SurelySerious
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Keep up with the conversation.
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Was I addressing Trump? No, your line of drivel is invalid. I was addressing the adoration for Obama as a great leader automatically because he had been a Senator as his qualification. Just because you can’t comprehend it, doesn’t mean that it’s wrong.
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Because the original discussion here was whether Obama as a law school professor and junior Senator had any leadership experience before the White House, and in that frame JFK as a young similarly aged President is a far better comparison.
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Dude, am I talking about Trump? No. The comparison was Obama as a young Pres vs JFK as a young Pres and who actually had leadership development.
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You mean from the perspective of making impact decisions, the combat leadership that JFK had versus being a law school professor where you lecture and don’t make any high pressure decisions? That experience difference? Please, spare me. Being a law school professor is not a high pressure leadership course.
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Invalid at release, I was comparing JFK and Obama, Trump was not considered in my post because I don’t care about him. Any other mis-aimed points you want to make?
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I’ll take combat leadership over law school professor any day.
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Sure, he was good at speaking and was charismatic and academically knows law, but is that providing leadership opportunities? Not in the same way JFK had to as a PT boat skipper, I would argue, if you want to look at young political wonders. Kind of like MAF HPOs from Phoenix to your reference, I guess the way I look at it.
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That doesn’t address the question: Does a junior Senator actually lead anything?
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Amendments do to a certain extent, but at times when one party or the other has controlled both sides of congress and the presidency no one has tried seriously to change that cap...so it seems that much like immigration no one cares enough to spend the political capital for a change.
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How far back do you want to go with that? Repeal the 12th A and go straight back to the original constitution text? My original point was the system in place works, not sure why the other guy wants to argue like I erroneously said originalism was the only way as if that’s still in play.
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So would you say there is a set of rules that we’ve been following? Cool...because that’s what I said. I didn’t cry when Clinton, Bush, or Obama won by the set rules...it works.
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Nope, it should function as written no matter what the leaning of the metropolis. Those are the rules and how our country operates. The idea of California being at least three states, however, is definitely a good academic exercise because of how different things are in all those areas.
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The Electoral College absolutely still makes sense, your sarcasm aside. Your argument is essentially the same as getting rid of the senate because more populous states want to determine everything with respect to legislation. No thanks.
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Exactly. Good luck guessing five years down the road, let alone 50.
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The irony is the insane amount of farm land and irrigation requirements that ethanol requires far outweighs its status as an alternative fuel.
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His answer was provided anecdotally after he criticized someone of the same, quit being dramatic one of science and facts. Maybe he should have provided a controlled experiment where this one spreads differently amongst humans with masks than without instead of being so self assuredly arrogant about his knowledge.
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Yes.
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Ironic use of your own anecdotal knowledge second half given first half.
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You’re falsely applying a “double standard” here because only one side of the political spectrum was rioting, looting, and burning down cities across the entire country this summer. Incontrovertible fact. Widespread, affected people broadly across the country, not some one-off rally.
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A Maserati Levante...oh, good our internet troll is a soccer mom.
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That’s a helluva battle to pick.
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Commonwealth, can’t compare it to a republic. /s
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Would you say our FP with respect to Russia has been more or less aggressive over the last 4 years? If you think less, have you spent time in EUCOM? Edit: I’ll give you the hint...EUCOM ops under Obama/Biden was more akin to wearing a straight jacket than the last 4 years. Same with China, who expanded in the ECS/SCS aggressively under Obama/Biden. And Iran and Syria/Russia, who walked all over that admin.
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Maybe you don’t see as much as you think you do.
