Super Tuesday: Clinton, Trump look to pull away from rivals

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After Tuesdays results, it seem clear what common sense Republicans need to do; Vote for the person most likely to win the primary over Trump. In Florida, Senator Cruz and Governor Kasich voters should vote for Senator Rubio. In Ohio, they should all vote for Governor Kasich. And continue with this strategy throughout the remainder of the primaries. This will stop Trump from amassing 1,237 delegates and allow a chance for sanity to prevail at the convention.

I don't understand why voters that are so obviously loyal to one party only care who the candidate for the other party is? Your superior candidate with the best ideas and highest integrity and sterling track record will surely win the election, right?

Missing a lot there about democracy, its politics, electorate, Citizens United and Scotus, the impact on an election of the dynamics between two candidates vying for the same office and a multiplicity of other matters, not to mention my primary school Grade 5 teacher who during civics time in class said that in a democracy the majority isn't always right.

Primary school for me wuz a hundred years ago.

Do try to keep up plse thx.

(P.S. Ought not to let any single thing or person get to ya, to drive ya up a wall, especially so obviously and for all to see. Btw, have any kind of political campaign experience? Like, real world stuff??)

Yeah, but this is the primaries. We're nowhere's near the general election.

PS: I have phone banked for a candidate I favor, donated funds and this year I will participate in both the caucuses AND the primary held in my state.

Good show.

Get back to me when you've run a few campaigns and have been employed fulltime in campaigns in a various capacity, such as press/media, constituent liaison, organising events and people, deciding how to spending its money, strategising from midnight to 2 a.m. each and every night then get up 5 a.m. and do these things and much more seven dayze a week for several months.

Saw Steve Schmidt on television the other day, the guy who was chief strategist of McCain's 2008 campaign and who cooked up the Palin idea...much to his horror a short time later. Nonetheless a keenly analytical guy. Schmidt noted in the tv appearance most mistakes in a campaign are made of fatigue. It's exhausting and demanding in the extreme.

The only one of 'em all who isn't used to it is Trump. The Donald is a strong person and personality but he's gonna melt down to some extent on something sooner or later. Institutional Republicans had been hoping it would have happened before now. Trump's statements the end of last week and over the weekend were the first sign of exhaustion, as Trump blew it big time on David Duke and the KKK. It's going to happen again on some other issue. And yet another. And another still. Debates in the fall are his rat trap. May his political soul rest in peace.

HRC btw looks like she's strolling in the park. Fact is she's a rather stiff campaigner contrasted especially to Bill, but there's no limit to her energy level not to mention enthusiasm of purpose and goal. Hillary is definitely in it for the long haul and she well knows what the long haul of a campaign for Potus is. Coasting actually. Anyone who makes it look easy is absolute master of the trade.

[lannarebirth]

Thanks Boomer but I am not an American so I will leave it to someone else to make a list of obnoxious things Democrats have gotten up to if they can be bothered. As for Hillary she's been Secretary of State for long enough to address the problems she already speaks about and nothing seems to have changed under her watch so if you're right then it's more of the same.

Democratic politicians aren't perfect but they've put forth some decent legislation over the years. They know how to get bills passed, which is something Trump can't be bothered with. Trump doesn't want to work withing governmental and Constitutional mandates ("delay, delay, delay"). Trump wants to rule by FIAT. In other words, he will put on steel toed boots and walk all over government checks and balances, because he knows what's best for everyone, so why wait to go through due process? Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State in the Obama administration. Before that, she was a NY state representative. She was active in both jobs and did rather well. In contrast, her Republican associates just drag their feet on everything, while trying to find fault constantly, even resorting to immature name calling.

If Republicans don't like 'Obamacare' (which is nearly identical to Romney's earlier plan) let's see what they propose. The reason Republicans don't propose anything approaching universal health care is basically: All Republican congressmen are rich and they figure: if you can't afford to pay for your own medical care, then (as Trump would say) "you're a loser."

The discontent in America today is the reason why Trump is doing so well and that has shocked the Republican establishment as well as the Democrats, even Trump himself. I can only lay the reason for that at the door of the present Democratic government. What else can it be? Why do YOU think Trump has been so popular at this juncture in history?

