• Hillary will defend Planned Parenthood and women’s health care from Republican attacks.

• Hillary’s New College Compact would mean students would never have to borrow to pay for tuition to attend a four-year public college in their state—and the millions of Americans who have student debt can refinance.
• Because taxpayers shouldn’t pay for millionaires’ and billionaires’ kids to go to college.
• Guaranteed paid family leave.
• She declared on the world stage that “gay rights are human rights.”
• Experts say Hillary’s plan to keep Wall Street accountable is the toughest of all Democratic candidates.
• As first lady, she helped get health care coverage for 8 million American children.
• Our veterans should have access to timely and high quality health care.
• She’s the only Democrat with hedge-fund billionaires running ads against her—because they know her agenda is to stop their agenda.
• After decades of fighting for progressive issues (and 11 straight hours of testimony in front of a Republican-led congressional committee), she’s proved nobody can stand up to Republicans better than she can.

• Hillary believes that raising middle-class incomes is the defining economic challenge of our time—and she has a plan to do just that.
• Suspected terrorists, domestic abusers, other violent criminals, and the severely mentally ill shouldn’t be able to purchase a gun.
• Because every 4-year-old in America should be able to go to a high-quality preschool in the next 10 years.
• We need to invest in infrastructure and rebuild or expand our roads, bridges, rail, broadband, public transit, and water and energy infrastructure.
• We need to protect Americans’ right to vote—not billionaires’ and corporations’ right to buy elections.

• Have you seen the Republican debates?

• Hillary will work to keep families together and defend President Obama’s executive actions that protect DREAMers.
• She has spent her life fighting for a fairer America.
• She’s been fighting for women and children her entire career—ever since she started working at the Children’s Defense Fund after law school.
• She believes we need a new and comprehensive commitment to equity and opportunity for communities of color.
• She’ll empower veterans and strengthen our economy and communities by connecting their unique skills to the jobs of the future.
• Prescription drugs still cost too much. Hillary has a plan to reduce the cost of prescription drugs.
• As senator, she championed the Paycheck Fairness Act and co-sponsored the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to help close the wage gap so women earn equal pay.
• Community college should be tuition-free for every American.
• It's time to close the Charleston loophole that lets otherwise prohibited individuals buy a gun if their background check is not complete in three days.
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• Hillary negotiated a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that ended the rain of rockets on Israel.
• Smart power is a smart strategy.
• We need a president who will crack down on companies that send profits overseas to avoid paying their fair share.
• She’ll defend Social Security and Medicare against Republican attacks.
• We need a president with a plan to protect the transgender community from violence.

• If Congress continues its refusal to act on comprehensive immigration reform, Hillary has a plan to act—and do everything possible under the law to protect families.

• She knows how to find common ground to get the job done—but also how to stand her ground.
• Hillary is prepared to tackle all challenges, including national security—because presidents don’t get to choose which issues come to their desks.
• She has a plan to reform mandatory minimum sentencing.
• We need a small-business president.
• Because every American citizen should be automatically registered to vote when they turn 18, unless they opt out. Hillary will get it done.
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• She’s a progressive—and she’s a progressive who gets things done.
• Immigration enforcement must be humane and targeted—and she’ll end family detention and close private detention centers.
• Hillary has a plan to reduce the risk of future financial crises.
• Because we should hold corporations and individuals on Wall Street accountable—and prosecute them when they break the law.

• She’s one tough mother.

  
• She fought for health care for 9/11 first responders as a U.S. senator—and she’s been a vocal advocate for a permanent renewal of the Zadroga Act.
• It’s time to end for-profit private prisons in America.
• The Affordable Care Act is working—but you could still use a lower co-pay and deductible.
• Hillary will defend and fight to restore collective bargaining rights for workers.
• She knows historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) serve an important public mission and will make a significant commitment to them.
• We need to end the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine.
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• Because it’s time to end conversion "therapy" for LGBT minors.
• Hillary will put a stop to Republicans’ systematic efforts to stop millions of people from voting.
• We need a president who will fight to restore the protections of the Voting Rights Act after they were gutted by the Supreme Court.
• Hillary helped negotiate the toughest sanctions Iran has ever faced.
• She’s earned the wrath of the gun lobby, Iran, pharmaceutical companies, and special interests—and that should tell you something about who she’s fighting for.
• She has a plan to invest in American manufacturing and revitalize communities that have lost manufacturing jobs.

