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1.       Trump  IOWA REP. TRUMP V CRUZ – RUBIO DEMS. SANDERS V CLINTON

-          Katrina Pierson (National Spokesperson) 15yrs ago Ted was Canadian Citizen. (1A)

-          Rush On Trump (1B)

-          TRUMP WILL NOT DO Thursday DEBATE.

a.       Fox’s role via its founder Rupert Murdoch in pus

hing an open borders agenda. The Trump campaign is a direct threat to Murdoch’s efforts to open America’s borders. Well-concealed from virtually all reporting on Fox’s treatment of Trump is the fact that Murdoch is the co-chair of what is arguably one of the most powerful immigration lobbying firms in country, the Partnership for a New American Economy (PNAE). JULIA HAHN Breitbart.

b.      Megan Kelly and Moore (1C)  then Bill Oreilly begs Trump (1D)

c.       Fox News and Google have invited three YouTube personalities to ask questions at the Jan. 28 GOP debate — including a Muslim advocate who describes Donald Trump as a bigot and who visually portrayed him as being in agreement with national socialist Adolf Hitler.

d.      Anchor Baby Dulce Candy, the invited Latino questioner, said she was brought from central Mexico to the United States while a young girl. She later joined the U.S. military and served in Iraq. 

e.      Pride Goeth Before the Fall: Ailes Calls Trump’s Wife and Daughter

f.        Scarborough: ‘I’d Rather Set Myself on Fire’ Than Participate in Debate With Megyn Kelly

g.       Poll: More than 83 Percent Won’t Watch Fox News Debate Sans Donald… However it turned out to be the second highest rating for Fox prior to the debate on Fox Business.

-          Iowa – GOP Chairman Kaufmann, who wasn’t officially endorsing Trump for president but is appearing with him on stage and introducing him, said that if Iowans select Trump on Feb. 1, the party is fully committed to electing him president of the United States.

-          Laura Ingram went off on National Review for trying to excommunicate Trump A return to traditional GOP law and order practices when it comes to illegal immigration.

a.       A return to a more traditional GOP foreign policy that would put the national interest ahead of globalism.

b.      A return to a more traditional GOP trade policy that would analyze trade deals from the perspective of the country as a whole and not blindly support any deal — even one negotiated by President Obama.

-          Shock Poll: Ted Cruz Plummets with White Evangelicals ; Trails Donald Trump by 17 Points

-          JOHN NOLTE Breitbart National Review Goes Full-Snob: Attacks Donald Trump Voters as Ignorant Bigots

a.        After the massive belly-flop that was the poorly thought out, very-poorly executed and way-late “Against Trump” diatribe last week, “National Review” is apparently still so bitter that on Monday morning another fatal decision was made — to attack everyday Americans as stupid homophobes.

-          Glenn Beck – Tells Iowa small crowd he’d prefer Sanders of Trump

a.       CEO resigns from the Blaze as it burns down.

b.      Flashback John McCain worst for the country than Obama.

-          Conservative?

a.       ’99 pro-choice – ’15 Pro Life with reservations on rape and incest

b.      Immigration – Trump wants a wall, shutting down remittances garnered from illegal wages, and foreign aid cuts. He wants strong deportation policies and an end to birthright citizenship. Said we should take some refugees but then stopped after seeing what Europe is going through and that this maybe a Trojan horse.

c.       Same-Sex Marriage. Trump says he’s anti-same sex marriage

d.      Entitlements. Unlike virtually all the other Republican candidates, Trump has said he wouldn’t touch entitlements.

e.      Religious Freedom. Trump pledges to uphold religious freedom

f.        Campaign Finance Reform. Trump is for it, and he routinely attacks super PACs

g.       Government Involvement In The Economy.  Trump himself supported Obama’s 2009 stimulus, TARP, and the 2008 auto bailout. He said in 2009, “I think [Obama’s] doing very well. You do need stimulus and you do have to keep the banks alive.” He’s admitted over and over to paying elected officials to grease the skids on his deals – although, in fairness, he says that’s just how you have to work to get business done.

