The media are powerless.
This is perfect :lol
The media are powerless.
Existential Crisis Ryan:
But this one is just too funny.
Among those registered undeclared who say they are likely to vote in the Democratic primary, 55% back Sanders, 37% Clinton. Among registered Democrats, it's 47% Clinton to 40% Sanders.
Despite Sanders' overall advantage in the state, there is a growing sense of inevitability around Clinton's campaign in New Hampshire. About 6-in-10 (59%) say they think Clinton is most likely to win the Democratic primary there, up from 42% saying so in September, and 70% say she's got the best chance to win the general election next year, up from 51% in September.
I recognize that look. That's a "Sad Boehner."
Maybe I'm just uninformed here, but it seems like basing the districts off of voter numbers instead of general population would be more fair. I don't really see what's wrong with that. I mean, sure, it would help rural voters and probably lead to more Republican representation, which I wouldn't really like, but it still seems like something that makes sense to me.
FDR is not contemporary to a discussion about the US putting racial minorities in camps for national security reasons but Hitler is?
Come on, this is beyond pathetic. Why are we defending the lowest common denominator style of discourse here? What do we have left for people committing actual genocide when this is our standard of use?
More to the point, do you consider FDR a Nazi or Hitler-esque? He actually did the very things you seem to suggest condones comparing Trump to Hitler. What about Truman who sanctioned immunity for Nazi/Japanese scientists guilty of war crimes in exchange for their knowledge/information? Why not compare Trump to them instead of Hitler unless it's just about insults?
Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.
Constitution explicitly endorses broad counts as opposed to voters. As it relates to non-citizens, I think the language about Indians not taxed shows that non-citizens should count.
We live in a nation of laws across the pond.I really hate arguments from constitution because they presuppose that the given constitution actually proscribes good laws - it may do on occasion, but this is not an a priori truth. If something is in the constitution and good, it was good anyway, if something is the constitution and bad, then following it doesn't make it better.
I really hate arguments from constitution because they presuppose that the given constitution actually proscribes good laws - it may do on occasion, but this is not an a priori truth. If something is in the constitution and good, it was good anyway, if something is the constitution and bad, then following it doesn't make it better.
We live in a nation of laws across the pond.
I really hate arguments from constitution because they presuppose that the given constitution actually proscribes good laws - it may do on occasion, but this is not an a priori truth. If something is in the constitution and good, it was good anyway, if something is the constitution and bad, then following it doesn't make it better.
Eight-year-olds can't vote. Do you expect your member of Congress to represent their interests despite this?
Representatives represent EVERYONE in their district even non voting ones like, non citizen residents, children, disenfranchised (in prison or otherwise), so why draw a district that pretends they do not exist?
I would agree abstractly/philosophically, but our legal system uses a different form of analysis. That analysis suggests to me a particular outcome.
You're just jelly of our rockin' Constitution. Yours is probably like 30 years old or something.Every country lives in a state of laws, the United States just had a remarkably large number of bad ones.
Seriously though, entrenched constitutions suck. #QiP4lyfe.
Michelle Obama said:We have lost the understanding that in a democracy, we have a mutual obligation to one another that we cannot measure the greatness of our society by the strongest and richest of us, but we have to measure our greatness by the least of these. That we have to compromise and sacrifice for one another in order to get things done. That is why I am here, because Barack Obama is the only person in this who understands that. That before we can work on the problems, we have to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation.
Michelle Obama said:Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed. You have to stay at the seat at the table of democracy with a man like Barack Obama not just on Tuesday but in a year from now, in four years from now, in eights years from now, you will have to be engaged.
I face this challenge with profound humility, and knowledge of my own limitations. But I also face it with limitless faith in the capacity of the American people. Because if we are willing to work for it, and fight for it, and believe in it, then I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on Earth. This was the moment - this was the time - when we came together to remake this great nation so that it may always reflect our very best selves, and our highest ideals.
Sometimes this is a difficult road being in politics. Sometimes you can become fearful, sometimes you can become vain, sometimes you can seek power just for powers sake instead of because you want to do service to God. I just want all of you to pray that I can be an instrument of God in the same way that Pastor Ron and all of you are instruments of God."
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Were going to keep on praising together. I am confident that we can create a Kingdom right here on Earth.
That is why Im determined to reach out not just to Democrats, but to Independents and Republicans who want to move in a new direction. And that is why I wont just ask for your vote as a candidate I will ask for your service and your active citizenship when I am President of the United States.
This will not be a call issued in one speech or one program this will be a central cause of my presidency. We will ask Americans to serve. We will create new opportunities for Americans to serve. And we will direct that service to our most pressing national challenges.
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Now I know what the cynics will say. Ive heard from them all my life.
These are the voices that will tell you not just what you cant do but what you wont do. Americans wont come together our allegiance doesnt go beyond our political party, region, or congregation. Young Americans wont serve their country theyre too selfish, or too lazy. This is the soft sell of the status quo, the voice that tells you to settle because settling isnt that bad.
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Renewing that spirit starts with service. Make no mistake: our destiny as Americans is tied up with one another. If we are less respected in the world, then you will be less safe. If we keep paying dictators for foreign oil, gas prices are going to keep rising, and so are the oceans. If we cant give all of our kids a world-class education, then our economy is going to fall behind.
And thats how it should be. Thats the bet our Founding Fathers were making all of those years ago that our individual destinies could be tied together in the common destiny of democracy; that government depends not just on the consent of the governed, but on the service of citizens. Thats what history calls us to do. Because loving your country shouldnt just mean watching fireworks on the 4th of July. Loving your country must mean accepting your responsibility to do your part to change it. If you do, your life will be richer, and our country will be stronger.
