Clinton attacks on Trump fire up supporters
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spoke at an event at the Culinary Arts Institute on Saturday in Sylmar, Calif.
OXNARD, Calif. >> Hillary Clinton’s savage takedown of Donald Trump in her recent foreign policy speech has her supporters fired up.
As the likely Democratic nominee toured California Saturday, crowds burst into applause at the mere mention of Thursday’s speech, in which Clinton cast Trump as dangerously unqualified to be president. Supporters say they feel more confident and excited in the wake of the address — which could benefit Clinton, who has struggled to inspire enthusiasm throughout the drawn-out primary contest.
“I loved it. I was waiting for that,” said Leslie Milke, 56, of Woodland Hills, a professor at Los Angeles Mission College, who saw Clinton. “I knew she was capable of that kind of speech….It really made me feel energized. It made me feel like we can win.”
Clinton’s speech in San Diego previewed her intention to mount an aggressive campaign against the real estate mogul. In it, she said Trump would lead the nation toward war and economic crisis, contrasting it with her long years of diplomatic experience and public service. Looking to the November general election, Clinton, who is expected to clinch the Democratic nomination in the coming days, said that electing Trump would be a “historic mistake.”
Since then Clinton has only increased the heat.
“I think it is time to judge Donald Trump by his words and his deeds. I think his words and his deeds disqualify him from being president,” Clinton said in Oxnard, Calif., on Saturday. She later mockingly cited some of Trump’s past remarks, saying: “One of my personal favorites is he said he knows how to deal with Putin because he took the Miss Universe pageant to Moscow.”
Earlier in the day, at Los Angeles Mission College in Sylmar, Clinton attacked Donald Trump for talking in “hateful, very prejudicial, really unacceptable ways.”
As she shifted her focus almost entirely to the presumptive Republican nominee, her rival Bernie Sanders continued his quest for the Democratic nomination, defiantly declaring Saturday that Clinton will not have enough pledged delegates after Tuesday’s contests, and the Democrats are headed toward a contested summer convention.
Still, Clinton supporters like Walter Guzman, 44, of Oxnard, said it was time for her to turn to Trump, saying “she needs to stop concentrating on Bernie and start concentrating on Trump.”
Of course, engaging with Trump — who has shown little restraint with negative campaigning and is skilled at sucking up media attention — has its risks. Many of Trump’s GOP primary opponents sought to take him on unsuccessfully, most notably Sen. Marco Rubio, whose Trump attacks were viewed as out of keeping with his inspirational message.
Sandy Emberland, 72, of Thousand Oaks, said she knew the race was “going to be dirty and bad,” but said “I think she will stay above the fray.”
Meanwhile, Sonia Prince, 60, of North Oxnard, said that while she is confident Clinton can fight fire with fire, she’d prefer not to hear about Trump at all.
“Because bad publicity or good publicity, it’s publicity for him,” she said.
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Unfortunately, everything Trump says about Clinton is right, and everything Clinton says about Trump is also right. Apocalyptic!
OMG… We are about to be treated to a whole season of pots calling kettles…
Clinton attacks on Trump fire up Trump supporters. Here comes the Donald.
Hillary should look in the mirror and see what a liar looks like. Then again she might see her reflection.
Hillary call’s Trump a lier, Really? That’s funny.
Where did she say that? Nowhere in the article. It happens to be true, but you still shouldn’t attribute a quote to someone when they didn’t say it. She did say he was dangerously unqualified to be president, and if you’ve listened to him for the past year, that should be obvious.
On the other hand, Clinton has been elected and served in the Senate and received high marks from her constituents and even Republicans. She served as the U.S. Secretary of State. She obviously has the credentials to be president.
And on the other hand she has already lost a presidential primary. This time the fix was in however.
eight years in the senate. these are the only bills she introduced that passed:
S.3145, designated a portion of U.S. Route 20A, located in Orchard Park, N.Y., as the “Timothy J. Russert Highway,” after the former “Meet the Press” host.
S. 3613, renamed the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2951 New York Highway 43 in Averill Park, New York, as the “Major George Quamo Post Office Building.”
S. 1241, made the brick house of 19th century female union leader Kate Mullany a national historic site.
under her watch as secretary of state: the middle east erupted in chaos; isis became a major terrorist force; north korea is threatening to send nuclear warheads into south korea and beyond; iran is about to become a nuclear power; russia donated to the clinton foundation and was then granted uranium purchases; qadaffi was removed and terrorists murdered u.s. embassy employees and made off with security codes, advanced weapons, satellite phones; classified and ubs materials were handled without proper security.
with these credentials, the female felon obviously should never be allowed back to loot the white house.
In Crooked Hillary’s Speech she said, and I quote. “Donald Trump’s ideas aren’t just different – they are dangerously incoherent. They’re not even really ideas – just a series of bizarre rants, personal feuds, and outright lies.” Nobody lies more than Hillary.
