America's Date with The Devil: Is CNN the Maitre d'.......

Listening to news, usually CNN, and troubled about the political coverage.

Recently, on CNN after the Brussels incident presidential historian, Douglas Brinkley said the only two candidates to offer reasuring words and actually have a reasonable plan and sound presidential are Hillary Clinton and John Kasich.  Their panel of experts must have talked about that for at least 30 seconds and then went straight back to talk about Ted Cruz and Donald Trump and their wives fighting via twitter.

The 24 hour cable news stations have fallen for the donald hook line and sinker.  I guess it is ratings and he is a good story given policy can be a little boring.  Donald says something stupid each day and that is all they talk about.

At the end of the day it is really not news and the viewer is the loser.

Also, the other folks running for office cannot really talk in the same Archie Bunker lingo that the donald uses because they have to represet their voters as elected officials and if they said the things donald said they would be thrown out of office for being racist.

Why do they not explain all of that on the news, why politicians talk the way they do and the whole world is listening, etc.

Also, as the field narrowed I wonder why they did not have serious debates on the GOP side.  We know every detail of what Hillary and Bernie think and Kasich or Cruz could have easily held their own in debates--the donald--not so much.

Also, I wonder why donald was not called out as soon as he started talking about rounding people up because that is certainly not the stance of the Republican Party.  He never really went along with the GOP platform.

Why did they have their big study after Mitt Romney lost the last election.

Today, KOGO 600 in San Diego is hosting a panel discussing the media--hopefully some of these questions will be answered.

Really sad to miss this event, Ted Garcia of the morning news who is conducting the panel said it will be on the website of KOGO.

Coincidentally, The Los Angeles World Affairs Council will have an event this evening featuring Karl Rove talking about the same subject.  Always wanting to attend one of these functions hopefully there will be a way to see this discussion at a later date, as well.

Personally, one would like to ask CNN, why are you reporting trump's comments about the way John Kasich eats as opposed to why your are not hosting debates on the GOP side about policy and philosphies of each candidates campaign?  

What is the real reason you are not having informational debates and focusing on spaghetti?

I guess that would not bring in quite as many ratings, but in the end were the pancake statements really newsworthy.

CNN might want to ask themselves these in depth questions.

Perhaps, there should be  a study about what happened to cable news as well as the Republican Party.

chloe louise--Hillary girl forever

photos from the Grape St.dog park in San Diego

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Ted Talks! Well Done but just a little bit too late.......

Chloe Louise:  the ronnie republic


Ted Cruz called out donald trump yesterday after he could no longer tolerate his outrageous accusations abut his family.

Unfortunately, it was a little too late as now Ted Cruz and John Kasich are out of the race and any chance for a 

reasonable exchange of ideas on the Republican side has gone down the drain.

could this be the end of the Republican party

Seriously, donald trump should have been called out ages ago, the media created a monster 

and our country and the world will be the ones to suffer for it. 


Republican or Democrat, donald trump has already caused embarrassment for us 

on the world stage. 


When donald started saying his crazy and unrealistic ideas the RNC should have said, "look, 

you can run for President but not as a Republican with those beliefs.....that is simply not 

what we are about." 


I am afraid of donald trump and his hitler-esque approach. Seriously, policy and politics 

can be a touch boring and yes, 

the donald makes a story setting his hair on fire every day--apparently this has worked well 

for television news ratings. 


But at the end of the day it is not news, it is not policy and there is no substance to his 

statements.


And just wondering, why has there not been more serious debates on the GOP side............


The dems have debated policy and philosophy endlessly and the voting public 

should have demanded the repubs do the same. 



I am sorry for all of us that we have to be bamboozled by the trumpster--

it is a loss for the citizens of our country and everywhere the united States has interaction. 



In the long run I have gotten to know Ted Cruz better and I always enjoy listening to him 

talk. And this is coming form someone that is voting for Hillary. 





Good job today, Ted, and well done, I am angry, too.

