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Balmung Since: Oct, 2011
#107251: Dec 19th 2015 at 1:27:10 PM

[up][up][up]Native-born citizens, ages 35 and up only. Must also have been a resident for 14 years. If you did not happen to be born with U.S. citizenship, you are not allowed to hold the presidency or vice presidency of the USA and were you to make it into the Cabinet or Speaker of the House or Senate President Pro Tempore, you'd be skipped over in the line of succession.

But the (presumably rhetorical) question wasn't about running for president in person, it was about running (managing) a campaign.

edited 19th Dec '15 1:31:12 PM by Balmung

JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
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#107252: Dec 19th 2015 at 3:29:58 PM

[up][up] I can understand keeping her around, but how did she get put in charge of the DNC?

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
Skycobra51 A suitable case for treatment from The US of A Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Only knew I loved her when I let her go
A suitable case for treatment
#107253: Dec 19th 2015 at 3:37:47 PM

Elected? Appointed maybe?

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AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#107254: Dec 19th 2015 at 4:05:16 PM

That's a good question, actually. How do the chairs of either party get picked?

Wikipedia says they're elected by the DNC members. The article on the RNC oddly doesn't say, but I'm gonna guess they also elect their chairperson.

PotatoesRock Since: Oct, 2012
#107255: Dec 19th 2015 at 4:18:05 PM

So basically elected on her connections rather than her competence. Lovely. I hope this dunderhead doesn't sink the Democrats' chances. :/

AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#107256: Dec 19th 2015 at 4:39:57 PM

I think the consensus is that the Republicans are such a mess that it'd take more than not having debates to sink the Democrats this time around.

That said, I think we'll get a better idea of who'll win once the candidates are made official and we get into the actual election season. Aren't the amount of debates the official candidates determined by law or something?

JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
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#107257: Dec 19th 2015 at 5:36:36 PM

Holy Shit O Malley is on fire. I know it's empty words, but NEVER SURRENDER.

Sanders is praising King Abdul the Second of Jordan. His praise of the man is correct, unfortunately their is no Kind Abdul the Second of Jordan. His name is Abdualh.

edited 19th Dec '15 5:50:31 PM by JackOLantern1337

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AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#107258: Dec 19th 2015 at 6:09:44 PM

Misremembering how to pronounce his name is still better than naming a guy who died sixteen years ago.

I was going to tell you to tell us what was going on, but then I remembered that the Democratic debate is supposed to be tonight. I guess it's turning out to be pretty interesting?

JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
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#107259: Dec 19th 2015 at 6:22:52 PM

[up] I know.

Edit: "If we did not intervene in Libya we would have Syria." I swear I have heard it before, but it is true and brilliant.

Edit 2: Clinton is on fire with this foreign policy. I thin I'm in love.tongue Sanders has passion, even if I find him naive and disagree with him. Martin O Malley is just acting like an idiot mouthing of gibberish about funding "more human intelligence.", and not thinking in a "cold war mindset" or something like that. What the fuck do you think we did in the Cold War. The whole conflict was a war of spies and diplomatic maneuvering.

edited 19th Dec '15 6:31:52 PM by JackOLantern1337

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JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#107261: Dec 19th 2015 at 7:05:37 PM

Clinton is making a no new (Middle Class) taxes pledge. That never backfired on everyone at all.tongue

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Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#107262: Dec 19th 2015 at 7:33:06 PM

There's no Middle Class left to increase taxes on, she'll be fine.

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
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#107263: Dec 19th 2015 at 7:33:09 PM

[up][up]Just as with George Bush Senior, "no new taxes" doesn't mean there won't be any increases to already-existing taxes.

edited 19th Dec '15 7:33:23 PM by pwiegle

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Ogodei Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers from The front lines Since: Jan, 2011
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
#107264: Dec 19th 2015 at 7:34:43 PM

Capital gains tax at the same rate as regular income would solve a vast number of problems.

JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
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#107265: Dec 19th 2015 at 7:42:11 PM

[up][up][up] It still exists, it's just a bit smaller.

[up][up] And he lost his bid for election.

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speedyboris Since: Feb, 2010
#107266: Dec 19th 2015 at 7:47:17 PM

O'Malley burned the GOP debate the other night: "Anger and fear never build America."

Amen.

JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
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#107267: Dec 19th 2015 at 7:47:57 PM

[up] Well they are kind of sort of the reason we aren't still a British crown possession.tongue

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#107268: Dec 19th 2015 at 7:51:38 PM

No that's tax evasion, difference.

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
Eschaton Since: Jul, 2010
#107269: Dec 19th 2015 at 7:56:17 PM

"Anger and fear" did a lot to build America, it just fucked over a lot of people in the process. And a lot of other people are totally okay with that, and/or convinced there is no other way to succeed and doing otherwise only leads to failure..

Skycobra51 A suitable case for treatment from The US of A Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Only knew I loved her when I let her go
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#107270: Dec 19th 2015 at 8:13:50 PM

I always figured it was men like Carnage, Rockefeller, and Vanderbilt that built America.tongue

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JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
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#107271: Dec 19th 2015 at 8:14:33 PM

[up] So then it's unbridled exploitative Capitalism?

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Skycobra51 A suitable case for treatment from The US of A Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Only knew I loved her when I let her go
A suitable case for treatment
#107272: Dec 19th 2015 at 8:23:00 PM

Pretty much.

Though I do kinda admire how they became titans of industry and incredibly wealthy to boot.

Especially Carnagie, who went from poor immigrant to wealthy businessman(who was also oddly enough anti-imperialist even offering the Philippines 20million dollars to buy their independence, apparently had a fascination with dinosaurs funding digs, helped found the National Negro Business League, and was a big backer of the Tuskegee Institute under Booker T.)

For more information:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Carnegie

edited 19th Dec '15 8:56:29 PM by Skycobra51

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#107273: Dec 19th 2015 at 8:35:01 PM

[up][up]Don't conservatives support that, too?

ILoveDogs Since: May, 2010
#107274: Dec 19th 2015 at 9:05:12 PM

[up][up] That may be so, but that doesn't change the fact that he probably fucked over god knows how many people on the way to get there.

Skycobra51 A suitable case for treatment from The US of A Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Only knew I loved her when I let her go
A suitable case for treatment
#107275: Dec 19th 2015 at 9:07:26 PM

Its kinda ironic if you think about it.

There is nothing on which the world is so hard as poverty, and yet, there is nothing it condemns with such severity as the pursuit of wealth.

edited 19th Dec '15 9:26:17 PM by Skycobra51

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