Bernie has a much more solid platform and seems to actually believe what he says. Hilary comes across as an entertainer (much like Bill) and says stuff to liven up her audience. She has the charisma, Bernie has the actual ideology and the plan to go with it. My career path has me dreading another Obama because the situation we embraced in the Middle East has turned into a nightmare. The battle against ISIS has been a joke for the most part and now its grown into something so complicated that enemies are turning into allies and allies into enemies. The violence has now spread further into the region and there appears to no plan. NPR (which is a little left of center) is what I normally listen to and though the reports from them are almost always gloomy you don't hear about the situation in the national spotlight. We were trying to help the "moderate" rebels but who they were was never clear and we allowed ourselves to get half way committed into a situation we were not ready to handle. So millions and millions are being spent to keep a contingency force there, but their efforts are half hearted at best. From inside sources its flat out a joke. Also inside sources about Ukraine were painting a very very poor picture of what is actually going on there and how the US and NATO are pulling the strings to keep things as cool as possible is pretty disturbing. I think a national media source has actually released the story so I now feel ok to talk about it.
We left Iraq in awful shape and Afghanistan is even worse off, from my side of things it has always seemed that Obama has appeared just wish those things would go away. Not really committed, but more or less damage control. Whether he liked it or not he inherited those conflicts and just tried to make them go away as quietly as possible. In my honest opinion a lot of senior people should be fired or punished for what has transpired in Afghanistan. A lot of very good people, people I knew well, have died there and the more time that passes it seems like it was all for nothing.
The best candidate on the Right in my opinion is Ben Carson, probably the smartest of the entire field. However our country doesn't seem to like smart people calling the shots, they want entertainers and loud mouths who wow the audiences.
I dont agree with much of that.
Hillary has charisma?? That's one of her biggest problems. That and she isn't liberal enough for the white progressive folks not to reject her. I think Hillary believes what she says. Sure, Bernie comes across as more credible because he goes full Honey Badger on not caring about the optics of what he says, and yes a percentage love that, but a larger percentage will not vote for him because his policies are too liberal for too many people who vote (or at least will be effectively characterized that way in the GE).
His refusal to take PAC money and corporate money is great, but stupid because he will not be able to compete with a billion dollar plus funded republican nominee.
Ben Carson is the smartest?
Comparing Obamacare to slavery (the worst thing that happened since)?
Comparing Dems and America to NAZI Germany?
Saying Obama might declare martial law and cancel the 2016 elections?
Saying that after taking AP History, folks will be ready to join ISIS?
This ridiculous quote on evolution:
"And why did evolution divert in so many directions–birds, fish, elephants, apes, humans–if there is some force evolving to the maximum? Why isn’t everything a human–a superior human?"
Let's not even talk about the fact that he experimented on fetal tissues while decrying experimentation on fetal tissues because when he did it, "it was different."
I'm sorry, the idea that Ben Carson is the "smartest" or best candidate is head-shaking. And no, it's not because he's an uber-conservative. I can't stand Cruz or Walker, but they are way smarter, and way better as candidates than Carson.
Great neurosurgeon, no doubt...he should have stuck to his wheelhouse.
