<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" 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 class="gmail_quote">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><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><font size="4">To my mind the worst thing Hillary Clinton ever did wasn't Benghazi<div class="gmail_default" 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 class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div> to encourage at least 5<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> countries</div>, INCLUDING SAUDI ARABIA<div class="gmail_default" 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 class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> of Germany and </div>Mussolini<div class="gmail_default" 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 class="gmail_default" 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 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">however </div>Trump has an almost identical and equally bad<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>anti free trade policy<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>so that cancels out.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div> But unlike Hillary Clinton<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>(and unlike me) Sanders was smart<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>enough<div class="gmail_default" 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 class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">just </div>months or even weeks <div class="gmail_default" 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 class="gmail_default" 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 class="gmail_default" 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 class="gmail_default" 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 class="gmail_default" 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 class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div><br></div></div>
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