'Hillary lies!'
Editor of the Reformer:
The most difficult people to have a sensible political discussion with these days are Donald Trump supporters. A typical conversation (these "discussions" actually happened) with them goes like this: I ask: "What actual positive things has Trump done?" They answer: "Hillary lies!" Then I ask them why they are not turned off by Trump's demeaning view of women. They answer "Hillary lies!" I ask: "Doesn't Trump lie?" Answer: "Hillary lies!"
I continue. "Why are you not turned off by Trump's hatred of Muslims?" Answer: "Hillary lies!" I try again. "Do you think it is okay for Trump to make fun of disabled people?" I get the same answer: "Hillary lies!" Persevering, I ask: "Aren't you worried about such a thin-skinned, volatile person such as Trump having his finger on the nuclear button?" Answer "Hillary lies!"
The common thread in all of this is obvious, of course. Trump supporters cannot think of one good thing to say about Trump and so they justify their support of him by dumping on Hillary.
If there is a good God in the heavens who cares about America, let us pray that she will inspire enough Americans to vote in November for Hillary.
P.S. The following discussion, thank God, is only hypothetical. Putin is having a summit meeting with President Trump and Putin says to him: "Hey, Trump, I'm going to bomb your country. What are you going to do about it?" Trump, shaking in his boots but still smirking, says "Hillary lies!"
Wally Roberts, Brattleboro, July 30
Letter: 'Hillary lies!'
Of course, I don’t believe for one moment that he would do any of these things. I don’t think he understands what they are. And if he gets elected, his establishment buddies will tell him what’s what, and he will fall in line — because he doesn’t care about any of this stuff.
The PolitiFact scorecard: Hillary
True53 (22%)(53)
Mostly True67 (28%)(67)
Half True50 (21%)(50)
Mostly False34 (14%)(34)
False27 (11%)(27)
Pants on Fire5 (2%)(5)
The PolitiFact scorecard: Trump
True8 (4%)(8)
Mostly True24 (11%)(24)
Half True32 (15%)(32)
Mostly False32 (15%)(32)
False78 (36%)(78)
Pants on Fire40 (19%)
I think Hillary is in 1st place for Liar of the Year unless Obama comes from behind and beats her.
It doesn't matter what you think. Donald Trump's chances of winning vanished when he attacked that gold star family. Can you say "Madam President??"
Here are some excerpt from an article that tells the truth about Kahn.
“If it was up to Donald Trump, he never would have been in America,” said Khan, sliding easily into the political tradition of lying and distorting the position of one’s opponent.
“Donald Trump consistently smears the character of Muslims,” he went on. “He disrespects other minorities, women, judges, even his own party leadership. He vows to build walls and ban us from this country.”
Despite all efforts by the media to distort Trump’s position about “banning” Muslims, he has made perfectly clear time and again that he does not want to ban all Muslims. He wants to simply perform thorough and complete background checks on all immigrants coming from countries presently in the grips of violent Islamic terrorism.
For just about every American alive, Capt. Khan is an inspiring and unifying figure. To Hillary Clinton, he is a tool to be used to divide people. In her false promise of unifying America, she creates a national political Babylon. Her avaricious greed for more and more power knows no bounds.
It is an open secret in Washington that politics is the last bastion of rampant racial profiling. Both parties do it, but Democrats have taken it to a whole new scientific level.
Politicians like Hillary Clinton slice and dice people into racial and gender groups. Then they toot on all their little “dog whistles” to send all their little demographic pawns scurrying in various directions. That is how you wind up with Khizr Khan standing on stage beside his head-scarved wife, waving around the U.S. Constitution and distorting Donald Trump’s position on keeping radical Islamic terrorism at bay.
Perhaps a better testimony from Khizr Khan would have been for him to talk about how Hillary Clinton was in the U.S. Senate when she voted to invade Iraq. Years later, after that position became politically unpopular, she changed her mind and joined new political forces to vacate all the land across Iraq that so many great American patriots like Capt. Humayun Khan had died for.
It was her vote that sent Capt. Khan to his death. And then it was her decisions later to render that sacrifice worthless.
Try sticking that into your dog whistle and blowing it.
Khizr Khan was tricked into smearing Donald Trump