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AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#118551: Apr 8th 2016 at 12:52:32 PM

Given Cruz's "New York Values" comment he was already going to have a tough time there. That was just such a colossal flub on his part.

Arizona we are looking at you, judging your choices.

darksidevoid Anti-Gnosis Weapon from The Frontiers (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Robosexual
Anti-Gnosis Weapon
#118553: Apr 8th 2016 at 1:55:19 PM

Sanders “made the first move two or three days ago,” Archer said. She did not know whom he or his representatives contacted. “His use of it is clearly a pretext,” she said. “There are just 20 academics and there will be nothing of policy relevance.”

However Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, the chancellor of the Academy, speaking on the phone from New York, said he extended the invitation to Sanders, though he repeatedly declined to say who initiated the contact.

“We are interested in having him because we have two presidents coming from Latin America, I thought it would be good to have an authoritative voice from North America,” Sanchez Sorondo said. Asked when the invitation was extended, he said, “Quite some time ago.”

Archer didn’t respond to subsequent phone and e-mail requests from Bloomberg for a response to Sanchez Sorondo’s remarks.

Oh, look, bureaucratic miscommunication at its finest. I probably wouldn't know without considerable research, so does anyone happen to know whether the president or the chancellor are higher up in the hierarchy?

Edit: Update, turns out the chancellor was higher up, says he was the one who invited Sanders, and says the president knows it. What a manufactured controversy.

edited 8th Apr '16 2:12:49 PM by darksidevoid

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Yankee Doodle Dandy
#118555: Apr 8th 2016 at 3:28:11 PM

Wisconsin's right-to-work law, championed by Governor Scott Walker (R), was struck down Friday as violating the state constitution.

Ouch. That was the crown jewel of Walker's legacy. I wonder how he'll react.

Ted Cruz wins three more delegates in Colorado, raising total to 18.

Bernie Sanders on Friday reversed his criticism that Hillary Clinton is not qualified to be president.

"Here's the truth. I've known Hillary Clinton for 25 years. I respect Hillary Clinton. We were colleagues in the Senate and on her worst day, she would be an infinitely better president than either of the Republican candidates," the Vermont independent said.

Asked if she's qualified, Sanders said, "Of course."

Beyond the Post headline, Sanders also told CBS News' Charlie Rose that he was also responding to an effort by the Clinton campaign "to go much more negative on us. And they have," he said. "What I believe is that there are surrogates all over the television making that point — they think I'm not qualified."

edited 8th Apr '16 3:33:04 PM by Demonic_Braeburn

Any group who acts like morons ironically will eventually find itself swamped by morons who think themselves to be in good company.
ILoveDogs Since: May, 2010
#118556: Apr 8th 2016 at 3:59:00 PM

Walker will feel emotions only felt and expressed by loaves of bread.

Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
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#118558: Apr 8th 2016 at 6:09:54 PM

so Bruce Springsteen has cancelled his concert in North Carolina in protest of their homophobic laws... good

advancing the front into TV Tropes
theLibrarian Since: Jul, 2009
#118559: Apr 8th 2016 at 6:18:13 PM

Apparently Bernie's experienced a surge of support in California and got welcomed back to his hometown in New York by a crowd.

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#118560: Apr 8th 2016 at 6:23:02 PM

I want Bernie to stir things up and make the establishment take notice, but I want him to do so in a way that is not self-defeating in terms of splitting the Democratic Party at a time when it needs to be unified. I am also sorely disappointed by the absence of concrete steps to achieve his lofty ideals. I think that it is extraordinarily unlikely for him to win. If he does, I'll vote for him. But this primary race is starting to lower itself, and if it goes much farther, it'll start to resemble the other party's.

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storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
More like giant cherries
#118561: Apr 8th 2016 at 7:08:09 PM

I just wish he would be realistic in his policy proposals, instead of promising the moon with no idea how to actually accomplish it.

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A procrastination in of itself
#118562: Apr 8th 2016 at 8:45:00 PM

[up][up] Hey now, it's still better then the other one as long as nobody talks about genetalia size.

