In case you missed it. Here’s my recap of the GOP Debate. This election I am not going to vote by my party. I am going to learn about each candidate and make an informed choice.
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Mustafa Barghouthi, Former Palestinian National Authority Presidential Candidate
Daniel Levy, Former Israeli Government Negotiator & J Street Co-Founder
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Aaron David Miller, Former U.S. Mideast Negotiator, and advisor of Republican and Democratic Secretaries of State
Dore Gold, former Israel Ambassador to the United Nations
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Jan 022012
Question by : Did Rick Santorum really call Jon Huntsman and Ron Paul “isolationists” in the MSNBC Debate?
Okay. Maybe I can understand why he called Ron Paul, but Huntsman. Just because he disagreed with the Libyan intervention? That makes him an isolationist? Damn. Repubs are damn stupid!
Best answer:
Answer by BlackSunshine84
He did, but I don’t consider having mutually beneficial trade agreements with nations while staying out of their politics to be isolationist.
Did I say there was? That is Ron Paul’s foreign policy, not what we have currently.
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Question by rob: How do you say “Vice presidential debate” in Spanish?
please help me out
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Answer by deka
debate vicepresidencial
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Article by James W. Smith
President George Bush has declared her the eventual Democratic Party nominee in the 2008 Presidential Election. The public opinion polls in New Hampshire have her leading the rest of the Democratic Party field by twenty percentage points in the State. She has not experienced any further fallout from her campaign’s strange involvement with Norman Hsu. She still leads all Democrats nationwide by eighteen points according to the latest Rasmussen daily tracking poll.
So what did desperate Democratic candidates do to prepare for an event like the debate at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire on September 26, 2007? The only thing that they could do to stay alive in a race that still has three months before the first vote is cast. They joined forces on the clear leader in the polls, Hillary Clinton, and attacked. After months of question and answer sessions that pass for debates in the Democratic party, the debate last evening was the first real live evidence of what the polls have been indicating for months. The rest of the field of Democratic candidates is getting desperate in their attempt to stop Hillary Clinton from claiming the 2008 Presidential election nomination of the Democratic Party. Time is beginning to run out for them, and her large lead in the polls has been very consistent throughout 2007.
The debate did nothing to change the overall trend in the campaign, but it did cause the Hillary Clinton campaign some problems. The biggest problem seemed to be a question that moderator, Tim Russert, asked the Senator from New York. He asked whether there should be a presidential exception to allow the torture of a terror leader if authorities knew a bomb was about to go off, but didn’t know where it was. Mrs. Clinton replied about torture ” It cannot be American policy, period.” Russert revealed that ex President Bill Clinton advocated such a policy on a recent “Meet the Press” appearance. Mrs. Clinton replied “Well, I’ll talk to him later”. The problem for Mrs. Clinton is her interview last fall with the Daily News: In the interview when asked the same question, she said, “In the event we were ever confronted with having to interrogate a detainee with knowledge of an imminent threat to millions of Americans, then the decision to depart from standard international practices must be made by the President, and the President must be held accountable.” Her campaign has not yet responded to questions about that contradiction.
The Democrats were also aware of a new Lake Research Poll which found that Republican Rudy Giuliani leads Mrs. Clinton by 49 per cent to 39 per cent in the swing districts in a 2008 Presidential Election match-up. The poll also found that Mrs. Clinton, in particular, could damage the chances of congressional Democratic candidates on the ballot. The Senator and former First Lady continues to try to walk a fine line. She has to strike a delicate balance between being liberal enough to continue to appeal to the anti-war Democratic primary voter, with the need to be moderate enough for the consideration of the independent voter on which a general election will turn.
With the new polling data in mind, Democratic candidates were questioning whether Hillary Clinton was too polarizing to build national consensus on issues. Her proposed healthcare system overhaul in 1993, which ended in failure, was a topic throughout the evening. She also was attacked by Democratic candidates for voting for a U.S. Senate Resolution urging the State Department to deem part of the Iranian military a terrorist organization. John Edwards tied this to her vote to authorize the Iraq war.
The debate showed the desperation of the field of Democratic candidates. They know that they are badly trailing Hillary Clinton in the race for the party’s nomination. Hillary Clinton’s performance was not one of her best. However, it appears that this debate will not significantly change the minds of many voters.
James William Smith has worked in senior management positions for some of the largest financial services firms in the United States for the last twenty five years. He has also provided business consulting support for insurance organizations and start up businesses. Mr. Smith has a Bachelor of Science Degree from Boston College. He enjoys writing articles on political, national, and world events. Visit his website at http://www.eworldvu.com
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With Election Day about three weeks away, we’re getting close to finding jordan shoes out just how much force the tea party movement has had on this year’s angry electorate. Sparked partly in response to the ballooning federal deficit and the debate over health care reform, the movement is attracting significant attention this election season. Tea party-backed candidates around the country have seen some big primary victories – like Christine O’Donnell in Delaware, Joe Miller in Alaska and Rand Paul in Kentucky, all of whom knocked out U.S. Senate primary opponents who were considered the Republican Party’s establishment candidates.
