Thread: 2016 Democratic US Presidential Candidates

Originally Posted by Humbert

^ He's a crackpot. He believes in organizations that don't exist. He is nothing but a failed optometrist.

Maddow blasts ‘space cadet’ Rand Paul’s conspiracy theories | The Raw Story

“‘It’ being Chuck Hagel’s imaginary connection to an imaginary organization that only exists on Breitbart.com’s server,” Maddow said, “and apparently in Rand Paul’s mind. That is who gets to vote to confirm the new Defense Secretary. He’s ‘very troubled’ by this terrorist organization that he heard about in a chat room somewhere.”
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I'll add a little more. Ran Paul is sure not like his father. He does not seem very sharp. A member of the Senatorial 100 club that makes decisions that affect us - and this guy is that dumb?

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She pointed to a recent flap that had its origins at Breitbart.com, the charge that Sen. Chuck Hagel, President Barack Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Defense allegedly received donations from a group called “Friends of Hamas.”

As Slate columnist Dave Weigel pointed out, “Friends of Hamas” does not exist.
“Someone’s wrong on the Internet!” said Maddow. “Big whoop.”

Russia may have its crackpot meteor deniers, but here in the U.S., we have Sen. Rand Paul, who, sadly, is part of the process for choosing our next Secretary of Defense.

Paul gave an interview to radio talker Hugh Hewitt on Friday in which he said he’d seen the report about “Friends of Hamas” and found it “concerning.”
“I’m very troubled by it,” Paul said.

“‘It’ being Chuck Hagel’s imaginary connection to an imaginary organization that only exists on Breitbart.com’s server,” Maddow said, “and apparently in Rand Paul’s mind. That is who gets to vote to confirm the new Defense Secretary. He’s ‘very troubled’ by this terrorist organization that he heard about in a chat room somewhere.”

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