Category: US Presidential Election 2016
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
The Success of Trump’s Campaign Shouldn’t Come as a Surprise / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016
By: Rodney_Johnson
Years ago, I gave a speech in Texas for Rick Goodwin, a financial advisor. It was an election year, so he kicked off the meeting by discussing politics. He noted that the word comes from Greek, with “poli” meaning “many,” and “tics” meaning “blood-sucking bugs that are hard to get rid of.” Robin Williams used the same joke.I can’t speak for others, but this is why I believe Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee, even though he repels so many people. He points out what we all know – politicians regularly avoid hard questions, outright lie, and fail to follow through on much of what they promise.
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Monday, May 16, 2016
Donald Trump, the King of Debt Seeks US Presidency / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016
By: Peter_Schiff
During a lengthy interview on CNBC the week before last, Donald Trump, fresh from becoming the presumptive Republican nominee, came as close as any major presidential contender ever has to saying that America is not capable of repaying her debts in full, and that our path to economic recovery might involve some pain for our creditors. This moment of candor earned Trump almost as much condemnation as his earlier suggestions to ban Muslims from entering the United States.
Sunday, May 15, 2016
‘Print the Money’: Trump’s ‘Reckless’ Proposal Echoes Franklin and Lincoln / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016
By: Ellen_Brown
“Reckless,” “alarming,” “disastrous,” “swashbuckling,” “playing with fire,” “crazy talk,” “lost in a forest of nonsense”: these are a few of the labels applied by media commentators to Donald Trump’s latest proposal for dealing with the federal debt. On Monday, May 9th, the presumptive Republican presidential candidate said on CNN, “You print the money.”
The remark was in response to a firestorm created the previous week, when Trump was asked if the US should pay its debt in full or possibly negotiate partial repayment. He replied, “I would borrow, knowing that if the economy crashed, you could make a deal.” Commentators took this to mean a default. On May 9, Trump countered that he was misquoted:
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Saturday, May 14, 2016
The Trump Factor - The Art of the Double-Dealing Megalomaniac / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016
By: Walter_Brasch
Savannah State University in Georgia will offer a three-credit course this summer, “The Trump Factor in American Politics.” The professor is Dr. Robert Smith, who says the students will read Trump’s policy statements and excerpts from Trump’s books, and then discuss his political philosophies.
Many people may believe this is a terrible waste of any student’s mind and tuition payments. Some may even claim there are other courses that have higher value in the American educational system. For example, Rutgers offers “Politicizing Beyonce,” Skidmore College offers “The Sociology of Miley Cyrus,” the University of Missouri offers a class to better understand Kanye West and Jay Z, and hundreds of colleges have courses that look at the lives and views of strange people known as philosophers.
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Fear of America First by GOP Establishment / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016
By: BATR
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only”, is just as true today about the true conservative movement as it was back in Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, era.
Monday, May 09, 2016
What Happened to the Bernie Revolution? / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
In a recent interview I was asked why Bernie Sanders, a self-described "democratic socialist" had seemingly attracted so much support among young people. In fact polls suggest Sanders is the most popular candidate among people aged 18-29, and 51 percent of that same age group appears fed up with "capitalism in its current form," according to a recent Harvard study.
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Thursday, May 05, 2016
Donald Trump, King of Debt Seeks US Presidency / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016
By: Peter_Schiff
On a lengthy interview on CNBC this morning, Donald Trump, the now presumptive Republican nominee, looked back on his business history to lay the groundwork to what he would do as President. He came as close as any major presidential contender to saying that America's formula for economic recovery might involve repaying our creditors less than what we owe. This is a major development that should be rewriting the playbook on Wall Street and call into question the risk-free nature of U.S. Treasuries.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, May 05, 2016
US 2016 Election Is a Global Risk / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016
By: Dan_Steinbock
As America is struggling amid a historical protest election, the political risk could undermine US economic rebound and the lingering global economic recovery. Europe will be least immune to spillovers, says Dan Steinbock.Currently, the leading Democratic presidential candidates, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, are approaching the final showdown. Concurrently, the Republican establishment – including Senate’s majority leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan– is struggling to undermine the real estate mogul Donald Trump’s campaign by promoting Senator Ted Cruz, Governor Kasich and less-known ‘dark horses.’
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Thursday, May 05, 2016
Donald Trump - Make America Great Again / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016
By: Peter_Schiff
Donald Trump's critics have heaped scorn on his calls for protective tariffs to deal with America's widening trade imbalance and the resulting loss of higher-paying blue color jobs. Some have accused him of trying to turn back the clock in pursuit of a cheap populist ploy and have said that he simply refuses to acknowledge that America is now an information and service economy for which large trade deficits are the new normal. But voters are sensing that The Donald is right to sound alarm bells, and that something radical needs to be done to revive manufacturing to make America great again. But his tariff solution is hardly the best medicine. To be honest, given the even worse solutions that are being offered by the left, Trump's instincts may be preferable.
Saturday, April 30, 2016
Lucifer! Former Speaker Boehner Blasts Cruz / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016
By: Stephen_Lendman
John Boehner minced no words, calling Cruz “Lucifer in the flesh,” adding “I have never worked with a more miserable son-of-a-***** in my life.”
Trump sounds almost mild, calling him “lying Ted…a hypocrite…a nasty guy. Nobody likes him. Nobody in Congress likes him. Nobody likes him anywhere once they get to know him.”