We need your service, right now, at this moment our moment in history. Im not going to tell you what your role should be; thats for you to discover. But I am going to ask you to play your part; ask you to stand up; ask you to put your foot firmly into the current of history. I am asking you to change historys course. And if I have the fortune to be your President, decades from now when the memory of this or that policy has faded, and when the words that we will speak in the next few years are long forgotten I hope you remember this as a moment when your own story and the American story came together, and in the words of Dr. King the arch of history bent once more towards justice.
Obama's finest speeches do not excite. They do not inform. They don't even really inspire. They elevate. They enmesh you in a grander moment, as if history has stopped flowing passively by, and, just for an instant, contracted around you, made you aware of its presence, and your role in it. He is not the Word made flesh, but the triumph of word over flesh, over color, over despair. The other great leaders I've heard guide us towards a better politics, but Obama is, at his best, able to call us back to our highest selves, to the place where America exists as a glittering ideal, and where we, its honored inhabitants, seem capable of achieving it, and thus of sharing in its meaning and transcendence.
It doesn't fucking exist!UK's constitution was 800 years old this year, and it's a pretty good model.
gibberishThe Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.
UK's constitution was 800 years old this year, and it's a pretty good model. Having said that, though, the world's best constitution from a political design perspective IMO is probably Sweden's, which is a relatively young 41.
UK's constitution was 800 years old this year, and it's a pretty good model.
What constitution?
It doesn't fucking exist!
And the U.S. Constitution was ideal in design, all these new fangled Constitutions are garbage with their listings of rights and disclaimers that override the rights bullhonkey.
They turn out like this:
http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/const/77cons02.html
Or even worse, this big fucking disclaimer at the start from our totalitarian frozen wasteland to the north:
gibberish
What constitution?
high fives all around brosConstitutions that are annulled by popes totally don't count, man, cmon.
Futurama said:Leela: Cool your jowls, Nixon. You may not like it that Dr. Zoidberg desecrated a flag. You might even find the image of it festering in his bowels somehow offensive. But the right to freedom of expression is guaranteed by the Earth Constitution.
Nixon: Aroo! Maybe so. But I know a place where the Constitution doesn't mean squat!
[Scene: Supreme Court.]
Constitutions that are annulled by popes totally don't count, man, cmon.
Speaking of freedom of Expression, the "Freedom Day" episode of Futurama is on right now. I had forgotten how great this show was with political commentary. (And how great Nixon is).
Also, in a rare double-whammy decision the court finds polygamy constitutional.Speaking of freedom of Expression, the "Freedom Day" episode of Futurama is on right now. I had forgotten how great this show was with political commentary. (And how great Nixon is).
Fry: I refuse to testify on the grounds that my organs will be chopped up into a patty.
Judge Ron Whitey: Ah, the 67th Amendment.
From a different episode:
Nixon's head: Listen here, missy. Computers may be twice as fast as they were in 1973, but your average voter is as drunk and stupid as ever. The only thing that's different is me: I've become bitter, and, let's face it, crazy over the years. And once I'm swept into office, I'll sell our children's organs to zoos for meat, and I'll go into people's houses at night and wreck up the place. Muahahaha!
800 years is the clue here. He's talking about the Magna Carta.
high fives all around bros
All Trump needs is the robot body.I'd vote for him if Trump gave a rant like this:
Jennifer Epstein ‏@jeneps
If you don't vote, "fine, just don't complain about anything," Clinton says after bemoaning results in Kentucky governor's race
Who do you all think it is? PD? benji? Daniel B?Hillary Clinton posts on NeoGAF dot com, confirmed:
New CNN/WMUR New Hampshire poll
Bern 50%
Hillary 40%
Definitely decided (Dec / Sep): 36 / 25
Would NOT vote for: 5 / 15
Least honest: 3 / 46
Most likeable: 60 / 22
Best on big banks / corporations: 54 / 32
Best on guns: 43 / 34
Favorability: 83 / 68
Age range (18-34, 35-49, 50-64, 65+): 30 / 25 / 27 / 18
Who will win NH primary: 28 / 59
Best chance winning GE: 17 / 70
Right experience to be pres.: 26 / 62
Best to kick ISIS's butt: 25 / 58
I'm voting for someone else / don't know : 3 (???) / 6
"Sharia law is incompatible with the United States Constitution and so if they want to demonstrate that they are open to being Americanized, the first thing they should do is renounce Sharia law," King told TPM. "You won't get Keith Ellison or Andre Carson in this Congress to renounce Sharia law, let alone somebody that's just come out of the Middle East that is someone who has been steeped in Islam for a lifetime."
As that interview ended, TPM also had a chance to talk with Ellison, who was walking by and shook hands with King. When asked to respond to King's comment, Ellison said it was "an incredibly ignorant statement."
"And when I say ignorant I don't mean it as an insult, I mean it as it is incredibly uninformed," Ellison said. "That is all I can really say."
Hillary Clinton posts on NeoGAF dot com, confirmed:
When the Democrats stop running Republican lite candidates like JBE I will start to care about voting.
Who do you all think it is? PD? benji? Daniel B?
Joe Scarborough ‏@JoeNBC
South Carolina GOP Poll
(post-Muslim Ban proposal)
Trump 35%
Carson 15%
Cruz 14%
Rubio 14%
Jeb 5%