You not being American, and not closely watching Congressional activities - shows in your naivite. The main reason Americans are not happy with Congresspeople is because Congressmen get salaries while doing little. Who are styming congressional advancements? Answer: The Republicans in Congress.

Don't expect the average Republican voter to fathom that it's their own Republican senators who are dragging their feet. It's also their elected Republicans who are enlarging government's role, rather than lessening it. Who is it who wants the government controlling how American women deal with unwanted pregnancies? It's Republicans - purportedly the party which wants less government.

If one could "walk all over America's checks and balances" don't you think some president might have done that in the past 240 years? Most presidents have had very strong personalities and not a small amount of ego. If it could have been done, it would have been done. Believe it.

[lannarebirth]

I don't understand why voters that are so obviously loyal to one party only care who the candidate for the other party is? Your superior candidate with the best ideas and highest integrity and sterling track record will surely win the election, right?

Missing a lot there about democracy, its politics, electorate, Citizens United and Scotus, the impact on an election of the dynamics between two candidates vying for the same office and a multiplicity of other matters, not to mention my primary school Grade 5 teacher who during civics time in class said that in a democracy the majority isn't always right.

Primary school for me wuz a hundred years ago.

Do try to keep up plse thx.

(P.S. Ought not to let any single thing or person get to ya, to drive ya up a wall, especially so obviously and for all to see. Btw, have any kind of political campaign experience? Like, real world stuff??)

Yeah, but this is the primaries. We're nowhere's near the general election.

PS: I have phone banked for a candidate I favor, donated funds and this year I will participate in both the caucuses AND the primary held in my state.

Good show.

Get back to me when you've run a few campaigns and have been employed fulltime in campaigns in a various capacity, such as press/media, constituent liaison, organising events and people, deciding how to spending its money, strategising from midnight to 2 a.m. each and every night then get up 5 a.m. and do these things and much more seven dayze a week for several months.

Saw Steve Schmidt on television the other day, the guy who was chief strategist of McCain's 2008 campaign and who cooked up the Palin idea...much to his horror a short time later. Nonetheless a keenly analytical guy. Schmidt noted in the tv appearance most mistakes in a campaign are made of fatigue. It's exhausting and demanding in the extreme.

The only one of 'em all who isn't used to it is Trump. The Donald is a strong person and personality but he's gonna melt down to some extent on something sooner or later. Institutional Republicans had been hoping it would have happened before now. Trump's statements the end of last week and over the weekend were the first sign of exhaustion, as Trump blew it big time on David Duke and the KKK. It's going to happen again on some other issue. And yet another. And another still. Debates in the fall are his rat trap. May his political soul rest in peace.

HRC btw looks like she's strolling in the park. Fact is she's a rather stiff campaigner contrasted especially to Bill, but there's no limit to her energy level not to mention enthusiasm of purpose and goal. Hillary is definitely in it for the long haul and she well knows what the long haul of a campaign for Potus is. Coasting actually. Anyone who makes it look easy is absolute master of the trade.

Leave your resume with the girl out front. There's a glut currently of those with your work history, but if something opens up I know where to find you.

I'm not really interested in Trump the candidate. I am interested in Trump the phenomenon and I find it the only exciting thing going on this election season. That and the Democrat's orchestrated and systematic suppression of the Sanders candidacy from all establishment quarters. It remains to be seen if that will blow up in their faces like it has the Republicans. I live in hope.

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Go easy on the SOU's then.

Don't want to see anyone fall back down again.

[chuckd]

Thanks Boomer but I am not an American so I will leave it to someone else to make a list of obnoxious things Democrats have gotten up to if they can be bothered. As for Hillary she's been Secretary of State for long enough to address the problems she already speaks about and nothing seems to have changed under her watch so if you're right then it's more of the same.

Democratic politicians aren't perfect but they've put forth some decent legislation over the years. They know how to get bills passed, which is something Trump can't be bothered with. Trump doesn't want to work withing governmental and Constitutional mandates ("delay, delay, delay"). Trump wants to rule by FIAT. In other words, he will put on steel toed boots and walk all over government checks and balances, because he knows what's best for everyone, so why wait to go through due process? Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State in the Obama administration. Before that, she was a NY state representative. She was active in both jobs and did rather well. In contrast, her Republican associates just drag their feet on everything, while trying to find fault constantly, even resorting to immature name calling.

