Hillary’s New Mouthpiece McCaskill Attacks Bernie Sanders: BIG MISTAKE

[INdemo]

With these attacks Bernie Sanders will get name recognition because.
People will ask, Who is this guy that is rising in the polls against Hillary?

I think the Hillary campaign has gone beyond NH and IA and has polled Nev (not liking what they find)

And in SC (I dont care what the media says) Bernie is gaining there too.
So Hillary knows that 3 loses in a row will put her on track for a repeat of 2008 and that would be great for humanity.

Obviously Hillary cannot run on the issues.
Would someone that is close to the Hillary Clinton campaign,please check to see if Karl Rove joined her team recently?

[Kalidurga]

1. She's good for a couple points bump in the national polls

[lewebley3]

17. The Senators right is running a negative campaign against Hillary

[Kalidurga]

20. Could you please post this again?

In English next time though.

[lewebley3]

21. As long as it is true

[Kalidurga]

25. I like this rabbit hole

does it lead to potions where one makes you bigger and one makes you smaller and one doesn't do anything at all?

[pangaia]

46. Oh my god. You are as old as I am..

You made my day !!!

Feed your head !!

[Kalidurga]

48. I am a bit over 50

I listen to music from most eras I think. I like pan flutes and those go waaaaaaaaaaaaay back.

[pangaia]

51. Opps I am 72.. SO THAT is from my 'coming of age' period.

[Kalidurga]

57. Cool

I always looked up to the older kids.

[senz]

82. Mine, too.

In a presentation for a class I was taking with 20-somethings about 15 years ago, I illustrated some points with quotes from Alice in Wonderland and included a homemade poster with related visuals. In the lower right hand corner I printed the phrase, "Feed your head."

People liked the poster, but no one, not one person, remarked on that bit. I realized none of them could remember that stunning song -- and felt a little sorry for 'em.

[pangaia]

95. The entire record was dynamite.

-yes, RECORD.. not viy-null !

In fact, I have it right here next to me.. PINK, remember?

RCA # AYL1-3738

SURREALISTIC PILLOW -- 2 minutes and twenty-seven seconds ..

[senz]

97. Yes, I remember Surrealistic Pillow.

One of the things I'm most grateful for is having been young and aware in the Sixties, because I would not have missed that amazing -- still unbelievable -- time for anything. If I ever feel jaded about "people," all I have to do is remember the mind-expanding openness, gentleness, and love that permeated everyone and everything in that specific subculture. But it didn't last long, just a few sweet years.

Still, what a memory.

[pangaia]

98. So true.

Everyone, or maybe most, feel they came of age in the best period. And of course I do as well. I would not have traded it for anything. it went a long way into bring out in me who I am..

It was not an easy time. Three horrendous assassinations, for starters.

But the creativity was just astounding.

[arikara]

120. Oh don't I know it

2 years ago I took a 4 month class with 10 millennial girls... I was 58. I grew up on a farm with no running water or electricity my music was an Elvis Lp played on a battery operated turntable. I still don't have a smart phone because I don't want to walk around poking at a tiny keyboard.
They were nice kids but I still felt like a stranger in a strange land. Until then I had no idea how very large a generation gap can be.

[navarth]

60. LOL

...you ARE having fun with it, aren't you?

[Kalidurga]

99. Oh yeah

But, seriously I don't know what this poster is saying. I think it is in, English. I can't be sure of that. I haven't heard word salad like that since Palin's last boozy endorsement of Trump.

[SammyWinstonJack]

33. Hehe.

[eggplant]

64. I think they are down to gibberish...

...because they are one hide away from the time-out box.

Hard to alert on gibberish.

[nxylas]

70. Gibberish appears to be this poster's first language

It certainly isn't English.

[dorkzilla]

74. A one hit blunder

I’m wondering if there are any synapses to fire?

[LiberalLovinLug]

55. If I didn't know any better

I'd think you were a secret Bernie supporter for all your incomprehensible one line mutterings in so many threads. Other Hillary supporters must dread whenever you enter a thread if you portend to represent them.

