2016 Election
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There's a great Sanders/Clinton town hall on MSNBC right now ---- but I missed Bernie!
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Great, now everyone is complaint Obama isn't going to scalia's funeral. Turns out it isn't that uncommon for the president not to attend. If he had turned up they would doubtless complain how insensitive it was turn turn up after smothering him with a pillow.
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Bitching and moaning about who is or isn't going to a funeral is old-woman gossip.
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If Obama wants to do something, then it must be bad.
If Obama doesn't want to do something, then not doing it must be bad.
If Obama doesn't want to do something, then not doing it must be bad.
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The Obama administration is sending the VP but that's still not enough for "teh crazies". How.... predictable.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/19/us...or-scalia.html
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The right (of the Fox news and Breitbart sort) will complain if Obama gets out of bed on the left side .
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It's an incredibly naive idea, which doesn't exactly give me confidence in his presidential aspirations. It's not as if they didn't teach this checks-and-balances stuff in high school.
If anyone has a cross-dressing dog who has an interest in the presidency, don't hesitate to speak up.
If anyone has a cross-dressing dog who has an interest in the presidency, don't hesitate to speak up.
Perhaps it's naive, but no more so that Obama thinking he could get the GOP signing kumbaya with him after a few nice speeches and some nice rhetoric. Or, for that matter is it any more naive than Hillary thinking she can convince House Republicans who have voted to repeal the ACA 60+ times to now expand it because she has experience and knows how to "get things done".
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The US system is designed to make change difficult. The goal of US federalism to maintain stability, not to promote drastic change or even majority rule -- change is supposed to occur only when supported broadly on a variety of fronts.
Obama's naivete and dreams of being an inclusive president were counterproductive and prevented him from being more effective, so yes, I would say that repeating that mistake would be unwise. FDR wasn't afraid of irritating the other side, and Obama should have followed his lead.
Obama's naivete and dreams of being an inclusive president were counterproductive and prevented him from being more effective, so yes, I would say that repeating that mistake would be unwise. FDR wasn't afraid of irritating the other side, and Obama should have followed his lead.
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Obama's naivete and dreams of being an inclusive president were counterproductive and prevented him from being more effective, so yes, I would say that repeating that mistake would be unwise. FDR wasn't afraid of irritating the other side, and Obama should have followed his lead.
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