I appreciate it. I don't plan to work with the MSM. If you've never heard of Ben Swann, Amber Lyon, or Ben Stiles, you need to check them out. Avoid Alex Jones though. I'll get to meet Swann this weekend. He runs Truth In Media.
Amber Lyon quit CNN because she went to Bahrain back in 2011 and did an report on the country. At the time, the country's government, with the help of Saudi troops, were brutally cracking down on their citizens wanting greater freedom, and Amber reported on this. When she got back to CNN, they told her to change her report, and she refused. It turned out Bahrain had paid CNN to do a propaganda piece on their country to make them look good to Americans.
And this is why our embargo with Cuba has been so hypocritical. We say it's because of "their human rights abuses", when Saudi Arabia's human rights' abuses are far worse than Cuba's have ever been. Saudi Arabia just happens to be our ally. Another website to check out is Reporters Without Borders. The US has fallen to #49 in freedom of the press around the world, and the website gives an explanation why. Our Middle Eastern allies make up four of the seven lowest ranking countries on the list, which does not help our standing with the rest of the world.
But at least it doesn't look like he'll get in the way of my girl
The thing about your girl is that I'm not to sure of what she stands for. Like I know she's for reforming campaign money and getting the power out of the hands of the 1% and whatnot buts thats it. I need a bit more before I can work with Hilary. Although she ain't slick by adding a Spanish version of her website. I see you Señora Clinton.
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Do you think the whole Baltimore/"broken windows" thing will be a problem for him?
They heckled ha announcement, poor thing.
Honestly no it won't, his problem will be publicity. However it is unfortunate that the black voters that helped him become elected as mayor of Baltimore in what '99 I believe probably won't show out for him again, at least not to the same extent.
The thing about your girl is that I'm not to sure of what she stands for. Like I know she's for reforming campaign money and getting the power out of the hands of the 1% and whatnot buts thats it. I need a bit more before I can work with Hilary. Although she ain't slick by adding a Spanish version of her website. I see you Señora Clinton.
Uh, what? That's Bernie Sanders. The Clintons have never met a bank they haven't liked.
Bernie Sanders is as left as can be, but he suffers from I don't know ha-ism.
IIIFFF Hillary wins 2016 she would probably attempt to get re-elected so Bernie's only chance to be the Democratic Presidential pick is if she loses to GOP next year and doesn't enter again. That is if Elizabeth stays away too
Giselle, Rand has zero chance of getting the nomination. Zero. Z.E.R.O. You can bookmark me on that.
1. A 'different' Republican will have little impact on the nomination process, they're all branding themselves as 'different'.
2. The Establishment hates him as does now the Tea Party where he 'allegedly' came from.
3. Walker and Rubio have the poll #'s, Walker has the Koch brothers, and Jeb has the establishment.
4. Libertarians (which Rand pretends to be but isn't) have little to no power over the base despite their hype in the press.
Rand's poll numbers may edge up, but he's not getting the nomination. Not until hell freezes over.
I disagree. I think Rand has a GREAT chance of getting the GOP nomination. Scott Walker is boring as ****, Jeb Bush could be Jesus himself but people won't vote for him due to his last name, and Marco Rubio isn't a great orator. Rand knows how to play the game and how to keep himself being talked about and has a lot of young supporters. Rand has a lot of name familiarity already and the establishment can only funnel so much money into the other candidates and that probably won't be enough to overcome Rand's charisma, plus he knows how to connect with the GP much better than the other GOP candidates.
Former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee will officially enter the presidential race on June 3, a source with knowledge of his plans told POLITICO.
He’ll make the announcement in a speech he’s scheduled to deliver next Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. at the George Mason Center for Politics & Foreign Relations in Arlington, Virginia. Following the announcement, Chafee will travel to New Hampshire on June 4 for a previously scheduled event with local Democrats in Grafton County.
Chafee, who became a Democrat in 2013, has made Hillary Clinton’s support for the invasion of Iraq the chief rationale for his primary challenge to her. As a senator and member of the Republican Party in 2002, Chafee voted against authorizing the war.
In April, Chafee surprised the political world by announcing that he was exploring a presidential run.
Since then, he has been polling in the low single digits in the Democratic primary and is considered an extreme long shot. He left the Rhode Island governor’s office in January after declining to mount a reelection bid that many believed he could not have won. [...]
