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Hillary Clinton Chooses Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine As Running Mate (go.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ABC News: Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine has been chosen as Hillary Clinton's running mate -- a man she called a "relentless optimist" who "devoted his life to fighting for others." Kaine has long been considered to be at the top of Clinton's short list. He was previously vetted for the vice presidency by Barack Obama in 2008. Kaine was an early supporter of Clinton's, appearing at a "Ready for Hillary" breakfast in May 2014 where he urged her to enter the 2016 presidential race. Kaine told NBC in June that he "encouraged her to run in May of 2014, because I could telescope forward and see some of the challenges that this nation would be facing. And I decided that by reason of character, by reason of background, and experience, but also especially by reason of results, she would be the most qualified person to be president in January of 2017." Prior to being elected to the Senate, Kaine served as governor and lieutenant governor of Virginia. In 2009, President Obama picked Kaine to lead the Democratic National Committee. Last week, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump announced Mike Pence as his VP running mate.
" I think it’s an upgrade in intellectual property protections,”
Just the guy we need, another Joe Biden. Source
When the copyright term is "forever minus a day", live every day like it's the last.
So we have a democratic VP that is pro TPP and has no problem with Americans that can't find jobs.
We have a GOP candidate's daughter that more or less pitched parental rights, and they applauded it. Then a GOP candidate that came out against TPP. WTF is going on with this race.
Milktoast centrist put in vice president status. Courage required: 0
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At least the guy is well educated and experienced.
Not a dramatic choice - but a solid guy all the same. Would be justly called pretty conservative most places outside the US.
I'd have much preferred an Al Franken or Elizabeth Warren emotionally - but see the virtue in a low-key centrist technocrat.
Perhaps he's exciting by virtue of being boring in this environment. Get the guy training with some comedians before the debate, and a few good lines with low expectations could have OK results.
In other news: No news is news, in this news cycle. Which isn't news, with 24 hour news.
Ryan Fenton
Kaine supports public abortion funding. (Oct 2012) http://www.ontheissues.org/Sen...
He's 'pro-life' personally but professionally does not impose his beliefs on others.
Statement from NARAL Pro-Choice America, ""While Senator Kaine has been open about his personal reservations about abortion, he’s maintained a 100% pro-choice voting record in the U.S. Senate. He voted against dangerous abortion bans, he has fought against efforts to defund Planned Parenthood, and he voted to strengthen clinic security by establishing a federal fund for it," NARAL President Ilyse Hogue said in the statement. "
Trump didn't send anyone over to push those rights when they were hashing out the Republican party platform this week. So the platform is even more anti-LGBT than last convention despite their "leader" supposedly being pro LGBT. So either Trump is somewhat apathetic about the whole thing or more likely he's just clueless about how political parties operate and didn't know it was part of his responsibility. Which makes me wonder how he'd actually run a country if he's messing up the simple stuff.
The neat thing here is that everything you just whined about doesn't describe liberalism
That depends on where you live. In Europe, a "liberal" is a libertarian. In America, a "liberal" is a progressive, or what Europeans would call a social democrat. In Australia, a "liberal" is a conservative.
He DOES NOT say the problem is "the other".
He says the problems are:
1. Incompetent politicians making stupid, bad, thousand-page-long trade bills.
2. Politicians and big businesses cooperating to import ILLEGAL laborers into America to push down wages
3. Corrupt politicians not upholding their oaths and actually enforcing the laws on the books that require illegal aliens to be deported, and worse they actively unleash illegal alien criminals back into US society over and over and over again where thousands of aAmerican CITIZENS of ALL ethnicities have been killed, raped, mugged, etc
4. Incompetent or corrupt politicians who have admitted there is no way to properly screen people from parts of the world currently ensnared in radical jihadi violence, are nonetheless importing thousands of people from those very ares into the country. Trump insists this must be stopped until governmenr becomes competent at screening them. Anybody claiming this constitutes a "permanent ban" are either lying or are admitting that politicians and bureaucrats will NEVER become competent, in which case all their talk about it already being safe to import these people with the current admitted phony screening is exposed as a lie.
Since when did screening to block entry of jihadi whackos (people with a toxic and dangerous BELIEF system) constitute either racism or a general ooposition to "the other"?
Since when did wanting to follow the law and eject people who ILLEGALLY enter a place (something people of all races do) while supporting LEGAL immigration constitute either racism or a general opposition to "the other"?
The modern left appears to have no honest winning arguments and must always erect strawman arguments to knock down. People who do this might well have a great commitment to their opinions, but they have no confidence in the validity of their opinions.