Democratic Party Convention General Thread

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Theo520 said:
Barack Obama will be the only President in US history to never have a year Of 3% GDP growth.
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This needs to be stated more often. We’re eight years after the housing collapse, and STILL our economy hasn’t rebounded or pulled out of the recession. Perhaps the “wonderful” Democratic economic policies and Obamacare aren’t such glorious things after all?
 
zz912 said:
This needs to be stated more often. We’re eight years after the housing collapse, and STILL our economy hasn’t rebounded or pulled out of the recession. Perhaps the “wonderful” Democratic economic policies and Obamacare aren’t such glorious things after all?
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Obama is always boasting about the economic condition of America and the jobs created as though we are all prospering!
 
Sy_Noe said:
Actually it is Catholic teaching that an embryo is a human person.
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Its actually science … that two humans create life - that is a ‘human’ … that the Church recognizes that does not remove that reality from the realm of science
 
zz912 said:
This needs to be stated more often. We’re eight years after the housing collapse, and STILL our economy hasn’t rebounded or pulled out of the recession. Perhaps the “wonderful” Democratic economic policies and Obamacare aren’t such glorious things after all?
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I’m no economist but I believe that technically a recession is zero or negative growth; the economy has been growing since 2009. I think what you’re describing is a ‘soft recovery.’ I did hear on the news last week that the housing market has just recovered the value it lost from the collapse in 2008.
 
Expatreprocedit said:
First of all, save the condescension and the sermonizing. I know what intrinsic evil means. I understand perfectly well the evil of abortion, and I don’t need a lecture from you on the subject. I never said I supported legalized abortion.

An individual right to contemporary firearms is hardly less controversial than the right to abortion for a nonviable fetus. The Supreme Court only found such a right 2 years ago, and the majority had to ignore the express language of the Second Amendment to do it. At least in Roe the court invented a right in defiance of silence, not of contrary language.
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The right to arms is distinctly found in the Second Amendment - it was not just ‘discovered’ 2 years ago nor did any justice have to ignore the express language … the Second Amendment clearly states
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
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It was always an INDIVIDUAL right - it is the right of the People [not the City, not the County and not the State [or Commonwealth] but the People … that is the clear wording and intent of the Second Amendment … it also makes no indication of limits as to types - rifles, pistols, swords, knives or cannon … nor to any limits on era contemporary or otherwise. …
 
Millie123 said:
Mr. Khan, in his speech asked Trump to specifically look at the sacrifices people made for their country. He specifically challenged Trump to look in Arlington National Cemetery, before he talked about his sons ultimate sacrifice for his country…and he is right. Compared with the Khans sacrifice…he has sacrificed nothing. In the george Stephanopoulos interview, If you listen specifically to George Stephanopoulos’ question, Trump was questioned specifically about sacrifices he made for his country…Trump then applauds himself for his successful business. Which is a crazy response to this situation.

It reminds me of the time many years ago I lost my child in a miscarriage, I called up my friend to tell her of my loss…before saying one word about my loss. She had immediately went into how she had not received as much of her college scholarship that she was expecting. Which was a poor response to the situation that I was presenting to her.

I just think that Trump had a collosal failure in responding to this situation. It truly bothers me.
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I am sorry for your loss I have had two daughters suffer miscarriages in the last two years and it is devastating I am now on my way to see one of those daughters 3 week old daughter ! To
 
PHILADELPHIA — They are Democrats opposed to abortion. And they say the party won’t win races down the ballot without embracing them.
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“The first thing everyone asks is: I can’t vote for a Democrat because I’m pro-life,” said Jonathan Ruth, a Democrat from an overwhelmingly GOP district in north central Pennsylvania who ran for a state house seat in 2014. “If we can get the word out that there are Democrats that are pro-life, that’s a good thing.”
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gilliam said:
This will be an unusual campaign, especially since a bunch of people on both sides don’t trust their candidate.