The thing about your girl is that I'm not to sure of what she stands for. Like I know she's for reforming campaign money and getting the power out of the hands of the 1% and whatnot buts thats it. I need a bit more before I can work with Hilary. Although she ain't slick by adding a Spanish version of her website. I see you Señora Clinton.
She is the 1% and campaign finance reform are you kidding me? She is going to spend a billion on hers and her hand will be reaching out to banks. It just won't be public. Republicans will match her billion and then some.
This started with Obama and McCain when Obama agreed to take public money then opted out (lied) when he realized how much more money he could raise. He became the first person since Watergate (1970) to run a campaign entirely on private funds.
Now Liberals are crying about how much more money Republicans can raise. Well I agree they system is broken but Liberals broke it.
She is the 1% and campaign finance reform are you kidding me? She is going to spend a billion on hers and her hand will be reaching out to banks. It just won't be public. Republicans will match her billion and then some.
This started with Obama and McCain when Obama agreed to take public money then opted out (lied) when he realized how much more money he could raise. He became the first person since Watergate (1970) to run a campaign entirely on private funds.
Now Liberals are crying about how much more money Republicans can raise. Well I agree they system is broken but Liberals broke it.
Hilary said it, not me. If anything this justifies my hesitation with her.
I feel like raising so much money just stops being smart at a certain point. There are only so many ads you can run to the point they stop being effective. Most people are already decided, is a billion vs. half a billion a big difference in influencing 10% of voters?
Four years after his first presidential campaign was crushed by the weight of his debate gaffe and stump speech mishaps, the governor who spent 14 years presiding over Texas is launching his second bid for the Republican nomination on Thursday.
He's ditched the signature cowboy boots and added black-rimmed glasses. He's spent the intervening years recovering from health problems and boning up on policy.
Now, Perry will ask GOP primary voters for a second chance.
He'll formally launch his campaign for the 2016 Republican nomination at Addison Airport, outside Dallas, in an 11:30 a.m. speech.
But Perry first released a video online early Thursday morning, telling voters "we have the power to make our country new again."
"If we're going to revive this American dream again we need a president who provides leadership that transcends the petty partisanship we've seen in the last few years. Someone that's been tested and a president who tells the American people the truth," Perry says in a stump speech used in the video.
"We need a president who bridges the partisan divide rather than widen -- who brings people together. We must do right and risk the consequences."
At his event Thursday, he'll be flanked by a list of military veterans, including several Navy SEALs and Taya Kyle, the widow of "American Sniper" Chris Kyle — a group that allows Perry to highlight his five years in the Air Force.
Kyle vouched for Perry in an email to supporters inviting them to the campaign kick-off.
"I got to know Rick and Anita Perry outside of the public eye, where I've had an up-close view of their humility and commitment to doing the right thing for people regardless of who gets the credit," she wrote. "Believe me, they are a breath of fresh air in a political system full of people playing games and twisting the truth."
Perry struggled badly during his 2012 campaign. He entered the Republican race to great conservative fanfare in August 2011 and unseated Mitt Romney from the party's pole position — but quickly saw that status erode.
There was the "oops" moment in a CNBC debate, when Perry couldn't remember the name of one of the three federal agencies he said he wanted to abolish. There was also a New Hampshire speech where voters wondered aloud afterward whether he'd been drinking.
Almost four years later, he enters the race struggling to make the top 10 in polls of a much-stronger Republican field, and with work to do to earn a second chance with voters.
After his Thursday launch, Perry will head to Iowa, where on Saturday he'll be in the city of Perry to kick off a "Ride with Rick" event that benefits the Puppy Jake Foundation, a non-profit that provides service dogs to wounded veterans.
He'll ride a motorcycle belonging to Taylor Morris, a Navy explosive ordinance disposal technician from Cedar Falls, Iowa who hasn't been able to ride it since being injured in Afghanistan.
The ride will end in Boone, Iowa, where Perry will then participate in Sen. Joni Ernst's "Roast and Ride" event — and begin courting voters in the first state to hit the polls.
The state has been Perry's focal point since 2014. He's made more than a dozen visits to Iowa, where he's visited far-flung locales while remaining under the radar — and far from the media circus that followed his first bid.