Somewhat political post, non baseball

[DOUGHBOYS]

you probably could have just used your first four words....

[KJ Duke]

i trust her more on the economy and foreign policy

You're not alone ... which is why politicians like her get away with that they do. They're coached up to be believable and explain away anything. And it's why Trump is in the race; half the country would vote for Charles Manson if it meant not getting another like her for 4 more years.

[Yah Mule]

ya mule- that would be ok- if you only had 2 choices. you have 4. the 2 political parties brainwash people into thinking that we only have 2 choices. the world is divided into 3 groups: one choice= dictators and communism two choices= us and three -or more choices- the rest of the free world. the Clintons are only around because George bush the 1st -a complete chucklehead- lied to his base and said " no new taxes" and raised them. perot then ran because of it- and took votes from bush. Clinton did not get 50% of the vote. the whole "throwing away your vote" is crap- should repubs in California or ny or dems in texas not vote? it is bs. vote libertarian- the guy is honest, competent and not a liar and a douche like Hilary is. women's lib to her is marrying a complete douche and riding his coattails. ya- that is how I raised my daughter. to marry a guy that lies cheats and steals and then put up with it to get ahead. every women should not be voting for her- they should be saying- " I could pick a women at random and vote for her and we would be better off".

Gary Johnson was governor of New Mexico and he couldn't name the President of regular Mexico. That's a problem. The Libertarian system sounds pretty good on the surface, but it's basically a paradise for guys like the Koch brothers and it places a higher proportionate tax burden on the middle class and poor. It also produces things like the New Mexico public school system.

Hillary Clinton has numerous accomplishments of her own and nobody is doing young women any favors by attempting to minimize, trivialize or dismiss them as gained by nepotism. Thankfully, these days, most young women are quickly learning to tune out that kind of rhetoric.

Hillary's accomplishments:
1. 1993: tried to ram an earlier version of Obamacare down the country's throat. Failed.
2. Private email server fiasco. Violated procedure and the law. Tried to eliminate all the email evidence. Deleted 33,000 emails.
3. Protected Bill Clinton against any and all sexual harassment/rape charges (multiple).
4. Bengahzi embassy attack: Lied about incident to the families
5. NAFTA: Disaster. Ross Perot warned against it, Perot right, Clintons wrong
6. Middle East on fire during her watch including bad Iran nuclear deal.
7. Take a look at all of the people who had connections with the Clintons who are now dead. Seth Rich turned over DNC emails RE: the election fix vs. Bernie Sanders. Rich dead a week later of a 'robbery'. Coincidence? You decide.

That's all of the things I can think of off the top of my head. Here's more -- recommend anyone considering voting for Hillary - READ IT

http://conservativeamerican.org/the-hil ... lies-list/

Republicans will try to delegitimize the first woman President the way they tried (and totally failed) to delegitimize President Obama's terms in office. Then they'll sit there dumbfounded as to why changing demographics kill them a little more with each national election.

[KJ Duke]

Republicans will try to delegitimize the first woman President the way they tried (and totally failed) to delegitimize President Obama's terms in office. Then they'll sit there dumbfounded as to why changing demographics kill them a little more with each national election.

This President's #1 legacy Obamacare has been an utter disaster, even now admitted publicly by his own Party's most respected member ... something anyone remotely interested in analysis rather than partisanship has known since nearly the beginning of it. It's a joke in legislative form. Both he and HRC have been colossal disasters in executing public policies, "delegitimaztion" was self-inflicted.

The GOP needs to better execute a marketing plan. You're correct that demographics do not favor their bullheaded stance on social issues like immigration; their tired ideas and leadership on individual rights and national defense is unfortunately keeping us from having responsible leadership on economic issues.

[NorCalAtlFan]

i believe the greatest potus ever calls it the affordable care act.

be a bit pretentious of him to brand it in his own name. he leaves that to you neo cons

[KJ Duke]

i believe the greatest potus ever calls it the affordable care act.

The irony. That's got to be one helluva inside joke.

My insurance payments have increased 50% since Obamacare went into effect, benefits have gotten worse every year, co-pays have tripled and I have less access to specialists. Right on par with the efficiency of every other major area of legislative focus out of DC in the last 20 or so years. Can't wait to see what new ideas Hilary brings under the Federal umbrella in the name of doing good for us citizens.