The same is true in Colorado, where Senate candidate Ken Buck beat the GOP’s early air jordan retro favorite, former state Lt. Gov. Jane Norton, in the Aug. 10 primary. Tonight Buck will face current Sen. Michael Bennet, his Democratic opponent, in a debate hosted by The Denver Post. Bennet was appointed to replace Ken Salazar when President Obama tapped Salazar to be interior secretary. Neither Buck nor Bennet has run for congressional office before.
As some Republicans worry tea party candidates might be too risky for the mainstream, both parties’ national organizations are pouring significant resources into the race. Buck and Bennet have already sparred in a few debates and have a few more to go after tonight.Buck’s rise is one example of the tea party’s power, and Ask America, the Yahoo!
News informal polling forum, has been asking people what they think about the movement. A New York Times/CBS News poll conducted last month found that 23 percent of registered voters view the tea party favorably, 29 percent unfavorably. Nearly half said they are undecided or don’t know enough about the movement yet. Whether or not Ask America users like the tea party, a clear majority says it’s here to stay. Of 7,755 responses to a question asking whether the movement is a passing storm, 64 percent said they think it’ll stick around.
Yahoo! user Andy commented, “The Tea Party protests themselves are a fad, but the political relevance of the Tea Parties is here to stay.” User David Hull, commenting in the column that shows 36 percent think the movement will fade away, said, “I think that it is nothing more than a passing storm. Not the first time either, remember Ross Perot?”Ask America has also collected people’s thoughts on the level of political bickering today that’s represented in part by the tea party’s hard lines on issues like health care and that comes out in its main catchphrase, “Take our country back!” Of nearly 5,500 responses, 76 percent say the level of bickering is unnatural this election cycle.
Ask America has also collected people’s thoughts on the level of political bickering today that’s represented in part by the tea party’s hard lines on issues like health care and that comes out in its main catchphrase,
Note: A typo in one of the titles on this video says 2009 rather than 2010 – sorry. The issue of gun rights arose in the Republican pre-primary debates of May 2010 for the California governorship and the US Senate seat held by Sen. Barbara Boxer. In the US Senate race, the issue of gun rights for individuals on the federal no-fly list arose. In the gubernatorial race, the issue of a propose limit on “open carry” rights arose. In this clip we see the gun-related sections of both debates. US Senate candidates were Tom Campbell, Chuck DeVore, and Carly Fiorina. Gubernatorial candidates are Steve Poizner and Meg Whitman. Note: The Democratic side in both races had essentially no contests so there were no debates.
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CNN Republican GOP presidential debate 2011 [Part 1] – New Hampshire Part 2 : www.youtube.com Part 3 : www.youtube.com Part 4 : www.youtube.com This is the first CNN debate, but second overall 2011 Republican GOP debate. The first was in South Carolina, and this one is in New Hampshire. Yes i am aware that there is a minute of black screen – all part of the broadcast – just jump to 2:32 to skip it….
Video Rating: 3 / 5
Nov 192011
Question by bad girl: Is this report the truth about the recent GOP presidential hopefuls debate?
Fmr. WH Spokesman: GOP Debate Was About Who ‘Would Turn Back Clock The Farthest’
Robert Gibbs attended the Republican presidential debate in New Hampshire Monday night, but the longtime Democrat made clear his candidate wasn’t among those up on stage.
The former White House press secretary makes clear that he is rooting for his old boss, President Obama, and he says he doesn’t like what he saw at the first GOP candidates’ debate.
Seven contenders for the 2012 Republican nomination faced off in what is likely to become a long series of encounters between now and next year. Tea party favorite Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota used the event to officially kick off her presidential candidacy.
Each member of the GOP field “nodded along when one called the Obama administration a ‘destructive force,’ and they said nothing when another said the President has ‘embraced our enemies,’” says Gibbs, who left the White House earlier this year.
“Last night was a wake-up call to anyone who thinks they can sit tight while the Republicans battle each other for the nomination: The campaign to defeat Barack Obama and roll back his entire record is well underway. And that’s the one thing on which all of their potential candidates agree,” says Gibbs in an email which also served as a fundraising appeal for the Democratic National Committee.
“It was seven against one,” Gibbs says. “Since the President won’t be speaking for himself at one of these debates until next year, our best response is to show the Republicans that when they attack Barack Obama, it only makes us fight back harder.”
Viewed from Democrat’s eyes, Monday’s debate was about “about which of their candidates would turn back the clock the farthest,” Gibbs says.
“They came out for re-fighting the battles they lost on Wall Street reform and the health care law. They backed reinstating ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’” he says. “They even talked about abolishing the Environmental Protection Agency — and phasing out Social Security and Medicare.
“They actually spent time debating whether they think Sarah Palin would have made a better vice president than Joe Biden (spoiler alert: They still think so!).”
The debate also was notable for what wasn’t discussed, Gibbs adds, saying “the words ‘education’ and ‘middle class’ were never uttered even once.
“If you were watching at home, you might have thought it was a re-run from four or eight years ago,” he says. “Most of these people are full-time candidates with nothing to lose and nothing to do but keep pushing to take us back to the failed policies of the past.”
Best answer:
Answer by summertime
In answer to that last paragraph…That seems to be their plan…
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