That goes for the entire Republican Party.

He really had a good first debate, then took the gloves off.

Bringing the country together is no longer possible, or even desired by the American people. We seem to like our divided war camps and inflexible dogma. There is no "middle ground". Bringing people together mean compromise and compromise means behaving like the "establishment" and establishment is a dirty word now.

You can't fault Obama for not uniting the people and bringing us together. We don't want to be united, or together.

I don't agree at all.  I think the media, education, and government (Dems and Obama) have promoted a divided society where we are not "American" anymore, but a bunch of special interests with different agendas and identities.  I think people want a united purpose, but politicians want to keep us divided for control purposes.

Correct on all counts, and why Trump is popular. We all know 16 years of the Bush/Obama presidency has gotten us nowhere, and both sides continue to foist the same shit sandwich upon the populace.

I'm damned near ready to vote for Trump, as I feel we need to blow the place up, burn it down, and start over. Trump can certainly do no worse than the past 16 years of asshatery.

You and I are pretty conservative, but we saw and acknowledged the Bush failures.  He was a big government, big spender and helped to give us the DHS.  I don't want another President like GWB, and I certainly don't want another Obama.

They're quite hard-core Democrats. They can rattle off a long list of positive attributes for Hillary and another long list of Obama successes.

Most of their case can be found from Occupy Democrats - my exposure was FaceBook posts, but they have a website as well.

But please do NOT expect me to rationalize their positions - they are not ones I hold, nor do I wish to defend or explain them.

So what you're saying is that they are just indoctrinated, brainwashed far leftists that can not think for themselves?

As a woman, I know that the maxim is true:  When a man stands up to speak, people listen.  When a woman stands up to speak, if people like what they see, they listen.

That is prejudice, and as female, I've experience forms of it all my life and still do. 

It depends on how big her boobs are. 

... but then race hustlers, and malcontent failures would have to look harder for someone to blame for their lack of achievement.

In addition there is an entire industry devoted to keeping the races contentious.  It profits politicians, community organizers, various corporations, diversity trainers, THE MEDIA, EDUCATION, etc. 

I find it amazing that stupid is so attractive to democrats these days.

Maybe the barking dog will be a better president, so destroy everybody else and make the run safe for cankles, and the world is saved.

Our parents were so much smarter, more practical, and had real common sense.  They did not live beyond their means, and also wanted what was the best for our country, and did not demonize us as a colonial power like their kids have.  The 60's Vietnam, anti establishment, protest generation created an anti American MONSTER.  Instead of respecting what we've created, they blame America first, yet the rest of the world's masses want to come here by any means possible.  Why?

The difference was that even Democratic members of Congress saw FDR's court-packing plan as an unreasonable overreach by the Executive branch.

I see no similar scruples with today's Democrats in Congress.

The DNC, and their member Democrat politicians have embraced the far left, radical agenda they espouse.  They have learned to be successful they must be in LOCK STEP.  More like a goose step, but I digress.  There are very few if any moderate Democrats.  Look at their candidates for President.  Even O'Malley was a socialist to the nth degree.  Now Bernie, and Hillary are trying to out commie each other and promise "free" stuff that makes no sense whatsoever.  The 1 1/2 percent can't pay for it, and they know it, but the low information types lap it up.