Do you follow politics?

[alex_]

Sometimes, if there is a big event, like immigration reform and Obama is talking.

[suzy1124]

Sometimes, if there is a big event, like immigration reform and Obama is talking.

correction: Obama is READING...

[Carla Hurst-Chandler]

Yes. I am very politically active. Both locally and nationally. And also realize that every President since teleprompters came into being has used one. They are all reading.

[suzy1124]

Right you are!...it's all a matter of " degree " some are more dependent than others...........

Not everyone can be a JFK or a Ronald Reagan............

[NateHyphen]

America, and Americans, tends to want to carry the weight of the World on our
shoulders. That's a very bad idea. America is a country. My country. It has defined
borders and sovereignty. The Congress and President have betrayed the original
intent of Our Founders ever since Kennedy became President. Even patriotic Presidents
like Reagan and Nixon signed on to NAFTA. Giving American jobs away is not Patriotic.
I've said that the American Congress is the most objectionable group of people since
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Truman knew what it took to end the War the Japs started. Nuclear death. The guy with the nice suntan occupying the White House hasn't got the guts to do the same thing to Libya. You murder our Ambassador and you don't get to murder anybody anymore. That means everything libyan goes nuclear. Those are an inkling of Meiner Politik. Sherman called it "scorched earth."

[suzy1124]

Or as Billary Clinton said at the Benghazi hearing in re to the deaths of 4 patriots ( incl. the ambassador ) in that shrill voice of hers : " what difference does it make ? "...

[NateHyphen]

Schatze: Du bist richtish. Everybody's reluctant to use the word "appeasement."
But that's what it is. Some infamous appeasers: Joe Kennedy, Neville Chamberlain,
Jimmy Carter, The Clintons. And the present occupant of the White House, the guy
with the nice suntan. Some of their infamous submissions to tyranny include: A
boycott of the 1980 Olympics to protest Russia's murder of our Ambassador to
Afghanistan. Apologizing for a documentary by an American filmmaker that was
critical of Mohammed, the patron of an alarming number of inmates incarcerated in
the Federal BOP. The apology was made as our Embassies in Cairo and Tunisia lay
in ashes, the handiwork of groups of arabs loyal to the aforementioned patron. The
epiphany was made again by the same speaker, a vile woman with blood on her hands,
as part of her summary of the events of that week. Which included Ambassador Stevens' assassination. If you guessed Jimmy Carter and Hillary Clinton, good for you.
Those are the appeasers profiled.

[suzy1124]

And so it goes...

[Carla Hurst-Chandler]

In order to grasp National politics it is useful to have at least a rudimentary understanding of International politics. The two are fairly interwoven, as we become more and more globalized.

[sierrabracherthomas]

I love politics however you are right about people getting too emotional. I enjoy the debate perhaps more than anything else. I love to figure out why people think the way that they do and what sociological theories I can connect to their thoughts. I'm weird I guess

[suzy1124]

I love politics however you are right about people getting too emotional. I enjoy the debate perhaps more than anything else. I love to figure out why people think the way that they do and what sociological theories I can connect to their thoughts. I'm weird I guess

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Not weird, " analytical "

[Carla Hurst-Chandler]

What a circle-jerk in Africa (Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Nigeria) over the Ebola outbreak. And people complain about the government in The States. Instead of containing the outbreak in March when there were only 26 cases/deaths and it as only located in one country...they have played politics and refuse to do a strict quarantine and prohibit travel to/from the originally affected area. Now there are 4 countries affected...600+ dead...and they are following over a thousand contacts. Bang up job, guys. Playing politics instead of saving lives and preventing the spread.

[suzy1124]

Take your pick:

" Washington is Hollywood for ugly ppl " OR

"Politics is show business for ugly ppl "

[Carla Hurst-Chandler]

In American politics it is baffling to see people actively vote against their best interests. While we are busy infighting they (collectively) are passing laws to infringe on our freedoms/rights...or laughing all the way to the bank while busy telling us not to "pay attention to that man (those people) behind the curtain. Voter ignorance and apathy is rampant here with many mindlessly voting instead of taking time to research where the candidates stand or (worse) not bothering to get off the sofa and vote at all. Our taxes pay these people's inflated salaries. We ELECT them. We are their employers. Instead of voting brand-recognition or who looks the best...et al....we need to get back to voting for the person best suited for the job. And fire those who refuse to do the job we elected them to do.

[suzy1124]

Would You Work For This Company?

Do you fancy working for a company that has a little more than 500 employees and has the following statistics?:

* 29 have been accused of spousal abuse
* 7 have been arrested for fraud
* 19 have been accused of writing bad checks
* 117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
* 3 have done time for assault
* 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
* 14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
* 8 have been arrested for shoplifting
* 21 are currently defendants in lawsuits
* 84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year ...


Can you guess which organization this is?

Given up yet?








It's the 535 members of the United States Congress. The same group that cranks out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us in line.