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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Obviously not, but then they certainly forfeit any idea that they are attempting to combat terrorism, as opposed to killing every Muslim they see.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Paul already making me roll my eyes.
Christie was forgetful, strangely.
Fiorina is out of her league.
Surprisingly catchy speech from Jeb. He get a new speechwriter?
Rubio and Cruz are scary.
Carson sounds like he's cribbing from Cruz's playbook.
Trump of course is all about himself.
edited 15th Dec '15 5:59:29 PM by FFShinra
Just opening statements. Middle of the first round of questions.
Rubio and Bush doing a good job debating what I am now officially dubbing Crump, but Rubio loses points for his opening statement and Jeb loses points for sounding panicked.
EDIT-
Kasich as usual sounds the most sane. Losing points for shitting on the climate conference with me personally, but its good red meat for the base.
edited 15th Dec '15 6:12:53 PM by FFShinra
I love right wing Christian extremists in the US love to go on about how Muslim countries need secular dictators while simultaneously bashing secularism in their own country and proclaiming that what our country needs to do is put God above everything, especially our government.
The hypocrisy is so thick my knife can't cut through it.
edited 15th Dec '15 7:55:52 PM by TheWanderer
| Wandering, but not lost. | If people bring so much courage to this world...◊ |Whoever wins, we lose.
Also, while belated, I was horrified by Cruz's whole speech about carpet bombing and (needless to say) with Trump's thing about murdering the families of terrorists. It's like these are proposals that don't even have the excuse of being ruthless but effective. It's cruelty for the sake of cruelty that's justified by the need to be "tough" and "strong".
edited 15th Dec '15 8:40:34 PM by Hodor2
Bush and Kasich said several sane things. As did Rubio on immigration (to an extent) and his answer about supporting Qadafi. Overall while I don't agree with his policies, he at least comes off as fairly deliberative and sane.
I guess Christie was occasionally on point but he has too much of a tendency to want to win Trump supporters.
I've never found convincing the argument that CEO's make great presidents/better presidents than career politicians, but it was way more convincing from Mitt Romney than Carly Fiorina.
Ben Carson is Ben Carson.
And I'm pretty convinced that Trump and Cruz are sociopaths.
edited 15th Dec '15 8:48:19 PM by Hodor2

Yeah, no. You can't even sort out who's a combatant and who is a civilian in that time frame.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"