[Fumesucker]

124. I've been thinking that for quite some time now, the poster is a BernieBro...

[blackspade]

71. Eh?

Right fire hydrant running senator. The yellow stop signs will save Hillary negative campaign.

There! Fixed so that others can comprehend!

[TheBlackAdder]

106. A GOP Play: in 1992, GHWB called Bill Clinton a "Social Engineer" (Socialist towards Authoritarian).

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Right-wing author, F. A. Hayek, wrote a book called "The Road to Serfdom." It came down hard on "Social Engineers" that try to mould the government in a manner they see fit, where the ultimate result is an authoritarian state.


Here's an NYT article professing that Bill Clinton was called this by GHWB's campaign:

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/18/us/the-1992-campaign-the-republicans-bush-paints-clinton-as-social-engineer.html

With its disparaging references to Oxford, the 1960's and Mr. Clinton's "economic elite," and its allusions to socialism, the 41-minute speech was redolent with the blue-collar appeals that helped Ronald Reagan lure Democrats to his fold in 1980 and 1984.

Mr. Bush made no attempt today to explain or minimize the economy's present problems. Instead, he argued that the real danger facing the nation is that voters will "grasp change blindly, without considering seriously where these changes will lead us or what they mean in our daily lives."

"At a decisive moment in history comes your choice about who should lead the American economy: the government planner or the entrepreneur, the risk-taker," the President said. "This is the most fundamental disagreement between us: whether the driving engine of growth is government interventionism or entrepreneurial capitalism." Risk-Taker Turned Politician

This really sounds familiar.


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[rhett o rick]

111. What does that even mean? nm

[Ferd Berfel]

2. Ok. It'll be a stretch for me this week but now I'll have to send Bernie another $25!

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[INdemo]

5. I just figured up our budget, its close but me too !!!!!

Clara,Clara Clara
My Grammpa had this saying and it would fit in here .....

Well Clara and Hillary,I think you just shit in your nest !!!

[RKP5637]

9. I've been giving $5 here and there for some time now, It's really adding up for him! n/t

[99th_Monkey]

12. I'm with you. Another $25 for Bernie!! nt

[Duval]

32. We will, too! Go Bernie!

[Senator Tankerbell]

3. Claire is worried about her own money.

A lot of people don't realize how wealthy Claire is.
https://www.google.com/search?q=claire+mccaskill+net+worth

[bjobotts]

63. 15th wealthiest senator.

[azurnoir]

72. 12 th richest

The Center for Responsive Politics ranks McCaskill as the 12th-richest of 100 senators, with a net worth between $15.6 million and $27.5 million.

[840high]

108. No wonder she's a Hillary defender.

[passiveporcupine]

76. That explains it

I was not aware of this. Jeebus!

[senz]

87. I swear, too much money wrecks people.

Too little, if it doesn't kill us, makes us desperate and too much much makes us coarse.

If we could adopt Bernie's plans, we'd have far fewer, if any, extremely poor people and fewer obscenely rich ones. We'd all be better off, too.

[loyalsister]

109. And one of the least well liked

Everytime she's up for re-election, many progressives dread voting for her again.

[beltanefauve]

121. Reminds me

of having to vote for Feinstein in my state.

Ranking 12th richest senator also puts her up there with Feinstein.

[Yupy]

4. More contributions for Sanders! Yeah! Me too, Straight to Bernie's website to contribute!

[RKP5637]

10. K&R n/t

[Bjornsdotter]

7. She didn't just insult Bernie

...she insulted me too. I, like Bernie, am a Democratic Socialist. Senator McCaskill should educate herself on the differences between Democratic Socialism and Socialism.

[cui bono]

14. She's insulting anyone with a brain no matter what they identify as politically.

Love Pap's head shake before the clip runs. Exactly how I feel.

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[Enthusiast]

42. You win the internet for the day.

[cui bono]

50. =)

[beltanefauve]

122. And should Hillary win

the nomination, she has alienated a lot of people who will be needed to help Hill win the general.

