Clinton goes after Trump at first debate

The debate took place on Monday night
The debate took place on Monday night

The debate of the century delivered.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump waged a fiery battle Monday night when they appeared on stage together — a clash of two famous personalities locked in a dead heat for the presidency. During one of the most highly anticipated debates in modern political history, the candidates drew sharp contrasts on temperament, character and policy and starkly different visions of where they would lead the nation.

By most measures, Clinton had the better night, repeatedly putting the Republican nominee on defense on the issues most likely to damage his White House campaign — his refusal to release his taxes, his past comments on race and his past comments on race and his attitude toward women.

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30 Comments

  1. September 28, 2016

    It seems they are caught between a rock and a hard place.

    I would expect Americans have had enough of the Clintons. Bill’s behavior scandalized the nation. He acted with incredible rudeness towards Black people in spite of the fact that they held – and would hold – top political positions across the country, and serve in the armed forces. Hillary’s not so private life has troubled those who contend for traditional morals and values. The two of them have gone out their way to commend themselves to the liberal thinking left wing.

    The names Trump has called women is enough to cost him the vote of every American whose mother was a woman. He has flaunted (bragged about) his sexual indiscretions. He has been married (I think is was) three times. His fishtailing and flip flopping on crucial issues is downright scary.

    ”Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any nation.” (Proverbs 14:34)

    Sincerely, Rev. Donald Hill.

    • Hillary v Trump v their Masters
      October 1, 2016

      Dr. Hill, the funny thing is that Trump’s is saying 100% the same thing that Obama said about Hillary before he won. After the election,Obamam and HIllary are now the best of mates. Now with Trump, BEFORE the elections, he is a good mate of Hillary despite his ‘wording’ it against her. My guess is that Hillary is being set up to lose. Trump will win and do the same about turn on ALL his promises when he is elected.

      The whole thing is a set-up. The US is being run not by their clown presidents, but by those pull the strings of the clowns Americans get to elect every 4 years or so.

  2. Dominica News Online - thank you!
    September 28, 2016

    DNO, you are a great newspaper for which Dominicans should be proud. Your dedication to upholding the highest standards of freedom of speech and information, is evident by your putting yourselves personally at risk from the powers that be by allowing our posts without fear, or favour.

    I salute you and thank for from the bottom of my heart for your principled stance. Keep it up and God bless!

    • September 29, 2016

      DNO takes first prize for freedom of expression in the media.

      This newspaper allows left wing kooks to ventilate. It also lets religious fanatics like myself claim to speak for God.

      DNO helps people think for themselves and draw their own conclusions.

      Besides it brings in information of events from around the world.

      Let no man muzzle you!

      Sincerely, Rev. Donald Hill. :lol:

      • DNO for President
        October 1, 2016

        DNO is the best newspapers in the world! Agreed!

  3. Hillary for President - NOT
    September 28, 2016

    Hillary is like the Silver Beach Hotel project. Corrupt to the very core.

    This sick woman who is a traitor to her country by selling it out to its enemies (check out her email scandal) is 99.9% backed by corporate donors. I know Americans are not very good with maths, but even an idiot can work out by that what’s in store for them. She is going to build this and build that and give jobs to people by taxing rich people Ain’t gonna happen folks, as for France, you start taxing the rich, then they just leave the country. Furthermore, why are rich people backing her if she is going to do all this? Check out Ireland’s 12.5% corporate tax – Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Citi, IBM, etc. – they are all there basking in cheap labour and a tax regime that would bring a smile to the face of tax evader. In the meantime, 40% of Americans are poor and living from hand to mouth. A total disgrace which this horrible woman has no plan to fix.

  4. Preacher
    September 28, 2016

    Trump reminds me of Linton
    Just chatting rubbish
    But trump is still brighter than him
    Dominica would become the laughing stock of the world to make Linton prime minister
    You need people with qualifications that our youth can learn to work hard at school
    And we all say AMEN

  5. The truth
    September 27, 2016

    We all love to see the debate in the US but we are afraid of our own in Dominica that is the truth we all know it

  6. J.John-Charles
    September 27, 2016

    When Obama contested both times he received over 90% from the blacks votes,and after 8 years can someone mention one thing this man has done for the blacks just one.Every city where you have large majority of blacks are run by Democrats and these cities are the poorest in the U.S. Take for example,the city of Milwaukee the last time they voted 4 a republican Mayor was 1908 and do you know that Milwaukee is the 6th. poorest city in a America.
    Every election the Democratic candidate paints the republican as against blacks.You remember 2008 the Obama camp accused Hilary and her husband as racist,until Bill said they (Obama) played the race card on me).Now the same Bill Clinton playing it on Trump.In 1991,1992 when he was runny for president and in September 2008 he used these word “Make America great again”.Now Trump is using the exact same words the same Bill Clinton is saying,”In the south we know this means the whites are up here and the blacks are at the bottom.

