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Old 09-25-2015, 11:03 AM   #1
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Is this a trick or a treat?
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Old 09-25-2015, 11:24 AM   #2
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If he's being pushed out because he's not partisan enough, I can only imagine that his replacement is going to be swell.
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Old 10-27-2015, 03:28 PM   #3
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It's like that study they did, where they put a particular scent on the first female that a male rat is allowed to fuck, and for the rest of his life he will show a preference for that scent, even if it's a horrible death/sewage smell. Our nation is always going to want to fuck Bush/Clinton again, no matter how many better lays might be out there.
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Old 10-27-2015, 03:37 PM   #4
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Thanks for that visual image, Clod. I'm going to clear my mental palate with zombie death in Walking Dead.
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Old 10-27-2015, 07:30 PM   #5
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That explains wacko extremists. They only believe the first thing they are told. So a wacko extremist has much in common with a rat. Both want to fuck others.
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Old 10-28-2015, 10:51 AM   #6
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Mr & Mr Whiner lead GOP candidates in Denver...

Campaigns erupt over greenrooms at third GOP debate
Aides to Chris Christie and Rand Paul complain their work spaces look like bathrooms.
Politico - Alex Isenstadt - 10/27/15
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DENVER, Colo. — Just hours before GOP candidates take the stage here Wednesday night,
tensions over the Republican National Committee’s handling of the debates are flaring anew.
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During a tense 30-minute meeting at the Coors Event Center,
which was described by three sources present,
several lower-polling campaigns lashed out at the RNC.
They accused the committee of allotting them less-than-hospitable greenroom spaces
while unfairly giving lavish ones to higher-polling candidates,
such as Donald Trump and Ben Carson.
I'm imagining the responses of the other candidates:
Trump: Mine is bigger than yours ... It's so great.
Carson: A large mind needs a large space for intellectual reasoning.
Rubio: Gee, I don't know what to make of it ... yet.

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Old 11-18-2015, 10:15 AM   #7
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Although Ben Carson says that 4 of the Founding Fathers of the US Constituion were physicans,
so he would appoint more physicians to the top levels of all government agencies.

And even tho he has not yet said he could see Russia from his front door,
there are disquieting rumblings among his campaign's foreign policy handlers...

Ben Carson Is Struggling to Grasp Foreign Policy, Advisers Say
NY Times - TRIP GABRIEL -NOV. 17, 2015
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Ben Carson’s remarks on foreign policy have repeatedly raised questions
about his grasp of the subject, but never more seriously than in the past week,
when he wrongly asserted that China had intervened militarily in Syria and then failed,
on national television, to name the countries he would call on to form a coalition to fight the Islamic State.
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“Nobody has been able to sit down with him and have him get one iota of intelligent information about
the Middle East,” said Duane R. Clarridge, a top adviser to Mr. Carson on terrorism and national security.

He also said Mr. Carson needed weekly conference calls briefing him on foreign policy
so “we can make him smart.”
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Old 11-19-2015, 06:47 AM   #8
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Hillary does Family Guy.
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Old 11-19-2015, 10:41 AM   #9
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Old 10-28-2015, 04:55 PM   #10
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That explains wacko extremists. They only believe the first thing they are told. So a wacko extremist has much in common with a rat. Both want to fuck others.
How fitting, coming from you. Your self reflection is improving.
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Old 10-28-2015, 04:57 PM   #11
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Are you saying Clinton v Bush?
Absolutely.
Sadly, Clinton is the best Republican running. She simply has Bernie getting the uber left interested in the election and then when he gets his ass crushed in the primaries, he will hand all of that faction over to her with his endorsement.
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Old 10-28-2015, 05:18 PM   #12
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Bernie getting the uber left interested in the election
Aren't you one of the ones who took an online quiz that told you Bernie was your man?
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Old 10-28-2015, 05:20 PM   #13
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My sense of it is that Bernie gets a lot of independent support that won't be there for Hillary.
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Old 10-28-2015, 10:04 PM   #14
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Aren't you one of the ones who took an online quiz that told you Bernie was your man?
Yup ... Just goes to show how much stock I put in "those" quizzes.
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Old 10-29-2015, 07:39 AM   #15
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Those quizzes aren't going to tell you about the personality of the candidate and if they have the charisma that draws you in, but they are a good source for matching how you feel on the different issues to the candidate who has the same position on those issues.

I've often wondered if it's better to vote for a candidate who is likable and a strong leader, even if I disagree with them, or if I should vote for an unlikable person who matches my own beliefs. Is is better to elect a good leader who is leading in the wrong direction, or a poor leader who knows the right way?
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