The DNC and Khizr Khan

The DNC just finished up on Thursday, and a lot happened. Before I start, though, I just want to say that this event was much more civilized than the Republican Convention. of course there were the protests at the start of the convention, but minor protests should occur. That was the original point of the conventions. Even though there was some chaos at the very start of the convention, though, it went very smoothly. By the end, the media had completely forgotten about that first morning. Obama's speech put Hillary Clinton on a pedestal above all, as did Biden's, Chelsea's,  Bill's, and all of the other speeches. One speech that stood out, and with every reason, was one made by an ordinary Golden Star father and mother. Khizr Khan's speech blasted a metaphorical bomb in front of Trump. I personally admire this speech, as he said what needed to be said against Trump better than any of the other politicians. And now that he has gotten his chance from the media, Khizr Khan is not going to stop anytime soon. His words have even frightened Donald Trump and put him into defense mode. But now, as always, Trump's spontaneous remarks have made him look even worse in the eyes of the public, and he is now in even more trouble. He criticized Ghazala Khan's silence by saying "His wife uh, if you look at his wife, she was standing there, she had nothing to say. She probably, maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say." At this point, Trump is in no place whatsoever to mention women's rights. Trump is also defending against all of the "sacrifices" he has made in life. His hypocrisy is, as always, getting him more bad attention from the media. Still though, he has supporters. And I mainly created this blog to put the real facts in front of those people. So, usual routine this time? Partially. Citizen makes remark against Trump, Trump feebly defends himself, he makes a hypocritical move, media notes that, Trump gets too much more attention, and it all blows over. I don't think its all going to blow over this time, though. The family is putting in a lot of work to make sure that Donald Trump will not become president. As a Muslim gold star family, they have every right and reason to be worried about Trump. They are proving that not all worshippers of Islam are evil and that every race, religion, and country has both good and bad people. Trump is ignoring the fact that there is certainly a part of the population that is afraid of him (I know I am). He does not realize that there are other people are not supporting him and he is making no attempt to acknowledge their reasoning for doing so. At least Hillary Clinton stated that she "has work to do" in building the trust of the citizens. And at least she is even the slightest bit reasonable. 



Sources: 

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/07/31/khizr-khans-speech-ghazala-khans-comments-and-donald-trumps-replies/

http://www.cnn.com

The RNC (Trump Edition)

       I don't know quite what I saw happen over the last week. This was really a mess. I've never seen a less effective campaign attempt, and there is no surprise that it came from the republican side. In case you haven't picked up, I am a COMPLETE democrat. And not surprisingly, I hate Donald Trump. A while ago, my friend, John, stated, after reading my first blog post, that Donald Trump was definitely going to be the next president, and that the entire Democratic Party was completely divided. While I feel like this occurs during any election within any party, this especially happened in the Republican Party. This week. On Monday there was the Melania-Obama plagiarism thing. Which made everyone mad. On Tuesday there was Chris Christie, the *official* nomination, and "LOCK HER UP!!!". On Wednesday there was Ted Cruz and the weight of the entire convention came down to Ivanka and Donald last night. Cruz, though, represented a very central issue of this division. Not all republicans want to vote for Donald Trump: a lot hate him. I've met more people who say "I am a republican but I can't bring myself to vote for a man as horrible as Donald Trump" than people who are voting for him. Earlier, I was just mocking Trump's hour-long speech with my republican friend. This is why our founding fathers warned us so strongly against parties. They are being used to divide the American people rather than unite them. Still though, everything is a mess. Now a lady is being kicked out of the crowd for simply expressing her opinion and a man nearly kicked off of the stage because of his views. Isn't this absolutely defeating the purpose of the constitution, and the country? Of course, I fully support advancing the constitution with the times but there are some things that no amount of development should be able to take away from us. This is why I hate Trump. Sure he's a sketchy businessman, a jerk who hates minorities, and in no way qualified to be president. But he is also trying to run for a position in which he will literally be able to destroy the world. And he knows that he isn't qualified. So why is he running? Money. Attention. Admiration.




Sources: 
http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/07/20/republican-national-convention-recap-in-90-seconds.cnn

Donald Trump vs. Bernie Clinton

It's been almost two months since my last blog post. Posts will definitely become more frequent now that finals are over and I'm on summer break. That aside, there has definitely been a great amount of political news over the past few weeks. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are the presumptive nominees for their parties and the competition is mostly between them. What gets me, though, is that Bernie Sanders is still in the race, which is unreasonable at this time considering that it is now 100% impossible for Sanders to win the nomination. He needs 919 more delegates, if Clinton gains absolutely no delegates from now forward. In total, there are 84 delegates left. Of course there are also super delegates but even those will not propel Sanders far enough forward as to clinch the democratic nomination. So it's definitely time for Sanders to drop out of the election, while he is consistently insisting that he "is in until the end." However, Sanders' reasoning is quickly becoming clear. He recently agreed to a "truce" with Hillary Clinton. Sanders isn't in it for the presidency now, he is in it for the defeat of Donald Trump. Trump reached the needed delegate total before Clinton, and he was able to focus all of his energy to fighting just her for quite a long period of time. However, Clinton still had Sanders to worry about. But more recently, Sanders has made his speeches about how horrible Trump is more than anything else. This means that Trump now not only has to battle Clinton on the political battlefield, but also defend against the consistent feed of attacks from the entire democratic party (specifically both of the democratic candidates). Another theory that has been brought up was that Sanders is attempting to stay in the race in the case that Clinton has any negative findings (from the FBI... or anything else). This is also very possible. I'm hoping that Sanders will be dropping out of the election soon, because he is simply wasting money by staying in it. However, it is also important for him to stay in, as being a presidential candidate is the easiest and most effective way to get widespread media coverage (which is definitely not a concern for Trump).


*Note: All delegate counts were at the time of writing.


Sources:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/democratic_delegate_count.html

https://news.vice.com/article/bernie-sanders-and-hillary-clinton-talk-truce-after-she-wins-final-primary