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Segami

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October 5, 2015

Bernie Sanders Wants You To Do One Very Important Thing – Besides Just Vote





Bernie Sanders descended on Boston, Massachusetts on Saturday evening, drawing the largest crowd in the city’s entire history – even more than the 10,000 person rally Barack Obama held during the 2008 Democratic primary. This isn’t the only thing he’s topped Obama on (campaign-wise, that is). He has also become the first candidate to reach 1 million online donations – and he did it five full months earlier than the president did even. Trying to draw on this enthusiasm, Senator Sanders doesn’t want people to lose focus on what it’s going to take to achieve real change. He wants to remind everyone of one simple truth:


“I am the only candidate that I know of in recent history that has told the American people a very simple truth..and that truth is..that no president…not Bernie Sanders or anybody else will have enough power to transform America to deal with the enormous problems facing working families in this country. No president can do it alone. The only way we make the changes that we have to make is when millions of people come together…..when we come together and make a political revolution.”

“So…. my request of you tonight is not just to help me win the Massechussets primary…but it is to help us win the day after we win the White House.”


Put another way, voters will NEVER get what they want if they do not become engaged. In much the same way there is a law of physics, there are also truths in politics. Even though there are elections every two years on the national stage, most registered voters only go to the ballots when there’s a presidential candidate on the ballot. This is a common phenomenon taught to every political science student in college, and is known as the midterm election drop-off.



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http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/10/04/bernie-sanders-wants-you-to-do-one-very-important-thing-besides-just-vote-video/
October 5, 2015

Al Sharpton With Hillary Clinton ONE-ON-ONE



Hillary Clinton says President Obama’s core supporters are enthusiastic about her campaign even though polls show her numbers flagging.


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October 4, 2015

LOL!- Clinton: Obama Supporters Are ‘Very Enthusiastic’ About Me






Hillary Clinton says President Obama’s core supporters are enthusiastic about her campaign even though polls show her numbers flagging. Clinton told MSNBC host Al Sharpton that Obama Democrats are rallying to her campaign, even though a recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows her trailing Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) by 9 points in New Hampshire.

“They’re coming to me. The amount of support I have from people who supported then Sen. Obama in my race against him in ‘08 and then others who have been supporting him ever since. It’s really very gratifying to me,” Clinton told Sharpton on “PoliticsNation.”


Clinton’s campaign has been dogged by the perception that base Democratic voters are not very enthusiastic about her bid. Former chief Obama strategist David Axelrod summed up the sentiment in a recent Tweet. “It’s hard to inspire w/grinding, tactical race. ‘Hillary: Live With It’ is no rallying cry!” he wrote. Clinton’s numbers have slumped in recent months, prompting Vice President Joe Biden to think hard about jumping into the race, despite being 72 years old and having laid almost no groundwork for it.

“I think the number of people both in my campaign and on the ground around the country who are supporting me who were first and foremost supporters of President Obama speaks very well to their understanding of how hard this job is and how they need to elect somebody, a Democrat, who can build on the successes of the Obama presidency and that’s what I’m pledged to do,” she said.


Clinton’s comments, coming in an exclusive interview with Sharpton on the inaugural Sunday edition of “PoliticsNation” appears to be an attempt at reaching African-American voters, a key constituency especially in Southern primary states.

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Yet she was careful not to distance herself too much by emphasizing that Obama’s constituency is “very enthusiastic” about her succeeding him in the Oval Office. “People who supported President Obama are very enthusiastic and I’m grateful for that in support of my candidacy,” she said.




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http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/255878-clinton-obama-supporters-are-very-enthusiastic-about-me
October 4, 2015

Matt Taibbi: Hillary's Effort To DEFLECT BLAME From Banks For The 2008 Crisis Is PATHETIC


Matt Taibbi ✔@mtaibbi

Hillary's effort to deflect blame from banks for the 2008 crisis is pathetic.

http://bloom.bg/1PSoHqq
9:25 AM - 2 Oct 2015


Bloomberg Politics

Hillary Clinton Lets Big Banks Off the Hook for Financial Crisis

The Democratic front-runner has not been nearly as critical of large financial institutions as some in her party.