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Thursday, April 28, 2016
Cruz-Fiorina Alliance Shows Desperation / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016
By: Stephen_Lendman
A days earlier announced Cruz-Kasich alliance to stay out of each other’s way in upcoming primaries as a way of challenging Trump faltered straightaway - Kasich urging supporters to stick with him.
Trump called their gambit “pathetic,” a desperation move. In response to Cruz naming Carly Fiorina his running mate, he posted an earlier TV clip on his Twitter page of her calling Cruz a politician who “says whatever he needs to say to get elected.”
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Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Facebook Censors Pro Trump and Negative Hillary News / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016
By: BATR
The establishment protector of “PC” purity strikes again. By definition, Free Speech IS political. For reasons that only a hard core Hillary sycophant could understand, the mere posting or sharing of online reports on the 2016 Election Race is now blocked. Such a Facebook policy to disrupt political content goes to the heart of the Corporatocracy assault on open and uncensored political discourse. Little Mark Zuckerberg operates as the front and gatekeeper for the power elites who seek to manage, filter and remove information that does not fit into their plan for globalism.
Thursday, April 21, 2016
“Bernie’s gone” and the “new” Trump towers after NY Primary / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016
By: Michael_T_Bucci
“Bernie’s gone. You know that? Bernie’s gone,” Trump said on April 20 at a rally in Indianapolis, Indiana, the day after Hillary Clinton routed Sanders in the New York primary. “I love running against crooked Hillary,” he said. “Bernie wouldn’t be as much fun.”
Every election year promises full employment in industry sectors that serve the public with almost daily opinion polls that tell you what one- to two-thousand people (a sampling) think about every candidate and issue; and, in case you can’t think for yourself, a generous assortment of pundits (usually biased) who will connect the dots and tell you what “most Americans think”.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Who is Voting for Trump and Why / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016
By: Mike_Whitney
30 years of wage stagnation followed by one wealth-eviscerating asset bubble after another has drained the optimism from the collective American psyche. Most people now think things are going to get worse for themselves and their children. This pervasive pessimism shows up in other surveys as well, like this recent Gallup poll in which the sample-group was asked, “In general, are you satisfied or dissatisfied with the way things are going in the United States at this time?”
Monday, April 18, 2016
Trump Is No Peace Candidate / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016
By: Stephen_Lendman
Throughout its sordid history, all US presidents supported war, not peace - including Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and both Roosevelts.
Traditional US policy from inception refutes the notion of a peace candidate becoming president - Jack Kennedy the one exception.
He entered office a warrior, transformed himself into a peacemaker, was killed for wanting all US forces out of Vietnam by end of 1963, normalized ties with Soviet Russia, nuclear disarmament, and the CIA disbanded, among other anti-establishment views.
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Tuesday, April 12, 2016
America’s Money Controlled Political Process / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016
By: Stephen_Lendman
From inception, America was never beautiful or democratic. Rich and powerful interests run things exclusively for their own benefit, ordinary people entirely shut out.
Secrecy and backroom deals substitute for a free, fair and open process. Candidates are pre-selected. Big money owns them. Rare exceptions prove the rule.
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Sunday, April 10, 2016
Deportations to Begin - Headlines from Trump's America 2017 / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016
By: Michael_T_Bucci
These are headlines from the Boston Globe, April 9, 2017:
“DEPORTATIONS TO BEGIN — President Trump calls for tripling of ICE force; riots continue.”
The $400 billion deportation program promises to be one of the most disruptive government actions attempted since desegregation. Economists estimated ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] would need more than 900,000 agents to complete the deportations in the next two years.
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Saturday, April 09, 2016
Trump's Path to 1,237 Is NOT Mission Impossible! / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016
By: Mike_Shedlock
Yesterday I wrote Mish Projection: Trump Wins Nomination with 1,246 Delegates (9 More than Needed) .
I almost held off for a day posting that. Typically, when I do that, I regret it. Someone else beats you to the idea (or appears to), even though you had the idea first.
Today, Nate Cohn at the New York Times writes Donald Trump's Path to 1,237 Is Not Mission Impossible .
I predicted a winner, Cohn didn't. However, our reasoning, and even the states we mentioned were nearly identical.
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Friday, April 08, 2016
Hank Paulson "I don't think we'll see a President Trump" / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016
By: Bloomberg
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson joined "Bloomberg <GO>" this morning to discuss the Chinese economy, corporate taxes, and the 2016 Presidential race.
On China, Paulson said it is "an economy in transition and it's got some very serious challenges, short term, intermediate, and long." He added: "the solution to all of them, rebuilding confidence and dealing with the debt and new drivers of growth are speeding up the reforms, and the reforms that they need to put in place to really scale back the state owned enterprises, these oligopolies, put them on a level playing field and let the private sector do what they need to do. And it's a matter of political will."
Tuesday, April 05, 2016
America's Future Demands a Third Party / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016
By: BATR
At this point in the long and revolting primary fiasco, the two party monopoly plays out their orchestrated selection charade for all to see. The most amazing and pathetic attitude among a politically frustrated electorate is why another one can or will provide their consent with the final outcome. The fundamental failure in the American political system is based upon a phony two party opposition. Friends and foes alike, the first lesson in understanding our politically imposed despotism is that elections never allow for real choice. The careerist political class always prevents honest reformers from gaining real power.