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Anonymous wrote:Vance has one and a half years experience as a Senator. How does that qualify him to be a heartbeat away from the presidency? It’s a disaster in the making.

Just like Obama, who wasn't one step away and fundamentally transformed this country?

Do you have a hard time counting?

Obama was Senator for 3 years, a state senator for 7 years. He was the president of the Harvard Law Review, had 2 years experience as a community organizer, worked in the corporate world, taught constitutional law, and worked for a law firm. Plus he wrote two books.

That's a lot different from a one-book author who has served for 1.5 years in the Senate, no other governing or political experience.

Also Obama was 47. Still young but not nearly as green as Vance is.

Obama missed almost half of Senate voting.
As for "community organizer", that pathetic joke writes itself.

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Anonymous wrote:Vance has one and a half years experience as a Senator. How does that qualify him to be a heartbeat away from the presidency? It’s a disaster in the making.

Just like Obama, who wasn't one step away and fundamentally transformed this country?

Do you have a hard time counting?

Obama was Senator for 3 years, a state senator for 7 years. He was the president of the Harvard Law Review, had 2 years experience as a community organizer, worked in the corporate world, taught constitutional law, and worked for a law firm. Plus he wrote two books.

That's a lot different from a one-book author who has served for 1.5 years in the Senate, no other governing or political experience.

Also Obama was 47. Still young but not nearly as green as Vance is.

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We do people want to elect Trump/Vance who have such a dark and pessimistic view of the US and its capabilities?

Every time we help another country by donating munitions, a defense contractor gets their wings. Do you to reduce military spending or don't you?

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/ukraine-war-orders-starting-boost-revenues-big-us-defense-contractors-2023-10-27/

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Anonymous wrote:So Vance is supportive of mafia loansharking

That is "helping the little guy"

(not)

I worked at a finreg with someone whose father had been a payday lender who operated next to an army base. After his father died, my colleague cleaned out his small office and found hundreds of thank you letters from grateful soldiers for being there with cash when they most needed it.

It is another perspective, one that should not be dismissed even as we are appalled by the APRs.

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Anonymous wrote:Didn't Vance write the book that became a movie starring Amy Adams as his mom and Glenn Close as grandmaw or mee maw? Hillbilly Elegy?

Is the movie any good? I’ve neither watched it or read the book

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Anonymous wrote:He is very nice. Met him at the book signing in DC. I can see why he quickly became a senator. He is a unique person, which is why a company paid for him to write his memoir.

A company? Do you mean Harper Collins?

He means Peter Thiel, who is Vance's owner.

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Anonymous wrote:JD Vance isn’t for funding the war in Ukraine and leading us to nuclear war or WW3 so that’s refreshing . He chose a non war hawk and someone who actually is a vet. Genius choice from Trump after the failed “suckers and losers” lie. I figure vets are less likely to be so war hawkish . Tulsi Gabbard is another vet who I hope he selects in his administration. She read Kamala so accurately the first time she provided a biting criticism as a retort . She said Kamalas laugh reveals low confidence, uncertainty . and discomfort and is used to soften her word salad and lack of ability to honestly communicate feelings and direction

JD is marine and a lawyer. He went to Yale law. He understands war.

Wasn't he in a journalist role?

Every United States Marine is an infantryman and rifleman, first and foremost, and everything else they do is secondary to that.

This. It is not the same as Lester Holt deploying with a military unit to cover a story. He was a Marine, he trained as a Marine and worked as a Marine.

He wrote for a military newspaper, not even Stars and Stripes.

Let's hope Vance is not swift-boated the way John Kerry was. My feeling is, no matter what role a soldier serves in, when they volunteer for the military they deserve respect. My dad was a WWII vet (marine) who mostly served in a non-combat role, but that does not mean he couldn't have been hurt or lost his life. I say this as a Dem.

So it is okay when the GOP "swift boats" a democrat, but god forbid a republican get swiftboated.

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We do people want to elect Trump/Vance who have such a dark and pessimistic view of the US and its capabilities?

Every time we help another country by donating munitions, a defense contractor gets their wings. Do you to reduce military spending or don't you?

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/ukraine-war-orders-starting-boost-revenues-big-us-defense-contractors-2023-10-27/

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Anonymous wrote:JD Vance isn’t for funding the war in Ukraine and leading us to nuclear war or WW3 so that’s refreshing . He chose a non war hawk and someone who actually is a vet. Genius choice from Trump after the failed “suckers and losers” lie. I figure vets are less likely to be so war hawkish . Tulsi Gabbard is another vet who I hope he selects in his administration. She read Kamala so accurately the first time she provided a biting criticism as a retort . She said Kamalas laugh reveals low confidence, uncertainty . and discomfort and is used to soften her word salad and lack of ability to honestly communicate feelings and direction

JD is marine and a lawyer. He went to Yale law. He understands war.

Wasn't he in a journalist role?

Every United States Marine is an infantryman and rifleman, first and foremost, and everything else they do is secondary to that.

This. It is not the same as Lester Holt deploying with a military unit to cover a story. He was a Marine, he trained as a Marine and worked as a Marine.

He wrote for a military newspaper, not even Stars and Stripes.

Let's hope Vance is not swift-boated the way John Kerry was. My feeling is, no matter what role a soldier serves in, when they volunteer for the military they deserve respect. My dad was a WWII vet (marine) who mostly served in a non-combat role, but that does not mean he couldn't have been hurt or lost his life. I say this as a Dem.

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Anonymous wrote:He is very nice. Met him at the book signing in DC. I can see why he quickly became a senator. He is a unique person, which is why a company paid for him to write his memoir.

A company? Do you mean Harper Collins?

He means Peter Thiel, who is Vance's owner.

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Anonymous wrote:Vance has one and a half years experience as a Senator. How does that qualify him to be a heartbeat away from the presidency? It’s a disaster in the making.

Just like Obama, who wasn't one step away and fundamentally transformed this country?

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We do people want to elect Trump/Vance who have such a dark and pessimistic view of the US and its capabilities?

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We do people want to elect Trump/Vance who have such a dark and pessimistic view of the US and its capabilities?