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  • Obama

    Votes: 4 1.1%
  • Romney

    Votes: 172 48.9%
  • Other

    Votes: 46 13.1%
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Bluto

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I didn't say anything about Iraq, but the fact Obama pulled out of Iraq before it was stable is one of the main reasons we ended up having to go back and take care of Isis to begin with. Once we were in we should have finished the job at least and left a decent force there to assist in stabilizing the area. Whether we should have gone there to begin with is an entirely other story, but you'll have to talk to Intelligence about that. I can tell you that there's no guarantee that toppling Saddam caused the rise of Isis, it very well could have happened regardless if you look at the history of radical Islam...and given their power and what they accomplished at one time I think it's safe to say Saddam wouldn't have been enough to stop them.

If you’re interested in this I would highly recommend Frontline’s The Rise of Isis along with Bitter Rivals. The second one examines Iran and Saudi Arabia and explores the shift of the Saudi’s toward a much more conservative world view beginning with the violent insurgency that occurred at Mecca in the late 70’s.
 

NorthDakota

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ACamp1900

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<iframe width="416" height="234" src="//fave.api.cnn.io/v1/fav/?video=politics/2018/09/19/mazie-hirono-men-shut-up-kavanaugh-sexual-assault-vpx.cnn&customer=cnn&edition=domestic&env=prod" frameborder="0"></iframe>

I've said it before and will surely say it again... this garbage is exactly why I left the left... they don't care about women, they don't care about allegations (Ellison and Clinton and others proved that much). They care about using stuff like this as political chess moves because they feel the people they pretend to care about (across the board with no exceptions) are flat stupid and easily manipulated... it's insulting, everything this woman said is insulting.
 

NorthDakota

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<iframe width="416" height="234" src="//fave.api.cnn.io/v1/fav/?video=politics/2018/09/19/mazie-hirono-men-shut-up-kavanaugh-sexual-assault-vpx.cnn&customer=cnn&edition=domestic&env=prod" frameborder="0"></iframe>

I've said it before and will surely say it again... this garbage is exactly why I left the left... they don't care about women, they don't care about allegations (Ellison and Clinton and others proved that much). They care about using stuff like this as political chess moves because they feel the people they pretend to care about (across the board with no exceptions) are flat stupid and easily manipulated... it's insulting, everything this woman said is insulting.

Preach, brother! It's just silly. The whole thing is nonsense. Can you imagine if the response say...Cocaine Mitch would get if he said, "Women in this country need to just shut up" about literally any subject?
 

RDU Irish

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Aren't shut up and step up kind of opposite actions? "You need to sit down and stand up" - just like a woman.
 

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Here's what I heard:

"We're gonna burn all the witches. Everybody we hate is a witch. If you question whether someone we want to burn is a witch, we'll accuse you of being a witch and burn you too. Just shut up and support us burning witches and let us do what we want or we'll burn you."
 

NorthDakota

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How do you recover from a political ad like this?
Watch until the end.

https://youtu.be/IZuayQFD51w


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Solid ad by the Dems there. Sounds like the fam has some disagreements. If my oldest sister tried to get a Republican nomination, I'd almost certainly go against her. Blood is great and all but if you think someone else is more qualified for the job, then vote for them.

Reminds me a bit of the looney tune running for NY State Senate in NY who claimed she was an immigrant, Jewish, and from a middle class family when according to her own family...

-Born in the United States
-Catholic as far back as anyone in the fam can see
-Not only comes from an upper class family in the US, the family in either Columbia or Venezuela was upper class as well.

Regarding Mr. Gosar, I see in his nomination, he ran unopposed and got 81K votes. The two Dems got 32K between them. I didn't look too hard for polls, but that looks okay for him.
 
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">OMG WHITE NATIONALIST!<br><br>Clearly, it is time to ask her to pull out of the race. We can't possibly take the chance of electing someone showing off alt-right symbols. <a href="https://t.co/EdIqmAIMO5">https://t.co/EdIqmAIMO5</a></p>— Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D., M.S. (@Neoavatara) <a href="https://twitter.com/Neoavatara/status/1042110471552290816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 18, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<iframe width="416" height="234" src="//fave.api.cnn.io/v1/fav/?video=politics/2018/09/19/mazie-hirono-men-shut-up-kavanaugh-sexual-assault-vpx.cnn&customer=cnn&edition=domestic&env=prod" frameborder="0"></iframe>

I've said it before and will surely say it again... this garbage is exactly why I left the left... they don't care about women, they don't care about allegations (Ellison and Clinton and others proved that much). They care about using stuff like this as political chess moves because they feel the people they pretend to care about (across the board with no exceptions) are flat stupid and easily manipulated... it's insulting, everything this woman said is insulting.

