http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/09/04/dnc-black-lives-matter/?intcmp=hpbt1

They just told the Democrat Party to F.O.D.!! :D

Ya gotta appreciate the irony...

Michale

Obama had his chance to help the Iranian people back in 2009. He stood by and let them be slaughtered...

Fast-Forward to today and Obama jumps into bed with the Mullahs and the Republican Guard... The very people who SLAUGHTERED their own people...

And you think this is cause for hope???

On what planet??

Michale

Hope...

Yea... Cuz it's worked SO well, eh??

Michale

What "peril"??

I have asked that many times with no response??

Ya'all have already stated unequivocally that sanctions won't work..

So what "peril" are you envisioning for Iran here??

Do you really think that nothing will be done in a serious effort to prevent that sort of behavior?

From Obama??

Yea, I think nothing will be done..

Remember the "red line" in Syria???

Nothing will be done...

Michale

Have you seen this ...
http://www.vox.com/2015/9/3/9257235/obama-iran-humans-new-york

You can call me a cockeyed optimist all you want but, I prefer to be extremely hopeful of good things to come after reading something like this ... it puts a smile on my face ... maybe now I can get some sleep. :)

Iran will proceed along that pathway at its own peril.

Do you really think that nothing will be done in a serious effort to prevent that sort of behavior?

The US Congress, if it so desired and if it is so competent, could do quite a lot in that regard, especially with the support of much of the international community. Oh, wait ... the US Congress prefers to thumb its nose at the international community ...

It was perfectly in context..

No matter how you try and sugarcoat it, Iran is going to have hundreds of billions of dollars to put towards new terrorist activity...

This is a fact that no amount of ideological BS can cover up...

Michale

That is SUCH an American thing to say ... reminds me of a joke ...

What do you call a thousand lawyers on the bottom of the sea? ...

It's Vice President Biden to you, Michale. And, I mean that sincerely, I'm not trying to be facetious, here ...

And, do you know what he said after that? Remember how dangerous it is for you to quote out of context.

Such an admission opens up the US Government to a buttload of lawsuits if Iran is implicated in ANY future terrorist attacks...

Michale

Imagine that!!

Uncle Joe and I are saying the EXACT SAME THING!!!

Who would have thunked it!!??

:D

Michale

Remind me again how, exactly, Iran is a worthy partner???

I seem to have forgotten...

Michale

If that were to occur NO ONE in Congress would support Obama's kiss-kiss with Iran...

Which, according to ya'all, would be exactly what Iran wants....

So I wouldn't put it past them...

Michale

Stranger things have happened.. :D

Michale

While I didn't know who you were referring to (I've never heard of Jill Stein), I didn't really believe you meant Jill Biden. It was just too tempting at the time to do a US-MSM and suggest yet another "rumored Democratic challenger". :-)

Incidentally, it's been announced that Joe Biden will be a guest on the first Late Show with Steven Colbert. This has set off a bunch of Biden and Bernie supporters declaring for certain that he will officially announce a presidential run... on a late night, light entertainment show.

Per comment 24

Sorry I missed this a couple of days ago.

I was referring to Jill Stein- Green Party

Bernie is under consideration, but I'm not sold yet.

A

For the record, seeing a persona carrying a gun, in and of itself, is NOT a rational nor tangible reason to file a false police report...

Morons...... They are nothing but morons...

Michale

Gun control groups accused of ‘swatting’ open-carry permit holders, putting lives at risk
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/09/01/gun-control-groups-accused-swatting-open-carry-permit-holders-putting-lives-at/?intcmp=hpbt2

I'll say one thing...

If I were a patrol officer today and I responded to one of these calls, if the RP couldn't provide a rational and tangible reason WHY the 911 calls was made, the moron would be going to jail for filing a false police report and improper use of the 911 Emergency system!!

What is it about fanatical Left wingers that don't have more than 2 brain cells to rub together??