h.      Education. Trump opposes Common Core

i.        Healthcare.  In September he told Hannity:  As far as single-payer and all — there’s so many different things you could have. Honestly, Sean, to do, to have great health insurance. The one thing I do tell people, we’re going to have something great. We’re going to repeal and replace Obamacare, which is a total disaster.

j.        Tax Plan. Trump’s tax plan is certainly conservative. He proposes lowering the top tax bracket to 25 percent, drops the capital gains tax to 20 percent, dumps the death tax, and drops the corporate rate to 15 percent

k.       Trade. Trump is for international tariffs, including an extraordinarily heavy tariff on Chinese goods

l.         Guns. Trump has become progressively more pro-Second Amendment over time. His website states: “The Second Amendment to our Constitution is clear. The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed upon. Period.”

2.       Bernie Sanders – Hillary

-          Bernie Sanders Attacks 1%ers and Billionaire

a.       However Sanders’ panel of experts was stacked with economists tied to Soros. One prominent member advocates a “new economic order” no longer dominated by the U.S., while another is the leading proponent of the “shock therapy” economic doctrine of radical economic transformation deployed at times to detriment in Eastern Europe.

-          Vanity Fair did a puff piece on Hillary “She Can Not Be Stopped”

-          NYT throws in for Hillary

-          Young kid says to Hillary we think you’re dishonest (2A)

a.       Chris Matthews talks about Bernie and the kids calling Hill dishonest pos (2B)

-          Clintons weren’t so bad??

a.       Bill  was president he allowed Hillary to assume authority over health care reform she count even get a vote in the democrat controlled congress cost $13million

b.      Bill gave Hillary authority over selecting a female attorney general. Both forced to withdraw then she chose janet reno which bill described as “my worst mistake”

c.       Bill allowed Hillary to make recommendations for the head of the Civil Rights Commission.  Lani Guanier was her selection.  When a little probing led to the discovery of Ms. Guanier’s radical views, her name had to be withdrawn from consideration

d.      Bill allowed Hillary to make some more recommendations.  She chose former law partners Web Hubbel for the Justice Department, Vince Foster for the White House staff, and William Kennedy for the Treasury Department.  Her selections went well: Hubbel went to prison, Foster (presumably) committed suicide, and Kennedy was forced to resign.

e.      Travelgate.” Hillary wanted to award unfettered travel contracts to Clinton friend Harry Thompson – and the White House Travel Office refused to comply.  She managed to have them reported to the FBI and fired.  This ruined their reputations, cost them their jobs, and caused a thirty-six month investigation

f.        FileGate: Hillary was allowed to recommend a close Clinton friend, Craig Livingstone, for the position of Director of White House security.  When Livingstone was investigated for the improper access of about 900 FBI files of Clinton enemies and the widespread use of drugs by White House staff, suddenly Hillary and the president denied even knowing Livingstone, and of course, denied knowledge of drug use in the White House.

g.       “bimbo eruption” and scandal defense.  Some of her more notable decisions in the debacle were: She urged her husband not to settle the Paula Jones lawsuit.  After the Starr investigation they settled with Ms. Jones. She refused to release the Whitewater documents, which led to the appointment of Ken Starr as Special Prosecutor.  After $80 million dollars of taxpayer money was spent, Starr's investigation led to Monica Lewinsky, which led to Bill lying about and later admitting his affairs. Hillary’s devious game plan resulted in Bill losing his license to practice law for 'lying under oath' to a grand jury and then his subsequent impeachment by the House of Representatives. Hillary avoided indictment for perjury and obstruction of justice during the Starr investigation by repeating, “I do not recall,” “I have no recollection,” and “I don’t know” a total of 56 times while under oath.

h.      Hillary was forced to return an estimated $200,000 in White House furniture, china, and artwork that she had stolen

i.         Now we are exposed to the destruction of possibly incriminating emails while Hillary was Secretary of State and the “pay to play” schemes of the Clinton Foundation

3.       Obam3.

-          (CNSNews.com) - The debt of the federal government increased by $8,314,529,850,339.07 in President Barack Obama’s first seven years in office, according to official data published by the U.S. Treasury.

a.       That equals $70,612.91 in net federal borrowing for each of the 117,480,000 households that the Census Bureau estimates were in the United States as of September.

b.      During President George W. Bush’s eight years in office, the federal debt increased by $4,899,100,310,608.44, according to the Treasury. That equaled $44,104.65 in net federal borrowing for each of the 111,079,000 households that, according to the Census Bureau, were in the country as of Jan. 20, 2009, the day that Bush left office and Obama assumed it.

