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Quote by: Chancellor The tears were crocodile tears and they had their desired effect - a bunch of women felt sorry for her and gave her the pity vote. |
I seem to recall another well known ocassion when a candidate teared up in New Hampshire.. and it cost him the election. Edmund Muskee. Surely a candidate as politically astute as Clinton would avoid that, right? These candidates have been going at it longer than any Presidential campaign in history.
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Quote by: Jubloz Which is why I'm not registered with either party. Unfortunately, there's still no 3rd party candidate, as far as I've noticed, that's both of quality and is running in this election. |
There's all kinds of
political parties in America, Jubloz. But since the Democrats and Republicans represent pretty much the American political mainstream, that means the others represent the political fringes.
Which means you can either vote for a radical fruitcake, or accept the fact that the kind of person who wants to run for mainstream party political office, and is willing to endure the election process to do so, will probably not be someone you particularly like.
As a wise cohort on another board once put it, politics doesn't attract nice people... it attracts ambitious, lying scoundrels. We here in America are lucky, however, in that we've evolved a Constitutional Democratic Republic that makes use of their best attributes -- drive, vision, the desire to succeed and do some good, etc. -- while putting checks and balances on their worst attributes -- greed, naked ambition, lust for power, etc.
No, it sure ain't perfect... but then, anyone here wanna claim to be perfect?
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Quote by: xyzer I dunno about you, but I don't trust emotional women with rational decision making? |
Sure wish you folks would make up your minds... all this time Hillary's been accused of being too cold and calculating, of being an emotionless android. Suddenly, she catches her throat for a split second from a personal question that apparently touched a button and she's now "an emotional woman" incapable of rational decision making. Go figure.
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