[Bjornsdotter]

123. Absolutely

It's hard to put the toothpaste back in the tube.

[Thenewire]

8. So tell me...

Is Sanders free of criticism?

[Kalidurga]

24. Do you have a criticism?

Or are you just afraid to take on the establishment and go for real changes?

[navarth]

80. This one makes more complete sentences.

[cui bono]

26. Have you read DU?

No, he is not free of criticism. However, when smearmongering teabagger tactics are used they will be called out and slammed.

Do you support and agree with McCaskill?

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[libdem4life]

41. Be nice...s/he's new. LOL

[cui bono]

90. Are you sure???

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[99th_Monkey]

11. "Eeek a socialist!!" <-- Hillarians Resort to Red Baiting. Hell, who needs Republicans anymore? nt

[sarge43]

30. So 20th century

The USSR crashed and burned a quarter century ago. Give it up, Hills.

Plus, a lot of us from that time remember what was done to people in the name of 'protecting us from the Red Menace'. It was wrong then; it's worse today.

[SammyWinstonJack]

35. He's a socialist fer gawd sake.........

[bjobotts]

59. In '08 she sided with McCain against Obama

Saying he was too inexperienced to be president. That it takes someone with hers or McCain's experience to be president. I'll vote for her because she's a democrat but I support Bernie...a man of the people. FDR was also a Democratic Socialist. Medicare, ,SS, Medicaid, our national highway system are all democratic socilist programs. Democratic Socialism is the only form of government which both ensures our freedom and our survival. Without a government of the people there would be no entity large enough to keep these corporations from doing whatever they wanted to do. We choose what we will all come together to use to maintain our society and nationalize it. Democratic Socialism has been practiced here in America since it was founded.

[99th_Monkey]

68. I'm glad Bernie fully addressed this issue, in a major speech, at Georgetown Univ.

McCaskill is just displaying her willful ignorance with her Red-baiting, and I don't think
many people will be swayed by it, if any.

She's a piece of work, but not in a good way.

[cui bono]

13. Teabagger tactics. Hillary should be ashamed, but I know she's not capable of feeling that.

Smearmongering with a teabagger idea is so low. And blaming the MSM. I think I might have heard her say "Lamestream Media", anyone else hear that?

Time to get rid of that DINO.

[lewebley3]

38. Hillary just telling the truth:

[cui bono]

49. Hillary wasn't even speaking, so what are you talking about?

[2pooped2pop]

67. lol

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[cui bono]

89. Exactly. No matter how much it doesn't make any sense or how far off from the truth it is.

It's so scary to see people on a political message board be blind followers and idol worshippers. Of course some people are operatives and some might even be bots based on the automated types of responses that have nothing to do with what they are responding to.

So glad Sanders is running...



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[Ed Suspicious]

126. I think it's just some sort of automated thought generator that chooses from a couple different word

banks. Hillary+truth+speaking+is.

[cui bono]

127. That's exactly what I think.

And I think the code writing was outsourced to China based on the broken English.

Turns out though, even AI can get a timeout. 7 hides! So thankful, they won't be back for 2 months! Unless the code wasn't written to keep trying to post after that long.

Even though the posts were so stupid it was like an annoying gnat you just couldn't get rid of. And I really hate to see someone smear and slander Thom Hartmann and Bernie constantly with blatant lies.

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[WillyT]

15. HUGE K & R !!! - THANK YOU !!!

[MisterP]

16. maybe they'll quote the NY Post attack that all the Cruz fans are FBing next ...

[Gothmog]

18. The concern about down ballot races is a legitimate issue in a primary contest

If you are running to the nominee of a political party, you have to care about down ballot races. Sanders is not only not raising funds for the Democratic party, he may have an adverse effect on down ballot races http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/mccaskill-wants-bernie-sanders-is-liability-in-2016

In a revealing report from the New York Times Tuesday, Clinton supporters including Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) piled on in warning that Bernie Sanders could be an electoral liability for the party in 2016 if he managed to secure the nomination.

