Re: lucky you?
From:kaplanj@dnc.org
To: naomi@leberly.com
Date: 2016-05-02 18:29
Subject: Re: lucky you?
22 PM, Naomi Aberly
How hard is it? > Any advice on how to further answer this - I replied with something about the campaign needing primary money and probably not counting victory fund money for too much at this point?
In a follow-up email, Sanders begged delegates to resist the urge to protest, warning that “our credibility as a movement will be damaged” if delegates walk out, turn their backs or boo.
I'll take him at his word that he believes this. Is he viewing credibility with respect to who in the Democratic Party finds "the movement" credible? That's one conclusion to draw from the statement.
It's one thing for Bernie to endorse Hillary, but it is unconscionable that he's working with the Clinton campaign as we speak to shut his supporters up.
He's got "ambassadors" on the coronation floor now trying to make sure his delegates don't boo when Hillary's name is mentioned.
He's jumped the shark. He wanted his delegates to come to Philly to vote for him (at great cost on their own ), but now he's trying to shut them up.
Bernie Sanders has unloosed the liberal genie from the Democratic bottle it had been confined in and it's refusing to be recorked.
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(I know this isn't an essay, simply an observation, inviting your comment and discussion as to whether we are finally at the threshold of instituting Change We Can Believe In (For More Than An Election Pandering Nano-Second)
Now let's see if Hillary will get hers.
Note that people are starting to look into 3rd parties.
You're much more afraid of President tRump than they/we are, which leads to my second point. From the close of your piece:
That was it. That was enough for him. To “shake things up.
Did you stop and ask him why he feels that way? Would you like to bet that he's one of the 'losers' in The Greatest Robbery in the History of the World?
Last week was dedicated to the Repurrblicans and Repuplicans because of their convention; and I was originally thinking to do an homage to the Democat convention this week, but I'm already tired of them before they begin! So let's do something else. Let's be UnConventional!
But first, The Recommendations:
Phil Ochs was a socialist, anti-war marcher, civil rights activist, and protest singer. He killed himself in his mid 30s due to a psychotic break brought on by, justified, paranoia that the FBI was tracking him.
Original Song For Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32J8jCAMYn8
Florida's primary is August 30. I had planned to wait to #DemExit until after I voted for Alan Grayson, a great progressive running for US Senate. Also there is an important solar initiative on the ballot.
But I find that I can't wait to cast off the Democratic Party chains and the waiting is making me a nervous wreck. I need to move ahead.
Talk me down.
