2016 Presidential Election Thread

Oh, my...

Republicans Finally Stand up to Ted Cruz...

It's hard to take the time to be scared of Ted Cruz when you're busy shitting yourself over Donald Trump.

Number 17:

http://www.newser.com/story/210561/no-17-former-virginia-governor-jim-gilmore-enters-race.html

It's like Republicans have hundreds of people qualified to be President and the Democrats have three, sort of.

Now all they need to do is convince them to run....

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Hmmm, so now "running for president" means "qualified to be president"? That's an interesting fact I'll have to file away...

Fine.

What do you think makes someone "qualified to be president"?

If Barack Obama is qualified to be president virtually anyone is.

Yeah, the bar couldn't be any lower.

Unfortunately the Republicans are short on community organizers so they have to field governors and defense chiefs and such.

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Considering the minimum qualifications to run for president are being an American citizen by birth and being the age of 35 or older, using Obama as an indication of where the bar is is laughable.

Yeah, he pretty much just slipped in under the wire.

You also have to have been a U.S. resident for 14 years. So, for example, a child born in the U.S. to foreigners who was taken back to his parents' native country, raised there, and continued to live there as an adult would not be eligible to be President upon turning 35.

When even the Koch Brothers find you distasteful, it's time to hang it up, Donnie:

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/kochs-freeze-out-trump-120752.html

Or to play the Victim Card in three, two...

Gotta love it when they start feeding on each other:


Mitt Romney rips Ted Cruz on Twitter for Obama terror comments

Ever hear of a megalomaniac quietly accepting defeat and going away quietly?

Wow, the 'unelectable' Bernie Sanders would beat the Donald if the election were held today:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/30/politics/bernie-sanders-donald-trump-poll/

Hell, I'd vote for Sanders over Trump. We don't need two narcissistic windbags in a row.

If those two end up being the choices America is fucked.

Unless they vote for Sanders.

I'll just vote liberterian like I did last time.

I think Trump will be done once the first debate is over. Hes great at speaking in broad themes but once you nail him down to details he gets lost and frustrated.

Well, let me just say that Presidency has become a bit like "American Idol" since the Kennedy Administration. It's not enough to act presidential or have good ideas. You have to LOOK and SOUND the part. Ted Cruz is a horrible speaker, and he's ugly. Ergo, he can't win in this shallow country. I wouldn't vote for him anyway, but hey, it's true.

It's on Fox, IIRC, and if Trump employs the O'Reilly method of just shouting people down, he'll do fine.

That being the case, I'm thankful that he's shrill and ugly.

O'Reilly doesn't shout people down. He gets on them if they refuse to answer a question or more generally answer a question by talking about something not related to the real question but to me that is not unreasonable as they are coming on his show and thus one assumes being willing to answer the questions he asks.

Yeah, no. He's rather famous for literally shouting at people who disagree with him. That's his shtick. Whether he's genuinely angry with people or its all an act, but I've seen enough of his interviews to know that he's a shouter. Indeed, a friend of mine is a huge fan of O'Reilly because he shouts at people. O'Reilly , also seems to think that there's no explanation for tides.

He shouts at people occasionally but he doesn't "shout them down". That is try to silence them by yelling at them.

There's no excuse to shout at anyone on a talk show. Just like there's no excuse for dragging your wife down the stairs by her hair. http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepo...-eruption-an-allegation-of-domestic-violence/

U.S. intel fears hundreds of secrets leaked in Hillary’s private emails

The top lawmakers on the House and Senate intelligence committee have been notified in recent days that the extent of classified information on Mrs. Clinton’s private email server was likely far more extensive than the four emails publicly acknowledged last week as containing some sensitive spy agency secrets.

A U.S. official directly familiar with the notification, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity, said the notification of possibly hundreds of additional emails with classified secrets came from the State Department Freedom of Information Act office to the Office of Inspector General for the Director of National Intelligence.

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The U.S. official said the intelligence community has been informed that secret information had been contained in some of Mrs. Clinton’s private emails that originated from the FBI, the DNI and the CIA as well as a spy satellite agency. It is believed the 30,000 emails remain on a thumb drive in the possession of Mrs. Clinton’s private attorney, David Kendall.

The official said the intelligence community’s first response was to take steps to secure the handling of remaining 30,000 emails and make sure they were handled on top-secret servers to avoid any further breaches, and then to assess any damage to national security from the insecure handling and release of information already in some of the publicly disseminated emails.

“Containment first, then a damage assessment is how this must be handled,” the official said.​

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