2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHillary is such a depressing candidate.
It's sad what the Democratic party reduced itself to when it agreed to do everything in its power to coronate her so Republicans could secure all three branches of the federal government for the foreseeable future.
Even Marion Barry would have been a better candidate. At least he does not face a probable future indictment during the upcoming general election.
Segami
(14,923 posts)auntpurl
(4,311 posts)Her speech yesterday was wonderful. She inspires me.
No gloating, just sharing my opinion.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)I still think Clinton would be a marginally better President and Sanders a marginally better general election candidate, so I'm going Sanders. A lot of the passion in this campaign is just completely lost on me.
hillarysong2016
(83 posts)Depressing is right..Hillary never saw a war she didn't like, cost $3 trillion and thousands of U.S. lives and hundreds of thousands of middle eastern civilian lives
She's pro-corporate trade (NAFTA was a "mistake" but now she likes the NAFTA-on-steroids TPP, Trans Pacific Partnership),
She's for the Patriot Act anti-democratic bill, both the 2001 and the 2006 reauthorization...
one could go on...most mind bogglingly, Hillary's policies have KILLED and impoverished more WOMEN AND CHILDREN than any other candidate running, including the Republicans - DNC former Vice Chair Rep Tulsi Gabbard, a veteran, a woman, a person sane enough not to make "regime change" the center of foreign policy, and not to make war the first choice but the last resort, and a possible Vice President for Bernie:
The Judgment to Lead: Why I'm Endorsing Bernie Sanders
Want to vote for a woman who'se not a single mother bashing (Hillary called them "deadbeats" in 2002,...not the 1990s but in 2002!) war-monger like Hillary? Try Dr. jill Stein of the Greens or recruit Warren...though possible the odds are against those two women this cycle.
Otherwise for VP I could see a lot worse than Rep Tulsi...spread the word among Clinton fans who have an open mind about listening to the facts...the above are the terrible facts about Hillary....there are still a few such supporters, right..? Or is a woman president more important than whether that woman continues to beat up on single mothers and mass murder brown skinned women and children?
Putting the war costs into perspective, taking the extremely conservative view that each war costs $3 trillion and comparing that with Bernie's estimate that his state-education-for-all plan would cost approximately $80 billion per year, that is 2.6% of the cost of a war.
coyote
(1,561 posts)For us little people, we have to go through background check, credit checks, or pee in a cup so we can get a job at McDonalds.
For the most powerful job on Earth, apparently its quite ok to break security protocol and have your private unsecured email server at home with top secret documents.