Red Mosquito

I'll be curious to see if he gets ripped for this:

Bernie Sanders wrote:Every other country on earth says that when a mother has a baby, she should stay home with that baby.

well, that was dark, Jim Webb. You just killed a guy.

Green Habit wrote:I'll be curious to see if he gets ripped for this:

Bernie Sanders wrote:Every other country on earth says that when a mother has a baby, she should stay home with that baby.

Maybe, but I'm sure you could find documentation that he meant "when a person has a baby, he and/or she should have the option to stay home with the baby."

B wrote:

Green Habit wrote:I'll be curious to see if he gets ripped for this:

Bernie Sanders wrote:Every other country on earth says that when a mother has a baby, she should stay home with that baby.

Maybe, but I'm sure you could find documentation that he meant "when a person has a baby, he and/or she should have the option to stay home with the baby."

Also, even though he didn't put it eloquently, practically every doctor and every psychologist and everyone who studies this says that child-parent bonding is an essential public health issue (we just went through having a baby, and "bonding" was a huge buzzword). So yes, parents should stay home--not to enforce gender roles, but for legitimate health purposes.

O'Malley is gunning for a VP nomination pretty hard.

And he's doing a good job of earning it. He did well tonight. He's not going to get it, though. Clinton also did very well, but I'm still not voting for her.
The real winner of tonight's debate?

Spoiler: show

Anderson Cooper

B wrote:

Green Habit wrote:I'll be curious to see if he gets ripped for this:

Bernie Sanders wrote:Every other country on earth says that when a mother has a baby, she should stay home with that baby.

Maybe, but I'm sure you could find documentation that he meant "when a person has a baby, he and/or she should have the option to stay home with the baby."

I'm sure you could, too, and I agree. I'll still be curious if some rip him for how he framed it.

Yeah, O'Malley sounded great (I was aware of most of his positions, but never heard him speak much before). Bernie and Clinton sounded exactly as I expected. Chafee looked like his batteries were in backwards. Webb eats the souls of Viet Cong and that scares me.

P.S. Bern and his wife are fucking adorable.

I like how Chris Cuomo was chasing Bernie around the stage immediately after the debate for an interview, but Bernie kept running away from him and looking for his people.

Big question: those people who got their picture taken with Chafee after the debate...who did they think Chafee actually was?

I don't know, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to have nightmares about him tonight. He's all the evidence I need to re-confirm my belief that Rhode Island should just become part of Massachusetts.

Chafee comes from one of the most corrupt states in the country, but his squeaky-clean image doesn't have anything to do with him fighting for truth and justice. A recent document dump from one of the most recent scandals--the 38-Studios debacle--suggests that he was kept out of the loop on backroom wheelings and dealings because everyone was afraid he wouldn't understand things. Chafee wasn't clever enough to be crooked.

So there are no good candidates in either party this election. Great.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:So there are no good candidates in either party this election. Great.

I'm pretty sure I've said that in every single election I can remember.

Green Habit wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:So there are no good candidates in either party this election. Great.

I'm pretty sure I've said that in every single election I can remember.

Yeah, my attitude is pretty much "here we go again", although every four years I'm hopeful someone will stand out.

Wesley Clark, where are you when we need you?

Elizabeth Warren is the only politician I'm legitimately excited about.

turned2black wrote:Elizabeth Warren is the only politician I'm legitimately excited about.

The angry old man version doesn't quite do it for you?

Green Habit wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:So there are no good candidates in either party this election. Great.

I'm pretty sure I've said that in every single election I can remember.

Remember how it felt like George Bush and Al Gore were not different enough for it to even matter?

Shows what we know.

McParadigm wrote:

Green Habit wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:So there are no good candidates in either party this election. Great.

I'm pretty sure I've said that in every single election I can remember.

Remember how it felt like George Bush and Al Gore were not different enough for it to even matter?

Shows what we know.

“I trust @BernieSanders with my tax dollars like I trust a North Korean chef with my labrador!”

Spoiler: show