What are you doing in college?
Political science-ing.
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Would you rather be rich and famous or poor and happy?
Define these terms.
How many languages can you speak?
One fluently.
Wouldn't executions be better so that money won't be wasted on these kinds of people?
It actually costs more in the US to sentence people to death over sentencing people with life imprisonment. Death is kind of a big deal, it being permanent and all, so death row inmates are entitled to appeals to overturn or downgrade their penalties that can last for many years and rack up a fortune in legal fees.
Why would US influence be reduced over the Western allies that have abolished the practice of death penalties.
Our Western allies would be less willing to cooperate with, or at least accomodate beyond the strategic, any party that they have passionate ideological disagreements with.
In a normal deck of 52 playing cards, which is your favorite card?
The Joker.
Are you a grape? What kind of grape are you? What did you do to deserve this?
I am not a grape.
To what extent do you believe that people should be judged by actions versus intentions?
Depends on whether or not you want to become friends with these people. As far as just working with them is concerned though, you have to anticipate how future actions by these people will be informed by their intentions, and whether or not those anticipated actions match closely enough to what you want to see happen.
How tolerant are you of a story/show leaving unanswered questions?
It depends, in part, on whether or not the story/show has been thematically conclusive.
Do people ever actually "grow up"?
To various degrees, if what you mean is "mature."
I can't make sense of Obama's position on illegal immigrants. One day he's described as a deporter-in-chief for deporting more than any other prez, the other he supports the DREAM Act or uses an executive order to indefinitely defer the deportation of millions more? Can you make sense of it?
I would imagine that he's trying to find a balance on the issue. The humanitarian side of him would want to enfranchise undocumented migrants that have been living in the US for years and decades on end. The lawyer side of him recognizes that these immigrants still came here illegally.
It's also to Obama's (and the Democrats') political advantage to provide easier paths to citizenship to these undocumented migrants. These migrants tend to vote Democrat, after all. Republican opponents would and have naturally criticized Obama's and the Democrats's desire to make this happen a cynical political ploy to stack the electorate against their opposition's favor. Obama thus came up with the compromise you mentioned.
It's also to Obama's (and the Democrats') political advantage to provide easier paths to citizenship to these undocumented migrants. These migrants tend to vote Democrat, after all. Republican opponents would and have naturally criticized Obama's and the Democrats's desire to make this happen a cynical political ploy to stack the electorate against their opposition's favor. Obama thus came up with the compromise you mentioned.