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Michael68
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Old Uncle Joe Bite me
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7_Sorrows
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Maybe if CNN hears this from enough people other than republicans
they will admit there is some legitimacy to the story.
Jill Stein seems more competent than Hillary that is for sure.
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DeniseNY
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I’m not that hopeful
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zz912
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The specific identity of the staffer who is holding the nuclear launch codes is public knowledge? Please cite or elaborate further on this.
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Theo520
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Jill will do more harm to hillary than trump can, and steal votes from her base. She can get interviewed on CNN
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7_Sorrows
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I agree!Jill will do more harm to hillary than trump can, and steal votes from her base. She can get interviewed on CNN
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DeniseNY
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House Republicans detail perjury allegations against Clinton
foxnews.com/politics/2016/08/16/house-republicans-detail-perjury-allegations-against-clinton.html
foxnews.com/politics/2016/08/16/house-republicans-detail-perjury-allegations-against-clinton.html
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estesbob
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Feds reject Clinton comparison in classified sub photos case
Read more: politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2016/08/kristian-saucier-sentencing-clinton-227052#ixzz4HXCdkfXv
Laws are for little people…
Read more: politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2016/08/kristian-saucier-sentencing-clinton-227052#ixzz4HXCdkfXv
Laws are for little people…
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Thorolfr
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Considering that the letter from House Republicans went to the Justice Department Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs, Peter Kadzik, who, the article says, “led the successful effort to confirm Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch and Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates,” I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for the Justice Department to do anything.
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Monte_RCMS
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Question: How many people are now on food stamps?
Extra point question: How many people were on food stamps during Bush’s presidency?
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Monte_RCMS
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It’s the man or woman carrying a football.
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DeniseNY
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But Bob, how can that be? The Democrats care about the little people and are for justice and equality! I mean, that’s what they keep telling us.
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7_Sorrows
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they have the little people hoodwinked!But Bob, how can that be? The Democrats care about the little people and are for justice and equality! I mean, that’s what they keep telling us.
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Ridgerunner
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As a former Democrat and activist in the party I stopped believing that a long time ago. But it didn’t make me a Republican. I’m just me, now.But Bob, how can that be? The Democrats care about the little people and are for justice and equality! I mean, that’s what they keep telling us.
Why did I stop believing it? Because it’s not there. I did believe it once, and I truly believe it was true once. But let’s face it, nobody has done anything for the truly poor and those who would like to earn their way into the middle class since the EArned Income Credit and that was Reagan’s and a long, long time ago.
So I don’t believe promises of things that will “help” me. I only believe (and not entirely) promises to leave me and my children and grandchildren alone and interfere with our lives the least and protect us from malefactors the most.
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DeniseNY
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I"m also a former Democrat. My family was very active in state politics and held several offices as Democrats in OH, and they believed it, too. They’ve all for the most part passed on, but it’s impossible for me to think that they would relate in any way to what the party has become.
meltzerboy
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I’ve noticed that several posters who are now Republican or Republican-leaning were former Democrats. I was just wondering where the cradle Republicans hang out and also whether it ever works the other way around, starting as Republican and becoming Democrat.
I"m also a former Democrat. My family was very active in state politics and held several offices as Democrats in OH, and they believed it, too. They’ve all for the most part passed on, but it’s impossible for me to think that they would relate in any way to what the party has become.
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CNA_News
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http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/i...tone_via_wwwshutterstockcom_CNA.jpgWashington D.C., Aug 17, 2016 / 05:43 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has claimed to be a defender of religious freedom. But does it match the facts?
Georgetown University professor Thomas Farr has his doubts.
“Anyone who believes that a President Hillary Clinton will support the religious freedom of Catholic elementary and high schools, colleges, refugee services, adoption agencies, homes for the aged poor, or any other private organization, is making a mistake,” Farr told CNA. “Her own words suggest that even churches will not evade her understanding of the kind of ‘compelling government interest’ that she considers abortion and same-sex marriage to be.”
Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, addressed religious freedom in an exclusive editorial in the Utah newspaper The Deseret News.
“As Americans, we hold fast to the belief that everyone has the right to worship however he or she sees fit,” Clinton said in the Aug. 10 essay. “I’ve been fighting to defend religious freedom for years.”
“Americans don’t have to agree on everything. We never have,” she added. “But when it comes to religion, we strive to be accepting of everyone around us. That’s because we need each other.”
Clinton, in her essay written largely for a Mormon audience, linked Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s proposal to ban Muslim immigration to the U.S. to 19th century efforts to expel Mormons from the state of Missouri and to limit Mormon immigration to the U.S.
But Brian Burch, president of CatholicVote.org, charged that Clinton “favors extremist policies that would punish charities like the Little Sisters of the Poor along with thousands of similar Catholic-inspired charities.”
Clinton’s words come during a long legal fight against the Obama administration’s mandate that Catholic and other organizations provide employee health coverage of sterilization and contraception, including some drugs that can cause abortions. There are also continuing controversies over the freedom of adoption agencies, relief agencies and religious schools to have policies in line with their beliefs.
