GOP Nominee

[Tellos Athenaios]

You mean like Top Gear and that wonderfully objective exposé posted above? I thought the discussion was about our how awful our news was in comparison. NPR is remarkably similar in its format and reporting to the BBC, although it is a bit less sensationalist.

You're not still smarting about the time they went to Alabama, are you? Top Gear is just a heavily scripted entertainment show, though in the Alabama case I don't think it was the BBC who shot the "welcome to Alabama" sign...

[Centurion1]

Right now Russia is of greater threat mostly because as PVC said regarding the views of those nations regarding the rest of the world. Also I see China as a paper tiger of sorts with revolution approaching as they create a stronger middle class and drift more towards capitalism.

[Hax]

I attended a lecture about that issue, I don't think the people in China are aiming towards a revolution. But then again, we said the same thing about the Arab world. Who knows?

[ICantSpellDawg]

Romney managed to get Pravda to endorse Barack Obama by saying what he said, so it was a smart move.

[Lemur]

Romney managed to get Pravda to endorse Barack Obama by saying what he said, so it was a smart move.

So Russia is a more clear and present danger than nuclear-armed Pakistan? May I remind you that Pakistan was hosting OBL, supports the Taliban when it suits them, and is in constant danger of falling to various Islamist insurgencies?

Russia is a greater geopolitical threat than Iran, which can spike the price of oil, and thus endanger the Western economies, merely by threatening to shut down the Strait of Hormuz? (Admittedly, it's an empty threat, but the markets are so jumpy and skittish that it doesn't matter.)

In what mental universe should Russia be at the top of our threat list?

[Askthepizzaguy]

The one that still thinks the Cold War is going on, and that Reagan is still President.

Reagan; you know, the guy who would be mostly to the left of Obama, but the Republicans just looooooove.

[gaelic cowboy]

In what mental universe should Russia be at the top of our threat list?

No universe using logic thats for sure.


http://carnegieendowment.org/files/demos_www_calosc.pdf

Apparently this is what the serious people really think of Russia note the title is Modernization or Decline.

Page 9 pretty much tells you Russia is not a real threat and page 21 pretty much confirms it.

[rvg]

No universe using logic thats for sure.

That fits the U.S. election year universe like a glove.

[gaelic cowboy]

That fits the U.S. election year universe like a glove.

Every society has it's myths that are rolled out every so often regardless of the situtation.

Every single vote on the EU we ever had here always had one thing tacked on regardless of the treaty "Does this mean a Euro Army if so when/where can I vote NO"

Our myth is that were "Neutral" which is a big joke really, as if we could be really neutral or even allowed to be so.

[Lemur]

Okay, can we finally declare this thing over? Rubio endorses Romney; that's all she wrote, yes?

[rvg]

Okay, can we finally declare this thing over? Rubio endorses Romney; that's all she wrote, yes?

I'd rather see this drag on for as long as possible.

[ICantSpellDawg]

Okay, can we finally declare this thing over? Rubio endorses Romney; that's all she wrote, yes?

Wahoo! Paul Ryan has leaked that he has endorsed Romney, also(even though he can't).

Rubio, H.W.B., J.B., and now Ryan? That's a winning week. The primary is already a distant afterthought, isn't it? Romney leading in Wisconsin (thanks for all of your help there, Lemur ;-)), Romney tied in PA and a bunch of northeastern states coming up. Hopefully it won't be long now.

[CountArach]

Wahoo! Paul Ryan has leaked that he has endorsed Romney, also(even though he can't).

Rubio, H.W.B., J.B., and now Ryan? That's a winning week. The primary is already a distant afterthought, isn't it? Romney leading in Wisconsin (thanks for all of your help there, Lemur ;-)), Romney tied in PA and a bunch of northeastern states coming up. Hopefully it won't be long now.

To be fair, winning the establishment was never going to be the hard part for him.

[CountArach]

Oh Santorum...

[Lemur]

Oh Santorum...

I don't hear it, sorry. To me it sounds like he has a stumbly moment, nothing more. You could just as easily read him calling Obama an "Inca" from the sound.

-edit-

Okay, listening more closely, he stumbles and says "nig," then moves on. Nothing too terribly exciting.

[CountArach]

Okay, listening more closely, he stumbles and says "nig," then moves on. Nothing too terrible exciting.

But what else could he possibly have been saying?

[Lemur]

Heck, he might have just been having a fumble-mouth moment. I would need much stronger evidence than this to believe a guy who survived this long in a presidential primary could say something so self-destructively stupid.

Santorum is extreme, yes, but he's not that sort of extreme. He's more Jimmy Swaggart than Stormfront.

[CountArach]

Heck, he might have just been having a fumble-mouth moment. I would need much stronger evidence than this to believe a guy who survived this long in a presidential primary could say something so self-destructively stupid.

Even Santorum? But truth be told I'm with you on this one. I just find little things like this amusing. If anything the thing that I found most amusing about it was that when he fumbled on "nig" he happened to stumble onto the uncertain "err"... an unfortunate choice of pauses.

[Strike For The South]

Rick Santorum doesn't care about black people

[Sasaki Kojiro]

But what else could he possibly have been saying?

Even Santorum? But truth be told I'm with you on this one. I just find little things like this amusing.

Change your mind, lol?

[a completely inoffensive name]

I go away for 3 days and people take my role of blowing up inane slip ups of GOP candidates. Sigh....It's like you guys don't even need me.

[CountArach]

Change your mind, lol?

No I just like winding people up.

[CountArach]

All US Presidential discussion should now be posted in this thread.