Obama learned of Hillary Clinton's email use through news

19x emailed Hillary

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President Obama discovered former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of personal email at the same time as news readers.

Obama, after delivering a Saturday speech in Selma, Ala., was asked when he found out about Clinton’s personal email system run from her Chappaqua home.

“The same time everybody else learned it through news reports,” he told .

Obama waded into the controversy for the first time since Clinton’s use of a private email account was revealed last week — raising questions about whether key messages were preserved.

Clinton’s use of the “clintonemail.com” address drew widespread criticism from Republicans. The revelation has come at a delicate time for Clinton, who is preparing to launch a second bid for the presidency in the coming weeks.

The President called Clinton a “great Secretary of State” and insisted that his administration encouraged transparency.

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It was news to him: President Obama said he first learned about Hillary Clinton's use of personal emails through news reports like everyone else. Obama is seen here with CBS's Bill Plante.

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Obama spoke about the Clinton email controversy for the first time since her use of a private email account was revealed last week.

“My emails, the Blackberry I carry around, all those records are available and archived,” Obama said, according to an excerpt from the interview released Saturday evening.

“I’m glad that Hillary’s instructed that those emails about official business need to be disclosed.”

The White House has refused to say whether they believe Clinton’s personal email use violated any administration policies or broke any laws.

Asked how Clinton’s private server squares with his commitment to transparency, the President said: “The fact that she is going to be putting them forward will allow us to make sure that people have the information they need.”

Clinton tweeted Wednesday that she wants all of her emails made public.

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Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton speak at the 2015 Meeting of Clinton Global Initiative University at University of Miami in Florida on Saturday.

In an appearance at the Clinton Global Initiative University in Florida, she made no mention of the controversy.

Former President Bill Clinton also refused to address the issue, but defended the donations the family foundation receives from foreign governments.

“What I find is you’ve got to decide when you do this work, whether it will do more good than harm when someone is helping from another country,” Bill Clinton said.

With Nicol Jenkins reporting from Coral Gables, Fla.

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Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump Voters Share Anger, but Direct It Differently

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The crowd at an event for Senator Bernie Sanders on Friday in DuBuque, Iowa.By JOHN LELANDJanuary 30, 2016

DES MOINES — They are angry at a political system they see as rigged. They feel squeezed by immigration, or the power of big banks. They sense that America is heading in the wrong direction, but emphatically believe only their candidate has the strength and vision to change things.

The voters driving two of the more remarkable movements of this election cycle — for Donald J. Trumpand Senator Bernie Sanders — share striking similarities. Both groups are heavily white, more male than female, and both are fueled partly by people who, in interviews, express distrust of their parties and the other candidates, especially Hillary Clinton.

No matter how their preferred candidates fare in the Iowa caucuses on Monday, the supporters of Mr. Sanders and Mr. Trump are reshaping the campaign and could have a profound impact on the outcome in the fall.

In dozens of interviews at rallies in Iowa, and longer conversations in their homes or workplaces, supporters of both candidates spoke openly of their anxiety about the future. Even if they were not personally affected by the economic downturn, Mr. Sanders’s supporters worried about the growing inequality in wealth and income; Mr. Trump’s worried about terrorists coming across the border.

Yet there was also palpable enthusiasm for their candidate and hopefulness about the future he represented. They believe that only their candidate can fix a broken system because he is not beholden to it; neither has a “super PAC” for big donors to pour money into.

