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…both on American spoil and around the world.
Uhh…
Asked if Sanders still believes climate change greatest is the gravest national security threat…
Whoa…
…you’re going to see counties all over the world…
Really?
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Other way around, innit?
No, he’s got it right.
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Bernie just made the best point so far – that out of our huge defense budget, currently less than 10% goes to fighting international terrorism. If international terrorism is the number one national security threat we’re facing in today’s world, shouldn’t we be putting more than 10% of our defense resources into fighting that threat?
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In my vision I see a shining future when Hillary backers and Bernie backers work together – and TPM hires a proofreader.
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Your vision is beautiful and brought a tear to my tired eyes.
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But they’ll have lots of oil, which we will pay for handsomely.
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In my vision I see a shining future when Hillary backers and Bernie backers work together – and TPM hires a proofreader.
I think the chances of the former happening are far greater than the chances of the latter happening.
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God willing, if that happens, what a Blessing.
Editing comments aside for a moment…
This was an absolutely horrible part of the debate for all candidates. 24 hours after a major terrorist attack on an ally, what America heard from the Democratic party was a great deal of prevarication…lots of “well, under these circumstances…maybe, but under those circumstances…maybe not”. Not a one of them presented themselves as strong and willing to stand by what they said.
And the crowd was absolutely silent. Possibly because they were sensing the same sense of horror that I was.
That was a disaster for the Democratic party. I only hope that any and all of the candidates can quickly correct course and take a stance…and freaking stand by it, whatever it is.
I was surprised by Hillary’s weak performance in this part of the debate. She was supposed to be the big winner of having this issue front and center, but I thought she looked like she was really struggling through a lot of it. I don’t think either of the others really shone in this segment either, but there was less expectation that they would.
There’s no fool like a doddering old socialist fool.
I’d do it - specific rates and terms negotiable. Jeebus.
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I think Bernie’s comment was good in that it presented climate change not as some esoteric, academic abstraction, but as a real threat, in concrete terms, to everyday life.
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Sanders was absolutely right and I admire him for saying it.
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Sanders deserves our thanks for bringing this up in the political discourse.
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It was a good answer to a somewhat loaded question. Sanders took the either or question and calmly explained the interaction of the two.
Way back on early Earth, plants took the excess carbon (dioxide) from the atmosphere and transformed it into biomass which in turn became vast deposits of coal and petroleum. The dioxide part was released as oxygen and made animal life possible. The people who are hell bent on turning that carbon back into CO2 are much worse than terrorists. They know perfectly well that what they are doing leads to human extinction.
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NAH!.. we must prepare to fight a WWII type war… is that not always the case prepare to fight the last war then be surprised that things changed over time… more tanks, more tanks, more tanks, we need more rust in the fields of Alabama and other storage areas.
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Given this reality, any of the Democratic candidates represent the Planet’s best hope.
Regardless of optics.
The fact that this reality is still downplayed is
(a) not good for attracting support of Independents for the Democratic Party
(b) an example of Journalistic malpractice at best, criminal negligence at worst…but, then again,
the bosses want a good HorseRace
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