Buttload of Faith: the 2016 Presidential Primary Thread (Pt 2)

Juanita Broaddrick rape claims resurface

one of the reasons i supported obama over clinton was that shit

both the possiblity that it is true and, admittedly, not wanting to relive the 90s. here we go, i guess.

anyway, who is this man kidding

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CYIc-huWsAA0k_v.png:large

one of the reasons i supported obama over clinton was that shit
― goole, Thursday, January 7, 2016 11:40 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also this:

http://harpers.org/blog/2015/11/shaky-foundations/

That's not how people do walking, Marco.

The Beatles called, they want their boots back.

Wardrobe by Starfleet

Boots of 100% Anti-Immigrant American Leather

Someone needs to photoshop some marionette strings into that photo.

so-called charitable enterprise has served as a vehicle to launder money and to enrich family friends

I mean not to defend the countless NGOs and "charities" which exist for exactly those two reasons, but really, that is pretty much all of Rich N' Famous Philanthropy in a nutshell. Those two reasons and pure vanity.

thank you for your insightful feedback

thank you for being thankful

http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/grlmonday/13674576/770749/770749_original.jpg

there it is

thank the gods

speaking of golden girls, i was on the ground in SE iowa this week, hanging out with a bunch of my grandma's friends at her nursing home. they are all crazy for trump. he did some sort of campaign event recently that none of them could stop talking about. they speak of him like he is jesus. no joke. like their hands start clapping together at the memory of when he finally showed up and they saw him. one of them even got to ask a question/statement, which was something like "i think what we're going through now is just as bad as the depression. it's the same as the depression, only with inflation." trump reportedly nodded and said "you have a point there". as the man retold the story the other residents gasped and smiled at the memory.

They know election day is on a Wednesday this year, right?

dorothy: hillary
blanche: trump
rose: cruz
sophia: bernie

"i think what we're going through now is just as bad as the depression. it's the same as the depression, only with inflation."

Even if the person who said that were 90 years old today, he would have been 15 years old in 1940. So, obviously, his memories of how bad the Great Depression were would be, at best, the memories of a child who never had to deal with the adult reality of that time.

looool matt

that all seems correct except for rose. cruz is not innocent or naive in any way whatsoever. chafee is rose.

and mitt romney is the guy from empty nest who occasionally appears in crossover episodes

rose loves mitt, thinks it's 2012

Broaddrick struck me then as the most credible of the accusers, which is to say her story has enough ambiguities for me to believe he might have done what she said. But I had a dim memory of her during the height of the Jones-Lewinsky farrago of her filing an affidavit denying the charges, and I was right. Plus, imagining HRC as Lucrezia Borgia thanking Broaddrick for staying quiet is beyond Oliver Stone's talent.

the MSM generally portrays the Billary Foundation as a vehicle for them to travel the world, curing disease

Bill Clinton is probably a rapist (#ilx #woodyallen), but we already know he's a war criminal, so wtf

xxpost I think she filed that affidavit back when she didn't want any publicity and was intimidated by Clinton. I don't see it as disqualifying the way Sid Blumenthal does

At this point in the American presidential race it's really a matter of picking the war criminal you can best live with.

Potential war criminal. It's a difficult feat for, say, a governor to pull off.

I dunno, turning away war refugees has to be a misdemeanor somewhere.

Creep:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdK7a8EuUPc

I meant once they're in the seat they'll be war criminals; no one is going to immediately cease the Middle East drone strike campaign. (not even Bernie, I fear)

A robust majority of Americans support President Obama's plan to conduct airstrikes against ISIS in Syria, according to an ABC News/ Washington Post poll out Wednesday. In the survey, 70 percent of adults say they support the airstrikes, while 26 percent say they do not.

v unlikely to have a mainstream candidate represent a policy this one-sided. curious whether there have been candidates who supported something supported by only 26% of americans

Bernie's record re the Middle East is kinda awful; hence i am not really a supporter.

the criticism is fair but given that an outright non-interventionist (or pacifist) is unlikely to get the nomination in this or any other year, and given that no president is going to be able to dismantle the military-industrial complex overnight (or even in eight years), i'm willing to overlook my quibbles with some of bernie's past stances b/c HRC's foreign policy is so much worse.

Dream team: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wade-norris/bernie-sanders-hints-eliz_b_8928406.html

that would be... pretty cool?

Warren needs to stay in the senate guys

really wouldn't be too worried about this

https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/3/A70-1888

http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Ben-Carson-asks-kids-to-point-out-the-class-dummy-6745838.php

pobrecito:

Koch said he was unimpressed by the rest of the Republican field.

"It is hard for me to get a high level of enthusiasm because the things I'm passionate about and I think this country urgently needs aren't being addressed," he explained.

And though the Kochs' political operation has highlighted their priorities to the candidates, "it doesn't seem to faze them much," Koch said. "You think we could have a little more influence."

He can console himself with the knowledge that the dough invested in buying state legislatures was well spent.

"FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUCK THIS"
http://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/scalefit_630_noupscale/568f991c1a00002d005941f1.jpeg?cache=hhswptd1jp

http://www.people.com/article/ben-carson-fifth-grader-worst-student?xid=socialflow_facebook_peoplemag

He did have a valid point--maybe not the best way to make it.

~maybe~

this 1993 esquire piece on hillary clinton (annotated by the author) has some interesting stuff in it.

"I find Hillary to be very conservative," argues Maggie Williams. "When she talks about rights and responsibilities, it's a very big deal for her." Maggie, to be sure, is Hillary's chief image-maker, but that view is reinforced by a close adviser to the President who says, "In all the meetings I've attended with Hillary, she has never been more liberal than the consensus in the room. And often she's more conservative."

Could the First Lady be a secret soul mate of Bob Dole? I read that last quote to Hillary. Her unhesitating response: "That's probably true."

The marginalia fascinated me. Guess it makes sense that Reagan's two landslide victories would chill the Clintons forever.

Recent media coverage for Bernie seems to be about the fact that Hillary attacked him on guns, whether or not he's mentioning Bill Clinton in his speeches, and nothing else.