The next generation of Republican candidates (2016)

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I would prefer you make your case rather then me having to decifer it through a link just thrown over the fence. If you refer to a member of Al Qaeda, the way I understand it they declared and have enacted war on the US...no?
How about the constant drone attacks in Pakistan, that continues to kill civilians that are not part of the war in Afghanistan? How about the continued support of Israel, who recently killed children in a shelling and not one peep from the United States or UN on the issue? Do I need to continue?

Palestinians killed as Israel shells Gaza - Middle East - Al Jazeera English

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics...the-killing-of-a-16-year-old-american/264028/

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/abdulrahman-al-awlaki-death-10470891
 
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How about the constant drone attacks in Pakistan, that continues to kill civilians that are not part of the war in Afghanistan? How about the continued support of Israel, who recently killed children in a shelling and not one peep from the United States or UN on the issue? Do I need to continue?

Palestinians killed as Israel shells Gaza - Middle East - Al Jazeera English

The death of civilians is tragic and obviously not intented, but is that murder? That is the one of the points of using drones rather than bombs. Murder, and per the link I gave you, has a legal definition. Is that murder?
 
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The death of civilians is tragic and obviously not intented, but is that murder? That is the one of the points of using drones rather than bombs. Murder, and per the link I gave you, has a legal definition. Is that murder?
Yes it is murder. Try as you may to be an Obama apologist, but he has authorized the killing of more people than even Bush did in 8 years. President Obama even has a kill list of Americans suspected of being terrorists or those who are anti-government. He's sought out people and killed them in countries where we are not even at war with, nor have permission to enter to conduct such operations.
 
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Yes it is murder. Try as you may to be an Obama apologist, but he has authorized the killing of more people than even Bush did in 8 years. President Obama even has a kill list of Americans suspected of being terrorists or those who are anti-government. He's sought out people and killed them in countries where we are not even at war with, nor have permission to enter to conduct such operations.

Yes, I do agree. He is a doing a better job of whacking Al Qaeda, good for him. And if your claim is he has killed more terrorists then Bush, you are correct. Again, good for him.
 
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Yes, I do agree. He is a doing a better job of whacking Al Qaeda, good for him. And if your claim is he has killed more terrorists then Bush, you are correct. Again, good for him.
So assasinating a 16 yr old who is only suspected of being a terrorist is doing a good job? Way to support the murder of citizens who have not been given a fair trial.
 
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So assasinating a 16 yr old who is only suspected of being a terrorist is doing a good job? Way to support the murder of citizens who have not been given a fair trial.

Don't think that was intentional nor he the target
"Yemeni officials said the dead from the strike included Ibrahim al-Banna, the Egyptian media chief for al-Qaeda’s Yemeni affiliate, and also a brother of Fahd al-Quso, a senior al-Qaeda operative who was indicted in New York in the 2000 attack on the USS Cole in the port of Aden"
I would probably wager the target listed above....hence, the USS Cole guy.
 
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Over an affair? C'mon now, Obama has sanctioned murder and he got re-elected. I guess marital affairs trumps murder as far as morality goes in this country.

Obama was re-elected on image not substance.

He might be able to pull it off. It would be hard for democrats to go after him over that after defending Bill Clinton.
 
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The death of civilians is tragic and obviously not intented, but is that murder? That is the one of the points of using drones rather than bombs. Murder, and per the link I gave you, has a legal definition. Is that murder?

Yes. That is murder.

A contract killing to be exact.

Contract killing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A contract killing is a form of murder, in which one party hires another party to kill a target individual or group of people.

The president has a kill list. There is no oversight for this list. Tell me that doesn't bother you.
 
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So assasinating a 16 yr old who is only suspected of being a terrorist is doing a good job? Way to support the murder of citizens who have not been given a fair trial.

Robert Gibbs Says Anwar al-Awlaki's Son, Killed By Drone Strike, Needs 'Far More Responsible Father'

Abdulrahman al-Awlaki was the son of Anwar al-Awlaki, an al Qaeda propagandist killed by a U.S. drone a year ago. But the child was killed in a separate strike some two weeks after his father was killed. Gibbs wasn't entirely familiar with the situation, and didn't know that al-Awlaki's son was killed two weeks after his father was killed, a person familiar with his thinking at the time he was interviewed told HuffPost. We Are Change bills itself as a non-partisan media organization "working to expose corruption."
"I would suggest that you should have a far more responsible father if they are truly concerned about the well being of their children. I don't think becoming an al Qaeda jihadist terrorist is the best way to go about doing your business," Gibbs, the former White House press secretary, told the interviewer from We Are Change, when asked to justify "an American citizen that is being targeted without due process, without trial -- and, he's underage, he's a minor."
 