[Edwards Kings]

i believe the greatest potus ever calls it the affordable care act.

be a bit pretentious of him to brand it in his own name. he leaves that to you neo cons

With respect, might I suggest a read (or perhaps reread) of George Orwell's "Animal Farm". If you cannot draw analogy and correlation to the current administration (as well as what is openly promised by Sec. Clinton), you have truly closed your mind, my friend.

“No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?”

“This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.”

“It had become usual to give Napoleon the Credit for every Successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune. You would often hear one hen remark to another, “Under the guidance of our leader, Comrade Napoleon, I have laid five eggs in six days” or two cows, enjoying a drink at the pool, would exclaim, “thanks to the leadership of Comrade Napoleon, how excellent this water tastes!”...”

“Comrades!' he cried. 'You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink the milk and eat those apples.”

And what could possibly be next....

“...they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes.”

[Edwards Kings]

Republicans will try to delegitimize the first woman President...

Nope. Sorry. Does not add up. Despite the media extolling virtue on every gender accomplishment as a product of the open-minded Democratic Administrations, no mention is made of the at least equal (if not greater) advances made under Republicans. I am not afraid to cite:

Oveta Culp Hobby Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (first woman to hold this position)
Carla Anderson Hills: Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (first woman to hold this position)
Margaret Heckler: Secretary of Health and Human Services
Elizabeth Dole: Secretary of Transportation (first woman to hold this position)
Ann Dore McLaughlin: Secretary of Labor
Elizabeth Dole: Secretary of Labor (first woman to hold two cabinet positions and first woman to serve under two different administrations)
Lynn Morley Martin: Secretary of Labor
Barbara Hackman Franklin: Secretary of Commerce
Gale Norton: Secretary of the Interior (first woman to hold this position)
Ann Veneman: Secretary of Agriculture (first woman to hold this position)
Elaine Chao: Secretary of Labor
Condoleezza Rice: Secretary of State (first African-American woman to hold this position; of course, Colin Powell was the first African-American man to hold this position, also under a Republican Administration)
Margaret Spellings: Secretary of Education
Mary Peters: Secretary of Transportation

If you are counting, that is 14 cabinet positions held by women under Republican administrations. The Democrats only have 11. When are the Democrats going to stop holding women back?

Then of course there is the first woman nominated (by President Reagan) and appointed to the Supreme Court, Sandra Day O'Conner.

Currently we have three elected Republican women governors:

Mary Fallin (R-OK) 2011-present
Nikki Haley (R-SC) 2011-present
Susana Martinez (R-NM) 2011-present

Psssst...Martinez  and Haley were the first women of color to serve as governors. The Democrats currently have two sitting elected governors...when are those Democrats going to catch a clue?

Ever heard of Jeannette Rankin? First woman elected to national office (yes, a Republican with the first Democrat woman to be elected not occurring for nearly a decade later).

Alice Mary Robertson? First woman to defeat an incumbent for a national office. Republican.

Florence Prag Kahn? First Jewish woman. Republican.

Ruth Thompson? First woman on the House Judiciary Committee. Republican.

Mary Elizabeth Pruett Farrington? First woman elected a territorial delegate (Hawaii). Republican.

Jan Meyers? First woman as Chair of the House Small Business Committee. Republican.

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen? First woman chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Republican.

Gladys Pyle? First woman in the Senate (by special election). Republican. It would be 22 years before the first Democratic woman would be elected.

Margaret Chase Smith? First woman in the Senate by general election. Republican.


And on and on and on. So PLEASE open your mind past the sound-bite rhetoric that is dribbled out by main-stream media who under no rational review can be viewed in any way as impartial. Women have been held back and helped in at least equal measure by denizens of both parties.

If someone is against or cannot tolerate Secretary Clinton, it is because she is unqualified, unconscionable, a pathological liar, and corrupt, not because she is a woman.

[NorCalAtlFan]

stick to defending robert cox and fred gonzalez you damn..... i kid wayne

animal farm was my favorite book in 8th grade. well played.

#jillstein16

[Edwards Kings]

#jillstein16

Now you are talking!

[KJ Duke]

It sounds like women have had their fair share of upper-level roles in govt, what we really need to do is start electing some even larger under-represented minorities to prove our open-mindedness.

First Cheerleader President ... and a girl, and Hispanic - the whole package!


First Dog for President ... this guy is highly qualified, he's won back to back Mayoral terms in Minn.


First Fantasy Operator for President ... no introduction needed, plus here's a stellar VP candidate for him to carry the Internet vote



I'd vote for any of these 3 over the 2-Party options.

