<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 12:55 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><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><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 lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-5747848820428278703gmail-m_-8275040820066216004WordSection1"><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"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif">><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>… first time in the country's history a presidential candidate says he will abide by the results of election day ONLY if he wins…</span></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>He doesn’t need to accept it. If he loses he will have no legal authority, so what difference does it make? </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">If the president has been promoting generals loyal to him for 4 years and has the military to back up his orders the president can do whatever he likes and it doesn't make the slightest difference if he has the legal authority to do so or not. As I said the constitution is not a law of physics, it has power only if people agree that it has power, and for the first time in the history of the country a presidential contender has openly declared he will not abide by the constitution. Nobody can say we weren't warned. </font></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"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>If he loses by cheating, he still loses. </blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">And in 4 years if Trump wins by cheating he still wins. But we don't.</div> </font></div><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"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>I am betting on the constitution to win this one.</blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Maybe, but I'm not willing to bet my life on that, especially when the top constitutional officer openly declares he will abide with the constitution <b>ONLY</b> if he wins. </font></div></div><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"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>I am betting the generals will stand with the law. </blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Maybe, but I'm not willing to bet my life on that, especially</span> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">after 4 years when the president will be the one who has appointed all the generals.</div></font></div><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 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"><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">>> </div>She beat Trump like a rented mule in 3 debates and demonstrated a strong understanding of the issues, including what Aleppo is. <span style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif"> </span></font><span style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><font size="4"> </font><br></span></blockquote> <br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>My conclusion: Clinton had the questions in advance. The DNC chair got them somehow, and supplied them. Clinton won those debates by cheating.</blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div><font size="4">Clinton might have gotten some of the questions in the Democratic<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>primary debate if you believe the information Vladimir Putin<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>hacked from the DNC, but I didn't even watch those debates, I'm talking about the 3 debates Clinton had with Trump. She was masterful. And by the way, Ronald Reagan stole all of Jimmy Carter's debate briefing papers<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>before the<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">ir</div> 1980 debate<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">, Reagan knew what Carter's entire debate strategy would be and what answers he would give to various questions. After the election </div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">when it was investigated Reagan's White House Chief of Staff <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">James Baker </div>swore under oath that he got <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">Carter's </div>papers from CIA director William Casey<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">,</div> but Casey said under oath that was untrue. Somebody perjured himself but to this day we don't know who. </span></font></div><div><br></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">Bonus question: why do you suppose </div>Vladimir Putin<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> is trying so hard to make Trump president?</div></font></div><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"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>I consider it a bad thing for a US president to think we should be involved in Aleppo.</blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">Do you also consider it a bad thing for a US president to not even know that there is a thing called "Aleppo"? Johnson has turned the Libertarian Party into a laughing stock. I'm embarrassed to tell people I'm a libertarian, I make sure they understand I'm a small l libertarian who is voting for Clinton. </font></div><font size="4"> </font></div><div><font size="4"> </font></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">> the bright side is that this distasteful affair will be over in three weeks and we can get on with suffering the consequences and our favorite intellectual pursuits.</blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">Now that I agree with.</font></div><font size="4"> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">On November 8 the trigger of revolver aimed at our head will be pulled and the hammer will either land on an empty chamber or it won't. One way or the other it will be over.</div></font></div><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><br></div><div><br></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">
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