That guy is a tool. Can't answer a simple question that you should know if your running for the US presidency. I love how he keeps looking to Ron Paul as if he is going to hold up a card with the answer on it for him.
It's sad that the republican party has become so anti-intellectual. They all seem to believe in only the bible and refuse to acknowledge global warming, evolution or anything else like that. Not to mention their continued rape of the middle class. I'm with Bill Maher on "I fully understand why the 1% will vote republican. I don't get the other 99% voting for them" and it's true. Like republican voters lock onto 1 or 2 sound-bites like "no gay marriage" and just run with that.
I heard this american guy on AM radio this morning, some academic from the US who was going on about the state of things in the states. He was republican, and going on about how decadence and democracy cannot co-exist.
When asked what he meant by decadence, he was talking about how same sex marriage was a decadence that we need to get rid of, the porn industry as well, etc etc.
Just listening to him was really fucking painful and the radio station (4BC maybe, not sure) lost all credibility in my eyes just for having him on, as the host wasn't the slightest bit perplexed at what he had to say and almost carried on as though he supported it. Felt like I was watching today tonight or something - dirty.
I doubt it will hurt him much, at least in the primary.
If cain can have his highest week of donations at the same time as sexual harassment allegations surface then not knowing some departments of the stupid wasters in Washington aint gonna do shit. Its hilarious how that weiner bloke had to quit over some consensual photo swapping but you can run for the top job after your actions were judged bad enough to warrant ~45 000 dollar settlements.
That guy is a tool. Can't answer a simple question that you should know if your running for the US presidency. I love how he keeps looking to Ron Paul as if he is going to hold up a card with the answer on it for him.
I dunno, i don't know if you could say it's a simple question because the enormous stress that you'd be under. I have trouble in an exam condition sometimes when i get that mental blank about a word, but in front of several million people i think it'd be even harder.
However, it does suggest he's not exactly cut out to be a leader of the nation, because that setting isn't exactly going to be uncommon.
As for him as a person? Oh that's a separate issue. He probably quite rightly is a tool.
What a loser, so keep the USA uneducated, sickly and unable to manage an economy.....sounds like a great plan.
when your economy is in that much debt it makes sense to decentralise functions of government that are unnecessary at a federal level in order to minimise expenditures. the department of commerce doesn't really "manage their economy" in a macro sense, it's a regulatory body. the department of education aren't the ones who educate kids (it's largely a bureaucracy - in fact the many of the most higly performing schools in the US are the most decentralised i.e. charter schools, you should see a documentary called the lottery about charter schools it's eye opening and really well made) and the department of energy has failed in one of its key mandated tasks (although it is some of the way there - achieving US energy independence). one of main problems i see with this plan so far is that the US equivalent of the ACCC is part of the dept of commerce and consumer protection laws are essential to the orderly functioning of an economy imo - there would need to be provisions for this functionality to continue.
there are strong arguments for what he is advocating (which of course you don't have to agree with, there are arguments against it too - i understand where he's coming from and agree that there are massive efficiency gains to be made in the US public service but probably wouldn't go so far as to eliminate the departments altogether particularly in DOC as there are bodies that fall under that banner that perform essential economic research such as the BEA), he just seems to just have a profound inability to communicate, or perhaps even understand, these arguments.
the other thing to understand is that during primary season all candidates swing hard to their respective side of politics in order to woo their own party's voters. republicans swing hard to the right, democrats to the left. once the race has begun proper both candidate will swing back to the centre to attract the independent voters. that's just the incentive structure that the US system has created.
Perry is done. Republicans can't let him go up against Obama with material like this ready to be exploited. Moderates must already be shaky on the idea of Perry, and the thought of him handling negotiations with foreign leaders like this should scare them no end. Bachmann is viewed as crazy, Cain is a sinking ship with a campaign not sure how to spin their way out, and Paul seems to says one dumb or completely unpalatable thing to consistently overshadow the four or five good points he makes before it. Huntsman is too nice, moderate and well thought to gain traction and be noticed in a Republican debate, and hence that field so far. Santorum is rightly ignored, as is Gingrich who is from the old guard and doesn't appeal to 'values voters'. And that leaves Romney who would win easily if he weren't a mormon/former governor of a liberal state/elitist.
We'll wait and see who trips over themselves the least I guess.
Lol Perry is the worst. It would be mega funny to see him win the presedency. Or Bachmann. That Herman Cain is just as bad as Perry too. He keeps stumbling on his words and claiming he didn't do stuff he obviously did!
It's so sad to see anti-intellectualism running rampart in America. But, they vote them in so what can you expect?
Also, wouldn't getting rid of the Dept of Education be a bad bad thing?
The American Idol-esque affair that is the Republic party primaries is just fucking incredible and goes a long way to explaining why that country is in the toilet.
