One rogue person, maybe two, I could perhaps see it happening -- but not his entire executive team. Speaking as a former senior staffer, there is no way I'd have ever allowed myself to be the patsy or fall guy over a matter of such obviously questionable ethics.

So, the notion that nine people would willingly jeopardize their professional reputations and careers on behalf of the boss just flies completely counter to my own experience in that public realm.

It's really quite extraordinary..

Three strong men can get anyone down and handcuffed, if their intent is strictly that (doing their f*cking job, in other words) and not to "get out their adrenaline" by teaching someone a lesson about what happens when you resist.

Eight years ago, black unemployment was 11.3% and climbing rapidly.  Right now it is 8.1% and falling.

Even the Anti-Defamation League in New York, which in a 1994 battle forced Palm Beach's Sailfish Club to open up its membership, was concerned that Mr. Trump was using the charge of anti-Semitism for his own mercantile ends. The league's national director, Abraham Foxman, met with Mr. Trump soon after to air his concerns. According to Mr. Foxman, Mr. Trump agreed to modify his claims to allege only that the town council has treated Mar-a-Lago unfairly, compared with other clubs in town.

You talk about Latin America without any knowledge of it, except to say you visited it when you went the Bahamas.

You say Latin America has an inferior culture because "they" are leaving there to come here.  Yet, you ignore the flight of the youth out of "flyover" country (your term, not mine) and to the coasts and large cities.  Does your theory of the movement of peoples apply to "flyover" country or to just the brown people?

And, now a new theory:  Northern Europeans are inherently superior to Southern Europeans.  Truly disgusting.

But, I have always believed racism is often caused by sheer ignorance.   You have displayed that here while trying to sound authoritative.  The one instance that just floored me was when someone here asked for directions from John Wayne Airport to Laguna Niguel.  You with great authority said that it could take up to an hour and a half, and that going via "Highway 1" would be good alternate route that was scenic.  That was absurd.  You had no idea what you were talking about, but still had to give an opinion--presumably to someone who you wanted to rely on your "advice."

Well, Jimbo, I knew you were full of it then.  My office has been located within a one mile radius of John Wayne Airport for 30 years.  For half of that time, including the present, my office has been within walking distance of John Wayne.    And, for close to 30 years, I have lived in South Orange County, driving past the Laguna Niguel exit for 30 years.  Your advice was absurd.  As Donald pointed out, you can take the tollway and be in Laguna Niguel within 15 minutes.   And, no, "Highway 1" (you meant PCH) is not a scenic way to get to Laguna Niguel from John Wayne Airport.

But, notwithstanding how wrong you were, you presumed to give authoritative directions to someone who was asking for accurate information.  You do not know what you are talking about most of the time, just as you had no idea about directions to Laguna Niguel, or that Latin America does not include the Bahamas.

Ignorance does lead to racist views.   The cure is an open mind and open heart.  

Exactly what does question if a candidate was born in the USA have to do with race??

How many WHITE candidates and elected presidents had to answer a ridiculous question FOR FIVE YEARS that was answered easily by checking the Honolulu newspaper in 1961?

No one needed to see a birth certificate, since the answer was a matter of publicly disseminated record.

Why do you suppose this was not sufficient, and the "short form" wasn't sufficient?  What was different about this president from every previous president who DIDN'T have to answer these questions?  After all, John McCain was born in Panama, and Ted Cruz was born in Canada, and all the right-wing nut jobs questioning Obama accepted THEIR citizenship, as do I.

It was Lt. William Calley's C Company of Americal Division's "Task Force Barker" that committed the My Lai atrocities. Further, Powell has never been implicated in any of the wrongdoing involving My Lai, nor has any evidence tied him directly to the attempted cover-up by Americal Divison's chain of command, of which then-Maj. Powell was an integral part. But Officers at the Chu Lai HQ had aggressively attempted to suppress the story of My Lai, to the point of ordering the destruction of evidence linking Americal soldiers to the tragedy.

And that particular point was left completely unacknowledged by Powell in his own 1995 autobiography "My American Journey." Rather, he not so subtly alluded that he himself had provided the first evidence of the My Lai massacre to the Pentagon, as though he had been a benign observer at Chu Lai who was somehow responsible for first cracking open the cover up.

In fact, what Powell didn't disclose to his readers was that in May 1969, criminal investigators from the Pentagon's IG were already at Chu Lai, and that he had been ordered by them to produce the official journals of Americal Division for March 1968. Those investigators already knew exactly what they were looking for.

But more to the point, in November 1968 -- not long after he first arrived at Chu Lai -- Maj. Powell was ordered to inquire into allegations made by another GI that about eight months earlier, U.S. troops of the Americal command had "without provocation or justification" conducted an operation in a local hamlet that resulted in the deaths of many Vietnamese civilians, which may or may not have been the incident at My Lai.

And good soldier that he was, Maj. Powell did his best to discredit the source of this allegation on behalf of his superiors, by conducting an investigation that can best be described as cursory. Because rather than bother himself to at least talk to that young man first, instead Powell interviewed a couple of the young man's officers, and then dutifully reporting to his superiors in the Dec. 13, 1968 letter I cited above that there was nothing to the GI's charges. Again, this documented point went completely unacknowledged in his autobiography.

Powell obviously likes to "advise". He was fine advising Breedlove on how to get Obama to militarily challenge Russia on Ukraine. He was fine advising Straw in the UK about how to address their Iraq War inquiry. He's all about being important enough to hand out advice.