Month: October 2015

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Donald Trump Practically Blames Bush For Destabilizing The Middle East

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at an event Saturday, Oct. 3, 2015, in Franklin, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski)

For once, a Republican is blaming George Bush for all the turmoil in the middle east, something I never thought I’ll say. In an interview on MSNBC’s Meet The Press, the current Republican leader for the White House placed the blame squarely on Bush’s shoulders when he said the middle east would be more stable had Bush left the dictators in charge!

Maybe this claim will cause the Trump downfall among his Republican faithful. Maybe that is what he wants.

“It’s not even a contest,” the GOP front-runner said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Trump said ISIS came out of the unrest after Hussein was deposed in Iraq, and four Americans were killed in Benghazi, Libya when Gadhafi was being ousted from power.

“You wouldn’t have had your Benghazi situation which is one thing which was just a terrible situation,” Trump said when asked if the Middle East would be more stable with the two in power. “But, of course, it would. Libya is not even– nobody even knows what’s going on over there. It’s not even a country anymore.”

Trump compared the “mess” in Iraq and Libya to the current attempts to oust Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad. “It’s going to be the same thing,” he said.

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Trump on Ending Mass Shootings -“That’s the way the world works” -Video

Donald Trump, the leading Republican candidate running for president in 2016 is running on the message that only he can “make America great again.” But when it comes to stopping mass shootings in this country,  Donald Trump is admitting that there is nothing a Trump presidency would do to cut down on this form of domestic terrorism.

“You’re going to have these things happen and it’s a horrible thing to behold, horrible,” Trump said in an interview Friday morning on Morning Joe. “It’s not politically correct to say, but you’re going to have difficulty and that will be for the next million years, there’s going to be difficulty, and people are going to slip through the cracks.”

Trump was responding to a question about what he would do to stop the mass shootings.

“What are you going to do?” Trump asked. “That’s the way the world works, and that’s the way the world always has worked.”

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Possible Social Media Posting From The Oregon Shooter – PIC

The posting is still being investigated by authorities. As of now, no word on its connection to the shooting in Oregon where a 20-year-old gunman opened fire at a community college, killing 10 people and wounding 7 others. The gunman was killed when he exchanged fire with authorities. The name of the victims and the shooter have not been released.

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President Obama is Frustrated With Yet Another Mass Shooting – Video

And rightly so. President Obama has given so many of these speeches that, according to his statement, Americans are sadly taking these shootings as “routine.” But this speech on the most recent shooting in Oregon seems somewhat different. You can sense the anger, the frustration in the president as he called out Congress on its refusal to do anything yet again as more Americans are killed.

“This has become routine. The reporting is routine, my response here at this podium has become routine,” the President said.

The president spoke to the American people, urging them to vote for leaders who will lead and get sensible gun laws enacted in this country.

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Another Day in America, Another Mass Shooting

This has sadly become a way of life, or should I say a way of death here in America. Today’s shooting happened in Oregon.

The gunman who opened up shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg Oregon apparently asked students to stand up and state their religion, according to one witness. Kortney Moore, 18, said she was in Snyder Hall when the shooter asked people to name their religion and then began firing.

According to the state attorney, 13 people were killed and another 20 injured. The gunman, a 20 year old, was also killed when he encountered the police.

The night before the attack, the shooter appears to have had a conversation with others online about his intentions, that source said.

“We arrived to find multiple patients in multiple classrooms. Law enforcement was on scene and had the shooter neutralized,” Douglas County Fire Marshal Ray Shoufler told CNN.

He said that two patients died while being transported to a hospital.

The shooting appears to have started in one building before the gunman moved to the school’s science building, the source told CNN. Those killed and wounded were found in at least two classrooms.

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Bernie Sanders Capitalizing on Small Donor Support – Hillary Needs Big Donors

In this photo taken May 20, 2015, Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., poses for a portrait before an interview with The Associated Press in Washington. For Democrats who had hoped to lure Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren into a presidential campaign, independent Sen. Bernie Sanders might be the next best thing. Sanders, who is opening his official presidential campaign Tuesday in Burlington, Vermont, aims to ignite a grassroots fire among left-leaning Democrats wary of Hillary Rodham Clinton. He is laying out an agenda in step with the party's progressive wing and compatible with Warren's platform _ reining in Wall Street banks, tackling college debt and creating a government-financed infrastructure jobs program. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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This is definitely good news for the Bernie camp. They must be happy with this news.

According to a new report, Bernie Sanders has raised just about the same amount of money mostly from small donors, as Hillary Clinton has, and the bulk of her donor-base is coming from a few large donors and Superpacs.

The Vermont senator’s campaign says he has raised about $26 million for his presidential campaign in the past three months. Coming mostly from small donations given online, the sum underscores the draw of his insurgent campaign among the grassroots of the Democratic Party.

Clinton’s campaign, in its own announcement Wednesday, said she had taken in $28 million. Most of it came from fundraisers hosted by big donors across the country. Many took place in the traditionally Democratic treasure chests of Manhattan and Hollywood. She raised at least $19 million from about 60 events where admission typically cost $2,700, the biggest donation allowed by law.

The Sanders campaign has held just seven traditional fundraisers since launching at the end of April, said Sanders campaign spokesman Michael Briggs, compared to a total of more than 110 for Clinton over the same period.

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