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"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." - Sinclair Lewis
“It’s your party and you can cry if you want to.” - Captain Europe
While the state legislator in question is also constitutionally ineligible to be President, I suspect most people would feel they don't have the resume for the office.
There are two problems with electing someone to the White House who just started serving in minor office. The first is that there's going to be a lot that they don't know about national issues, and they might also not know what they don't know. The second is that they may end up changing their views in very significant ways through the process of serving their constituents, and realizing that certain things they advocated for might not be great policies.
I remember an argument that the age minimum basically served as a way to restrict the power of the military and elite families, since the understanding would be that the only person who can get the name recognition to be a plausible presidential candidate under the age of 35 would have to be either a war hero or a scion from a very connected family for whom an elected position could be seen as an inheritance.
Sincerely,
Thomas Mets
It is much easier to label someone a socialist if they agree with the description.
Obama was labelled a socialist. Many Democrats and independents disagreed. He won the White House twice.
Pretty much. Capitalism is imperfect, but it beats the alternatives in terms of improving quality of living.
Sincerely,
Thomas Mets
Threat against Canada's Trudeau 'upsetting' and 'troubling', say rivals
OTTAWA (Reuters) - The main rivals to Canada’s Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said a threat that forced him to wear a bulletproof vest at a campaign rally on Saturday was a concerning sign for the country’s democracy ahead of the Oct. 21 federal election.
Trudeau arrived 90 minutes late to a rally outside of Toronto wearing bulky protection under his shirt, a Reuters witness said, after he had received a security threat, Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported.It’s “very upsetting to hear that Justin Trudeau had to wear a bulletproof vest tonight at a campaign event,” Andrew Scheer, leader of the Conservative Party, said late on Saturday. “Threats of violence against political leaders have absolutely no place in our democracy.”
Scheer is Trudeau’s main rival ahead of the vote, and the two are in a statistical tie nationally, according to polls. But the left-leaning New Democrats (NDP) are gaining and could end up with the balance of power.“Any threat made against Justin Trudeau, or any leader, is troubling to all of us. No matter how you vote or believe, no one should face threats of violence,” NDP leader Jagmeet Singh said.
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CNN projects Gov. John Bel Edwards forced into runoff in Louisiana
Washington (CNN)Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards has been forced into a runoff election in his bid for reelection, where he will face Republican businessman Eddie Rispone, CNN projected Saturday.
Edwards was the top vote getter but will fall short of the 50% threshold needed to avoid the runoff. Rispone, one of two major Republicans in the race, garnered the second biggest amount of votes.
Edwards is the only statewide elected Democrat in Louisiana. Despite Louisiana's Republican lean, polling and other factors suggested Edwards had a decent shot of being reelected.
He faced off against opponents from both political parties in Saturday's gubernatorial primary, in which all candidates, regardless of party affiliation, ran against each other.
President Donald Trump on Friday went to Louisiana -- a state he won by 20 points in 2016 -- to boost two Republican candidates in the race. Both Republican candidates -- Rispone and Rep. Ralph Abraham -- joined Trump onstage during the rally. Trump didn't endorse one Republican over the other.
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This will be Trump's legacy
Disaster is unfolding in Syria as videos emerge of US allies being slaughtered and hundreds of ISIS prisoners escape during airstrikes
And the GOP thought they had problem's with Obama's Mideast policies. We'll see if there are more defections on the GOP side of the aisle but I don't see many forthcoming.
US preparing to pull out it's remaining troops from Syria
- Defense Secretary Mark Esper said the US is "preparing to evacuate" its remaining 1,000 troops in northern Syria, as per a Saturday night authorization for "deliberate withdrawal" by President Donald Trump.
- Esper said during Sunday's "Face the Nation" segment on CBS News that the US national security team learned in the past 24 hours that Turkish forces will expand their attack further south and west than originally planned.
- He also said that Kurdish forces are looking to work with Syrians and Russians to counter-attack against Turkish forces in the north, and that American forces could be caught in the crosshairs.
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What a shame, Iron Maiden... And what a disaster. We should all support strongly the Rojava.
- To Tammy and the Blue Rose !
I mean if a single US soldier dies it gives Trump enough reason to immediately attack Turkey which is an easy out
The simpler response is to ask if you believe he is a good President, and there should be more Presidents like him? If not, his election isn't really an argument in favor of having people with limited experience in the White House. He also didn't win a majority of the vote, so his election isn't really an argument for this being an effective way to win the White House, much less govern.
Trump has also probably amassed forms of experience different from the thousands of people in the United States who have been state legislators for at least two years (a benchmark Lee J Carter doesn't even meet at this point.) He ran a major business and has been involved in politics in weird ways (the documentary Get Me Roger Stone on Netflix suggests he basically kneecapped the Reform party and the independent presidential campaign of Pat Buchanan, which helped national Republicans avoid vote-splitting) so there is also a potential argument that someone else with similar experiences could be a good President, just not him.
On experience, I don't think there should be any legal restrictions on who gets to run for President. This should be a decision left up to the voters. I thought Richard Ojeda (a former army major/ West Virginia State Senator who launched a presidential campaign shortly after losing a congressional race) had a terrible resume for a presidential candidate, but it was fine that he was allowed to make his case.
Sincerely,
Thomas Mets