Republican Candidates for 2016 Race

[auntiehill]

Just like a CEO should for the company

Again, you could not be more wrong. A CEO is responsible for ensuring profitability, and answers only to the Board of Directors and stockholders. Their main concern is profit and brand-marketability, not diplomacy, not the suffering of the sick, the poor, and the disenfranchised. When you run a business, you are only concerned with YOUR business. When you run a country, you have an impact not just on every citizen in your country, but on the entire world.

 

[JeffinOakland]

Being the CEO of the United States is one of the President's many responsibilities.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

The United States is not a corporation, full stop. Being CEO of the United States is not literally one the President's responsibility at all.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Colbert's been really on the money this week. Like he said, lots of target material.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

Being the CEO of the United States is one of the President's many responsibilities.

You are fundamentally wrong on civics.

 

[JeffinOakland]

You are fundamentally wrong on civics.

No, I'm not. "America's business is doing business." - Calvin Coolidge You are incredibly naive if you don't think one of the President's responsibilities is keeping the money flowing in.

 

[publiusr]

The article below that is also a good read:
Trump Is Dangerously Incompetent on National Security
His promise to abandon NATO allies is a huge gift to Russia and China.

Then too--it is exactly this that makes neo-Cons like George Will actually like Hillary better.
I think a lot of this man myself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_F._Cohen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_F._Cohen#US-Russia_relations

He has been vilified-- http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...ogist_the_nation_just_published_the_most.html

And yet it will be anti-Putin types that will get us into a new Cold War I think
I don't like "old Europe" http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/04/opinion/how-the-eu-pushed-ukraine-east.html?_r=0

The US, Russia and China could be a new, but stable Triumvirate--as in the days of Octavian.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

No, I'm not. "America's business is doing business." - Calvin Coolidge You are incredibly naive if you don't think one of the President's responsibilities is keeping the money flowing in.

So, yeah, like, Article I, Sections 1 & 8, of the US Constitution say otherwise.

 

[VulcanMindBlown]

Rand Paul will always be my favorite current politician, but I will vote for Donald Trump next November.

 

[JeffinOakland]

So, yeah, like, Article I, Sections 1 & 8, of the US Constitution say otherwise.

You think Hillary and The Donald give a rodent's hindquarters about the Constitution?

 

[CorporalCaptain]

You think Hillary and The Donald give a rodent's hindquarters about the Constitution?

No, but I think that Hillary gives a rat's ass about the Constitution.

 

[JeffinOakland]

No, but I think that Hillary gives a rat's ass about the Constitution.

Then you are pathetically naive and part of the problem. Hillary is bought and paid for by corporations.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

And Donald Trump IS a corporation. How is that better?

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Then you are pathetically naive and part of the problem. Hillary is bought and paid for by corporations.

Funny how you seem to equate "bought and paid for by corporations" with not giving a rat's ass about the Constitution. Nice straw man. (I'm not conceding that Hillary's "bought and paid for by corporations," by the way.)

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

Ultimately, the choice is between rather kind of disappointing Democrat, or the end of the world.

 

[Amaris]

Rand Paul will always be my favorite current politician, but I will vote for Donald Trump next November.

Are there any of his platforms, in particular, that speak to you? You don't have to answer if you don't want to, just curious.

 

[JeffinOakland]

Funny how you seem to equate "bought and paid for by corporations" with not giving a rat's ass about the Constitution. Nice straw man. (I'm not conceding that Hillary's "bought and paid for by corporations," by the way.)

How is that a straw man? Do you know what a straw man is? You can either be beholden to corporations or to the Constitution. Not both. You can't serve two masters.

 

[JeffinOakland]

And Donald Trump IS a corporation. How is that better?

It isnt. It's worse. They're both awful. He's a little more awful.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

Look at where they stand on the issues. Donald Trump is worse by an order of magnitude. Hillary is far from perfect, but Trump wants to set up a police state.

 

[Tora Ziyal]

It isnt. It's worse. They're both awful. He's a little more awful.

I would say that he's a lot more awful.

Clinton just went up in my estimation today after I listened to Tim Kaine's first speech as the veep candidate.