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Sowell: Words Versus Deeds
Creators Syndicate ^ | October 11, 2016 | Thomas Sowell

Posted on 10/10/2016 1:45:24 PM PDT by jazusamo

Donald Trump's gutter talk about women shows yet again that he is bad news. The problem is that Hillary Clinton is far worse.

Trump's talk is indefensible. But Hillary Clinton's actions as Secretary of State, carrying out the Obama administration's foreign policies, have cost many lives in many places, including the American ambassador and others killed in Benghazi.

Women have a right to be offended by Trump's words. But women have suffered a far worse fate from Secretary Clinton's and President Obama's actions. Pulling American troops out of Iraq, despite military advice to the contrary, led to the sudden rise of ISIS and their seizing of many women and young girls as sex slaves.

A message from one of these women urged the bombing of ISIS. She said she would rather be dead than live the life of a sex slave. Some women who tried to commit suicide and failed have been tortured for trying.

Meanwhile, President Obama tried to downplay ISIS with flippant words, by calling them the junior varsity. His half-hearted, foot-dragging military response has allowed ISIS to parade before the world as triumphant conquerors, appealing to disgruntled people in Western countries to carry out terrorist attacks in support of their cause.

That is a lot worse than some stupid and gross words by Donald Trump, which even he has had to repudiate. Make no mistake about it. Neither party has a good candidate for President. The choice is between bad and disastrous.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; clinton; sowell; thomassowell; trump
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To: xzins

I agree, my friend.


21 posted on 10/10/2016 2:31:41 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: xzins

And there’s a difference between forgivable and excusable. Sex became a mess with the foray of mankind into “the knowledge of good and evil” (but of course that knowledge couldn’t ever be anything but a tragicomic caricature of what God knew).

Some folks have spent most of their lives trying to figure out sex before it has finally dawned on them to put it in subjection to the will of God.


22 posted on 10/10/2016 2:32:49 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Dick Bachert

Well said, a very good assessment!


23 posted on 10/10/2016 2:37:50 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: jazusamo

Thank you!


24 posted on 10/10/2016 2:39:46 PM PDT by Dick Bachert ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Tunics of animal skins, NOT loin cloths:

Genesis 3:21
Also for Adam and his wife the Lord God made tunics of skin, and clothed them.


25 posted on 10/10/2016 2:53:02 PM PDT by unlearner (RIP America, 7/4/1776 - 6/26/2015, "Only God can judge us now." - Claus Von Stauffenberg / Valkyrie)
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To: Just mythoughts

“if only teddy Cruze and his 500,000 grand iCarly had this Bush tape during the primaries...”

...then what?

Trump would still have won, because as Sowell half-assedly points out, crude language is relatively harmless and the American people, the normal ones, get that.

If this is all it takes to disqualify someone from being President, who among us would qualify? Certainly not Hillary Clinton! That I can tell you.


26 posted on 10/10/2016 2:56:51 PM PDT by enumerated
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To: jazusamo

This just makes too much sense, common sense for libs and undecideds to understand. If it can’t be summed up in a headline. or tweet it may as well being Chinese for some of these people.


27 posted on 10/10/2016 3:17:37 PM PDT by NotchJohnson
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To: jazusamo

“Trump’s talk is indefensible.”

He said Nothing worse than Millions and Millions of Girls say to each other every single day.

“Women have a right to be offended by Trump’s words.”

Who gives a damn about their precious feelings, I don’t!

I like Mr Sowell, and he is right on the big picture, but this idea that we should be worried about offending the precious feelings about a large segment of FEMALES in Society who believe it is perfectly ok to KILL AN UNBORN CHILD IN THE WOMB is just plain Stupid.

THEY HAVE NO REAL FEELINGS if they Believe in ABORTION!!!


28 posted on 10/10/2016 3:22:00 PM PDT by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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To: eyeamok

You’re absolutely right, your points are ones that holier than thou people don’t want to admit to even when those points fit them perfectly.


29 posted on 10/10/2016 3:27:37 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: xzins

Too true. I’ve done a lot worse than deal with men who have an appreciation for the fairer (more or less) of the species.


30 posted on 10/11/2016 2:07:03 AM PDT by Titan Magroyne (What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.)
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To: Dick Bachert

Aptly worded. Thank you.

I’m especially galled by that woman’s appeal to the female vote. How any woman & certainly any mother, left defenseless & exposed to all from the common criminal to ISIS, is to feel safe under the dubious security of a Hillary presidency... ?

Up yours Hillary, I’ll defend myself right next to my fella, thanks. With my own dadburn guns.

That’s right. Plural, you self-indulgent Secret Serviced P.O.S.


31 posted on 10/11/2016 2:12:34 AM PDT by Titan Magroyne (What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.)
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To: jazusamo

BUMP


32 posted on 10/11/2016 3:19:57 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Dick Bachert
One thing that has not been given much attention is why Trump wants to take this on.

Trump has a history of taking on government failures and turning them around. There was an ice rink, a large park, and other projects that were poor done, over budget, past deadlines, etc. He turned those projects into successes with less funds in less time.

It's an ego thing, he enjoys the challenge of righting the wrongs, fixing the unfixable. It's a Superman complex.

And this country desperately needs him at this moment in our history.

33 posted on 10/11/2016 7:59:54 AM PDT by oldbrowser (Clinton Foundation donations must be turned over to the U.S. like any other gifts.)
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To: jazusamo

So many women in the news, dress and act like whores. Push up bras or no bra at all, tight skin pants and shirts, no under wear or just an inch, fake big lips and too much lipstick and massive makeup to do what? Why? Homosexuals dance in the street half naked, naked some of them, with erect penis’s in the daytime on the weekend while children watch. Hollywood has raunchy talk, homosexuals in every sitcom, women dressed to entice, why?

If you complain or comment on the immorality of it all or take any kind of offense you are told you are a homophobe, a bigot, a misogynist. So a man does what men and some women do in a private conversation and he needs to be stripped of his primary win, marginalized, loose his business’ and get sued? All this for commenting, taking part in what this society has become.

Remember, the Clintons began all this diving into the moral abyss, since Arkansas, no shame about it at all, After all the Clintons did to Americans in the White House and they have the gall, the nerve to run for it again? These two and those who know about them and vote for them are truly what the Bible says about people with “seared conscience”. These people play for keeps, they never quit, don’t get in their way.


34 posted on 10/11/2016 8:25:44 AM PDT by thirst4truth (America, What difference does it make?)
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