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THE PORT LAVACA WAVE
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2016
THE FORUM
Trump finally says Obama born in US
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left the
taking
then he
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basket of people are people who
feel that the government has let
them down, the economy has let
them down, nobody cares about
them, nobody worries about
what happens to their lives and
their futures, and they’re just
desperate for change.
“It doesn’t really even
matter where it comes from.
They don’t buy everything he
says, but he seems to hold out
some hope that their lives will
be different. They won’t wake
up and see their jobs disappear,
lose a kid to heroin, feel like
they’re in a dead end. Those are
people we have to understand
and empathize with as well.”
Clinton’s recognition that
a lot of people think things
need to change probably won’t
affect the fact that Trump’s
expressed opinions, on issues
and people, are in a constant
state of change.
But it will be interesting
to see if that point gets driven
home in the last few weeks of
the campaign, and particularly
in Clinton’s three debates with
Trump.
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erasing it in history”
But it may also have been
Clinton, at a Sept. 9 fundraiser,
describing “half’ of Trump
supporters as a “basket of
deplorables,” that brought the
Birther issue back into focus.
That remark got a lot of
publicity, and criticism. Clinton
apologized the next day “I
regret saying ‘half -- that was
wrong,” she said in a statement.
But her description of
other Trump supporters got
little attention, noted New York
Times columnist Charles Blow
Blow reported Clinton’s full
quote about the “deplorables” --
plus what she said immediately
after that:
“You know, to just be
grossly generalistic, you could
put half of Trump’s supporters
into what I call the basket
of deplorables. Right? The
racist, sexist, homophobic,
xenophobic, Islamophobic —
you name it. And unfortunately
there are people like that.
“And he has lifted them
up. He has given voice to their
websites that used to only
have 11,000 people — now 11
million. He tweets and retweets
their offensive, hateful, mean-
spirited rhetoric. Now some
of those folks — they are
irredeemable, but thankfully
they are not America.”
Then, Clinton, about other
Trump backers:
“But the other basket —
and I know this because I see
friends from all over America
here — I see friends from
Florida and Georgia and South
Carolina and Texas — as well
as, you know, New York and
California — but that other
I
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starting it.
“We rate Trump’s claim
False.”
Trump’s second lie is
that he “ended” the Birther
controversy
He presumably was
referring to Obama releasing
his Hawaiian long-form birth
certificate in 2011, to stop
the distracting questioning
of his birthplace Trump so
relentlessly continued to
spread.
In television interviews
and on Twitter, Trump kept
questioning whether Obama
was born in the United States
-- into 2016.
As recently as the
Thursday before his Friday
(Sept. 16) terse concession to
reporters that Obama was born
in the United States, Trump
had refused to confirm his
opinion had changed - despite
campaign manager Kellyanne
Conway saying it had.
Washington Post reporter
Robert Costa asked Trump if
he had come to believe Obama
was indeed born in Hawaii.
“I’ll answer that question at the
right time,” Trump responded.
“I just don’t want to answer it
yet.”
Trump’s switch was read
by some observers as an effort
to remove a claim that had
offended many minorities.
Clinton said Trump’s
concession wouldn’t clear his
record.
“For five years, he has
led the Birther movement to
delegitimize our first black
president,” Clinton said. “His
campaign was founded on this
outrageous lie. There is no
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AUSTIN — U.S. Secretary
of Defense Ash Carter on Sept.
14 announced the opening of
a “Defense Innovation Unit
Experimental” hub at the
Capital Factory in downtown
Austin.
Carter and University
of Texas System Chancellor
William McRaven said the hub
would provide opportunities
for innovators to partner with
the Department of Defense
to develop technologies to
address the nation’s security
challenges.
“Austin’s commitment to
innovation, access to talent
and academia, as well as the
department’s longstanding ties
to Texas, make this an ideal
next location for DIUx,” Carter
said.
Gov. Greg Abbott added,
Texas is the new frontier in
innovation, and with the arrival
of DIUx, the Department of
Defense’s best technologists
will be right here in Austin.”
According to the DIUx
mission statement, “As our
name implies, DIUx is just
that: an ‘experiment.’ We
continuously iterate on how
best to identify, contract, and
prototype novel innovations
through sources traditionally
not available to the Department
of Defense, with the ultimate
goal of accelerating technology
into the hands of the men and
women in uniform.”
