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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
What I find rather funny. Or probably sad.
Is that just about every candidate is going on about how weak and spineless Obama is and how they'll be a strong Commander in Chief.
But I know for a fact almost every one of them was going on about how much of an iron fisted dictator Obama was not too long ago.
The amount of doublethink with Republicans is ridiculous.
Oh really when?I saw part of the thing about cruz's citizenship.
If ANYONE was complaining about Obama's "natural born-ness" and supports Cruz, they're an absolute hypocrit. No matter what they think or believe about where he was born and where he was raised, we know he was born to his mother who is and was an American Citizen. Cruz wasn't born in this country but was born to american parents, so even in the deepest conspiracy theories of obama's birth, they're at the same level.
And yet a clan mate of mine in an online game disputed this by saying his mother wasn't 18 and thus "Wasn't a full citizen yet".
Birthers are not known for being particularly rational.
Plot Twist: Cruz is lying about not being born in the US.
Leviticus 19:34
Well, yeah. Canada exists because God decided that America was so awesome, the world needed a second winter-themed one right on top of the first one.
And like any good sequel, the villain from the first one has joined the team. ...The villain is Quebec.
That's exactly why they got into the sequel on the heroes' side.
edited 15th Jan '16 1:29:02 AM by Artificius
"I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once."
Exterior-wise he is more harmless, but otherwise he may be even more dangerous because unlike Trump, he may be able to disguise similar policy with jargon that won't enrage everyone who isn't a racist American stereotype.

The problem with nukes as deterrence is delivery system. Except for next door neighbors like India and Pakistan, you have to have good ICBMs or long range planes and those planes still need to be able to slink past conventional air defenses for optimum strategic deployment. So even if Japan had achieved a nuclear breakthrough in the 11th hour of WWII, they would have had no means to do much damage beyond nuking the home islands further still.