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The fact of the matter is that very few people will get to be President. For example it's entirely likely that no one who served in elected office in 1994 will become President (Bush's turn as Governor started in 1995 while Obama's state senate stint started a few years later.)

If Jindal never gets to be Prez, it won't be unique.

He's pretty young, so he does have a future, either as a potential Senator or a cabinet member.

He has a few problems in the 2016 cycle.

Two young Catholic wonks have developed higher profiles (Marco Rubio, and Paul Ryan.) So they'll do better in the polls at the moment.

He's largely unknown to the public. And those who know him are aware of his weaknesses (low approval rating in Louisiana, much maligned State of the Union response, his association with the Perry campaign.)

That could change in a primary, especially if Ryan and Rubio don't run.

Although if I were him I'd seriously consider running for Senate now that the guy with the diaper fetish is running for Governor.

Last line made me actually laugh just because of the seriousness of the rest of it.

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Ted Cruz is more liberal than Hilary

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You are far closer in your political views to Ted Cruz and Michele Bachmann than you are to me.

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Time for a lawsuit against the right-wing school officials.

How is this right wing?

Sometimes I get the feeling that something traumatic happened to you as a child, perhaps a vending machine ate your dollar, and you swore to forever hate all things free market related. In your anger you began to associate anything bad in your life with the "right wing". Your bike got a flat tire, "Damn capitalist tire manufactures!" A fellow OWS person accidentally steps on your toe at a rally "Watch it you teabagging fascist!"

You may benefit from talking to a therapist about this. 

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I'd love to see a reverse article interviewing a bunch of millionaires in Manhattan and Connecticut and then proclaiming that the GOP is wrecked because it's losing its core constituency and needs to run a Mike Bloomberg to win those people back.

That article would be missing the point on roughly the same scale.

I did my best:

Falls Church (United States) (AFP) - Jim Feltner's days are empty. He is a rich man in one of the richest counties in the United States and has never used unemployment benefits or food stamps in his life.

But the Northern Virginia resident has nothing but scorn for the Republican Party, which wants to relieve people like him of the burden of paying for those who actually do use food stamps and unemployment.

Feltner sits in a hard wooden chair at an Au Bon Pain in Alexandria, his MacBook Air perched in front of him.

People around here, he says, are "thriving, indisputably. I know, because I'm one of them."

Armed with two master's degrees, he lives off a salary he receives working as a healthcare management consultant in Deloitte's public sector consultancy practice.

Feltner voted for George H. W. Bush in 1988 when he was an undergraduate at Tufts University, but now says: "I will vote for anybody against the Republican Party."

"I don't care who the Democrat is, I'll vote for him or her. I don't care if they're a pedophile, a convicted felon, an Indian, a Pakistani, even someone who attended an SEC school!"

"They talk about this Real America and Fake America and make fun of the president for going to Harvard. I mean, I did post-graduate work there,'" Feltner alleged.

"Is that something for a major political party to say?," he added. "They have a problem with the educated people."

The same aversion to the Republicans is heard to the north, in Suffolk County, New York.

Alison Dahlberg-Tate, 38, whose necklace of pea-sized pearls hugs her slender neck, says she does not care about politics. She hasn't thought about it since her senior seminar at Sarah Lawrence. But one thing is clear: she does not like the Republican Party.

"I guess Republicans just worry about money in their pocket, what they and their friends are doing. They're not worried the poor, about the women, about the people who have been victimized in this patriarchal society," Dahlberg-Tate said, stepping onto her sailing yacht.

"The Democrats, they are the ones who get us," Dahlberg-Tate added, as her husband Hugh Marsden "Skip" Tate, IV, climbed aboard the vessel with a picnic basket.

"And what if we make poor women pay for birth control? I mean we might as well be in Somalia," Dahlberg-Tate said. She and her husband receives $3,800 each week from the H. M. Tate, Jr. Family Trust, the bulk of which goes to supporting their dogs Millie and Beckett. Skip's freelance public relations work for a New York City-based tech startup is their only other source of income.

"It's unfortunate, when the checks come out, there's a festival atmosphere in the bank," said Mike Bryant, director of client relations for Northern Trust's wealth management division, which oversees the distribution of trust fund dividends to their heirs.

"If someone dared say, I already paid for four years at Haverford and grad school at Yale and you're not getting anything else out of me, it's going to be a really awkward Memorial Day Weekend at the Cape," he said.

Could also be posted to the GPG.

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I believe that pornography should be illegal.

That's an easy position to have when you have yet to hit puberty.

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The so-called "far right" is, fundamentally, no worse than the peons of neoliberal hegemony that constitute the false political choice citizens are normally faced with. I welcome any attempt to dismantle the abhorrent system of velociraptor capitalism that the workers have been devoured by for far too long. Will the Eurocrats (so-called, of course) wake up? Perhaps.

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Can someone please tell me who these "unaffiliateds" (who I assume to be agnostic/atheist) are that oppose gay marriage?  WTF? 

I am unaffiliated.

Well, 23% of the unaffiliated population doesn't go to Oxford.

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This is good.

I'd love to see a reverse article interviewing a bunch of millionaires in Manhattan and Connecticut and then proclaiming that the GOP is wrecked because it's losing its core constituency and needs to run a Mike Bloomberg to win those people back.

