appal_jack
appal_jack's JournalWell everybody, we have a presumptuous nominee.
Get with the program as you see fit.
Me, I'll educate, agitate, and organize for Bernie all the way through the Convention!
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It will last as long as Hillary is in the public eye.
If she is the losing candidate, it will last until November, and then we will have president-elect Trump.
If by some long shot, she wins the election despite multiple, new scandals sticking to her like white on rice, it will continue at least through January / inauguration.
And if the Democrats don't take both the House and Senate with comfortable majorities (and the House districts are so gerrymandered, this is virtually impossible) then the Congressional investigations begin. I would predict impeachment hearings before the end of 2017.
Why does any one consider her a viable candidate again?
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Protest never changes anything? Look at how TTIP has been derailed
Protest never changes anything? Look at how TTIP has been derailedFor those of us who want societies run in the interests of the majority rather than unaccountable corporate interests, this era can be best defined as an uphill struggle. So when victories occur, they should be loudly trumpeted to encourage us in a wider fight against a powerful elite of big businesses, media organisations, politicians, bureaucrats and corporate-funded thinktanks.
Today is one such moment. The Transatlantic Trade Investment Partnership (TTIP) – that notorious proposed trade agreement that hands even more sweeping powers to corporate titans – lies wounded, perhaps fatally. It isn’t dead yet, but TTIP is a tangled wreckage that will be difficult to reassemble.
Those of us who campaigned against TTIP – not least fellow Guardian columnist George Monbiot – were dismissed as scaremongering. We said that TTIP would lead to a race to the bottom on everything from environmental to consumer protections, forcing us down to the lower level that exists in the United States. We warned that it would undermine our democracy and sovereignty, enabling corporate interests to use secret courts to block policies that they did not like.
Scaremongering, we were told. But hundreds of leaked documents from the negotiations reveal, in some ways, that the reality is worse – and now the French government has been forced to suggest it may block the agreement.
The documents imply that even craven European leaders believe the US demands go too far. As War on Want puts it, they show that TTIP would “open the door” to products currently banned in the EU “for public health and environmental reasons”.
As the documents reveal, there are now “irreconcilable” differences between the European Union’s and America’s positions. According to Greenpeace, “the EU position is very bad, and the US position is terrible”.
More at link:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/may/05/protest-never-changes-anything-derailing-ttip-trade-agreement
So, WHY has the US been pushing these awful trade deals under a Democratic administration? TTIP and TPP are both modeled on the Korea Trade Deal, also brokered by the Obama administration. Since its passage, deficits with Korea have risen every year. The awful ISDS provisions that hand lawmaking and veto powers to unaccountable corporations are all there in TTIP and TPP too.
Anyone pushing these trade deals, and especially the secret negotiations where they are drafted, is not supporting democracy or peoples' rights.
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To be expected & a long time comin'.
For my entire life, spineless Democrats have clung to the "middle of the road," refusing to believe the plain truth that nothing belongs there except yellow stripes and dead 'possums.
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Exactly.
Thanks for this exhaustive research, paulthompson. While the primaries continue, there is still the chance to choose a candidate not under investigation and very likely imminent indictment. Let's hope Democrats pay attention while there is still time.
k&,
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She did not say "...relative to the population;" she said "many"
55 out of more than 7000 is not "many."
Less than 1% is not "many."
Your math is bad & you should feel bad.
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Clinton and Sanders Hashing Out Whether Next Debate Will Be a New York One
Source: New York Times
The Clinton and Sanders campaigns are in discussions about when to hold a debate in April, but whether it is held before the critical April 19 New York presidential primary remains an open question.
The campaign for Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont sent out a news release on Tuesday proclaiming that Hillary Clinton’s campaign had made “an agreement to debate him in New York before the state’s April 19 primary election.”
That, however, is not exactly what the Clinton campaign has said, at least publicly.
“We have expressed our willingness to debate in April, and the campaigns are discussing different options, including the option of a debate in N.Y. before April 19,” said Brian Fallon, the press secretary for the Clinton campaign, in an email on Wednesday.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/03/30/clinton-and-sanders-hashing-out-whether-next-debate-will-be-a-new-york-one/
Seems like the interwebz' "#Tonedownforwhat" campaign is having an impact. Keep the pressure on: there is no reason why a NY debate should not take place in advance of 4/19.
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