• She knows what’s going on in Laos.

• She believes we should let families buy into the Affordable Care Act health care exchanges regardless of immigration status.
• Prison is not a substitute for treatment for drug addiction and mental health issues—Hillary knows that and will do something about it.
• We can create a new national standard of no fewer than 20 days of early in-person voting in every state.
• Because those at the top are doing just fine. It’s your family who needs a fighter in the White House.
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• Hillary has a plan to combat America’s deadly epidemic of drug and alcohol addiction.
• In the words of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: “I’ve never met anyone more prepared to be president.”
• She has a plan to make our financial system fairer and more accountable.
• High-quality K–12 education needs to be a priority for every child in America.
• As secretary of state, Hillary lobbied for the first-ever U.N. Human Rights Council resolution on LGBT human rights.
• She made LGBT rights a priority of U.S. foreign policy.

• In the words of the Advocate, Hillary has an “awesome LGBT agenda” to protect and expand LGBT rights.

• She’s not afraid to stand up to discriminatory attempts to roll back voting rights in places like Alabama.
• Hillary knows Muslim Americans are helping our communities succeed and are our first, last, and best line of defense against radical jihadism.
• Unlike the Republicans, Hillary will defend marriage equality nationwide.
• She will provide funding to make sure body cameras are available to every police department in America to increase accountability on both sides of the lens.
• Keith in New Hampshire
• She’ll expand on-campus child care and scholarships to help student parents balance going to school with raising a child.
• The NRA has never helped Hillary get elected.
• Her first major address as a presidential candidate was a call to end the “era of mass incarceration.”
• She’ll fight to end racial profiling in America.
• She’ll hold irresponsible gun dealers and manufacturers fully accountable if they endanger Americans—and that includes repealing the gun industry’s unique immunity protection.
• She worked to expand the Family Medical Leave Act, allowing families of those wounded in service to their country to take leave in order to care for their loved ones.
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• Family members who care for ailing parents and grandparents could use some tax relief.
• She has called out the Republicans’ offensive, inflammatory anti-Muslim rhetoric because she knows it’s against our values as Americans—and our national security.
• Because when a company does well, the employees who helped produce those profits deserve a share in them—not just CEOs.
• She believes we should use alternatives to incarceration for low-level, nonviolent marijuana users, and she will reschedule marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule II substance.
• She’s not afraid to to call out Republicans for blocking efforts to keep guns from suspected terrorists.
• She helped lead the charge to raise the minimum wage as a senator.
• Building international coalitions advances our values, interests, and makes the world safer. Hillary is the only candidate who’s actually done it.
• She worked across the aisle to expand health care access for members of the National Guard and reservists—making sure those who served and their families had access to health care when they returned home.

• We should put American families over the gun lobby—and Hillary is not afraid to stand up to the NRA.

• There are cities across the country that are already leading on climate change—so she’ll launch a Clean Energy Challenge that will form new partnerships with states, cities, and rural communities.
• She’ll “ban the box” so people who have a past conviction can get a fair shot at employment.
• When Hillary was secretary of state, the U.S. extended antiretroviral therapy—which helps HIV/AIDS patients live longer, healthier lives—to 78 countries.
• Businesses should be encouraged to train and hire apprentices.
• The nation’s leading advocates for gun violence prevention have said Hillary’s plan is the right strategy.
• Because women’s rights are human rights.
• Because even when people didn’t want her to go to China and stand up for human rights at the 1995 U.N. Conference on Women in Beijing, she did it anyway.
• Because a woman’s place is in the White House.
• Donald Trump. Enough said.
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I agree with you 100%, D_G. unfortunately, In America, the presidency don't handed to you in a silver platter. Grandma Clinton have to work a little harder to earn the presidency. Don't worry, Trump is no match for Hillary as many believed. Trump is a cake walk for Hillary. She should be glad she get Trump as her challenger in November.  She said Trump is a lose cannon that fire off from any direction.

Hillary is a failure.  How many years has she been in government and she has not accomplished a thing.  If she couldn't do it then what can she do in four years.  Even little old Bernie is gaining critical ground on her.  Trump will not win the Presidency because he is strong but because Hillary is weak.  

