There are two types of people in the world that I could care less about for the same reason - They both make false promises.+1000
1. Politicians
2. Preachers Originally Posted by Adrienne Baptiste
I will be attending Hilary Clinton though. It's about time we see the Clinton's back in leadership. Originally Posted by SexyPlatinum
To me, it's kind of the lesser of evils. It's pretty apparent, most of the candidates are bought and paid for by the lobbyists and super pacs that support them. The middle class, is almost non existent. Healthcare here in America is a joke. And the immigrant workers here, primarily from Mexico. Have reduced wages in some industries (Construction) to less than they were in 1980.+1 he has my vote
Yet to buy a nice house, in a decent neighborhood, it will cost you $300,000. Or a nice new truck, will cost you $50,000 - $75,000.
So yes, we have a lot of issues here. And I think Mr. Trump, has the potential to solve some of those issues. Sure as hell cant be any worse, than the idiots who have been running the country the past few years.
Just my $.02 Originally Posted by Crzytxn
I don't know.. I actually worked in Bill's first Presidential Campaign, met him a couple of times, voted for him both times.. I liked Hillary's speech when I was a Delegate at the State Convention in 1996.. but the ensuing 19 years have left me less enamored with Hillary. Originally Posted by Chung TranI'm not enamored with HRC, either. I think she'll be more moderate than Bill was, but she'll be way better than any of the clown car crowd. What about HRC has made you like her less over the past two decades. She was actually a pretty reliable vote in the Senate and less moderate than I had feared. She had a blind spot about Iraq a mile wide -- and is still too much of a foreign policy hawk for my tastes -- not not crazy hawkish like most Republicans (Paul excepted). I'd love Bernie Sanders to be President but 1) he's not going to win the nomination; and 2) even if he did, he would face a tighter race than HRC for the general (thought I think he'd still win.
There are two types of people in the world that I could care less about for the same reason - They both make false promises.there's 2 types for me too..
1. Politicians
2. Preachers Originally Posted by Adrienne Baptiste
Bill was the most republican democrat we've seen and one of the only presidents that understood you can't lower the debt without cutting spending and shrinking government while keeping taxes the same or slightly raising them. Originally Posted by blowmypop23I'm a fan, but honestly the reason Bill Clinton was able to balance a couple of budgets during his terms, was due to the taxation of over-sized Nasdaq capital gains from 1995-2000, a bubble that eventually popped and helped deliver a two year recession at the beginning of Bush's first term.
What about HRC has made you like her less over the past two decades. Originally Posted by TexTushHogfor starters, I consider her to be a carpet-bagger Senator, who used that office merely as a stepping stone.. she was ineffective, although not bad for a junior Senator.. I think she was out of her league as Sec. of State, with several major missteps that still haunt her today.. and she's too much of a policy wonk.. detailed policy treatises don't impress me, I would rather have a President who doesn't have every angle figured out, but can be nimble in response to problems.. and lastly, Hillary fights her critics at every turn, she will not admit to even minor failures regarding Benghazi or her email scandal..
Nicely said Chung.You're too harsh on plans. Most candidates, at least those who have experience in politics, have very concrete plans. But you have to understand that implicit conditions that come with any plan. First, is "if I had my way, this is what I'd ideally like to do . . . ." Well, for good for for ill, it takes more than one person to accomplish something in our government. You have to have Congress go along. And time in never on the side of those who want change. If anybody in the press would actally ask a Presidential candidate, "Do you think this will be possible in your first two years?", they might get some surprisingly candid answers. "Probably not, unless we get a big change in Congress. But, I'll push toward making the best changes toward this that I can." Or ask, "If once your take office, you find this proposal couldn't get through Congress, do you have a more incremental fall back plan?"
As for Hillary, I can't name any of her accomplishments.
Presidential candidates that say they have a concrete plan of action are lying. They have not been in the office nor the daily briefings to know what they CAN do. Originally Posted by sparrow1122
It's not going to matter. I'm willing to make a large wager that a republican will win. We just had 8 democrat years, we will not have 4 more. The democrats best chance of winning is if trump gets the nod. Hillary has swung too far left to push away from Obama and many of the republicans have swung farther right.Are you really willing to make a latge wager and place the funds in the hands of a responsible third party? If so, contact me via PM so we can work out the details. I'll cover up to $15-20k. Min. $5k. Tried this on the last two elections and got no takers.
Trump might be what's best or he could be a comical disaster. He isn't a politician and his ego will get in the way but he can't be worse then bush or bush. Originally Posted by blowmypop23