A black president followed by a female president. Republicans everywhere will be screaming "why has God forsaken me"......

Whilst not accusing anyone on this forum, you'd have to say a fair amount of the detractors Bernie has is rooted in some antisemitism.

The republicans trying to make something out of nothing with Hillary's emails is laughable. Try as they might they wont get anywhere because there is nothing to see. Hillary's record is second to none on foreign policy. I think she has to put up with probably more than her fair share also due to the fact of her being a woman in a male dominated domain.

No real woman would use that pathetic excuse.

The iron lady and Queen Elizabeth are far stronger than any fairy who would talk that crap.

Trump will do exactly what the military tells him.

Like all good US presidents.

Trump will do exactly what the military tells him.

Like all good US presidents.

[size=8]Donald Trump's odds down to 12-1 to win 2016 election[/size]
8/8/2015

Donald Trump has the international betting market's attention, but despite what some polls suggest, oddsmakers have the boisterous billionaire pegged as a second-tier underdog to be the next president of the United States.

Trump's rise has been brisk and loud, but he still has a long ways to go to catch consensus favorite Hillary Clinton, who is currently even money to be the next president. More money has been bet on Clinton than any other candidate -- 10 times more than Trump at Ladbrokes, according to head of political odds Matthew Shaddick.

William Hill reported taking bets on Clinton to one day become president as far back as the 1990s, when her husband, Bill, was in the White House.

Odds to win 2016 U.S. presidential election
(Courtesy of William Hill U.K.)
CANDIDATE   ODDS
Hillary Clinton   1-1
Jeb Bush   7-2
Marco Rubio   7-1
Scott Walker   10-1
Bernie Sanders   12-1
Donald Trump   14-1
Joe Biden   14-1
Rand Paul   25-1
John Kasich   25-1
Mike Huckabee   25-1
Chris Christie   50-1
Elizabeth Warren   66-1
Ben Carson   100-1
Republican Jeb Bush, at 7-2, is the second favorite, followed by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (10-1). U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Trump are next at 12-1. A bettor in 2014 at Ladbrokes backed Sanders at 500-1 and would win more than £75,000 with an upset victory.

Bullshit odds.

How is Bush second favourite? He's on less than 10% ffs.

It's amazing that so many people who inherit their wealth are the first to preach that people should be self-reliant. I suppose it looks like it is easy to score a home run when you were born on 3rd base!

I posted an article earlier in this thread that answers your question.

If you ask voters "who do you THINK will win the nomination" as opposed to "who would YOU vote for" they answer Jeb and Hillary.

And it is well established that in polls early on in the Primary process when there are many candidates, voting intention is not as indicative as asking who you think will win.

It is important to remember that most people are not engaged in the process at present.

I'll eat my hat if it doesn't end up as Hillary v Jeb.

The bottom line is that Trump supports a protectionist trade policy, an isolationist foreign policy, and is strong on immigration. No wonder he's doing so well.

Protectionist Trade Policy?
The US is perhaps the greatest beneficiary of free trade over the last 100 or so years. Why would you want to be isolationist if you were the USA? Isolationist trade policy is insane for the US.

Isolationist foreign policy?
I don't know how you can state that - he has been totally contradictory in his statements on foreign policy, sometimes advancing disengagement, sometimes arguing intervention.

In all cases he proposes unrealistic simplistic solutions to incredibly complex problems.

Strong on Immigration?
Easy to spout hardline sounding rubbish. But again, where is the reality? If things were so easy to fix, they would have occurred. You also forget that the US economy cannot afford to get rid of their illegal migrants, as they make up the American wage slave underclass that props up the rich.

Obama has done wonders to lower the unemployment rate in this economic climate. He doesnt get the credit he deserves.

I will give him credit for health care reform.

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Truly ebin, I love that people get their talking points form intellectual heavy weights such as Maher and Oliver.

Truly ebin, I love that people get their talking points form intellectual heavy weights such as Maher and Oliver.

Donald Trump: 21 things the Republican believes

Donald Trump is the frontrunner in the Republican race to be the presidential nominee for next year's election. What are his policies and beliefs?

1. Arab-Americans cheered the attacks on 9/11.Trump repeatedly claimed that on 11 September, 2001, there were thousands of Arab-Americans celebrating in New Jersey after two planes flew into the Twin Towers. He says such public demonstrations "tell you something" about Muslims living in the US, however there are no media reports to back up the claim.

2. There should be surveillance on US mosques. Trump believes Muslims should be tracked by law enforcement as a counterterrorism initiative. He has walked back some comments about keeping a database on all American Muslims, but says he doesn't care if watching mosques is seen as "politically incorrect".

3. The US should use waterboardingand other methods of "strong interrogation" in its fight against the Islamic State. The candidate said that these methods are "peanuts" compared to the tactics used by the militants, such as beheadings.

4. Trump would "bomb the hell" out of IS. He claims that no other candidate would be tougher on the Islamic State and he would weaken the militants by cutting off their access to oil.

5. Create a simpler tax code.Trump wants anyone who earns less than $25,000 (£16,524) to pay no income tax. They would submit nothing more than a single page tax form that reads "I win". He would lower the business tax to 15%. He would also allow multinational companies keeping money overseas to repatriate their cash at a 10% tax rate.

