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Taylor Jones, Hoover Digest

Rainer Hachfeld, Neues Deutschland, Germany  

Who will be the Democrat presidential candidate in 2016?

In important swing state Iowa Hillary Clinton has an 88/6 favorability rating with Democrats. In the state that voted for Obama in 2008, no less than 62% want her to be the presidential nominee in 2016. Followed by Joe Biden (14%), Elisabeth Warren (4%) and Andrew Cuomo (4%). Clinton is supported by a majority of men (57%) and women (66%).

Millionaire Mitt Romney wants to bring the fiscal house of the U.S. in order. At the same time the likely Republican presidential nominee wants to increase military spending in the next ten years with 2.100 billion dollars, according to CNNMoney. Apparently there's still a lot of killing to do worldwide.

Americans don't agree. In fact two-thirds of Republicans and nine in ten Democrats support making immediate substantial cuts to the military budget:

“When Americans look at the amount of defense spending compared to spending on other programs, they see defense as the one that should take a substantial hit to reduce the deficit,” said Steven Kull, director of the Program for Public Consultation.

America is a country where instruments of violence as the gun and the army are not only accepted but greatly admired. From the left to the right Americans honor the U.S. army, an organisation created to spread death worldwide, every day.
So it's not surprising that the U.S. has the highest murder rate in the developed western world. And when it's up to Republican Sarah Steelman, candidate for the Senate, there's one more killing on the way.

Yesterday she defended the call at a campaign meeting to “kill the Claire Bear”. That was referring to Democrat Senator Claire McCaskill against who Steelman is running.
It's a reminder of what happened to Democrat politician Gabby Giffords. On Sarah Palin's website she had a gun pointed at her district. Giffords was shot in the head two years ago.

This is what a supporter of Steelman said this week:

Scott Boston, a St. Louis Tea Party activist, “She walks around like she’s some sort of Rainbow Brite Care Bear or something but really she’s an evil monster. We have to kill the Claire Bear.”

In this was the respons of Steelman yesterday:

"Are we just we just going to...

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RJ Matson, Roll Call

Mike Keefe, Cagle Cartoons

See the latest polls on the coming presidential election in the U.S.A. Mind you some polls are conservatively slanted, for example Rasmussen. But it's clear November 12 is gonna be an exiting day.

Associated Press/GfK: Obama d. Romney (50-42)
Gallup: Romney d. Obama (47-44)
PPP for Daily Kos/SEIU: Obama d. Romney (48-45)
Rasmussen: Romney d. Obama (49-44)
YouGov/The Economist: Obama d. Romney (44-43)
Angus Reid: Romney d. Obama (49-46)

For the first time an American President has come out in support of marriage equality for homosexuals.Presodent Obama said in an interview with ABC News: 'I think same sex couples should be able to get married'.

The respons of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney today: “My view is that marriage itself is a relationship between a man and women, and that’s my own preference, I know other people have differing views.”

Statement by Mitt Romney to Log Cabin Republicans (openly gay R's) in 1994: "We must make equality for gays and lesbians a mainstream concern."

Log Cabin Republicans: Obama 'finally speaking up for marriage equality for political gain is offensive and callous'.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson: "With @MichelleObama & @JustinMikita permission I would like to marry @BarackObama right now!"

Shep Smith on Fox News shows ABC's clip of Obama and says: "The president of the United States has arrived in the 21st century."

@daveweigel: "Okay, Biden. Now say something about decriminalizing pot."

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Tom Janssen, The Netherlands

Patrick Chappatte, NZZ am Sonntag

The Department of Motor Vehicles in Nevada has given Google a license to test autonomous vehicles. The first such license issued in the world. Google! 
An autonomous car is able to drive without the help of a human being.

Last year Nevada - one of the least populated states - passed a law that permits testing of driverless cars. Google has equipped eight vehicles to drive autonomous: six Toyota Priuses, an Audi TT and a Lexus RX450h.

The U.S.A. is a very violent country, you see violence is in every aspect of it's culture: the adoration of the gun, the adoration of the army. That despite what this Missouri Democratic Party spokesperson said: "What makes America different from the rest of the world is that we settle our political disagreements without threats of violence."

He responded to this statement at a rally supporting Missouri Republican challenger Sarah Steelman of Democrat Senator Claire McCaskill.

Scott Boston, a St. Louis Tea Party activist, “She walks around like she’s some sort of Rainbow Brite Care Bear or something but really she’s an evil monster.”
“We have to kill the Claire Bear.”

Republican Sarah Steelman was at the rally and didn't respond to that statement. When later asked, she said: “I may disagree with the words Mr. Boston chose in his statement, but I understand his frustration and I emphatically support his right to express his views”

No one has been arrested but police have assigned extra security to Senator McCaskill.

Republican financail expert Paul Ryan wants more tax cuts for the rich. One way to finance this is to cut down on food stamp aid. Tens of millions of Americans live on food stamps. In fact, in that shining beacon of hope for the world. one in six people lives in poverty, Ryan's own numbers.

In his federal budget proposal Ryan cuts food stamps by $134 billion. Stop the Bush taxcuts for the rich is no option for him as is cutting on defence. In a meeting with voters this is how the Republican politician explains it and a voters response:

RYAN: We want to have people go from welfare back to work. That’s why we conjoined in our budget the job training programs, consolidate the 47 different job training programs spread across 9 different agencies to scholarships to go to people so they can get new training.

KEYES: But with something like food stamps isn’t that kind of a necessary thing, to eat in order to work?

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