My prediction - neither having Cuban in the front row or Flowers in the audience will even be noticed by the candidates or the audience.

This crap is comparable to the trash talking that pro sports players do in advance of a big game.

It won’t have any impact at all.

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:Clinton's move to put Cuban on the front row has already paid off. As can almost be guaranteed with Trump, he acts rashly without thinking. Attempting to shame via her husband's former mistress is hardly going to help Trump with woman voters. I don't think I can think of anything else that would actually create sympathy for Clinton. Moreover, it opens the floor to discussion of Trump's own affairs. If an affair by a candidate's husband is bad, then multiple affairs by a candidate must be worse, right?

I think this gives Clinton a "You're no Jack Kennedy" opportunity to say something along the lines of "affairs are terrible things. So, Mr. Trump, why did you not only have affairs during more than one marriage but brag about them?"

Not a chance that she is going to say anything on those lines. Bill C has too much baggage in this regard and Hillary does as an enabler. She won't even come close to allowing this to become a focal point of reviews of the debate in the days to follow.

In any event Fahrenkopf has said that Cuban will not have a front row seat and the last thing that Hillary wants is to have Flowers and other women involved with Bill to have any visibility during the debate.

With Trump running ads with Gennifer Flowers in them and Flowers potentially sitting in the front row, Clinton may not have a choice about the issue coming up. If it does come up, she has the opportunity to hit it out of the park. Let's say her critics or correct and she is an enabler. Trump actually committed exactly what Clinton allegedly enabled. Again, that makes Trump worse.

Flowers may remind voters (or introduce to younger voters) of Bill Clintons affair's. It it also gives Clinton to point out that Trump himself cheated on his first two wives with his second two.

Who's his fourth wife? Did I miss one?

The Clinton campaign opened this one up by inviting Cuban. not a classy tactic, nor a smart one imo - as they didn't anticipate Trump might make a move? He's a loose cannon.

This country deserves what it gets. We put these two clowns up there for this carnival freak show. So we'll have to deal with the consequences.

A mistress is nowhere in the same league as someone who opposes the candidate politically, as Cuban is. So the false equivalence fails again.

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jsteele wrote:If Flowers is brought up in the debate, Clinton should nod toward Melania and say that is ironic that both Bill Clinton and Donald Trump have former mistresses in the audience.

Ooh, this would send him into a fit of apoplexy! What a lovely thought.

I'm no fan of Trump but wasn't Marla the mistress? I thought Trump was long divorced when he took up with Melania.

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:Clinton's move to put Cuban on the front row has already paid off. As can almost be guaranteed with Trump, he acts rashly without thinking. Attempting to shame via her husband's former mistress is hardly going to help Trump with woman voters. I don't think I can think of anything else that would actually create sympathy for Clinton. Moreover, it opens the floor to discussion of Trump's own affairs. If an affair by a candidate's husband is bad, then multiple affairs by a candidate must be worse, right?

I think this gives Clinton a "You're no Jack Kennedy" opportunity to say something along the lines of "affairs are terrible things. So, Mr. Trump, why did you not only have affairs during more than one marriage but brag about them?"

Not a chance that she is going to say anything on those lines. Bill C has too much baggage in this regard and Hillary does as an enabler. She won't even come close to allowing this to become a focal point of reviews of the debate in the days to follow.

In any event Fahrenkopf has said that Cuban will not have a front row seat and the last thing that Hillary wants is to have Flowers and other women involved with Bill to have any visibility during the debate.

With Trump running ads with Gennifer Flowers in them and Flowers potentially sitting in the front row, Clinton may not have a choice about the issue coming up. If it does come up, she has the opportunity to hit it out of the park. Let's say her critics or correct and she is an enabler. Trump actually committed exactly what Clinton allegedly enabled. Again, that makes Trump worse.

Flowers may remind voters (or introduce to younger voters) of Bill Clintons affair's. It it also gives Clinton to point out that Trump himself cheated on his first two wives with his second two.

Who's his fourth wife? Did I miss one?

The Clinton campaign opened this one up by inviting Cuban. not a classy tactic, nor a smart one imo - as they didn't anticipate Trump might make a move? He's a loose cannon.

This country deserves what it gets. We put these two clowns up there for this carnival freak show. So we'll have to deal with the consequences.

Trump is already rattled, and he will be doubly rattled by Cuban smirking at him and the fact that Hillary will not give a rat's ass that Ginnifer is there.

Also, I found it hilarious that he initially misspelled her name in the tweet, and then deleted to repost with the correct name. SAD!

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Anonymous wrote:Trump's response/tweet is hilarious.

If Clinton is going to play games by putting Mark Cuban in a front seat, Trump has the right to do the same.

I love that Trump always responds in kind.

As the leader of the most powerful country on the planet, is it better to shrug it off or retaliate in kind? As the leader of the United States, you're already operating from a position of strength.