Michale

Hillary has stated emphatically that she never transmitted or received classified intelligence on her home-brewed bathroom-closet email server...

Yet, hundreds and hundreds of emails that the State Dept has released had to be heavily redacted or withheld due to security classifications...

The fact that Hillary can make the claim with a straight face and people actually BELIEVE her???

It's gabberflasting...

Michale

Mystery deepens into how classified emails got onto Clinton's unclassified server
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/08/31/did-clinton-emails-jump-from-classified-to-unclassified-system/?intcmp=hpbt1

If Clinton is actually elected POTUS, it's going to be bigger than Watergate....

Michale

Well said.. :D

Sorry... Try as I might, I just can't find anything to argue with.. :D

Something so well written deserves more of a response than a simple "Kudos"...

But, to paraphrase Benjamin Bratt in DEMOLITION MAN...

"It's what {I} got.."

:D

Michale

Yes, there's a furor among Democrats over the debates.

No, DWS and the DNC committee didn't limit the debates to help Clinton.

The DNC reduced their number of debates from 26 down to 6 for the same reason the RNC reduced their number of debates from 20 down to 9. I'm very certain the RNC did not limit their debates because Reince Preibus is trying to benefit one candidate in particular, do you? No of course you don't because it's ridiculous.

When it comes to supporting Democratic candidates, the DNC is incompetent and, as its chair, DWS has to take responsibility for that. All Democrats know it.

But that incompetence does not extend to the Democratic debates. For once, they recognized the good sense reasons why Republicans reduced their debates and the DNC sensibly followed suit - but of course they don't want to admit that publicly!

Martin O'Malley, who is a political opportunist and a champion whinger, is the one who started all this. By the way, he's being investigated for ethics violations which tells you a lot about how honorable O'Malley is.

He's pissed that he's so far behind Sanders and HRC, and figures he can bring his own brand of malice to the debates to attack HRC and make a name for himself.

You see he's suffering from lack of name recognition and has decided to blame it on DWS or HRC or Putin or the cat next door rather than take responsibility for it himself and design a campaign to ensure he's better known.

The debates are free publicity and that's what he's really looking for because he can't raise as much money as HRC and Sanders.

Those Democrats who are cheering O'Malley on are doing so because they intensely dislike DWS (I actually don't know any Democrats who like her) and/or they intensely dislike HRC. O'Malley is deliberately exploiting a deep rift in the Democratic Party (not the smartest thing for a Democrat to do but he's a selfish bastard) and picking on easy targets in hopes of picking up more support.

While I admire HRC's inner strength, her campaigning is awful and I wish she'd just go away and be a grandmother quietly somewhere. DWS, in my opinion, should have been booted out as chairperson immediately after the midterms. As for Martin O'Malley, I hope he's indicted, tried, found guilty and thrown in jail as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, the US seems to have the slowest judicial system in the world so the the whole thing is likely to take years.

Meanwhile, Democrats are tearing themselves to pieces over Clinton vs Bernie. While the most malicious are among the Bernie supporters (which is ironic since he himself is such a gentleman), the more I see of both groups, the more I am turned off to both candidates. Their stupidity over the debate debacle is only succeeding in wrenching their party further apart and the whole argument is completely fact-free. I've read three pieces about it today and not one of them had a single factual statement. They've all gone down the rabbit hole to Wonderland.

Hillary's slogan is her first initial, a big H with an arrow...

Jeb's slogan is his own name with a punctuation mark..

Trump's slogan is a statement of what voters want.. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN

And it's TRUMP who is the narcissistic one?? :D

Michale

But I am curious why there isn't a peep around here about the debacle that is the Democrat Party debates..

I realize that talking about one's OWN Civil War issue isn't pleasant. It's much more fun to poke at the other guys...

But what's the prevailing opinion?? Is the DWS and the DNC protecting Hillary??

Is the fix in??

Are we going to have a coronation, not a primary??

