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Sloumeau

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15. Here's what I have learned after watching politics for decades:
Tue Dec 31, 2019, 03:55 PM
Dec 2019

1. Every four years someone is elected President. Sometimes that person is actually re-elected, president. When a new president is elected, their new administration has a ton of jobs to fill. Some of the people that they hire will be very qualified for their positions. Some of them will be technically unqualified for their positions. When each person is done with their jobs, here is what matters to me most.

1. Did the person do a least an OK job?
2. Did the person not do anything immoral or unethical?
3. Did the person not break any laws?
4. Did the people who worked for him do an OK job, not do anything illegal and immoral, and did those people not break any laws?

If the answer to all four questions is yes, I really don't much care whether or not anyone felt that they were qualified or unqualified for their positions. Her's a couple more questions:

--Was Rex Tillerson qualified to be Secretary of State? Hell no.
--Was Rick Perry qualified to lead the Department of Energy Hell no.

Here's the difference. If Rex Tillerson did an OK job, did not do anything immoral or unethical, and did not break any laws while he was Secretary of State, I am not particularly worried about him. Rick Perry, on the other hand, seems to have been deeply involved in Donald Trump's little "drug deal" regarding Ukraine and Joe Biden. I have a huge problem with that.

When Hunter Biden was offered a job with some gas company in Ukraine and then accepted that job, in some respects he may have been unqualified to lead that company, but I have seen no indication that either he, or any of the people who worked for him, did anything illegal, immoral, or unethical. In addition, since the gas industry in Ukraine seems to have had a problem with corruption recently, perhaps more than anything else, what a gas company in Ukraine really needed was a lawyer running it--somebody who understood the law and somebody from outside the country--because that somebody would have no possible connections to any corrupt Ukrainians inside the country.

Until somebody can show me something wrong that Hunter Biden did when leading some gas company in Ukraine--Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden

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I'm never going to vote for Hunter Biden now. DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2019 #1
Yeah PatSeg Dec 2019 #7
Tapper and the rest of Infotainment Cable Noise stink as well Sherman A1 Dec 2019 #2
Tapper must be smelling his own flop sweat ChubbyStar Dec 2019 #5
What about Joseph Cofer Black's contract? maxsolomon Dec 2019 #3
The important part WA-03 Democrat Dec 2019 #4
Hunter wasn't part of the government exboyfil Dec 2019 #6
Exactly. I do wish Hunter Biden had used better judgement in the first place, but he won't Hoyt Dec 2019 #9
Yep! just what I was thinking. The Wielding Truth Dec 2019 #29
Hunter needs to suspend his campaign!!! NT Bleacher Creature Dec 2019 #8
Thank goodness Hunter Biden isn't running for President. George II Dec 2019 #10
the complicit MSM stinks to high heaven. NRaleighLiberal Dec 2019 #11
Great logic Hav Dec 2019 #12
Hey Jake! WA-03 Democrat Dec 2019 #13
Jake Tapper is a clown. JDC Dec 2019 #14
Here's what I have learned after watching politics for decades: Sloumeau Dec 2019 #15
Hunter's situation has a capitalist, sell-my-name stink. Joe's situation is clean as a whistle. gulliver Dec 2019 #16
Get used to it, because if Biden is the Nominee, this is goign to be Hillary's Emails all over again vsrazdem Dec 2019 #17
No one has any proof that either Joe Biden or Hunter Biden did anything wrong. Sloumeau Dec 2019 #19
That's not the point. Do you really think Trump cares about the Truth. He will be throwing this vsrazdem Dec 2019 #20
It may not be your point, but it is my point. Sloumeau Dec 2019 #22
But they didn't have Trump then, and he sure made it work with Hillary's emails. vsrazdem Dec 2019 #23
You're going to need to do better then that. BannonsLiver Dec 2019 #25
Fuck you CNN. No evidence, but spew bullshit anyway. still_one Dec 2019 #18
It will be tough to sell the "Saving the soul of the nation" with Hunter's situation waiting in the jalan48 Dec 2019 #21
IIRC, Jake was Kerl Rove's mole inside t6he Gore campaign Pathwalker Dec 2019 #24
You know what stinks ten times as worse? Ivanka twat & dotard jr cashing in off their names and off UniteFightBack Dec 2019 #26
That it. I'm no longer voting for Hunter Biden. RandySF Dec 2019 #27
A company name Harkin Energy gave away money and stock to George H.W. Bush's boy brewens Dec 2019 #28
anyone clue him in that all that means is it is smells like capitalism? Thomas Hurt Dec 2019 #30
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