2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forum"...and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard." How ironic is it
that Hillary's husband, former President Bill Clinton, stood for a picture with the man who said this in 1962 seeing as how Hillary Clinton doesn't even want to see "contentious debate" today?
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."
John F. Kennedy
Rice University, September 12, 1962
Don't fucking tell me "we can't". Don't tell me "he can't". I ain't fuckin' buyin' it. I believe WE CAN, and I believe HE CAN.
John Kennedy said "We choose to go to the moon in this decade" almost before the slide-rules came out and almost before pencil touched paper because he KNEW what was possible. Clinton supporters don't do much other than to tell us what's NOT POSSIBLE. This is the main reason I'm a Bernie Sanders supporter.
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)#2. if you refer to Universal Health Care, Bernie's single payer isn't the only path to that goal.
On DU, Sanders is an ideologue appealing to other ideologues. And that means all you have to do is talk big and make enough noise.
Baitball Blogger
(46,573 posts)Once they began to form partnerships with the private sector, it went all downhill after that.
HerbChestnut
(3,649 posts)Government partnering with the private sector has been going on since the Revolution. The will of the many versus the will of the few has been an ongoing struggle throughout humanity's history.
Baitball Blogger
(46,573 posts)That's when the local government intentionally reached into the Rotary Club to look for "ambassadors" for their cause. It's in the city minutes. In return, they allowed these "community leaders" to run roughshod over the rights of their neighbors. Because they didn't perform their due process requirements, the city became co-conspirators in their private contrivances. I hate to label every member of the Rotary Club, but, the truth is they vouch for each other, so what can you do? At some point, you have to take responsibility for your endorsements.
leftupnorth
(886 posts)And dared to do the impossible. They didn't listen to the conventional 'wisdom' and instead plowed ahead and pursued goals they thought were morally right.
Too bad we only have one of those kind of people running for president.