Brah, where you been? We have Title IX because of Patsy Fucking Mink. Hawaii's bad-ass bitches have been smashing bros and leveling playing-fields for decades! Here, watch this movie. My friend directed it: https://www.riseofthewahinefilm.com/

I like post-cancer-Dx Mazie; she gives zero fucks and spares no one. This isn't the Meek Mazie that lost the Governorship in 2002.
 

connor_in

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Just wondering how D's are reacting to the news that a group of hysterical white people harassed a Hispanic man and his party out of a nice DC area restaurant last night.
 

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Just wondering how D's are reacting to the news that a group of hysterical white people harassed a Hispanic man and his party out of a nice DC area restaurant last night.

Hysterical white people harassing Hispanics? Stop the presses! Lol

Edit: It was Ted Cruz...lol.
 
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IrishLax

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING: Attorney hired by Minnesota Democrats says the abuse claim levied against Rep. Keith Ellison is "unsubstantiated" because the accuser refuses to provide video she says she has of the incident. <a href="https://t.co/OERkkE1KIF">https://t.co/OERkkE1KIF</a></p>— AP Central U.S. (@APCentralRegion) <a href="https://twitter.com/APCentralRegion/status/1046825001641500672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Unreal.
 

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING: Attorney hired by Minnesota Democrats says the abuse claim levied against Rep. Keith Ellison is "unsubstantiated" because the accuser refuses to provide video she says she has of the incident. <a href="https://t.co/OERkkE1KIF">https://t.co/OERkkE1KIF</a></p>— AP Central U.S. (@APCentralRegion) <a href="https://twitter.com/APCentralRegion/status/1046825001641500672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Unreal.

This is third world shit going on. How do leftists apply this logic to Ellison but not Kavanugh?
 

NorthDakota

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING: Attorney hired by Minnesota Democrats says the abuse claim levied against Rep. Keith Ellison is "unsubstantiated" because the accuser refuses to provide video she says she has of the incident. <a href="https://t.co/OERkkE1KIF">https://t.co/OERkkE1KIF</a></p>— AP Central U.S. (@APCentralRegion) <a href="https://twitter.com/APCentralRegion/status/1046825001641500672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Unreal.

You didn't honestly think the DNC would turn their back on the first elected Muslim...did ya?
 

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This is third world shit going on. How do leftists apply this logic to Ellison but not Kavanugh?

Keg Stand Kavanaugh? That guy keeps stepping on his own dick and lied repeatedly during his confirmation hearings. A douche bag frat boy with a drinking problem sitting on the Supreme Court. Now that would definitely qualify as “Third World shit”.
 
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Keg Stand Kavanaugh? That guy keeps stepping on his own dick and lied repeatedly during his confirmation hearings. A douche bag frat boy with a drinking problem sitting on the Supreme Court. Now that would definitely qualify as “Third World shit”.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Amid Kavanaugh drinking controversy, video of Obama admitting heavy drinking, drug abuse resurfaces <a href="https://t.co/2fNg6U8jVD">https://t.co/2fNg6U8jVD</a></p>— TheBlaze (@theblaze) <a href="https://twitter.com/theblaze/status/1047595927815512064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 3, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Keg Stand Kavanaugh? That guy keeps stepping on his own dick and lied repeatedly during his confirmation hearings. A douche bag frat boy with a drinking problem sitting on the Supreme Court. Now that would definitely qualify as “Third World shit”.

Kav owns. deal with it
 

Polish Leppy 22

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Keg Stand Kavanaugh? That guy keeps stepping on his own dick and lied repeatedly during his confirmation hearings. A douche bag frat boy with a drinking problem sitting on the Supreme Court. Now that would definitely qualify as “Third World shit”.

Not only are you out of line by claiming (without proof) the guy has a drinking problem, but you didn't defend how people can claim Kav's guilt and be OK with Keith Ellison's situation (when there is tangible evidence of abuse).
 

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Keg Stand Kavanaugh? That guy keeps stepping on his own dick and lied repeatedly during his confirmation hearings. A douche bag frat boy with a drinking problem sitting on the Supreme Court. Now that would definitely qualify as “Third World shit”.

California crackpot.
 

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This has been one hell of a reach by the Left to tie teenage beer guzzling to disqualification to be a justice 35 years later. Seriously? If he still drank like that today, then you might have something, but this was nothing more than typical HS/college beer swilling. Nearly every one of those hypocrites went to keggers, drank too much, and partied as teens & college students. Nearly all of us did too when we were that age. WTF does any of that have to do with whether he's qualified to sit on the SCOTUS 35 years later?
 

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Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va have both announced they'll vote to confirm Kavanaugh. Barring some unforeseen defection from a Republican, this means Kavanaugh will be confirmed to The Supreme Court in tomorrow's vote.
 
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