If Republicans don't like 'Obamacare' (which is nearly identical to Romney's earlier plan) let's see what they propose. The reason Republicans don't propose anything approaching universal health care is basically: All Republican congressmen are rich and they figure: if you can't afford to pay for your own medical care, then (as Trump would say) "you're a loser."

The discontent in America today is the reason why Trump is doing so well and that has shocked the Republican establishment as well as the Democrats, even Trump himself. I can only lay the reason for that at the door of the present Democratic government. What else can it be? Why do YOU think Trump has been so popular at this juncture in history?

You not being American, and not closely watching Congressional activities - shows in your naivite. The main reason Americans are not happy with Congresspeople is because Congressmen get salaries while doing little. Who are styming congressional advancements? Answer: The Republicans in Congress.

Don't expect the average Republican voter to fathom that it's their own Republican senators who are dragging their feet. It's also their elected Republicans who are enlarging government's role, rather than lessening it. Who is it who wants the government controlling how American women deal with unwanted pregnancies? It's Republicans - purportedly the party which wants less government.

If one could "walk all over America's checks and balances" don't you think some president might have done that in the past 240 years? Most presidents have had very strong personalities and not a small amount of ego. If it could have been done, it would have been done. Believe it.

Obama has been doing just that for the past seven years.

Not a hint of protest from the great unwashed liberal left.

[Linzz]

Thanks Boomer but I am not an American so I will leave it to someone else to make a list of obnoxious things Democrats have gotten up to if they can be bothered. As for Hillary she's been Secretary of State for long enough to address the problems she already speaks about and nothing seems to have changed under her watch so if you're right then it's more of the same.

Democratic politicians aren't perfect but they've put forth some decent legislation over the years. They know how to get bills passed, which is something Trump can't be bothered with. Trump doesn't want to work withing governmental and Constitutional mandates ("delay, delay, delay"). Trump wants to rule by FIAT. In other words, he will put on steel toed boots and walk all over government checks and balances, because he knows what's best for everyone, so why wait to go through due process? Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State in the Obama administration. Before that, she was a NY state representative. She was active in both jobs and did rather well. In contrast, her Republican associates just drag their feet on everything, while trying to find fault constantly, even resorting to immature name calling.

If Republicans don't like 'Obamacare' (which is nearly identical to Romney's earlier plan) let's see what they propose. The reason Republicans don't propose anything approaching universal health care is basically: All Republican congressmen are rich and they figure: if you can't afford to pay for your own medical care, then (as Trump would say) "you're a loser."

The discontent in America today is the reason why Trump is doing so well and that has shocked the Republican establishment as well as the Democrats, even Trump himself. I can only lay the reason for that at the door of the present Democratic government. What else can it be? Why do YOU think Trump has been so popular at this juncture in history?

You not being American, and not closely watching Congressional activities - shows in your naivite. The main reason Americans are not happy with Congresspeople is because Congressmen get salaries while doing little. Who are styming congressional advancements? Answer: The Republicans in Congress.

Don't expect the average Republican voter to fathom that it's their own Republican senators who are dragging their feet. It's also their elected Republicans who are enlarging government's role, rather than lessening it. Who is it who wants the government controlling how American women deal with unwanted pregnancies? It's Republicans - purportedly the party which wants less government.

Well thanks. I wondered if by saying I wasn't American suddenly what I say would be discounted. So if I'm an American I'm not naive. If you are right at all about detail the word might be "mis" or "uninformed". However I am interested in American politics and am entitled to comment without condescension because basically if America sneezes then the whole world catches cold.

[lannarebirth]

Obama has been doing just that for the past seven years.

Not a hint of protest from the great unwashed liberal left.

Yes, he has somewhat, but the c's & b's take time to work through the system. And the liberals really ought to hope that they do, because if Obama's precedent stands a "President Trump" would be dangerous. I'm pretty confident the SC is going to strike down most of Obama's executive orders though.

[mopar71]

No one ever tells my why Hillary is better,....

She knows how to effectively deal with foreign leaders. Foreign leaders like Clinton, they don't like Trump.

So what has been the benefit of Obama selling guns to the Mexican Cartels and the forerunner of ISIS?

