Category Archives: 2016 presidential campaign
Campaign Families
Politicians love to drag their families into campaign ads. They also love to complain if anyone comments on the wife and kids. Ted Cruz did it last week.
This campaign ad showed the cute Cruz kids sarcastically reading about the Grinch who stole Hillary’s emails.
A candidate’s kids can be used against his/her enemies but not the other way around. It can be aggravating but the general rule is lay to off the kids.
The aggravation was too much for Ann Telnase so she blasted Cruz with this cartoon depicting him as an organ grinder with his daughters as monkeys. Cruz went ballistic. Ann’s editor, Fred Hyat, pulled the cartoon from the Washington Post’s website.
Enter Hillary, complaining that Donald Trump is sexist while announcing that she is launching husband Bill into the campaign to take him on.
By the way, a 1983 cartoon, portraying Jerry Falwells’s mother in a somewhat worse light than organ grinder monkey, became a Supreme Court precedent for press freedom.
We’re All Getting Schlonged
Last week Hillary accused The Donald of inspiring recruiting videos for terrorists. Strange she would go the video sponsored terrorism route again. Anyway, no such evidence was produced.
Schlonged
Later in the week Trump said Hillary was schlonged by Obama in the 2008 election.
Hillary was outraged.
Trump insisted schlonged is not a sexual insult. It merely means defeated. And Trump, being Trump, demanded an apology.
The BBC clears things up in this piece titled The Schlong and Short of it.
Trump Triad
The Donald may not know much about the nuclear triad but he’s created his own Trump triad for dealing with ISIS. He wants to ban immigration for Muslims, close the internet for ISIS, and take out terrorist families.
Trump Triad
For his part, fellow Republican front runner Ted Cruz channeled his inner Curtis LeMay and promised to carpet bomb ISIS until the sand glows in the dark.
Cruz has been playing nice to Trump, even after Trump called him a maniac. During the CNN Las Vegas debate Trump rewarded Cruz’s good behavior by saying he has a wonderful temperament.
Trumped Up Claim
Donald Trump says that on 9/11/2001 he saw on television “thousands and thousands” in Jersey City cheering the attack on the World Trade Center. Only problem is, no one can find the video. It’s a trumped up claim.
More Trumped up Claims
That reminded me of claims by Congressional Black Caucus members that frenzied tea partiers shouted the “n-word” at them as they crossed the street to vote for Obamacare in 2010. There was plenty of video of the event but no “n-word” was ever found. That didn’t stop the story from spreading.
Same goes for the “hands up, don’t shoot” narrative that sparked the riots in Ferguson and lives on to this day. It never happened.
Hillary Fixes Wall Street
Hillary didn’t appreciate Bernie Sanders’ comments about her millions and millions in contributions from Wall Street. Bernie thinks big shot investment bankers expect a return on their investment in Hillary.
Hillary took offense. She said Bernie had questioned her integrity. Who doesn’t?
Hillary immediately threw down the gender card, claiming most of her contributions come from women. Then she played the 9/11 card. She reminded us that she was a Senator from New York. And that New York had suffered an attack by Islamic, well, terrorists on 9/11. And that the attack happened near Wall Street. All that money was for Wall Street repairs.
