Originally Posted by wacojoe
....and IV, at this point I am back to a write in
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....and IV, at this point I am back to a write in
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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Don't tell me you actually think that Bo has a chance. Or is it just that you have to vote your conscience ?.
....and IV, at this point I am back to a write in
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Hey----power to the peopleDon't tell me you actually think that Bo has a chance. Or is it just that you have to vote your conscience ?.
Back to the primary subject---it seems that some of us can excuse trump's jack ass traits in exchange for making changes that are long past due. I will argue that one need not be the world's biggest jack ass and still do the positive things---it is not a butter or guns deal.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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Nobody is excusing a damn thing Dave, it's just that some of us here are not so blinded by hatred that we refuse to see the positive, something you apparently are incapable of doing.
OPINION....a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.
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I will not wait for a Utopian leader, when an imperfect one - and only one, it seems to me - is available now, foibles and all. I’m curious who you have spotted vying for your throw-away vote though, Dave. Names? Who was that last guy you voted for...Johnson, or something? Guy’s father built a nice cancer hospital, as I recall.
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“You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.” — Too fundamental to have an attribution
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I guess he can answer for himself but according to what I've read here he voted for Barack Obama a president in retrospect accomplished very little but he was a good speaker and very presidential that is of course if you ignore recordings of him seeking patience with Vladimir Putin to wait until he gets another term so that he can give concessions.
OPINION....a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.
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I did vote for Gary Johnson in 2012 but not in 2016. In 2016 I wrote in Paul Ryan. I did not vote for Sen. Romney in 2012, primarily due to his seeming vacillations on issues. Today, I would vote for him in a heart beat. My candidate of choice in 2106 was John Kasich--and I hope he runs again.
I don't regard my vote as being a throw away---it is and should be understood as a protest to the anointed jack ass.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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Hickenlooper is basically the update to Johnson. Apparently we grow em laid back out hereNeither of them are qualified to run the country.....but I guess the qualifications for the office are evolving.
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From this morning's NYT:
Imagine that----damnnnnnnnMore than 2,000 migrants who were in the United States illegally were targeted in widely publicized raids that unfolded across the country last week. But figures the government provided to The New York Times on Monday show that just 35 people were detained in the operation.
President Trump had touted the raids — called Operation Border Resolve — as a show of force amid an influx of Central American parents and children across the southern border. After postponing the raids in June, Mr. Trump said ahead of time that they would take place last week.
Two current Department of Homeland Security officials and one former department official also confirmed to The Times that an enforcement operation would take place around mid-July.
But the publicity may have prompted many of those who had been targeted — 2,105 people in more than a dozen cities who had received final deportation orders but had not reported to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers — to temporarily leave their homes, or to move altogether to evade arrest.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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