You’re rebuttal is based on false and misleading information. You would do well to get the fact before you post something that is easily debunked. One of the more comprehensive measures of Sen. Clinton’s legislative effectiveness is how successful she was at sponsoring legislation that was adopted by the Senate. The most important pieces of legislation are arguably bills which the a member sponsored, and which proposed substantive changes in law. This excludes commemorative bills, like those you listed.
A bill’s sponsor typically shepherds the bill through Congress and is usually (but not always) the bill’s primary author. Here’s what the numbers say: During her eight years in the Senate, Hillary Clinton sponsored 10 bills that passed the chamber. The mean senator passes 1.4 bills a year. Clinton’s 1.25 bills per year is in line with the chamber average.
Another way members of Congress can influence legislative outcomes is to amend a bill someone else has sponsored, particularly in the Senate. Clinton successfully amended bills 67 times in her eight years in the Senate. On a year-by-year basis, that comes to 8.4 per year for. Moreover, the mean senator passed 7.4 amendments. Clinton’s is significantly higher than the mean.
blues, even Polifact, which bats for your team more often than not, admits st1d’s comment is factual. He mentioned nothing about influence, or shepherding. So rather than try and “debunk” the truth, maybe you should just try and let us know why your voting for Hillary. Besides of course, your fixation with all things democrat…
You didn’t read my post, if that’s your conclusion. She sponsored 10 substantive bills, which puts her at the average of the entire Senate. Equally important, she amended more bills on average than the average senator, and amending a bill successfully means the provisions of the bill that passed were yours, regardless of who sponsored the bill.
@hawaiikone: Thanks for the reference to the Politifacts article. Did you read it? If so, you would know that the claim made by Jeb Bush about the 3 commemorative bills was called “half-true” by Politifact. The article also says, “”Offering amendments on the floor, holding hearings, contributing to oversight, helping to negotiate agreements, pushing federal agencies to be responsive to constituents back home — all of these might contribute to making a senator ‘effective,’ but none of these endeavors of course would show up in a count of bills sponsored or passed or enacted.
“As for Bush’s claim about the number of laws “she has her name on, it’s fair game to also look at the number of bills Clinton co-sponsored.
“Because ‘have her name on’ is so vague, I don’t see the grounds on which to exclude co-sponsored bills,” said Sarah Binder, a political science professor at George Washington University.
Norman Ornstein, a scholar at American Enterprise Institute, said that the names that go on bills of any real significance are the committee chairs — for example the Dodd-Frank 2010 banking reform bill. Sen. Chris Dodd and U.S. Rep. Barney Frank were the major figures behind the law, but other senators also had roles and don’t have their names on the bill.
Meanwhile, the Affordable Care Act “does not have Al Franken’s name on it, but a really important provision, the medical-loss ratio, was his handiwork,” Ornstein said. “Effectiveness can be a behind-the-scenes role, adding a serious amendment, working inside to get the language exactly right. By any reasonable standard, including the private comments of her colleagues on both sides of the aisle when she was in the Senate, she was very effective.”
So blue, what was “false” about st1d’s post? If you’re going to say what another says is false, then back it up. Simple.
Hillary should look in the mirror and see what a liar looks like. Then again she might see her reflection.
I think I will vote for Ralph Nader or Bu La’ia At this point I cannot vote for either one these liars and charlatans and will vote for any third party candidate who I know will lose. Clinton will get all of Hawaii’s electoral votes and now that the race is officially being battled at sewer level, BOTH with outstanding legal problems, lacking in ethics and all around snakes, voters will NOT base their votes on the merits of the candidates but will fall along racial lines. Most Caucasians, who after Obama want white back in the Whitehouse will vote Trump and most non-Caucasians willl be anti-Trump and vote for Clinton. Overlay that with any Caucasian women who are against misogynisticTrump will lean toward Hillary. Whoever is Clinton’s speechwriter give him/her a gold star because that speech Clinton made in California attacking Trump was devastating to Trump. Doing the math and a newfound perceived strength in Hillary (yes it is all a charade but the ‘low information’ voter will be swayed) and Hillary will be the next Pres of the US and Foxnews will have failed to get Trump elected. I used to watch Foxnews but after they suspended Andrea Tantaros I stopped watching. She definitely had her own opinions, and the shortest skirts and highest heels in the news business
As the devil is the “father of lies”, Hillary Clinton is the “mother of lies.” She deserves jail time, period. Should Donald Trump wins the Presidency this November, HE said that He will have his newly appointed Athorney General investigate this Obama clone. That would mean jail time.
However should this Obama clone gets into the White house, she will undoubtedly pardon herself from any jail time.
I wouldn’t put much stock into what the Donald says. He still has not released his findings on Obama’s birth certificate. Remember when he said he sent people to Hawaii and they found out some truth? And what about his tax returns. I suspect I will probably have passed on before he releases them. As for pardoning herself, Hillary would have to be charged with something first. What would that be? I know, she burt that last batch of cookies she made for Bill.
