{"id":8858,"date":"2015-10-13T20:57:37","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T00:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=8858"},"modified":"2016-09-29T11:16:11","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T15:16:11","slug":"dem-prez-candidates-vegas-whoop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/13\/dem-prez-candidates-vegas-whoop\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem Prez Candidates Vegas Whoop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let the carping begin!<\/p>\n<p>Instead of having Sheryl Crow sing the National Anthem,\u00a0the candidates should have been required to prove they knew all the words to the song.<\/p>\n<p>*Hearing &#8220;the land of the free&#8221; invocation at the Dem. prez debate is as incongruous as hearing a mud wrestling ad at a Mormon tabernacle.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>*Wonder how many attendees in Las Vegas thought they were actually going to a George Carlin performance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*Holy shizam! Webb invokes his experience as author &amp; journalist as qualification for presidency. He\u2019s doomed.<\/p>\n<p>*O\u2019Malley boasts of his \u2018comprehensive gun safety\u2019 bill as governor &#8211; the recoil from that made a Republican governor of Maryland<\/p>\n<p>*It is unseemly to see politicians dragging their ancestors from their grave to rattle the bones to garner votes.<\/p>\n<p>*O&#8217;Malley running for prez as a gun grabber &#8211; total crap on respecting western Maryland &#8211; he is despised there &amp; most parts of Maryland<\/p>\n<p>*O&#8217;Malley making being anti-gun his top issue &#8211; as a Marylander, I recall the scams that drove his prize law onto the book<\/p>\n<p>*O&#8217;Malley wants to grab private guns &#8211; but sez &#8216;No commander in chief should take the military option off the table<\/p>\n<p>*How many lies can Hillary tell about Libya &amp; &#8220;smart power&#8221; in two minutes?<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Malley&#8217;s prized gun control law makes it far harder for poor blacks in Baltimore to legally acquire effective self-defense<\/p>\n<p>*O&#8217;Malley brags about no increase in college tuition &#8211; but Maryland taxpayers got screwed to the wall<\/p>\n<div class=\"expanded-content js-tweet-details-dropdown\">\u00a0*Hillary Clinton rails about &#8220;shadow banking&#8221; &#8211; what about shadow emails &amp; shadow deals for her aides?<\/div>\n<div class=\"expanded-content js-tweet-details-dropdown\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"expanded-content js-tweet-details-dropdown\">* Sanders whoops up his free tuition program &#8211; but what about his itch to shut down college student centers (according to WPost)?<\/div>\n<div class=\"expanded-content js-tweet-details-dropdown\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"expanded-content js-tweet-details-dropdown\">*<span data-reactid=\".bs.1:5.1:$comment10206693836177946_10206694899924539\/=10.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\"><span class=\"UFICommentBody\" data-reactid=\".bs.1:5.1:$comment10206693836177946_10206694899924539\/=10.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0\"><span data-reactid=\".bs.1:5.1:$comment10206693836177946_10206694899924539\/=10.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end\/=1$text0\/=010\">O&#8217;Malley &#8220;We passed a state version of the Dream Act&#8221; &#8211; &amp; now Montgomery Co. schools nosediving &amp; canceling exams to cover up<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"expanded-content js-tweet-details-dropdown\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"expanded-content js-tweet-details-dropdown\">*CNN asks Sanders if he is &#8220;tougher on climate change?&#8221; Toughness is no substitute for brains<\/div>\n<div class=\"expanded-content js-tweet-details-dropdown\"><span data-reactid=\".24.1:5.1:$replies10206693836177946_10206694945925689\/=10.1:2:$comment10206693836177946_10206694965966190\/=10.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0\">\/\/Great response on Facebook: <a class=\" UFICommentActorName\" dir=\"ltr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/philip.crincoli.sr?fref=ufi\" data-reactid=\".24.1:5.1:$replies10206693836177946_10206694945925689\/=10.1:2:$comment10206693836177946_10206694965966190\/=10.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0.0\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;;&quot;}\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/hovercard.php?id=1491542666&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22hc_location%22%3A%22ufi_admin%22%7D\"><span data-reactid=\".24.1:5.1:$replies10206693836177946_10206694945925689\/=10.1:2:$comment10206693836177946_10206694965966190\/=10.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0.0.0\">Philip J. Crincoli Sr.<\/span><\/a><\/span><span data-reactid=\".24.1:5.1:$replies10206693836177946_10206694945925689\/=10.1:2:$comment10206693836177946_10206694965966190\/=10.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1\"> <span data-reactid=\".24.1:5.1:$replies10206693836177946_10206694945925689\/=10.1:2:$comment10206693836177946_10206694965966190\/=10.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\"><span class=\"UFICommentBody\" data-reactid=\".24.1:5.1:$replies10206693836177946_10206694945925689\/=10.1:2:$comment10206693836177946_10206694965966190\/=10.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0\"><span data-reactid=\".24.1:5.1:$replies10206693836177946_10206694945925689\/=10.1:2:$comment10206693836177946_10206694965966190\/=10.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end\/=1$text0\/=010\">Tough on Climate Change? LOL. Is he going to confiscate thermometers?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"expanded-content js-tweet-details-dropdown\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"expanded-content js-tweet-details-dropdown\">*Hillary &#8211; &#8220;this terrible result of huge population in prison for non-violent drug offenses&#8221; &#8211; thanks in part to Clinton&#8217;s 1994 crime bill<\/div>\n<div class=\"expanded-content js-tweet-details-dropdown\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"expanded-content js-tweet-details-dropdown\">*Best line of the night? Chafee: &#8220;I am running for president to end the wars.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"expanded-content js-tweet-details-dropdown\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"expanded-content js-tweet-details-dropdown\">*Biggest howler of the night? Hillary Clinton said the Obama admin. attack on Libya was &#8220;smart power at its best.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let the carping begin! Instead of having Sheryl Crow sing the National Anthem,\u00a0the candidates should have been required to prove they knew all the words to the song. *Hearing &#8220;the land of the free&#8221; invocation at the Dem. prez debate is as incongruous as hearing a mud wrestling ad at a Mormon tabernacle. *Wonder how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,104,274,52,746,356,339],"class_list":["post-8858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-attention-deficit-democracy","tag-beer","tag-buffoonery","tag-democracy","tag-democratic-presidential-debate","tag-elections","tag-hillary-clinton"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dem Prez Candidates Vegas Whoop - 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Bovard\u2019s writings have been publicly denounced by FBI director Louis Freeh, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Postmaster General, and the chiefs of the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as well as by many congressmen and other malcontents.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.jimbovard.com","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jim.bovard","https:\/\/x.com\/jimbovard"],"url":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8858"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9678,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8858\/revisions\/9678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}