Mitch Rapp

I don't know of a single federal government employee or contractor who does not have a personal email account. Most also have private Facebook and LinkedIn accounts as well. Trying to compare what Hillary Clinton did to people who have private accounts that they use for private, non-work-related communications is ludicrous. Under normal conditions, personal accounts should not be used for government business, but there are sometimes when it is acceptable, IMO. Private cell phones, texting, etc. is sometimes used when it is not practicable to use government networks. For example, when inclement weather strikes, phone calls between private numbers or private texts are used to ensure that everybody is aware of office closures or delayed openings. Another example is the use of a private text, email, or phone call to reach a government employee to let them know that you will be unable to make it into the office, will arrive late, or need to reschedule a meeting. So, there are some situations where using private email accounts to communicate to another government employee or contractor with a government email account is perfectly reasonable, appropriate, and legal. What Hillary did was none of the above. If Pence used his email account to conduct business, then there is a good chance that he violated no government policies or laws. If he did use his email account inappropriately, I doubt very seriously that, as Governor of Indiana, he even had access to the kind of classified documents that Hillary had on her private server. If he did what Hillary did, then I will support his impeachment and incarceration. If he is as guilty of Hillary's crimes, then I will even support making them prison cell mates.

The fact that the Obama administration made at least two requests for the FISA Court's permission to wiretap members of Trump's campaign team should be a huge scandal. The fact that the first request was rejected does not make it any less of a scandal. This is the electronic equivalent of the Watergate break in.

General Flynn threw his support behind Donald Trump before any other high ranking former military officer. A strong leader does not reward that kind of loyalty over such ridiculous allegations. Trump made a mistake in dumping Flynn - a big one - and he will be paying for it for a very long time.

Trump is terrible at using surrogates properly. I agree that he spends to much time drawing attention to himself. Fortunately, the Clinton campaign did a very poor job exploiting that weakness, but Clinton still did a much better job using surrogates to rattle his cage than he used against her.

Is calling your opponent in a debate a liar a sign of intelligence? If so, then I will take a pass, Clyde.

Don't call me a liar again, Clyde. Thanks in advance.

Spoiler alert!!! Computer geek satire at its best. :lol2:

Even more impressive. :lol2:

If what Pence did was funny to you, then you must have been rolling on the floor over Hillary's willful negligence.

Pence had no private server. There has been no allegation that there was any classified information sent via his private email account. There have been no allegations that Pence destroyed emails as part of an elaborate cover-up. Yeah, just like Hillary's case. :lol2:

You have managed to insult two members on opposite ends of the political spectrum in one short sentence. That is quite a feat.

In case you have not read any of the articles (which appears likely), many Democrat Party leaders, including Nancy Pelosi and Claire McCaskill have already been caught lying about meeting with the Russian ambassador and other Russian representatives. What I find ironic is that liberals constantly rail about the need to negotiate with the Castros, Iranian terrorist leaders, North Korea's regime, and other despicable individuals and regimes, yet have manufactured this scandal over Jeff Sessions meeting with the top Russian diplomat in this country, despite the fact that most people in Congress have also met him. Session was a U.S. Senator and part of the job was to meet with foreign diplomats. The objective of "all of this Sessions stuff" is to undermine the Trump administration. The Obama administration began planning and laying the groundwork for this "stuff" as soon as it was clear that Trump won the election.

Do you mean setting up servers in their basements, moving classified documents off of secure government servers to their unsecure personal servers, and destroying documents that are subject to subpoenas? Or are you equating having a personal email account to handle personal email traffic to taking actions to undermine national security and facilitating violations of the Freedom of Information Act?

I hope the lesson that Trump takes away from this manufactured scandal is that appeasing anti-American liberals by throwing one of your own to the wolves only encourages them. Trump throwing GEN Flynn under the bus was the first big mistake of his presidency. The question is, will he continue to make the same mistake, or will he start playing offense?

In my experience, not many women excel as programmers. The jobs are there for qualified female developers and the ones with whom I have worked have been good ones. My current project officer is a woman, our QA/QC tester is female, and our receptionist is also a woman. However, out of about 25 developers and network administrators. The most talented programmers with whom I have worked have been men and the majority of them were born in India. The schools in this country are not producing enough qualified men or women to fill the demand for programmers. However, I do not believe that the government should be spending money recruiting anybody into a particular field based on their sex, race, or ethnicity. Women are already earning college degrees at a much higher rate than men are. If we must have a Department of Education, one of the things it should be doing is encouraging all American students capable of filling high paying technical jobs to develop the appropriate talents for those jobs.

