One of the most moving speeches of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia last week was a speech given by Khizr Khan, the bereaved father of American Army Captain Humayun Khan who died in Iraq; the speech was given with his wife Ghazala by his side. In Khan’s speech, he said, addressing Presidential candidate Donald Trump, “You have sacrificed nothing and no one.” Khan,…
Clinton, Sanders And Math
To all the people who claim the presidential election between Clinton and Sanders was “rigged”: Hillary Clinton received 15,805,136 votes during the primary election cycle. Bernie Sanders received 12,029,699 votes during the primary election cycle. Clinton received about 3,700,000 more votes than Sanders. This means that more people voted for Clinton than Sanders. Although it took a month after the…
Donald Trump and “Hurt & Rescue” Sales Technique
There is a classic sales technique called “hurt and rescue.” In the hurt and rescue approach, the sales person works very hard to make the person he is trying to sell feel pain and discomfort, and to experience his/her problems as intensely as possible. When the sales person has the target in a distressed state, really feeling his pain, the…
Broadcast Journalists, Stop Praising Trump, Please
People — mostly broadcast journalists — who have been praising Presidential Candidate Donald Trump for saying “LGBTQ” at his nomination acceptance speech, those people need to stop praising him. During his Presidential nomination acceptance speech July 21 in Cleveland, Trump said, “Only weeks ago, in Orlando, Florida, 49 wonderful Americans were savagely murdered by an Islamic terrorist. This time, the terrorist targeted [the]…
Donald Trump Is Irrational
Trump is dreadful and irrational. He has repeatedly criticized Hillary Clinton for her vote to support the war in Iraq (based on lies from a Bush administration whose goal was, as we all know now, to try to take control of Iraqi oil). He has claimed that her vote represents “bad judgment,” and that her bad judgment is a reason…
Donald Trump Botches Vice Presidential Pick Announcement
Donald Trump has demonstrated his inability to manage his announcement of his vice presidential pick. It is really amazing. On Thursday, many media sources reported that Pence had been chosen. Then, Trump said he would wait to make his announcement until the weekend, because of the attack in Nice, France on Thursday night. However, on Thursday evening, Trump called into…
Good Guys With Guns And Bad Guys With Guns
I’ve heard that only a “good guy with a gun” can stop a “bad guy with gun.” There are some problems with this argument. 1) In Dallas recently there were dozens of police officers with guns along a peaceful demonstration route. They were the good guys with guns. Five of those good guys with guns died and several others were…
Donald Trump, A Master Of The Obvious
My God, Donald Trump must be the most “mentally limited” candidate ever to run for the United States presidency. I offer the following as evidence. After the attack on the airport in Istanbul, Trump couldn’t say anything more than the obvious: “Many people killed,” he said. Yes, many people were killed. He went on, saying, “It’s bad.” Yes, it is…
Donald Trump’s Proposed Ban on Muslims, Then On People From “Terror States”
In December 2015, Donald Trump called for a temporary but “total and complete ban on Muslims coming into the United States.” He said that this ban would be in place “until United States representatives figure out what is going on.” This sounded absurd on its face. He did not say whether or not he was referring only to refugees, or referring…
Sen. John McCain Says Obama “Directly Responsible” for Orlando LGBT Club Shooting
On June 16, Senator John McCain said that Barack Obama was “directly responsible” for the actions of Omar Mateen in Orlando, Florida, early Sunday morning June 12, when he killed 49 people and wounded 53 others in a shooting rampage at Pulse, a very popular LGBT night club. McCain claimed that President Obama withdrew troops from Iraq and that that action triggered a…