Clerk Note: A very persuassive analysis of the candidates.
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Cornel West: Why I Endorse the Green Party’s Jill Stein Over ‘Neoliberal Disaster’ Hillary Clinton
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/cornel_west_why_i_endorse_green_partys_jill_20160721
By: Amy Goodman and Cornel West
Date:
Clerk Note: GHW Bush as Vice President, behind the scenes as a strong Vice President (and former CIA Director), caused a lot of shit: Iran-Contra Affair anyone? Richard Cheney, behind the scenes as a strong Vice President (and former MIC Director of Halliburton), caused a lot of shit: Project for a New American Century's goals and ambitions, 9/11, Iraq, weapons of mass destruction, Depleted Uranium, Guantanamo, rendition, torture, USA PATRIOT Act, ...
Trump is going to make Mike Pence into a strong Vice President, so what shit is he going to do behind the scenes?
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Report: Trump Won’t Be Handling Foreign Or Domestic Tasks As President
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/07/20/report-trump-wont-be-handling-foreign-or-domestic-tasks-as-president/
By: Ryan Denson ·
Date: 2016-07-20
Donald Trump is officially the Republican nominee for President of the United States. Mike Pence is officially the nominee for Vice President of the United States. According to a new report from the New York Times, guess who will be doing almost all of the work?
Hint: it won’t be Donald Trump.
The report, published today, chronicles just how Trump came to settle on Pence instead of the likes of John Kasich, Newt Gingrich, Condoleezza Rice and so forth. But several paragraphs concerning former presidential candidate John Kasich shows the true side of Donald Trump, one that Democrats have been trying to warn the American public about for over a year:
One day this past May, Donald Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., reached out to a senior adviser to Gov. John Kasich of Ohio, who left the presidential race just a few weeks before … Donald Jr. wanted to make him an offer nonetheless: Did he have any interest in being the most powerful vice president in history?
Donald Trump's Autocratic Speech Triggers Alarm Bells
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/07/22/nixon-hitler-and-nationalism-donald-trumps-speech-triggers-alarm-bells
By: Nadia Prupis
Date: 2016-07-22
Trump's speech ultimately "signaled his determination to exploit fears of violence as part of crusade to seize the White House."
It's official. Donald Trump is the Republican nominee for president.
Reactions abounded late Thursday after the (racist, xenophobic, Islamophobic, and misogynistic) real estate mogul accepted the party's nomination in a rambling, hour-and-fifteen-minute long speech.
Some noted the parallels to Richard Nixon's infamous 1968 "law and order" speech; others pointed out the fascist undertones of Trump's declaration that "I alone can fix this." Few were thrilled that former KKK grand wizard David Duke praised the speech on Twitter.