“The Republicans won’t touch him because they can’t wait to run an ad with a hammer and sickle,” McCaskill told the New York Times.

Other Democrats, including Gov. Jack Markell of Delaware, told the New York Times that that Sanders could endanger Democrats running in more purple states, like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, where Democrats are hanging their aspirations to take back the Senate in 2016.

Recent polls have shown Sanders gaining momentum in early states. A CNN poll Tuesday showed him leading Clinton by 27 points in New Hampshire and Des Moines Register poll found him closing the gap in Iowa.

Wednesday, the criticism continued as McCaskill stood by her concerns about Sanders. In an interview with NBC, McCaskill said it was "absolutely impossible" for him to win in her home state of Missouri. She also warned that Sanders was untested. While Republicans have targeted Hillary Clinton in attacks since they hit the campaign trail, Sanders has so far been left unscathed.

What is wrong with being concerned about down ballot races?

[Lordquinton]

40. If you're worried about down-ballot races

then consider that DWS has actively campaigned for Republicans, against Democratic contenders, she needs to go before that argument has any traction.

Bernie is getting young people to the polls, which is the first step to electing anybody, Hillary and the DNC are trying to hide that an election is even going on. What are they even doing with all that cash they are raising?

[Gothmog]

66. Do have any proof for this claim about DWS?

[1StrongBlackMan]

86. I think he/she is referring to the DU myth that ...

she endorsed an incumbent republican candidate ... actually two brothers, when she was in the House (2008?), with whom she had developed a working relationship.

The fact is, she just did not endorse or campaign for the republican candidates ... but she didn't work for the Democratic candidate (that had no shot of winning) either.

So in DU interpretation, NOT campaigning for the Democrat equals "actively campaign" for the republican.

[Lordquinton]

93. Here's something to go on

http://m.dailykos.com/story/2015/9/16/1421914/-Debbie-Wasserman-Schultz-The-Manchurian-Chair

[Lordquinton]

117. Some more

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251911615

[Lage Nom Ai]

52. I am concerned with down ballot races.

I guess the party should make sure those candidates share the same vision as the top of the ticket.

[murielm99]

62. McCaskill and the others have every right to be concerned.

But that makes her a mouthpiece, dontcha know. Anyone who expresses the tiniest bit of doubt, or the smallest criticism of Bernie is under the bus.

[Gothmog]

65. In Texas, Sanders would kill down ballot candidates

http://www.fortbendstar.com/2015/08/05/theres-no-room-for-socialism-in-fort-bend-county/

[Lage Nom Ai]

85. Nice,

a conservative article tearing apart a liberal. Should the Democratic party move farther right in your opinion?

[Gothmog]

101. Texas has three times the number of delegates as Iowa and NH combined

A large number of Texans are working to turn Texas blue and we do not want to see our hard work undone

[Lage Nom Ai]

105. Turning a state blue

means nothing if you have to give up your Liberal principals and become Republican-Lite, sorry.

[Gothmog]

107. We have to agree to disagree

There are a large number of good Democrats working to turn Texas blue

[Lage Nom Ai]

110. Fair enough

But even on this post we have to disagree. A good Democrat stands by their principals and refuses to move farther right, even at a cost of votes. If they don't the Democratic party just becomes the moderate wing of the Republican party, IMO. Good luck to you and your Candidate.

[Gothmog]

113. I live in the real world and I care about winning elections

If you do not win, then you have no power at all.

[Lage Nom Ai]

116. And

When you win at the cost of your principals what have you won?

[Gothmog]

118. A seat at the table and the ability to keep the GOP from ruining the country

There are a large number of good Democrats living in red states who are working hard to change things. It is hard work but I live in the real world

[Lage Nom Ai]

119. A seat at the table?

If you move farther to the right you are not changing a state but rather changing your party. We have moved more than enough. It is time for the right to move towards us. We need to ask ourselves what do we give up this time to have them vote democrat? Eventually we will have nothing left to give and we will be republican.