Many in both groups said they had never felt so strongly about a political figure before.

“He stands for everything I believe in,” said Alex Curtis, 19, who traveled six hours from Nebraska to hear Mr. Sanders speak last Sunday in Fayette, Iowa. “He’s going to restore the American dream and bring class mobility.”

Said Toby Richards, 50, a farmer from Knoxville, Iowa: “It’s so refreshing to have someone who’s not being bought, and Trump’s not being bought. What he says now can’t be swayed by money.”

The two movements have significant differences: Mr. Trump attracts support across a wide spectrum of demographic groups, but is strongest among Americans without a college degree (eight of 10 Trump supporters do not have one) and those with lower incomes, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll in December.

Mr. Sanders draws strong backing from younger voters and self-identified liberals, and 43 percent of Sanders backers are at least college graduates, the same survey showed.

“They’re younger, they’re proud of being liberals, and they like Senator Sanders personally,” said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll.

Trump and Sanders voters are the likeliest among their parties to be “angry” at Washington, according to the Times/CBS News poll, with 52 percent of Trump backers and 30 percent of Sanders backers identifying that way.

Anger has risen steadily since 2010 among both Democrats and Republicans, according to polling conducted by The Times and CBS News. Republicans are more likely than Democrats to say they are angry, and whites are more likely than African-Americans to say they are angry. But the rates for all are going up, and their anger appears to be one factor sweeping Mr. Trump and Mr. Sanders from the relative margins to the top of many polls.

In interviews with voters in Iowa, the anger simmered close to the surface. “Oh, heck, yeah, I’m angry,” said Savannah Granahan, 52, who plans to caucus for Mr. Sanders and attended a campaign event for the first time this month, near her home in Fort Dodge. “This country isn’t run by the government. It’s run by the almighty dollar.”

About 85 miles away, Esther Toney, 71, a retired prison guard from Collins, returned from a Trump rally in Ames fired up. “Oh, I’m very angry,” said Ms. Toney, who comes from a family of Democrats. “I’m extremely angry. We’ve got politicians that are just there for their own gain. They should be thinking about how they can make our lives better. And they don’t. They vote on things to support their PACs or whoever gave them money.”

The targets of their anger diverge. Mr. Trump’s supporters directed their wrath toward career politicians, unlawful immigrants, terrorists and people who they said were taking advantage of welfare. Mr. Sanders’s supporters assailed big banks and economic inequality.

Mr. Sanders’s supporters tended to blame the campaign finance system for Washington dysfunction; Mr. Trump’s supporters blamed the politicians who they said cared only about donations.

“Look at our health care,” said Sean Bolton, 42, of Norwalk, a Trump supporter who once voted for Barack Obama because of similar promises of independence. “Who do you think wrote those laws? I guarantee it was the insurance companies and drug manufacturers of the world.”

And while people in both groups express criticism of Mrs. Clinton, it is for different reasons: Supporters of Mr. Sanders find her dishonest; fans of Mr. Trump worry she would continue the policies of President Obama, which they oppose.

Both camps include many people who have not been active in the Iowa caucuses before, or previously supported the other party. And the characteristics they bring up in describing their chosen candidate are distinct: Those in Mr. Trump’s camp said he would bring better financial and negotiating skills; those in Mr. Sanders’s said he would bring better conditions for average working people.

The two candidates have not shied from appeals to anger. Mr. Trump said recently that he “will gladly accept the mantle of anger.”

Even as he said he would compete to attract Trump voters, Mr. Sanders distinguished his message from Mr. Trump’s, saying the Republican candidate was “using it to scapegoat minorities.” Mr. Trump said he would cool his tone once the campaign battles were over.

A big question for both parties is whether the energy generated by the Trump and Sanders movements will be enough to lift them over more traditional contenders, like Mrs. Clinton on the Democratic side or Senator Ted Cruz for the Republicans. And beyond that, will these voters, if Mr. Sanders and Mr. Trump do not prevail, stay involved into the fall?

In many ways the appeal that the two men have does not seem easily transferable. Supporters are drawn to what they see as their independence, and a lack of pandering.

