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Norton
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Jun 29, 2016 - 03:05pm PT
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“I went to an Ivy League school. I’m very highly educated. I know words. I have the best words,”
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crankster
Trad climber
No. Tahoe
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Jun 29, 2016 - 03:15pm PT
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Ambassador Stevens sister (and family spokesperson) lays the blame at the foot of the Republican Congress.
Conservatives should be ashamed for politicizing this incident for political gain. If they had any sense of shame left.
(CNN) The sister of the U.S. ambassador to Libya killed in Benghazi said she doesn't blame Hillary Clinton for Chris Stevens' death, instead pointing to Congress for under-budgeting the State Department.
"I do not blame Hillary Clinton or Leon Panetta (for Stevens' death). They were balancing security efforts at embassies and missions around the world," Dr. Anne Stevens, who has acted as a spokesperson for the family, said in an interview with the New Yorker published Tuesday.
"But what was the underlying cause? Perhaps if Congress had provided a budget to increase security for all missions around the world, then some of the requests for more security in Libya would have been granted. Certainly the State Department is underbudgeted," she added. "I would love to hear they are drastically increasing the budget."
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Curt
climber
Gold Canyon, AZ
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Jun 29, 2016 - 03:27pm PT
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Old news but worth repeating ... Look at all the articles talking about this University Professor Elections Statistician, predicting Trump will win the Presidency with a 97% certainty. His model has only been wrong once in 104 years of USA election history.
All from February. Please try to keep up.
Nate Silver got 50 out of 50 state outcomes right in the 2012 presidential election--every single one of them. I'll take his predictions any day over anyone else's. National polls mean NOTHING, only electoral college votes matter.
Curt
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Norton
Social climber
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Jun 29, 2016 - 03:50pm PT
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nice manip !
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Norton
Social climber
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Jun 29, 2016 - 03:56pm PT
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you are a woman hater
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dirtbag
climber
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Jun 29, 2016 - 04:49pm PT
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...and her serial rapist husband.
Prove it.
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dikhed
climber
State of fugue and disbelief
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Jun 29, 2016 - 05:42pm PT
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I'm going climbing now, but I will take that challenge ...
sure you are...
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Norton
Social climber
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Jun 29, 2016 - 05:50pm PT
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sandstone conglomerate
climber
sharon conglomerate central
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Jun 29, 2016 - 05:59pm PT
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klimmer is climbing into the pilot seat of the ark. he's been on the moon for awhile now.
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10b4me
Mountain climber
Retired
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Jun 29, 2016 - 06:05pm PT
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from what I understand.
Seems like you don't understand much.
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Norton
Social climber
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Jun 29, 2016 - 06:11pm PT
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Trump is on his last legs, he just does not know enough to shut his mouth
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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Jun 29, 2016 - 06:15pm PT
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I want to help her with that string!
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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Jun 29, 2016 - 06:51pm PT
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Norton
Social climber
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Jun 29, 2016 - 06:53pm PT
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*Proof that President Obama Has Secret Ties to ISIS
A series of American airstrikes killed at least 250 ISIS fighters driving in a convoy outside Fallujah on Wednesday, a senior U.S. defense official confirmed to Fox News.
The strikes occurred on the outskirts of the Iraqi city in "southern Fallujah," a second U.S. defense official told Fox News.
"There was a strike on a convoy of ISIS fighters trying to leave a neighborhood on the outskirts of southern Fallujah that we struck," the official said.
At least 40 vehicles were destroyed in the airstrikes, a U.S. official told Reuters, wh
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
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Jun 29, 2016 - 07:09pm PT
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wow, that's a pretty dickish and ignorant statement. Really, there are only three possibilities? Why, because you say so?
Uh, yeah. It's like....my opinion....or something. On an opinion based forum. On an opinion based issue. In response to the opinion that the DNC needs to kiss Sanders or Busters' asses to prevent a Trump victory.
Are you stupid to believe that Sanders supporters in any volume what so ever would actually vote Drumpf?
Are you not paying attention or something? Not all Sanders supporters are on the wait list to live in Boulder.
"petulant man-children " - yeah, sure - sling insults. Does it make you feel better?
the 30% Sanders supporters that are not going to vote (where's that in your three options? Oh, never mind) for Mrs. Clinton are the youth that are participating in this process for the first time and are motivated because of Senator Sanders. They probably don't even care who or what Hillary is. With him out they simply won't show up. And that's too bad because the down ballet candidates need every vote.