[malokvale77]

91. In Texas...

candidates do a good job of that on their own. 2014 was a disaster.

Maybe it has more to do with being Republican lite.

Try again.

[Gothmog]

100. Study Reveals The True Scope Of Voter Disenfranchisement In Texas

Texas' issues in 2014 was largely due to the Texas voter id/voter suppression law The sole and only purpose for voter id laws is to suppress the vote and a new study out shows that these laws do suppress the vote. One Congressional seat went to the GOP due to the Texas voter id law according to this study http://www.texastribune.org/2015/08/06/study-law-discouraged-more-those-without-voter-id/

Texas’ strict voter identification requirements kept many would-be voters in a Hispanic-majority congressional district from going to the polls last November — including many who had proper IDs — a new survey shows.

And the state's voter ID law – coupled with lackluster voter education efforts – might have shaped the outcome of a congressional race, the research suggests.

Released on Thursday, the 50th anniversary of the federal Voting Rights Act, the joint Rice University and University of Houston study found that 13 percent of those registered in the 23rd Congressional District and did not vote stayed home, at least partly, because they thought they lacked proper ID under a state law considered the strictest in the nation. And nearly 6 percent did not vote primarily because of the requirements.

But most of those discouraged Texans had the proper documents to vote, says the study, which came one day after a federal appeals court ruled that the four-year-old Texas law has a “discriminatory effect” on Hispanics and African-Americans....

Researchers focused on CD-23 largely because of its demographics and the neck-in-neck congressional race it held. CD-23 is seen as the state's only U.S. House district that's competitive between Republicans and Democrats. Roughly two-thirds of the voting age population is Hispanic.

Just 118,000 voters cast ballots in the race that saw U.S. Rep. Will Hurd, R-San Antonio, edge incumbent Pete Gallego, a Democrat from Alpine. The difference was about 2,400 votes.

Of those who said the state ID law discouraged them from voting, four to five times more said they would have voted for Gallego.

“While the results of this survey do not allow us to conclude that Gallego would have been re-elected in the absence of the voter photo ID law, they do indicate that the law did have a disproportionate impact on his supporters, and therefore may have possibly cost him the election,” the study said

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The Rice/Baker institute did a good job here. Voter id laws depress voter turnout and it appears that Pete Gallego is not in Congress now due to this law.

[malokvale77]

102. For crying out loud.

Explain the decades before voter ID.

It's the poor candidates that The Party has put forth ever since the Koch funded DLC.

The Party didn't even bother to question Ann Richards (the most popular governor in Texas modern history) loss to dipshit W.

I thought you were smarter than this.

[Gothmog]

114. Voter suppression tactics work

Such chart is consistent with the real results of Texas when you compared 2010 to 2014



Voter id laws depress voter turnout according to the facts

[malokvale77]

115. Sorry Gothmog...

this is dishonest. Voter suppression would not have happened here if the Democratic Party under the DLC had not abandoned us decades ago.

[Gothmog]

125. That is so wrong that it is sad

We have voter id because Nader cost Gore the 2000 election and allowed W to appoint two SCOTUS justices who were more conservative than Rehnquist or O'Connor. These appointments are the why we have a gutted voting rights act and Citizens United.

In Texas we fought the voter id law and luckily the DOJ joined the lawsuit and help get a ruling on that law that is under appeal.

If you apply the math of the Rice University/Baker Institute study to the entire state, Wendy Davis would have been very close. Texas will turn blue but it will take a great deal of hard work

[global1]

19. She Needs To Be Primaried When She Comes Up For Re-election....nt

[Mike__M]

36. I think we'll be seeing a lot of that

from now through 2018 and beyond.
There's a long list of premature endorsers who may have some explaining to do.

[libdem4life]

43. Hillary's coattails have been shredded with her stunning performances, latest being

say, what? Single Payer?

[FlaGranny]

47. Are you talking about DWS?

If so, I got an e-mail from her this morning asking for a donation and saying that for the first time ever, she is being primaried by TWO different people.