The link takes you to an item on Bloomberg.com:


Hillary Clinton Lets Big Banks Off the Hook for Financial Crisis

The Democratic front-runner has not been nearly as critical of large financial institutions as some in her party.
Throughout the 2016 presidential primary campaign, Clinton has taken a markedly less critical view of large financial institutions like Citigroup Inc. than Democrats like Elizabeth Warren and presidential rival Bernie Sanders. Instead, Clinton has placed the blame on “shadow banking,” a term she has used to describe hedge funds and high-frequency traders.

“Her comments on their face are wrong,” said Christopher Whalen, senior managing director at Kroll Bond Rating Agency and author of Inflated: How Money and Debt Built the American Dream. “It is incorrect to blame the crisis on shadow banks. You can’t really differentiate between what they were doing and what Citi was doing.”


I'll let you read the article and make your own conclusions. But I feel compelled to share one more quote, which comes at the end:


But nobody would mistake her views for those of Sanders or Warren—who seems to relish her role as the scourge of Wall Street. Warren said in an April speech that “if the big banks keep calling the shots, they will own both our economy and our democracy.”

Borosage attached a practical purpose for Clinton's recent sympathy with the bankers: “I assume she said it as she was heading into her fund-raising surge.”



Some folks believe that politicians can receive large donations during an election campaign, and they won't feel obligated to "return the favor" to their donors if and when they are elected. I don't think the Koch brothers, the guys on Wall Street, or even Donald Trump shares that particular view, however.


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/04/1427523/-Matt-Taibbi-Hillary-s-effort-to-deflect-blame-from-banks-for-the-2008-crisis-is-pathetic
October 4, 2015

Bernie Sanders Stands For Peace By OPPOSING Hillary Clinton’s Syria No Fly Zone


"...The American people are tired of war, so anything that appears to be a military escalation in the Middle East is not likely to meet with support from many Democratic voters...."





Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has announced his opposition to Hillary Clinton’s proposed Syria no-fly zone.

In a statement, Sen. Sanders said:

".....We do not want to make a very complex situation in Syria even worse. I support President Obama’s effort to combat the Islamic State in Syria while at the same time supporting those in Syria trying to overthrow the brutal dictatorship of Bashar Assad.

I oppose, at this point, a unilateral American no-fly zone in Syria which could get us more deeply involved in that horrible civil war and lead to a never-ending U.S. entanglement in that region...."



During a recent interview, former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton sided with some Republicans by supporting a no-fly zone in Syria, “I personally would be advocating now for a no-fly zone and humanitarian corridors to try to stop the carnage on the ground and from the air.” One of the issues that could trip Hillary Clinton up with Democratic primary voters is what seems to be her natural policy inclination towards military escalation or involvement. It is would be incorrect to suggest that she is as pro-war as the neo-cons in the Republican Party, but she appears to be more to the right on military intervention than both President Obama and Bernie Sanders. So far in the Democratic primary campaign, there have been few specific differences between the two top contenders for the nomination. Just like in 2008, foreign policy could be a big point of distinction between Hillary Clinton and her opponent.


http://www.politicususa.com/2015/10/03/bernie-sanders-stands-peace-opposing-hillary-clintons-syria-fly-zone.html
October 4, 2015

Hillary Doesn't Blame Her BANKSTER BUDDIES For The 2008 Financial Meltdown





I'm not sure how much money Hillary is raking in from Wall Street these days, but every report I've read indicates that the amounts are absolutely massive and that crooked players like Citibank are funding her campaign significantly. Before the campaign she had taken in $34,935,233 from the finance sector, the third highest of any member of Congress in history. In her 2006 Senate reelection bid, her top three contributors were Citigroup ($236,610), Goldman Sachs ($205,670) and MetLife ($156,060), and also in the Top 10 were Morgan Stanley ($123,560), JPMorgan Chase ($122,715) and Credit Suisse ($111,850). The financial sector was by far her top contributor ($7,338,748); the securities and investment industry alone gave her $2,744,933. So the Bloomberg report Friday by Jesse Hamilton and Cheyenne Hopkins that she is excusing the big banks for the 2008 financial crisis shouldn't have come as a surprise to people who follow the flow of money in politics. In their report, Hamilton and Hopkins wrote:

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Hamilton and Hopkins began their piece: "Hillary Clinton's explanation of what caused the 2008 financial crisis contains a notable omission."


