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Old 02-28-2015, 12:31 AM
 
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When asked last year about the prospect of her son Jeb running for president, former first lady Barbara Bush responded that “…we’ve had enough Bushes.”

America’s next presidential election is about to look like an episode of “Dynasty” – Quartz

We are closer to the edge of self destruction. One more mistake and America will be lost for at least a generation. We do need a person with a record of high tolerance for the truth. We do need a strong president.

 
Old 02-28-2015, 12:37 AM
 
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Politician and truth don't go together. Believing we are going to get some great, blue collar, honest man is naive.
 
Old 02-28-2015, 12:41 AM
 
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America. . . .

Land of the free, and the home of the oligarchy.
 
Old 02-28-2015, 12:41 AM
 
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You'll get whoever the media decides it wants as a president.
The days of voting for conservative or liberal ideology is long gone its now about who looks better on tv..
 
Old 02-28-2015, 03:49 AM
 
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Default The Situation With Freedom of Speech in the US Is Worse Than in Nigeria.

The Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index ranks the performance of 180 countries according to a range of criteria that include media pluralism and independence, respect for the safety and freedom of journalists, and the legislative, institutional and infrastructural environment in which the media operate.

2015 World Press Freedom Index

Free speech? Oh, please.Freedom of speech is dead in America. Or it's dying. I heard, some people believe, Obama’s efforts to control media are ‘most aggressive’ since Nixon.
 
Old 02-28-2015, 06:42 AM
 
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I hate to rain on the "OMG, we're all going to hell in a handbasket, unlike in the good old days!" parade, but families have always been a part of the American politic.

Presidents John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams.
Presidents William Henry Harrison and his grandson Benjamin Harrison.
Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and his cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

In fact, the current proportion of members of Congress (a far larger, and thus more useful pool, than the relatively small data-set of would-be Presidents) with relatives currently or formerly in Congress is lower than at any time since the late 1700s - because Congress was new then, and there were no former members of Congress to which one could be related.

For example, the Breckinridge family included 17 members elected to Congress (Henry Clay was one) and at least one member of the family was in Congress from the very 1st Congress in 1789 until January of 1978.
http://www.econ.brown.edu/faculty/Pedro_Dal_Bo/pd.pdf

Seriously. People are just noticing this?

Since 1988, five of the seven Republican nominees for President have been descended from a President (George W. Bush, son of George H.W. Bush), a Senator (George H.W. Bush, son of Prescott Bush) or a Governor (Mitt Romney, son of George Romney). Even Al Gore (Jr.) was the son of a Senator (Al Gore, Sr.).

And it's not like the electorate doesn't pointedly decline to support members of political families on a regular basis. Hillary Clinton lost in 2008. So did Evan Bayh that year, and Mitt Romney. Elizabeth Dole lost in 2000. George H.W. Bush lost in 1980.

While voting for someone on the basis of their relatives represents poor decision-making, so does voting for someone on the basis of another candidate's relatives.

It is all much ado about nothing.
 
Old 02-28-2015, 06:49 AM
 
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I was thinking "Laugh In" myself.
 
Old 02-28-2015, 07:23 AM
 
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If the next election is Hilarious vs yet another Bush, I'm voting Libertarian.
 
Old 02-28-2015, 08:18 AM
 
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I'm voting Papoon. He's not insane.
 
Old 03-01-2015, 12:35 AM
 
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Originally Posted by WaldoKitty View Post
If the next election is Hilarious vs yet another Bush, I'm voting Libertarian.
But everyone knows that is always a wasted vote, much the same as not voting at all.
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