It Should Be Over For Hillary

Submitted by Jazzenterprises on Thu, 03/10/2016 - 12:01am

Great article on Salon, just hoping the videos don't start blaring... Bill Curry just wrote a wonderful piece that kind of took me aback, and expresses very clearly many things I've been thinking and feeling about the state of affairs in the Democratic Party, as well as the media. The whole thing is worth a read:

It Should Be Over for Hillary; Party Elites and MSNBC Can't Prop Her Up after Bernie's Michigan Miracle

http://www.salon.com/2016/03/09/it_should_be_over_for_hillary_party_elit...

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Submitted by tapu dali on Thu, 03/10/2016 - 12:57am
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Submitted by WoodsDweller on Thu, 03/10/2016 - 1:14am
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Reporters who know nothing else can’t conceive how voters choosing among a democratic socialist, a pay-to-play politician corrupt moderate and a fascist might pick door number one.

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Submitted by gulfgal98 on Thu, 03/10/2016 - 3:44am
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With her Super PAC (and hers and Bill’s breathtaking haul of $153 million in mostly corporate speaking fees), she is the living avatar of pay to play politics. She shouldn’t be the Democratic nominee for president because she doesn’t even know it’s wrong.

This is the entitlement and hubris that is the Clintons. And they cannot understand why people are disgusted with them?

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Submitted by jobu on Thu, 03/10/2016 - 6:42am
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Bill Curry has been outstanding in his analysis during this primary.

He should know, he was in the belly of the beast in the mid-nineties as an adviser to Bill Clinton.

He saw how the Third Way abandoned Ned Lamont from the front row here in Connecticut.

He is a frequent commentator on local NPR programs here in CT and he is great.

Here is an example from the Lamont/Lieberman primary:

AMY GOODMAN: Well, what’s happening in your party in Connecticut, Bill, this race between Joseph Lieberman and Ned Lamont that all the country is watching?

BILL CURRY: Well, first of all, the race is certainly a referendum on Bush foreign policy. But at another level, I think it’s also a referendum on a kind of centrism within the Democratic Party, which many Democrats feel, especially under President Bush, that their own party’s centrism has become not just ineffectual, but unconscionable.

http://www.democracynow.org/2006/8/8/its_primary_day_anti_iraq_war

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Submitted by Vayle on Fri, 03/11/2016 - 5:55pm

One paragraph.

This is supposedly a trusted Democrat, and look at this short list.

1. Obama chose not to raise the minimum wage as president even though he had the votes for it
2 & 3. was willing to cut Medicare and Social Security
4 & 5 chose not to prosecute Wall Street crimes or pursue ethics reforms in government
6 & 7 he dropped the public option or the aid he promised homeowners victimized by mortgage lenders

The Republican party left Republicans a long time ago. The Democratic party has done the same. How often do we see diaries about the demise or implosion of Republicans - as if the Democratic party is not facing the same issues. The Democratic party is running to where Republicans were, and too many in the party are willingly, and blindly, following the Establishment and then calling it 'pragmatic'.

Just imagine the damage Hillary Clinton can (and will) do 'working with Republicans' to get things done. She'll compromise with Republicans trying to seem like a person who can get things done, and the American people will be compromised.

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Submitted by ppnortney on Thu, 03/10/2016 - 10:08am
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"and the American people will be compromised."

The American people will be screwed. Again.

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Submitted by rmwarnick on Thu, 03/10/2016 - 1:58pm

Unless a miracle happens, President Obama will be the first president since FDR who won't get an increase in the federal minimum wage through Congress.

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Submitted by Caerus on Thu, 03/10/2016 - 7:25am

Curry has been so good, also note connection to Clinton Admin.
http://www.salon.com/2016/02/16/the_clintons_will_really_try_anything_fa...

http://www.salon.com/2016/03/08/hillarys_inevitability_lie_why_the_media...

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Submitted by Redstella on Thu, 03/10/2016 - 8:16am
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Thanks for the link. It's once in a primary distillation of what is going on. Made my morning! All I can say is 'that!'

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Submitted by Stephen Carll on Thu, 03/10/2016 - 9:49am
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Per Curry, and I can't quote directly because my computer is fucky right now, so I'ma paraphrase "Clinton began the week by telling her supporters that her and Bernie are pals and we should end this little primary so she can get ready to take on the Republicans". Apologies if I mutilated that one.

That's about the same time Kos gave us his lil' pep talk. In fact, everyone in nearly every media outlet said the exact same thing within 24 hours of each other. That's some serious Pravda shit. Hell, I don't even think drone strikes are that precise.

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Submitted by detroitmechworks on Thu, 03/10/2016 - 9:53am
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Don't Save money by CCing the SAME memo to everybody.

Hire some artists, dammit. They deserve pay too. Writers, Actors... Come on, you've got a whole industry of people who love their job of playing on people's emotions, and you're Hiring the Washington Community Theater Troupe, who hasn't had a hit since Nixon.

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Submitted by gjohnsit on Thu, 03/10/2016 - 10:39am

I have to say that it is too early to agree with that statement.
Bernie has to prove that Michigan wasn't a "one-off" first.
He has to win Ohio, plain and simple. Winning Illinois or Missouri would help too.

I want to agree. I really do.

As for the article:

This week she began telling voters she and Bernie were pals and that it was time to wrap up their little primary so she could focus on the Republicans. As anyone outside her tone deaf campaign could have told her, she came off as entitled, presumptuous and condescending. The voters aren’t done deciding yet. When they are, they’ll let the candidates know.

Hillary, like the GOP elite, has no respect for Democratic voters. She especially has no respect for any Democrat that would vote for her.

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Submitted by gulfgal98 on Thu, 03/10/2016 - 10:48am
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she owes her allegiance to all those corporations that coughed up $153 million to listen to her and Bill speak.

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Submitted by CroneWit on Thu, 03/10/2016 - 11:39am

Is really great. Thanks!

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Submitted by rmwarnick on Thu, 03/10/2016 - 12:39pm

Here's the money quote:

"When she tries to distract the base or paper over its differences with elites, voters see through her..."

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