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But that changed this week in California when she turned her full attention to Donald Trump. With the brash real estate magnate as her full-time foil, Clinton finally seemed to find her voice.
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In speech after speech across the Golden State, Clinton delivered a fiery, point-by-point takedown of the real estate magnate, casting him as a greedy bully who was eager to profit from the financial woes of the middle class Americans who lost homes and jobs in the 2008 economic crash.
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Why on earth would we elect somebody president who actually rooted for the collapse of the market?" she said with indignation in Riverside as the crowd roared their approval and chanted her name. "The fact is Donald Trump thought he could make money off of people's misery."
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/26/politics/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-attacks/index.html
Go Hillary!!
Great Piece in the Sacramento Bee About Sanders' Playing the Victim
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Bernie Sanders was supposed to be above the usual pettiness of politics. So much for that.
In the past few of weeks, Sanders has gone from someone seemingly capable of walking on water to someone diving headfirst into the political muck. His campaign has engaged in one ego-stroking, victim-baiting, politically calculated act after another none of which serve the greater good of uniting the Democratic Party long enough to defeat Republican presumptive nominee Donald Trump.
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Theres a real danger in Sanders casting himself, his campaign and, by extension, his legion of mostly white supporters as victims.
People who falsely believe they are victims get caught up in their victimhood. They lose track of who the real victims are and often end up fighting for themselves instead. Politics at its finest.
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Anyone who is really a victim of a rigged system black people who get chewed up and spit out by the criminal justice system, women still fighting for equal pay wouldnt dare threaten to stay home in November if Clinton gets the nomination. They wouldnt dare let Trump take the presidency.
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/erika-d-smith/article79432037.html#storylink=cpy
Sure looks to me like California is not feeling the Bern.
In CA swing, Bill Clinton tells voters to ‘just relax’ about Hillary’s chances
Clintons remarks Monday, without citing polling worrisome to many Democrats, served to counter Sanders argument that he is the better candidate to oppose Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee. Clinton said his wife has faced opposition from Republicans for years and that her campaign will get a new shot when the general election starts.
Just relax, Clinton told about 800 supporters at the Scottish Rite Masonic Center in Stockton. In the end, the American people are fundamentally fair-minded.
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article79418852.html#storylink=cpy
TPM: Time to Press Donald on Whether He Raped His Wife?
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After The Daily Beast resurfaced Ivana's claims that Donald had raped her, she issued another statement saying the story, which was based entirely on her own sworn deposition, was "totally without merit." Yet again, she didn't dispute her words or the incident itself. It is true that lots of accusations get made during acrimonious divorces. But this was a pretty concrete and specific. And the author of the book that first surfaced the deposition said he'd found numerous friends of Ivana's who she had confided the incident to at the time.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/time-to-press-donald-on-raping-his-wife
Bernie Sanders, Eyeing Convention, Willing to Harm Hillary Clinton in the Homestretch
Tad Devine, a senior adviser to Mr. Sanders, said the campaign did not think its attacks would help Mr. Trump in the long run, but added that the senators team was not thinking about the possibility that they could help derail Mrs. Clinton from becoming the first woman elected president.
The only thing that matters is what happens between now and June 14, Mr. Devine said, referring to the final Democratic primary, in the District of Columbia. We have to put the blinders on and focus on the best case to make in the upcoming states.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/19/us/politics/bernie-sanderss-campaign-accuses-head-of-dnc-of-favoritism.html
Yep, I'd say they have their blinders on all right.
Bernie and Jane Sanders: The Democratic Party’s Thelma and Louise
Thats what Bernie is. If hed stayed in Brooklyn, hed have been a Socialist Scholars Conference hectorer. He had the wisdom to move to a podunk state, and the luck to do so just as it was becoming the place where all the aging hippies were moving and so he became a mayor and then a House member and, finally and exaltedly, a senator.
All that said I give him some credit. Hes much better on the big stage than I thought hed be. And I certainly dont have contempt for all his supporters. I am friends with some of his supporters. I love some of his supportersnot that way, but dear friends, extended family, like that. And I think most of his supporters are rational people wholl accept the reality that he just didnt get as many votes as the other person and in November will vote for the other person.
