for their daughter.
15) Hillary Clinton is habitually hostile to business, successful people or wealthy Americans who aren�t giving her money. She�s practically guaranteed to tank the economy and make it even worse than it is today. This is a woman who has said, �Don�t let anybody tell you that it�s corporations and businesses that create jobs," and �I can�t worry about every undercapitalized business� in reference to the Nationalized Health Care Bill she supported killing small companies. She�s also said, �You know, we can�t keep talking about our dependence on foreign oil and the need to deal with global warming and the challenge that it poses to our climate and to God�s creation and just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people.� Then there was the time she said, �Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We�re saying that for America to get back on track, we�re probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We�re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.� You should start saving money now because if Hillary becomes President, it�s only a matter of time until the economy goes in the toilet.
16) Hillary Clinton helped create the Iranian nuclear deal that is allowing a terrorist-supporting, anti-American nation to get nuclear weapons despite the fact that we are a nation it�s most likely to use them on and the fact that it will create a new nuclear arms race in the Middle East.
17) She is planning to expand on Obama�s unconstitutional waving of immigration law for young illegal immigrants. She wants to reward illegal immigrants for breaking the law with American citizenship; she�s essentially calling for an end to deportation for anyone other than violent criminals and she doesn�t plan to improve our completely ineffective border security because she says the border is already secure. In addition to all of that, Clinton is also promising an amnesty bill within her first 100 days in office.
18) When she was Secretary of State, there were more than 600 requests for additional security in Benghazi. Those requests were mostly ignored and 4 Americans are dead because of it.
19) Despite the strong likelihood that ISIS will be able to slip agents into the Syrian refugees Obama is taking in and the fact that somewhere around 90% of them will end up on government assistance, Hillary Clinton supports bringing them here and wants to increase their numbers by 500%.
20) Despite the fact that America is deep in debt, running a deficit and may be less than a decade away from being unable to pay out Social Security or Medicare benefits that have been promised to seniors, Hillary Clinton is proposing 3.5 trillion dollars in new spending along with a 1.3 trillion dollar tax cut.
21) After the death of the late Antonin Scalia, Hillary would have the opportunity to shift the court to the Left for a generation by choosing his replacement. Incidentally, it�s unlikely that would be Hillary�s last selection in that Stephen Breyer is 77, Anthony Kennedy is 80 and Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 83.
22) Her judgment on foreign policy is terrible. Not only did she get people killed in Benghazi, she supported our intervention in Syria which has blown up in our faces and the overthrow of Gaddafi in Libya which led to radical Islamists taking over the country.
23) �I have to admit that a good deal of what my husband and I have learned (about Islam) has come from my daughter. (As) some of you who are our friends know, she took a course last year in Islamic history.� � Hillary Clinton | Let�s put the person who said that in charge of protecting us from Al-Qaeda, the war on Al-Qaeda and the rapidly deteriorating situation in the Middle East. That makes perfect sense, right?
24) Like most Democrats, Hillary realizes she can�t push an outright ban of handguns. So, she promotes extreme backdoor methods of gun control. She has called for a 25% sales tax on guns along with controversial new regulations that could make it difficult for many poor or lower middle class Americans to buy guns at all. She�s also pushing the insane idea that gun makers and sellers should be held liable if they sell a gun that�s later used in a crime. If this bizarre idea were to ever come to fruition, every gun dealer and arms manufacturer in America would be sued out of business when criminals inevitably use their products in the commission of a crime. Can you imagine applying this standard to any other product? How about letting people sue GM or Ford if a car is used in a crime? What about suing Nike if a criminal is wearing its shoes when he breaks the law?
25) After Americans spent the last 8 years being called racists every time they disagreed with Obama, do we really want to spend the next four years being called a sexist every time we disagree with Hillary?
Cortexisboaz you are blind as a bat! You voting for kilary corruption? Trump has had personal failings. He certainly is not perfect but he has not done the things WHILE IN OFFICE that killary has. She is a satan worshiping lying corrupt woman who thinks she is above the law. She supports full term abortion. She is a lesbian.Bodies pile up around her and bill. Clinton cash..... Her health is failing.
Given Hillary Clinton�s disgusting and corrupt track record, this could easily have been a much bigger list. In fact, I�m not even sure you could adequately cover how unfit Hillary is for the Presidency in a 200 page book, much less a column. With that in mind, I decided to keep this list at 25 items to make it more easily digestible.
