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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2019 23:19:10 GMT -5
Self Dealing is how you Maga...
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Post by SSHoya on Jan 17, 2019 11:37:00 GMT -5
Nothing like watching Chicken Hawk Trump addressing DOD about his fake border crisis. What a clown. You don't use the military as a prop for overtly political purposes.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2019 11:56:15 GMT -5
Nothing like watching Chicken Hawk Trump addressing DOD about his fake border crisis. What a clown. You don't use the military as a prop for overtly political purposes. But enough about that....
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2019 12:07:43 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Jan 17, 2019 12:14:06 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2019 11:44:32 GMT -5
1 press briefing in over a month. So much for transparency...
While 800,000 Federal workers wait for Trump to stop throwing a fit over the wall Mexico was supposed to pay for, press sec is collecting 15k a month to not work....
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Post by hoyarooter on Jan 23, 2019 21:16:32 GMT -5
So Kamala Harris, with all of two years of experience in the Senate, thinks she is qualified to run for president. And supposedly Eric Garcetti, mayor of Los Angeles, isn't far behind now that the LA Unified School District teachers' strike has been settled, ready to follow in the footsteps of Sam "the sap is running" Yorty. These two will really make California look good. Sen. Harris's qualifications can be summed up with the sentence "I'm an attractive black woman, vote for me." I'm not sure exactly where Garcetti goes. I think he has done a decent job as mayor, but still.... I doubt that he'll play the "hey, I'm Jewish" card. I attribute these candidacies (or potential candidacies) to the if Trump can get elected anybody can school of thought.
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Post by DFW HOYA on Jan 23, 2019 23:26:17 GMT -5
So Kamala Harris, with all of two years of experience in the Senate, thinks she is qualified to run for president. And supposedly Eric Garcetti, mayor of Los Angeles, isn't far behind now that the LA Unified School District teachers' strike has been settled, ready to follow in the footsteps of Sam "the sap is running" Yorty. These two will really make California look good. Sen. Harris's qualifications can be summed up with the sentence "I'm an attractive black woman, vote for me." I'm not sure exactly where Garcetti goes. I think he has done a decent job as mayor, but still.... I doubt that he'll play the "hey, I'm Jewish" card. I attribute these candidacies (or potential candidacies) to the if Trump can get elected anybody can school of thought. The bar for public service as a qualification for a party's nomination has been compromised on both sides of the aisle. Garcetti has about as much chance as DeBlasio or Emanuel, which is to say, zero. That having been said, none of these early entrants are likely to win, only to raise some quick dollars before the heavy hitters (Biden, Sanders) start pulling in the donors. While the temptation for the left is to go all-in on someone that will win the Whole Foods voters but alienate everyone else, the best advice is that it is better to win than to be pure. A ticket of Joe Biden (pledging one term) and a youthful VP (pick one: O'Rourke, Harris, Booker, etc.) is a credible alternative to holding the coasts, winning the Rust Belt and thus denying Trump a second term, whereupon he will say that China (with help from Hillary, of course) tainted the ballots and it's all a big fraud.
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Post by Elvado on Jan 24, 2019 5:21:19 GMT -5
So Kamala Harris, with all of two years of experience in the Senate, thinks she is qualified to run for president. And supposedly Eric Garcetti, mayor of Los Angeles, isn't far behind now that the LA Unified School District teachers' strike has been settled, ready to follow in the footsteps of Sam "the sap is running" Yorty. These two will really make California look good. Sen. Harris's qualifications can be summed up with the sentence "I'm an attractive black woman, vote for me." I'm not sure exactly where Garcetti goes. I think he has done a decent job as mayor, but still.... I doubt that he'll play the "hey, I'm Jewish" card. I attribute these candidacies (or potential candidacies) to the if Trump can get elected anybody can school of thought. Kamala Harris is the female version of 44. At least she was a prosecutor.
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Post by hoyarooter on Jan 24, 2019 20:44:43 GMT -5
So Kamala Harris, with all of two years of experience in the Senate, thinks she is qualified to run for president. And supposedly Eric Garcetti, mayor of Los Angeles, isn't far behind now that the LA Unified School District teachers' strike has been settled, ready to follow in the footsteps of Sam "the sap is running" Yorty. These two will really make California look good. Sen. Harris's qualifications can be summed up with the sentence "I'm an attractive black woman, vote for me." I'm not sure exactly where Garcetti goes. I think he has done a decent job as mayor, but still.... I doubt that he'll play the "hey, I'm Jewish" card. I attribute these candidacies (or potential candidacies) to the if Trump can get elected anybody can school of thought. Kamala Harris is the female version of 44. At least she was a prosecutor. 44, though, had been in the Senate for more than two years. Hadn't he completed his first term, so that the Dems had to produce another Senatorial candidate when he was nominated for President? Plus, didn't 44 become a star when he made his speech at the 2004 Democratic convention? Sen. Harris has done none of the above.
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Post by Elvado on Jan 24, 2019 21:56:35 GMT -5
Obama was elected in 2004 and resigned his Senate Seat upon winning the White House in 2008.
2 years/4 years, the resumes are each tissue paper thin.
