<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">sorry</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 12:12 PM, William Flynn Wallace <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@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"><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large">One flaw Trump doesn't have is lack of confidence, I think he sincerely believes he has the solutions to all the world's problems and all the solutions are simple quick direct and audacious. john</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></blockquote><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">I think we don't know what he believes. If he is a demagogue, as I think, he is just appealing to, to put it mildly, rather unintelligent and uninformed voters, who do think solutions are simple. He is on a roll - his attacks and mad schemes are winning. I don't think Trump is as simple-minded as John's second sentence above states. But we just don't know and hope we will never find out. How successful he is as a business man is debatable, but he has to be somewhat above average to do what he has done (and yes, he has gone bankrupt four times, but that may be fairly common in his highly speculative world). </div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">bill w</div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 11:19 AM, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><font size="4">To my mind the worst thing Hillary Clinton ever did wasn't Benghazi<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>and it certainly wasn't the silly Email business, it was voting in favor of the Iraq War in 2002 when she was a Senator. That was stupid but in her defence it was stupid within normal parameters, and although it pains me to admit it if I were in her place in 2002 I would have made the same mistake. But with Donald Trump we have an entirely new sort of stupid. No American President has ever encouraged any country to develop nuclear weapons not even Briton, but Trump wants<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div> to encourage at least 5<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> countries</div>, INCLUDING SAUDI ARABIA<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">. Trump says that "very very soon" after he becomes president he will destroy ISIS, the only hint he gives on how he intends to do this is he won't rule out using nuclear weapons against them, nor rule out using them in Europe because "Europe is a big place". Is this just bluster, is Trump just making noises with his mouth? I don't know, maybe it's just hot air, I hope so, but I don't want to stake my life on it. One flaw Trump doesn't have is lack of confidence, I think he sincerely believes he has the solutions to all the world's problems and all the solutions are simple quick direct and audacious. Believing you're the smartest man in the world is a bad thing if you're really as dumb as a sack of rocks, and it's even worse if you're a world leader. The historic figures that remind me the most of Trump are </div>Kaiser William II<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> of Germany and </div>Mussolini<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> in Italy, both were absolutely convinced they were brilliant. They weren't. </div></font><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><font size="4">As for Bernie Sanders, he doesn't want to build a stupid wall but he does have a terrible anti free trade policy<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">,</div> <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">however </div>Trump has an almost identical and equally bad<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>anti free trade policy<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>so that cancels out.<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div> But unlike Hillary Clinton<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>(and unlike me) Sanders was smart<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>enough<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>not to believe Bush when he said he had rock solid evidence that a madman, Saddam Hussein, was <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">just </div>months or even weeks <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">away </div>from mass producing nuclear bombs. Sanders voted against the Iraq war in 2002<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">,</div> so if the election was between Trump and Sanders my decision would be easy, I'd vote for Sanders. I think I could trust<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>Sanders with the nuclear launch codes, or at least as much as I can trust anyone<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> with that much power</div>, but the thought of Trump getting his grubby little hands on <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">those codes</div> gives me nightmares.<br></font><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div><br></div></div>
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