I just hope She's kicking ass so bad in Colorado that I can write in Frank Zappa. Need to show up to make sure the other candidates get their vote. Will be tough races for the senate and the house here in colorado.
All that and you're not even a Sanders or Buster? You're smart enough to see the big picture.
Pull your head out of Hillary's ass for once.
I can articulate Clinton's faults very well. What makes Sanders holdouts so obnoxious is the utter blindness to the shortcomings of their candidate. It's pretty disappointing. And the 30-40% holding out are not just young people. This primary made it clear that we are ALL the problem. Democrats have no place blaming Republicans for the coarsening of political culture anymore.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Jun 30, 2016 - 07:49am PT
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Sanders holdouts so obnoxious is the utter blindness to the shortcomings of their candidate.
I think that's a sentence...
Meanwhile, from Bernie Sanders: Democrats Need to Wake Up:
Surprise, surprise. Workers in Britain, many of whom have seen a decline in their standard of living while the very rich in their country have become much richer, have turned their backs on the European Union and a globalized economy that is failing them and their children.
And it’s not just the British who are suffering. That increasingly globalized economy, established and maintained by the world’s economic elite, is failing people everywhere. Incredibly, the wealthiest 62 people on this planet own as much wealth as the bottom half of the world’s population — around 3.6 billion people. The top 1 percent now owns more wealth than the whole of the bottom 99 percent. The very, very rich enjoy unimaginable luxury while billions of people endure abject poverty, unemployment, and inadequate health care, education, housing and drinking water.
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During my campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, I’ve visited 46 states. What I saw and heard on too many occasions were painful realities that the political and media establishment fail even to recognize.
In the last 15 years, nearly 60,000 factories in this country have closed, and more than 4.8 million well-paid manufacturing jobs have disappeared. Much of this is related to disastrous trade agreements that encourage corporations to move to low-wage countries.
Despite major increases in productivity, the median male worker in America today is making $726 dollars less than he did in 1973, while the median female worker is making $1,154 less than she did in 2007, after adjusting for inflation.
I know Hillary is better than the Donald for a host of reasons, and I assume that most Sanders supporters know the same.
Still, Hillary is the status quo. And if you want some of what Sanders addresses to change, then we must fight, and fight hard, for that change. Because voting for establishment candidates is not going to bring that change about.
We holdouts obnoxious? What I find obnoxious is that the DNC (and the MSM) played unfairly to keep Sanders down and out of the news.
Now, about that TPP. Think Clinton will pass it? Come on now, be honest.
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
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Jun 30, 2016 - 09:10am PT
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k-man posted Still, Hillary is the status quo.
"Status quo" has become a bullshit buzzword that means nothing but I'll bite. What exactly do you mean by "status quo?"
Do you mean that Clinton got to her position by building a network of support among political professionals, business leaders and political activists through years of relationship development and hard work on important issues? That's the traditional path to becoming President in the modern era. Do you mean that she has convinced a larger number of people voting in the Democratic primary that she should be the nominee? More status quo politics there. Do you mean that she has actually invested considerable time into building a national political apparatus capable of electing her? Or that she went into the race actually planning on winning? Or that she is attempting to appeal to the broadest number of Americans because a President doesn't just represent the most liberal wing of the electorate? Or that she focuses her attention on achievable results? More "status quo" politics. She understands that our Constitution requires compromise to actually work? That electing a President doesn't mean anything without a Congress that supports their agenda?
Clinton worked for her entire life to prove that a woman could achieve in a system completely dominated by men. Now that she's done it, she's scorned for being good at it instead of capturing the whims of the moment by packing stadiums, selling unachievable fantasies and trying to hijack the political infrastructure that other people built. Just because something is different doesn't actually make it better. You want Sanders' platform to become reality? Then start getting liberals elected to state offices. If Republicans win at the state level in 2020 (which they've set themselves up nicely to do) we're looking at another decade of the same crap.
What I find obnoxious is that the DNC (and the MSM) played unfairly to keep Sanders down and out of the news.
Again, the primary process (with the exception of the debate structure) was designed in a way that completely benefited Sanders. Had it been designed differently he would have lost by Super Tuesday.
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