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[W:295]Pete Buttigieg to Quit Democratic Presidential Race

Pound4abrown said:
This is where folks on the right get it wrong. Obama may have been a lot of things. And he was also, not a lot of things, one of those things he was not, was a moron; oh, and a con-artist.
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What were his accomplishments as president? Anyone have a clue?
 
Helix said:
most people understand that calling Mango the Clown names is very presidential. Punkinhead proved that himself.
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I don't call Trump names, there is only so far down into the muck I will go. That said, your argument is valid. And anyone trying to play obtuse about who you are talking about must not really pay attention to Trump when he does it too (but I bet he does).
 
Pound4abrown said:
Bolded= Nope.
Non-bolded= Yup.
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One thing the MSM does to people is to make them believe what they believe, like an evangelical continually pounding on their child that there is a hell.
 
Citizen said:
Trump is the only president in history that is connected to so many “wise guys” and mafia types and he is the lesser of the two evils?
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The leftists propaganda artists sure are wagging the dog.
 
Lovebug said:
I am not denying that he bloopers. Some people just aren't snappy talkers. BTW, I am not a Biden supporter.
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Acknowledged. Which is why you would like a weak candidate to run against your favorite
 
haymarket said:
I know what you mean. We should develop a poll on what day next week she quits the race. I would take Wednesday.

If Biden wins the nomination, she moves to the short list for the VP slot.
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I can see her as a valid VP candidate based on where she is from, she would need to deliver (or help deliver) Wisconsin among other things.
I say she is out by Sat.
 
What aren't any of these threads titled "Buttigeig pulls out"?
 
Paradoxical said:
What were his accomplishments as president? Anyone have a clue?
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Well, not being a con-artist, is up there. But it is irrelevant what his accomplishments were, as you'd never concede a point.
 
I've seen it said that Butt had to drop out because he ran out of Obama speeches to crib.
 
bubbabgone said:
I've seen it said that Butt had to drop out because he ran out of Obama speeches to crib.
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Well, that is definitely why Melania stopped giving speeches. I give ol' Pete the same credit as I do her.
 
Pound4abrown said:
Well. That explains a lot. No wonder you're so puckered up about it.
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I'm not puckered up about anything, except trying to reason with the morally-challenged, carnal-minded, stiff-necked crowd.
 
Ikari said:
This thread should be about Buttigieg quitting, not sure how it got so far off topic here.

Regardless, I can't help but think that someone got to Buttigieg, I don't see a reason for him to have quit before Super Tuesday. He won Iowa, he came in a close second in NH, he had more delegates than Biden at this point. But he ups and quits. I think this is largely because the DNC doesn't want Sanders and they didn't want Buttigieg and Biden splitting up the moderate vote. So I think someone got to Pete, and convinced him to bow out. Probably promising political returns in the future. Likely nothing illegal, but it's still shady and underhanded.

I was never going to vote for Sanders, but I will say that if this is the way the DNC does things, they deserve to lose. Unfortunately, they'll be running against Trump and the Republic cannot afford to have the Democrats lose. Wish our fate were in the hands of a party that was far more competent.
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Ah. You raise a point I raised elsewhere yesterday. (Biden said he'd support Bernie if he got the nod.)
Doesn't that mean you know Bernie and Socialism are bad for the Republic but you still believe he would be better for the Republic than Trump?
If not, why not?
And if so, Bernie being better than Trump is clearly preposterous so wouldn't it also suggest you'd be putting your Party above the Republic?
 
Paradoxical said:
So, the top 20%? Anyone here who couldn't do that?
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I doubt 9 in 100 on this board could get into Harvard law-even with say an affirmative action break. Like it or not, graduating MCL from HLS is pretty impressive.
 
Pound4abrown said:
Well, that is definitely why Melania stopped giving speeches. I give ol' Pete the same credit as I do her.
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Could be. But she wasn't doing the full Obama impersonation complete with mannerisms and faux sincerity.
 
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Paradoxical said:
What were his accomplishments as president? Anyone have a clue?
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1 – Rescued the country from the Great Recession, cutting the unemployment rate from 10% to 4.7% over six years

2 – Signed the Affordable Care Act which provided health insurance to over 20 million uninsured Americans

3 – Ended the war in Iraq

4 – Ordered for the capture and killing of Osama Bin Laden

5 – Passed the $787 billion America Recovery and Reinvestment Act to spur economic growth during the Great Recession

6 – Supported the LGBT community's fight for marriage equality

7 – Commuted the sentences of nearly 1200 drug offenders to reverse “unjust and outdated prison sentences"

8 – Saved the U.S. auto industry

9 – Helped put the U.S. ontrack for energy independence by 2020

10 – Began the drawdown of troops in Afghanistan

11 – Signed the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals allowing as many as 5 million people living in the U.S. illegally to avoid deportation and receive work permits

12 –Signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to re-regulate the financial sector

13 – Dropped the veteran homeless rate by 50 percent

14 – Reversed Bush-era torture policies

15 – Began the process of normalizing relations with Cuba

16 – Increased Department of Veteran Affairs funding

17 – Signed the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure Act

18 – Boosted fuel efficiency standards for cars

19 – Improved school nutrition with the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act

20 – Repealed the military's “Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy

21 – Signed the Hate Crimes Prevention Act, making it a federal crime to assault anyone based on sexual or gender identification

22 – Helped negotiate the landmark Iran Nuclear Deal

23 – He signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to combat pay discrimination against women

24 – Nominated Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, making her the first Hispanic ever to serve as a justice

25 – Supported veterans through a $78 billion tuition assistance GI bill

26 – Launched My Brother's Keeper, a White House initiative designed to help young minorities achieve their full potential

27 – Expanded embryonic stem cell research leading to groundbreaking work in areas including spinal injury treatment and cancer

To name a few. You may not like these things, but that doesn't mean they are not things he did.
 
Logicman said:
I'm not puckered up about anything, except trying to reason with the morally-challenged, carnal-minded, stiff-necked crowd.
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Right, so you're puckered up about it. Admitting it is your first step to salvation.
 
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