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ORIGINAL: cyberdude611

The president is ELECTED through the electoral college. He is not appointed.

The reason why he is elected in this fashion is because the founding fathers believed that the average voter is an idiot. And they are right.
Do you count yourself among these idiots or is it just those who disagree with you who are idiots?

Just look at the latest Obama-craze. You ask an Obama supporter why they like him and 9 out of 10 will say, "Uh....I like how he talks...."

It's not wonder how dictators like Hugo Chavez and Putin get elected...
It would appear that Chavez was elected to the presidency of Venezuela twice because he took private land of the rich by eminent domain and gave it to the not rich.  Where as in our country the government takes private land from the not rich by force of eminent domain and gives it to the rich.

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

nope, you came out here once again with a pontification that is 'felt' but not 'seen'

you do the irrefutable once, I did it last time you astounded us with your military expertise and you said in effect, I don't care what the US military operational plans and forcasts were, I know different, because it is how I feel.

So your turn.

Ron

I have called you out and you cannot produce any evidence to disprove the facts I put forth.

What you know is very little, all you do is spit out the talking points of the Democratic party. Like I have said before until you can actually prove I am wrong, which you have yet to do, don't bother responding.

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail
Fact:  you are not in possession of any sort of manners, you seek to belittle anyone who points out to you any sort of flaw in your buncombe.

That's a fact, Jack.

Ron  

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ORIGINAL: cyberdude611

The president is ELECTED through the electoral college. He is not appointed.

The reason why he is elected in this fashion is because the founding fathers believed that the average voter is an idiot.

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

I am with Rich at the 100% level, that is what it is, that is why,  there was no jerrymandering in those days, no spin, politics was not sound bites, wasn't looked on as a way to fuck a segment of the population over.........

There was a time when high thoughts were thought, the only thing considered was how it should be when good was good and right was right, and the constitution and the election process and politics as a whole as it was thought of in those days, assumed that people wanted to serve, to have and hold altruistic motives for the good of our country,  to do the right thing and to be fair and square in all their dealings, and of course it is all quite naieve.

Ron

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

Fact: you are not a high school physics teacher.
Fact: you have no no more insight into the military workings than any other fellow that served as a cook.
Fact: you have yet to produce anything approaching the wisp of the essence of a fact.
Fact: you are an atrocious speller, and you haven't the least glimmer of logic or argument.
Fact:  You say look at me look at me, I am so smart, when indeed the opposite appears to be the case.
Fact:  you are not in possession of any sort of manners, you seek to belittle anyone who points out to you any sort of flaw in your buncombe.

Fact: you are the same person that was running around here telling us all about all you understood about asynchronous warfare(you are welcome to dispel that with fact, if it pleases you)

And if you need cites for these to back up the veracity of my assertions, they exist right on this site...so calm your blustering, you have been found out again is all.  

That's a fact, Jack.

Ron  

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Rush Limbaugh tells Texas Republicans to vote for Hillary

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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic

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ORIGINAL: cyberdude611

The president is ELECTED through the electoral college. He is not appointed.

The reason why he is elected in this fashion is because the founding fathers believed that the average voter is an idiot.

         Well, yeah, there was that aspect to it, but they also made a point of allowing the citizenry to keep our guns.
I've been hearing this line increasingly in recent years and it's bullshit.

          The reason we have the Electoral College is to keep the massive population centers from imposing their will on the rest of the country, unrestrained. 
Would you mind explaining just how that works.


It's just as valid and relevant today as when the Founders worked it out.  It's the same reason every state gets two votes in the Senate.
Really...I thought the reason that each state got two votes in the Senate was so that each state had an equal voice in the government.  And that the House of Representatives was based on population so that the populace would have an equal voice in the government.  So just how does that address the Electoral College?

People's priorities are different.  Our present system mandates that you address the concerns and values of more than just the big cities. 
That is clearly taken care of by the House and the Senate.  So please explain just how the Electoral College does this?


Here is a map that might help illustrate.  This was a close election, but the heartland won.
Would you mind putting up a map for each of the presidents that have been elected...do you think it would look the same?
Come on Rich...we are all adults please don't act like you are talking to a room full of fourth graders

Rather than trying to figure out why their message doesn't work in the middle, the Dems try to figure out what's wrong with Kansas.

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ORIGINAL: Owner59

For anyone who doubts he did it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWZEC_yt-wM

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ORIGINAL: luckydog1

How does it, in any way dilute, a persons impact on local politics to vote in the primary or got to a caucus? 

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       2 weeks???  The hostages were in the air about three after he finished his inaugural address.  And yes, Carter's year and a half (444 days to be accurate) of negotiations were not only a waste of time, they are a permanent stain on his legacy.

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For anyone who doubts he did it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWZEC_yt-wM

Oh, I didn't have the least doubt that Limbaugh said this.

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ORIGINAL: Owner59

I was putting it out there in general,friend.Not to you personaly.

Ignore that little reply thingy in the lower-right.It has caused a bit of confusion and doesn`t really matter.