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Exiled_Child
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I remember you said your friends are pals with Trump, but I bet Bernie would be extremely cool on a personal level. He certainly seems likable.
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Peccavi
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Why is it in a land founded by migrants - most of the founding father’s were born in the Uk -others in British colonies - insist their Presidents are born in the USA. In the case of Obama they also insist on dwelling on his paternal side at the expense of his mother Ann Dunham, whose surname stems from the and old Saxon Norfolk name and is as English an ancestry in common with those founding fathers. I have always found ignoring ones mother’s paternity to be an insult to women and unChristian in the sense that within the Magnificat Mary tells us God honoured women by the birth of his son Jesus through her.
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Erich
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As the WP (and others) have reported, last October Trump said “We made a terrible mistake getting involved there [in Afghanistan] in the first place,” then later that month he said “Iraq was a disaster. Not Afghanistan, because that’s probably where we should have gone in the first place.”
Referring to Syrian refugees, last September Trump said “on a humanitarian basis, with what’s happening, you have to” accept them, then less than a month later, he told supporters at a campaign rally and said on Fox News that accepting the estimated 10,000 refugees President Obama has agreed to take could result in “one of the greatest military coups of all times.”
Referring to Planned Parenthood, in July he said: “Absolutely they should be defunded,” then in August he opposed taxpayer dollars going to abortions but said he’d probably keep the money flowing to Planned Parenthood because of all the “good” things the women’s nonprofit health care clinic does.
Referring to military spending, in August he said, “I want to build up the military so nobody messes with us.” Then two months later he said he still believes in a strong military – but that he’d get there by cutting funding for it: “We can do it for a lot less.”
Referring to ISIS, last August he said he would “send troops in” to Iraq and “bomb the hell” out of Islamic State-owned oil fields in Iraq to defeat the terrorist group. But in September he said, “Let them fight it out. Let Russia take care of [Islamic State].”
Regarding taxes, last August he said, “You can have fair tax, you can have flat tax, you can take the existing plans that we have and simplify,” but in the very same interview he went on to say, “The one problem I have with the flat tax is that rich people are paying the same as people that are making very little money," he said before promoting some kind of “graduation” tax upward. Since when is a graduated tax “flat”?
That doesn’t exactly sound like the remarks of a principled conservative (or a principled liberal for that matter). Trump’s popularity is due in large part to the fact that he’s telling folks what they want to hear. His problem is that he’s telling folks what they want to hear.
Referring to Syrian refugees, last September Trump said “on a humanitarian basis, with what’s happening, you have to” accept them, then less than a month later, he told supporters at a campaign rally and said on Fox News that accepting the estimated 10,000 refugees President Obama has agreed to take could result in “one of the greatest military coups of all times.”
Referring to Planned Parenthood, in July he said: “Absolutely they should be defunded,” then in August he opposed taxpayer dollars going to abortions but said he’d probably keep the money flowing to Planned Parenthood because of all the “good” things the women’s nonprofit health care clinic does.
Referring to military spending, in August he said, “I want to build up the military so nobody messes with us.” Then two months later he said he still believes in a strong military – but that he’d get there by cutting funding for it: “We can do it for a lot less.”
Referring to ISIS, last August he said he would “send troops in” to Iraq and “bomb the hell” out of Islamic State-owned oil fields in Iraq to defeat the terrorist group. But in September he said, “Let them fight it out. Let Russia take care of [Islamic State].”
Regarding taxes, last August he said, “You can have fair tax, you can have flat tax, you can take the existing plans that we have and simplify,” but in the very same interview he went on to say, “The one problem I have with the flat tax is that rich people are paying the same as people that are making very little money," he said before promoting some kind of “graduation” tax upward. Since when is a graduated tax “flat”?
That doesn’t exactly sound like the remarks of a principled conservative (or a principled liberal for that matter). Trump’s popularity is due in large part to the fact that he’s telling folks what they want to hear. His problem is that he’s telling folks what they want to hear.
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SuperLuigi
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Actually, Palin probably helped McCain turn out the base in 2008.Great news!!! She can help Trump win the White House just like she helped McCain.
And I think if she were at the top of the ticket in 2012, she may have defeated Obama/Biden.
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SuperLuigi
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The idea is that so foreign despot would sweep in and start running the USA.
