October 18, 2016

Keith Olberman-- Can you save a Trump voter? Show them this video

https://thescene.com/watch/gq/the-closer-with-keith-olbermann-you-re-lying-to-yourself-if-you-think-trump-is-the-answer


Also https://twitter.com/KeithOlbermann/status/788423687670206464

A must-see-- so good

October 18, 2016

Trump goes for the lips on a young girl at last night's rally

WTF, dude has major issues-- see video at link

https://twitter.com/goangelo/status/788182679220912129

Why any parent would let him hold her is beyond me though

October 16, 2016

Hacked Podesta emails reveal Clinton campaign tries to befriend reporters that cover them,

instead of inciting crowds to beat them to death.

Allan Brauer ?@allanbrauer 16h16 hours ago

https://twitter.com/allanbrauer/status/787430169610825728

October 16, 2016

News flash-- Hillary Clinton is a good person

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-other-side-of-story.html

Clinton's doing a whole positive campaign on social media that's worth checking out in the middle of all this nauseating Trump garbage. I'm not one to get all gushy about this stuff and maybe you aren't either. But it's worth looking at to see the other side of this awful campaign. There are people who are inspired and feel uplifted instead of angry and disgusted. The campaign is calling it #LoveTrumpsHate.

Lots of touching videos at the link.

October 15, 2016

Has any politician ever been lied about by their opponents more than Hillary Clinton?

There's a whole industry on the right, devoted to writing books with made-up stories about her... and a whole in the industry on the left that writes hit pieces on her.

It's insane how many distortions this woman has had to put up with.

How perfect that she will have the ultimate revenge when she's elected president!

October 15, 2016

Clinton and the banker speeches-- is there any good in-depth reporting on this?

Taibbi has some really good thoughts here
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/the-fury-and-failure-of-donald-trump-w444943

The suspicions heightened on the same day that Trump's infamous "pussy" tape leaked, when WikiLeaks released papers purporting to be excerpts of Clinton's speeches to corporate and financial titans like Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and GE. Her campaign had stalwartly refused to release these during the primary against Bernie Sanders.

After the Wiki release, however, one had to wonder why the Clinton camp had bothered to keep the papers secret.
The "secret" speeches in some ways showed Hillary Clinton in a more sympathetic light than her public persona usually allows. Speaking to bankers and masters of the corporate universe, she came off as relaxed, self-doubting, reflective, honest, philosophical rather than political, and unafraid to admit she lacked all the answers.

The transcripts read like freewheeling discussions with friends about how to navigate an uncertain future. In one speech, she conceded a sense of disconnect between the wealthy and the middle class to which she used to belong. This, she said, was a feeling she never had growing up, when the country seemed to be more united.

"And now, obviously," she told executives from Goldman, "I'm kind of far removed because of the life I've lived and the economic ... fortunes that my husband and I now enjoy."
This frank, almost regretful admission rendered her more real in a few sentences than those cliché-ridden speeches about her hardscrabble background as the granddaughter of a Scranton lace-factory worker.
In a speech before the Brazilian Banco Itaú, Clinton talked about her vision for the future. "My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders," she reportedly said. She wanted this economy "as green and sustainable as we can get it, powering growth and opportunity for every person in the hemisphere."

In classic Clintonian fashion, her camp refused to confirm the authenticity of the emails, while also not denying them either. But why not just own the e-mails? Why all the cagey non-denial denials?
The themes Clinton discussed with the banks were awesome, sweeping and of paramount importance, especially coming from someone in such a unique position to shape the world's future. They collectively represented exactly the honest discussion about what is ahead for all of us that no one in power has ever really had with the rest of the country.
The "scandal" of the Wiki papers, if you can call it that, is that it captured how at ease Clinton was talking to bankers and industrialists about the options for the organization of a global society. Even in transcript form, it's hard not to realize that the people in these rooms are all stakeholders in this vast historical transformation.

Is anyone else going through these and digesting them?

October 15, 2016

Matt Taibbi "The Fury and Failure of Donald Trump"

Good stuff
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/the-fury-and-failure-of-donald-trump-w444943

October 14, 2016

Did Trump tip his guilt in the Natasha Stoynoff assault allegations?

http://www.vox.com/2016/10/13/13272938/trump-sexual-assault-allegations-response-transcript-speech

Trump: "This invented account has already been debunked by eyewitnesses who were there. They were there. The very witness identified by the author has said the story is totally false. By the way, this is a room everybody can see in. It's got glass walls."

Glass walls? He seems to know what room she's talking about.

But the only thing she says about the room is that Donald said it was "tremendous":
"Our photo team shot the Trumps on the lush grounds of their Florida estate, and I interviewed them about how happy their first year of marriage had been. When we took a break for the then-very-pregnant Melania to go upstairs and change wardrobe for more photos, Donald wanted to show me around the mansion. There was one “tremendous” room in particular, he said, that I just had to see."
http://people.com/politics/donald-trump-attacked-people-writer/

Hmmm.....

October 14, 2016

Wouldn't it be awesome if Hillary called Donald a super predator at the debate?

That would make some people's heads explode!

October 12, 2016

the KARMA of this election is insane -- to have the first serious female presidential candidate

go up against the UBER-sexist creep Trump!!!

For all the people who voted for Bernie in the primary, and I was one of them, I now feel like it was some sort of destiny to have this showdown. Like, in the end, Hillary WAS the perfect person to go up against him!

Now it almost seems like all other issues are secondary to this ultimate showdown between a horrible sexist man and the first female presidential candidate of a major party.

And she is going to beat him badly!!!