[KJ Duke]

On second thought, it would be a better VP choice if we could get Kessenich to wear a red sweater and some black-rimmed glasses.

[Greg Ambrosius]

On second thought, it would be a better VP choice if we could get Kessenich to wear a red sweater and some black-rimmed glasses.

Dealing with this crazy crowd is stressful enough. No way you're getting me and Tom to run for public office.

Ken Bone for President. This guy would fit in perfectly in Iola, Wisconsin.

Trump threw locker rooms under the bus to save his ass. Come on, you can't blame locker rooms for talking like that. And who the hell is Billy Bush anyway? Did Trump really think he was impressing that little pipsqueek with that kind of talk?

26 days until this entire nightmare is over and none too soon. What an embarrassment for our country. Nobody is talking about Social Security, or lowering medical bills and costs through joint legislation, or balancing the budget, paying for college tuition, the Supreme Court and a whole lot more. Half of that debate was about jock talk and insults. I can't take it anymore.

I nominate the pig farmer, Hall of Famer Lindy Hinkelman for President. Lindy and Gabe for President and VP: hometown values, money making ideas, honesty, fairness and just a handful of skeletons in the closet. That's a number I can live with.

[TOXIC ASSETS]

On second thought, it would be a better VP choice if we could get Kessenich to wear a red sweater and some black-rimmed glasses.

Dealing with this crazy crowd is stressful enough. No way you're getting me and Tom to run for public office.

Ken Bone for President. This guy would fit in perfectly in Iola, Wisconsin.

Trump threw locker rooms under the bus to save his ass. Come on, you can't blame locker rooms for talking like that. And who the hell is Billy Bush anyway? Did Trump really think he was impressing that little pipsqueek with that kind of talk?

26 days until this entire nightmare is over and none too soon. What an embarrassment for our country. Nobody is talking about Social Security, or lowering medical bills and costs through joint legislation, or balancing the budget, paying for college tuition, the Supreme Court and a whole lot more. Half of that debate was about jock talk and insults. I can't take it anymore.

I nominate the pig farmer, Hall of Famer Lindy Hinkelman for President. Lindy and Gabe for President and VP: hometown values, money making ideas, honesty, fairness and just a handful of skeletons in the closet. That's a number I can live with.

Greg, I agree with you about the election, it has come down to a vote for the lesser of two evils....

Lowering medical bills? Very difficult problem. Obamacare failed as anyone over about 4th grade could have predicted. Single payer can't be any worse --- if it's handled right it could actually help. Another good start might be if our 'leaders' would actually read the legislation and think about it....before they pass the legislation into law. You know...what they are actually supposed to be doing!

The budget deficit has a lot better chance of doubling than it does of ever being balanced. If and when inter.est rates go up -- so will the annual interest payments.

College tuition? Best thing here is if the government gets OUT of the business of guaranteeing all of the loans. Too many people are already going to college -- it's been the biggest factor in the costs going up.

Supreme Court? With queen Hilary in charge -- you can look forward to a lot of left wingers being placed there. Can you imagine a court of 9 Ruth Bader Ginsburgs? Me either.

Lindy for president. I'll vote for that one.

[KJ Duke]

i believe the greatest potus ever calls it the affordable care act.

be a bit pretentious of him to brand it in his own name. he leaves that to you neo cons

A neoconservative (colloquially, neocon) in American politics is someone presented as a conservative but who actually favors big government, interventionalism, and a hostility to religion in politics and government. The word means "newly conservative," and thus formerly liberal. Neocons support attacking and even overthrowing foreign governments.

Uh, yeah, definitely not in that camp. My platform:

plan #1: cut Federal government in half
plan #2: cut in half again
plan #3: one more time

That's a good start.

Bottom line, let responsible people pursue their lives and stay out of everything that doesn't involve stopping people from being a*holes to the rest of society.

[Bob Enzyte]

I nominate the pig farmer, Hall of Famer Lindy Hinkelman for President. Lindy and Gabe for President and VP: hometown values, money making ideas, honesty, fairness and just a handful of skeletons in the closet. That's a number I can live with.

Finally a voice of reason and sanity, which has been in short supply recently. Only problem is after I win, Massotto will have to take care of all my pigs. So much for my money making ideas.

[Teufel Hunden]

I nominate the pig farmer, Hall of Famer Lindy Hinkelman for President. Lindy and Gabe for President and VP: hometown values, money making ideas, honesty, fairness and just a handful of skeletons in the closet. That's a number I can live with.