Brad Nelson, 50, who works the overnight shift as manager at a chain of convenience stores in Des Moines, said that he had last turned out for a caucus to support Ronald Reagan in 1980 but that he planned to do so this year, probably for Mr. Trump or Mr. Cruz.

Mr. Nelson voiced a litany of irritations: people on welfare who don’t want to work, immigrants taking jobs, the culture of complaint.

“It makes me angry that this is how the country is,” he said. “After 200 years we have to be politically correct? We can’t say the Pledge of Allegiance?”

But his main grievance was against the system. “I don’t think you get voted into office — I think it’s who’s paying the bills that gets people into office,” he said. “I don’t think I’ve ever been more involved or listened to the debates like this year.”

What drew him to Mr. Trump, he said, was his independence, which he summed up as: “What I say is what I do. Nobody else tells me differently.”

Each side views its candidate as a little raw and, as a result, uniquely able to channel this election’s frustrations and resentments toward real and productive change.

Justin Holihan, 31, of Ames, a paramedic who supports Mr. Sanders, said he feared that growing economic inequality might pitch the country toward either revolution or a police state. “I make $18.50 an hour, and I need to work 50 to 60 hours a week in order to pay my bills,” he said. “I can’t imagine how someone making minimum wage can.”

Mr. Holihan, who previously voted for George W. Bush and Mr. Obama, walks with a limp from a ski injury; his insurance company cut off payments for physical therapy, he said, and he cannot afford more treatments until he pays the bills for the sessions he has already had.

He did not want to see neighbors rising up with pitchforks, Mr. Holihan said. “That’s why I’m hoping somebody like Bernie Sanders gets elected and can help solve some of these issues before we get pushed to that step,” he said. “Because people are angry.”

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America 2016: We’re mad as hell and not going to take it anymore

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Craig Ziemke has voted for Democrats all his life, including twice for President Barack Obama. Not this year.

“The whole country is going to hell,” the 66-year-old retired factory worker said, standing against the bleachers at a high school gymnasium while waiting for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to arrive. Ziemke’s fury is deep: Roads and bridges in the U.S. are falling apart, jobs are scarce and the U.S. border is wide open, he says.

“We’re letting all these people into the country. No one even knows who the hell they are,” he said. “We don’t need any more Arabs. The United States, anymore, is just a dumping ground for everyone.”

Ziemke plans to caucus for a Republican on Monday – and likely for Trump, “the only one with brains,” he said.

If Obama’s 2008 campaign in Iowa and beyond defined the election as one of “hope and change,” this year may well be described as the politics of rage.

In interviews with dozens of voters in both parties, the driving motivation across the state is anger and uprising. They’re fed up with lawmakers in Washington, who seem to work two or three days a week and get little done aside from raising money to stay in office. They’re mad about stagnant wages, companies sending jobs overseas and terrorists sneaking in across the border.

The rage is driving the campaigns of the “outsiders.” For Republicans, that’s the bombastic Trump and his chief rival, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, with verbal assaults against his own Republican colleagues.

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Trump rallies can be boisterous affairs, with the audience turning on hecklers as Trump urges security to “get ’em the hell out of here.” News cameras captured several white men in November apparently kicking and punching a Black Lives Matter protester at a Trump event. In Vermont in January, he called on his security guards to “confiscate” a protester’s coat. “You know it’s about 10 degrees below zero outside,” he said from the stage. “You can keep his coat. Tell him we’ll send it to him in a couple of weeks.”

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On the Democratic side, the discontent fuels the insurgent campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont who vows a political revolution to fix what he says is a system skewed to favor the rich.

“I plead guilty. I am angry,” Sanders recently told an audience in Maquoketa, Iowa, pushing back against former President Bill Clinton’s critique that voters need “not anger, but answers.”

I plead guilty. I am angry. Bernie Sanders

Sanders continued: “I am angry and millions of Americans are angry. We are angry that our people are working longer hours for lower wages. We are angry that our criminal justice system is broken. And we’re angry that we have a corrupt campaign-finance system that allows billionaires to buy elections.”