Trump is a buffoon. Hillary will clean his clock in November.

https://www.facebook.com/Media...s/10153536961401167/

In an competition between two individuals, indeed there will be losses for each individual. However, the total vote-count as the contest continues do show who in leading.

Ultimately, the convention is the final stage to confirm the winner who will then advance to the presidential elections in November, 2016.

Noted Cobra and it will be an interesting time, basically from June to the elections in November, 2016.

Bibi Haniffa posted:

Hillary is a failure.  How many years has she been in government and she has not accomplished a thing.  If she couldn't do it then what can she do in four years.  Even little old Bernie is gaining critical ground on her.  Trump will not win the Presidency because he is strong but because Hillary is weak.  

I have to agree. She is a total failure. Look at the middle east, it is still in a mess. She has done nothing, in fact she reminds me of the current AFC/PNC clowns.

To quote Bibi: 

"Trump will not win the Presidency because he is strong but because Hillary is weak."

Yugi - I met Hillary when she was First Lady.  She is a total fake.  She has been Senator of New York for several years and has done nothing for her people.  She is not even a New Yorker.  She bought a house in Chappaqua so she can claim residency to run for public office.  She is all about wheeling and dealing.  And nothing of substance.

Demerara_Guy posted:

Noted Cobra and it will be an interesting time, basically from June to the elections in November, 2016.

I can hardly wait. Are you as thrilled as I am? 

Mars posted:

Trump is a buffoon. Hillary will clean his clock in November.

https://www.facebook.com/Media...s/10153536961401167/

It will be a close race and probably the most exciting in US history.

Cobra posted:

Demerara_Guy posted:

Noted Cobra and it will be an interesting time, basically from June to the elections in November, 2016.

I can hardly wait. Are you as thrilled as I am? 

Interesting times ahead, Cobra.  

Bibi Haniffa posted:

Yugi - I met Hillary when she was First Lady.  She is a total fake.  She has been Senator of New York for several years and has done nothing for her people.  She is not even a New Yorker.  She bought a house in Chappaqua so she can claim residency to run for public office.  She is all about wheeling and dealing.  And nothing of substance.

Bibi

It is smart individuals like yourself who can immediately identify fakes.

Mainstream politicians have destroyed the American political system. Time for Trump to shake it up and he has really shaken it up.

There is no stopping the Trump Train.

When Donald Trump Lavished Praise on Hillary Clinton

Conor Friedersdorf, May 11, 2016, http://www.theatlantic.com/pol...lary-clinton/482415/

Nearly everyone is expecting that a presidential campaign pitting Donald Trump against Hillary Clinton would be unusually nasty. Already, Trump has made nasty comments about the presumptive Democratic nominee and her husband.

But he didn’t always feel that way.

Speaking on Fox News in 2012, Trump heaped extravagant praise on Hillary Clinton and her husband, and the context was the prospect of Hillary running in 2016:

Hillary Clinton Mocks Donald Trump Over Not Releasing Tax Returns

By PATRICK HEALY and ALAN RAPPEPORT, MAY 11, 2016, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05...ump-tax-returns.html

BLACKWOOD, N.J. — Hillary Clinton on Wednesday mocked Donald J. Trump as evasive and secretive after he suggested that he would not release his tax returns before the November election, which would be a break with 40 years of political precedent.

But Mr. Trump quickly hit back, saying that he still intended to release his tax returns as soon as a federal audit was completed — and that Mrs. Clinton was hitting him out of desperation.

Mrs. Clinton, at a rally here to open her campaign for the New Jersey primary on June 7, had just begun attacking Mr. Trump’s proposed tax cuts for wealthy Americans when a man in the audience called out, “What about his tax returns?”

Mrs. Clinton, who often ignores catcalls, smiled and said, “We’ll get to that.”

Moments later she urged the man and other voters to keep asking to see Mr. Trump’s tax filings and indicated that her campaign would make them an issue in the general election, saying, “We’ll get around to that, too.”

“Because when you’re running for president and you become the nominee, that’s kind of expected,” said Mrs. Clinton, who, with her husband, former President Bill Clinton, has released annual tax returns since 1977 and posted eight years of returns on her campaign website.

“So you’ve got to ask yourself, why doesn’t he want to release them?” Mrs. Clinton said with a slightly dark edge to her voice. “Yeah, well, we’re going to find out.”

