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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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They all will I presume, it will be at a University and not a stadium by a single news network.
@Rationinsanity
"People are sick of hearing about your damn emails" (Pretty sure we'll all aware of this so no need for a link)
and
"When you're white... you don't know what's it like to live in poverty."
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/mar/07/bernie-s/bernie-sanders-wrong-say-when-youre-white-you-dont/
Sanders completely disregarded a scapegoat he could've effectively used, limiting his options.
And he stated that a complete race of people do not know what's it like to be in poverty, this turned away a massive voting group. And before you bring up Trump, he never said this kind of rhetoric during a debate, which is what I'm focusing on at the moment.
edited 10th Sep '16 12:40:43 PM by MrRockler
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NBC, I think? At least, Lester Holt is the moderator.
Honestly, I have no idea.
edited 10th Sep '16 12:43:13 PM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/377947866641485824
And he still hasn't deleted this?!
New Survey coming this weekend!The idea that Sanders went easy on Clinton is comical to the point of absurd. He got flustered, wasn't able to present a shred of evidence of her corruption other than "transcripts!", repeated his stump speech 100448845 times, insulted white voters in poverty, blamed Wall Street for problems with racism, laughed when Clinton talked about gun violence, called Clinton unqualified which he was eviserated for, put out a narrative that the DNC was corrupt and rigging the system implicitly, kept hammering about transparency but never released his tax returns OR FEC filings and basically was an overall dick.
Please put that narrative to bed. I don't want to revisit that. I'm enjoying non-dick Sanders at the moment.
New Survey coming this weekend!Rick Perry will join the next season of the popular reality television show “Dancing With the Stars.
Donald Trump will appear on The Dr. Oz Show.
I have to agree with Fox. Sanders spent too much time "fighting the system," insulting the voters, and falling into the old-school leftist trap that the class struggle is all that matters and racism will fix itself once the bourgeoisie have been cast down. He might have won the nomination if he'd polished his plans better ("magic asterisks" were a major buzzword) and hadn't come across as so focused on his Big New Ideas that he got out of touch with events on the ground.
But easy on Clinton he wasn't. He just wasn't very good at attacking her.

John Hinckley Jr., the man who attempted to assassinate Reagan, has been released after 35 years in a psychiatric hospital. He was already out on monitored, partial parole.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37328612
edited 10th Sep '16 12:05:03 PM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.