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For what it's worth, the only Democrat candidate who didn't under-perform when compared to their polling was Barrack Obama, and Kamala Harris obviously isn't equivalent to him in anything other than skin tone.
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if you look into these polls a lot of them will have wonky cross tabs to get the result they want. like trump winning the urban vote while losing the rural vote etc. its not that they are oversampling (which is not inherently a bad thing) its that they are polling too much in the wrong areas and the wrong people are answering the polls. if you only poll in one part of a state you may miss a huge voter base of a candidate in another part of that state that can put them over the line. and if more people of one party are motivated to answer a poll you get a skewed result. liberals are always more likely to do a poll, especially in a enviroment which looks favorable to them so you end up with a feed back loop of sorts.
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PL: I was one of them. Hillary fangirls can get emotional. like she was the second Messiah or something. Me, I just wanted free stuff. And she dresses well.
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in my part of the country she's been the arch villain since at least bill's second term. calling a woman "Hillary" was almost on par with calling her a bitch. That hate has been took over by hate towards democrats as a whole.
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Md. Gov. Moore calls false Bronze Star claim ‘honest mistake’ after report
The Washington Post (archive.ph)
By Laura Vozzella and Alex Horton
2024-08-31 02:25:21GMT
The New York Times reported that when applying for a White House fellowship in 2006, Moore claimed in writing that he was a recipient of the medal.
The Washington Post (archive.ph)
By Laura Vozzella and Alex Horton
2024-08-31 02:25:21GMT
The New York Times reported that when applying for a White House fellowship in 2006, Moore claimed in writing that he was a recipient of the medal.
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore entered the holiday weekend in damage-control mode following revelations that the Democrat and Army veteran once falsely claimed to have been awarded the Bronze Star for his service in Afghanistan.
Moore — who has emerged as a charismatic surrogate for Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign — quickly acknowledged what he called an “honest mistake” after the New York Times reported Thursday that he claimed in a 2006 White House fellowship application to have received the medal for heroic or meritorious achievement when he hadn’t.
On Friday, the first-term governor went ahead with a lighthearted TV appearance, trying to move past a blemish that erupted while the national spotlight was trained on him following his prime-time address at this month’s Democratic National Convention, which was meant to reclaim the idea of patriotism for the party.
Democrats and veterans rallied around Moore in the wake of the Times report, while some Republicans said the issue illustrated a pattern of mischaracterizations by Moore about his past.
In a statement issued Thursday, Moore asserted that he listed the Bronze Star at the behest of his commanding officer, who had recommended him for the award and had assumed it would come through because two other senior officers had signed off on it.
“In the military, there is an understanding that if a senior officer tells you that an action is approved, you can trust that as a fact,” Moore said. “That is why it was part of the application, plain and simple.”
Yet Moore did not set the record straight when he had the opportunity.
For reasons that the Times called unclear in its report, two television interviewers introduced Moore as a Bronze Star recipient in separate interviews years before his 2022 bid for governor. Moore did not correct them. When the issue surfaced during his campaign, he insisted that he had never claimed to have received the award.
The Times report contradicted that assertion, quoting from his White House fellowship application after obtaining a copy through the Freedom of Information Act.
“For my work, the 82nd Airborne Division have awarded me the Bronze Star Medal and the Combat Action Badge,” Moore wrote, according to the Times.
Moore, a former Army Reserve officer who served in the military police, was discharged from active duty in March 2006 following a seven-month deployment with the 82nd Airborne Division, according to service records obtained by The Washington Post through the Freedom of Information Act.
His discharge paperwork issued then, known as a DD214, showed that he was leaving active duty without the award. But he did not update his application.
Moore acknowledged in his statement that he had learned at the end of his deployment that he had not received the award but did not think much about it as he prepared to “begin the next phase of my life.”
Moore and his commanding officer, whom the Times identified as Michael R. Fenzel, suggested that the paperwork for the medal somehow fell through the cracks.
“He’s actually already resubmitted the paperwork,” Moore told Fox 5 on Friday in an otherwise breezy interview at a National Harbor celebration, which was scheduled before the Times story broke.
The controversy casts a shadow on Moore — at 45, the nation’s youngest Democratic governor and the sole Black leader of a state — as his stock was soaring as a Harris-Walz envoy to young and minority voters.
In his written statement, Moore expressed regret for not correcting his application but also characterized questions about his record as an unfair “attack.”
“It was an honest mistake, and I regret not making that correction,” he said. “But do not think for a moment that this attack on my record holds any bearing on how I feel about my service, my soldiers, or our country.”
