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ISIS |
Challenge: smart and compassionate at the same time Iraq/syria 100,000 soldiers 20% recruited from outside region Minds of potential recruits Gray zone: from independent and sexy to isolated and stupid
Refugees: We've let in 745K 0 refugees arrested for terrorism since 2001 |
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Syria |
The challenge: finding the good guys and putting them in charge
4.5 years 72,000 civilians killed by Assad 60% in 1939 said don't take Jewish refugees
Let in 745K Since 2001, 0 domestic attacks. More people than boston or Denver |
Assad, refugees |
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Gun control |
Context: Columbine in a 1999, Aurora movie theater in 2012. Worst days of being a governor, getting that phone call. That's the one you dread.
Challenge: honoring people's constitutional rights while keeping people from getting shot to death
33,000. Two thirds of homocides. dead per year from gun deaths, 6x canada, 15x germany and 35x UK.
Not that hard: 2004: Reinstate assault weapons ban expired in 2004, 2 in 5: Background check and closing the gunshow loophole, mental health
55% of Americans agree on gun control measures should be stronger. NRA.
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Abortion |
Value: respect
Planned Parenthood, understand why videos surprised some.
Support a woman's and a family's right to choose. But it's critical to recognize that the procedure was not only legal, but that no one profits from it and that it is uniquely valuable for medical research. Women who have needed to seek out services at planned Parenthood can know that the organization is well within its rights and helping to advance leading medical research
Support Title X And ACA's provisions which provide funding and guarantees for women's health
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Race/ policing |
The challenge: policing effectively while not targeting people based on their appearance
Question: how is possible that we have more white people than black people in prison, but black men are 30(?) times more likely to be shot than white men.
Trainings
For profit prisons. 130. Grown substantially. 2/3rds have a requirement that beds be 90% full! Some have a 100% occupancy requirement
Voting Rights Act |
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Immigration |
Challenge: to bring order to a broken immigration system in a way that reflects the American values that brought all of our families here and that we're known for around the world.
Order at the border Fairness in integrating thru tests and English
Dignity: here's a spoiler alert: grabbing 12m people out of their homes, schools, jobs, churches, little league games, stuffing them into trains and buses and then driving them off into the Mexican desert? Not American values. We've made mistakes, but no American President has ever done that--not under GW when we had British loyalists in our country, not with the confederates left under Lincoln after the civil war, not under FRD during WWII. And by God.... if I'm president I will not be the first. |
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Final speech |
Launched campaign wanted it to be sincere. It's easy to get cynical. Most Americans hate politics. Half Millennials don't even identify with a party. 9 in 10 believe too much money in politics. This stuff is tough. We are the first nation that stood up to a global empire and won. We are the power that intervened against a global nazi and fascist threats and defeated it. We are the people that first took a human being to the moon. We are the genius behind the light bulb to the Internet. We can figure out how to fix our own capital. Really the only thing is our |
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Iran deal |
Challenge: this about avoiding another war in the middle east. 3.7 enrichment repurposed Fordo being repurposed Natanz centrifuges being cut in half Arak being repurposed Natanz centrifuges being cut in half Arak being repurposed Reduce by 98% its enriched uranium |
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Re 100 |
Walmart, Goldman sachs, nike, Microsoft |
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Minimum wage |
Since I was born, CEO salaries have grown by 300%. Avg. Workers have grown by 4% and minimum wage has gone down. Paid ceos more than taxes. Verizon, Ford, coca cola. GE paid negative taxes. |
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