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To: zax who wrote (932592)	4/29/2016 11:25:27 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Respond to of 1577591

However, he was a Democrat and was convicted for the shooting…..he shot a drunk who was hanging around his house for an hour. Begs the question why didn't he call the cops? Just another Dem with a gun

To: zax who wrote (932592)	4/29/2016 11:28:41 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577591

Just another wingnut after all…. ++++++ Published on Friday, April 29, 2016 by Common Dreams Clinton Camp says She's Been Forced to the Left Enough Already Clinton ally tells The Hill, "I don't know what's left to extract." by Andrea Germanos, staff writer 125 Comments Hillary Clinton speaking at a campaign rally at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Penn. on 6 April 2016. (Photo: Nathaniel F/flickr/cc) Fresh after Bernie Sanders' call for a "a fifty-state strategy... to plant the flag of progressive politics" nationwide, new reporting on Friday suggests that Hillary Clinton's campaign won't be budged any further to the left. After Clinton claimed more victories in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, and Pennsylvania this week, Sanders said, "we are in this race until the last vote is cast," adding that his campaign would head "to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia with as many delegates as possible to fight for a progressive party platform." Steps forward on issues that would constitute such a platform can already be seen in the race, observers say. As Max Ehrenfreund writes at Washington Post's Wonkblog Friday, In the course of fending off Sanders's challenge, Clinton appears to have conceded to him on a couple of major economic policy issues. The former U.S. senator and secretary of state has abandoned the centrist positions she previously held on trade and Social Security and taken stances closer to Sanders's views. That's not all that surprising, given factors apart from Sanders, Ehrenfreund writes. He points to data from Pew Research Center showing Americans' attitudes on various issues including race, poverty, regulation, and foreign policy are becoming more progressive. And there's also the influence of politicians like Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) in areas like Social Security, he notes. But Amie Parnes writes at The Hill, "Clinton supporters argue the former secretary of State has already been forced to the left by Sanders, and can't risk moving further ahead of a general election." And while political talk show host Bill Press told The Hill that it would be the wrong move for Clinton to "move back to the center," Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.), told the political website that her campaign couldn't make any more leftward concessions, saying, "I don't know what's left to extract." Cleaver added that "[Sanders has] already impacted this election probably more than anyone else including Donald Trump," and then suggested it was time for Sanders to help gather support for his rival. Parnes also cites an anonymous Clinton ally who said, "We can't do it," regarding meeting some of Sanders' policy demands. As Sanders sees it, the Democratic Party as a whole is in crisis, saying Thursday that it "has not been clear about which side they are on on the major issues facing this country." Speaking to thousands at a rally in Eugene, Ore., Sanders said, "The Democratic Party has to reach a fundamental conclusion: Are we on the side working people or big money interests? Do we stand with the elderly, the children, and the sick and the poor, or do we stand with Wall Street speculators and the drug companies and the insurance companies?" Sanders added, "Now our job is not just to revitalize the Democratic Party—not only to open the doors to young people and working people—our jobs is to revitalize American democracy." Ehrenfreund concludes in his piece that even without securing the Democratic presidential nomination, Sanders' successful pushes on key issues mean "he might be on the winning side in the contest over the party's future." Bloomberg's delegate tracker currently shows Clinton leading Sanders with 1,645 pledged delegates compared to his 1,318. The next Democratic primary is in Indiana, with 92 delegates, on May 3. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License

To: zax who wrote (932592)	4/30/2016 9:26:15 AM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Respond to of 1577591

just like you Black Trump Supporter Calls Out Racist Protesters as Propaganda Victims 8 teaparty

To: zax who wrote (932592)	4/30/2016 9:41:39 AM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Respond to of 1577591

Here are the real numbers about the Obama economy, not the inane rhetoric. As shared by Gateway Pundit, “On Thursday the Commerce Department announced that the U.S. economy expanded at the slowest pace in two years. GDP growth rose at an anemic 0.5 percent rate after a paltry 1.4 percent fourth quarter advance. Ronald Reagan brought forth an annual real GDP growth of 3.5 percent. Barack Obama will be lucky to average a 1.55 percent GDP growth rate. This ranks Obama as the fourth worst presidency on record. Barack Obama will be the only U.S. president in history who did not deliver a single year of 3.0 percent-plus economic growth. According to Louis Woodhill, if the economy continues to perform below 2.67 percent GDP growth rate this year, President Barack Obama will leave office with the fourth worst economic record in U.S. history. Assuming 2.67 percent RGDP growth for 2016, Obama will leave office having produced an average of 1.55 percent growth. This would place his presidency fourth from the bottom of the list of 39, above only those of Herbert Hoover (-5.65 percent), Andrew Johnson (-0.70 percent) and Theodore Roosevelt (1.41 percent).” I know, I know…but Obama saved us from the worst recession ever and everything is unicorns and rainbows. But let’s look at some facts: > President Obama touts that annual spending deficits have decreased by $1 trillion. That may sound like a great accomplishment if you don’t consider the first four years of the Obama presidency were four straight years of annual spending deficits over $1 trillion. And as a matter of simple comparison, the lowest deficit under Obama is still greater than the greatest deficit of President George W. Bush. > Obama touts incredible job growth and an unemployment rate of 5 percent. However, if the Obama administration hadn’t changed how that figure is calculated, we would see double-digit unemployment. There are some 93 million Americans not counted as being part of the workforce since they’re not actively seeking employment – so they don’t count. Furthermore, it is mathematically impossible to have a low unemployment rate while also having the worst workforce participation rate in nearly 40 years. It just doesn’t add up — along with increased poverty rolls and food stamp recipients. > The U.S. debt, not including unfunded liabilities, has grown from $10.67 trillion to $19.2 trillion under Barack Obama, and the debt clock is still ticking with the estimation being $20 trillion by January 20, 2017 when Obama leaves office. Truthfully, Barack Obama will have doubled the debt of all the previous presidents of the United States combined. > As you can ascertain from the above, our gross domestic product growth in America — the single greatest determinate of both America’s strength as a nation and the well-being of the American people — is failing. And most importantly, the simple fact that liberal progressives seem to want to dismiss is that president Barack Obama will be the only U.S. president NEVER to achieve a 3 percent GDP growth. In closing, numbers don’t lie, but progressive socialists have a certain penchant for that deceptive quality — why? Because the economic principles of wealth redistribution, nationalizing of production, the expansion of the welfare state, and Keynesian tax and spend policies have historically proven to fail. And we were just boneheaded enough in America to let the chuckleheads and the fairness fairies try this bovine excrement here.

To: zax who wrote (932592)	4/30/2016 10:23:27 AM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Respond to of 1577591

11-Year-Old Alabama Boy Shoots Burglar Who ‘Cried Like A Baby’… 8 wz

To: zax who wrote (932592)	4/30/2016 10:48:35 AM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Recommended By FJB locogringo Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577591

I'd love it if the Dem state senator was disloyal to his party on gun control. Snopes is claiming he didn't go along with his party's anti-gun policies. I say, great if it's true. He should have left his party. Because the Democratic party IS against citizens owning guns and defending themselves from the criminals that are an important Democratic constituency.