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How is it not a violation for Cassiopeia to plagiarize, verbatim, on GDP, my post from the Hillary Group? S/he didn't change a word. It was copy-and-paste all the way!
Iowa watchers split on who won Democratic debate
Source: Des Moines Register
Asked if corporate America should love her, Hillary Clinton answered with a confident smile: "Everybody should."
It was one of the best lines Saturday night in the third Democratic presidential debate, according to a handful of undecided college-age caucusgoers who weighed in on the performances for The Des Moines Register.
"This definitely highlighted exactly what this debate seemed to be about: Hillary Clinton," said Jessica Lynk, a 19-year-old Drake University student from Arlington Heights, Ill., who will be caucusing for the first time.
"I guess it was funny, but it was also awkward," said John Wingert, 20, of San Antonio, Texas, who is studying political science, international relations and German at Drake.
By the debate's end, the college-age debate watchers were split on who won. But on a night when all three candidates were credited by many national politics watchers with doing well, the lack of a big moment is typically thought to leave the advantage with the current front-runner: Clinton.
Read more: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2015/12/20/iowans-react-to-democratic-debate/77646802/
Bolded text mine.
Bernie supporters could blow this election
Why refusing to vote for Hillary Clinton will only make everything worseBy Gary Legum
The political left has been tearing itself up of late with a rousing game of “Who Wants to Be the Most Liberal Liberal Ever To Liberal,” much in the same way it seems to each and every election cycle. The current battle, between supporters of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, would be much more entertaining if the arguments for and against both campaigns weren’t variations on the same tired leftier-than-thou rhetoric and blind loyalty that were worn out even before Ralph Nader threw his rumpled corduroy blazer over his shoulder and slunk off into the humid Florida night.
I’ll get to some of those arguments in a minute, but first I’m going to pull on my old-man pants, hike the waist up to my armpits, shake my fist at some clouds, and share a couple of the strongest memories I have of the months leading up to the 2000 election, when I was a 26-year-old, semi-politically-aware liberalish Gen-X voter.
I recall a debate that year about whether true liberals should vote for Nader because, in his formulation, there was not a dime’s worth of difference between the two major-party candidates, Al Gore and George W. Bush. I recall email blasts from at least one acquaintance in a toss-up state trying to interest his friends in states that were safely for Gore in a voting trade of sorts, whereby one of us would cast our vote for Nader; in return, our friend would cast his vote for Gore. The thinking was that this would preserve a Democratic victory in both states while also registering liberal protests at the centrist drift of the party.
I recall spending the night before the election drinking in a P.F. Chang’s in Los Angeles with a group of friends, one of whom had brought along a reporter from the L.A. Daily News who planned on casting her vote the next day for Nader. There had been some vague concern over polls showing the race for California’s 54 electoral votes might be close, but she assured us all that this was not the case. California was safely in Gore’s column, so liberals might as well cast that protest vote.
http://www.salon.com/2015/12/02/bernie_supports_could_blow_this_election_why_refusing_to_vote_for_hillary_clinton_will_only_make_things_worse/
Yes, this is a couple of weeks old. But it's still true!
Clinton OWNS Debate
And the Hillary-haters can swim in that famous Egyptian river as long as they want! 
Trump-Putin 2016: "Make Tyranny Great Again"
From the Kasich campaign, but screw it: This is funny!
Pussy Riot on the danger posed by Donald Trump: We laughed when Putin came to power, too
Source: The Independent
A Pussy Riot member is urging the US to start taking Donald Trump seriously, warning Russia used to joke about Vladimir Putin, too.
The billionaire's campaign rehtoric and increasingly controversial claims have only improved his ratings and he continues to poll as the frontrunner in the GOP Presidential nominee race nationally.
Maria Alekhina told the Huffington Post she was one of many people who dismissed Putin’s first term in office and joked about his rise to power. Five years later, she was one of two Pussy Riot members imprisoned for 21 months on charges of “hooliganism” for a protest performance in the Russian Orthadox Church.
Any voters hoping to have their own version of Putin should simply vote for Trump, according to Alekhina - a claim Trump would likely consider a compliment. The two have exchanged flattering comments in recent days, with Trump openly admiring his leadership’s skills and ability to “command respect” from Russian citizens. Putin has been equally complimentary about Trump, praising him as a "flamboyant and outstanding man”.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/pussy-riot-on-the-danger-posed-by-donald-trump-we-laughed-when-putin-came-to-power-too-a6779556.html
Edited to remove Snark. I apologize to anyone who found it a little too much.
BS BS
Oh, so it wasn't just minor functionaries, after all: It was their National Data Director!
Though Sanders' campaign has insisted that it did not keep the data its staffers viewed, Time magazine reported Friday that those staffers appear “to have obtained files with lists of voters that the Clinton campaign had cultivated in 10 early states including Iowa and New Hampshire” and that the staffers “created from scratch no fewer than 24 lists -- consisting entirely of data pulled down from the Clinton campaign’s database -- and saved them to their personal folders.”
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UPDATE: 6:40 p.m. -- In a press call Friday, Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said that the data breech was "egregious" and that the Sanders campaign was misrepresenting what had occurred.
"This was not an inadvertent glimpse into our data and it was not, as the Sanders campaign has described it, a mistake," Mook said. "They have tried to downplay what this means, so I want to be very very clear: This is data that took millions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of volunteer hours to build. So the voter file is not simply a list of names and contact information."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sanders-sues-dnc_56748b06e4b06fa6887d883e?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013§ion=politics
Alas, it turns out the only real Saint Bernard is a dog that rescues people in the Alps!
Chemical on French synagogue keypad burns congregants
Source: Associated Press
PARIS (AP) — French investigators are trying to identify a chemical applied to an electronic keypad at a Paris-area synagogue that burned more than a dozen congregants.
The Creteil prosecutor's office said Friday that analysis is still taking place on the substance, which caused light burns and eye irritation for the congregants at the synagogue in Bonneuil-sur-Marne late Monday. No one was hospitalized.
Jewish locations in France have been on high alert since the January attacks in Paris on a kosher supermarket and the Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper.
Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/236faef4225e42a79f158db4f3b55284/chemical-french-synagogue-keypad-burns-congregants
An ISIS member or sympathizer as the culprit? Scary. But not nearly as scary as An Upstanding Member Of The Christian Community. We all know it's happened before!
Clinton campaign raises $8 million at Manhattan fundraiser
Convening its top fundraisers for a glitzy dinner and concert at the St. Regis hotel in Manhattan on Thursday night, Hillary Clinton's campaign brought in roughly $8 million for its joint fundraising group with the Democratic National Committee and state parties, three people familiar with the figure told POLITICO.
The event — which featured remarks from both Bill and Hillary Clinton, campaign chairman John Podesta and top fundraising official Dennis Cheng, as well as a concert by rocker Sting — was the campaign's first event for the Hillary Victory Fund.
Roughly 160 fundraisers attended the reception, for which they paid a minimum of $33,400. Chairs of the event paid or raised at least $100,000.
It came just hours after Hillary Clinton joined her daughter Chelsea for a separate event at the Sheraton Hotel, featuring 600 guests (including 150 children) who paid between $250 and $2700.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/clinton-campaign-raises-8-million-at-manhattan-fundraiser-216925#ixzz3ueuNQ7uK
This is great news, even though Politico is none-too-subtly trying to make it a criticism of Hillary's fundraising efforts. Hey, in today's America, you gotta raise ma$$ quantities to run for President. That's the reality, something the Sandernistas don't seem to understand.
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