1) Hillary Clinton is almost 69 years old; she had a serious head injury after passing out in 2012 and she�s had a much remarked upon uncontrollable cough throughout much of this year�s campaign. The presidency is an enormously demanding job that visibly ages the person in the Oval Office. If someone who simply isn�t well enough to be President becomes the leader of the Free World, it could lead to devastating consequences as she futilely struggles to do the job.
2) If you really want a telling indication of what type of person Hillary Clinton is when she�s not lying or coughing in public, know that Secret Service agents considered being tasked with guarding her to be a form of punishment.
3) �Hillary demanded White House workers never speak to her and hide behind the drapes when she appeared.� You think someone like that cares about you? At all?
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4) Hillary is so mentally unstable that she believes she had discussions with Eleanor Roosevelt and Mahatma Gandhi.
5) She is so out of touch she hasn�t driven a car since 1996.
6) When she was practicing law, Hillary Clinton defended a man who raped a 12 year old girl. She tore the little girl apart on the stand, got the rapist off with a light sentence and later laughed about it with a reporter.
7) When her husband was governor, she took a $100,000 bribe that was paid to her via shifty dealings in the cattle futures market.
8) Under Hillary Clinton, the State Department did favors for a number of nations that either paid Bill Clinton ENORMOUS sums to do speeches or gave large gifts to the Clinton Foundation. That�s unethical on its face and it seems likely that the Clintons were receiving outright bribes, but as was mentioned earlier in reference to her email scandal, Hillary Clinton seems to be above the law.
9) Considering the sometimes shady dealings the Clintons have had with foreign governments, Bill�s inability to keep his pants up around willing women and the fact that Hillary Clinton�s private email server appears to have been hacked, she will be uniquely vulnerable to blackmail by other nations.
10) This is a woman who has publicly declared that Republicans are her enemies. With someone like that in the White House, there can be nothing other than hatred, gridlock and vicious political infighting from the first day she takes office until the day she leaves.
11) Some people may not like Republicans or Bernie Sanders fans chanting �Lock her up,� but Hillary Clinton didn�t just lie over and over to the American people about her email server; she broke the law and deserves to go to jail. When you take someone who is the living personification of �Important people are above the law� and make her President, what message does it send to the rest of the country? How should we trust a woman who doesn�t even deserve to have a security clearance with the Presidency? Why should anyone else follow the laws when Hillary Clinton gets to skate?
12) She claimed multiple times that she had to run for her life because her plane landed under SNIPER FIRE in Bosnia. Actually, when she landed there was a greeting ceremony and an 8 year old girl read her a poem.
13) She hasn�t accomplished anything that shows she�s qualified to be President. She got elected as senator in New York because her husband used to be the President and she did nothing of consequence while she was in office. Then she became Secretary of State where she did �little good and much harm.� Why is she qualified to be President? Because she married the right guy? Because she has lady parts?
14) What message would it send to young women if someone as corrupt, dishonest and incompetent as Hillary Clinton were elected President? That morals don�t matter? That you should hang in there with a husband who�s banging everyone in town but you because it may benefit you? That you should be handed everything in life despite your lack of qualifications or aptitude because you�re a woman who married the right man? Hillary is a loathsome human being and no parents should want her as a role model for their daughter.
15) Hillary Clinton is habitually hostile to business, successful people or wealthy Americans who aren�t giving her money. She�s practically guaranteed to tank the economy and make it even worse than it is today. This is a woman who has said, �Don�t let anybody tell you that it�s corporations and businesses that create jobs," and �I can�t worry about every undercapitalized business� in reference to the Nationalized Health Care Bill she supported killing small companies. She�s also said, �You know, we can�t keep talking about our dependence on foreign oil and the need to deal with global warming and the challenge that it poses to our climate and to God�s creation and just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people.� Then there was the time she said, �Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We�re saying that for America to get back on track, we�re probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We�re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.� You should start saving money now because if Hillary becomes President, it�s only a matter of time until the economy goes in the toilet.
16) Hillary Clinton helped create the Iranian nuclear deal that is allowing a terrorist-supporting, anti-American nation to get nuclear weapons despite the fact that we are a nation it�s most likely to use them on and the fact that it will create a new nuclear arms race in the Middle East.