Fenzel, now a lieutenant general, corroborated Moore’s account in an interview with the Times from Israel, where he serves as the U.S. security coordinator for Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Moore’s staff, which arranged that interview, said Fenzel was not available for an interview with The Post on Friday.
Some military experts said they accepted Moore’s explanation.
Jason Dempsey, a former Army infantry officer who studies civil-military relations, said the Times overreached on the medal claim, “resulting in nothing.”
“There are more important stories to be talked about on using military service for partisan gain,” he said.
Nicole Beus Harris, chairwoman of the Maryland Republican Party, compared the controversy to the one surrounding the military service of the Democrats’ vice-presidential candidate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
Walz served 24 years in the Army National Guard and drew criticism from Republicans for retiring to run for Congress before his unit received orders to mobilize for an Iraq deployment.
He was also criticized for describing himself as a retired command sergeant major. He left the service as a master sergeant, one rank down, because he did not finish required coursework, National Guard officials have said.
“It seems there is no shortage of military record embellishment from Democrats this year,” Harris said.
Reaction from leading Republican legislators in the state was more muted.
“Honestly, I’m more concerned about how he’s governing the State of Maryland than I am about this,” Maryland state Senate Minority Leader Stephen S. Hershey Jr. (R-Queen Anne’s) wrote in a text message to The Post on Friday.
He listed violent crime and the “exorbitant costs” of a new K-12 education law among matters that he considers more pressing, writing: “These are specific issues he’s spoken about over the last few weeks, not 18 years ago.”
A sharper take came from Republican strategist Doug Mayer, who said the Bronze Star claim fits a pattern of flattering misrepresentations that Moore has blamed on others once exposed.
“It’s not a coincidence, and no one with a brain thinks it’s a coincidence,” said Mayer, who was spokesman for Moore’s Republican predecessor, Larry Hogan. “What you can get away with in Maryland … you cannot get away with on the national level, which is clearly where this whole train is going for him.”
As Moore’s national profile grows, “the questions about where he grew up and how he used another person’s life story, and questions about his military service, they’ll be waiting for him,” Mayer said.
Moore rose to political prominence on the strength of a compelling life story that was the basis of his 2010 bestseller, “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates,” which shifts between Moore’s life and that of a Black Baltimore teenager of the same name.
Raised by a single mother, Moore went on to become a Rhodes scholar, Afghanistan veteran and White House fellow. The “other” Wes Moore wound up in prison for the murder of an off-duty police officer.
But since launching his political career, the man who became governor has faced claims that he embellished some details — related to where he grew up and what military or college football awards he received — or did not stop others from doing so.
Moore was twice introduced as a Bronze Star recipient while promoting his book, first by Gwen Ifill on PBS in 2008 and then by Stephen Colbert on Comedy Central in 2010.
“You’re a decorated veteran in the Afghan War, correct?” Colbert asked in a clip that WBFF, Baltimore’s Fox affiliate, resurfaced in 2022. Moore — whose service documents show the Combat Action Badge, National Defense Service Medal and Army Service Ribbon among his top awards — smiles and nods, but the frame shifts to Colbert as the host continues, “Bronze Star?”
The audience is still applauding for that purported award when Moore is visible again, nodding.
Other discrepancies arose during his gubernatorial campaign, including the suggestion that Moore had grown up in Baltimore. He spent most of his childhood in the Bronx.
“Two kids named Wes Moore were born blocks apart within a year of each other,” according to the opening lines of the book jacket of his bestseller. “Both grew up fatherless in similar Baltimore neighborhoods and had difficult childhoods; both hung out on street corners with their crews; both ran into trouble with the police.”
Moore said during the campaign that the error was made by his publisher, a mistake he asked to correct.
“I have nothing to exaggerate about my life,” he said back then.
Moore — who has emerged as a charismatic surrogate for Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign — quickly acknowledged what he called an “honest mistake” after the New York Times reported Thursday that he claimed in a 2006 White House fellowship application to have received the medal for heroic or meritorious achievement when he hadn’t.
On Friday, the first-term governor went ahead with a lighthearted TV appearance, trying to move past a blemish that erupted while the national spotlight was trained on him following his prime-time address at this month’s Democratic National Convention, which was meant to reclaim the idea of patriotism for the party.
Democrats and veterans rallied around Moore in the wake of the Times report, while some Republicans said the issue illustrated a pattern of mischaracterizations by Moore about his past.
