<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">I'd
like to think they're just liars because I'd much rather a liar have
his finger on the nuclear trigger than a fool, but I don't think they're
liars, I think they're sincere and I think they're fools. <br></font><br><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"> John K Clark<br><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">Do you think that there is a correlation between the outlandishness of an idea and the sincerity with which it is held?<br><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">Put another way: if the ideas were conventional we might suspect that a PR firm or political consultants vetted the ideas.<br><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">bill w<br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 10:41 AM, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 9:46 PM, spike </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div></span><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><div><div><div><span><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> </span></b></p></div></span></div></div></div></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">> Donald Trump: graduated from Wharton school of business, became a self-made multi-billionaire.</blockquote><div><br></div></span><font size="4">Self Made?<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> Trump inherited at least 40</div> million<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> from his daddy in 1974. Since 1974 the S&P 500 has gone up 74 fold, if he had put his inheritance into a simple S&P index fund and reinvested the dividends today it would be worth 3.4 billion. Today after all of Trump's wheeling and dealing and all his art of the deal Bloomberg says Trump is worth 2.9 billion and Forbs says it's 4.5 billion; he would have done about as well with a invest it and forget it strategy. </div></font><span class=""><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>Ted Cruz: graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law School magna cum laude, 1995 world debating champion.</blockquote><div><br></div></span><div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="4">Ted Cruz is ignorant but he's not stupid and that's why of all the presidential candidates he scares me the most. </font></font><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">C</span>raig Mazin was Cruz's roommate and this is what he has to say about his fellow Princeton alumni: </font></div></div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div><i>"Ted Cruz was my roommate. I did not like him at all in college<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">. </div>And you know, I want to be clear, because Ted Cruz is a nightmare of a human being. I have plenty of problems with his politics, but truthfully his personality is so awful that 99 per cent of why I hate him is just his personality.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">If</div> he agreed with me on every issue, I would hate him only one per cent less.<br>I would rather have anybody else be the president of the United States. Anyone. I would rather pick somebody from the phone book.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">"</div></i></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>Ben Carson: brain surgeon.</blockquote><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote><font size="4">Ben Carson is a skilled mechanic with good manual dexterity who believes that Joseph of the Bible built the Egyptian Pyramids to store grain and the big bang theory<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> is</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>part of the “fairy tales” pushed by “high-faluting scientists” as a story of creation<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">" but Carson does "</div>believe in the six-day creation<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">"</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> and thinks "</div>the<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>organs of the body completely refute evolution" and that<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>Charles Darwin<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>got the inspiration for his book <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">from Satan</div>. </font><span class=""><br><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>John that business with creationism is the political sales pitch; we don’t know what these guys believe.</blockquote><div><br></div></span><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">I'd like to think they're just liars because I'd much rather a liar have his finger on the nuclear trigger than a fool, but I don't think they're liars, I think they're sincere and I think they're fools. </font></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"><br></font></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div></div><div><br></div><br></div><br></div></div>
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