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I think once by Condi and maybe once by McCain? Not often.
If you watched the convention, you might be forgiven for thinking the years 2001-2009 never existed. Or perhaps that they were run by a Democratic super-majority.
I haven't a clue. But even if he took them for 50 to 47, that's not a very strong record to be flopping around on stage with. Like Chris Christie and his 48th place finish.
I'm weirdly kind of bummed Hillary's not speaking considering my feelings about her four years ago around now. I know she's busy doing useful stuff, but other cabinet secretaries are!
Has an incumbent president ever not secured the nomination?
Honestly curious.
LBJ sort of. He would have lost so badly he didn't even run. Before that... Andrew Johnson, I think.
Carter, Ford, and Taft faced very strong challengers (Ted Kennedy, Reagan, and TR respectively) and held on. Of course, TR ran anyway and gave us Wilson, so thanks for that Teddy.
You can't have him.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-maher-takes-on-dinesh-dsouza-over-anti-obama-documentary-2016/
If we had the alternative vote, that wouldn't have happened!
I cannot stand him.
I had never heard of Dinesh D’Souza before seeing this interview and, from what I experienced, I haven't been missing anything of substance or consequence.
It's really bizarre that anyone still uses "anticolonial" as a pejorative.
He was never put into nomination really. And refused to run for a third term on the third party the subset of Democrats he led created. So I'm not sure he counts.
Then again that might just be the single most Republican thing someone could do.
Everything I know about him is based on the wikipedia article on his movie 2016:The NObamaing (or the Obummering?) and he sounds fucking crazy. Not like, loony toons, but speculates and then draws odd conclusions from his odd speculations. It basically boils down to Im an immigrant and I love America! He spent time outside the US and now he hates it! and then he draws conclusions from there.
EDIT: After watching the Maher clip D'Souza appears to be a total dickbag and I dont think my analysis was totally off the mark.
And D'Souza saying Dreams of my Father actually means Obama was writing a book about his fathers dreams is fucking crazy. You know, because if you get past the cover you find out its a book about a kid seeking to learn about the father he never knew.
How was he a nominee anyway? "Well Blacks are polling 0% for Romney because they didn't bother to interview anybody that wasn't a degenerate unemployed stereotype."
Herman Cain, you are BLACK.
Also "Well I don't disagree with the intent or wording of the law regarding the Welfare Waivers but there is def something wrong with it because...OBAMA"
I was kind of curious what he meant by Obama's "rage".
And as mentioned above, yeah, I just can't take someone seriously who bandies about "anti-colonialism" as though it was a damning character trait.
Well see, hes black therefore rage.
He gets all Charles Bronson up in the White House you see.
I have no idea what the fuck that guy was talking about.
This post did not get the love it deserves, and sir i think you are not as confused as your forum handle would have us believe
True, but it seems to me that he and his allies were planning to put him in until it became clear that he was never winning the nomination (which was early in the convention with the adoption of a plank condemning the Cleveland admin for its role in breaking up the Pullman strike). Nomination hopefuls typically didn't attend the convention during this time period (Jennings broke with that tradition). His (unsuccessful) attempt to regain labor's support with the declaration of labor day also speaks to his plans for reelection, in my view.
Patriotism, as the far-right would champion it, is arguably a virtue of collective action and communality. One isn't a supporter of his or her nation in the terms of an individual relationship, because that is not what a nation is and that is not what any meaning of patriotism could possibly support. Patriotism is the pride and faith in one's country and their fellow countrymen; the latter is a communal association that hopefully need not be further delineated, while the former, once examined at even a cursory level, recalls an affiliation and cooperation bound by the rule of law.
Patriotism is the antithesis of individualism.
at least he apologized for that at the end
the thing about not answering phones was embarrassing and also obviously dumb. like even if you concede the incredibly racist point he was going for... what about all these other polls that somehow manage to contact people with jobs
IMO, if I was a terrorist and figured I couldn't hit New York with a dirty bomb, I'd aim for some place like Bangor or Shreveport. In some ways, that'd be worse than hitting one of the megacities - it wouldn't be possible for people to say "I'm safe here in small town America."
I'd also like to point out that though this looks at all NA reserves, there's no guarantee that we Canadians are willing to sell you all of our oil. In some ways, it makes more sense for Canada to build the Northern Gateway Pipelines to British Columbia, so we wouldn't be held hostage to the America market.
Unless of course Romney plans to annex Canada.
Eva Longoria is an Obama campaign co-chair?
Dubya did endorse Romney (what a surprise). The difference is he's not doing it on the national stage, unlike Bill Clinton or Jimmy Carter. Which you're right, is very telling about how Romney wants to keep a distance from him.
Cain has no reason to do that anymore. Not when he was no longer a contender in the Republican primaries. Now he's cashing in on his fame and having fun rubbing it in to the GOP who rejected him.
I had this same thought but then remembered that Kal Penn quit acting (for the most part) to join Obama's staff a couple years back.
Obama is the 13th Regeneration of The Doctor, and used the TARDIS to ruin America by pulling a full Kazran on the noble President Bush.
I see a lot of people answering this question with kindasorta and almosts, but I don't think I saw anyone mention Willard Fillmore, who really and truly actually was an incumbent President (from 1850 through 1853) and failed to secure the nomination of his party (the Whigs, who were deeply divided over the issue of slavery and decided to nominate some guy who got blown out of the water by Franklin Pierce). It was the death knell of the Whig Party and eventually gave way to the rise of the Republicans.
It's an overview of critical coverage of the "our campaign won't be run by fact checkers" thing.
To be fair to Romney, you can't blame everything on him as Governor. He was a bad Governor, don't get me wrong. He literally spent most of the last year, year and a half of his single term outside the state running for President.
But the Governor in Massachusetts is among the weakest executives at the state level in the country, and it was more so when Romney was running things. A lot of executive power has been removed to independent commissions or the independently elected Governor's Council. And the Dems in the Legislature have veto proof majorities easily (80% in both chambers).
Romney's record was middling in terms of how the state did at that time. When he came in, 9/11 and the dot-com bubble had hurt the state. By the time he left it was normalized but it didn't have much to do with him. So the 47th in job creation is completely accurate but a bit harsh. I think it was about that level when he started, and right in the middle when he ended(like 25th), but the combined ranking over those four years was 47th. Romneycare was something he was much more a key player in than most of matters of government at the time, but even that was modified fairly heavily by the Legislature (if not any of the primary controversial components that passed to the ACA we hear about today). And he supported the overall law, although he did veto several parts (Republican vetoes were almost always overridden as they were here).
Romney had very little power to stop the Legislature when they wanted something
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Yeah not planning it doesn't make it substantially better than planning something bad.
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Like I would be less stunned to learn that Toy Story 3 was a documentary.
Later
"I have no idea how that could have gone so poorly."