That article would be missing the point on roughly the same scale.

I did my best:

Falls Church (United States) (AFP) - Jim Feltner's days are empty. He is a rich man in one of the richest counties in the United States and has never used unemployment benefits or food stamps in his life.

But the Northern Virginia resident has nothing but scorn for the Republican Party, which wants to relieve people like him of the burden of paying for those who actually do use food stamps and unemployment.

Feltner sits in a hard wooden chair at an Au Bon Pain in Alexandria, his MacBook Air perched in front of him.

People around here, he says, are "thriving, indisputably. I know, because I'm one of them."

Armed with two master's degrees, he lives off a salary he receives working as a healthcare management consultant in Deloitte's public sector consultancy practice.

Feltner voted for George H. W. Bush in 1988 when he was an undergraduate at Tufts University, but now says: "I will vote for anybody against the Republican Party."

"I don't care who the Democrat is, I'll vote for him or her. I don't care if they're a pedophile, a convicted felon, an Indian, a Pakistani, even someone who attended an SEC school!"

"They talk about this Real America and Fake America and make fun of the president for going to Harvard. I mean, I did post-graduate work there,'" Feltner alleged.

"Is that something for a major political party to say?," he added. "They have a problem with the educated people."

The same aversion to the Republicans is heard to the north, in Suffolk County, New York.

Alison Dahlberg-Tate, 38, whose necklace of pea-sized pearls hugs her slender neck, says she does not care about politics. She hasn't thought about it since her senior seminar at Sarah Lawrence. But one thing is clear: she does not like the Republican Party.

"I guess Republicans just worry about money in their pocket, what they and their friends are doing. They're not worried the poor, about the women, about the people who have been victimized in this patriarchal society," Dahlberg-Tate said, stepping onto her sailing yacht.

"The Democrats, they are the ones who get us," Dahlberg-Tate added, as her husband Hugh Marsden "Skip" Tate, IV, climbed aboard the vessel with a picnic basket.

"And what if we make poor women pay for birth control? I mean we might as well be in Somalia," Dahlberg-Tate said. She and her husband receives $3,800 each week from the H. M. Tate, Jr. Family Trust, the bulk of which goes to supporting their dogs Millie and Beckett. Skip's freelance public relations work for a New York City-based tech startup is their only other source of income.

"It's unfortunate, when the checks come out, there's a festival atmosphere in the bank," said Mike Bryant, director of client relations for Northern Trust's wealth management division, which oversees the distribution of trust fund dividends to their heirs.

"If someone dared say, I already paid for four years at Haverford and grad school at Yale and you're not getting anything else out of me, it's going to be a really awkward Memorial Day Weekend at the Cape," he said.

I posted that here a few pages ago, but it's good enough that it deserves to be inducted twice.

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Is there any difference between them?

One looks like a fish and the other looks like an elf.

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This guy is much more electable than Clinton though. Because he wears a bolo tie.

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I don't take these people seriously because they're cowards. They spew hatred even more than the worst on the right, and yet what would they fight with? Granola? They're harmless but their rhetoric is dangerous.

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Anyway I already pre-ordered this. Hopefully I get to join the elite group of people who read a book by a president before they became president (though that prize would never be worth the torture of having to read a book by a Republican).

I think you're looking at the wrong antecedent. At least, I hope that you are...

I haven't actually read any of TR's books, but in any case the part in parenthesis isn't what I found most humorous.

I'm not sure what you mean by that, but to clarify I meant 'antecedent' in the grammatical sense. i.e. IceSpear will join the 'elites' because he has read Hillary Clinton's book before she becomes POTUS.

Or maybe I am the only one who was silly enough to read it as a declaration of presidential ambitions.

This is correct. I didn't realize what was comedic about the post at first, unless shua thinks I meant I'd become president.

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Nope the Christies and Romneys need to leave and form their own progressive party.

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All I came here to say is that Fox And Friends is what all morning news would be had the Nazis won the war.

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le bensraum

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https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=170457.100

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It is my greatest shame, from when I was a fascist for a couple weeks in early 2013.

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I like the homosexuals

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"Oh Ed, that was mind-blowing," Joanne said, rehooking her bra. Her Irish lilt served only to make FitzGerald more aroused. He held up a small plastic bag, a glint in his eye. "I've got to get back home soon, my wife's going to be wondering where I am. But first, wanna smoke up?" he said, grinning. Afterward, when Joanne had vomited and driven off in his car, FitzGerald sat in the rain, struggling to get the stench of the drug off his jacket. Eventually, FitzGerald stood, looked into the dark, and began to laugh. He stayed like that for some time.

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[bThis is a polling aggregate database that will accept any kind of polls and not discriminate against anyone.

Oh really?

SirNick Polling:

Every State:
Clinton: 99%
All Others: 1%

Margin of Error +/- 50%

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These baby penguins are also not sure that Hillary Clinton would make a good president:

http://www.clickhole.com/article/8-baby-penguins-are-pretty-cute-dont-stand-chance--686

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I think Hillary is mistaken in attacking Obama's foreign policy when she was its architect for several years. Does anybody remember Bengazhi? That was on Obama and Hillary and you can't avoid that.

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Also they should add a "Libertarians and True Leftists" row, so that Isis has a friend.