should be a clarion call to anyone concerned about the Clinton Family attitudes about workers rights, unions, etc. She fought long and hard...and successfully to deny the workers in Haiti a minimum wage raise from what??? 38 cents to 64 cents give or take a couple pennies. This is after they diverted millions, if not billions in Earthquake assistance monies to areas that weren't even affected by the earthquake to build industrial parks for new sweatshops owned by TPTB. Hard hit areas still don't have water, sanitation, infrastructure improvements that aid was intended for.. . If the Clinton Foundations aren't a scam, I'm not sitting in my chair punching keys.

Good piece Hillbilly.

Hillary Clinton simply does not get it. But her own sense of entitlement exudes from every her pore punctuated by her finger wags. People see it and it turns them off. How can anyone believe this person?

"Trump declared he was 100% for right to work, and my vice presidential pick did too!"

"Why the fuck aren't you voting for me rather than Trump???????"

Double finger wag, double finger wag....

I just watched the clip. "why aren't I ahead by 50 points!!!" Because you're a transparent, disingenuous, lying POS hillary.

No wonder they're keeping her out of the public eye.

She doesn't look like a healthy vibrant older person any longer. What happened over the last year or so? It's a really marked change.

This is "Get Offa My Lawn!" territory here.

WTF are Democrats thinking?

The Big Lie blowing up like Mr. Creosote. Just one more wafer thin mint...

As long as it's a police union, HRC is pro union 100%. All other unions, not so much.

Good grief, just add another tire to the garbage fire that is the presidential election. She brings to mind every smug, sneering prick that has ever talked down to me.

If I'm any indication, 30 of those fifty points she's not up were probably lost to the raw, visceral response to her condescending sneer.

and that's all I could stand. Yes, like a lecturing teacher or parent. Sickening to hear her talk about a "clear choice" for working families, fucking hypocrite. That's when I shut her off. Ick.

I'd program her like a Chatty Kathy doll so she could only say seven things but they'd all be classic.

Q. How would you deal with the Ukraine situation?
A. I suppose I could stay home and bake cookies

Q. What is your position on the Dakota Pipeline?
A. I'm not sitting here some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette

Q. How about a brontosaurus?
A. We came, we saw, he died

I think that would make her more popular.

this is what is being prepared for release to "motivate supporters". Just imagine what Hitler in the Bunker rants are going on in campaign HQ with the cameras off.

I saw that clip last night, but you beat me to the post. She also yelled at the camera, as if she were giving a stump speech - to the 10,000 adoring people she apparently imagines. I watched it again with the sound off, and saw the expression and body language. She dredged up memories of the nuns that I endured in middle school - Violently self-righteous tin pot Hitlers: "I AM THE WORD OF GOD AND YOU ARE DISGUSTING HEATHENS THAT ARE GOING TO HELL IF YOU DON'T COME TO HEEL RIGHT NOW!!!"
I had to put up with that shit when I was 16. Not any more.

He looked completely selfconfident. (note that confidence is not a virtue when spouting bullshit) and he seemed emotionally attached to his text, as opposed to Hillary, who looked like she was reading from the Lord Of The Rings for all she cared. He also seemed to be engaged with the audience, he cared (not about the audience, but about how the audience was responding - though to the uncynical they look the same) This is a con man, a businessman pitching a product very effectively, a masterful politician, take your pick. That's why he's winning.

Just saw an email come into my inbox purporting to be sent by Hillary Clinton, (Paid for by Gillibrand for Senate, with Kirstie's email address) asking if I was with her so, quickly, before I withered, I unsubscribed and took the handy option given of removing everything from Hillary in my inbox, lightening the load by 395 emails, even though I'd done something of the sort not all that long ago.

Nasty shock seeing that name as supposedly the sender, but if Hill had sent it, I'd probably now have a keylogger feverishly trying to gain info on my non-existent online financial transactions to suck 'donations' out of my chronically empty CU account. As I suppose I might...

She's the first female Presidential candidate to engage in that sort of petty fraud prior to election, isn't she? Is breaking the 'glass ceiling' another term for 'law'?

Later, of course, she can get pin money (inherited that term from my mother, lol) by renting out White House bedrooms, so maybe that'll do the trick to keep them going in the low-wage Presidential position which left them broke and in debt last time...

With this level of corruption, the US government is likely to fall from the sheer weight of accumulated moral rust... not that it plans on running as an even pretend democratic government much longer, in betraying their country and people, along with multiple others, into the hands of hostile self-interests, as Gold(man Sachs) standard 'trade deals', which they certainly are not.

