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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
The Chicaco Tribute confirms that the judge has issued subpoenas and ordered Clinton's top aides questioned under oath.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-clinton-idUSMTZSAPEC2N0MQ10D
edited 23rd Feb '16 2:46:18 PM by SolipsistOwl
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I'm a Republican, (and my favorite candidate is still Rubio) but I can respect Hillary. I think she'd make an infinitely better president than Trump or Sanders and maybe Cruz, too (at least if what I'm hearing about him's all true). And I've heard she's right of Obama, so she'd be step forward.
I hear China really doesn't like Clinton. And seeing as Sanders thinks normalizing trade relations with them was a mistake, which it was, and seems like the type who would actually call the CCP regime what it is, a bunch of thugs who have bought the world's love with money, they must hate him to. To be honest I can't see how any of these candidates, both Democrat and Republican don't make China squirm. This makes me very happy.
edited 23rd Feb '16 3:07:27 PM by JackOLantern1337
I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.I like Bernie's stances, but I don't think his proposals stand up to reality. Clinton isn't exciting, but she's qualified as all hell and I think Bernie running against her is doing some good things in pulling her to the left. Basically, I feel like Clinton is the Boring, but Practical to Sanders' Awesome, but Impractical. If we could get a Simple, yet Awesome in here, then I'd be all for it. While I'm wishing, I'd also like world peace and a pony.
That said, I'll certainly vote for whoever wins the Democratic primary, and I won't feel like I have to hold my nose while I do it.
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.
Jovian's post sums up my feelings as well. I like Bernie's platform from an ideological standpoint but I have grave concerns about how he plans to implement his ideas. I have concerns about Hillary's tendencies to go centrist, but I like her qualifications and her broad appeal, plus her ability to not sound like a broken record.
edited 23rd Feb '16 3:16:48 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!""Will she actually stay to the left or try to square the circle and moderate in the General."
I don't like this slippery chameleon feeling I keep getting. It kind of goes hand in hand that while I think the Republicans are tilting at windmills, I can't help but feel there is something criminal she's done when she comes off as.
Changable. Indecisive. Contortionist.
Something about her doesn't feel like it'll stick.
Not when she gets handed a 13 million dollar check from the Health Care Industry and goes from "Single Payer Some Day" to "Single Payer ain't ever happening, ever. Stop pipe dreaming.",
:|
You mean her ability to make every album a New Sound Album?
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

In an effort to steal votes back from Trump, Cruz says that he'll start sending around deportation agents
. Maybe we'll get lucky and his own agents will send him back to Canada.
Appearing on "The O'Reilly Factor" on Fox News, Cruz was repeatedly pressed on the specifics of his deportation plans by host Bill O'Reilly, who asked Cruz, "Would you go look for them, though? As (Donald) Trump would look for them to get them out, would you do that if you were president?" "Bill, of course you would, that's what ICE exists for," Cruz said. "We have law enforcement that looks for people who are violating the laws, that apprehends them and deports them."
O'Reilly offered a hypothetical example of an immigrant from Ireland with "a couple of kids and he's settled into Long Island." "And you, President Cruz, are going to send the feds to his house, take him out, and put him on a plane back to Ireland?" O'Reilly asked.
"You better believe it," Cruz said.
Cruz's comments to O'Reilly stand in stark contrast from his previous rhetoric on the issue. In a January interview with CNN's Jake Tapper, Cruz had said he would not deploy a "deportation force," as Trump as suggested he would do as president. "I don't intend to send jackboots to knock on your door and every door in America. That's not how we enforce the law for any crime," Cruz told Tapper. "We don't live in a police state. We do have law enforcement."
Chad Sweet, chairman of Cruz's presidential campaign, had also said after CNN's Republican presidential debate in December that the Cruz campaign supported "attrition through enforcement."
Cruz, winner of the GOP Iowa caucuses, is at a critical point in his campaign, following two significant losses to Trump in New Hampshire and South Carolina. He also fired his communications director on Monday for circulating a misleading video about rival Marco Rubio. His next test is Tuesday, when Nevada Republicans head to their caucuses.