You’re right, of course. There was no crime associated with the email issue. Mrs. Clinton will never be charged. No one writing here about that has the slightest clue about the law and how that applied in cases like this. The willful and prideful ignorance is remarkable.
So you are a legal expert? Learned? Entitled?
bombay2101 – 31 years as a defense attorney. Want to compare CVs? Might not work out so well for you. There was no crime and there will never be a conviction. Never.
Using an unsecured line for Top secret emails to pass through. Was it Russian President Putin announcing that he will direct his intelligence agency to release the email that they hacked from Hillary Clinton. If anyone else would have done this unlawful act, they would be sent to jail.
But the Liberal Democrats want to protect this Obama Clone from any prison time.
Seems like everyone but you is ignorant. You use that word a lot. Kind of tells people about how you view yourself.
Baking cookies is a good summary of Hillary’s vast experience.
Burt? Articulate.
You forgot to mention the Trump university civil lawsuit. From information released so far, looks like Trump university was one big SCAM.
Please tell us all, specifically, which lies you think Secretary Clinton has said or written. Go ahead — and please be very specific. If you can find any supposed “lies” that are both verifiable and also significant to the issue of her suitability to become our president, please tell us your sources. (I’d bet you will become very frustrated trying to find anything nearly as scary as the monumental lies that Trump has spouted!)
In delivering her comments about Trump, Secretary Clinton used only direct, word-by-word quotes from Trump’s own mouth or Twitter postings. The media (even Fox) found that all of Secretary Clinton’s quotes from Trump were real and were quoted in context.
Benghazi Four men died and Hillary lied.
So you’re saying Secretary Clinton said something untrue about the Benghazi attack AND that she knew it was untrue at the time she said it? Okay, prove it. Tell us what you think she said, tell us how you know that (source), and explain to those of us who aren’t clairvoyant just how you determined that Secretary Clinton had prior knowledge of the falsity of whatever you think she said. If you can’t put up, then please shut up and stop wasting air.
Ask the families of the deceased. Oh and it was the movie. You can start with that.
sarge22: You’re kidding me? “Ask the families of the deceased. Oh and it was the movie. You can start with that.” That’s NOT good enough, sarge22!!! You’re statements are TOO vague! Insignificant to the issue. Where are your sources?
klastri tells it like it is: “The ignorance here is really remarkable.” Mahalo for your comments!
People who know nothing here will point, of course, to the Fox News Benghazi story. That has been investigated by one Republican committee after another, and they have absolutely nothing. Zero. Except of course, the testimony of one of the murderers who said that the riot was triggered by the video. There is that.
The ignorance here is really remarkable.
Speak for yourself. New York Times bestselling author Aaron Klein’s book, “The REAL Benghazi Story: What the White House and Hillary Don’t Want You to Know,” is a groundbreaking investigative work that finally exposes some of the most significant issues related to the murderous attack – information with current national security implications.
The press and their dirty lies.
“fighting for us” takes on an old brown shirt and wears it well.
I”d never even trust Clinton to be a used car sales person , lest to be Commander in Chief of our armed forces.
“Because bad publicity or good publicity, it’s publicity for him”! It seem the voter of this statement preferred Clinton not mention Trump at all is wiser and smarter than the democratic presidential candidate! Auwe! What have we done to deserve candidates far below the status of the great men and women of our past?
Unlike Clinton, Trump refuses to release his taxes or anything that reveals his net worth. Why? Because it will reveal that he’s actually not as well off as he claims. After all, he’s declared bankruptcy four times, proving he’s not the great businessman he says he is.
Wow four whole bankruptcies Everyone has a few failures. Overall he’s been pretty successful and is really doing great now. 16-0
Although Trump, personally, may not be discharging his enormous debt in federal bankruptcy court, he might as well be. His creditors have him on a very taut leash. They know that if Trump legally declares bankruptcy, the value of his “name brand” as a supposedly super-successful billionaire will plummet, leaving his creditors with even worse losses than if they just continue to prop up his business ventures and his image. I think it’s very doubtful that Trump has anything near the $10 billion in assets that he claims to have. But whatever his assets, in my opinion it’s virtually certain his liabilities exceed them by more than a considerable margin. It’s no wonder he refuses to release his tax returns; if he does release them then the voters of our nation will know Trump for the fraud that he is.
How many politicians have ever run a business? Better to have tried and failed, then not to know how to begin.
How many politicians have ever run a business? Better to have tried and failed, then not to know how to begin.
Thank you, oh Great Censor. Better late than not at all.
Job well done.
Clinton is just another politician. Will say anything and everything for their own gain.
You should see what Trump attack on Clinton do. So everybody can attack everybody. the third wheel is Obama.
Neither one of them is worthy to become The President of The United States! Simply because the States aren’t United to elect a President!