Debate hangover: Today's news for October 21st

Still more stuff from Wednesday night's debate...

Fox News:

Clinton's debate reference to nuclear response rekindles judgement questions

Hillary Clinton’s latest mishandling of sensitive information may have occurred before an audience of 70 million.

Speaking at the presidential debate Wednesday night, Clinton noted that it takes four minutes from the time the president makes the call to use nuclear weapons to their actual launch. The remark came amid questions about the fitness of Clinton and GOP candidate Donald Trump to hold the nation’s nuclear codes, but critics, including former intelligence operatives, told Fox News that level of detail about nuclear response times is “protected information.”

“The bottom line on nuclear weapons is that when the president gives the order, it must be followed,” Clinton said. “There’s about four minutes between the order being given and the people responsible for launching nuclear weapons to do so.”

Nothing to see here folks. Even if this is top secret information, we all know Hillary won't be prosecuted for this slip of the tongue. Laws don't apply to people like Hillary.

In other debate news, remember how the MSM got the vapors over Trump saying he will tell us after the election whether he would concede it? Do you also remember this from November, 2000:

Grabien:

FLASHBACK: GORE REFUSES TO CONCEDE ELECTION, 

DEMANDS RECOUNT ‘TO ENSURE ALL THE VOTES ARE COUNTED’

Al Gore, speaking from the White House the week after having lost the general election, explains why he refused to concede the race:

"The effort that I have underway is simply to make sure that all of the votes are counted, and when the issues that are now being considered in the Florida Supreme Court are decided, that will be an important point. But I don't want to speculate what the court will do."

In case you have also forgotten, Al Gore was President Bill Clinton's vice president.

By the way, any wagers on whether Hillary challenges the election results if she loses by a small margin?

In other news...

Reuters:

Duterte aligns Philippines with China, says U.S. has lost

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announced his "separation" from the United States on Thursday, declaring he had realigned with China as the two agreed to resolve their South China Sea dispute through talks.

Duterte made his comments in Beijing, where he is visiting with at least 200 business people to pave the way for what he calls a new commercial alliance as relations with longtime ally Washington deteriorate.

"In this venue, your honors, in this venue, I announce my separation from the United States," Duterte told Chinese and Philippine business people, to applause, at a forum in the Great Hall of the People attended by Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli.

"Both in military, not maybe social, but economics also. America has lost."

...Duterte's remarks will prompt fresh concern in the United States, where the Obama administration has seen Manila as an important ally in its "rebalance" of resources to Asia in the face of a rising China.

The administration agreed a deal with Duterte's predecessor granting U.S. forces rotational access to bases in the Philippines and further doubts will be raised about the future of this arrangement.

But...we have Obama? Duterte must be a racist.

Seriously, this is the result of arguably one of the most inept presidents ever. His foreign policy has been nothing but misstep after misstep. (The irony of this is only compounded by seeing his first secretary of state running for president.)

On the bright side, we should get out of Asian politics anyway. Maybe this will lead us to reconsider our inane war on Islam?