He didn't and still doesn't give a horse's ass about that.

These people have no loyalty to anything but themselves and money. My guess is the Clintons are giving him big money and big connections. Add their corporate gig to his corporate gig, and it explains how this "public servant" can afford $22K/mo for a 9 bedroom mansion in DC. Besides, his little girls will be needing their own homes next door to Chelsea fairly soon.

I know Trump is a slime bucket, but hey, what else is new. Obama, Clintons and Dems beating him at his only claim to fame is twice as bad.

Drawing a "red line" and then cowardly backing down.

If you are talking about him not invading Syria after he said that Assad had used sarin gas on his own people.
The UK proved that the gas used couldn't have come from Assad and then the truth came out who actually used the sarin gas.
It was the us by proxy of its moderate terrorists.
What was happening at the Benghazi embassy was that the CIA was taking Gaddafi's weapons our of it and giving them to the US backed terrorist including the sarin gas.
It has been proven that it was our terrorist that used the gas on the Syrians in order to give the US a reason to invade Syria.
I am not sure that I understand what you mean, did you want Obama to start bombing another country in the middle east on false pretenses?

see bonus army.

flipped over to Republicans. Did I miss Obama trying to energize the Democratic Party at the state level to reverse this? Doesn't he remember(or care) about the gerrymandering that took place after his performance resulted in the 2010 debacle?

Her problem is her turnout numbers are going to stink. She knows she has to be winning by enough to absorb that.

Make no mistake, just like the anti third party push, this is them panicking about turnout of under 35s.

that I've never been in the majority so much as I am now--most everybody, no matter their other views, seems to share your mom's opinion about the election. (Though I do find some genuine--I think--supporters of Trump here and there).

The stench off the election of corruption and lies and contempt for the little guy has gotten so extreme that people are pulling away in disgust.

Sorry to hear about your brother--I can see that it's seductive to think that one's own individual abilities, esp talent with money, can solve everything if only corrupt politicians would get out of the way. Too bad that's ultimately a poisoned apple.

Leftists and libertarians do share one set of views: we both hate tyranny coming from the public sector.
Leftists just also hate tyranny coming from the private sector, and can see when the dividing line between private and public has become meaningless.

at the convention that turned your mom off?

Sun, 09/18/2016 - 1:17pm — ggersh

Regarding "hate"

saw this in the comment section at NC
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/09/links-91716.html

Is hate becoming the new norm, it sure seems that way for hillery and co.

Thanks, so far I've followed several other links on the page you linked to, including this (below) which, speaking of propagandists/the media, seems pertinent.

At least a vague and general understanding of basic principles and mechanisms is required to understand anything sufficiently well to discover whether a claim seems plausible or not. Although even using the root word, ergo, I still had to look up ergodicity to discover its meaning here as a specialized term, lol, so knowing that there are virtually endless fields and circumstances where even the familiar may carry different connotations and that it's better to check than to assume (speaking as one lately often lacking the energy for even basic research/verification, lol,) is all-important as well.

As with character and record being essential considerations when determining what a person is likely capable of, especially when offered a 'choice' of 2 pathological corporate/billionaire candidates and being carefully stampeded into voting against the only non-corporate, non-TPP-supporting candidate currently running, Jill Stein - on the claim that 'she can't win', when Indies form the largest voting group - in voting for evil 'to keep the other evil out of public office' when neither could be considered fit by any sane standards.

Hillary wants to give ruthless and destructive billionaires/corporations - including the fossil fuel polluters and Monsanto and other petrochemical/GMO self-interests - the 'right' to exert 'law' regulating humanity and what can be done to life on the planet (while any still remains) while Trump doesn't understand or believe in science or, apparently, anything other than the urge to increase his own wealth, power, and ego via 'deal-making', bullying, lying and cheating, so would likely go with the corporate coup, as would, ironically, would the 'Libertarian' candidate being promoted as higher in suspect polls than the non-corporate Green candidate, Jill Stein. So Trump and the Clintons are much the same and similar rapidly fatal global effects could be expected, although Trump seems more likely, at this point at least, (not being Teflon in the same manner as the Clinton's at this point,) to sue or imprison those he disagrees with or has a grudge against than to immediately start bombing individuals, so to speak.

Once in the Presidency, with a precedent made of (unconstitutional) claims of being 'above the law' (as no one in any democracy can claim to be,) all bets are off. Corruption festers rapidly where immunity permits it to flourish.

For any others like myself not versed in such technical terminology, lol, the (simplified and as could be expected,) definition is, ergo:

Ergodicity
In mathematics, the term ergodic is used to describe a dynamical system which, broadly speaking, has the same behavior averaged over time as averaged over the space of all the system's states. In physics the term is used to imply that a system satisfies the ergodic hypothesis of thermodynamics.
More at Wikipedia

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/09/links-91716.html

The Intellectual Yet Idiot Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Medium. I was worried I might be in this category, even though I do know what ergodicity means (see ECONNED for proof) but I am saved by his closing “easier marker”.

