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Wash. state Desk Jet

(3,426 posts)
Fri Jan 15, 2016, 01:16 AM Jan 2016

Muslims,guns,Obama and Hillary,republicans squabble in first debate of the year

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Source: UK Daily Mail

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama took the first incoming from Republicans on Thursday night
Donald Trump did not get the first questions, waiting to speak until Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, John Kasich and Chris Christie and Jeb Bush had spoken
'Hillary Clinton is disqualified from being commander-in-chief of the United States,' said Rubio; 'If I'm the nominee, she won't get within 10 miles of the White House,' Christie pledged
Cruz and Trump sparred over the legality of the Canadian-born Cruz being a 'natural born citizen,' with Rubio slamming the argument as 'Court TV'
Christie boomed at Obama, calling him a 'petulant child' and saying 'we are going to kick your rear end out of the White House come this fall'
Rand Paul partisans briefly disrupted the event with shouts of 'We want Rand!' after the low-polling senator was shoved off the main stage
By DAVID MARTOSKO, US POLITICS EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM IN NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. and FRANCESCA CHAMBERS, WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT FOR DAILYMAIL.COM IN NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C.
PUBLISHED: 21:28 EST, 14 January 2016 | UPDATED: 23:31 EST, 14 January 2016


Donald Trump was center stage Thursday night but didn't grab the nation's attention right away during the first Republican presidential debate of the year.
Instead, his GOP rivals grabbed the early spotlight with jabs and slaps at President Barack Obama – and a full-on assault against Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio declared Clinton 'wouldn't just be a disaster. Hillary Clinton is disqualified from being commander-in-chief of the United States.'
'Someone who can not handle intelligence material appropriately cannot be commander-in-chief,' he said.
'And someone who lies to the families of those four victims in Benghazi can never be president of the Unites States.'

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush carped about Clinton's classified email scandal and predicted that during her first 100 days in the Oval Office 'she might be going back and forth between the court house and the White House.'
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie pledged that if he were nominated by the GOP, he would easily beat Clinton.
'If I'm the nominee, she won't get within 10 miles of the White House,' he pledged.
GHOST IN THE ROOM: Hillary Clinton was targeted early but was 750 miles away in New York City after taping an episode of The
Tonight Show
Clinton currently owns a home in Washington, D.C., less than 2 miles from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Other candidates who spoke in the debate's opening minutes focused their fire on Obama.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz blasted the White House for its handling of this week's military capture crisis in Iran, saying that under his leadership, 'any nation that captures our fighting men and women will feel the full force and fury of the United States of America.'
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie zinged the president by calling Tuesday night's State of the Union address 'Story Time with Barack Obama,' saying Obama painted a too-rosy picture of America's stability and strength.
'I gotta tell you, it sounded like everything in the world was going amazing, you know?' he scoffed.
Christie later called Obama 'a petulant child. That's what he is.'

Saying he hoped Obama was watching, he pointed a finger at TV cameras and declared that Americans had rejected his policies after seven tough years.
'We are going to kick your rear end out of the White House come this fall,' Christie boomed.
Bush said Obama's optimism from Tuesday night was unwarranted, and that the president was living in 'totally an alternative universe. The simple fact is that the world has been torn asunder.'
'In this administration, every weapons system has been gutted, he claimed.









Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3400469/Hilary-Obama-Republicans-sights-GOP-debate-kicks-questions-DON-T-Trump.html









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Muslims,guns,Obama and Hillary,republicans squabble in first debate of the year (Original Post) Wash. state Desk Jet Jan 2016 OP
They seem to all be running against term limited Barack Obama. Feeling the Bern Jan 2016 #1
Agree Wash. state Desk Jet Jan 2016 #3
ugh vadermike Jan 2016 #2
Something to see Wash. state Desk Jet Jan 2016 #4
They remind me of Turbineguy Jan 2016 #5
The lone star loser Wash. state Desk Jet Jan 2016 #6
That's a brilliant cover. tabasco Jan 2016 #8
It's frightening to see what the republican party has become. tabasco Jan 2016 #7
Two things can happen ,one or both. Wash. state Desk Jet Jan 2016 #9
A Chris Christie to think about Wash. state Desk Jet Jan 2016 #10
Article from CNN- Don't shed a tear for drop dead Ted Wash. state Desk Jet Jan 2016 #11

