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I don't know if there will be a candidate in the 2016 Presidential election for whom I will reluctantly vote but I already know some for whom I won't vote.

In an effort to help Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton is fully supporting Hillary's efforts to change his criminal justice policies.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/06/politics/bill-clinton-crime-prisons-hillary-clinton/

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I read that he thought the question was phrased as:

Knowing what we knew then vice Knowing what we know now

Which makes no fuckin sense to me at all. No reporter would phrase a hypothetical question like that.

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You got that right, DD. Here's another one...

https://www.yahoo.com/politics/lindsey-graham-i-am-running-because-the-world-is-119274762516.html

If the Republicans would TRY to find someone that isn't pandering to the evangelicals or gun lobby, they might have a chance.

They should be begging Nicole Wallace to take a shot at it. If not 2016, then 2020.

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Media darling Marco fumbles yet again. And as always, the Beltway, which has been pining for him for nearly a decade now, tries to get him out of it.

Countdown to him blasting Chris Wallace as part of the great lamestream media conspiracy.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/05/18/this-is-the-most-painful-180-seconds-of-marco-rubios-presidential-campaign-so-far/

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LOL :-)

Rubio needs to sit his self-righteous ass down.

We have the largest military in the world. We're spending millions on the next gen F fighter jet. And he wants to spend MORE?? it sure as hell does not make the world safer. Did our military might stop the 9/11 attackers? Hell no. Is it going to stop another terrorist attack? Hell no. He's delusional.

And I had to lol when he said he wants to protect religious minorities. He meant CHRISTIAN religious minorities. He doesn't give a [!@#$%^&*] about the others.

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And to the people who still insist that we are somehow living in a post racial society:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/22/us/politics/obamas-twitter-debut-potus-attracts-hate-filled-posts.html

but I guess someone will claim that this is "playing the race card" whatever the heck that's supposed to mean.

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