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AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#118563: Apr 8th 2016 at 8:58:28 PM

Yeeeaaah, the Republican party started with a low bar and then lowered it against everyone's expectations that it could go lower. Sanders and Clinton have quite a ways to go before they actually start to look like the absolute joke that the Republican debates have reached.

In any case it sounds like Clinton needs to hit Sanders on his supposed lack of concrete plans. I'd hit that harder, really.

Really though I just wish this whole primary process didn't take so freaking long.

Demonic_Braeburn Yankee Doodle Dandy from Defective California Since: Jan, 2016
Yankee Doodle Dandy
#118564: Apr 8th 2016 at 8:59:49 PM

[up][up][up][up] That's the problem though.

Bernie doesn't want to be some no-chance candidate like Larry Lessig or Jill Stein, whose only role is to raise awareness of issues and maybe move Hillary to the left.

Bernie wants to win. He wants to be president.

Mere days after ripping the #NeverTrump movement and calling them “buffoons” for basically agreeing to “passively” help Hillary Clinton, Mark Levin tonight said on his show, “Count me as #NeverTrump.”

edited 8th Apr '16 9:00:48 PM by Demonic_Braeburn

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#118565: Apr 8th 2016 at 9:39:59 PM

The issue is that a good number of voters don't want an Establishment President. The only difference is that Republican voters are better at rejecting people who they see as Establishment like Jeb! or Rubio than the Democratic voters are. Both Trump and Cruz have Anti-Establishment cred which helped them succeed where Jeb! and Rubio failed. It also helps that the Democrats only had two completely valid candidates from the outset since the Democratic Primary was supposed to just be the crowning of Hillary as the nominee before Sanders decided to become a Democrat and run.

edited 8th Apr '16 9:41:12 PM by GameGuruGG

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Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#118566: Apr 8th 2016 at 11:08:10 PM

[up][up]Unsurprising. The most aggressively conservative guy I'm in communications with did all they could to defend Trump until eventually he crossed their Moral Event Horizon when Trump refused to denounce the KKK.

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DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
#118567: Apr 8th 2016 at 11:44:51 PM

Funny, I'd have thought he wouldn't have liked him that much to begin with. Isn't the common wisdom that Trump, outside of his immigration policies, is something of a RINO?

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#118569: Apr 9th 2016 at 12:27:18 AM

Ugh, why do serious violent crimes have a statute of limitations? Bastard should be answering for that crime, even if the fraud conviction puts him away for years.

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Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#118570: Apr 9th 2016 at 12:36:26 AM

Judge issues ultimatum to Louisiana: provide proper public defenders or he will release accused criminals.

I like this guy. As much as I like appropriate punishments for crime, if the state cannot provide due process, it does not have the right to punish anyone.

edited 9th Apr '16 2:07:32 AM by Ramidel

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#118571: Apr 9th 2016 at 1:51:18 AM

^^Probably just an oversight in that case. Statutes of limitation generally apply as blanket rules, they need specific exemptions added.

^"Runtime error"?

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Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#118572: Apr 9th 2016 at 2:08:04 AM

Fix'd. The forum software went on another bender.

Rubio to GOP: Seriously, guys, back Obama up here and give him some money to fight Zika.

edited 9th Apr '16 2:27:15 AM by Ramidel

DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
#118573: Apr 9th 2016 at 2:46:56 AM

Apparently, not running for President does wonders for your sanity.

Achaemenid HGW XX/7 from Ruschestraße 103, Haus 1 Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: Giving love a bad name
HGW XX/7
#118575: Apr 9th 2016 at 3:52:01 AM

The straw-grasping from the Sanderistas is really becoming tedious. It's like Orwell's "transferred nationalism", only transplanted onto a political candidate. Just finished watching Cenk "What Armenian genocide?" Uygur telling his audience that Krugman doesn't know much about economics. And Sanderistas calling Krugman a liar, a VSP (particularly hilarious if you know the history of that term), and saying he has no credibility. It's comical.

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