Not me, though, drat it...

https://medium.com/@nntaleb/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e2d0577#.zdj...

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
2 days ago6 min read

The Intellectual Yet Idiot

What we have been seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, or similar label-driven education who are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think… and 5) who to vote for.
But the problem is the one-eyed following the blind...

...Beware the semi-erudite who thinks he is an erudite. He fails to naturally detect sophistry.
The IYI pathologizes others for doing things he doesn’t understand without ever realizing it is his understanding that may be limited. He thinks people should act according to their best interests and he knows their interests, particularly if they are “red necks” or English non-crisp-vowel class who voted for Brexit. When plebeians do something that makes sense to them, but not to him, the IYI uses the term “uneducated”. What we generally call participation in the political process, he calls by two distinct designations: “democracy” when it fits the IYI, and “populism” when the plebeians dare voting in a way that contradicts his preferences. While rich people believe in one tax dollar one vote, more humanistic ones in one man one vote, Monsanto in one lobbyist one vote, the IYI believes in one Ivy League degree one-vote, with some equivalence for foreign elite schools and PhDs as these are needed in the club. ...

...More socially, the IYI subscribes to The New Yorker. He never curses on twitter. He speaks of “equality of races” and “economic equality” but never went out drinking with a minority cab driver (again, no real skin in the game as the concept is foreign to the IYI). Those in the U.K. have been taken for a ride by Tony Blair. The modern IYI has attended more than one TEDx talks in person or watched more than two TED talks on Youtube. Not only will he vote for Hillary Monsanto-Malmaison because she seems electable and some such circular reasoning, but holds that anyone who doesn’t do so is mentally ill.
The IYI has a copy of the first hardback edition of The Black Swan on his shelves, but mistakes absence of evidence for evidence of absence. He believes that GMOs are “science”, that the “technology” is not different from conventional breeding as a result of his readiness to confuse science with scientism.
Typically, the IYI get the first order logic right, but not second-order (or higher) effects making him totally incompetent in complex domains. In the comfort of his suburban home with 2-car garage, he advocated the “removal” of Gadhafi because he was “a dictator”, not realizing that removals have consequences (recall that he has no skin in the game and doesn’t pay for results). ...
...The IYI is member of a club to get traveling privileges...

...Postscript

The IYI thinks this criticism of IYIs means “everybody is an idiot”, not realizing that their group represents, as we said, a tiny minority —but they don’t like their sense of entitlement to be challenged and although they treat the rest of humans as inferiors, they don’t like it when the waterhose is turned to the opposite direction (what the French call aroseur arosé). (For instance, Richard Thaler, partner of the dangerous GMO advocate Übernudger Cass Sunstein, interpreted this piece as saying that “there are not many non-idiots not called Taleb”, not realizing that people like him are 1% or even .1% of the population.)

(Had to remove a symbol in the PS which prevented the end of the sentence from posting, one I can't replicate without this recurring and can't think of the term for.)

Also the following link - please read in full at source if at all possible. (Bolding mine.)

Fossil fuels are, of course, the result of profound changes occurring to originally organic matter compressed under great pressure in an oxygen-free environment.

In somewhat (sorta, roughly, overall, loosely speaking, lol,) the same manner as the human body taking up similarly formed chemicals not normally naturally consumed to, in some cases, pass up later utilizing real-deal, actually useful nutrients under the impression that it already has enough of those, it's hardly surprising that fast-evolving synthetic bacteria designed to consume fossil fuel oil should adapt to the consumption of living organic material when starved of oil.

What are these mutants doing to organisms and fertilizing matter in the soil itself, I wonder... and what will the pissing-in-their-shared-well oligarchs do with their released-for-profit Homing-Pigeons-Of-Doom destroying the global life-support system so much faster than otherwise anticipated - barring Hillary's Mutual Assured Destruction, of course, which anyway seems likely even if a Dem proxy or anyone other than Bernie/Jill gets into the Presidency.

Such hazards are readily predictable and, in fact, the potential issues of GMO organisms being released into the environment were predicted...

http://journal-neo.org/2016/09/14/cynthia-the-flesh-eating-s/

Cynthia: Flesh-Eating Synthetic Bacteria that has Gone Wild

The reports about tests on human beings that are being routinely carried out by certain Western corporations have become a sort of a trend these days.

Among others, one can recall the story about the long struggle between civil authorities of various states and the US chemical giant Monsanto provoked by research in the potential dangers of GMO products, and the Monsanto-produced herbicide Roundup in particular. The actual damage inflicted on the agricultural business of various states is yet to be carefully assessed, but even at this stage it safe to say that Monsanto’s expansion into India and surrounding markets resulted in deaths of thousands of people.