Both Burch and Farr noted Clinton’s use of the phrase “right to worship.”
“She publicly opposes the long understood definition of religious freedom by hiding behind the euphemism of ‘freedom of worship’,” Burch said. “What this means is she supports the freedom of Catholics to pray inside of our churches, at least for now. But once outside we must embrace the orthodoxy of secular anti-Catholic progressives.”
Farr, who directs the Religious Freedom Project at Georgetown’s Berkley Center, said that Clinton’s focus on the “right to worship” relegates religion to the private sphere “with no capacity to influence public matters.”
“Her use of the term, and its deeper meaning, are quite consistent with her attacks on churches and religious organizations that oppose the progressive agenda of abortion on demand and same-sex marriage,” he said. “Last year she told an international conference that religious groups who oppose abortion are going to have to change. Some commitment to religious freedom.”
Clinton’s editorial in the Utah newspaper has deeper significance in 2016. The state is a traditional Republican bastion and most of its residents are adherents of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, colloquially known as Mormons.
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Georgetown University professor Thomas Farr has his doubts.
“Anyone who believes that a President Hillary Clinton will support the religious freedom of Catholic elementary and high schools, colleges, refugee services, adoption agencies, homes for the aged poor, or any other private organization, is making a mistake,” Farr told CNA. “Her own words suggest that even churches will not evade her understanding of the kind of ‘compelling government interest’ that she considers abortion and same-sex marriage to be.”
Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, addressed religious freedom in an exclusive editorial in the Utah newspaper The Deseret News.
“As Americans, we hold fast to the belief that everyone has the right to worship however he or she sees fit,” Clinton said in the Aug. 10 essay. “I’ve been fighting to defend religious freedom for years.”
“Americans don’t have to agree on everything. We never have,” she added. “But when it comes to religion, we strive to be accepting of everyone around us. That’s because we need each other.”
Clinton, in her essay written largely for a Mormon audience, linked Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s proposal to ban Muslim immigration to the U.S. to 19th century efforts to expel Mormons from the state of Missouri and to limit Mormon immigration to the U.S.
But Brian Burch, president of CatholicVote.org, charged that Clinton “favors extremist policies that would punish charities like the Little Sisters of the Poor along with thousands of similar Catholic-inspired charities.”
Clinton’s words come during a long legal fight against the Obama administration’s mandate that Catholic and other organizations provide employee health coverage of sterilization and contraception, including some drugs that can cause abortions. There are also continuing controversies over the freedom of adoption agencies, relief agencies and religious schools to have policies in line with their beliefs.
Both Burch and Farr noted Clinton’s use of the phrase “right to worship.”
“She publicly opposes the long understood definition of religious freedom by hiding behind the euphemism of ‘freedom of worship’,” Burch said. “What this means is she supports the freedom of Catholics to pray inside of our churches, at least for now. But once outside we must embrace the orthodoxy of secular anti-Catholic progressives.”
Farr, who directs the Religious Freedom Project at Georgetown’s Berkley Center, said that Clinton’s focus on the “right to worship” relegates religion to the private sphere “with no capacity to influence public matters.”
“Her use of the term, and its deeper meaning, are quite consistent with her attacks on churches and religious organizations that oppose the progressive agenda of abortion on demand and same-sex marriage,” he said. “Last year she told an international conference that religious groups who oppose abortion are going to have to change. Some commitment to religious freedom.”
Clinton’s editorial in the Utah newspaper has deeper significance in 2016. The state is a traditional Republican bastion and most of its residents are adherents of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, colloquially known as Mormons.
Full article…
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Ridgerunner
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Well, I know where a lot of cradle Repubs hang out; in the Ozarks where I live. I couldn’t name a single former Repub who turned Dem. It’s kind of interesting. In some of these counties, some Democrats used to be elected. I know. I was a Democrat activist myself and helped some of them get elected. Now, hardly anybody bothers to run for office on the Dem ticket in the Ozarks.
Perhaps a more dramatic example is the “Little Dixie” area up along the Missouri River. It was so Democrat once that I’m not sure Republicans would admit to being Republicans. But in the last decade or two, it has completely flipped. The same is true in the “Delta country” of Southeast Missouri.
I’m not sure what the explanation is other than the fact that most Democrats in these places were always pretty culturally conservative; the only philosophical exception being a certain economic and political populism that the Dem party no longer embraces.
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Inisfallen
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That might be me. My father was a conservative who said that the only candidate for president that he ever voted for without any reservations was Barry Goldwater. I grew up in a pretty conservative household.
And yet here I am today, a registered Democrat who voted for Bernie Sanders in the presidential primary.
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DeniseNY
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Personally, I don’t think I know any cradle Republicans and I don’t know of anyone who started out Republican and became a Democrat. Of course that’s not to say they don’t exist, but I also don’t know where they are!
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