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Scott Walker side steps foreign policy questions on UK trip

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MaggieD said:
If that's the best ya' got to criticize Scott Walker, he's got more of a chance than I thought.
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You think a man who denies evolution is fit to be President? That is scary. I don't think he is fit for dog catcher. Given the overwhelming scientific evidence of the last 50 years denying evolution is like denying the Earth is round.
 
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iguanaman said:
You think a man who denies evolution is fit to be President? That is scary. I don't think he is fit for dog catcher. Given the overwhelming scientific evidence of the last 50 years denying evolution is like denying the Earth is round.
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Last time I checked it was still the US Constitution that laid out the conditions a candidate for the US Presidency must meet.
 
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Sherman123 said:
Only if we nominate an embarrassment or a lunatic.
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You mean anyone who isn't a rino, Got it, and then you'll realize why vote for the rino becuase well his VP isn't right or... whatever you'll scream for a sane candidate then vote dem. There's a term for people like you.
 
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iguanaman said:
You think a man who denies evolution is fit to be President? That is scary. I don't think he is fit for dog catcher. Given the overwhelming scientific evidence of the last 50 years denying evolution is like denying the Earth is round.
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Did he deny evolution? I haven't seen that. I think this stupidity is why we end up with terrible politicians.
 
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VanceMack said:
Had Walker answered any questions on US foreign policy 2 years prior to an election especially while the President is trying to figure out what to do and how to handle ISIS and Syria, certain folk would have jumped on that as well. And rightly so. It would be inappropriate for a state governor to undermine US foreign policy.

But you are 100% correct Maggie. Theres a whole lot of people going to be responding to every GOP candidate out of fear. Hillary suddenly has gone MIA and is nowhere near the rock solid lock everyone thought she was going to be. Even members within her own party are embarrassed of her and want someone else to run.
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Republican governors, senators and congressmen are doing just that everyday then. What's wrong with acknowledging that the earth is round, and revolves around the sun?
 
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MrVicchio said:
Yes yes we know. Conservatives must be 110% perfect, meanwhile you blindly follow progressives regardless thier gaffs, lies, lies..
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Oh, cue the martyr music.

Gaffe's are when you misspeak, what Walker did was just cowardice to hide his ignorance. But, by doing what he did, he just made his cowardice and ignorance more apparent.
 
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beefheart said:
Oh, cue the martyr music.

Gaffe's are when you misspeak, what Walker did was just cowardice to hide his ignorance. But, by doing what he did, he just made his cowardice and ignorance more apparent.
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Lol, you are playing the puppet well.
 
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The smear campaigns are in full swing already while still spinning to twist every faux pas coming from the WH.
I don't care for Walker much, but c'mon, really, after all the stuff we were to ignore about the current WH resident. Get a grip people, Walker won't send blacks back onto the pre civil rights plantation, if you are worried about "going back" . That seems to be the current admin's goal.
If he believes in the Bible instead of sitting in a church where God is asked to damn America, that is a positive in my book.
 
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MaggieD said:
If that's the best ya' got to criticize Scott Walker, he's got more of a chance than I thought.
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WaPo has a piece up. Apparently - gasp! - he didn't finish college. And not only that - he lost a race for student President. :shakehead: he's toast, for sure.
 
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MrVicchio said:
Lol, you are playing the puppet well.
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It is 2015, if someone is so ignorant on proven science then they are fair game.

Happy Darwin Day everyone!!!!!

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MrVicchio said:
Evolutions just a theory, if you're gonna play the science card.
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Gravity is just a theory.

Science works...whether or not you believe it.
 
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MrVicchio said:
Lol. Such a standard, amazingly applied only when you are told too.
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Talking about standards.
Lets say a Muslim were to run for POTUS. Were we to attack his faith as well or would the liberal spin machine come up with phrases like "his platform matters" "only bigots attack his faith"? Huh?
Walker, Warren, Bush, Clinton etc are to represent our nation, are to lead with competence, elevate us t/o the world, not preach the Gospel or Harry Potter.
How shallow are we ? What ever happened to platform, ideas, leadership?
 
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beefheart said:
Gravity is just a theory.

Science works...whether or not you believe it.
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It is the law of gravity and the theory of evolution. Perhaps English is more important than Science on this thread.
 