Many of the Mexican cartels' guns are as easy to get as crossing the border in to a US city like San Antonio, where there are giant gun shows where anyone can buy a military-type gun by just slapping the cash down on the table. It's Republican rednecks who keep the military weapons biz going - enabling any punk in North America to get automatic weapons and use them however they want. Cruz, Rubio and Trump love those guys. They're their base supporters.

1) I don't vote for someone because someone in another country likes them. That can be a bad sign just as easily as a good one. An example of a bad sign in Hillary's case, would be the OTHER investigation going on is with selling influence via the Clinton Foundation. That plays a big factor in her popularity.

2) Mexican Cartel guns - you are missing the point...the Obama Admin directly sold guns to the cartel in hopes of tracking them, then they lost track of 1400. Don't even try to blame that on rednecks or Republicans.

[boomerangutang]

If one could "walk all over America's checks and balances" don't you think some president might have done that in the past 240 years? Most presidents have had very strong personalities and not a small amount of ego. If it could have been done, it would have been done. Believe it.

Nixon (Watergate) and Reagan (Iran-Contra) sure did it, .....at least for many months, until the liberal media started exposing their lies.

Well thanks. I wondered if by saying I wasn't American suddenly what I say would be discounted. So if I'm an American I'm not naive. If you are right at all about detail the word might be "mis" or "uninformed". However I am interested in American politics and am entitled to comment without condescension because basically if America sneezes then the whole world catches cold.

I apologize. Obviously I don't know what you know. It's common for non-Americans to know a lot more about what's going on in the halls of power, than Americans. Heck, most Americans don't know much about geography or science.

[mopar71]

Democratic politicians aren't perfect but they've put forth some decent legislation over the years. They know how to get bills passed, which is something Trump can't be bothered with. Constitutional mandates ("delay, delay, delay"). Trump wants to rule by FIAT. In other words, he will put on steel toed boots and walk all over government checks and balances, because he knows what's best for everyone, so why wait to go through due process?

The Dems know how to get bills passed? Let's see, the first 2 YEARS of the Obama Admin they had super majorities in both the House & Senate (in practice because the "Independents" like Bernie made it so). So the Republicans could not block anything. Yeah, those Dems certainly have the secret recipe for getting things done!

Even so...

1) Dems had to pass Obamacare by a vote in the middle of the night on Christmas Eve. Then over a dozen times later Obama changed the law himself, without Congress...you could say he walked all over gov't checks and balances with his golf shoes.

2) During those first 2 years Obama never made a move on Immigration or closing Gitmo, or a number of other things that the rubber stamp Dem Congress could have slid by the American public.

btw - If the Republican nominee wins the White House and they maintain control of Congress, will you be pointing out how the Democrats are nothing but "delay, delay, delay"? No, Dems will be saying the same thing they said prior to winning Congress in 2006...it is their duty to oppose the president.

[lannarebirth]

If one could "walk all over America's checks and balances" don't you think some president might have done that in the past 240 years? Most presidents have had very strong personalities and not a small amount of ego. If it could have been done, it would have been done. Believe it.

Nixon (Watergate) and Reagan (Iran-Contra) sure did it, .....at least for many months, until the liberal media started exposing their lies.

You make my point, thanks. Unfortunately, that "pillar of democracy" you mention, the press, only exposes the lies of that half of the political elite that they support. The other half gets a free pass. I get the feeling you're OK with that.

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Missing a lot there about democracy, its politics, electorate, Citizens United and Scotus, the impact on an election of the dynamics between two candidates vying for the same office and a multiplicity of other matters, not to mention my primary school Grade 5 teacher who during civics time in class said that in a democracy the majority isn't always right.

Primary school for me wuz a hundred years ago.

Do try to keep up plse thx.

(P.S. Ought not to let any single thing or person get to ya, to drive ya up a wall, especially so obviously and for all to see. Btw, have any kind of political campaign experience? Like, real world stuff??)

Yeah, but this is the primaries. We're nowhere's near the general election.

PS: I have phone banked for a candidate I favor, donated funds and this year I will participate in both the caucuses AND the primary held in my state.

Good show.

Get back to me when you've run a few campaigns and have been employed fulltime in campaigns in a various capacity, such as press/media, constituent liaison, organising events and people, deciding how to spending its money, strategising from midnight to 2 a.m. each and every night then get up 5 a.m. and do these things and much more seven dayze a week for several months.

