mcoop 628 Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 Thank you for making this thread! I look forward to discussing the election with everyone! Finally something (besides gaga) I'm really interested in on here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morphine Prince 109,684 Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 Thank you for making this thread! I look forward to discussing the election with everyone! Finally something (besides gaga) I'm really interested in on here. Were you here 2012? When it was election day the thread was getting so many pages each minute and every time Romney won a state there were meltdowns Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcoop 628 Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 Were you here 2012? When it was election day the thread was getting so many pages each minute and every time Romney won a state there were meltdowns No I wasn't :air: I would have loved to witness that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whispering 18,865 Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 Were you here 2012? When it was election day the thread was getting so many pages each minute and every time Romney won a state there were meltdowns I wish I would have been! That was an exciting night! I saved Obama's acceptance speech on my DVR for the longest time...until it had to be traded in. I was relying on Nate Sivers' predictions and they ended up being the closest to how it turned out. Think I'll watch that blog again, when the time comes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gagaloo911 12,959 Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 Politico sucks and is a very biased publication site, you should not refer people to it in the OP. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luiz 4,253 Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 Chris Christie: 'I Will Crack Down And Not Permit' Legal Marijuana As Presidenthttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/14/chris-christie-marijuana_n_7066636.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592not like he was getting my vote anyways I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luiz 4,253 Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 Hillary Clinton says she would support a constitutional amendment on campaign finance reform MONTICELLO, Iowa -- Hillary Rodham Clinton is calling for changes to the nation's campaign finance system, saying here Tuesday that she would support a constitutional amendment if that's what it takes to fix what she called a "dysfunctional" system. Holding her first official campaign event at Kirkwood Community College in rural Monticello, Clinton identified campaign finance reform as one of several pillars of her 2016 presidential campaign. "We need to fix our dysfunctional political system and get unaccountable money out of it once and for all -- even if it takes a constitutional amendment," Clinton said in opening remarks at a roundtable event with Kirkwood students and instructors. The 2016 presidential election is expected the be the most expensive in U.S. history, with super PACs and campaigns likely to spend billions of dollars. Clinton's comments come as many of the Democratic Party's biggest donors, as well as her super PAC allies, are gathering in San Francisco for a meeting of the Democracy Alliance. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/04/14/hillary-clinton-says-she-would-support-a-constitutional-amendment-on-campaign-finance-reform/ edit: apology in advance tho. i'mma be posting a lot in this thread probably. just news articles tho not actual opinions from me this is gonna be fun I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luiz 4,253 Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 this fella I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray of Light 8,134 Posted April 22, 2015 Author Share Posted April 22, 2015 this fella Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morphine Prince 109,684 Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 A lot he said was on point though? Or??? Lol, I thought it was gonna be something ridiculous but he makes a lot of sense! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray of Light 8,134 Posted April 22, 2015 Author Share Posted April 22, 2015 A lot he said was on point though? Or??? Lol, I thought it was gonna be something ridiculous but he makes a lot of sense! Oops! I quoted the wrong post of his! I was referring to the Chris Christie one Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesse Pinkman 4,660 Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Yas I've been waiting on this. It's science, bitch Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luiz 4,253 Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Bernie Sanders to launch Democratic presidential bid: Vermont radio(Reuters) - Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the longest-serving independent member of the U.S. Congress, will announce his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination on Thursday, Vermont Public Radio reported on Tuesday.He will release a short statement and hold a campaign kickoff event in subsequent weeks, VPR said, citing several sources.With former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton looming as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, few other candidates have stepped forward in the party. Former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley is expected to enter the race next monthhttp://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/28/us-usa-election-sanders-idUSKBN0NJ2JT20150428 I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luiz 4,253 Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 full story http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/30/politics/bernie-sanders-presidential-run-first-interview/index.htmlWashington (CNN)Bernie Sanders says he won't launch a Super PAC and doesn't want billionaires to bankroll his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.The Vermont senator who entered the 2016 race for the White House on Thursday told CNN's Wolf Blitzer in his first interview as a candidate that he'll instead look to small-dollar individual donors.And he lambasted the growing influence that major donors like Charles and David Koch on the right and Tom Steyer on the left now have on the political process."Frankly, it is vulgar to me that we're having a war of billionaires," Sanders said.Asked whether he would bless a wealthy donor's support for a pro-Sanders Super PAC, he said: "No."RELATED: Potential roadblock for Bernie Sanders rises in New Hampshire"The real question is, can any candidate in this country who represents working families, who is not a billionaire, who is not beholden to big corporations — in this day and age, can that candidate win an election?" Sanders said. He didn't wade into many key differences with the other declared Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton.But Sanders did highlight his opposition to the Iraq War, which Clinton voted to support. He said he'll make his opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline and his intense focus on climate change key issues in his campaign, and said he favors a tough approach to big banks."I believe we should break up the Wall Street banks. If they're too big to fail, they're too big to exist," Sanders said. I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luiz 4,253 Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 sorry for all the bernie posts but he was against the iraq war while hillary was for it Oct. 10, 2002 H J Res 114 Use of Military Force Against Iraq Joint Resolution Passed - House(296 - 133) Nay https://votesmart.org/bill/3083/12790/27110/use-of-military-force-against-iraq#.VUPebvlVhBc President Bernie Sanders Would Dismantle NSA Spying "Kids will grow up knowing that every damn thing that they do is going to be recorded some place in a file, and I think that will have a very Orwellian and very inhibiting impact on the way we live our lives," Sanders told MSNBC's Chris Hayes just days after the initial batch of Snowden files emerged. "I want our law enforcement people to be vigorous in going after terrorists. But I happen to believe they can do that without disregarding the Constitution of the United States or the civil liberties of the American people." Last year, Sanders sent a probing letter to Gen. Keith Alexander, then the head of the spy agency, demanding the answer to "one simple question": Has the NSA spied on members of Congress or other elected officials? (The answer, which came later: Probably.) "I am deeply concerned about recent revelations that the National Security Agency (NSA) and other intelligence agencies are collecting enormous amounts of information about phone calls that Americans make, emails that we send, and websites that we visit," Sanders wrote then. "In my view, these actions are clearly unconstitutional." But Sanders' skepticism of the intelligence agencies predates the Snowden revelations by more than a decade. While still serving in the House, he was one of just 66 members to vote against the post-9/11 Patriot Act, which greatly expanded the government's military and spying capabilities and eventually came to represent the legal justification for the NSA's bulk collection of U.S. call data. Sanders has also voted against reauthorizations of the Patriot Act, as well as the FISA Amendments Act in 2008. And last year, Sanders voted for the Senate's USA Freedom Act, which would have effectively ended the phone-records program. http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/president-bernie-sanders-would-dismantle-nsa-spying-20150501 I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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