The appeal resonates with voters furious over the role of money in politics: “I can’t even stand it, when I hear how much money they’re all willing to spend to run for office, but not provide day care for children,” said Monica McCarthy, waiting in a crowded union hall in Des Moines to hear Sanders speak. “It’s all rich guys who want to take over this country giving to other rich guys to help the rich.”

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The irate, discontent electorate is apparent in polls: More than 6 in 10 people think that either all or most Americans are angry with Washington, according to a recent Monmouth University survey.

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Republicans are more likely than independents or Democrats to think that the majority of their fellow citizens are teed off at their government.

And it’s not just aimed at Washington.

Yet if Americans agree that their elected officials make them furious, they’re divided on the cure: Fifty percent say elected officials who are not willing to compromise are the cause of the problem, while 40 percent say elected officials who don’t stand up for their principles are to blame.

“We have reached the point where many feel that the opposite side of the political aisle poses an existential threat to the country itself,” said Patrick Murray, director of the polling institute in West Long Branch, N.J. “It is not clear how Washington can be fixed when Republicans and Democrats don’t even agree on what the problem is.”

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This deep anger is fed by power lurching back and forth between Republicans and Democrats over the past decade, raising hopes among Americans who favor one side, then dashing them when little changes thanks to mounting dysfunction in Washington, said Lee Miringoff, the director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion in New York.

“It’s just been too many times, and they just feel nothing has worked,” Miringoff said.

That anger has prompted a look outside of politics; way outside. Previously, he said, governors were considered “outsider” candidates for the presidential nomination. Now outsiders have scarcely any political experience.

“Our politics have changed,” Miringoff said, adding “there’s a growing mistrust of institutions,” including government, the health care system, and the media and pollsters.

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An NBC News/Wall Street Journalpoll last November found deep frustration, with nearly 7 in 10 Americans agreeing they were angry that the political system “seems to only be working for the insiders with money and power, like those on Wall Street or in Washington.”

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The fury has establishment Republicans worried: South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley warned fellow Republicans against following “the siren call of the angriest voices” when she delivered the party’s response to Obama’s State of the Union address earlier this month.

She didn’t name Trump. But he happily brushed off the rebuke at a Republican debate days later, saying he was “very angry because our country is being run horribly” and would “gladly accept the mantle of anger.”

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Tim Leake, 18, who works at his family’s car lot in Marshalltown, will caucus for the first time and is casting his vote for Trump.

“I’m fed up,” Leake said, sporting a “Hillary for Prison 2016” button on his jacket as he waited in the cold to hear Trump speak. “I’m fed up with all the bull crap and all the lying. They’re spending us into debt and not doing anything they promised they would do.”

I’m fed up with all the bull crap and all the lying. Tim Leake, 18, an Iowa voter

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Cruz also seeks to channel the anger, as he did at a rally in West Des Moines this week when he complained that Republican majorities “haven’t delivered for conservatives” and Americans “feel a profound sense of betrayal.”

Adam Bauer, who brought his wife and their four young children along, is one of those Americans.

“I know I’m frustrated. I’ve heard Trump supporters are crazy mad,” Bauer said. “We’re frustrated where our current president has taken us and with the Republican leadership.” 　

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VIDEO: Bill Clinton’s voice frail, hand quivers during attacks on Sanders

Packed room of almost 350 people

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Perhaps Americans should be more worried about the seemingly frail and sickly Bill and Hillary Clinton, and less so about their 74-year-old rival Bernie Sanders.

During an appearance in Fairfield, Iowa Friday, KTVO reports Clinton was “much more direct today in attacking his wife’s chief opponent in the race, Bernie Sanders,” than at a Thursday rally.

“Who will do the most to make you a part of the future that the president painted in the State of the Union,” Clinton said, his voice quivering. “How are we going to do it and who’s the best change maker to do it?

“It’s not close. Hillary is the best change maker to do it,” Clinton said, his hand shaking as he pointed at the audience.