In a statement issued Thursday, Moore asserted that he listed the Bronze Star at the behest of his commanding officer, who had recommended him for the award and had assumed it would come through because two other senior officers had signed off on it.
“In the military, there is an understanding that if a senior officer tells you that an action is approved, you can trust that as a fact,” Moore said. “That is why it was part of the application, plain and simple.”
Yet Moore did not set the record straight when he had the opportunity.
For reasons that the Times called unclear in its report, two television interviewers introduced Moore as a Bronze Star recipient in separate interviews years before his 2022 bid for governor. Moore did not correct them. When the issue surfaced during his campaign, he insisted that he had never claimed to have received the award.
The Times report contradicted that assertion, quoting from his White House fellowship application after obtaining a copy through the Freedom of Information Act.
“For my work, the 82nd Airborne Division have awarded me the Bronze Star Medal and the Combat Action Badge,” Moore wrote, according to the Times.
Moore, a former Army Reserve officer who served in the military police, was discharged from active duty in March 2006 following a seven-month deployment with the 82nd Airborne Division, according to service records obtained by The Washington Post through the Freedom of Information Act.
His discharge paperwork issued then, known as a DD214, showed that he was leaving active duty without the award. But he did not update his application.
Moore acknowledged in his statement that he had learned at the end of his deployment that he had not received the award but did not think much about it as he prepared to “begin the next phase of my life.”
Moore and his commanding officer, whom the Times identified as Michael R. Fenzel, suggested that the paperwork for the medal somehow fell through the cracks.
“He’s actually already resubmitted the paperwork,” Moore told Fox 5 on Friday in an otherwise breezy interview at a National Harbor celebration, which was scheduled before the Times story broke.
The controversy casts a shadow on Moore — at 45, the nation’s youngest Democratic governor and the sole Black leader of a state — as his stock was soaring as a Harris-Walz envoy to young and minority voters.
In his written statement, Moore expressed regret for not correcting his application but also characterized questions about his record as an unfair “attack.”
“It was an honest mistake, and I regret not making that correction,” he said. “But do not think for a moment that this attack on my record holds any bearing on how I feel about my service, my soldiers, or our country.”
Fenzel, now a lieutenant general, corroborated Moore’s account in an interview with the Times from Israel, where he serves as the U.S. security coordinator for Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Moore’s staff, which arranged that interview, said Fenzel was not available for an interview with The Post on Friday.
Some military experts said they accepted Moore’s explanation.
Jason Dempsey, a former Army infantry officer who studies civil-military relations, said the Times overreached on the medal claim, “resulting in nothing.”
“There are more important stories to be talked about on using military service for partisan gain,” he said.
Nicole Beus Harris, chairwoman of the Maryland Republican Party, compared the controversy to the one surrounding the military service of the Democrats’ vice-presidential candidate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
Walz served 24 years in the Army National Guard and drew criticism from Republicans for retiring to run for Congress before his unit received orders to mobilize for an Iraq deployment.
He was also criticized for describing himself as a retired command sergeant major. He left the service as a master sergeant, one rank down, because he did not finish required coursework, National Guard officials have said.
“It seems there is no shortage of military record embellishment from Democrats this year,” Harris said.
Reaction from leading Republican legislators in the state was more muted.
“Honestly, I’m more concerned about how he’s governing the State of Maryland than I am about this,” Maryland state Senate Minority Leader Stephen S. Hershey Jr. (R-Queen Anne’s) wrote in a text message to The Post on Friday.
He listed violent crime and the “exorbitant costs” of a new K-12 education law among matters that he considers more pressing, writing: “These are specific issues he’s spoken about over the last few weeks, not 18 years ago.”
A sharper take came from Republican strategist Doug Mayer, who said the Bronze Star claim fits a pattern of flattering misrepresentations that Moore has blamed on others once exposed.
“It’s not a coincidence, and no one with a brain thinks it’s a coincidence,” said Mayer, who was spokesman for Moore’s Republican predecessor, Larry Hogan. “What you can get away with in Maryland … you cannot get away with on the national level, which is clearly where this whole train is going for him.”
As Moore’s national profile grows, “the questions about where he grew up and how he used another person’s life story, and questions about his military service, they’ll be waiting for him,” Mayer said.
Moore rose to political prominence on the strength of a compelling life story that was the basis of his 2010 bestseller, “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates,” which shifts between Moore’s life and that of a Black Baltimore teenager of the same name.
Raised by a single mother, Moore went on to become a Rhodes scholar, Afghanistan veteran and White House fellow. The “other” Wes Moore wound up in prison for the murder of an off-duty police officer.
