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Chelsea Manning eyes U.S. Senate seat for Maryland
Chelsea Manning, the transgender U.S. Army soldier who served seven years in military prison for leaking classified data, is seeking the Democratic Party's nomination for the U.S. Senate seat from Maryland, according to Federal election filings seen on Saturday.
[...] Democratic Senator Ben Cardin was elected in 2006 to that seat and is expected to run for re-election this year. He is the senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Cardin was easily re-elected in 2012, beating his Republican challenger by 30 points in the heavily-Democratic state.
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(Score: 0, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Monday January 15 2018, @02:34AM (10 children)
Ungrateful TRAITOR Chelsea Manning, who should never have been released from prison, called President Obama a weak leader. Terrible!
(Score: 4, Informative) by takyon on Monday January 15 2018, @02:43AM (6 children)
She also said that Obama was the "most ignorant president in our history", "a disaster as a president", "the founder of ISIS", "weak", and "ineffective". Deplorable!
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(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15 2018, @03:12AM (5 children)
"most ignorant president in our history"
I really doubt it. First of all, none of our presidents were ignorant compared to the general population. You don't get to be president without being clueful. Obama is probably nothing special. It's hard to judge this one, because motivations play a role, and it isn't easy to distinguish ignorance from malice.
"a disaster as a president"
Well yes. Regulations choked our industry while harmful refugees were invited to make America a shithole.
"the founder of ISIS"
Literally no, but figuratively yes. ISIS was able to grow and prosper due to Obama. Obama left turmoil in Iraq, then helped cause turmoil in Syria. He even supplied weapons to people who were handing them over to ISIS.
"weak"
This is another one where motivations play a role. When the Paris accords were set up to financially drain the USA, was Obama being weak or malicious?
"ineffective"
Again, motivations play a role. If you assume that Obama wanted America to be great again, then certainly he was ineffective, but that might be a wrong assumption.
(Score: 3, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15 2018, @04:47AM
> When the Paris accords were set up to financially drain the USA, was Obama being weak or malicious?
I'm still struggling to understand how you get financially drained by an agreement where you say "we'll try to do better", determine your own goals, and there are no penalties for failing to meet them. By saying that, you're saying that the USA is the most idiotic, least competent country in the world history.
(Score: 4, Informative) by maxwell demon on Monday January 15 2018, @11:02AM (2 children)
No. The disaster in Iraq, which enabled the rise of ISIS, was caused by George W. Bush.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15 2018, @11:27AM (1 child)
Ah, but *that* disaster in Iraq only came about because of the actions and inactions of the previous George Bush.
You can try to shift blame the all you want to point out causes-of-causes, but before (and for the majority of) Obama's tenure "Al Qaeda" was all the rage, and America's "big bad" only morphed into an organisation with ambitions of statehood under Obama's watch.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15 2018, @10:59PM
Well, that first Iraq war wouldn't have happened had it not been for Jimmy Carter propping up Saddam in the first place in the fight against Iran. No need to make this a one-party problem.
(Score: 4, Touché) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Monday January 15 2018, @12:05PM
18 months ago I'd have agreed with you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15 2018, @02:48AM (1 child)
Heh, What did you call him? Shithead?
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15 2018, @03:01AM
If Trump dislikes shithead countries so much, why does Trump allow so many blacks to live in DC? Why does Trump allow so many blacks to live in America? Why isn't Trump building walls around every black ghetto and making the shitheads pay for them?
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15 2018, @03:41AM
"Terrible!"
I love these Trump wannabes that end their statements with a single adjective. Sad!