Secret anti-Trump donor revealed
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one thing I will say about Donald Trump is, he certainly does expose who the leftwing nutcases are
Think Trump was crude? The Founding Fathers were just as bad
"NEW YORK (AP) — You could say politics has reached a new low with the "small hands" remarks from the Republican debate.
But the exchange over the size of Donald Trump's, um, hands is merely the most recent vulgarity in American politics. The history of crude remarks goes back to the Founding Fathers.
In the 18th century, John Adams called Alexander Hamilton a "bastard brat" and wrote that Hamilton had "a superabundance of secretions which he could not find whores enough to draw off," according to historian Ron Chernow.
One difference between then and now: "These were words written or spoken in private, not in public," said Chernow, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Alexander Hamilton helped inspire the hit Broadway musical "Hamilton." (Chernow says the comments were quoted in letters that survived the centuries.)
In the 1880s, rumors of Grover Cleveland's out-of-wedlock child led to a song from his Republican opponents: "Ma, ma, where's my pa?" When Cleveland won the presidency, the response came: "Gone to the White House, ha ha ha!"
"Old-fashioned American politics was full of those kinds of vile comments," said Arnold Shober, who teaches government at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. "We've kind of lost that over the last 70 years, and I think it's just coming back."
Not that 20th century politicians shied away from vulgarities. Here's President Bill Clinton describing his 1970s El Camino pickup truck: "I had Astroturf in the back. You don't want to know why, but I did."
And Clinton's Secretary of State Madeleine Albright proved that she could talk dirty when she said: "This is not cojones. This is cowardice," after Cuba shot down Cuban-American exiles flying civilian planes..."
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...athers-were-just-as-bad/ar-BBqm41O?li=BBnbcA1
"NEW YORK (AP) — You could say politics has reached a new low with the "small hands" remarks from the Republican debate.
But the exchange over the size of Donald Trump's, um, hands is merely the most recent vulgarity in American politics. The history of crude remarks goes back to the Founding Fathers.
In the 18th century, John Adams called Alexander Hamilton a "bastard brat" and wrote that Hamilton had "a superabundance of secretions which he could not find whores enough to draw off," according to historian Ron Chernow.
One difference between then and now: "These were words written or spoken in private, not in public," said Chernow, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Alexander Hamilton helped inspire the hit Broadway musical "Hamilton." (Chernow says the comments were quoted in letters that survived the centuries.)
In the 1880s, rumors of Grover Cleveland's out-of-wedlock child led to a song from his Republican opponents: "Ma, ma, where's my pa?" When Cleveland won the presidency, the response came: "Gone to the White House, ha ha ha!"
"Old-fashioned American politics was full of those kinds of vile comments," said Arnold Shober, who teaches government at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. "We've kind of lost that over the last 70 years, and I think it's just coming back."
Not that 20th century politicians shied away from vulgarities. Here's President Bill Clinton describing his 1970s El Camino pickup truck: "I had Astroturf in the back. You don't want to know why, but I did."
And Clinton's Secretary of State Madeleine Albright proved that she could talk dirty when she said: "This is not cojones. This is cowardice," after Cuba shot down Cuban-American exiles flying civilian planes..."
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...athers-were-just-as-bad/ar-BBqm41O?li=BBnbcA1
You are supposed to be God's chosen people. If God wanted you there, he would have willed your ass there. Why is it up to United States?
I'm not so sure God had anything to do with it. It would have been a legal nightmare trying to restore all the property stolen from the Jews back to the rightful owners, so they just shipped them off to Israel, and what difference did it make? The only people living there at the time were Palestinians, and they are even a lower lifeform than the jews.
The reason it made a difference to the United States was back in those days most Americans called themselves Christian and believed the Bible was written by God. Today it's just an island in the middle east that doesn't want or hope for in anyway the destruction of America, so by default they are a valuable ally.
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You don't know God had anything to do with it. It is the most common argument made.
How does it compare to "God is on my side?"
More billionaires trying to buy elections:
Marco Rubio’s Biggest Fan
"...Braman, who’s donated $6 million to Rubio’s super-PAC, is the senator’s most generous benefactor. While Rubio’s other moneyed friends skew reclusive—hedge funders Paul Singer and Ken Griffin are also major contributors—Braman maintains an unusually high profile for a megadonor worth an estimated $1.87 billion. His decades of Miami electioneering, combined with his close personal ties to Rubio, provided fodder to a New York Times piece last May that probed his influence on the senator’s career..."
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-03-09/marco-rubio-s-biggest-fan
Marco Rubio’s Biggest Fan
"...Braman, who’s donated $6 million to Rubio’s super-PAC, is the senator’s most generous benefactor. While Rubio’s other moneyed friends skew reclusive—hedge funders Paul Singer and Ken Griffin are also major contributors—Braman maintains an unusually high profile for a megadonor worth an estimated $1.87 billion. His decades of Miami electioneering, combined with his close personal ties to Rubio, provided fodder to a New York Times piece last May that probed his influence on the senator’s career..."
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-03-09/marco-rubio-s-biggest-fan
Don't give up on two-state solution
http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/28/opinions/two-state-solution-ziv/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/28/opinions/two-state-solution-ziv/index.html