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Post by DFW HOYA on Jan 24, 2019 23:55:39 GMT -5
44, though, had been in the Senate for more than two years. Hadn't he completed his first term, so that the Dems had to produce another Senatorial candidate when he was nominated for President? Plus, didn't 44 become a star when he made his speech at the 2004 Democratic convention? Sen. Harris has done none of the above. Political backgrounds before becoming President, since 1900. Since 1976, almost zero legislative experience has been gained from most of our Presidents to be. George Bush served four years in the House, Barack Obama three years in the Senate. TR: State legislature, Asst. Sec'y of the Navy, Governor, Vice President Taft: Solicitor General, Court of Appeals, Governor, Secretary of War Wilson: Governor Harding: State legislature, Lt.Governor, Governor Coolidge: State legislature, Lt.Governor, Governor, Vice President Hoover: Secretary of Commerce FDR: State legislature, Asst. Secretary of the Navy, Governor Truman: Judge, Senator, Vice President Eisenhower None (military) JFK: House, Senate LBJ: House, Senate, Vice President Nixon: House, Senate, Vice President Ford: House, Vice President Carter: Governor Reagan: Governor Bush: House, UN Ambassador, GOP Chair, CIA Director, US Ambassador to China, Vice President Clinton: State attorney general, Governor GW Bush: Governor Obama: State Senate, Senate Trump: None
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Post by TC on Jan 25, 2019 0:45:03 GMT -5
While the temptation for the left is to go all-in on someone that will win the Whole Foods voters but alienate everyone else, the best advice is that it is better to win than to be pure. A ticket of Joe Biden (pledging one term) and a youthful VP (pick one: O'Rourke, Harris, Booker, etc.) is a credible alternative to holding the coasts, winning the Rust Belt and thus denying Trump a second term, whereupon he will say that China (with help from Hillary, of course) tainted the ballots and it's all a big fraud. Counterpoint : the Democratic Party ran the most qualified nominee in history and she lost to someone with 0 public service experience and 0 interest in servicing the public. Record is a liability. Biden has a long record, Harris, Booker, O'Rourke don't.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2019 2:36:11 GMT -5
Smh...
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Post by TC on Jan 25, 2019 12:00:20 GMT -5
Political backgrounds before becoming President, since 1900. Since 1976, almost zero legislative experience has been gained from most of our Presidents to be. George Bush served four years in the House, Barack Obama three years in the Senate. Counterpoint : our legislative process is totally broken and operates almost entirely on obstruction, so who cares at this point? It'd help to have someone who had a 9-year-old-who-watched Schoolhouse Rock-level understanding of it because our current President lacks even that, but I don't think you need 12 years in the Senate for that. Democratic Nominees since I have been alive: Carter : Governor, won Mondale : Senator, lost Dukakis : Governor, lost Clinton: Governor, won Gore : VP, Senator, lost Kerry : Senator, lost Obama : Just barely a Senator, won Clinton: Senator, SoS, lost Someone show me any sort of correlation here between experience in Washington and electability. PS What is your problem with Whole Foods? Did they not give you an Amazon Prime discount or run over your mother with their delivery truck or something?
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Post by DFW HOYA on Jan 25, 2019 12:09:06 GMT -5
Counterpoint : our legislative process is totally broken and operates almost entirely on obstruction, so who cares at this point? It'd help to have someone who had a 9-year-old-who-watched Schoolhouse Rock-level understanding of it because our current President lacks even that, but I don't think you need 12 years in the Senate for that. Someone show me any sort of correlation here between experience in Washington and electability. If you are hiring a CEO in the airline business, you'd like someone who understands the concept of air travel, operations, maintenance, etc. If you're hiring a CEO in the government business, a basic understanding what does and doesn't work is a core competency. PS What is your problem with Whole Foods? Did they not give you an Amazon Prime discount or run over your mother with their delivery truck or something? I shop at Wal-Mart. If H-E-B was around, maybe there, but they don't cover this area.
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Post by hoyarooter on Jan 25, 2019 21:47:19 GMT -5
Obama was elected in 2004 and resigned his Senate Seat upon winning the White House in 2008. 2 years/4 years, the resumes are each tissue paper thin. I guess you're right. If Harris were to be nominated, she would have the exact same amount of senatorial experience that Obama had. Which doesn't make it good.
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Post by hoyarooter on Jan 25, 2019 21:50:33 GMT -5
If you are hiring a CEO in the airline business, you'd like someone who understands the concept of air travel, operations, maintenance, etc. If you're hiring a CEO in the government business, a basic understanding what does and doesn't work is a core competency.
This. And no one ever said that experience in the Senate was a prerequisite for the White House. Experience managing a state doesn't exactly hurt. Maybe Jerry Brown should run again. Or how about a Biden/Brown ticket? Senior citizens rule.
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Post by hoyarooter on Jan 25, 2019 21:55:15 GMT -5
And I actually have another candidate. How about Gov. Lepetomane from Blazing Saddles?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2019 12:09:44 GMT -5
Senior intelligence officials have said that it's extremely difficult to convince Trump he is wrong about something, no matter how much evidence they can put in front of him. He believes what he believes. When the intelligence doesn’t serve Trump’s purposes, he will do what he can to undermine it wapo.st/2Uvip8m
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