The tax filings are a ripe target for the Clinton campaign given that Mr. Trump has been portraying her as the candidate with something to hide, attacking her for using a private email server as secretary of state and earning millions of dollars for paid speeches that have not been made public.

Clinton advisers have also been seeking fresh lines of attack on Mr. Trump’s character, given that he has begun criticizing Mrs. Clinton as an “enabler” of Mr. Clinton’s extramarital behavior. By seizing on the tax issue, rather than responding directly to Mr. Trump’s broadsides, the Clinton campaign could undermine Mr. Trump’s attempt to sit in judgment of the character and transparency of the Clintons.

Mr. Trump, who had said for months that he would release his returns for voters to scrutinize, opened himself up for criticism after he told The Associated Press, in an interview published on Wednesday, that he did not plan to release his returns before the general election.

“There’s nothing to learn from them,” Mr. Trump told The A.P., explaining that he did not think voters were particularly interested in the contents of his returns.

Mr. Trump, in a telephone interview later on Wednesday, said he was following legal advice by not releasing his tax returns until the “very unfair government audit” was complete.

“I will release them as soon as the audit is done. I hope that’s soon,” he said. “I’d like to do it before the election.”

Mr. Trump added that he thought Mrs. Clinton was attacking him because she was struggling to win over voters and beat Senator Bernie Sanders for the Democratic nomination.

Making tax returns public is not required of presidential candidates, but there is a long tradition of major party nominees doing so. Joseph J. Thorndike, who tracks presidential tax returns as the director of the Tax History Project at the nonpartisan Tax Analysts, said Mr. Trump would be the first major candidate since 1976 to not make any of his full returns public. President Gerald R. Ford released a summary of his tax returns that year.

Dr. Thorndike noted that President Richard M. Nixon released his tax returns while he was under audit, starting the tradition of presidential candidates making their returns public.

“I think 40 years of tradition carries real moral and ethical weight,” Dr. Thorndike said. “It is quite striking that a major candidate would decide not to release their tax information — especially someone with an admittedly complex tax situation.”

Among the most prominent people to call on Mr. Trump to release his returns this year has been Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, who did not want to release his tax returns but finally relented under pressure. One of the people who encouraged him to do so was Mr. Trump, who said that Mr. Romney should be proud of his wealth and not hold back his financial information.

At her New Jersey rally, Mrs. Clinton highlighted Mr. Trump’s tax returns to reinforce a broader point about his approach to taxation, portraying him as a billionaire businessman who was concerned only with his own interests and those of fellow wealthy Americans.

She said that his tax plan — which envisions a top tax rate of 25 percent, compared with the current maximum rate of 39.6 percent — would provide $3 trillion in tax relief to millionaires and billionaires over the next decade, a figure that her campaign attributed to an analyst at a left-leaning think tank. She also cited studies showing that the plan would add $34 trillion to the national debt over 20 years.

“Donald Trump’s tax plan was written by a billionaire for billionaires,” Mrs. Clinton said, adding that $3 trillion would be “enough money to make Social Security and Medicare solvent for the next 75 years.”

Mrs. Clinton was blunt about her own tax plans, noting that she would target the wealthy and rule out any tax increases on middle-class Americans.

“I do want to raise rich people’s taxes because they have benefited the most from the economy in the last 15 years,” she said to cheers from several hundred union workers, college students, professors and others gathered in a gym at Camden County College. “It’s time they paid their fair share for America’s prosperity and our success.”

Many folks don't care for Trump but may end up voting for him.  Hillary is a cunning lawyer whose sole intent is to be 1st Female US President and get all the perks that come with it.

Lennox posted:

Many folks don't care for Trump but may end up voting for him.  Hillary is a cunning lawyer whose sole intent is to be 1st Female US President and get all the perks that come with it.

That's really deep.

Trump will maul Hillary!!  

While Hillary Clinton occupies the White House after the November 2016 elections as President of the US_of_A, Trump being thumped will be living in his building not far from the White House dreaming of what it would be like to actually reside there.

How Hillary Clinton Will Fight Donald Trump’s Unpredictability

Zeke J Miller @ZekeJMiller, Philip Elliott / New York @Philip_Elliott, May 12, 2016, http://time.com/4328519/hillar...trump-unpredictable/

Donald Trump lurches in unexpected but effective ways. As a businessman, his unpredictability left rivals scratching their heads, and checking their wallets. After 11 months of mounting campaign-trail success in the face of more than $100 million in negative advertising, a hostile GOP Establishment and a skeptical media, those same tactics have Hillary Clinton’s supporters wondering what, exactly, can work against his kind of political insurgency.