The once nubile Clinton is showing his age. It’s not 1992 anymore.

KTVO reports 350 people turned out to see the former president, but notes “many” of them were Sanders supporters who turned out to see the former president.

The news station also tweeted out this photo, again claiming 350 in attendance.

350 in attendance for Bill Clinton in Fairfield.pic.twitter.com/fzpdTPT0we

— Matt Thielke

(@MattThielkeKTVO)January 29, 2016

(Does that look like 350 people to you?)

The Clinton campaign has been plagued by low turnout at events, certainly an indication of enthusiasm — or lack thereof.

The Globe Gazette reported there were so many people at Bernie Sander’s rally in Mason City Wednesday night, some had to stand outside in the freezing cold and watch through the windows.

Sam Frizell of Time Magazine appeared on MSNBC Thursday andreported Clinton also appeared in Mason City Wednesday night and couldn’t match Sanders’s crowd.

Clinton had 300 attend while Sanders had 1,100 — nearly four times the former president’s total.

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Maher: The More You Know About Islam, The More Afraid Of It You Are, Intolerant Christians ‘Really Aren’t a Problem’

by IAN HANCHETT29 Jan 2016547

HBO host Bill Maher argued that it isn’t true that people wouldn’t be as afraid of Islam if they knew more about it, “Actually, it’s the reverse” and that he wished liberals would “have the same enthusiasm for intolerance elsewhere in the world as they do for Christians here at home, who really aren’t a problem, because they don’t get really get their way” on Friday’s “Real Time.”

Maher, after referencing the covering up of nude statues in Italy during a visit by Iran’s president said, “I think people are mixing up two things, tolerance and capitulation.” He added, “It’s one thing to be tolerant of another culture, but this is our culture. You know, Christianity did have a problem with t*tties like in 1300, but we got over it. So, we shouldn’t change our culture to a more backward culture, should we?”

Talk radio host Thom Hartmann countered by citing the Justice Department putting curtains in front of a nude statue during John Ashcroft’s tenure as Attorney General and saying, “This is not a Muslim problem. This is a fundamentalist problem. Maher objected, “Except when it happened in this country, the liberals laughed at him, and they opposed him. I wish they would have the same enthusiasm for intolerance elsewhere in the world as they do for Christians here at home, who really aren’t a problem, because they don’t get really get their way. It’s laughable.”

Hartmann then said, “Except that he covered that for four years.” Maher responded, “But nobody thought it was realistic.” Hartmann maintained that “a lot of Republicans” did.

Former Congressman Trey Radel (R-FL) later wondered, “What about if we go, the next time we show up, an entourage to Iran, are they going to be — I want them decked out in muscle t-shirts, with those ’80s shorts with the American flag all over them. Are they going to do that for us? No.”

Maher added, “I think liberals have to stop insisting that the world is the way they want to it be instead of the way it is.” He then pointed to folk singer James Twyman’s efforts to do a concert in ISIS-controlled territory to hopefully stop ISIS’ violence. Maher then argued, “[Y]ou cannot just insist that the reality that you think about in your head is the reality that exists in the world. After the San Bernardino attacks, we were off the next week, but I heard all over TV, this — everybody was saying, ‘If only Americans knew more about Islam, they wouldn’t be so afraid.’ Actually, it’s the reverse.”

Hartmann then pointed to moderate Islamic groups on the ground. Maher responded, “We have to be on their side, not on the people who say ‘Islamophobe,’ who just help the enablers.”

Hartmann later stated, “I think back to all the years that I’ve been debating right-wingers who have been like, ‘Immigrants have to learn English first!’ And, you know, it actually makes a certain amount of sense. … It seems like the first step in any country, including in the United States, and we’re starting to do this now in our public schools, but we need to do it more extensively, is to bring — when people come in from another culture to, say ‘You know, your culture’s fine, but here’s our culture.'”

Maher responded, “Well, it isn’t fine, and I just hope that the civics guidebook in Sweden is more persuasive than the Koran, but I doubt it is.”

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