Edit: Or, sorry, we're talking about McCaskill.

[global1]

61. Both Of Them.....nt

[restorefreedom]

22. this reminds me of 2008

"as far as i know, he [obama] is christian."

the smears failed big time then and they will fail big time now.

and i agree, no way they don't have internals yet in nv or sc...its gonna be a bernie landslide and they know its comin...

[lob1]

23. Claire De Loon.

[Kalidurga]

27. I remember when she was up for election against some knuckle dragger

And DUers from Missouri were having a real bad time with the idea of having to vote for her.

[Duval]

34. Good one!! Thanks!

[xocet]

28. "He's a...(bring the fainting couch)...a SOCIALIST...(passes out w/o manifesting an argument)!"

Wow, she deserves derision for such a fallacious attack.

[redstateblues]

103. Socialism is a loser in the GE

Sorry. It might not be fair but it's a toxic word in middle America. The Repugs would destroy Bernie.

[xocet]

112. Let's find out. n/t

[retrowire]

29. New mouthpiece? She's been pulling strings for hillary since the beginning hasn't she? nt

[AzDar]

31. Using people like Senator Love-Pats as a slimy surrogate is one of the many reasons HRC will LOSE.

Just like '08...

[Bluenorthwest]

37. My least favorite of the conservative Democrats, super rich, very self serving and often sort of

mean. Don't like her politics, don't like her.

[Helen Borg]

39. And just gave $250 to Bernie!

After seeing McCaskill!

[Enthusiast]

44. Kicked and recommended a whole bunch!

[pangaia]

45. Hey McCaskill.... I listened to 27 seconds and could not stomach to listen any longer.

Go soak your head.

I was going to say FUCK YOU McCaskill, you snot dripping little piece of shit..

But I won't..

[ybbor]

54. Oops

I think you just did. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[malokvale77]

92. I rec this post. nt

[pangaia]

96. Thanks, mal..

[TIME TO PANIC]

53. K & R !

[cannabis_flower]

56. By the way..

Hillary was in Texas yesterday which makes me think she's worried about Texas. I have seen barely any Hillary signs or bumper stickers but plenty of Bernie stickers in Houston.

[freebrew]

58. Misoouri's DINO version of Palin?...

couldn't help it, she's my senator.

[Gore1FL]

88. Mine too, and she sucks at it.

She'd be a republican if she lived in New England. I wish she did.

[Truprogressive85]

69. Well comrades lets take out our hammer and sickle

$5 donation towards Sen. Sanders coming his way

Thanks Claire McCaskill

[senz]

79. Beautiful response.

If we send money to Bernie every time someone attacks him from here on out, we just might take him to victory!

[jomin41]

73. Do we need any more evidence that

this election is about the 99% and the 1%? Another "Sawbuck for Sanders" from me on the way!

[senz]

75. "The media is giving Bernie a PASS right now?"

Sure sounds like she's begging the media to attack Bernie as "a socialist." She can't even say "democratic socialist."

Such dirt from people who call themselves Democrats.

We certainly are a big tent -- on all kinds of levels.

[Stimoyo]

81. McCaskill is not my favorite

Too centrist.

[senz]

83. Agreed.

Too far right for my taste.

Welcome to DU!

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

77. History repeats itself

Same people making the same kinds of attacks as they made against Obama in '08.

[Hulk]

78. That worn out, worthless Dino needs to be replaced!

I realize we barely missed having a bat shit crazy repuKKKe elected in her place, but can't Missouri come up with anybody better than this old battle ax?

[Warren DeMontague]

84. "Obviously Hillary cannot run on the issues" - EXACTLY.

I'm just gonna say that, from now on. Because that response pretty much fits every damn HRC supporter's thread that comes up in GD.

Thank you.

[malokvale77]

94. I think I'll join you in that.

"Obviously Hillary cannot run on the issues"

Thanks Warren.

[oldandhappy]

104. Someone please tell the hillary camp

that some of her supporters are turned off by the increasing negativity. Yes, I am speaking for myself! Go Bernie!