    • dominican
      September 29, 2016

      if you had any common sense you would realize obama cannot do things willy,nilly as he likes without the votes of the house and senate which he does not have the majority..its not like our system the governing party can do as they like even if the opposition oppose. before you chat the nonsense learn about the american system of government. everything the man try to implement the senate and house majority voting against or not putting it up for a vote.if obama had all the powers would he not be able to fill the vacant sport for the supreme court? come on people get knowledge and facts before running your mouths on here.

    • September 30, 2016

      Obama received over 90% of the black votes.

      Obama is pro-choice yet the majority of blacks are pro-life.

      They voted for Obama because he is black and for no other reason. He does not share their values. I am referring to other moral and social issues as well.

      Since Obama has been in office violence against blacks has escalated. Black, after black, after black has been shot in the streets by white officers. Each time Obama has come out and made a speech and so he should. But nothing has changed. Marijuana continues to be legalized. Same sex “marriage” has been legalized. Blacks don’t want this kind of an America. But Obama is president because he is black. People danced in the streets of Kenya when he was voted in. Not because America had a godly president. But because it had a black president.

      Now look at the choice Americans have. Two white candidates. Both of them are tools of the devil. Eat your heart out white America!

      Sincerely, Rev. Donald Hill.

  7. Tj
    September 27, 2016

    Why worry about Trump. Look at the following Mr. Skeritt has! :-D

    • October 4, 2016

      It could be worse.

      You could be forced to chose between Clinton and Trump. Neither of these people stand for God’s moral code. In spite of the fact that the Republican Party is historically known to be Bible belt conservative the two candidates in the present race are both left wing kooks.

      Sincerely, Rev. Donald Hill

  8. LifeandDeath
    September 27, 2016

    Trump ain’t no political match for Hillary Clinton. But this presidential campaign revealed a very serious Race and Class divide in America, behind all the pretty lights and huge Buildings .

    Even in the face of damning evidence of misbehavior from a Man like Trump, he still has a very large following. One can only hope now that America makes the better choice of President in Hillary Clinton..

    Trump would be a terrible stain on American Politics and possibly a menace to world peace. He doesn’t understand diplomacy and thinks everything is about him..Let him go back to his business, politics nowhere needs a knucklehead as such..

    • Dominican Passports
      September 27, 2016

      There is no chance at world peace, it’s only a matter of time before things get worse.

      • October 4, 2016

        God has everything under control.

        Tribulation days will soon be upon us. The LORD JESUS will appear for His own :!: Fast forward seven (7) years from that day and a former Jewish carpenter will ride upon a white steed from the Mount of Olives into Jerusalem. He will sit upon the restored throne of HIS ancestor David and rule the nations.

        ”…at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, … … and every knee shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” (Philippians 2:10,11)

        Sincerely, Rev. Donald Hill

    • Bumbble Lee
      September 28, 2016

      Signs of the times in which we live. Pharaoh was set up for his special assignment in Egypt; Just as Scare-it was put there for s destructive purpose to break the backs of Dominicans. Everything is planned by the higher power. We are now heading for Armageddon. :twisted: Neither Trump, nor Hail-lary is fit. But does America deserve better??? Ask yourself this question.

      • September 29, 2016

        The very fact that these two are running and each have a significant following says something about America.

        Yes, the stage is being set for the final drama. Only born again believers whose names are in the book of life have any reason to rejoice. Armageddon will soon be breaking news and steal the headlines. Good news, good news! God’s blood washed saints will not be here :!:

        Sincerely, Rev. Donald Hill.