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I heard on TV yesterday that there's a lot of young, talented Republicans lining up as candidates for 2016. Who are they?

Also, they said the Republican party is in trouble because of all the young minority kids in America growing up.

Maybe the problem can be solved when the Republican candidates no longer look like this?

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Having "alot of young, talented Republicans lining up as candidates for 2016" doesn't mean "squat" if the conservative tail (Tea Party) is still wagging the rest of the GOP.

Women, Hispanics and young adults will constitute an even larger % of the American electorate in 2016, so unless the Republicans are committed to making a dramatic turn toward the center of the economic and social political spectrum, they're "toast!"
 
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Having "alot of young, talented Republicans lining up as candidates for 2016" doesn't mean "squat" if the conservative tail (Tea Party) is still wagging the rest of the GOP.

Women, Hispanics and young adults will constitute an even larger % of the American electorate in 2016, so unless the Republicans are committed to making a dramatic turn toward the center of the economic and social political spectrum, they're "toast!"
Thankfully, change can occur and many conservatives - both before and after - have noted that...although sadly, many still act idiotic enough to actually ignore where many things supported by conservatives are also advocated by those who are liberal (thus meaning compromise/working together being possible instead of avoiding things due to labels) and others tend to deem any/all other conservatives disagreeing with those in the Tea Party ideology as being "liberal" (dumb stance) and not even knowing what the terms mean.

I do wish others would've paid more attention to the Fiscal Conservatives who were long advocating for others in the Republican party to do better in choosing real options/cannidates rather than throwing anyone out there and thinking all would be cool with it - and the that so many defend it by blaming the people or the media for why they lost instead of owning up to the fact that they were horrible on representation of the issues people wanted addressed is a pity.
 
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The caricature we get when an idiot like Atkins or the other guy pops up, saying stupid stuff like "If you become pregnant when you were raped, it's obviously God's will." No... it's not. Liberals like to paint us as mostly being this way and it doesn't help that many of us have a knee-jerk reaction to defend such stupidity. I mean, the other day I saw a liberal say that an unborn child perfectly matches the definition of a parasite. Really? Is that "social liberalism?" I'm willing to bet no. Yet we're allowed to be painted by the worst, most inaccurate members of our views, while the liberals are not.

If you want the party to be thought better of in this respect it has to be more pro-active in not putting people who think like this in positions to be senators.

That has something to do with the radicalization of the primary process that we can definitely lay at the feet of people claiming the mantel of the Tea Party.

Unless you think ousting Richard Lugar was done by someone else and that Akin wasn't endorsed by both Mike Huckabee and Michelle Bachman.

I think the Democrats would be horrified if a senatorial candidate made a statement about a fetus being a parasite.
 
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Yes. That is murder.

A contract killing to be exact.

Contract killing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


The president has a kill list. There is no oversight for this list. Tell me that doesn't bother you.

But if those targeted are of a group who have declared war on the targetees, what then? I do believe Al Qaida has both declared and have conducted activities of war on the US, with the US recipicating. We are no longer allowed to target participants of war?
 
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But if those targeted are of a group who have declared war on the targetees, what then? I do believe Al Qaida has both declared and have conducted activities of war on the US, with the US recipicating. We are no longer allowed to target participants of war?

Given there is no oversight of Obama's kill list we have to just take his word on who is on it.

I wasn't aware that democrats supported a leader who is able to give the thumb up or down and can end someones life with no oversight. I thought we had moved beyond that.
 
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Given there is no oversight of Obama's kill list we have to just take his word on who is on it.

I wasn't aware that democrats supported a leader who is able to give the thumb up or down and can end someones life with no oversight. I thought we had moved beyond that.

That's the thing about Dems, they aren't lock step so much akin to the other party. They are like herding cats. I for one dont lose too much sleep over whom it was targeted.
 
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Yes. That is murder.

A contract killing to be exact.

Contract killing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


The president has a kill list. There is no oversight for this list. Tell me that doesn't bother you.

It bothers me, enough to change my vote. In fact, had Romney stepped up and said he would end the policy, I might have voted for him despite disagreeing with him on just about everything else. I had to vote 3rd party, because only the Green and Libertarian candidates ran on an anti-war platform.
 
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