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Peccavi
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Instead you elected a few domestic ones.
meltzerboy
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What you report is so true. Trump appears to be the flip-flopper par excellence. He has made flip-flopping into an art although Romney deserves at least honorable mention. They are not essentially liars, just flip-floppers. IOW, Trump is a born politician! Bravo!
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DeniseNY
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Or as CiC, possible dual allegiances.
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Peccavi
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In other words paranoia Some of or best monarchs have been German. Some of your worst Presidents have been born in the USA
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DeniseNY
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In other words, your sole reason for engaging in this conversation is to insult Americans.
Google Emerich de Vattel, and then come back.
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Peccavi
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Luckily for the USA the framers of her Constitution had a much better command of English and a greater sense of logic than either Trump or Palin.
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Erich
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Martin Van Buren was elected the eighth President of the United States (1837-41). He was the first President from the State of New York and the first President born after the United States had won its independence from England.
Since I’ve never seen Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Quincy Adams, or Jackson numbered among our worst Presidents, presumably all of our worst Presidents have been born in the USA (assuming Obama’s digitally-manufactured birth certificate is legit, that is).
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Adonia
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I just can’t stand that screeching voice of hers and with all her homespun sayings she has become a caricature of herself. And then we have Trump who with his endorsement of government subsidies for ethanol has left the outsider precincts and become a devotee of crony-capitalism. God help us!
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Peccavi
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It’s a matter of opinion who was best who was worse. Besides the fixation with Obama’s birth certificate sits BADLY outside the US even among her friends and Allies. It makes you look racist and gives ammunition to your enemies. Not a wise move.
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Adonia
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She didn’t think much of fighting for the rights of the women who were abused by her husband, did she? She is a congenital liar and only cares about herself and how much cash she can accumulate. If she get’s the nomination of her party that would tell us everything we need to know about today’s Democrats.
Oh, a Democratic Socialist isn’t that nice. Please tell me, just what is a “Democratic Socialist” because aren’t all Democrats really socialists anyway? I mean really, when you want to take away from the people their ability to make decisions for themselves and throw everybody into the collective pot where those in power say they know what’s best for everyone, what is the difference?
And it’s funny how they never want to have to abide by all the policies they want to foist on everyone else. They love the public schools, but never send their own kids to any of them, just like they love mass transportation but never seem to ever use it. And the constant clarion call of “climate change” of late, yet they never give up their big houses, large cars and private jets. Having said all that, I hope Bernie is the nominee - he would lose in a landslide.
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Adonia
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Even though Obama was born an American citizen, his problem is that his formative years were in foreign countries where the idea of being only an American was not instilled in him. I can remember that he is the one who has said that the most beautiful thing he has ever heard was the Muslim call to prayer from his Indonesian days.
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Adonia
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How? In a interview years ago he said about the Constitution that it was that “the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties … but [it] doesn’t say what the federal government or state government must do on your behalf”. Not to mention his usurping the power of the Congress.I understand that you may not like our President. But he did attend Harvard Law and was an undergrad at Columbia. Therefore, I am certain he could pass a civics test. Now in regards to polices…one’s agreement or disagreement is another thing.
This was never what the Federal Constitution was all about and the “Constitutional Scholar” Obama should know that. The Federal Constitution was all about LIMITING the governments power, not to do any and everything for us. We already have complete liberty given to us by God and governments are the only entities that can take them away.
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Maximilan_Kolbe
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That’s like saying the worst Popes in history have been males…
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Leo2014
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What you have described is not isolated to one particular party. Republicans are just as bad.
Remember the BIG financial crisis that we all helped to alleviate? “Too big to fail”? Those rescued banks are now larger than when the crisis took place. “Socialism” is another phrase that people will regurgitate, but never declare that we should abolish two of our biggest forms; Social Security & Medicare. I have not heard one Republican call for even reducing these entitlement programs. Goodness, “Big Government” is another phrase uttered negatively. Yet we need a bigger military.
I don’t know about you; but I don’t ride the bus. But I am glad it’s available to those that need it.
I am not a fan of any of the candidates. But look at Bernie Sanders, he connects with young people who see themselves being strapped with debt merely because they want an education, people have not seen wages increase in a very long time and their healthcare cost have become unaffordable. Yet, we constantly hear and admire the next raising billionaire?
Republicans have their troubles; the best guy they have is the one they don’t want? Trump is touching a nerve from the other side, those that are tired of the promises of mainstream politics, political correctness and seeing the government make one stupid decision after the next.
No, your party has not looked out for your best interest in a very long time.
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