  9. J.John-Charles
    September 27, 2016

    When she talks about blacks. I just shake my head. It was her husband who signed a crime bill in 1994 and dumped 100s of 1000s of blacks in prison.Can you remember the phrase “Three strikes and you are out” (in prison) she was only against it when Bernie Sunders accused her of hypocrisy during the primary.
    Democrats only remember blacks during election.Her husband destroyed our banana industry,He told the WTO if these small islands in the ACP countries cannot compete get out.The market must be a level playing field and he gave us the CBI.B.Clinton was running 4 president at the same time Haitians were risking their lives on small boats trying to reach Miami 4 survival. He told them if elected “I will make it easier 4 you to apply 4 political asylum”.Soon as he won, Clinton said in a broadcast.
    “Those who leave Haiti by boat 4 the U.S.will be intercepted and returned 2 Haiti by the U.S. coast guard.Leaving Haiti by boat is not the route of Freedom.”
    That is how they love…

    • Dominican
      September 27, 2016

      Republicans are nothing better..They claim democrats in power and black people not getting any progress but the forget to tell you it is the republican governors a in a democratic state who blocks and divert funds for eduction and housing ect. To other projects to white and rich neighborhoods..The racist though of the Donald disqualifying president Obama as American is a real concern why I would never vote republican..they are a bunch of racist goons and no black people should vote for him..I have issues with democrats with this gay marriage stuff,and government paying for people to have abortion ,and want transsexuals to use female bathroom but republicans are the worse of two evils.

  10. Pondera
    September 27, 2016

    Remarkable performance by Hiliary. She has substance and worth. America will be secured under her leadership. She has the requisite competence to be an enviable president. Dominica is voting Hiliary.

    • US Politics
      October 1, 2016

      Hillary/ Trump, it does not matter who gets in. American are destined to be screwed big time by either. Remember, 40% of Americans live from hand to mouth, the other 40% are poor, this means that 20% of Americanos have 80% of the wealth of the country and in the last crash, this gap has widened. Hillary’s plan to tax the rich is a joke, they will just leave. Trump’s plan to reduce taxes is also a joke as the government is already broke and won’t be able to pay for anything without a high rate of tax. Politics is just a game.

  11. john3 16
    September 27, 2016

    This woman is one of the biggest evil the world has seen over the past 30 years.

    Mash up Libya (kill the kernel)
    Mash up Syria (lead to the formation of ISIS)
    Mash up Iraq

    Mass incarceration of black people started under the clintons

    you only see here every four years

    • Smh
      September 27, 2016

      The decisions made in Libya, Syria and Iraq are all on her shoulders? Well her shoulder broad. So no responsibility lies with members of congress, the senate and the commander in chief? Seriously, we all have flaws but she is not to be blamed for everything which went down in these countries.

      Mass incarceration? So soon we will say police brutality stemmed from the Clintons and not from systemic racism in America, which was there long before the Clintons?

      Just asking!

      • john 3 16
        September 27, 2016

        listen and you will learn about hillary
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu41CPQw0hg

      • September 28, 2016

        @Smh September 27, 2016

        Yes! And you have asked well, I follow with you.

      • Bumbble Lee
        September 28, 2016

        You have a point??? A racist system has been in place in Oh, Merica for hundreds ah years. A system against “bl :) ck” peoples.

      • October 4, 2016

        Smh:

        Indeed, racism has been rampant in America long before the Clintons. This is the demon Dr. Martin Luther King, Ph.D. battled for the equality and rights of his people. It seems the Clintons fanned the flame of racism.

        Racism is the acting out of the fallen degenerated (Adam) nature in man. It is the human condition. Racism is one of the many symptoms of the disease known as sin.

        The only cure for this vile disease of the mind is the gospel of Christ. When we see all mankind in the WORLD and the WHOSOEVER of John 3:16 as well as ourselves we will see the incredible value of each person and the infinite worth of every human being.

        ”For God so loved the WORLD, that he gave his only begotten Son, that WHOSOEVER believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16)

        Sincerely, Rev. Donald Hill.

    • Marguerite
      September 27, 2016

      Can’t you all stop listening to FoxNews and start thinking for yourselves?

    • Ma Kell (ex Zicack, now Oregon)
      September 28, 2016

      Agreed.

      She can’t even debate fairly. The moderator took her side and also had an earpiece when this was against the rules. It was the black moderator 1 and Hillary 2 against Trump. He kept his dignity though and did not go for the jugular. This lady, who is a traitor to her country and a serial liar, has a very large jugular and my guess it will be laid bare if there is a next debate. Good luck Mr. Trump and continue saying it as it is.

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