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John Kasich: Suggesting a Nice Photo Shoot--Dogs

 Republican or Democrat it is embarrassing for our country that donald trump could be the possible one to win the GOP nomination for something as serious as President of the United States.

It would be nice if someone more or less normal with  a good track record comparatively could be going against Hillary Clinton, who I am voting for and one of the main reasons is her support of Planned Parenthood.

Please see the comment of AJG.......

The Republican party seems to be in a state of disarray--why did they not jump behind John Kasich after Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio dropped out.  It seems like the GOP cannot make a decision with Mitt Romney winning that race.

Cruz or trump cannot win against Hillary--they are too far out to win in  a general election.

The GOP should be backing John Kasich with big ads.

Every day trump steals all of the media attention with his ridiculous comments and CNN falls for it hook, line and sinker.

I guess policy can be a little boring.

Suggesting John Kasich should go for a nice photo-op and some strategic and good attention seeking.

I am suggesting The Human Society and a particular focus on Pit Bulls--those pictures would be hard to beat.

After the Brussels incident, Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley said on CNN the only two people running for the highest office to act the part with reasonable statements and plans were John Kasich and Hillary Clinton.

But instead of focusing on who was acting Presidential in light of this tragedy CNN immediately went right back to talking about donald and Cruz and the bickering going on between their wives.

comment........

AJG1 hour ago

This man does not deserve to be Our Governor let alone President of Our United States. As Governor, Mr Kasich has drastically cut funding to many Cities in Ohio causing tremendous hardships on local communities.Mr. Kasich recently signed a Bill passed by Right Wingers of our Legislature that defunded Planned Parenthood. Many, many Poor People in Ohio depended greatly on Planned Parenthood to assist them in making it through Life, on many other things besides abortion.

  Shame on Mr. Kasich for making life harder for Cities and Women in Ohio.   The man, in my eyes, has no compassion for "The Little Guy" who struggles daily to survive. In my eyes, Mr. Kasich did one thing right. He expanded Medicaid in Ohio after our Right Wing Republican Legislature rejected it. But I believe that if the Affordable Care Act had never provided money to assist the State in expanding Medicaid, which greatly assists "The little Guy" with his or her health issues, Mr. Kasich would have rejected Medicaid Expansion just as 19 of his other fellow Governors have.

from cleveland.com:

Pennsylvania is last-chance state for John Kasich's presidential bid: Brent Larkin

Republican presidential candidate Ohio Gov. John Kasich delivers his State of the State address at the Peoples Bank Theatre in Marietta. (Tony Dejak, Associated Press)

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By Brent Larkin, cleveland.com 
on April 07, 2016 at 7:24 AM

CLEVELAND -- Gov. John Kasich is out of excuses.

Anything less than a win or close second in Pennsylvania gives lie to a central tenet of his campaign:

That Kasich's presidential bid will thrive when the primary season arrives in the Midwest and states close to Ohio, places where his moderate views and obvious electability will appeal to voters.

So far it hasn't quite happened that way.

All Kasich's gotten out of states similar to Ohio was a distant third in Illinois and Michigan, followed by a pathetic third Tuesday in Wisconsin.

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Team Kasich always has some excuse, a reason that almost makes sense.

When the campaign arrives in Pennsylvania on April 26, excuses won't work.

Kasich lives and works in Ohio. But he left a piece of his heart in Pennsylvania.

Soon we'll find out if the people who still live there think as fondly of Kasich as he does of the place where he grew up.

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If they don't, the chances of Republicans turning to Kasich at a brokered convention in Cleveland will all but evaporate.

Polls consistently confirm Kasich's claim he's a far better general election candidate than Donald Trump or Sen. Ted Cruz.

But that argument is becoming a futile exercise in circular reasoning. Kasich loyalists got the last part right. But all the stuff that comes beforehand has, to date, been a failure.

Like Kasich, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio was also considered a great general election candidate. But it has now been more than three weeks since Rubio quit the race, concluding he could never win enough delegates to capture the nomination.