Come on.. Give.... :D

Michale

That's CW's raison d'etre :D

Weigantia is a reality-based land..

Which is why I fit in so well here.. :D

Michale

So now it's Jill Biden who will be running? I hope the media catch onto this story soon. Everyone does so enjoy them.

Indeed!

I'll let you know whenever that happens..

Me reaching the wrong conclusion, I mean.. :D

I can see this is going to be fun ... :)

I just hope he can hang around til Thanksgiving.. :D

Michale

I was thinking along the lines of the topically specific columns like Bernie vs Trump, Biden Speculation, etc.

But good to know you're trying to be helpful even though you reached the wrong conclusion.

Every Friday....

Same Bat Time.... Same Bat Channel.... :D

Michale

Well, when Bernie got into the race, the pundits said look at Hillary's commanding lead in the polls.

When Bernie surpassed Hillary in New Hampshire polls, they said yeah, but look at her commanding lead in Iowa.

With the latest poll in Iowa showing huge gains for Bernie, who wants to bet they'll say yeah, but look at South Carolina?

Like I said, I'm still not sold on Bernie.
I may still vote for Jill.
But if Bernie keeps making headway as fast as he has, we could have a really interesting election.

I hope you do another column on this soon CW.

Thanks
A

Quinnipac polled Americans and asked what ONE WORD would they use to describe Hillary Clinton...

Top word was LIAR....

Second word was DISHONEST...

Third word was UNTRUSTWORTHY....

Don't you think these facts have any meaning??

Michale

Why don't you and Palin just get a room already!! :D

Paula,

I have to say, I admire your spunk in the face of such overwhelming facts that Hillary is going down... :D

Michale

“WTH? Lamestream media asks GOP personal, spiritual "gotchas" that they’d NEVER ask Hillary” - Palin

Palin is still whining about questions that any fifth-grader should be able to answer. Her definition of "gotcha" question seems to be an easy personal question that a exposes a fraudulent public image. I suspect that HilRod could quote some Hocus Pocus even though she never seems to give the Bible the thumbs up in public. She could probably tell us what newspapers she reads too.

I guess it's true what they say that opposites attract...

When it comes to the political/likability factor, Bill and Hill are as about as opposite as is possible to be...

Unfortunately for her supporters, she's unlikely to heed the advice and it may already be too late anyway.

Hillary's problem is that it is virtually impossible that any surprise news will come down the pipe that is actually GOOD for Hillary...

It's a tough row to hoe knowing that any new surprises, any future startling revelations will be bad news for Hillary...

In other words, she can't count on a 3am phone call or a natural disaster that would allow her to shine...

For Hillary, down is the only path open to her...

Michale

I agree with CW that she desperately needs to take off a month or so, go away somewhere isolated, and take intensive training from Bill (who must cringe every time she sabotages herself) as to how to conduct herself.

Unfortunately for her supporters, she's unlikely to heed the advice and it may already be too late anyway.

That leaves Bernie Sanders. While I like Bernie's platform I realize that he doesn't have "coattails", at least not at this stage. There's also the following to factor in: many Democrats don't consider Sanders to be a Democrat; there remains in the American mind a very real though misconceived fear of the word "socialist"; and there's no understanding of the meaning of "Democratic Socialist" as the term is applied in Europe.

None of the other also-rans have a chance: Chaffee (who's pleasantly nuts but nuts all the same and definitely not presidential material), O'Malley (what a whinger he is!) and Webb (who is so obviously in the wrong party - he doesn't seem to support support anything in the current Democratic platform).

It looks like the Republicans may have a clear run after all. Gasp! That would be interesting for the world: a Republican President, Congress and Supreme Court. I doubt any country will escape the impact.

As for Trump, I'm not horrified by his success at all. I'm finding it all quite intriguing. I'm wondering how the Republican Party are going to cope with his economic policy:

Republican front-runner Donald Trump began to flesh out his economic vision for America, and it includes raising taxes on the wealthy.