Finally a voice of reason and sanity, which has been in short supply recently. Only problem is after I win, Massotto will have to take care of all my pigs. So much for my money making ideas.

Sounds like a money maker to me. Who wouldn't tune in to watch a reality show based upon MTM running a pig farm?

[Bjs2025]

Go ahead and hit me with "ALEPPO, HES CRAZY, HES WEIRD, HE SMOKES WEED" but Gary Johnson is the best candidate in this race. In an alternate reality where any party other than the 2 sell outs got attention I think America would have no choice to vote sensible which would be Johnsin/Weld. Bill Weld is probably the most sane, reasonable man on any of the 4 tickets,

[DOUGHBOYS]

Our system is broke. We have two parties offering sub-standard candidates.
I would vote for a woman. Not THAT woman.
I would vote for a non-politician. Not THAT non-politician.
Reading an article about the election, it stated that almost four billion dollars would be spent from both campaigns.
Four billion dollars.
For something that is broke.
What a gyp.

[Yah Mule]

Republicans will try to delegitimize the first woman President...

Nope. Sorry. Does not add up. Despite the media extolling virtue on every gender accomplishment as a product of the open-minded Democratic Administrations, no mention is made of the at least equal (if not greater) advances made under Republicans. I am not afraid to cite:

Oveta Culp Hobby Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (first woman to hold this position)
Carla Anderson Hills: Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (first woman to hold this position)
Margaret Heckler: Secretary of Health and Human Services
Elizabeth Dole: Secretary of Transportation (first woman to hold this position)
Ann Dore McLaughlin: Secretary of Labor
Elizabeth Dole: Secretary of Labor (first woman to hold two cabinet positions and first woman to serve under two different administrations)
Lynn Morley Martin: Secretary of Labor
Barbara Hackman Franklin: Secretary of Commerce
Gale Norton: Secretary of the Interior (first woman to hold this position)
Ann Veneman: Secretary of Agriculture (first woman to hold this position)
Elaine Chao: Secretary of Labor
Condoleezza Rice: Secretary of State (first African-American woman to hold this position; of course, Colin Powell was the first African-American man to hold this position, also under a Republican Administration)
Margaret Spellings: Secretary of Education
Mary Peters: Secretary of Transportation

If you are counting, that is 14 cabinet positions held by women under Republican administrations. The Democrats only have 11. When are the Democrats going to stop holding women back?

Then of course there is the first woman nominated (by President Reagan) and appointed to the Supreme Court, Sandra Day O'Conner.

Currently we have three elected Republican women governors:

Mary Fallin (R-OK) 2011-present
Nikki Haley (R-SC) 2011-present
Susana Martinez (R-NM) 2011-present

Psssst...Martinez  and Haley were the first women of color to serve as governors. The Democrats currently have two sitting elected governors...when are those Democrats going to catch a clue?

Ever heard of Jeannette Rankin? First woman elected to national office (yes, a Republican with the first Democrat woman to be elected not occurring for nearly a decade later).

Alice Mary Robertson? First woman to defeat an incumbent for a national office. Republican.

Florence Prag Kahn? First Jewish woman. Republican.

Ruth Thompson? First woman on the House Judiciary Committee. Republican.

Mary Elizabeth Pruett Farrington? First woman elected a territorial delegate (Hawaii). Republican.

Jan Meyers? First woman as Chair of the House Small Business Committee. Republican.

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen? First woman chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Republican.

Gladys Pyle? First woman in the Senate (by special election). Republican. It would be 22 years before the first Democratic woman would be elected.

Margaret Chase Smith? First woman in the Senate by general election. Republican.


And on and on and on. So PLEASE open your mind past the sound-bite rhetoric that is dribbled out by main-stream media who under no rational review can be viewed in any way as impartial. Women have been held back and helped in at least equal measure by denizens of both parties.

If someone is against or cannot tolerate Secretary Clinton, it is because she is unqualified, unconscionable, a pathological liar, and corrupt, not because she is a woman.

Wayne, your party's response to the first black President was to nominate a white nationalist bent on instigating violence. If you're not emotionally able to accept that, it's not my problem.

This is Donald Trump's legacy. Feel real proud when you pull the lever for him.

[TOXIC ASSETS]

Yah -- he posted a well through out response, and that's what you came up with?

You don't get it. Trump wasn't nominated because he's a white nationalist. He got the nomination because the country is finally starting to wake up and is realizing that both political major parties are corrupt, and have sold out the country in the name of globalism.

