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To the left of Fox News and Rush, which makes him a pinko commie.

 

About 1 degree left of center.

 

Hillary would have been centerist enough to keep the corporate gravy train going. She was never going to piss off big business that much.

 

I don't disagree, but here's what I don't get ... She's obviously extremely smart, well-versed in policy and knows how to navigate Washington, as you noted.

What is it with the American voter (or maybe every voter worldwide, for all I know), that we need to somehow "connect" with a candidate rather than see their credentials, their policy ideas and prior political record to know that they'd do a fine job (or not) as the leader of our land? Why hasn't a single woman been able to "connect" to the American electorate?

It's beginning to feel like voters need to take a more, dare I say it, analytical/Moneyball approach to casting their votes. It won't happen, obviously, but I can't figure out for the life of me why people are so desperate to vote for someone they "like," rather than the most qualified candidate.

And this goes back way beyond 2016. Who is the last President to win on policy over personality? Obama was a bucket of charisma. Dubya was the guy everyone wanted to have a beer with. Clinton was cool as shit. I don't really remember HW Bush's victory. I remember "No new taxes," Dukakis's weird tank thing and Perot pulling some votes away, but HW was a former VP, so at least he had some credentials. Was he a better personality than Dukakis?

 

His accomplishments may have been. He got very little done.

 

"The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president."

 

America would vote for a much harder left agenda on many issues save one - abortion. The one issue the left sees as some kind of keystone to all other agendas. Which is too bad.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...-died-d-day/?utm_term=.d6724d9bdcde&tid=sm_fb
On Thursday, Americans remembered those killed on D-Day, 75 years back. It was a day of enormous heroism that was critical in turning back Nazi Germany’s attempt to conquer Europe. Thousands of Americans, Canadians, Australians and soldiers from other countries were part of the largest amphibious invasion force in history.

Some 2,501 Americans gave their lives that day, according to historic estimates. Another 1,913 soldiers from other Allied countries also died, bringing the total death toll from the immediate invasion to 4,414.

It took until late April before the number of people killed by guns in the United States in 2019 topped that number, according to data collected by the Gun Violence Archive. (This data excludes suicides.)

 

Cleaning out some note files.

Re. Abortion

What I don't get is that thousands (?) of post birth humans die daily of preventable causes such as war, famine, crime, pestilence etc. This does not seem to be a priority for the anti-legal abortion crowd. To be sure it is not a priority for me either, but why not use your resources to preserve the life of those who have hopes, dreams, memories, self-awareness and love, rather than pre-birth humans who have none?

 

Silly folks thinking women deserve to make decisions about their own bodies.