The House of Representatives passed a bi-partisan resolution Tuesday night reaffirming “In God We Trust” as the official motto of the United States. The 396-9 vote came at the request of Rep. Randy Forbes (R-VA) – in part over President Obama’s refusal to correct remarks he made that misstated the motto as “E pluribus unum” instead of “In God We Trust.”
Lawmakers voting against “In God We Trust” include
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY),
Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-NY),
Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich),
Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA),
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO),
Rep. Mike Honda (D-CA),
Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA),
Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA), and
Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA).
Voting present were Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) and Rep. Melvin Watt (D-NC).
Looks like a few God hating Commies in the Democrats.
He's doing a great job of fucking his own run at office. The vid has a few hundred thousand dislikes already, add yours.
It's really odd that they allowed ratings for this vid, I noticed on his past vids that they disabled it, oh the irony (I'm sure it won't happen again).
Hes right about Christmas
The Democrats want to end Chistmas the bastards.
Alexander The Great is possibly the greatest Soldier of all time and he was Gay. I dont understand the gay bashing thing with Republicans but lets be honest plenty of Dumbocrats are anti gay marriage too, sadly it depends on Votes rather than the Human Rights issue that it is.
Christian values made America the greatest Country the World has ever seen.
Unfortunately the nutcases distort parts of Christianity.
Just like the nutcases that distort Islam.
I truly think Perry is the sanest choice and he prays to God to help the Government, laugh you may but Texas is a booming State. There is a LOT of Energy money for Perry, I think he will still get the nod.
Herman Cain suspended his campaign.
He thanked Pokemon.
Now its the rediculously corrupt Gingrich leading the polls.
"This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it."
-John Adams.
"I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology."
- Thomas Jefferson.
"In the affairs of the world, men are saved not by faith, but by the lack of it."
- Benjamin Franklin.
"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any Church that I know of. My own mind is my own Church. Each of those churches accuse the other of unbelief; and for my own part, I disbelieve them all."
- Thomas Paine
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Which values exactly? To me it seems that our best parts are very much of Greek heritage, older than Christianity itself.
Yet strangely they enshrined the right to Religion in the Constitution.
They forbid the establishment of a national religion... And declared that the state cannot have a favourite religion and persecute others... They essentially said that religion was not an interest of the state.
There is God or There is Communism.
Atheists miss that point when they are bashing Christians.
I... what? This will blow you mind then. Hell, if Christians actually followed the teachings of Christ, they'd probably all be communists. The world's top capitalists are atheists in fact. The world's top philanthropists are also.
Politics frustrates me no end. I'm a left-leaning Christian...and I seem to be alone. No politicians represent me adequately.
- The major parties are basically identical and equally inept
- I like some of The Greens social policies (eg. care of refugees) but they go too far with other policies
- Family First are the Christian party, but I disagree with them on almost every issue!
The Christian groups spend all their time trying to enforce morality (which never works) and have completely dropped the ball on human rights.
These days I vote based on trivial matters like censorship (against it, contrary to the ACL, which seems to think they represent me).
The most depressing thing is hearing right-wing politicians spouting on about Christianity while exhibiting none of the qualities of Jesus. Somehow the conservatives have convinced 99% of Christians that right-wing = righteous. Anyone with half a brain should be able to see through it, but it seems brains are in short supply.
The "big debate" that donald trump is holding has only 2 people going, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum. The later of which has a record of saying the most mind bogglingly ignorant things such as gay marriage is a slippery slope to bestiality.
Even the other nutters running bowed out. All following Ron Paul I guess who said hell no, that's beneath the office of presidency.
I love the 1st result you get when you google Santorum.
Santorum
spreadingsantorum.com/
Santorum 1. The frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex. 2. Senator Rick Santorum.
BILLIONAIRE businessman Donald Trump has changed his voter registration in New York state from Republican to unaffiliated, fuelling rumours he will run for US presidency as an independent candidate next year.
so wait.. you have to state who you support when you register?
wtf sort of shit system is that?
that cant be compulsory
My slightly limited knowledge of this is that for the average person on the street it comes down to voting in the primaries. Some states have open, while some states have closed primaries. In an open primary anyone registered in that state is allowed to vote for the nominee. In a closed primary, only people registered for that party can turn up and select the candidate. Obviously they are still free to vote for whoever they want in the general election. And no, it's not compulsory as far as I'm aware, and relatively easy to switch affiliations.
Watching the Politicians squirm on stage is pretty entertaining, i saw a bit of the 2nd last debate and i watched most of the CNN debate. The crowd get right behind some of the answers and they will boo if they dont like something. There are no dorothy dixers from the interviewers, they fire in tough questions and if they ignore one candidate the crowd will start yelling out that candidates name. Its almost like a Sport.
I would love to go to one of these debates.
All of them are as corrupt and fucked in the head as each other, and yet the democrats never pick up any of this stuff and run with it. it's also amazing the ignorance of the people over there at those debates and the stupid shit they cheer for. Yay he won't talk about his cheating on his both his wives what a hero!
Then again if your going to a republican debate you are already a hardcore fan and would accept anything they say.
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