I expect it to be a VERY negative campaign from both sides.
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Seeing that 6 out of 10 Americans dislike or hate both candidates, there’s very little positives that can be said.
 
tomarin said:
I’m no economist but I believe that technically a recession is zero or negative growth; the economy has been growing since 2009. I think what you’re describing is a ‘soft recovery.’ I did hear on the news last week that the housing market has just recovered the value it lost from the collapse in 2008.
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Yes. Technically, a recession is two quarters in a row with negative growth. We are presently 1.5% away from being negative.

If, as we’re told, wages have declined for some years now, and that all wage growth has been among those in the top 10%, then perhaps it can’t rightly be called a recession, but it certainly isn’t good. And when one realizes that interest rates have been nearly zero (and perhaps below if one counts inflation correctly) for many years; that fiscal spending has been without precedent, one is hard to not to think of it as a recession or perhaps worse.

If not for welfare programs, there would be lines blocks long at soup kitchens right now; probably longer than they were during the Depression when there were no welfare programs and no one on social security.

And for those of us who are employed, just remember (as my grandfather used to tell me) there were 15-25% unemployed at various times during the Depression. But that meant 85-75% were employed. It’s less than that now.
 
ProVobis said:
Thanks for this, Aby. Since 2008, the pro-life Dems haven’t had too much luck getting elected.
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The last I read, National Right to Life counted something like nine Democrats in Congress as prolife. That would be about 4% of the total.
 
don’t ever forget how the crowd at the DNC clapped and cheered when the NARAL president confessed her abortion in front of an approving crowd. Just because, “the time wasn’t right” for her to have a baby.

That is the true platform of the Democratic party, hands down.
 
turtle18 said:
don’t ever forget how the crowd at the DNC clapped and cheered when the NARAL president confessed her abortion in front of an approving crowd. Just because, “the time wasn’t right” for her to have a baby.

That is the true platform of the Democratic party, hands down.
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I know,that’s why I didn’t bother to watch I knew it would be predominately about PP,NARAL,abortion celebrate to the nth degree.How very sad,pathetic and evil.
But hey,Hillary is just awesome and she DESERVES to be the first female president!😦
 
turtle18 said:
don’t ever forget how the crowd at the DNC clapped and cheered when the NARAL president confessed her abortion in front of an approving crowd. Just because, “the time wasn’t right” for her to have a baby.

That is the true platform of the Democratic party, hands down.
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It’s sad what she is doing to the children she decided to let live. I was at a CPC training session once where a prominent psychologist said that children who know their Mother had an abortion often have survivors guilt.
 
Ridgerunner said:
The last I read, National Right to Life counted something like nine Democrats in Congress as prolife. That would be about 4% of the total.
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There were 64 bluedog Democrats who voted for the Stupak Amendment in 2010. Virtually all of them lost their seats, probably because of lack of support by the pro-life organizations, even though many of them voted against the final bill.

Let’s not get too smug, though. Sooner or later, these pro-life organizations are finally going to wake up and find money is better spent elsewhere than support the Republicans who at best are content with the evil status quo.
 
ProVobis said:
There were 64 bluedog Democrats who voted for the Stupak Amendment in 2010. Virtually all of them lost their seats, probably because of lack of support by the pro-life organizations, even though many of them voted against the final bill.

Let’s not get too smug, though. Sooner or later, these pro-life organizations are finally going to wake up and find money is better spent elsewhere than support the Republicans who at best are content with the evil status quo.
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They lost their seats because they voted for the final bill that required even Nuns to buy contraception.As with all alleged pro life Democrats party always comes first
 
Jeanne_S said:
I know,that’s why I didn’t bother to watch I knew it would be predominately about PP,NARAL,abortion celebrate to the nth degree.How very sad,pathetic and evil.
But hey,Hillary is just awesome and she DESERVES to be the first female president!😦
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The DNC was NOT primarily or even secondarily about PP or abortion. I saw most of it.
 
estesbob said:
They lost their seats because they voted for the final bill that required even Nuns to buy contraception.As with all alleged pro life Democrats party always comes first
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Check the final tally, Bob, and you’ll find only a small handful of these bluedog Democrats voted for the bill which barely passed, them being only Stupak and a couple of others who were deceived by the President’s executive order which was the only way any anti-abortion clause could be inserted into that bill. The Senate no longer had the necessary 60 votes to make any changes that didn’t involve the budget.
 
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