i love the idea we re no longer satisfied with love kernels coming down from on high. this becomes a really important political question. i have speculated looking at manchin s election in 2018. he squeeked by with 49% of the vote. i don t think the guy can get re-elected in 2024. on the ground do you think joe manchin is doing this because he thinks it s going to help him get re-elected or do you think he s likely to drop out? what kind of primary challenges is he very likely to face in 2024 if he hasn t left office yet? i mean, we will run someone against him. it s an easy decision. we could never back senator capito or senator manchin because we refuse to support candidates who have sold out to corporate interests. the fight in west virginia isn t left versus right, it s up versus down. we have to do the work door to door, town by town, county by county. we re a bunch of people who got
republican who is now a registered democrat all because of barack obama, correct. barack obama is surging here, nine points ahead of hillary clinton in one of the latest polls where just a few days ago they were tied. senator clinton is fighting back hard. i don t know since when experience became some kind of liability in running for the highest office in our land. she got really gritty and was like, i m going to fight this thing out town by town. this day, this last high-pressure day before the nancy pelosi nancy pelosi primary turned into a day unlike any other on the campaign trail for hillary clinton. she s taken aback by what s happened. she s losing against this guy named barack obama who no one had ever heard of months before. and she s frustrated. you can tell. it s palpable. as a woman i know it s hard to get out of the house and to get ready. my personal is very personal. how do you do it? how do you keep upbeat and so wonderful. it s not easy. it s not easy. a
not only in iraq, but we had to destroy them in syria. and we could have done it all ourselves. but a better way is not to have the u.s. troops do the tough infantry, town-by-town, building-by-building fighting. that s not our comparative advantage. we d rather that s the enemy s advantage. so we would rather vf grouhave forces that are local, who can speak the language and know the air. and then we bring down on top of them the great whirlwind of american and coalition military power. air power, intelligence, logistics, advising. and that is the path that we set out in 2015 to take raqqah, which, remember, was the place they called the capital of the isis caliphate. and if we hadn t done that, our
turks and the kurds, in a sense, each respected their own zones, and peace was maintained? well, it took very little. and it has taken very little from the beginning. when we first recruited the kurds, this is now back in 2015, fareed, when isis was, remember, trying to attack and kill our people. we had to protect ourselves. we had to destroy them. not only in iraq, but we had to destroy them in syria. and we could have done it all ourselves. but a better way is not to have the u.s. troops do the tough infantry, town-by-town, building-by-building fighting. that s not our comparative advantage. we d rather that s the enemy s advantage. so we would rather have ground forces that are local, who can speak the language and know the air. and then we bring down on top of them the great whirlwind of american and coalition military power. air power, intelligence, logistics, advising. and that is the path that we set out in 2015 to take raqqah, which, remember, was the place
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