I appreciate the information on Mr. Khan but Donald Trump needs to avoid stepping on the own [hand].

That was a perfect set-up that he could not win. Once he started talking a bout Mrs. Khan Trump was doomed, even if, what he said about Mrs Khan was true. Have some sympathy sir!

Furthermore, he should know that Mrs. Khan will do and say exactly what her husband tells her to do and say. Trump made the very false assumption that Muslim women have a will apart from their husbands. She likely has the same hatreds as he does. But trying to make points by knocking her only drives Trump further on down the losers rat hole.

I hope they get him some help in restraining every impulse that comes to his mind.

We're in this campaign for President at a wholly different level now. DT can't afford to appeal only to his Repubican base. We'll cut him some slack. We want to hear the entire dialogue.

The enemy is not cutting DT any slack anymore. They want Hillary and they're playing for keeps. Trump has to stop giving them soundbites.

You know the war has been declared on DT. The news stories are showing clips of DT saying things that offended the slain captain's family. They don't present what DT said in reply. They do present what the crying wife said however. Trump will lose if he doesn't get back to the issues.

They're toying with him, baiting him and then reporting his blunders with extreme bias.

There is plenty of material without reacting to these distractions that pull at key sector, Independent's hearts.

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Or try this on for size:

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Donald Trump says the fall debate schedule is "unacceptable," raising the specter that he may try to skip them.

In a tweet on Friday night, Trump incorrectly said that Hillary Clinton and the Democrats are "trying to rig the debates."

In fact, the fall debate schedule was determined almost a year ago by the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates, a private group made up of both Republicans and Democrats.

His primary complaint is that two of the debates are scheduled on the same nights as NFL games.

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The commission, supposedly non-partisan, claims this has been in the planning for over a year and the Trump people knew the schedule. However, another interpretation has it that Hilliary is reusing a tactic she employed against Bernie Sanders. Have the debates held at a time when viewership should be low. Moreover, football games act primarily as a distraction to male viewers, the core of Trump's support.

Once again the issue is going to be argued back and forth, but one must ask: who is more trustworthy of belief?

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Most people understand that putting the debates opposite an NFL football game is poor planning. Who cares when it was done? It was done poorly. The people in charge, the non-partisans as they say, are able to fix this MISTAKE without any focus or major attention. DT should state his position and find a network that will work to solve the problem if the current network balks.

btw, Greta just published her tweet poll done during her show and 83% felt the debate on those night should be changed.

Cincinnatus widened the scope of this thread after a comment by me that war had been declared on DT in the press. Here's Patrick Caddell, in his usual fired up manner, laying into the press for their Sunday coverages of the two candidates. This is vintage Caddell!!! TM
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“This is what the media is willing to do, to try to elect her." .... "In the 45 years since I was a child, in top-level presidential campaigns, I have never seen the media on such a jihad, and so involved in hiding facts, and not following up. This is a crisis of democracy, what the press is now doing.”

He noted that Hillary Clinton made “big news” on Fox News Sunday when she claimed the FBI found her responses to questions about her secret email server to be honest and consistent, when in fact FBI Director James Comey said the opposite, when he declined to refer charges against her to prosecutors.

“That is language from another planet,” Caddell declared. “This woman, to make that assertion after all the proven lies, should be a big story, but it will not be.”

He also noted the contrast between how Donald Trump’s appearance on ABC News over the weekend was immediately followed by a round-table of commentators attacking him, but Fox News staged no such ambush of Clinton. Caddell furthermore dismissed Trump’s ABC News interviewer George Stephanopoulos as “a former Democratic operative, a Clinton contributor, and an absolute fraud as a as a newsperson.”

“It is unbelievable what he did. He interviewed Trump, and basically then had the Khan family – the Muslim mother and father of the soldier who was killed – and General Allen on to attack Trump after the interview. He showed them the interview and then let attack him, and then loaded a panel with people who are so negative,” Caddell complained.

He found the media far less willing to say anything about the “pall of corruption” hanging over the Democratic convention, or the Democrats’ reluctance to say a word about the issue, knowing how much it hurts Clinton.

“Not once, not once, was there a mention of the Clinton Foundation by Hillary, or Bill, or anybody, about what great work they do, because they dare not even raise it,” he observed. “Nobody said anything. The press, which have universally assaulted Trump, who got a big boost out of his speech – who won the speech by the way, of best speeches, beats her, and the press praises her, and they’re laying down, and this is ‘Reaganesque’ – this is about as Reaganesque as John Kerry in 2004, going up to the podium after all the admirals and generals surrounding him, and saying ‘I’m reporting for duty,’” he said. “I mean, that went over like a lead balloon.”

“My party never learns that you cannot just hoodwink the people,” said Caddell, a lifelong Democrat.

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not just the Democrats – remember what’s happening in Washington, the coalition against Trump, who stands almost alone, is also filled with these Bush-type Republicans, and establishment Republicans, who view him as a real threat to their ability to hold on to their party, and their own niche in this corrupt system,” he added.

Caddell charged that if the media had treated the DNC leaks as more than a two-day story, and done a bit more digging, they would have found “Bernie Sanders won Iowa, and they’re hiding the results.” He noted he was among the first, and most forceful, analysts to allege that the Iowa caucus results were rigged to make Hillary Clinton look like the winner by a hair, because even a razor-thin Sanders victory would have thrown the Democratic primary into chaos.

“You let yourself get raped like this,” Caddell said to Sanders. “Don’t tell me when you could fight back, and you don’t, that it’s okay.”

Looking ahead, he predicted that Trump would win over voters by continuing to attack media bias and a rigged political system. Caddell actually deployed some harsher language than Trump has to date, which is not an easy bar to clear.

“Reporters are like cockroaches,” he said. “I hate to say this to reporters, but anyway, you flip on a light in a New York apartment, and cockroaches run everywhere. That’s what happens when you start shining a light on the media for what they refuse to tell people. And the greatest crime is not that they’re saying you must vote against Donald Trump, that he’s evil. The greatest crime is that they are hiding facts from the American people, to fit their narrative. They are making themselves, as I’ve said before, the enemies of the American people.”

“The American people don’t think much of them now, and won’t think much of them,” he predicted. “But you cannot let them get away with this, the way people like Romney and others roll over and take a beating, because their consultants want to make sure they preserve their relationships in Washington with the political media.”

Caddell found encouraging signs that “the American people are clued in” about media corruption, citing research conducted by his colleague, Democratic pollster Doug Schoen, that the momentum of the 2016 race favors Trump, in part because of deep alienation against the existing political system, across the political spectrum.

“This election, right now, it’s hanging in the balance. Trump is the independent variable. If he can learn to hit big ground, and understand they’re going to go after him on everything, and discipline himself, he is the man to beat in this election,” Caddell declared, adding that Clinton “doesn’t have anywhere to go in this election, unless Trump blows himself up.”

other examples of media's war on DT at:
http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2016/08/0...g-so-dishonest/