Democrats rally around Clinton and paint Trump as unfit for office

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post

By Jose A. DelReal, Karoun Demirjian and John Wagner September 9 at 12:10 AM

On Thursday, the full force of the Democratic Party, including President Obama, rallied around Hillary Clinton, saying that rival Donald Trump is unfit for office.

On the Republican side, there was no such unity as lawmakers struggled with how to respond to the GOP nominee’s claim that Russian President Vladi­mir Putin was a stronger leader than Obama.

And both parties fiercely criticized the role of the media in an election that is testing time-worn theories on how to cover presidential campaigns, aiming much of their fire Thursday at the performance of NBC’s Matt Lauer in moderating a foreign-policy forum this week.

Taken together, Thursday’s events offered a glimpse of where the final two months of the campaign appear to be headed, as the contest tightens and anxiety in both parties grows over the nominees’ chances and the possible impact on House and Senate races down the ballot.

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[BumRushDaShow]

1. "as the contest tightens"

The "tighten(ing)" is TOTALLY due to false media reporting. Period. And the blame lays squarely on the television "media", that can not only influence-peddle based on "visual" queues, but on audio queues as well, using the technique of the hammering over and over of false equivalences by petulant and egotistical talking heads, who must bring "entertainment value" to a subject that in itself, is boring as hell.

"Close race" = ratings for television whereas print media relies on circulation numbers (that can often be enhanced by the use of hyperbolic headlines), but also requires a bit more thoughtful discourse to keep the readers.

[Iliyah]

2. And CNN and MSNBC battling for who would be the first to be obnoxious

and who will be the first to take over fake news audience. Since GOPers take at least 75 or more % of the national media focus and 90% of hate radio and who relish the thought of a Putin like America where everything is controlled by them, I'll say go ahead Dems, bring light to how the current GOPs think of the USA and her people.

[Stuart G]

3. k and r..

[LonePirate]

4. What amazes me is...

Given that Republicans claim to love this country and the Constitution more than they think Democrats do, how do they justify their support of Trump who is the most unqualified and unfit person to head a major party's ticket in our country's history?

I hope Trump continues to destroy his candidacy en route to Clinton winning 400+ EVs. Trump and his supporters deserve to be on the losing end of a blowout on Election Day.