The "reports" may be a total fabrication. ABC News says that Claire McCaskill lied when she claimed that she has never met with the Russian Ambassador in the 10 years that she has been a member of the Armed Services Committee. How many of the 24 remaining members might have lied? How did you not stumble across the "reports" about McCaskill lying while you were Googling to find the "reports" that you decided to report here?

That's not how this works, Clyde. The topic was Trump's recent speech, not what he said before he took office. Nice try at diverting attention away from the fact that all Trump did was cited a statistic that was taken straight from Obama's BLS. It is you opinion that Trump cited that statistic to mislead people who are bad at math. Nothing wrong with having an opinion, as long as you don't put it on equal footing with indisputable facts.

Everybody knows what you have been doing. There is no need to explain it.

Assuming that Occupy Democrats' ( :lol2: ) information is correct, what law did his son-in-law break by meeting with the Russian Ambassador? Be specific, please.

Trump said a lot of things that were not true prior to taking the oath of office. On more than one occasion, I have called him a pathological liar. However, you are still wrong for accusing him of lying during his speech before Congress. He chose his words carefully and said what he meant. If you want to criticize many of the things that Trump has said in the past couple of years, then it should not be hard to nail him on a pattern of lies. But here's the thing...Trump ran against a candidate in November who was much more dishonest than he was. Had you railed against Hillary Clinton instead of defending her dishonest denials of wrong doing, you would have much more credibility with your endless barrage of attacks on Donald Trump. Let's limit our attacks on Donald Trump on what he says and does as POTUS, Clyde. That is what I have tried to do, and I know that I was much more critical of Trump the candidate than you were.

If CNN and Yahoo! report that the story is true, will it bother you that the Obamas and Jarrett plan to actively continue to undermine Trump's administration while operating from under the same roof? Or will you shift into defense mode?

When the Bush and Clinton families began hanging out with each other, I lost what little respect I had for them. Trump said some really stupid things during the primaries and essentially placed blame on George W. Bush for the 9/11 attacks, but siding with the liberal hacks attempting to delegitimize Trump's presidency after keeping his mouth shut for 8 years as Obama delivered his hate-filled assault on American traditions and laws, is inexcusable. Great presidents like Ronald Reagan are too few and too far between. Another few Bushes, Clintons, or Obamas, and this country, as we know it, will no longer exist. I hope that Trump continues to rise to meet the challenge, but with Congress full of RINOs and socialists, I am not very optimistic.

The Obamas were subversives before Mr. Obama was elected president and while he served as president. There is no reason to believe that he will change now that he has left office.