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jpn said:
Scott Walker side steps foreign policy questions on UK trip - CSMonitor.com

The British audience groaned and also laughed at Walker. The moderator says "Oh REALLY??? ANY British politician, right or left, would laugh and say 'yes of course evolution is true.'"

Thanks Scott, for demonstrating to the world how backward and superstitious one of America's two great political parties are. :3oops:
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I'm American, and that doesn't embarrass me. Why should it? It isn't a political question and I don't care what religion a politician subscribes to.
 
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cpwill said:
WaPo has a piece up. Apparently - gasp! - he didn't finish college. And not only that - he lost a race for student President. :shakehead: he's toast, for sure.
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I finished college. I use my degree exactly zero times per day.

So is WaPo thinking that if he had finished college, he wouldn't have religious beliefs?
 
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beefheart said:
Gravity is just a theory.

Science works...whether or not you believe it.
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Didnt say I didnt believe it. Its just a theory.
 
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AliHajiSheik said:
It is the law of gravity and the theory of evolution. Perhaps English is more important than Science on this thread.
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Although Newton's theory has been superseded, most modern non-relativistic gravitational calculations are still made using Newton's theory because it is a much simpler theory to work with than general relativity, and gives sufficiently accurate results for most applications involving sufficiently small masses, speeds and energies.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitation#Newton.27s_theory_of_gravitation

The anti evolutionists throwing out the old stupid argument about "its a theory" don't know what a scientific theory is.

But, that is all they have. The scientists have the data, and the fossils and the volumes of research, observations and studies.
 
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tres borrachos said:
I finished college. I use my degree exactly zero times per day.

So is WaPo thinking that if he had finished college, he wouldn't have religious beliefs?
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No, they are thinking that it shows that he is politically oriented, but uninterested in academics for it's own sake. Apparently he also came in late to French Class on a regular basis (I know, I know... how could we all have been so blind to the true, degraded nature of the man?). :roll:
 
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sawdust said:
Why is evolution important for an administrator>
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MaggieD said:
It isn't.
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Indeed.
sawdust said:
That's what I was thinking. Manage the economy and foreign policy and I don't care if he believes in the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
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Yup. That'd be the case.
Montecresto said:
Could damage scientific advancement. We don't need any presidents that deny evolution or believe the earth is flat.
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Not as much impact and / or influence as you'd like to believe.

It's little more than a liberal / progressive missive thrown over the wall at anyone who disagrees or believes differently than the thrower of said missive, regardless of how pertinent it is to anything, which it's generally not. A mechanism for the thrower to maintain their delusional superiority complex and facade, which often has massive hypocritical cracks in it, and is tentative at best, just so long as everyone else believes it, the underlying reality is inconsequential in their minds. So SOP.
 
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NIMBY said:
Walker isn't toast by a long shot.
He's simply doing what all politicians do--trying to thread the needle between all the conflicting wings of the GOP.
A much more challenging thing to do in the GOP with regard to science.
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I agree - I wouldn't ever vote for Walker, but understand he's just doing what politicians always do. It's more a reflection on the GOP base than anything. It shouldn't be an issue for a candidate for office to support the views of about 99% or so of scientists, but it is, and so he's trying to avoid controversy.

Yet HRC will have her own needles to thread--especially on foreign policy as we saw with DEMs bucking Obama today on troops on the ground.
A healthy debate of the ISSUES is needed in both parties.

The science debate is one that will challenge the GOP .
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True enough - the liberal base isn't enthusiastic for Hillary, and foreign policy is just one area where she'll have to find a way to get their support without alienating the rest of the country.
 
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MrVicchio said:
Evolutions just a theory, if you're gonna play the science card.
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Quite right. But I'd like to point out that it is a 'Scientific Theory' and as such, holds a stronger and more solid a foundation than the general use of 'theory'.

Also, it's become a generally accepted Scientific Theory by the vast majority of those in the field, so safe enough to accept it as one step away from fact. With the theory of evolution, the time spans to observe it in action are generally longer than a human life span, but, that being said, evolution has been observed to some extent in faster generation species, such as fruit flies and bacteria, which again strengthen the factual foundation for the scientific theory of evolution.

So don't let the 'theory' part of the name throw you too far. It's not what it appears that you think it is.
 
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