Are you saying the same about Clinton? After all, her people were the ones to start this. What's appropriate for the goose . . . Or is Hillary innocent as always????


http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/22/politics/mark-cuban-donald-trump-hillary-clinton/

"Just got a front row seat to watch @HillaryClinton overwhelm @realDonaldTrump at the "Humbling at Hofstra" on Monday," Cuban tweeted. "It Is On!"

A Clinton aide later confirmed that Cuban was, in fact, invited by the Clinton campaign.

"He has the best seat we have access to," the aide said.

Anonymous wrote:Pretty sure he is just playing--but who knows? I kind of think it is funny--she invited Mark Cuban to needle Trump----you know, "if he brings a knife, then you bring a gun..." I may not have that exactly write. Trump said that "perhaps" he would invite Flowers, and she replied that if invited she "would" accept.

I guess Monica is still a Clintonite--or maybe even Trump thinks that would be a step too far.

Someone should ask Monica if she's voting this time around. I highly doubt even she would want Billary back in the WH. She know's exactly what Bill would be doing there, and he wouldn't be much of a gentleman.

Anonymous wrote:Personal attacks on two innocent women. Nice job you raging sexist

so much for the compassionate, open-minded liberal

Trump won't use the word affair, he'll focus on the RAPE allegations , the LIES, and Hillary being the janitor for all of Bill's transgressions.

Anonymous wrote:Pretty sure he is just playing--but who knows? I kind of think it is funny--she invited Mark Cuban to needle Trump----you know, "if he brings a knife, then you bring a gun..." I may not have that exactly write. Trump said that "perhaps" he would invite Flowers, and she replied that if invited she "would" accept.

I guess Monica is still a Clintonite--or maybe even Trump thinks that would be a step too far.

If Cuban and Flowers are there in the front row, even if nothing comes up about Bill's affairs and Hillary being an enabler, her presence will get a lot of media attention. I can't believe the Clinton camp would have wanted this turn of events.

Pretty sure he is just playing--but who knows? I kind of think it is funny--she invited Mark Cuban to needle Trump----you know, "if he brings a knife, then you bring a gun..." I may not have that exactly write. Trump said that "perhaps" he would invite Flowers, and she replied that if invited she "would" accept.

I guess Monica is still a Clintonite--or maybe even Trump thinks that would be a step too far.

Just no Carrot Top I tell ya!

It looks like Flowers is indicating that she will accept an invitation to attend the debate

https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/gennifer-flowers-agrees-to-join-trump-at-presidential-debate?utm_term=.sryoZL27vW#.oqbkZE758a

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:Clinton's move to put Cuban on the front row has already paid off. As can almost be guaranteed with Trump, he acts rashly without thinking. Attempting to shame via her husband's former mistress is hardly going to help Trump with woman voters. I don't think I can think of anything else that would actually create sympathy for Clinton. Moreover, it opens the floor to discussion of Trump's own affairs. If an affair by a candidate's husband is bad, then multiple affairs by a candidate must be worse, right?

I think this gives Clinton a "You're no Jack Kennedy" opportunity to say something along the lines of "affairs are terrible things. So, Mr. Trump, why did you not only have affairs during more than one marriage but brag about them?"

Not a chance that she is going to say anything on those lines. Bill C has too much baggage in this regard and Hillary does as an enabler. She won't even come close to allowing this to become a focal point of reviews of the debate in the days to follow.

In any event Fahrenkopf has said that Cuban will not have a front row seat and the last thing that Hillary wants is to have Flowers and other women involved with Bill to have any visibility during the debate.

With Trump running ads with Gennifer Flowers in them and Flowers potentially sitting in the front row, Clinton may not have a choice about the issue coming up. If it does come up, she has the opportunity to hit it out of the park. Let's say her critics or correct and she is an enabler. Trump actually committed exactly what Clinton allegedly enabled. Again, that makes Trump worse.

Flowers may remind voters (or introduce to younger voters) of Bill Clintons affair's. It it also gives Clinton to point out that Trump himself cheated on his first two wives with his second two.

Hillary is not going to go there - she is way too smart to let that become a focus of the debate since that is what will be remembered. I don't think Trump will go there either. If it does come up, I would wager that Hillary will merely say that it is a private matter and a painful chapter in her life and she will gain some sympathy just by saying this.

Trump's multiple affairs don't make a difference to most people. For one thing, they are well known and he has never pretended otherwise. His supporters don't care about his marriages and affairs and independents who he is trying to woo would be unconcerned about that aspect of his personal life.

Trump is thin-skinned and Hillary would be best off trying to rankle him with regard to some other issue. Trump will try and come across as presidential and if he succeeds he will be deemed the winner by all other than Hillary supporters. He does not need to give substantive answers as much as come across as sane and considered in his responses. Ailes is advising him and he will urge Trump to stay with broad themes with little in the way of detail because going into detail will trip him.

jsteele wrote:If Flowers is brought up in the debate, Clinton should nod toward Melania and say that is ironic that both Bill Clinton and Donald Trump have former mistresses in the audience.

Ooh, this would send him into a fit of apoplexy! What a lovely thought.