US President 2016 - the Great Horse Race

[Jimmy Higgins]

As far as I am aware, nothing has been scheduled yet, although they seem to be planning six. When the dates and locations are TBD you can't really speak of schedule.
2016 Democratic Primary Debate Schedule
Compare with the GOP.
2016 Republican Primary Debate Schedule

The first is scheduled for September.

What date? What is it called? Where will it take place? Who will air it?

I just think that the press isn't paying as much attention to the democratic race because Dems are a little more united.

You don't think it has anything to do with DNC chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz being a big Hillary surrogate and her seeking to protect the heiress apparent as much as possible?

Or maybe it is August 2015 and the General Election isn't for 15 months?

 

[Derec]

Or maybe it is August 2015 and the General Election isn't for 15 months?

1. First GOP debate is tomorrow. The second one is on Thursday.
2. First Dem debate in 2008 cycle took place in late August 2007. We are already in August 2015 and there aren't even any dates or locations set.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Or maybe it is August 2015 and the General Election isn't for 15 months?

1. First GOP debate is tomorrow. The second one is on Thursday.

Are you really using that circus as a watermark?

2. First Dem debate in 2008 cycle took place in late August 2007. We are already in August 2015 and there aren't even any dates or locations set.

So fucking what?! Our elections are too damn long as it is.

 

[George S]

Each of the parties must find a candidate that people would follow. Must appear "presidential" to the respective constituents.

Obama won on Hope. People are willing to follow a leader who Hopes for Change for me, my family, my neighbors, my community, my kind; who Plans for change that will affect my life or the lives of future generations positively.

People don't vote based on policy. They either like or dislike how the candidate appears to them; these are often low-information voters who don't care about "policy" issues.

 

[Ford]

The first Republican debate is tomorrow.

I'm going to be watching something far more entertaining, uplifting, and based in reality.


Monday night is American Ninja Warrior on NBC.

 

[Derec]

Are you really using that circus as a watermark?

Like it or not, they are the other half of the two party system.

So fucking what?! Our elections are too damn long as it is.

They are indeed too damn long compared to other Western democracies. But that is the system US has. The first primary will be 6 months from now.

 

[George S]

Prediction: all will agree that Family Values are _important_.

 

[Ford]

Prediction: all will agree that Family Values are _important_.

And that ever since Obama took over, the country has been in a tailspin.

 

[George S]

A don't forget Law And Order

 

[Jolly_Penguin]

Like it or not, they are the other half of the two party system.

So fucking what?! Our elections are too damn long as it is.

They are indeed too damn long compared to other Western democracies. But that is the system US has. The first primary will be 6 months from now.

As a Canadian, I am always amazed how long your election process is. We have elections come and go and I barely realize it went by, that I voted, and it didn't feel like a huge deal. Happens within a month of me noticing there even is going to be an election.

 

[Derec]

As a Canadian, I am always amazed how long your election process is. We have elections come and go and I barely realize it went by, that I voted, and it didn't feel like a huge deal. Happens within a month of me noticing there even is going to be an election.

The 2020 election cycle will start on November 9th 2016.l

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A don't forget Law And Order

What? Is Fred Thompson running again?

 

[angelo]

How someone sees the Iran deal, and Obama's response to criticism. [I quote.]
How very fascist. So, Obama is saying that if Congress doesn’t play ball on approving the Iran deal, he might just go ahead and do it anyway. That violates the Constitution and the law. Technically he can’t do it – oh, but he will. Notice how Kerry sidestepped the issue? If Obama does this and isn’t made to answer for it or stopped, that’s the end of our Constitutional Republic and the actual beginning of a dictatorship. Even if a conservative is elected in 2016, by then $150 to 200 billion will have gone to Iran, effectively arming our enemies for our destruction. This president has gone rogue and we must reign him in – legally and physically if need be.

From TheBlaze:


Following a White House meeting, Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) seemingly suggested this week that President Barack Obama might be prepared to go “beyond what’s allowed by law” to push through the Iran nuclear deal.


The Hill reported Wednesday that Sherman said Obama appeared ready to ignore Congress if members don’t sign off on the deal. The comments came after the president invited top Democrats to the White House to give them a personal presentation on the Iran deal.


“The main meat of what he said is, ‘If Congress overrides my veto, you do not get a U.S. foreign policy that reflects that vote. What you get is you pass this law and I, as president, will do everything possible to go in the other direction,’” Sherman said, according to The Hill.


“He’s with the deal — he’s not with Congress,” the California congressman added. “At least to the fullest extent allowed by law, and possibly beyond what’s allowed by law.”


According to The Hill, Sherman suggested Obama may just refuse to enforce the law.


Sherman, who has appeared skeptical of the deal, previously grilled Secretary of State John Kerry about whether the administration would follow the “law” if Congress moved to override a veto to block the deal.


