Red Oak
Red Oak's JournalArticle shows Clinton is a DINO and uses plenty of weasel words to look progressive
You might also say she is a Republican in a Democrats clothing. From the article:
"One bit of conventional 2016 campaign wisdom is that Bernie Sanders has pushed Hillary Clinton far to the left. It seems so obvious that even the socialists are celebrating.
Like a lot of conventional wisdom, it's partly true. Clinton's words on taxes, trade, minimum wages, immigration and Wall Street do sound a lot like those of the socialist Sanders. But look past the stump speeches and something more significant becomes clear: Clinton's rhetoric may have changed, but her policy positions haven't. That means her anticipated pivot toward the center for the general election is also likely to be more oratorical than substantive."
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"But an analysis of her speeches, debates and white papers shows that she's been a careful tactician. On issue after issue, she has left an escape hatch and declined to say things that might cause voter whiplash later. Once she clinches the nomination, Clinton may not need to tack back to the center much at all."
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"One example is the minimum wage. When Sanders called for a nationwide $15 minimum, she responded by backing a higher wage too. But hers was for $12, citing economists who say a $15 floor could invite more automation and job losses in depressed and rural areas.
Her escape clause? Unlike Sanders, she would let the states decide. She allows that a higher minimum wage might work in more expensive cities and states -- and they are free to enact one if they choose."
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-03-29/clinton-s-tack-to-the-center-it-s-just-talk
The Clintons and the sordid UBS affair
The story, as originally recounted by James V. Grimaldi and Rebecca Ballhaus of The Wall Street Journal, was, of itself, deeply troubling. In March 2009, after meeting with Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey, then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton intervened with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on behalf of Switzerland's most powerful banking institution, UBS. The IRS, which at that time was seeking the identity of wealthy Americans who had stashed some $20 billion in 52,000 tax evading UBS accounts, then agreed that the Swiss bank need only turn over information on 4,450 accounts. Afterwards, UBS increased its previous $60,000 in donations to the Clinton Foundation ten-fold. By the end of 2014, UBS donations to the Clinton Foundation totaled $600,000. UBS also "paid former President Bill Clinton $1.5 million to participate in a series of question-and-answer sessions with UBS Wealth Management Chief Executive Bob McCann, making UBS his biggest single corporate source of speech income disclosed since he left the White House."
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/presidential-campaign/272396-the-clintons-and-the-sordid-ubs-affair
Clinton Misses Chance to Erase Michigan Loss in Immigration-Heavy Debate
"Coming off a huge upset in Michigan, Bernie Sanders turned in a strong performance in a debate with the former secretary of state in Miami, Florida.
Hillary Clinton had a shot in Wednesday's Democratic debate at retooling her message to white working-class voters a day after they largely rejected her in Michigan, and just in time for a fresh set of primaries March 15.
But she found little traction to steer the conversation back to jobs and the economy under aggressive questioning from debate moderators. And in that way, the event was a lost opportunity ahead of contests in states very much like Michigan, including Ohio and Missouri."
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-03-10/clinton-misses-chance-to-erase-michigan-loss-in-immigration-heavy-debate
Budowsky: Is Sanders most electable?
"Earlier this week I sent a private note to one of America’s highest-ranking Democrats with a link to the RealClearPolitics page that lists every general election match-up poll pitting Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders against Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and John Kasich.
A five-minute scan of this page reveals more about American politics than all other media coverage of the campaign combined. The polling finds that Sanders consistently defeats all four GOP candidates and consistently runs stronger than does Clinton in match-ups against them.
In other words, the totality of polling suggests that Sanders is the most electable candidate in either party."
Political insiders, consultants and pundits respond that if the Vermont Independent is nominated as the Democratic nominee, Republican attacks will destroy him, which may or may not be true. I am not arguing here that Sanders should be nominated. I am arguing that the data are screaming a message that cannot be denied: Across the universe of match-up polls, Sanders runs stronger than Clinton, Trump, Cruz, Rubio and Kasich. Period.
http://thehill.com/opinion/brent-budowsky/bernie-sanders-is-the-most-electable-candidate
Amazon's Paper - The Washington Post, is back to true form
Three negative stories about Bernie in the last half hour.
Maybe they can beat their old record of 16 negative stories in 16 hours.
Sickening. Jeff Bezos should be ashamed. Oh, BTW - Hillary is God's gift to the world.
"Clinton criticizes Sanders’s plans as being too far left"
"Sanders dodges question on Latin American dictators"
"Mr. Sanders peddles fiction on free trade"
Think there will be another debate scheduled?
Tonight is the last Democratic debate.
(see below, I've been corrected that there are at least two more, but can't find a link to actual dates)
Think there will be another one scheduled?
The Movement Has Found Its Leader: Bernie Sanders
"Back in the fall of 2011, when the Occupy Wall Street movement seized Zuccotti Park and then spread at unprecedented speed across the globe the criticism we heard coming from the corporate media (when they weren't denouncing the movement outright) was that the movement had "no direction" and had "no leaders."
We were lectured at. We were dismissed. We were mansplained. We were told we were "naïve" and didn't know how the economy worked. "Your criticisms of Wall Street might be popular," they said, "but your program is vague and your movement is rudderless."
Enter Senator Bernie Sanders."
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"If the Obama years have taught us anything it is that going to the Republicans on bended knee begging for a quarter loaf and toning down your demands before you even make them is a recipe for stasis."
The Blog
Palermo
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-a-palermo/the-movement-has-found-it_b_9215900.html
How sick is this...
We are all very proud of our accomplishment in raising for Bernie over $7.2M dollars from over 262,000 donations in a 24 hour period.
BUT,
One man, Billionaire George Soros, donated $8M in one single donation, to Hillary Clinton's super pac last week.
One Billionaire $8M vs 262,000 working men and women - $7.2M
Our system of political finance must change and Hillary and her super pacs are not the ones to change it.
Wall Street's nightmare candidates leading race
"Hillary and, I think, Jeb Bush face defects in their candidacies, which are predicated on experience, and I think they're both tone-deaf to what the electorate wants. They're paying lip service. Both are falling back on rhetoric and experience at a time when frustration is so high that people just don't care," said Gardner. "To some extent both of them are backward-looking at what they used to do, when voters are looking for new ideas and neither of them can connect to that."
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/02/10/wall-streets-nightmare-candidates-leading-race.html
Patti Domm | @pattidomm
The gaping hole at the heart of Hillary Clinton’s campaign
A good read.
Paul Wldman, The American Prospect, published in WaPo
"But right now, the Clinton campaign has a much bigger problem than the story it wants to tell about New Hampshire. That problem is this: the campaign has no story to tell the voters about Hillary Clinton and why she should be president.
Having a good story doesn’t guarantee you victory, but nobody becomes president without one. The story has to contain three simple elements. First, it explains what the problem is. Second, it explains what the solution is. And third, it explains why this candidate, and only this candidate, is the person who can bring the country from where it is now to where it ought to be.
As Greg discussed this morning, both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have very simple messages that are resonating with substantial parts of the base voters in each one’s party. Trump says that America is being played for chumps, and only a fantastic, luxurious individual like him can make us win again. Sanders says that the political system is corrupted by the influence of the wealthy and corporations, and a revolution delivered by an unsullied figure like him is necessary to break their stranglehold on our politics. Anyone who has paid attention to the campaign for five minutes understands what those messages are, whether you agree with either one of them or not.
Now tell me: what’s Hillary Clinton’s message?"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/02/10/the-gaping-hole-at-the-heart-of-hillary-clintons-campaign/?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-f%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
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