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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
From Full-Circle Revolution, but yes.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.What Obama thinks about World Leaders.
Surprisingly Bibi is not the one he dislikes the most.
Would have liked to know where he put Modi on that list. Good read nonetheless. Reinforces the Sitcom Arch-Nemesis thing between him and Putin.
In a different time, Modi would probably have a relationship with Obama that was close to Erdogan's — a false democrat, and a false moderate, but with so many horrible leaders in the world, who has time to waste on that buffoon?
Modi's been doing a fair job in India actually. Lot better than anyone (who wasn't attracted to his cult of personality, who wouldn't care about actual job performance anyway) anticipated.
He has his black marks, but I'd actually argue the man is Erdogan's opposite. Only reason why I ask about Obama's relationship with him is due to his increased dealings with India over time.
This might have been posted, but if they pulled this off, I'd have to start clapping sometime early next year from the magnificent bastardry of it. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-nicholas-phillips/doomsday-savior-how-paul-ryan_b_9474788.html
edited 19th Mar '16 9:56:57 PM by Artificius
"I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once."Only in the way that it'd give the Democrats the advantage. While turnout is low, there's not really that much crossover appeal of Democrat voters to Republican candidates this time around. Trump could probably do a good run on his own (and I really wouldn't put it past him to be egotistical enough to do so) but there's a lot of Republican voters who'd probably be relieved to be able to vote for anyone but him.
According to a near perfect election formula, Trump has 97-99% chance of being our next president if he becomes the republican nominee.
From 1912 to now, it's only been wrong once in 1960 when JFK got elected.
In that event, Clinton would just barely take the ticket, with a minuscule 0.3 percent lead in the popular vote.
To that all I can say - LOL NO. Ok, I can see Cruz doing well against Clinton. But Rubio? No fucking dice.
Rubio would do better in a general election than Cruz would. Cruz is religious right while Rubio is a young Establishment politician. In addition, I could see Trump potentially winning because all the events so far have played to his narrative. Everyone from the Republican Party to the media to the protesters are playing his game by his rules. For Trump supporters, reality seems to be proving Trump completely right. The underlying issue with the nation currently is that there is a sizable portion of the nation who won't listen to reason... That when arguments are made to them, they just claim the other side is biased and dismiss them outright. They spend all their time with like-minded people and are completely closed off to opposing viewpoints. The only way to get them to listen is to force them to listen, but by doing that, you effectively prove their crazy ideas right.
Wizard Needs Food BadlyAn artist has created an anti-Trump sculpture out of a humorously appropriate material.
@the statition's formula: His formula is complete bullshit. You can't say "my predictive model has only been wrong once, back in the 60s" when all those races happened before you made it. That's like saying "I bet Thomas Jefferson would beat Aaron Burr in a presidential election, but it'd be left up to the delegates".
He's only predicted two elections, and was almost wrong on Mc Cain vs Obama.

If a state religion directly causes irreligiosity, why would anyone advocate for it?