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When will Hillary Clinton give up her candidacy ?

 
 
blatham
 
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Tue 12 Jan, 2016 03:12 pm
You might not believe me when I say that this column in the NRO by contributing editor Yuval Levin is definitely worth reading for the insights contained in it, but I do say that.
http://bit.ly/1SN3hi0
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blatham
 
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Tue 12 Jan, 2016 06:58 pm
Absolutely nothing hoot-owl-crazy about this dude...
Quote:
Ben Carson Calls For Investigation Of Muslim Guests Attending State Of The Union
http://bit.ly/1SNs7P5
The is wheat in the pyramids and oilfields in the placenta.
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Lash
 
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Tue 12 Jan, 2016 07:23 pm
@Setanta,
My family has used services of Planned Parenthood, so any notions that I use it as an epithet originates somewhere other than me.

I disapprove of cronyism. A lot of Clinton people are standing around with their hands in one another's pockets. PP has never endorsed a candidate before primaries. I dislike how the process is reaching new depths.

Sanders' supporters are holding PP responsible for their choice. So am I. That's my choice. I don't know how they call themselves a non-profit anyway. They don't really need donations.

snood
 
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Tue 12 Jan, 2016 07:42 pm
@Lash,
You have something other than your say that PP has never endorsed before primaries?
Lash
 
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Tue 12 Jan, 2016 07:54 pm
@snood,
It's mentioned in a few articles. Anyway, that in itself definitely isn't nefarious. Just one more thing that seems / is unfairly procured advantage over my candidate.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/01/07/planned-parenthood-will-make-unprecedented-primary-endorsement-of-hillary-clinton/

excerpt

PASADENA, CALIF. -- The political arm of Planned Parenthood will endorse Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire on Sunday, a Clinton campaign official confirmed.

The endorsement marks the first time in the organization's 100-year history that Planned Parenthood Action Fund has endorsed a candidate in a primary. The endorsement was first reported by CBS News.
snood
 
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Tue 12 Jan, 2016 09:29 pm
@Lash,
Quote:
seems/is unfairly

That's the thing. The difference between seeming and actually being something unsavory.
It doesn't have to be anything other than an organization early backing who they think best would serve their ends.
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blatham
 
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Tue 12 Jan, 2016 09:50 pm
Really cool tweet by Ann Coulter

Quote:
Trump should deport Nikki Haley
blatham
 
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Tue 12 Jan, 2016 09:57 pm
I didn't attend to either speech but both are getting seriously good reviews.
snood
 
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Wed 13 Jan, 2016 03:45 am
@blatham,
blatham wrote:

I didn't attend to either speech but both are getting seriously good reviews.


The State of the Union was one, I take it. But what was the second?
blatham
 
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Wed 13 Jan, 2016 04:03 am
@snood,
Nikki Halley's response. Krauthammer loved Obama's speech and Axelrod loved Halley's, as just two examples.
blatham
 
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Wed 13 Jan, 2016 05:56 am
There is an exceedingly excellent column up at the Times this morning by Thomas Edsall on what is happening currently at the federal and state levels (see quote included) and how that situation came about. This is the history of "movement conservatism" and it is very important to know if one wants to understand the present.
Quote:
The federal government, currently immobilized by partisan division, is now incapable of enacting major new initiatives, left or right. The 2010 enactment Obamacare was the last such initiative. States are the place where new programs and policies are emerging on an almost weekly basis.

As left interests are being cut out of this process, the groundbreaking work is being done on the right. The losses for the Democratic Party and its allies include broken unions, defunded Planned Parenthood, lost wetlands and forests, restrictive abortion regulations and the enactment of open-carry gun laws.
http://nyti.ms/1JKcWEc
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blatham
 
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Wed 13 Jan, 2016 06:36 am
David Brooks today...
Quote:
Cruz’s speeches are marked by what you might call pagan brutalism. There is not a hint of compassion, gentleness and mercy. Instead, his speeches are marked by a long list of enemies, and vows to crush, shred, destroy, bomb them. When he is speaking in a church the contrast between the setting and the emotional tone he sets is jarring.

Cruz lays down an atmosphere of apocalyptic fear. America is heading off “the cliff to oblivion.”

...The fact is this apocalyptic diagnosis is ridiculous. The Obama administration has done things people like me strongly disagree with. But America is in better economic shape than any other major nation on earth. Crime is down. Abortion rates are down. Fourteen million new jobs have been created in five years.
http://nyti.ms/1KcUVt0
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snood
 
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Wed 13 Jan, 2016 06:59 am
@blatham,
blatham wrote:

Nikki Halley's response. Krauthammer loved Obama's speech and Axelrod loved Halley's, as just two examples.

David Axelrod loved Haley's republican lies, denials and fear mongering? I've gotta read that. I can believe he appreciated her criticism of Trump-style campaigning, but not the rest.
blatham
 
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Wed 13 Jan, 2016 07:17 am
@snood,
It was a response to the speech itself, how it was written and delivered. As I noted earlier, lots of positive comments from Dems, Begala was another.
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blatham
 
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Wed 13 Jan, 2016 07:21 am
Another good piece up at the Times today by Republican Scott Reed. Well worth your time http://nyti.ms/1mY8Tdw
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blatham
 
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Wed 13 Jan, 2016 08:15 am
And another great piece by Paul Waldman
Quote:
Perpetually Outraged, Perpetually Outrageous
PAUL WALDMAN JANUARY 6, 2016
Donald Trump, a candidate with all the subtlety of talk radio, is the perfect expression of both the politics and media of our time.
http://bit.ly/1N7ffMk
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bobsal u1553115
 
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Wed 13 Jan, 2016 08:22 am
@blatham,
Mixed feelings.
revelette2
 
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Wed 13 Jan, 2016 08:32 am
Speaking of reactions to the speech (SOTU), Rivera has a unique take on it.

Quote:
GERALDO RIVERA: I think, and this just strictly my constitutionally-protected opinion, and I know you'll get mad at me, but I think this. I think that what is clear is that the nation was not ready for a black president and I think that the gross divisions we suffer right now in this country are, when you strip away everything else--

FRANCIS: Because he's black?

RIVERA: Let me finish. I stuck my neck out. Let me finish. When you strip away all of the gun rights and the, you know, terror all rest of it, what you have essentially is a nation divided between white people and everybody else in broad strokes. When you look at the groups that overwhelmingly favor the Democrats right now, the Asians, the Hispanics, the African-Americans, the Muslims, you see a nation where people have largely chosen up sides and if you strip away everything else, what you are going to find is a racial divide. It's biggest, unaddressed issue. I think it is why we can't deal with urban crime. It is why we are dysfunctional in terms of the ability to be bilateral, bicameral, bipartisan.


source
Blickers
 
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Wed 13 Jan, 2016 09:38 am
@revelette2,
Yes and no. In American national politics, a 60-40 win is considered a landslide. But of course it just means if 11% of the people voted the other other way the result would be different. Superficially, whites favor Republicans, everyone else favors the Democrats. In actually, four out of 10 whites cast their votes for Obama last time or he never would have come close to winning. The white vote is not a monolithic bloc at all.
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Olivier5
 
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Wed 13 Jan, 2016 09:48 am
@snood,
Quote:
I think it very unlikely that Obama would not support his former secretary of state, for whom he has always had nothing but high praise.

She behave as a bitch to him during the primaries 8 years ago. I'm pretty sure he hasn't forgotten, and would be quite surprised if he endorsed her now. It wouldn't be presidential in any case. A president is above the fray.
 

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