But theyre not whats at issue here. Whats at issue here is the people who wont accept reality, and in particular the Pied Piper whos blowing on the flute and waltzing them off the pier. He is becoming a sputtering joke, a man who lost 58-42 and thoughtreally, truly thought, deep down in his kishkesthat it was stolen from him. And his aides, according to a New York Times piece posted Wednesday night, are ready to "harm" Clinton over the course of the next month, because Sanders also believes these farkakte general-election polls taken before anyone has spent a single dollar attacking him.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/19/bernie-and-jane-sanders-the-democratic-party-s-thelma-and-louise.html
SNL Cold Open Spoofs Trump fake PR guy & VP picks
You knew the John Miller thing would be on SNL, right?
http://www.cnn.com/videos/entertainment/2016/05/15/donald-trump-vp-snl-sot-newday.cnn
Confirmed: Sanders is selling a fantasy agenda
The analysts found that Sanderss program is very progressive, jacking up taxes massively on the rich and providing a range of new benefits to the poor. Though every working person would face higher payroll taxes, the value of these benefits would leave 95 percent of households better off. They granted Sanders that his single-payer health system, in which the government would pay for everyones care and demand no co-payments or other cost-sharing, would expand health-care access and cut the growth of health-care costs, and they made aggressive assumptions about how much the new system would reduce drug and other prices.
But there is a massive catch. Sanderss assurance that he has a plan to pay for every spending program he has introduced to date is wrong. And not just wrong, but extravagantly so. Even with his large tax increases, Sanders would fall $18 trillion short over just 10 years. Factoring in interest costs, his plan would add $21 trillion to the debt over a decade. That is more than the roughly $19 trillion the Treasury already owes. And the picture would probably get much worse as time went on. Expanding Social Security, for example, would become much more expensive as more people retired.
Sanderss health-care plan is the big budget-buster. It alone would cost $32 trillion over 10 years more than twice the new revenues that Sanders would raise, Len Burman, the director of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, said on Monday. When reporters have asked Sanders about the costs of his health-care plan in the past, the senator has typically responded that other countries maintain functioning single-payer systems as though he has not proposed a specific plan that should be assessed on its own merits. Burman pointed out Monday that other countries do not promise their people as much as Sanders does. Making his system less costly, the analysts found, would require doing very unpopular things. Deeply cutting payments to doctors and hospitals, for example, would induce supply constraints that is, a shortage of providers willing to meet demand for health services, which would make it harder to access care. Think long wait times and other hurdles.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/05/09/confirmed-sanders-is-selling-a-fantasy-agenda/?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-c%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
Hillary's plans are the only plans of any candidate that do not explode the national debt. They are also the only plans that work with - rather than ignore - reality in the U. S.
Hillary Clinton only needs 17 percent of remaining delegates to clinch nomination
Remember those superdelegates, the Democratic Party leaders and elected officials who can vote for the candidate of their choice? The ones Sanders' supporters have been complaining about for months? It turns out, to have a shot at beating out Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination for president, he needs them.
A lot of them.
Sanders needs the delegates who remain uncommitted, as well as more than 200 of those who have already publicly endorsed Clinton. Mathematically, Sanders cannot win the nomination without that support.
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Clinton won the Guam caucus on Saturday and now needs just 17 percent of the delegates at stake in upcoming contests to clinch the nomination. That means she could lose every single contest by a landslide and still be the nominee if all of her superdelegates continue to support her.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary-clinton-only-needs-17-percent-of-remaining-delegates-to-clinch-nomination/
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Sanders (and some of his cyberspace supporters) have berned a lot of bridges with the Superdelegates. He will never get enough of them to flip.
Obama Thanks His 5th Grade Teacher on Teacher Appreciation Day
In honor of Teacher Appreciation Day, President Obama tweeted his thanks today to his fifth grade teacher, along with a photo of his fifth grade class.
"To my 5th grade teacher Ms. Mabel Hefty and the educators who inspire our young people every single day: Thank you," Obama wrote.
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The president expanded on why his fifth grade teacher, Ms. Hefty, had such a lasting impact on him in an email sent to the White House email list last year.
The first time she called on me, I wished she hadn't. In fact, I wished I were just about anywhere else but at that desk, in that room of children staring at me. But over the course of that year, Ms. Hefty taught me that I had something to say -- not in spite of my differences, but because of them. She made every single student in that class feel special, Obama wrote.
"She reinforced that essential value of empathy that my mother and my grandparents had taught me. That is something that I carry with me every day as President. This is the simple and undeniable power of a good teacher," the president continued.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-obama-5th-grade-teacher-teacher-appreciation-day/story?id=38850063
Great picture of Obama with his 5th grade class and Ms. Hefty at the link!
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