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Discussion: U.S. Election 2016: Primary Season
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The comment. 
"He probably fell asleep."
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Originally posted by Giselle
Elizabeth is a lot smarter than Bernie  Love to have her as President. Come through, 2024! |
This is tea!
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Originally posted by Jonna Lee
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oh wait it says satire
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While Carson insisted that “there is no way I ran for President,” he did not rule out running for the Republican nomination in the future.
“I think I’d be really good at it,” he said.
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I can't 
ETA: Thank god it's not real.
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When Trump claimed that he was in New Jersey when 9/11 happened and that Muslim families were celebrating in the streets and holding parties. They asked Ben at one of his rallies if he remembered that and he groggily said "oh, yes, I distinctly remember that." And then the press debunked that as ever happening.
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Originally posted by Giselle
Elizabeth is a lot smarter than Bernie Love to have her as President. Come through, 2024! |
She is going to be ancient by then. 
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Originally posted by The Countess
She is going to be ancient by then. |
I think she'll be around Bernie's age and we see how far he's gotten.
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Member Since: 8/31/2012
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I loved this Hillary article
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Source: http://www.politico.com/magazine/sto...illarys-213813
The Mystery of the Two Hillarys
Covering her for Bloomberg News, I traveled with her both on her last campaign and as secretary of state. In 2007 and 2008, I trailed Candidate Clinton from Iowa to Kentucky, watching her bristle at questions and struggle to inspire crowds. I was standing a few feet from her when she let down her guard in a rare moment, her voice cracking and tears welling in her eyes at a New Hampshire coffee shop. After the election, I was the only writer from that pack who joined the much-smaller State Department press corps, and traveled regularly on her plane for the next four years, from her first overseas trip to Asia to her last stop in Belfast.
Watching her on those two different stages, the contrast between the two Hillarys was stunning. Up close, it felt like The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. From the start of her first trip as secretary of state in February 2009, I was struck by how different she seemed from the presidential candidate she had been only several months before. Clinton was relaxed, at ease with the press and radiating charisma in front of crowds. In Indonesia, thousands of people crammed into a Jakarta slum, all wanting to touch her or catch a glimpse as she greeted new mothers at a maternal health clinic. A member of her American security detail joked privately that if she’d gotten this kind of reception at home, the U.S. election might have turned out differently. When I asked a couple of bystanders why they’d waited hours for a glimpse of a U.S. Cabinet secretary, they looked at me as if I were a moron: “She’s the most famous and powerful woman in the world. Who wouldn’t want to see her?”
She also played the crowds like a natural. I still chuckle at a moment in her second overseas town hall that same trip when a young woman at Ewha Womans University in Seoul asked breathlessly: “I have a question related to love … How did you know your husband was … ” The end of her question was at first inaudible, and for a split second, the American reporters and aides held their breath, wondering at the implication. But the student had asked how Clinton knew her husband was the right one for her, and Clinton exclaimed with a girlish laugh that she felt “more like an advice columnist than like the secretary of state today.” She then launched into an impromptu meditation on love, describing her husband as her best friend and their marriage as “an endless conversation.” She quoted a close friend who told her at the end of her life, “I’ve loved and been loved, and all the rest is background music.” The Korean students cheered her answer, and I was struck that it felt so much more personal and revelatory than almost any moment in Clinton’s campaign.
What happened to the Candidate Clinton who was stiff, defensive and off-putting? Her doppelganger, Secretary Hillary, seemed to have shed a mask. It wasn’t just that Clinton was good at policy stuff as secretary of state; she actually came alive on the job—meeting people and connecting with their problems, making speeches and working crowds. For those four years, she earned consistently high approval ratings from the American public and won praise from the same Senate Republicans who rail against her now. Setting aside judgments about ideology and policy, achievements or failures, it’s striking that the personal political skills that were obscured in her previous campaign—charisma and an ability to connect with and persuade people—were Clinton’s tools of the trade when she traveled as Obama’s envoy to win over votes in support of U.S. foreign policy.
Clearly, however, something seems to happen to Clinton when the task is asking people to vote for her. One can pop-psychologize: Maybe it’s a byproduct of a self-effacing Midwestern Methodist upbringing, or a fear of failure and a defensive instinct instilled by a father who was demanding and hypercritical. David Axelrod, who as chief strategist for Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign studied her vulnerabilities as a candidate, has his own theory: Campaigns for president, unlike those for senator, demand a level of “revelation about yourself, about who you are as a person, and she’s very cautious about that. Part of it is she’s been beaten up for a long time and that accentuates her fear of making a mistake.”
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esp this part 
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A rare departure from Clinton’s typical stiff stump speech came in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 2008, when she was trailing Obama in polls after his upset victory in Iowa. She had come face-to-face with vicious misogyny in New Hampshire that week, where detractors had crashed her rallies, heckling and holding hand-made signs with the slogans “Iron My Shirt!” and “Beat the B***h.” Not long after one of these ugly outbursts, Clinton was meeting a small group of undecided voters at Café Espresso; I was wedged next to a camera a few feet away. A woman asked Clinton how she managed to get out of bed every day and keep going under the pressure, doing things as mundane as making her hair look good. As I watched Clinton’s face, it was obvious the personal question, coming at that moment, touched a nerve.
Clinton looked composed as always, with her short hairstyle perfectly in place and blue eye shadow matching her suit. Then something happened. “It’s not easy … and I couldn’t do it if I didn’t just, you know, passionately believe it was the right thing to do,” she began, choking briefly as tears seemed to well in her eyes. The 16 coffeehouse patrons applauded, encouraging her to go on. “This is very personal for me. It’s not just political ... I see what’s happening and we have to reverse it,” she continued, picking up steam. “Some of us put ourselves out there and do this against some pretty difficult odds,” she said, her voice cracking again, “and we do it each one of us because we care about our country.” By the time she finished, several of the undecided women voters were wiping their eyes.
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And there's more stuff on what she did behind the scenes to convince India to set big climate change goals and get onboard 
I honestly feel like it's very strange how so many people hate her, especially when these same people probably agree with 90% of what she does and has done throughout her career
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Originally posted by mermaid_ariel
Is he serious?  |
Bye. Something is not right in his head.
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So yeah we popping big bottles on Tuesday or what?? Its been a while after the Bernie takeover I was bored. 
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Also can't believe Cruz won all 14 delegates in Wyoming today 
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Where is my brother, Hey Mr. DJ?
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Originally posted by TikiMiss
I loved this Hillary article
I honestly feel like it's very strange how so many people hate her, especially when these same people probably agree with 90% of what she does and has done throughout her career
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I read this politico article the other day and loved it as well. I had the feeling it was this way. Campaigning isn't for everyone but she's definitely doing a better job at it now than in 2008.
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Originally posted by Giselle
Where is my brother, Hey Mr. DJ? |
Sadly got thread banned
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Originally posted by Giselle
Where is my brother, Hey Mr. DJ? |
I don't know who but someone requested him to be thread banned.  I requested him to send a help request.
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Member Since: 8/28/2009
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Originally posted by RatedG²
Sadly got thread banned
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Da ****, he was one of the biggest contributors here.
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What did he wrong, he was a kii
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Member Since: 1/20/2012
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Originally posted by RatedG²
Sadly got thread banned
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So that's what happened to him
Welp, Bernie always wins 
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I think it may have been him comparing Bernie to a child molester, not sure if that was the reason.
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