6. Hedge fund managers are "getting away with murder" under the current US tax code. Trump found common ground with Democrats like Senator Elizabeth Warren when he said that hedge fund managers and the ultra-wealthy do not pay enough taxes. However, after the campaign released specifics of his plan, analysts argued that hedge fund managers would actually get a tax cut along with the middle class.

7. He wants to build a "great, great wall" between the US and Mexico. In some of his earliest campaign comments, Trump suggested that Mexicans coming to the US are largely criminals. "They are bringing drugs, and bringing crime, and they're rapists," he said. A wall on the border, he claims, will not only keep out undocumented immigrants but Syrian migrants as well. He also believes that Mexico should have to pay for the wall, which a BBC analysis estimates could cost between $2.2bn and $13bn.

8. A mass deportation of the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants living in the US should go into effect. Despite criticism that this idea is both xenophobic and prohibitively expensive - the BBC estimates $114bn - Trump says his deportation plan is as achievable as it will be humane. In addition, his immigration reforms would end "birthright citizenship", the policy that grants the children of illegal immigrants citizenship so long as they are born on American soil. He does not support creating a new path to citizenship for undocumented workers.

9. He and Vladmir Putin would "get along very well". In an interview with CNN, Trump said that Putin and Obama dislike one another too much to negotiate, but that "I would probably get along with him very well. And I don't think you'd be having the kind of problems that you're having right now".

10. In order to end mass shootings, the US should invest in mental health treatment. However, Trump does not believe that more gun control is the answer. In a position paper on gun rights, Trump revealed he has a concealed carry permit and that when it comes to gun and magazine bans, "the government has no business dictating what types of firearms good, honest people are allowed to own". He would also oppose an expansion of background checks.

11. China should be taken to task on a number of issues in order to make trade with the US more equitable. If elected he says he will make China stop undervaluing its currency, and force it to step up its environmental and labour standards. He is also critical of the county's lax attitude towards American intellectual property and hacking.

12. The Black Lives Matter movement is "trouble". Trump mocks Democratic candidates like Martin O'Malley for apologising to members of the protest movement against police brutality and casts himself as a pro-law enforcement candidate. "I think they're looking for trouble," he once said of the activist group. He also tweeted a controversial graphic purporting to show that African Americans kill whites and blacks at a far higher rates than whites or police officers. However, the graphic cites a fictitious "Crime Statistics Bureau" for its numbers, and has been widely debunked using real FBI data.

13. Current unemployment statistics are wrong. Trump has said repeatedly that unemployment in the US is at 20% - once commenting it may be as high as 42% - despite the fact that the Bureau of Labor Statistics pegs the number at 5.1%. Trump says he doesn't believe that figure is real.

14. His net worth is $10bn. Based on Trump's 92-page personal financial disclosure form, Bloomberg calculated that the real estate mogul is worth about $2.9bn and Forbes put Trump's worth at $4bn. In response, Trump insisted in a press release that he is worth "in excess of TEN BILLION DOLLARS". He is self-funding his campaign and describes his start in the business world as a "small loan of a million dollars" from his father.

15. Veteran healthcare in the US needs a major overhaul. Trump wants to clear out the executive level in the Department of Veterans Affairs, saying that wait times for doctor visits have only increased after previous interventions failed. Thousands of veterans have died while waiting for care, he says. He will invest in the treatment of "invisible wounds" like post-traumatic stress disorder and depression. He would also increase the number of doctors who specialise in women's health to help care for the increasing number of female veterans.

16. Obamacare is a "disaster". Trump says he favours repealing the president's Affordable Care Act, which aims at extending the number of Americans with health insurance, but he believes that "everybody's got to be covered". A spokesman for Trump told Forbes that he will propose "a health plan that will return authority to the states and operate under free market principles".

17. Climate change is just "weather". While Trump believes that maintaining "clean air" and "clean water" is important, he dismissed climate change science as a "hoax" and believes environmental restrictions on businesses makes them less competitive in the global marketplace. "I do not believe that we should imperil the companies within our country," he told CNN on the issue. "It costs so much and nobody knows exactly if it's going to work."

18. The world would be better off if Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddhafi were still in power. Trump told CNN that he believes the situation in both Libya and Iraq is "far worse" than it ever was under the two deceased dictators. While he concedes Hussein was a "horrible guy", he says he did a better job combating terrorists.

19. He would send back Syrian migrants seeking asylum in the US. He says that the Paris attacks prove that even a handful of terrorists posing as migrants could do catastrophic damage, and so he will oppose resettling any Syrians in the US, and deport those who have already been placed here.

20. Kim Davis should get another job. The Kentucky clerk became a conservative cause when she was jailed for refusing to issue marriage licences to gay couples because of her Christian faith. But Trump said: "I'm a very, very strong believer in Christianity and religion, but I will say that this was not the right job for her."

21. He is a "really nice guy". In Trump's most recent book, Crippled America, he writes that "I'm a really nice guy, believe me, I pride myself on being a nice guy but I'm also passionate and determined to make our country great again". The news site Gawker points out that he calls himself a "nice guy" throughout the book, and Trump repeated that self-assessment in his opening monologue on Saturday Night Live.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34903577

Trump will win, I have a horrible feeling about this.

Trump will win, I have a horrible feeling about this.

Trump will win, I have a horrible feeling about this.