Saw Steve Schmidt on television the other day, the guy who was chief strategist of McCain's 2008 campaign and who cooked up the Palin idea...much to his horror a short time later. Nonetheless a keenly analytical guy. Schmidt noted in the tv appearance most mistakes in a campaign are made of fatigue. It's exhausting and demanding in the extreme.

The only one of 'em all who isn't used to it is Trump. The Donald is a strong person and personality but he's gonna melt down to some extent on something sooner or later. Institutional Republicans had been hoping it would have happened before now. Trump's statements the end of last week and over the weekend were the first sign of exhaustion, as Trump blew it big time on David Duke and the KKK. It's going to happen again on some other issue. And yet another. And another still. Debates in the fall are his rat trap. May his political soul rest in peace.

HRC btw looks like she's strolling in the park. Fact is she's a rather stiff campaigner contrasted especially to Bill, but there's no limit to her energy level not to mention enthusiasm of purpose and goal. Hillary is definitely in it for the long haul and she well knows what the long haul of a campaign for Potus is. Coasting actually. Anyone who makes it look easy is absolute master of the trade.

Leave your resume with the girl out front. There's a glut currently of those with your work history, but if something opens up I know where to find you.

I'm not really interested in Trump the candidate. I am interested in Trump the phenomenon and I find it the only exciting thing going on this election season. That and the Democrat's orchestrated and systematic suppression of the Sanders candidacy from all establishment quarters. It remains to be seen if that will blow up in their faces like it has the Republicans. I live in hope.

Leave your resume with the girl out front.

Thx but no need of that at all anywhere. Got out of it finally at long last cause one can take only so much. Your gal is filing her fingernails anyway. (Btw Groucho she wears green lipstick because red says no. )

I'm not really interested in Trump the candidate. I am interested in Trump the phenomenon and I find it the only exciting thing going on this election season.

So you must like car wrecks.

Not to mention the occasional trail jumping the tracks. Into the Bayou...2 a.m.

Here I'd thought we'd been talking about the election of the Potus.

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No one ever tells my why Hillary is better,....

She knows how to effectively deal with foreign leaders. Foreign leaders like Clinton, they don't like Trump.

So what has been the benefit of Obama selling guns to the Mexican Cartels and the forerunner of ISIS?

Many of the Mexican cartels' guns are as easy to get as crossing the border in to a US city like San Antonio, where there are giant gun shows where anyone can buy a military-type gun by just slapping the cash down on the table. It's Republican rednecks who keep the military weapons biz going - enabling any punk in North America to get automatic weapons and use them however they want. Cruz, Rubio and Trump love those guys. They're their base supporters.

1) I don't vote for someone because someone in another country likes them. That can be a bad sign just as easily as a good one. An example of a bad sign in Hillary's case, would be the OTHER investigation going on is with selling influence via the Clinton Foundation. That plays a big factor in her popularity.

2) Mexican Cartel guns - you are missing the point...the Obama Admin directly sold guns to the cartel in hopes of tracking them, then they lost track of 1400. Don't even try to blame that on rednecks or Republicans.

Neither President Obama nor a Pres. Hillary Clinton would order a war crime such as Trump says he would. Going after the families of the enemy specifically as government policy or carpet bombing whole territories inside a sovereign country to include populated areas absolutely would be war crimes.

Your boy Trump to include Cruz will look odd standing before the court in the Hague but many of us could deal with it readily and easily. To include watching 'em squirm to explain sand glowing in the dark which no one can talk his way through.

It might be that Mexico would tell Trump and his followers running for the Republican nomination that Mexico can deduct the cost of the guns to Mexico in lives and treasure from the expense of the rightwing wall. With compound interest. It's also hard to figure the cost in all respects of alienating one billion Muslims.

[mopar71]

1) I don't vote for someone because someone in another country likes them. That can be a bad sign just as easily as a good one. An example of a bad sign in Hillary's case, would be the OTHER investigation going on is with selling influence via the Clinton Foundation. That plays a big factor in her popularity.

2) Mexican Cartel guns - you are missing the point...the Obama Admin directly sold guns to the cartel in hopes of tracking them, then they lost track of 1400. Don't even try to blame that on rednecks or Republicans.