At the time, Kerry ducked the question, saying he was “not going to deal with a hypothetical.”


When you eliminate impeachment as a possibility and both sides of the political aisle are complicit in a Marxist agenda, you get this type of behavior. Obama is a narcissist with delusions of grandeur and a pen and a phone. Of course he won’t obey the law… he’ll flaunt it whenever he can get away with it. If leaders won’t go along with him, he’ll blackmail them or use leverage of some sort against them to get these so-called leaders to see things his way. This type of bowing before our enemies such as Iran, Russia and China will get millions of Americans killed. Obama knows and doesn’t care. This is treason you are watching unfold in the Oval Office.

Source:
http://rightwingnews.com/legal/obam...my-iran-deal-ill-ignore-the-law-do-it-anyway/

1. Don't copy/paste full articles from other sites.

2. rightwingnews.com :laughing-smiley-014

I did say the item was from someone else. So it happens to be from the right. Haven't the right the right to criticise a bad decision? What do you think Saudi Arabia and Syria are going to do? Get the bomb as well of course, starting a nuclear bomb race in a very volatile region of the planet. Iran regards it as a big victory for islam and Iran.

 

[arkirk]

Source:
http://rightwingnews.com/legal/obam...my-iran-deal-ill-ignore-the-law-do-it-anyway/

1. Don't copy/paste full articles from other sites.

2. rightwingnews.com :laughing-smiley-014

I did say the item was from someone else. So it happens to be from the right. Haven't the right the right to criticise a bad decision? What do you think Saudi Arabia and Syria are going to do? Get the bomb as well of course, starting a nuclear bomb race in a very volatile region of the planet. Iran regards it as a big victory for islam and Iran.

Brad Sherman is a loose cannon zionist who tried to make support of BDS a crime. He used to be my representative in congress this the Jerrymander got him to move his district.I was glad when he got redistricted away from me. Someone like Brad Sherman is about as fanatical as a fellow can be in support of Israel (Netanyahu Style Israel). Someone sane should run against him and get him out of our government.

 

[angelo]

A left leaning Israeli hating Democrat instead, would please you?

 

[angelo]

Supporters of BDS are ignorant of the facts, and have fallen hook line and sinker for left wing and anti Israeli propaganda and bigotry.

 

[arkirk]

Supporters of BDS are ignorant of the facts, and have fallen hook line and sinker for left wing and anti Israeli propaganda and bigotry.

Have you ever considered the crap you believe? I am not ignorant of the wholesale murder IDF forces engaged in in their last visit to Gaza. I am not ignorant of the fact that IDF goes into Arab parts of the West Bank and runs the locals out then invites in "settlers" running a continuous and ever more complete ethnic cleansing of the land. You seem to think Israel never did anything wrong. Wake up Angelo!

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Supporters of BDS are ignorant of the facts, and have fallen hook line and sinker for left wing and anti Israeli propaganda and bigotry.

Have you ever considered the crap you believe? I am not ignorant of the wholesale murder IDF forces engaged in in their last visit to Gaza. I am not ignorant of the fact that IDF goes into Arab parts of the West Bank and runs the locals out then invites in "settlers" running a continuous and ever more complete ethnic cleansing of the land. You seem to think Israel never did anything wrong. Wake up Angelo!

Why do you ignore the orders-of-magnitude higher death tolls from Muslim-on-Muslim violence?

 

[bilby]

Have you ever considered the crap you believe? I am not ignorant of the wholesale murder IDF forces engaged in in their last visit to Gaza. I am not ignorant of the fact that IDF goes into Arab parts of the West Bank and runs the locals out then invites in "settlers" running a continuous and ever more complete ethnic cleansing of the land. You seem to think Israel never did anything wrong. Wake up Angelo!

Why do you ignore the orders-of-magnitude higher death tolls from Muslim-on-Muslim violence?

Why do you ignore the orders-of-magnitude greater death toll from Coronary Disease?

Would that perhaps be because, while tragic, it has FUCK ALL to do with the question, and to discuss it would simply be a diversionary tactic?

Are you perhaps unaware that, no matter how many people are killed by Muslims, their deaths do not resurrect a single person killed by the IDF? Hard to believe, I know; but it is true.

 

[angelo]

Arguing with that mindset is high on impossible. You only see one side of the coin and refuse to even glance at the other. If the IDF layed down their arms and let the terrorists slaughter them, you would still blame them for daring to even have arms to lay down. In your eyes, and most of the left media, IDF can't do a thing right.
What's this got to do with US elections. Plenty. If another Democrat is elected, the pandering to Islam will continue.

 

[Ford]

There are days when I wonder aloud "how the hell do bigoted blowhards like Donald J. Trump manage to rise to the top of the Republican polls?"


Today is not one of those days. Just spent some time reading comments on the internets, and I'm reminded of the old saying about half the people being of below average intelligence...