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“This is a time of great challenges for our country, but also of great opportunities. I intend to speak about both,” she said in a statement.
If you are responding to a speech that you haven’t heard yet, how do you know what you will say?
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Stay thirsty my friend.
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I’m guessing her response is already written.
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She will speak of her incredible bravery in removing the Confederate flag even though the CEOs in SC had no problem with it.
What I can tell you is over the last three and a half years, I spent a lot of my days on the phones with CEOs and recruiting jobs to this state. I can honestly say I have not had one conversation with a single CEO about the Confederate flag
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I look forward to Nimrata coming clean about her affair with a GOP blogger 
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That gig is kind of the kiss of death, no?
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If she can hit this one out of the park, she stands a good chance landing a roll as VP on a loosing GOP ticket. Break a leg I say.
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Her husband better be standing to the side, otherwise this woman should not be allowed to speak.
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I’m a Southern boy and it’s pretty popular here to receive a nickname when you’re a youngster. The nickname tends to be a shorter version of or related to your first name. How do you get Nikki from Nimrata and Bobby from Piyush? Piyush used to watch “The Brady Bunch” and was named after the character “Bobby.” How did Nikki Haley get her nickname?
Also, did they swear the oath to governorship using their official names? Or their nicknames?
Edit: @tiowally has informed me that Nikki is Gov. Haley’s middle name. I take back my snarky comment directed at her name. Governor Haley, my apologies. I am sorry.
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Mr. Nimrata should speak first, introducing her then verbally make it clear he is allowing her to speak.
“Well, her career is fucked already. So we’re breaking the streak. Right?”
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It’s already written for her
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She’ll fail the same way as the others. Part of it’s the lack of anything valuable to offer the American people along with the need to evoke some fading myth of the country’s halcyon times.
I thought McMorris Rogers was the least absurd and pathetic (from what little I actually saw) if only because she seemed to try her best and spit out the canned absurdity with as much sincerity as she could. I think she knew she was the “goat” and just wanted it over and done with.
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“well back in the day, it was expected that anyone with a non Christian name needed to change it for the good of the ‘community’.”
Another explanation is that she copped that name (Nikki) from that time at cheerleader camp; but imagine the poor ‘escaped fish’.
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Great minds think alike…
The rebuttal in a nutshell: “Look how bad everything is because we’ve been keeping it that way by doing nothing so we could blame it on Obama and, of course, the idea that government is simply and always broken. He is clearly a very weak and horrible POTUS because he was unable to stop us from throwing a 7 year tantrum. If you want government to finally start doing something, don’t elect another weak Dem. That will just mean 4 more years of us doing nothing other than throwing tantrums. Instead, elect one of us and we’ll cut the crap and move on the actually doing things, even though you may not like them and they have already been proven by the historical record to make things worse. But hey, at least we’ll be doing something and putting a happy face on it, right?”
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I thought human shields were against the Geneva convention.
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Indeed. These things always have a sort of disjointed unresponsive feel to them, and I don’t care which party is doing it. It’s fucking silliness.
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LOL. I can fully attest to the older days when nearly everyone had a “Christian name.” In grade school, a teacher asked me what my “Christian name” was. At first, I had no idea what that really meant. I’d heard the term for years but didn’t really know what it meant. My response to her was my mom never gave me one. She started laughing. Then she asked me what my proper name was. Click – light went on.
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