The Capital
an incubator for start-up
technology companies founded
in 2008 by Joshua Baer, occupies
the fifth and 16th floors of the
Omni Austin Hotel.
Other DIUx hubs have
been launched in Northern
California’s Silicon Valley and
in Boston.
Texas economy adds jobs
The Texas Workforce
Commission on Sept. 16
reported the increase of an
estimated 21,400 nonfarm jobs
in August and noted that the
state has added jobs in 16 of the
last 17 months.
Despite that increase,
Texas’ seasonally adjusted
unemployment rate increased
to 4.7 percent in August, up
slightly from 4.6 percent in July
The national unemployment
rate for August was 4.9 percent.
Some students may register
Texas Secretary of State
Carlos Cascos on Sept. 13 posted
a reminder that qualified
students have a variety of
options to register to vote,
including through their high
school principal.
“Texas law has a unique
provision that requires high
school principals, or their
designees, to serve as a voter
registrar. I encourage all high
school principals to offer this
opportunity before the Oct. 11
registration deadline for the
November election,” Cascos
said.
Students may register
if they are a U.S. citizen and
have reached the age of 17
years and 10 months. To vote
in an election, a Texan must
be 18 years old by Election
Donald Trump, a candidate
of change, finally publicly
admitted Friday (Sept. 16) that
he’d changed his mind: Barack
Obama was born in the United
States.
Hillary Clinton says she’d
like to see things change, too -
besides Trump’s mind. Read on.
Trump didn’t apologize
for spreading the false Birther
rumor for years - and during
his half-minute concession told
two lies.
Trump’s full statement, on
dropping the Birther allegation
at the core of his political
involvement:
“Hillary Clinton and her
campaign of 2008 started the
Birther controversy I finished
it — I finished it — and you
know what I mean,” Trump
said.
“President Barack Obama
was born in the United States.
Period,” Trump declared.
“Now we all want to get back
to making America strong and
great again.”
And
podium,
questions.
First, his claim that
Clinton “started the Birther
controversy” is bogus.
“There is no evidence to
support this,” said Politifact,
the respected fact-checker of
political claims.
“Clinton supporters
circulated the rumor in the last
days of the 2008 Democratic
primary and after Clinton had
conceded to Obama,” the story
continued. “But the record
does not show Clinton or her
campaign ever promoting
the Birther theory, let alone
Day In addition to students,
high school principals or their
designee also may register
employees of their schools.
For more information visit
VoteTexas.gov or call 1-800-252-
VOTE.
Sabre home offices grow
Gov. Abbott on Sept. 14
announced Southlake, Texas-
based Sabre GLBL Inc. would
expand its headquarters at the
Solana development in nearby
Westlake.
The expansion, made
possible in part by a $5 million
Texas Enterprise Fund grant
issued by the governor’s office,
is expected to create 500 new
jobs and bring more than $37
million in capital investment,
Abbott said.
Sabre provides software,
data, mobile and distribution
solutions to airlines
and hotel properties to
manage critical operations,
including passenger and
guest reservations, revenue
management, flight, network
and crew management. Sabre
serves customers in more than
160 countries.
Free inspections offered
To coincide with
national Child Passenger
Safety Week, Sept. 18-24,
the Texas Department of
Transportation on Sept. 13
encouraged caregivers to make
an appointment for a free
inspection at the agency’s 25
statewide district offices.
TxDOT noted that
nationwide, three out of four
car seats are improperly
installed. The agency
reminded Texans that properly
restraining their children
while riding in vehicles is the
law, and is an everyday, year-
round responsibility
“We are determined to
educate parents and caregivers
in Texas about the importance
of buckling their child into
the correct car seat for their
age and size,” said TxDOT
Executive Director James Bass.
“It’s not only the law, but we’re
also trying to save lives through
proper use of safety seats.”
Texas law requires all
children under 8, unless they
are taller than 4 feet 9 inches, to
be in a car seat whenever they
ride in a passenger vehicle.
Failure to properly restrain a
child can result in a ticket of
up to $250. In 2015, 83 children
younger than 8 years old were
killed in crashes in Texas.
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