But since launching his political career, the man who became governor has faced claims that he embellished some details — related to where he grew up and what military or college football awards he received — or did not stop others from doing so.
Moore was twice introduced as a Bronze Star recipient while promoting his book, first by Gwen Ifill on PBS in 2008 and then by Stephen Colbert on Comedy Central in 2010.
“You’re a decorated veteran in the Afghan War, correct?” Colbert asked in a clip that WBFF, Baltimore’s Fox affiliate, resurfaced in 2022. Moore — whose service documents show the Combat Action Badge, National Defense Service Medal and Army Service Ribbon among his top awards — smiles and nods, but the frame shifts to Colbert as the host continues, “Bronze Star?”
The audience is still applauding for that purported award when Moore is visible again, nodding.
Other discrepancies arose during his gubernatorial campaign, including the suggestion that Moore had grown up in Baltimore. He spent most of his childhood in the Bronx.
“Two kids named Wes Moore were born blocks apart within a year of each other,” according to the opening lines of the book jacket of his bestseller. “Both grew up fatherless in similar Baltimore neighborhoods and had difficult childhoods; both hung out on street corners with their crews; both ran into trouble with the police.”
Moore said during the campaign that the error was made by his publisher, a mistake he asked to correct.
“I have nothing to exaggerate about my life,” he said back then.
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Back in the day, when I was like 20 and a die-hard EMT whacker faggot I had a bumper sticker that said "I Narcanned your honor student."
It upset a few local mothers, and in hindsight I find it in bad taste and wildly gay.
Funny shit though.
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Way longer than two weeks, I think it was her first motto, then they tossed it for FORWARD
Even when Trump is golfing it is still on call, meanwhile Biden literally hid when shit hit the fan like his Afghanistan pullout. Also Trump's golf diplomacy seemed to have worked wonders with Abe and the Japanese so all that practice isn't a total waste. Has he played with other leaders?
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Hold up, is this a slip of the tongue that you where a troon back in 2016?
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No, the majority of Hillary fans back then were female. At least around my circle. Remember, I was in college during then.
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Gosh, I don't know if this guy is pro-Kamala or anti-Kamala, but I thought I'd drop it here:
https://youtube.com/shorts/_zjpmE2U2w4
https://youtube.com/shorts/_zjpmE2U2w4
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The PUMA*s were even the ones to first promulgate the idea of Obama's birth certificate showing that he was born in Kenya, back in 2008.
*Party Unity My Ass, after Mr. Teflon Suit Electric Cloud Jesus Man swooped in to claim the throne that was rightfully Hers.
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Japanese Culture, if not Asian Culture in general, puts emphasis on cultivating a business/professional relationship over time. Taking time to get to know each other through a game of golf makes sense in this context.
No idea if he's golfed with other leaders, but it would make sense for Trump (or any President for that matter) to learn how to connect with a world leader on a personal level when the latter's cultural norms consider it a good thing and a sign of respect.
You have to know your audience and what will make them interested in having a dialogue with you. Trump has shown that trait. Harris and Walz, for now anyways, come across as lacking it as exhibited by their weak communication skills so far in this campaign.
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Thank you Uncle Iroh.
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Sorry, but the original Johnny Quest intro is better.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SIhEpjnaNlo&pp=ygUSam9obm55cXVldCBvcGVuaW5n
(I dont know how to do the youtube link thingy)
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Dang, Trump really did have some good policies during his first term in office.
https://youtube.com/shorts/JN8tC1mnKqo
https://youtube.com/shorts/JN8tC1mnKqo
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And they're one in the same with incels. All it's missing is calling men moids
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Hoo boy that brings back memories, I remember a blog named “Hillbuzz” that went from boosting Herself to all kinds of anti-Obama rumours and conspiracies. I think it was run by a Chicago gay dude who claimed to know about Barry’s adventures in Boystown. Fun times!
I kind of miss blogging, the internet was more interesting when unique websites sites were all over the internet, not funnelled into social media sites.
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I like how Jonny Quest isn't even in the intro of his own show until the end where he's just a passenger in a plane not doing anything.
Joe Biden really is an evil piece of shit for just reversing pretty much everything good Trump did just to spite him. Clearly that's the only reason as he didn't replace the policies with anything better. (At least I haven't heard anyone claiming he has.) The only thing close to that was removing Trump's insulin price cap then later reinstating it claiming it was his idea! And not only that now Kamala is claiming that not only was it Biden's idea but Trump wants to get rid of the cap if he's elected!!
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