However, in the nearest future, the planet could face yet another “monster” that was bred deep inside US corporate laboratories. We are talking about the first synthetic bacteria – Cynthia, created “to combat oil pollution in the Gulf of Mexico” which, according to the various reports that are often ignored by the corporate media, has mutated and has started attacking animals and humans. Now this highly lethal microorganism is on its way to Europe.

One could recall that back in April 2010 an explosion at a British Petroleum oil rig resulted in millions of barrels of oil contaminating the Gulf of Mexico. Despite the drastic measures taken to prevent an environmental catastrophe, an oil slick produced by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill covered over sixty thousand square miles.

As one of the means of addressing the environmental catastrophe on their hands, Washington decided to take drastic measures, regardless of the possible consequences of those actions. It was at that time when an artificially created microorganism nicknamed Cynthia was unleashed, without any kind of examination of the possible threat it may pose to the environment.

Cynthia is the brainchild of the J. Craig Venter Institute — which was engaged in genetic engineering experiments since the beginning of the 21st century — and Synthetic Genomics Inc, and was created and funded directly by BP. It was believed that Cynthia feeds on oil, but it turns out now that it is equally willing to consume all forms of organic life as well…

In 2011, Cynthia was unleashed in the Gulf of Mexico and in its initial stages of life it was absorbing oil slicks at breathtaking speed. In January, 2011 the Register reported that scientists were particularly impressed by the speed with which the bacteria was eating up its “meal”.

But then this bacteria mutated and soon was feeding on organic lifeforms. Strange reports started coming from the US, like five thousand birds falling victims of an “unknown disease” in Arkansas, or more that a hundred thousand dead fish found off the coast of north Louisiana. It was also reported that a total of 128 British Petroleum employees that participated in the liquidation of the oil slick were struck by some mysterious illness. According to various sources they were forbidden to seek relief in public hospitals, to prevent them from talking to anyone about what has happened to them…

Soon it was recorded that the disease and the symptoms that are now associated with the coastal zone of the Gulf of Mexico began spreading to the continental United States – for example, people who were caught by heavy rains that came from the Gulf of Mexico were also exposed to it.

In fact, such disturbing reports have become pretty common, in spite of the restrictive measures taken by the US government to prevent this information from spreading. In particular, it’s been reported that certain individuals who were unfortunate enough to take take a swim in the Gulf of Mexico often found themselves covered with itching sores only to die in agony a few days later due to extensive internal bleeding.

According to media reports, a person can become Cynthia’s victim under two circumstances: if it penetrated the skin barrier through a wound or if they were unfortunate enough to eat raw seafood infected by this bacteria. Once the bacteria is in the system, it penetrates into the layer between the skin and muscles and starts producing a toxin that disrupts tissues. It is known that Cynthia is capable of reproducing itself rapidly within the infected cells, and that it is immune to antibiotics.

According to the University of the District of Columbia (UDC), up to 40% of the residents of the territories adjacent to the Gulf of Mexico have become infected with severe respiratory and skin diseases, and one in four residents is planning to pack up and leave in the nearest future.

Still, Washington has been pretty determined to mute these reports by announcing that the growing death toll can be attributed to some “unknown virus.”

At the same time, we’ve been witnessing disturbing reports that Cynthia has started spreading to different regions of the world, since the mass death of seals in Alaska, near the town of Barrow, was accompanied by skin lesions and extensive damage to internal organs of the deceased animals.

At the rate the bacteria is spreading together with the Gulf Stream, Europe is definitely at risk. ...

... This is a problem of global proportions. The signs of a possible bacterial viral infection are already beginning to appear everywhere.The mysterious, unexplained illness affecting fish, marine mammals, animals, poultry, trees, and plants arise from the synthetic genomes that transforms natural organisms and force them to mutate.

However, even at the initial stage of the test trials of Cynthia, many experts were vocal in stressing the danger of synthetically created living organisms. ...

... Many environmentalists and human rights activists on the back of those disturbing reports say that the US government is not prepared to regulate this revolutionary domain of science. An international civil society organization based in Ottawa, Canada known as the ETC Group has sounded the alarm, arguing that Venter opened a “Pandora’s box” and that an international moratorium on the development in the field of synthetic biology in private laboratories must be introduced immediately, since such research may pose a threat to all life on the planet. ...

... Under these circumstances, there’s an urgent need to force Washington into singing the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction that it blocked unilaterally in 2001. Moreover, there must be a verification mechanism that would guarantee that all the provisions of this convention are observed to the letter by all those who signed it.

Jean Périer is an independent researcher and analyst and a renowned expert on the Near and Middle East, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”

It's do or die now, guys; although there may already be enough Anything For Extra Profit For The Right People damage in process to destroy life on the planet, there will be no restrictions on what can be done to us by The Right Greeds under corporate control. You're fighting with votes and political process not just for our lives, but for life itself.

Nah, the best thing he did is the Iran agreement.

Actually, normalization of relations with Cuba ranks at least as high.