cc..i fully support being angry with obama over israel or any issue but he isnt a racist...he is a humanist...hate his policies by all means but he is the total opposite of trump as a human being......trump as a person is not worthy of admiration....one can think obama was our worst president but he is so full of integrity for american values...he knew so much about trump during the election and yet did not use what he knew.......same for comey......

Time to Say It: Trump Is a Racist

Uh, yeah. Been time for a while.

And Norway doesn't want Trump's stinking praise.

Norwegians, meanwhile, are baffled and discomfited to be the subject of Trump’s backhanded compliment in his vulgar comments on immigrants from African nations and Haiti.

Henrik Heldahl, a commentator for the Amerikansk Politikk website, says the sentiment about Norway might have been welcomed without the rest of the statement. “But the way he said it guarantees that the reaction here will be very negative.”

Hilde Restad, a university associate professor in international studies, says Trump has achieved the unlikely feat of praising Norway while still offending its citizens.

She says that “Norwegians in general have such a minority complex that as long as we are noticed we get very excited. But in general we are not wanting to be flattered by this U.S. president in this way.”

The Justice Department launched a new task force Thursday to investigate alleged drug-trafficking and money-laundering schemes tied to Hezbollah following a damning report that claimed former President Barack Obama’s administration failed to prosecute or advance the probes in order to ink the Iran nuclear deal.

The Hezbollah Financing and Narcoterrorism Team will focus on “evidence in existing investigations,” as well as Project Cassandra, the department said in a press release.

The project was initially started in 2008 by the Drug Enforcement Administration, with the help of 30 other U.S. and foreign agencies, and reportedly discovered a $1 billion per year operation that included weapons, drug trafficking and money laundering used to fund Hezbollah, according to Politico last month.

hile pledging resources and proper attention to the probe, Sessions added: “The team will initiate prosecutions that will restrict the flow of money to foreign terrorist organizations as well as disrupt violent international drug trafficking operations.”

Following the damning Politico report, Sessions announced Justice would review Project Cassandra.

Acting Assistant Attorney General John Cronan will head up the task force, which includes prosecutors experienced in terrorism, organized crime and drug trafficking cases.

Former Obama administration officials pushed back on Politico’s report, asserting the Iran nuclear deal was separate from how the administration dealt with Hezbollah.

“The Obama administration said time and again that the nuclear negotiations with Iran were confined exclusively to that narrow issue,” former National Security Council spokesman Ned Price told The Washington Post last month. “We did not make concessions in other arenas, and we most certainly did not curtail or attempt to influence any active investigations, including by the Drug Enforcement Administration. To the contrary, we aggressively countered Hezbollah’s terrorist plotting and other malign activities before and after the Iran deal came to fruition and while it was being negotiated. ”

Signed in July 2015, the Iran nuclear deal offered to lift crippling economic sanctions previously placed on the Middle East power in exchange for deterring its nuclear weapons programs.

Posted by dino27 on 1/12/2018 12:24:00 AM (view original):
cc..i fully support being angry with obama over israel or any issue but he isnt a racist...he is a humanist...hate his policies by all means but he is the total opposite of trump as a human being......trump as a person is not worthy of admiration....one can think obama was our worst president but he is so full of integrity for american values...he knew so much about trump during the election and yet did not use what he knew.......same for comey......

Neither your nor I know BHO personally. But Hussein is a Muslim name. I don't know why he was so adamant to move away from that faith system? I don't trust him. I think the Iran deal was a slap in the face to Israel, the one and only mostly Jewish state in the world. On his watch ISIS rose to power and the BLM movement started. He may be an eloquent speaker but I did not appreciate his actions during his time in office. Just my point of view.

im glad you are expressing your view...it does not make me respect you one iota less...i respect you plenty.
i thought the iran deal was great for israel even if netanyahu did not..plenty of people in the current and former govts thought so too....i listened very closely to them before i endorsed it in my mind.....he grew up with his mother and went to church.......i have no animosity towards blm....it branched out into different forms of activism suh as metoo.

today trump denied making yesterday's comments..said democrats fabricated it.......this shows how dangerous it is for him to be president.

Dick Durbin is now on record saying Trump said it several times. He said it, he meant it. Why backtrack? I don't get coy racists.

At this point, anyone who doesn't think Trump is racist is:

a) lying
b) in denial
c) simple-minded
d) not paying any attention at all

Posted by dino27 on 1/12/2018 10:08:00 AM (view original):
im glad you are expressing your view...it does not make me respect you one iota less...i respect you plenty.
i thought the iran deal was great for israel even if netanyahu did not..plenty of people in the current and former govts thought so too....i listened very closely to them before i endorsed it in my mind.....he grew up with his mother and went to church.......i have no animosity towards blm....it branched out into different forms of activism suh as metoo.

I am Jewish and my wife is Catholic. We are not religious but the kids associate with Christianity more due to XMas and Easter, etc. and I do not practice as I am not religious. Still my kids identify with Judaism as a culture and are sympathetic toward Israel because of me. I cannot imagine that BHO was not sympathetic toward Islamic countries even though he was raised Christian. I could be 100% wrong of course.

Posted by crazystengel on 1/12/2018 10:22:00 AM (view original):
Dick Durbin is now on record saying Trump said it several times. He said it, he meant it. Why backtrack? I don't get coy racists.

At this point, anyone who doesn't think Trump is racist is:

a) lying
b) in denial
c) simple-minded
d) not paying any attention at all

I am simple minded.

No, I don't think you are.

Three guesses left.

Certainly there are many Trump apologists/deniers. It is speculation HOW anyone could still be so but My opinion is an inability to admit error. Better put, perhaps, as EGO. It's not just Boris, of course, but in his case (and likely many others IMO)

Posted by crazystengel on 1/12/2018 10:35:00 AM (view original):
No, I don't think you are.

Three guesses left.

I am sticking with my answer. FINAL ANSWER.

Posted by cccp1014 on 1/12/2018 10:32:00 AM (view original):

Posted by dino27 on 1/12/2018 10:08:00 AM (view original):
im glad you are expressing your view...it does not make me respect you one iota less...i respect you plenty.
i thought the iran deal was great for israel even if netanyahu did not..plenty of people in the current and former govts thought so too....i listened very closely to them before i endorsed it in my mind.....he grew up with his mother and went to church.......i have no animosity towards blm....it branched out into different forms of activism suh as metoo.

I am Jewish and my wife is Catholic. We are not religious but the kids associate with Christianity more due to XMas and Easter, etc. and I do not practice as I am not religious. Still my kids identify with Judaism as a culture and are sympathetic toward Israel because of me. I cannot imagine that BHO was not sympathetic toward Islamic countries even though he was raised Christian. I could be 100% wrong of course.

there are a lot of us here who are not religious. i am agnostic.....im raised into the jewish culture...it is values....i never believed in the bible.....i believe obama had sympathy for islamic countries...so do lots of loyal jewish israeli citizens.......he never put israel second.......im against continued settlements...hoping the palestinians will one day come to their senses...the settlements make things worse...netanyahu is someone whose judgement i do not trust...as with trump....he is not evil by any means the way trump is but his judgement is way off imo and he appears to be corrupt......me youu and crazystengle are the same kind of jews even though crazystengle isnt jewish.
i know we disagree on much but i have a good feeling for you.

believe it or not i thought you were orthodox.......we are all ccc....concerned circumcised citizens.