Hillary Clinton speaks during a rally on May 11, 2016, in Blackwood, N.J.

Now some opponents in both parties have concluded that Trump represents a kind of political asymmetric threat: less equipped, unpredictable and remarkably resilient. And as others have learned in the worlds of business, technology and national security, it takes a different kind of strategy to defeat that kind of unpredictable disrupter.

“There is definitely an asymmetric political battle here,” says Tim Miller, Jeb Bush’s former communications director and an adviser to the #NeverTrump super PAC Our Principles Project. “He’s not playing by the same rules and it’s limiting.”

To be sure, Trump has provided Clinton with a bounty of potential attacks: his statements about Mexican immigrants, his comments about women and his routine shifts on policy will all be fodder in the months to come. But Trump’s opponents in the Republican primary were unable to make headway with similar material.

Florida Senator Marco Rubio made fun of the size of Trump’s hands, only to be criticized for being distasteful. Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson tried to ignore him, refusing to engage even when Trump compared him to a child molester. He’s now working for the Trump campaign. Texas Senator Ted Cruz held off criticizing Trump for months and ended up looking desperate when he started. Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, the lone Republican woman in the race, scored a direct hit on Trump’s remarks on women, but it didn’t help her in the polls. And former Florida governor Jeb Bush pitched himself as the policy-focused adult in the race only to be trounced.

Taken together, the GOP has provided Clinton a playbook of things not to do: don’t stoop to Trump’s level, don’t ignore him until it’s too late, don’t merely call him sexist, don’t trust in policy above personality.

“Trump seems like a boorish insult comic, but he is actually incredibly disciplined about driving a single specific contrast narrative: Cruz is dishonest, Jeb is weak, Rubio isn’t up to the job,” says Dan Pfeiffer, a former senior adviser and message maven to President Obama. “The Clinton campaign and larger Democratic infrastructure needs to settle on a similar narrative and hammer it as relentlessly.”

Hillary Clinton has so far resisted the urge to jump into the fray. When Trump charged that she “enabled” Bill Clinton’s infidelity, she let the line slide and instead pivoted to hammer him for refusing so far to release his tax records. “When you run for President, especially when you become the nominee, that is kind of expected. My husband and I have released 33 years of tax returns,” Clinton told a crowd in Blackwood, N.J. “We’ve got eight years on our website right now. So you have got to ask yourself: Why doesn’t he want to release them? Yeah, well, we’re going to find out.”

In traditional campaigns, communications teams develop message plans and calendars to systematically relate their agenda to voters — and to sync up with advertising buttressing the themes. But running against Trump there is no “jobs week.” Rather, every day threatens to be dominated by whatever new insult or attack the former reality-television star dreams up. “A constantly reacting campaign is a losing one,” one Clinton ally says. “If you’re responding knee jerk, you’re going to need knee-replacement surgery by November.”

Clinton’s advisers are keeping their heads down and continuing with a plan that pitches Clinton as the sober, qualified candidate with concrete — if wonkish — proposals to address specific problems. They know it’s not in Clinton DNA to out-Trump her fellow New Yorker, and that she will never be the draw that Trump is for his raucous rallies. Instead, they’re leaving most of the attack work to surrogates — numerous and dispensable — and urging Clinton herself to keep focused on what she’s good at: policy.

The overarching question this November will be whether voters want a political professional, or a newcomer whose ego matches the nation’s mood.

“Hillary is not good at the witty remark. She’s not good at the charming attack,” Miller says. “That’s not her strength. But she will be able to passionately attack him on issues her supporters care about. Her campaign is going to have to find ways to keep those issues in the news and not the others that Trump brings up.”

One strategy that Clinton may end up using a lot is letting Trump speak for himself. On Cinco de Mayo, the real estate mogul tweeted a photo of himself eating a taco salad, saying that he loves “Hispanics” (the holiday is actually of Mexican origin) and bragging about the grill at the Trump Tower. Clinton responded with a tweet that contrasted his taco salad with a statement he made just a day earlier: “They’re gonna be deported.” More than 6,000 people retweeted her.

It’s one of the lessons that people in business and the military learned long ago. If you want to defeat a disruptor, you have to become more like them.