But this, belatedly found in my inbox, is interesting, and contains a petition (links at source) of which I'd not yet heard and have signed. People of the world, unite! Together we stand, and 'Citizen United'-type crap out of corrupted judges falls, as corporations are finally (at the least) held accountable for their crimes and forced to respect human rights, as is already unenforced law/Constitutionally demanded in industrialized democracies.

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/13/corporations-running-world-...

Published on Tuesday, September 13, 2016 by Global Justice Now

Corporations Running the World Used To Be Science Fiction - Now It's a Reality.
by
Aisha Dodwell

... The problem of unrestrained corporate power is massive, and it requires a massive solution. That is why today Global Justice Now is launching a petition to the UK government demanding that it backs the new UN initiative for a legally binding global treaty on transnational corporations and human rights.

This UN treaty is the result of campaigning by countries from across the global south for international laws to regulate the activities of TNCs. In June 2014 they successfully got a resolution passed in the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) establishing the need for such a treaty.

A working group of member states has been set up to take the treaty forward, chaired by Ecuador, they have met once already in 2015, and have the next meeting scheduled for October 2016 to discuss the scope and content of the treaty. Meanwhile, civil society groups from across the world have come together and formed the Treaty Alliance movement which aims to make sure the treaty comes in to being with truly meaningful content.

Although it may sound like a boring technical process, this treaty is something we should be excited about because it provides a huge opportunity in the fight to restrain corporate power. It has massive potential to withdraw the privileges that corporations have gained over recent decades and force them to comply with international human rights law, international labour law and international environmental standards. It would oblige governments to take the power of corporations seriously, and hold them to account for the power they wield. This would standardise how different governments relate to multinationals which means that rather than allowing them to play countries off against one another in a race to the bottom, it would force minimum standards.

But the UK government, well known for its cosy relationship with corporations, has so far refused to take part in this UN treaty. And the UK are not alone, most other EU countries are also opposed to the treaty.

We need to make sure our government doesn’t pass up on this rare opportunity to provide genuine protection for the victims of human rights abuses committed by multinational corporations and place binding obligations on all governments to hold their corporations to account for their impacts on people and the planet. ...

...Of course, the battle against corporate power has many fronts and the UN treaty is only one part of it. At the same time, we need to continue to develop alternative ways to produce and distribute the goods and services we need. We need to undermine the notion that only massive corporations can make the economy and society ‘work’. Food sovereignty and energy democracy are just two examples of how it is possible to build an economy without corporations. But as long as corporations do play a role in our economy, we need to find ways to control their activity and prevent abuses. This is why we need to fight for this UN treaty.

The alternative is that we continue to rush towards the dystopian vision of unchallenged corporate power. We cannot allow this to happen. We must fight back.
Take action: sign the petition urging the UK government to support the UN Treaty ...

Trump of course is a bombastic egomaniac who represents the very worst of a kind of recurring Jungian archetype in America, racist, uniformed, a blowhard, jingoistic, ignorant, xenophobic, uncurious, unlettered-- though heretofore we have been able to keep the car keys away from this set, for the most part (W, for example, being a notable exception).

But Clinton Inc and their ilk should know better, and this and their all-consuming lust for power-at-any-price damns them to a deeper circle in hell. They are utterly corrupt and corrupted. One of many quintessential examples of this is her Iraq War vote. Clearly there was one and only one reason why she voted for it-- of course she knew it was totally fabricated, made-up stuff, being spurred on by the NeoCon agenda, AIPAC, oil and corporate opportunities, Saddam no longer wanting to do oil in American dollars; Bush just did what he was told, and wanted to play soldiers, like a spoiled kid with a set of plastic men and tanks-- you knew sooner or later he would play with them, break them, then walk away whistling. But of course she knew the public reasons were all bullshit. She did it to appear 'tough,' to protect herself during her foreseen presidential run from being accused of being 'soft on terror.' Hundreds of thousands died, millions were maimed and crippled, ISIS was born, and trillions transferred from the government to the MIC, all for her political ambitions. All for her political ambitions. Trump is an idiot, but she is monstrous. My hope is that she loses, precipitating such a wave of revulsion and disgust at what Trump will bring that in 2020, we finally get a sweeping progressive victory at all three levels, presidential, senate, and house. The millennials will only increase. This fight is just beginning.

NAFTA should disqualify any union support for Hillary. I am beginning wonder if we will see "Trump Democrats" much like "Reagan Democrats".

I have to wonder how all the union members who supported Sanders are feeling about Hillary right about now, and their union leadership that burned the base to dine with Hillary.

About two years ago, can't remember, Obama really burned the Teamsters with a ruling about allowing Mexican drivers and trucks full and open access to American highways. What was I suppose ironically funny was that Biden went before the Teamsters in what turned out to be a popular speech about unions not supporting democrats about a week before.

Hillary's speech was poorly done. Be interesting how the union base took her speech.