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Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Trump: "Stop and frisk" isn't racial profiling it's stopping "bad people."

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Trump: "Stop and frisk" isn't racial profiling it's stopping "bad people.":

"Stop and frisk" isn't racial profiling it's stopping "bad people."


"But we need — Lester, we need law and order. And we need law and order in the inner cities..." -- Trump
I actually would have found at least the second half of the debate entertaining, if the stakes weren't so damn high. The Daily Show's Trevor Noah summed it up this way:

"Welcome to the real-life version of Twitter, people," Noah said. "You know that at that point, Lester Holt wasn't even moderating anymore, he was just eating popcorn with everyone else."
I admit, after watching the poorly-run Clinton campaign slide so badly since the convention, I was concerned that Donald Trump would carry his momentum into the debate. Boy, was I wrong.

An apparently sedated Hillary Clinton, halting and self-constrained, waited patiently for her moment. Then she took her best shots, in response to Trump's never ending braggadocio (his word, not mine) about his mythical business acumen, deal-making artfulness and ability to Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Trump: "Stop and frisk" isn't racial profiling it's stopping "bad people.":