Prior to 1980, it was far more common for men to be the single breadwinner in a family consisting of two married people with children. The labor participation rate began climbing as the marriage rate declined and single parent households became more common. Obama left office with the labor participation rate being below its level during the depths of the recession. The recovery from that recession was anemic, with low wages, part time jobs substituted for full time jobs, and a plunging labor participation rate. [TABLE=class: grid, width:600] [TR] [TH]Year[/TH] [TH]Jan[/TH] [TH]Feb[/TH] [TH]Mar[/TH] [TH]Apr[/TH] [TH]May[/TH] [TH]Jun[/TH] [TH]Jul[/TH] [TH]Aug[/TH] [TH]Sep[/TH] [TH]Oct[/TH] [TH]Nov[/TH] [TH]Dec[/TH] [/TR] [TR=class: odd] [TH]2007[/TH] [TD]66.4[/TD] [TD]66.3[/TD] [TD]66.2[/TD] [TD]65.9[/TD] [TD]66.0[/TD] [TD]66.0[/TD] [TD]66.0[/TD] [TD]65.8[/TD] [TD]66.0[/TD] [TD]65.8[/TD] [TD]66.0[/TD] [TD]66.0[/TD] [/TR] [TR=class: even] [TH]2008[/TH] [TD]66.2[/TD] [TD]66.0[/TD] [TD]66.1[/TD] [TD]65.9[/TD] [TD]66.1[/TD] [TD]66.1[/TD] [TD]66.1[/TD] [TD]66.1[/TD] [TD]66.0[/TD] [TD]66.0[/TD] [TD]65.9[/TD] [TD]65.8[/TD] [/TR] [TR=class: odd] [TH]2009[/TH] [TD]65.7[/TD] [TD]65.8[/TD] [TD]65.6[/TD] [TD]65.7[/TD] [TD]65.7[/TD] [TD]65.7[/TD] [TD]65.5[/TD] [TD]65.4[/TD] [TD]65.1[/TD] [TD]65.0[/TD] [TD]65.0[/TD] [TD]64.6[/TD] [/TR] [TR=class: even] [TH]2010[/TH] [TD]64.8[/TD] [TD]64.9[/TD] [TD]64.9[/TD] [TD]65.2[/TD] [TD]64.9[/TD] [TD]64.6[/TD] [TD]64.6[/TD] [TD]64.7[/TD] [TD]64.6[/TD] [TD]64.4[/TD] [TD]64.6[/TD] [TD]64.3[/TD] [/TR] [TR=class: odd] [TH]2011[/TH] [TD]64.2[/TD] [TD]64.1[/TD] [TD]64.2[/TD] [TD]64.2[/TD] [TD]64.1[/TD] [TD]64.0[/TD] [TD]64.0[/TD] [TD]64.1[/TD] [TD]64.2[/TD] [TD]64.1[/TD] [TD]64.1[/TD] [TD]64.0[/TD] [/TR] [TR=class: even] [TH]2012[/TH] [TD]63.7[/TD] [TD]63.8[/TD] [TD]63.8[/TD] [TD]63.7[/TD] [TD]63.7[/TD] [TD]63.8[/TD] [TD]63.7[/TD] [TD]63.5[/TD] [TD]63.6[/TD] [TD]63.8[/TD] [TD]63.6[/TD] [TD]63.7[/TD] [/TR] [TR=class: odd] [TH]2013[/TH] [TD]63.6[/TD] [TD]63.4[/TD] [TD]63.3[/TD] [TD]63.4[/TD] [TD]63.4[/TD] [TD]63.4[/TD] [TD]63.3[/TD] [TD]63.3[/TD] [TD]63.3[/TD] [TD]62.8[/TD] [TD]63.0[/TD] [TD]62.9[/TD] [/TR] [TR=class: even] [TH]2014[/TH] [TD]62.9[/TD] [TD]62.9[/TD] [TD]63.1[/TD] [TD]62.8[/TD] [TD]62.8[/TD] [TD]62.8[/TD] [TD]62.9[/TD] [TD]62.9[/TD] [TD]62.8[/TD] [TD]62.9[/TD] [TD]62.9[/TD] [TD]62.7[/TD] [/TR] [TR=class: odd] [TH]2015[/TH] [TD]62.9[/TD] [TD]62.7[/TD] [TD]62.7[/TD] [TD]62.8[/TD] [TD]62.9[/TD] [TD]62.6[/TD] [TD]62.6[/TD] [TD]62.6[/TD] [TD]62.4[/TD] [TD]62.5[/TD] [TD]62.5[/TD] [TD]62.7[/TD] [/TR] [TR=class: even] [TH]2016[/TH] [TD]62.7[/TD] [TD]62.9[/TD] [TD]63.0[/TD] [TD]62.8[/TD] [TD]62.6[/TD] [TD]62.7[/TD] [TD]62.8[/TD] [TD]62.8[/TD] [TD]62.9[/TD] [TD]62.8[/TD] [TD]62.6[/TD] [TD]62.7[/TD] [/TR] [TR=class: odd] [TH]2017[/TH] [TD]62.9[/TD] [TD] [/TD] [TD] [/TD] [TD] [/TD] [TD] [/TD] [TD] [/TD] [TD] [/TD] [TD] [/TD] [TD] [/TD] [TD] [/TD] [TD] [/TD] [TD] [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE]

I am hanging my hat on the fact that the number that is giving you so much pain is accurate. The fact that there are some very poorly educated people in this country who may be clueless and believe that Trump wants them to believe that there are 94 million people actively looking for jobs is really not Trump's problem. Maybe Trump's Secretary of Education could address the issue that you have with Trump's choice of statistics. Did you ever express similar outrage as Obama repeatedly touted the official unemployment rate , which grossly understates the unemployment problem in this country? I'm guessing not.