Posted on 02/14/2016 4:36:44 AM PST by xzins
1. Trump, A+ -- Fought like a champion. Finally, someone with the guts to call out our nation for being 15 years at war, still killing our sons and daughters so politicians can put a feather in their cap, and most of them calling for more war. Bush wants BWIII, Bush War III
2. Carson, A-, quietly but effectively said that he was in it for the people, that he'd been asked to run, and that he wasn't there for any other reason. Outstanding.
3. Rubio, B+, Say what you like, but Rubio wiped the floor with Cruz on the immigration question. The April 2015 video shows Cruz supporting 'talking about what to do with immigrants after the wall is built.' It shows him calling for massive increases in H1B visas.
4. Cruz, C, Clearly the most knowledgeable about the supreme court vacancy. He needs to stop misrepresenting others' positions. Trump called him out on the Planned Parenthood question. Trump has clearly called for defunding PP if they keep doing abortions. If they voluntarily stop doing abortions, then he would support their doing breast exams and pap smears and the like.
5. Kasich, C, Did a Mr. Rogers in the neighborhood act. Hillary Clinton will eat his lunch.
6. Bush, F-, This man is totally lacking in insight. He actually called for another war in the middle east AND he wants to fund Al Qaeda in Syria. He's simply not up to the task.
Bush was responsible.
It was on his watch.
He’d been president already for 9 months...almost a year.
MOREOVER:
Bush PUSHED illegal immigration amnesty...don’t you remember?
He was in charge WHEN those 9/11 pilots were overstaying visas and getting training on the Saudi dime at OUR flight schools.
So, if Americans want to say it falls on his list, then I’m okay with that.
Would you go there right now and walk down a street in broad daylight?
Would you have done so during Bush’s presidency at ANY point in time?
Would you have recommended, if you were commander, that your troops could just go out in the villages for R&R?
Yes, it is an old answer because the donor class candidates - which is everyone other than Trump - will continue to do nothing. The wall will never get built unless Trump builds it.
Apparently we will disagree on this government lie.
I agree its a theft, But the fact is many who paid into it their entire lives are dependent on it and earned it no matter how little the payout is. The problem is the crooks running it stole the money.
FYI I am not on any thing like entitlements state aid etc. I just do not feel its right to stick it to old folks and widows who did their fair share of work to earn something in old age.
Bush the elder learned nothing from the mess the Balfour agreement caused in the 1930s.
History rhymes, unfortunately.
I have met kuwaitis and they were to a man very thankful for our intervention
He is old time presidential.
‘That’s why trillion dollar budgets get passed’
Trillion dollar continuing resolution/cromnibus, etc., I think you meant. We haven’t had an actual budget since Obama took office.
“I think that the position that Bush lied is acceptable.”
I am no fan of the Bush family, I opposed Bush on this forum when most thought he was a God (similar to the view many now have of trump). That said, to believe Bush would have in a calculated way lied to the American public just so he could go to war is plain batshit crazy.
What would GW gain by such a lie? A lie he would have known would kill thousands of Americans and cost trillions of dollars? Sorry, that would make the Bushes Hitlerian in their level of evil and I don’t think even you believe that.
Inept, yes, but the Bushes calculatedly murdering their fellow citizens? That’s X-Files paranoia.
Oh yeah politicians never lie..... (sarcasm off)
We were certainly lied to, but entitlement to me is the haughty belief that the world owes them something for nothing and I will never agree that people who have worked and paid into SS for 50+ years are gimmedats. You have every right to disagree. BTW my husband and I still work long after 66.
Thanks, FW. You are correct, and I appreciate the help.
Ted Cruz - and his PACs which he controls - have turned out to be the worst liars and most weaselly campaigners of all those running. When you combine that with his professorial mannerisms and his piety platform it is down right unworldly in its negativism.
So don’t vote for him.
What calculation would have caused him to look for an excuse to fudge the facts about WMDs?
In late-April 1993, the United States learned that terrorists had attempted to assassinate Bush during his visit to Kuwait. The Kuwaiti authorities arrested 17 persons suspected in the plot to kill Bush using explosives hidden in a Toyota Landcruiser. The Kuwaitis recovered the Landcruiser, which contained between 80 and 90 kilograms of plastic explosives connected to a detonator ( the Bush device or Bush explosive device ). The Kuwaitis also recovered ten cube-shaped plastic explosive devices with detonators (the cube-bombs ) from the Landcruiser. Some of the suspects reportedly confessed that the Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS ) was behind the assassination attempt.On April 29, 1993, CIA bomb technicians compared the Bush explosive device to two known Iraqi explosive devices found in different Middle-Eastern countries in 1990 and 1991 (the Middle-East devices ) . The technicians reported that the remote control firing mechanism in the Bush device was identical to those in the Middle-East devices.
Additionally, the technicians reported that blasting caps from the Bush device appeared to be identical to those found in one of the Middle-East devices. The technicians later concluded that the circuit board from the Bush device also closely resembled circuit boards from the Middle-East devices.
In early-May 1993, the FBI sent personnel to Kuwait to interview the suspects and examine the physical evidence. FBI Special Agents, along with representatives of the Secret Service and State Department, interviewed 16 suspects, some more than once. Two of the suspects, Wali 'Abd Al-Hadi 'Abd Al-Hasan Al-Ghazali ( Al-Ghazali ) and Ra'd 'Abd Al-Amir 'Abbud Al-Asadi ( Al-Asadi ), admitted during the FBI interviews that they had participated in the plot at the direction of the IIS. - See more at: http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/1000#sthash.ARBzvRmS.dpuf
It will be interesting to see if the strategy to use the over the top hostile hand picked audience will backfire.
Also, I think battle line have been drawn so deep because of the RNC/GOP’s hell bent determination to pick our nominee that the democrat candidate will have a edge in the general election, just because of the number of Republican voters who will stay home.
I am not a big Trump fan, and I think he is a loose cannon; but he does not support PP as long as it does abortions. He said he would support funding PP if it stopped performing abortions.
I don’t think we should fund PP at all, but to imply that Trump is a champion of abortionists is just flat-out wrong.
If Trump’s making that case, then it’s a serious, serious point in his favour.
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