Agreed ... I believe that ANY of the other candidates were capable of performing the job ... even if I didn't necessarily agree with them on every policy.
I will be voting for Hillary Clinton.
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Agreed ... I believe that ANY of the other candidates were capable of performing the job ... even if I didn't necessarily agree with them on every policy.
ok doser
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like, maybe, how he's feeling?
What should they have said?
I think that was a factor but I'm not filling to say that Trump would not have gotten the nomination had there been less candidates. Less options would have allowed more support to get behind someone to challenge Trump but we're in a strange environment that may have pushed Trump to the nomination anyway.
Weeks ago I heard some stories about union members who traditionally voted for Democrats that were going to support Trump. A big concern for Clinton.
But as I said, that was weeks ago. Who knows how it is now or how it will be in November.
The system wasn't rigged by the Republicans and Democrats. Our system was created a long time ago. More structural changes would need to happen. However, I won't argue that the major parties don't contribute to it and have no incentive to change the system which could lessen their power. It might take a revolution to change it.
For myself, I'm starting to lean more toward Gary Johnson again. But I'm not going to make any definite pronouncements yet.
ok doser
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so how are you efffffeeling?
drbrumley
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Your daily reminder: Gov Gary Johnson says Hillary is "a wonderful public servant."
ok doser
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drbrumley
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:up:
annabenedetti
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lain:
Look at that red herring. Sure is red.
I'm underwhelmed by your spidey power.
Keep practicing!
PureX
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Being "capable" did not make them better candidates. In fact, it made them worse. Because what they were "capable" of doing to the county was frightening.
Every one of them wanted to continue the death spiral into economic and political disintegration that has become the republican's one and only policy imperative: more money to the very wealthy, less for everything and everyone else. They will eliminate social security. They will eliminate medicare/medicaid. They will eliminate food stamps and welfare for the poor. They will increase privatization of public services while decreasing oversight of commercial and corporate enterprise. They will continue to find ways to instigate warfare so they can continue to feed billions and billions of tax dollars to their cronies in the military industrial conglomerate. And they will continue to blame the skyrocketing debt that results on the poor, the sick, the old, and anyone and everyone else. Just as they have been doing for 30 years.
The LAST thing we need is an "effective" republican president while republicans hold a majority in the house and the senate. One more effective republican administration and this country will be totally destroyed.
annabenedetti
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I'm not saying I would have voted for anyone other than Kasich. If you focus just on the idea of capability and not how frightening it might be, there were candidates more capable than Trump.
Eh. You know most of what they said was made up of sound bites meant to be tweeted and retweeted.
But you've piqued my curiosity. What was being done right, in your opinion, prior to the last "30 years?"
annabenedetti
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Trump's nuclear nightmare
Anytime the words “Donald Trump” and “nuclear weapons” appear in the same sentence, a mushroom cloud of anxiety rises over the world of politics and national security.
Wednesday was no exception, after Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” said on his show that Trump had repeatedly asked an unnamed foreign policy expert why the U.S. can’t use its nuclear weapons.
Wednesday was no exception, after Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” said on his show that Trump had repeatedly asked an unnamed foreign policy expert why the U.S. can’t use its nuclear weapons.
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