[NorCalAtlFan]

Yah -- he posted a well through out response, and that's what you came up with?
He got the nomination because the country is finally starting to wake up and is realizing that both political major parties are corrupt, and have sold out the country in the name of globalism.

you say that like it's a bad thing? we've been sold out for generations. starting with the "greatest" generation and their incorrigible offspring.
pucker up buttercup, it ain't getting better anytime soon.
sad when imbecile gary johnson may in fact be the "best" candidate.

#weredoomed16

[KJ Duke]

sad when imbecile gary johnson may in fact be the "best" candidate.

#weredoomed16

He's an "imbecile" if you have more respect for people that memorize facts, plot a career of playing games to be in position to make decisions that will affect millions of people without bothering to learn the underlying dynamics of those decisions, and above all just wanting to "win" ... as opposed to someone who actually respects others' rights and freedoms rather than worrying about his/her own egomaniacal legacy.

The dumbest "smart" people are those that have lots of facts and have no idea what to do with them. They're also the most dangerous because they overestimate their own abilities. #Hilarythedumbkindasmart

[Edwards Kings]

Wayne, your party's response to the first black President was to nominate a white nationalist bent on instigating violence. If you're not emotionally able to accept that, it's not my problem.

This is Donald Trump's legacy. Feel real proud when you pull the lever for him.

Please do not characterize me as some sort of misanthropic redneck. But typical of a Democrat, when making a stupid allegory about why Republicans and other people are against Secretary Clinton because she is woman, and getting FACTS to the contrary, you change to a different argument rather than even consider evidence that challenges your myopic views.

Just again to prove how bent you are, I am not a Republican. I admit I have during most of my political life been a Republican, beginning with the Reagan revolution. However, I began shifting some many years ago to being less inclined to believe the straight party dogma and now fully consider myself an Independent. I fully recommend the change. Thinking for yourself is liberating, slick.

So. I am not a Republican. And can you read? If you check prior posts, you will find I have been equally disdainful of Donald Trump, who is only an American businessman of the worst order, not someone I want as my President.

Also, since I have shot down your shallow gender bias challenge, and your assertion that I somehow support Trump (whom I believe to be totally unprepared for office but not a "white nationalist bent on instigating violence"), let's address calling me a racist. It appears that anyone who calls out President Obama for his horrendous handling of national, economic and international affairs is labeled a "racist" so those who so blindly believed the garbage he has dribbled this last few years will not have to face the facts.

"The problem is, is that the way Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion dollars for the first 42 presidents — number 43 added $4 trillion dollars by his lonesome, so that we now have over $9 trillion dollars of debt that we are going to have to pay back — $30,000 for every man, woman and child. That’s irresponsible. It’s unpatriotic." Senator Barack Obama, July 3, 2008. After eight years of now President Obama, the national debt is $19.7 trillion. So how does that bit of truth hit you, pal?

KJ has already exploded the disaster that is the Affordable Care Act.

The ATF “Fast and Furious” scheme.

IRS targets conservative groups.

Solyndra.

The "Red Line".

Signing a Disastrous Nuclear Deal with the Mullahs of Iran.

Released 5 Taliban Prisoners For Deserter Bergdahl.

Paying ransom to Iran for hostages- and using foreign currency in unmarked plane.

Benghazi.

U6 Labor Under utilization rate still at nearly 10%. Labor Force Participation Rate was 65.8% when President Obama took office and has not been that high since. Now 62.9%


And on and on and on. The second fours years has been hard, I admit, for President Obama because he can no longer blame President Bush (insert "Snowball" reference from "Animal Farm" here).

I am and despite what the network news organizations claim, most of Americans, are not racist. It constantly amazes me that 39% of whites voted for President Obama in 2012 but only 6% of blacks voted for Romney, but me, as a WASP am automatically the racist.

So, I am not a racist but I still think President Obama has been the worst Chief Executive we have known. When it all comes down to it, believe what you want, sport. Do not be confused by the facts.

[KJ Duke]

When liberals call non-liberals racist or sexist they are trying to prove their open-mindedness, in reality they're just showing how close-minded they are and have no idea how to support their own arguments.

The human mind would rather rely on mental cues and shortcuts, the alternative is far more work - studying all sides of an issue and being objective rather than relying on generally accepted truths (which are often just things that sound plausible). The majority of personality types in the world fall under this category, independent-minded personalities make up well under 10% of the population.