Hillary is a much better person than Bush. She isn’t lazy and inept. And she won’t let a serial failure like Cheney dictate her foreign policy. She’s not my ideal president, but she isn’t a clownfart like W. Bush who shouldn’t be trusted to run an Arby’s.
Assuming she’ll be like the worst president in living memory is pretty bold.
I don’t see any Dems running away, and I would certainly vote for him a third time if he could run again.
Overall over the last year anyway Democratic “favorable” view of the Act has stayed over 60% with “unfavorable” staying 20% or less, and most recent polls have independents pretty evenly split.
Not so sure about that running away bit … other than the fact that many Blue Dogs who went against it still lost their seats.
Back to the polling - among all adults it is split evenly right now.
But sure that is not evenly distributed and in some districts the anti-rhetoric has been potent. A Democrat does not currently have much of a chance in some of these rural districts in particular that Blue Dogs previously were competitive in … one who supports Obamacare? No chance at all.
But the odds of any Democratic Presidential candidate winning those districts is low in any case. Even if (s)he is competitive in the state overall.
He was probably referring to all the Dem politicians.
Still don’t see it.
I’m guessing it’s a reference to this.
Clearly not this Senate motion to repeal added onto the Highway bill in the Senate which had not one Democrat voting to advance the motion. (Interestingly enough it was one of the votes Sanders missed.)
Nor could he be referring to this House partial repeal attempt last month which had not one Democrat voting for it.
Yeah, there is a reason you don’t see it. It does not exist. A few whose local interests include the medical device industry voting to repeal the tax on that industry … and failing, and otherwise naught. If he got that much running away from everything he wanted he’d have gotten lots more done!
(Honestly surprisingly so … before I checked I thought there’d be more pandering to local political expediencies in the House than there is.)
The cadillac tax is also in danger. Clinton came out against it, so it’s probably a done deal if she gets elected. The problem with that is that it wasn’t just a tax, it was a way to hold health care costs down by taxing those gold plated union plans.
Does anyone closely familiar with Ms. Clinton’s stance on the issues know if her desire to show respect for our enemies…and emphasize with their perspective and point of view applies to ISIS?
I’m sure all ISIS needs is a hug.
I happen to agree with her. In this case the problem is a lot like what happened in Independence Day. If Clinton could actually mind meld with your average ISIS terrorist, the next words out of her mouth would be “kill 'em”.
One thing I don’t worry about with Clinton is her willingness to kill these bastards.
Does this also strike others as … odd? I can’t think of any major candidate ever less qualified. Those that might come close (Bachmann, Palin, Cain) were never in top place to win the general election.
Rumor has it that some Dopers vote for the GOP. What do they think of the Carson and Trump phenomena?
Trump should never be President. Carson shouldn’t be either, but has the advantage over Trump of being an admirable person and I think that’s what’s driving his electability.
I’d also love to see if anyone can find pollster data on how Carson’s presence affects the black vote. Carson is a legend in the African-American community, something which cannot be said for Herman Cain or any other black Republican.
It can’t be said for Carson, either.
Those are the 40% who slept through his speech when he came to their school. Ta-Nehisi Coates saw Carson speak not once, but several times at his own school:
And it should be known that Coates is most definitely NOT a supporter of Carson for President. But he does point out how Carson is very different from past black Republican “hopes”, as he calls them.
Carson is a pathological liar and holds sociopathic political views. Exactly what is admirable about him, having an (R) after his name?
Oh, I don’t know, renowned brain surgeon, a guy who has actually taken the time to talk to poor students, to teach them that they too can achieve?
That’s admirable, though I’m not sure it overcomes his lies, exaggerations, and advocacy for terrible things. Putting all that together I don’t believe he’s admirable.
Seriously, governing a diverse country within a rapidly changing world stage is not neurosurgery. I am sure he had very good hands at the time. Admirable like having the skill to memorize pi out more digits than most is, or perhaps more apt, being a piano prodigy, is. Not something that makes him admirable as a person. I can respect the skills of even the despicable … they are no less despicable for having them.
Giving talks about what great things he’s done to a crowd who will admire him, putatively in service of inspiring them? Sure I’ll give him some props for that. Not as much as those who actually take the time to mentor or teach on a regular basis but props where props are due. Agreed not enough to offset the pathologic liar and sociopathic political views … or the anti-science worldview. Unlike iiandyiiii of that I am sure.
And this is the Clinton thread? Dang do these things drift!
He’s profoundly ignorant, and dangerously delusional.
And his success is based on a one-in-a-million narrow intellect that allowed a delusional simpleton to pass O-Chem and get into medical school. The other 999,999 kids can’t follow the same path.
To succeed generally, you should learn things, and understand what you’re talking about. Not just squint and say whatever shit your gut instinct tells you about foreign policy, or who is fighting in Syria.
I keep hearing people bring up his being a great brain surgeon as if it were some sort of qualification for office. It means nothing. I myself knew one of Thailand’s top brain surgeons, no kidding. He truly was and probably still is tops in the field. Canadian-trained, he can hold his own in any Western operating theater. No, he did NOT operate on me, thank you very much. But I would have no qualms bout him doing so. However, the man was an utter moron when it came to anything else. “Socially inept” does not even begin to describe the man. Like Lobohan’s description of Carson, this man was “profoundly ignorant, and dangerously delusional.”