17) She is planning to expand on Obama�s unconstitutional waving of immigration law for young illegal immigrants. She wants to reward illegal immigrants for breaking the law with American citizenship; she�s essentially calling for an end to deportation for anyone other than violent criminals and she doesn�t plan to improve our completely ineffective border security because she says the border is already secure. In addition to all of that, Clinton is also promising an amnesty bill within her first 100 days in office.
18) When she was Secretary of State, there were more than 600 requests for additional security in Benghazi. Those requests were mostly ignored and 4 Americans are dead because of it.
19) Despite the strong likelihood that ISIS will be able to slip agents into the Syrian refugees Obama is taking in and the fact that somewhere around 90% of them will end up on government assistance, Hillary Clinton supports bringing them here and wants to increase their numbers by 500%.
20) Despite the fact that America is deep in debt, running a deficit and may be less than a decade away from being unable to pay out Social Security or Medicare benefits that have been promised to seniors, Hillary Clinton is proposing 3.5 trillion dollars in new spending along with a 1.3 trillion dollar tax cut.
21) After the death of the late Antonin Scalia, Hillary would have the opportunity to shift the court to the Left for a generation by choosing his replacement. Incidentally, it�s unlikely that would be Hillary�s last selection in that Stephen Breyer is 77, Anthony Kennedy is 80 and Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 83.
22) Her judgment on foreign policy is terrible. Not only did she get people killed in Benghazi, she supported our intervention in Syria which has blown up in our faces and the overthrow of Gaddafi in Libya which led to radical Islamists taking over the country.
23) �I have to admit that a good deal of what my husband and I have learned (about Islam) has come from my daughter. (As) some of you who are our friends know, she took a course last year in Islamic history.� � Hillary Clinton | Let�s put the person who said that in charge of protecting us from Al-Qaeda, the war on Al-Qaeda and the rapidly deteriorating situation in the Middle East. That makes perfect sense, right?
24) Like most Democrats, Hillary realizes she can�t push an outright ban of handguns. So, she promotes extreme backdoor methods of gun control. She has called for a 25% sales tax on guns along with controversial new regulations that could make it difficult for many poor or lower middle class Americans to buy guns at all. She�s also pushing the insane idea that gun makers and sellers should be held liable if they sell a gun that�s later used in a crime. If this bizarre idea were to ever come to fruition, every gun dealer and arms manufacturer in America would be sued out of business when criminals inevitably use their products in the commission of a crime. Can you imagine applying this standard to any other product? How about letting people sue GM or Ford if a car is used in a crime? What about suing Nike if a criminal is wearing its shoes when he breaks the law?
25) After Americans spent the last 8 years being called racists every time they disagreed with Obama, do we really want to spend the next four years being called a sexist every time we disagree with Hillary?
DavidsPsalms: The world is watching. A person would have to be living under a rock to not know what is going on with the most exciting and crucial election ever.
Anyone who votes Democrat is voting pro-baby murder and pro-gay marriage. God is anti- abortioni and anti-gay marriage. Therefore, they are voting in opposition to what God has clearly revealed in His inerrant word.
Having made such an inflamatory statement, yes I know that how you vote is not salvific. However, I will continue to question the salvation of anyone who votes Democrat and am glad that I go to a church where that would never be tolerated.
When a factual discussion morphs into a personal name calling it is a sign of foolishness.
"blind as a bat" Ok....my ill informed responder. For the record, bats are NOT blind! large bats see 3 times better than humans.
As to questioning the salvation of anyone who votes for a particular party.....1) who CARES? Really! Seriously, who cares what you question? ! The sanity of someone who makes such idiotic statements not to mention their salvation is what really should be questioned.
I state FACTS, you state opinions and gossip. Ever read a Biblical verse about gossipers? Baring false witness? Nuff said.
My faith is in the LORD God, his infallible Word and the promise of His Kingdom... not politicians, government or this world system. The LORD God can put anyone in the oval office he chooses, regardless of the votes cast. The vote you cast may not count today, but it will when you stand before the Lord and give an answer for it. Consider voting the Constitution Party (Darrell Castle and Scott Bradley) and let God work out his plan. "Trust in the LORD with all your heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct they paths." Proverbs 3:5-6
