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This letter will be all over the news tomorrow.

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  1. Bobbythegreat

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    I'm sure he wanted to......just not enough to nominate someone that had any chance of confirmation. I know you prefer to think that people like Obama and Warren are total morons, but for the most part, they know what they are doing when they do things.
     
  2. sirbaihu

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    OK, so you're saying Obama didn't really really want to appoint someone to the Supreme Court, and Warren was just waiting and hoping for someone to mention Rule 19. . . . Well I think you are not in touch with reality.
     
  3. Bobbythegreat

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    SMH, we've been over this kiddo. Both Obama and Warren knew what they were doing. Obama knew that there was 0 chance that a liberal SCOTUS nominee would be approved by the Republican Senate and he was likely hoping to make the rejection of his nominee an issue in the election.....well it was, it just didn't go the way he wanted it to go. Warren also knew what she was doing when she continued to break the rule after being warned, she likely continued to do so in order to make this an issue....but again, I doubt people are REALLY going to care that she couldn't follow the rules and got silenced for it. It's political theater.

    I know that in your mind both President Obama and Senator Warren are complete imbeciles that were completely shocked by how things turned out but I honestly think that you should give them more credit than that. They aren't stupid even if their political ideology is IMO foolish at times.
     
  4. sirbaihu

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    The Trump tactic of repeating the same lie over and over does not work.
     
  5. Sweet Lou 4 2

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    There is a law in Georgia (I kid you not) that says you can't keep an ice cream cone in your backpocket on Sundays. It's still on the books. Now, what bobby is saying is that if someone does this, but the cop likes the person, and lets him off the hook over and over, that in no way means if someone he doesn't like carries the ice cream cone in their back pocket, he can't give him a ticket for breaking the rules. In fact, he should give that person a ticket and that person can't complain that other people get by with carrying ice cream cones all the time.

    Bobby is actually right here technically. But as usual, he is missing the point when it comes to carrying ice cream cones in your backpocket in Georgia on Sundays.
     
  6. Bobbythegreat

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    By all means, keep thinking that me saying that President Obama and Senator Warren are intelligent people is a lie, it won't really change anything.
     
  7. Dairy Ashford

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    That's a bit of a stretch, Zmeskal.
     
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  8. sirbaihu

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    Bobby: "Obama is so intelligent that he did not want to appoint a Supreme Court justice."
    :rolleyes:
     
  9. Bobbythegreat

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    He didn't want to appoint one that the Republican Senate would have approved of, that's a fair and accurate statement. Perhaps one day you'll stop thinking that he was a simpleton that didn't know what he was doing. Here's to hoping.
     
  10. Granville

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    I thought you Libs were pro telling white people when to shut up.
     
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    Decency rule? Not a bad idea. No harsh speech for elected official, in school, in any public spaces. The problem is who determine what is decency. And then there is also the problem of honest intention of maintaining decency vs personal or political agenda. I do like what it was intended for, but nay, it's subjected to abuse. Free speech it is. And elected official can be held accountable to their speech through election, you would hope.

    p.s. it is exactly suppression of speech. Cowardice to hide behind rule to support something that you don't support. But if you were always for suppression of speech, I understand.
     
  12. FranchiseBlade

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    I missed the part in the video where the Widow King said she wrote a letter about Sessions and didn't mean any of it. The letter does stand.

    What doesn't stand is your claim that she is a fake Native American, when she actually is Native American.
     
  13. FranchiseBlade

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    Nope that stupid video has been debunked already. It was actually about telling white people to listen.
     
  14. Granville

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    "My job is to shut other white people down when they want to interrupt," Warren was doing nothing but interrupting the inevitable and got shut down....
     
  15. FranchiseBlade

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    If you watched the whole video you would have seen that she was talking about telling them to shut up when they want to interrupt and won't listen. Please don't be so irresponsible to spread the nonsense about it being just about telling white people to shut up. That's not honest. You're better than that.

    It was Warren's turn to talk. The others weren't listening.
     
  16. sugrlndkid

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    Hahahahahaha....
    http://www.dailywire.com/news/7003/heres-everything-you-need-know-about-elizabeth-aaron-bandler

    Next...I would find it hard pressed for Mrs. CS King to thank the man she supposedly said something vastly different about in a letter...Furthermore, the niece personally calls out Warren for dragging her family name for political points.
     
  17. FranchiseBlade

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    She is 1/32 Native American.

    So you believe the letter is a fake? I assure you the letter is real. Her thanking a guy has nothing to do with her letter. She can write a letter about her feelings on the guy for a particular job and still thank him at a function. They obviously aren't mutually exclusive since they both happened.
     
  18. sugrlndkid

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    Nobody has claimed the letter(from the 80's) to be fake...but rather built on a premise of misguided opinions...It seems her opinions about Sessions were different once before *(error - the video was on 12/1/2000). Warren tried to race bait ONCE again on the senate floor. She was called out for it...

    In conclusion...as i continue to blast your standing that Warren is a "native"...using liberal online news sources...please stop making your self look foolish.
    http://www.theatlantic.com/politics...zabeth-warren-native-american-or-what/257415/
     
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  19. FranchiseBlade

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    At best it's up for debate. Here's the deal.
    http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/29/politics/elizabeth-warren-native-american-pocahontas/
    Here's more.
    http://fusion.net/story/283066/donald-trump-calls-elizabeth-warren-indian/


    Anyway, that really isn't important. Using the Widow King's letter isn't race baiting. It's using a letter from the widow of Martin Luther King and was meant to be read in it's entirety. She wouldn't write the letter just to make it up. King felt the letter was appropriate.

    I'm not sure why you think that thanking Sessions means that King didn't believe in the letter she was writing.
     
  20. Astrodome

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    That was 2012. Now that it is 2017 she can identify as whatever she wants. For now.
     

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