Rubio's exit came on March 15. As of today, he still has 28 more delegates than Kasich.

Already there's a drumbeat of talk that, if convention delegates turn away from Trump and Cruz, party regulars would much prefer House Speaker Paul Ryan over Ohio's governor.

Ryan is more conservative, more likable, and probably more electable than Kasich.

When the campaign arrives in Pennsylvania on April 26, excuses won't work.

But even if Kasich's campaign continues to fall short of expectations, the fact Cruz and Trump want him out of the race is reason for him to stay in it, hoping Republicans in New York and then Pennsylvania appreciate the candidate voters everywhere else have not.

The latest poll out of Pennsylvania was hardly encouraging. A Qunnipiac University survey, concluded April 4, showed Kasich running third in the state of his birth, 15 percentage points behind Trump and six behind Cruz.

Kasich's fond memories of growing up in western Pennsylvania are genuine. Those regular references to his hometown of McKees Rocks aren't timed to coincide with the state's presidential primary. He's been using his "son of a mailman" shtick for years.

But some recent campaign stops in the state haven't gone especially well. And a couple of events included flashes of the unflattering side of Kasich's personality that he's done a decent job of concealing throughout much of the campaign.

During an April 1 town hall meeting in central Pennsylvania, the crowd turned on Kasich when he suggested "teachers are the most underpaid profession in the nation."

It was a curious claim, given that school funding on Kasich's watch has failed to keep pace with inflation. And not once as governor has Kasich attempted to publicly champion higher pay for the country's most "underpaid profession" - even though Ohio has been so awash in cash that Kasich has signed budgetscutting taxes by $5 billion.

Teachers unions in Ohio contribute mightily to the public's negative perception of what is, on balance, a noble profession. But Kasich was right. Teachers generally are underpaid.

But the audience in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, wasn't buying it.

When a nurse complained, "not true governor, not true," Kasich turned testy.

"What do you want, to just eliminate teachers?" he asked. "Come on .... I'm in favor of putting you in charge of your school budgets. If you want to cut teachers pay, that's up to you."

Then came the Kasich compromise: Take some of the millions paid to professional athletes and give it to nurses.

Left unexplained and unanswered was why target athletes and not Wall Street billionaires, or members of any other overpaid profession.

By then, it didn't matter. The crowd in Camp Hill had heard enough. After a couple more prickly responses from the candidate, pennlive.com reported the event ended with some in the room muttering:

"Go back to Ohio."

That's exactly where Kasich doesn't want to be.

At least not until July 18.

Brent Larkin was The Plain Dealer's editorial director from 1991 until his retirement in 2009.

To reach Brent Larkin: blarkin@cleveland.com

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CNN: Hair On Fire News

Chloe Louise 

Just wanted to say Douglas Brinkley on CNN yesterday said the only two people running for President who actually acted Presidential regarding the tragedy in Brussells were John Kasich and Hillary Clinton. 

I'm watching you CNN

They had good things to say about bringing the nation together and standing with the other countries affected by terrorism and reasonable plans about what to do while trump and Cruz talked about defunding NATO and carpet bombing and water boarding. 

These two played on the fears of the general population while John Kasich had a positive and realistic plan, and also Clinton. 

Then, as usual, CNN went on to spend the rest of the time talking about the ridiculous statements of donald trump. 

To me, it was very discouraging because I again am thinking the donald is a product of the 24/7 news cycle and hair on fire headlines. 

It is very annoying because not only are people's lives at stake but they are also not reporting or talking about the news. 

Douglas Brinkley is a presidential historian and this was a panel about the election results.


Readers, I am afraid of donald trump.

While Ted Cruz is a brilliant speaker is is really not electable in a general election.

The political conversation in our great country should be about issues and policy and who could actually govern without provoking thoughts and ideas to incite fear and hatred.

donald trump successfully creates a headline daily, and stupidly CNN falls for it everyday.

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