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NoJusticeNoPeace

(5,018 posts)
1. GOP can shut the fuck up and stay out of the adults way...that is what they can do
Sun Mar 15, 2015, 06:37 PM
Mar 2015

Talks may fail, what is very important is we do NOT allow a non Democrat in the WH...

 

Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)
2. We can surely set our sights a little higher than just "non-Republican" yes?
Sun Mar 15, 2015, 06:40 PM
Mar 2015

I mean why would we be satisfied with the absolute bare minimum?

 

Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)
7. Who said anything about "not a democrat"?
Sun Mar 15, 2015, 06:48 PM
Mar 2015

I'm simply saying that our goals should maybe be a little higher than the absolute bare minimum.

Chemisse

(30,817 posts)
4. We can set our sights as high as we want.
Sun Mar 15, 2015, 06:44 PM
Mar 2015

But at the end of the day, we all need to get out and vote to keep the Republicans out of the White House, no matter how we feel about our candidate.

NoJusticeNoPeace

(5,018 posts)
9. For sure, personally I like Al Franken, but wont happen. Bernie Sanders too, but wont happen
Sun Mar 15, 2015, 06:52 PM
Mar 2015

However whoever the Dem candidate is I will fight for her as if my life depends on it










cuz it very well may

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
10. Truth, that. And they will still be pining for Armageddon, what else have they got to do?
Sun Mar 15, 2015, 06:55 PM
Mar 2015

The Armageddon Party should just get on with splitting from the GOP.

If Israel can have 11 parties with representation in a national legislature, how come America gets stuck trying to cram all folks and their political and religious beliefs into 2?

sadoldgirl

(3,431 posts)
11. Totally correct, and yet
Sun Mar 15, 2015, 07:00 PM
Mar 2015

they cannot bring themselves to authorize the
President's bombing of ISIS.

Well, I suppose that could imply taking responsibility.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
6. If the US was the only country negotiating the might be able to control the negotiations, we aren't.
Sun Mar 15, 2015, 06:48 PM
Mar 2015

Without the other country leaving the sanctions we don't have a big hammer to throw. Someone should tell Cotton the US is going it alone this time.

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