Wash. state Desk Jet

(3,426 posts)
3. Agree
Fri Jan 15, 2016, 02:01 AM
Jan 2016

Chris Christarini looks very much like the mob guy he is in the picture tonight. Kicking people out of house and home, indeed,that is just how those mobsters make their money.

vadermike

(1,415 posts)
2. ugh
Fri Jan 15, 2016, 01:59 AM
Jan 2016

I just hope not enough people are stupid enough to beleive all these lies and get one of these jerks elected otherwose , people will really see what it is like for the country to go down for the count...

Wash. state Desk Jet

(3,426 posts)
9. Two things can happen ,one or both.
Fri Jan 15, 2016, 06:05 PM
Jan 2016

It will melt down or implode and or both. What happens after that is up for debate. Some see it as an opening for the creation of a new party or a third party ,others see it as a way to rebuild. On the second the concept being let it fall to the ground than rebuilt it back up giving it a new face. You know, like the phoenix rising up out of the ash. there is plenty of denial in the mix !

Tis a grand old flag, but the GOP has lost it's funk ! The thing to remember is the last thing this country needs is a one party system.

Wash. state Desk Jet

(3,426 posts)
10. A Chris Christie to think about
Fri Jan 15, 2016, 06:18 PM
Jan 2016


Wonder of masculinity
Superman himself
As good or better than the next man
But truly faceless
Chris Christie never had face to lose.

Wash. state Desk Jet

(3,426 posts)
11. Article from CNN- Don't shed a tear for drop dead Ted
Fri Jan 15, 2016, 09:39 PM
Jan 2016
http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/15/politics/new-york-daily-news-cruz-cover/index.html

New York's flippin' mad


CNN)There's little love lost between Ted Cruz and New York City.

On Friday, the feud between the Texas senator and America's largest city escalated when the New York Daily News told Cruz, in bold, headline font on the front page of the paper: "Drop dead, Ted."

"Hey Cruz: you don't like N.Y. values? Go back to Canada!" the cover read, with an image of the Statue of Liberty giving the middle finger.


Though Trump and Cruz have been jabbing each other on several issues for days, the Texas senator launched the first volley on this line of attack when he criticized Donald Trump for embodying "New York values" in an interview on a New Hampshire radio show. He repeated the attack throughout the week on Fox News and on the stage of the sixth Republican presidential debate Thursday night hosted by the Fox Business Network.

During Thursday night's debate, Trump delivered a withering rebuke to Cruz's attack, praising New York City's resilience after 9/11.




"I saw something that no place on earth could have handled more beautifully, more humanely than New York," Trump said. "The people of New York fought and fought and fought. We saw more death and even the smell of death and it was with us for months."

"We rebuilt downtown Manhattan and everybody in the world watched and everybody in the world loved New York and loved New Yorkers," he continued. "And I have to tell you, that was a very insulting statement that Ted made."

Cruz defended his comments at the debate saying that the American people understood what he meant.

"I think most people know exactly what New York values are: socially liberal, pro-gay marriage, pro-abortion, focused on money and the media," he said.

By Friday night, Cruz was featuring the Daily News cover in a fundraising pitch to supporters.

"It's getting bad," according to the email, which is signed by Cruz's wife, Heidi. "Time is running short before the Iowa Caucus and we are being attacked from every angle by the liberal media. Look no further then the obscenity featured on this morning's cover of the New York Daily News telling Ted to 'Drop Dead!'"

New York Daily News ✔@NYDailyNews
Today's @NYDailyNews Cover: There's just no 'value' to @tedcruz's criticism of ‘NY Values' http://nydn.us/1RK368t
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