Neither President Obama nor a Pres. Hillary Clinton would order a war crime such as Trump says he would. Going after the families of the enemy specifically as government policy or carpet bombing whole territories inside a sovereign country to include populated areas absolutely would be war crimes.

Your boy Trump to include Cruz will look odd standing before the court in the Hague but many of us could deal with it readily and easily. To include watching 'em squirm to explain sand glowing in the dark which no one can talk his way through.

It might be that Mexico would tell Trump and his followers running for the Republican nomination that Mexico can deduct the cost of the guns to Mexico in lives and treasure from the expense of the rightwing wall. With compound interest. It's also hard to figure the cost in all respects of alienating one billion Muslims.

I have noticed that many on the left care a lot about possible, hypothetical crimes of Trump but couldn't care less about actual crimes like those committed by their favorite walking pantsuit.

[boomerangutang]

Go Trump! He will probably get thwumped more thoroughly than either Cruz or Rubio - when facing off with either of the Dem contenders.

Trump is the consummate salesman.

When proposing to his first wife, he got down on one knee and said convincingly, "You will be soooooo happy with me. I promise."

When proposing to his second wife, he got down on one knee and said convincingly, "You will be soooooo happy with me. I promise."

When proposing to his third wife, he got down on one knee and said convincingly, "You will be soooooo happy with me. I promise."

When he won in NH, he assured the adoring crowd; "You will be soooooo happy with me. I promise."

[Jingthing]

I'm getting closer to favoring Trump to run against HRC.

Sure he might win, but Kasich-Rubio ticket with a promise to Cruz for the supreme court would be more likely to win.

Both are disastrous. The latter is just more predictable, you know what you're getting. With Trump you get the psychopathic demagogue that doesn't even know himself what he's about.

[Jingthing]

Here's how it could still be a Kasich - Rubio ticket with Cruz on the supreme court.

Cruz has emerged as 2nd to Trump ... BUT!

Rubio will probably lose Florida.

Kasich will probably win Ohio and maybe Michigan.

So Rubio will be fading.

Going into the convention, if Trump lacks the delegates to win on the first ballot, and Cruz is second ...

then the fun begins.

There could be legal ruling saying Cruz is not eligible to be president, but is eligible for SCOTUS.

Kasich might have bumped out Rubio by then for 3rd.

So all three could join together to DUMP TRUMP.

So it could be Kasich - Rubio.

A scary challenge for HRC to run against (Ohio plus Florida).

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1) I don't vote for someone because someone in another country likes them. That can be a bad sign just as easily as a good one. An example of a bad sign in Hillary's case, would be the OTHER investigation going on is with selling influence via the Clinton Foundation. That plays a big factor in her popularity.

2) Mexican Cartel guns - you are missing the point...the Obama Admin directly sold guns to the cartel in hopes of tracking them, then they lost track of 1400. Don't even try to blame that on rednecks or Republicans.

Neither President Obama nor a Pres. Hillary Clinton would order a war crime such as Trump says he would. Going after the families of the enemy specifically as government policy or carpet bombing whole territories inside a sovereign country to include populated areas absolutely would be war crimes.

Your boy Trump to include Cruz will look odd standing before the court in the Hague but many of us could deal with it readily and easily. To include watching 'em squirm to explain sand glowing in the dark which no one can talk his way through.

It might be that Mexico would tell Trump and his followers running for the Republican nomination that Mexico can deduct the cost of the guns to Mexico in lives and treasure from the expense of the rightwing wall. With compound interest. It's also hard to figure the cost in all respects of alienating one billion Muslims.

I have noticed that many on the left care a lot about possible, hypothetical crimes of Trump but couldn't care less about actual crimes like those committed by their favorite walking pantsuit.

There's the rightwhinge word 'actual' again, right there in front of the word "crime."

Then there's also 'real' immediately before "justice."

The word 'felon' completes the short list of rightwhinge favorites that keep appearing like a hair in Trump's soup. Foxhair.

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People getting bent out of shape about war crimes should perhaps consider how many ISIS war criminals have been tried by the Hague.

Meanwhile people are being raped, tortured and murdered on a daily basis by ISIS. The Geneva convention has completely failed to protect innocent people there.

But hey - the West cant possibly waterboard someone. That wouldnt be nice.

Talk about tying your own hands behind your back.