Throughout the 2016 presidential primary campaign, Clinton has taken a markedly less critical view of large financial institutions like Citigroup Inc. than Democrats like Elizabeth Warren and presidential rival Bernie Sanders. Instead, Clinton has placed the blame on “shadow banking,” a term she has used to describe hedge funds and high-frequency traders. “Her comments on their face are wrong,” said Christopher Whalen, senior managing director at Kroll Bond Rating Agency and author of Inflated: How Money and Debt Built the American Dream. “It is incorrect to blame the crisis on shadow banks. You can’t really differentiate between what they were doing and what Citi was doing.” Unlike many in her party, when Clinton recounts the events that caused the global financial meltdown, she casts Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and American International Group Inc. as the primary villains. “A lot of what caused the risk that led to the collapse came from institutions that were not big banks,” she told the Des Moines Register. And when actress/director/writer/cultural whirlwind Lena Dunham challenged her ties to Wall Street this week, Clinton said the problem with those who call for breaking up the giant lenders is “a lot of the problems were not from these traditional banks.”


In Clinton's hot-coals dash through financial topics, she's trying to criticize financial titans enough to satisfy her party while also taking campaign money from bankers. Any soft spot for big banks puts her at odds with the party's left flank. Sanders authored a bill in May to shrink such banks as JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc., and Warren remains the loudest critic of Wall Street, having introduced a bill to rebuild the Glass-Steagall wall between companies’ financial activities that Clinton’s husband breeched as president.
Deflecting blame from the banks also raises the question for Clinton: What about the crisis woes of firms such as Citigroup Inc., which has long been among her banking supporters? The lender and its employees have been the No. 1 contributor to her political career, giving more than $800,000--even during the period she told Dunham she “took on Wall Street” as a senator from New York. And two of Citigroup’s fellows in finance have stepped in as top-10 donors to the Democrat’s presidential run: Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan.

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http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-10-02/hillary-clinton-lets-big-banks-off-the-hook-for-financial-crisis


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in 1999 when the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act repealing Glass-Steagall came up for a vote, catastrophically removing barriers that kept banks, securities companies and insurance companies from combining. The banking industry had been agitating-- and bribing members of Congress-- for decades to repeal Glass-Steagall. The Republican-controlled House passed it July 1, 1999, with a huge bipartisan vote of 343–86 (Republicans 205-16, Democrats 138-69, Independent [Bernie Sanders] 0–1). Bill Clinton signed the disastrous bill November 12, 1999. Among prominent politicians currently still active, here's how the votes broke down. First, House members who voted with the banksters to repeal Glass-Steagall:


• Xavier Becerra (D-CA)
• Roy Blunt (R-MO), now a senator
• John Boehner (R-OH)
• Richard Burr (R-NC), now a senator
• Ben Cardin (D-MD), now a senator
• Jim Clyburn (D-SC)
• Eliot Engel (D-NY)
• Harold Ford (D-TN), now an extremely corrupt bank lobbyist
• Richard Gephardt (D-MO), now a lobbyist for Goldman Sachs
• Lindsey Graham (R-SC), now a senator and a presidential candidate with 0% in the polls
• Denny Hastert (R-IL), ex-Speaker currently plea-bargaining to stay out of prison
• Baron Hill (D-IN), currently running for the Senate
• Steny Hoyer (D-MD)
• John Kasich (R-OH), now a governor and a failing presidential candidate
• Ron Kind (D-WI), currently head of the Wall Street-owned New Dems
• Rob Portman (R-OH), now a senator
• Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), still protected by Debbie Wasserman Schultz
• Paul Ryan (R-WI)
• Joe Scarborough (R-FL), retired after involvement in the death of staffer Lori Klausutis, now an MSNBC news personality
• Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), now a senator
• Ted Strickland (D-OH), currently running for Senate
• Tom Udall (D-NM), now a senator
• Fred Upton (R-MI)
• David Vitter (R-LA), now a senator running for governor
• Roger Wicker (R-MS), now a senator


And here are the still-active prominent brave souls who voted against the banksters that day:

• Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), now a senator
• Sherrod Brown (D-OH), now a senator
• John Conyers (D-MI)
• Elijah Cummings (D-MD)
• Rosa DeLauro (D-CT)
• Barbara Lee (D-CA)
• John Lewis (D-GA)
• Jim McDermott (D-WA)
• Jerry Moran (R-KS), now a senator
• Jerry Nadler (D-NY)
• Ron Paul (R-TX)-- not Rand
• BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT), now a senator and a presidential candidate
• Jan Schakowsky (D-IL)
• Maxine Waters (D-CA)


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