"I would take carried interest out, and I would let people making hundreds of millions of dollars-a-year pay some tax, because right now they are paying very little tax and I think it's outrageous," Trump said. "I want to lower taxes for the middle class."

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-08-26/donald-trump-says-he-wants-to-raise-taxes-on-himself

Martin O’Malley Rails at Democrats for Debate Schedule ‘Rigged’ to Aid Hillary Clinton
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/08/28/martin-omalley-rails-at-democrats-for-debate-schedule-rigged-to-aid-hillary-clinton/

Makes it easier to ignore the Democrat's brutal civil war...

:D

Michale

Actually, Ramos was being a prick and interrupting other reporters..

Typical of your run-o-the-mill hysterical Left Wing activist..

No one else matters but THEM...

As you can tell, once Ramos waited his turn, Trump was happy to answer Ramos' questions..

And proceeded to annihilate Ramos' position..

And ya know what?? Mexican immigrants (REAL immigrants, not criminals) loved Trump for it! :D

Michale

I guess deBlasio is not the Left Wing darling he used to be, eh?? :D

If it's a commercial activity, they should be able to regulate it without any first-amendment problems. Require a license. Zone it out of Times Square completely.

Troo dat...

Michale

While I am very heartened to see this well-deserved MDDOTW award, I am constrained to point out that referring to Republicans as "terrorists" is not the sole purview of Hillary Clinton..

On many occasions Democrat Party (so-called) "leaders" called Republicans terrorists in the midst of legislative battles..

Sad to say, even quite a few Weigantians..

While I am not defending Clinton in the least over this, she is simply following a dubious, albeit well-documented, tradition of the Hysterical (and not so Hysterical) Left...

Michale

If it's a commercial activity, they should be able to regulate it without any first-amendment problems. Require a license. Zone it out of Times Square completely.

George Will isn't the only one freaking out by this new reality. ...

There's a saying that a developer is someone who wants to build a cabin in the woods, and a conservationist is someone who built theirs last year.

I don't see anything new. Every four years, the Republicans have presidential primaries, where the Party Establishment wrings its hands over the dire consequences of the current round of people doing what they did a couple cycles before. This looks to me like a perfectly routine campaign. Nothing that The Donald could possibly do will push the Republican Party into third place next November. Nor stop them from winning again in 2018.

Are you an Old Testament guy or a New Testament guy? I believe the correct answer is NT, but he's clearly OT. Trump just said he loves the whole thing.

What's your favorite Bible verse? Trump refused to answer. This was an unwise choice on his part. He should've just said he likes the one about stoning the rapists. Now he's left himself open to gotcha questions like "What do you think about that camel and the eye of a needle verse?"

Actually, Chris ... that's not the most absurd. It's the most productive!

Well, it beats throwing Alito under a bus. Ahem.

Now, what to do about Scalia ...

Ramos was the guy who was breaking the Washington rules - asking real questions and not backing down. Suddenly decorum is back in style.

"I can't deal with this." - Trump

His inability to deal with one Mexican-American immigrant makes me suspicious about his ability to deal with 30 million Mexican rapists. I wonder if he's lying.

Mea culpa.

:-)

-CW

The Trumpletons... er, um, Trumpeteers aren't as scary as they will be when the serious minded "conservative" columnists reach the acceptance phase and suddenly start defending every belch.
We have all experienced these types when they think they're winning even when they're actually losing. They make 3rd graders look like adults.
And they just don't care if their actions drive away even potential supporters.

Bernie getting the shaft by the NYT was a sight to see... or rather read. I think I made it to comment 200 (their system is horrible) and it was pretty much a bloodbath with the "liberal media" and the author in particular feeling the bern.

Bernie and O'Malley trashing the DNC at the DNC meeting was also good to see.

Hillary shooting herself in the foot again is starting to remind me of European Vacation... look kids, Big Ben, Parliament.