Its the US way, pal
She spoke really well,her words would have resonated with millions and the emotional impact was huge, it’s Hilary or Trump mate, she knows that and so do you.
The Dems to their credit have played it well the last while. For example, they got the compliant media on board quickly last week claiming Donald’s speech was “Dark”. A great word to use to hammer home Trump’s boisterous primary statements.
HRC shrieking “I’m an outsider” during the primaries may have worked with the “progressives” who want to be seen as “right on” (first party to elect an Irish Catholic, first black President, first woman - they think of themselves as progressives, just don’t mention the Dixiecrats, their social programmes failing minorities or their long history of racism 
). With a national audience though that just won’t wash when clearly Donald is the outsider. He’s played the outsider card brilliantly - he admits that the rich curry favour with politicians, he’s done it himself! Her moving to being the “experienced” candidate was the only way forward for her.
It’s a pity for them that this is the only avenue they can go down though considering her dreadful record. They will launch aggressive ads showing her in the situation room during Bin Laden’s assassination, but really they have their work cut out trying to cover her term of incompetence as Secretary of State. No doubt her team are already looking at ways to windmill the debates away from Benghazi
Of course it’s the case here. We are a left wing country. Tax and spend baby. The people demand every little issue gets money thrown at it and the political parties follow that. The only thing that seperates us from being a failed small economy is our great positioning with multi nationals.
The change we need is a good honest centre right party who won’t promise non stop goodies to the poverty industry.
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I think you have missed his point completely
Great bants
Was he not claiming that Ireland isn’t really run for the people, even though we could change? My point is that Ireland is very much ran that way, it’s about clientele politics and throwing money on the latest cause for the media.
Lovely, the leaked e-mails show Donna Brazile (DNC interim chair) was also bashing Bernie Sanders
i think @Julio_Geordio is maybe more of a leftie than a rightie…probably neither, It doesnt really matter anyway pal, much of the same will prevail.
The dems are having Bill Clinton (hillarys husband) speaking tonight.
Bill is infamous for having been impeached for perjury during his presidency.
This is like watching a rerun of Dallas or Dynasty
Eh no, no we are not. We trust the market to fix everything much to our detriment
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We are a tax and spend country.
I don’t agree with this “let the market off to itself” line - lets take the often quoted property bubble. Firstly, with or without the property bust, the property market is ALWAYS a highly regulated market. Property rights laws, planning laws ect. The market just doesn’t “do it’s own thing”.
We are in a European/worldwide system of banking where regulations failed, but that’s only one element of the piece.
The Irish Government consistently went in and messed with the housing market in the 2000s with tax credits, rent allowance, first time borrowers relief ect. Our response to the financial crisis was not the “market”, it was a bank bailout of unprecedented scale. The problem the left (and the right) have with that intervention seemingly traded stability for lots of risk takers getting away with their own mistakes in the market - an intervention in the market which covers up for losing there and redistributes wealth from public taxes to make up for that.
NAMA is an enormous encroachment onto the market- how could anyone possibly suggest otherwise?
The Irish Government used pretty much every lever they had to pull the market back from the brink. The EU has brought with it huge amounts of regulations i.e. employment legislation to downright intervention in the market (CAP). Ireland has some of the nicest Employment Laws in the world for employees.
But the real point is about spending. The aim in Ireland, and pretty much across western Europe is to solve everything through “austerity”. Austerity itself suggest a “temporary” reduction in government spending to solve a wee small problem of a deficit. And hey presto look what happens once things start to turn the corner, demands for spending increases begin. The Health Service isn’t working? Throw money at it (that was the 2000s attitude and is back again).
US President Barack Obama’s half-brother, Malik Obama, says he will vote for Donald Trump because he “comes across as a straightforward guy”.
Malik Obama, a Muslim with Kenyan and US citizenship, also told the BBC that the Republican presidential nominee’s proposal for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the US was “common sense”.
Mr Trump’s plan - pitched as a security measure - has been widely condemned.
Malik Obama has accused the president of turning his back on his family.
He told the BBC’s Newsday programme it was “sort of disappointing, somewhat hypocritical” that no representatives of the Obama family from Kenya were attending the Democratic convention, taking place in Philadelphia.
The president, he said, had “made a big deal about his heritage… and now it’s a complete blackout”.
Malik Obama, who said he was also voting for Mr Trump in order to shift his allegiance from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party.
The president’s half-brother has reportedly lived in Washington since the mid-80s.
He is also an aspiring politician in Kenya, running for office in 2013, but failing in his bid to become governor of Siaya county.
Barack Obama was born in Hawaii to an American mother and a Kenyan father who left when he was two years old.
The president visited Kenya for the first time last year since his election in 2009.
Mr Trump, a billionaire property developer, is hoping to succeed him in November’s election, where he will face Democratic Party candidate, Hillary Clinton.
Those two large black rectangles are a pretty poor attempt to give the impression of racial diversity in the Trump campaign.
There’s no greater testament to the impoverished spirit of the American nation than the idea that Donald Trump is their hope for redemption.
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