On Hillary's "Qualifications"
Oh, I think she is uniquely qualified to continue the direction the country has been taking since Reagan.
Aggressive and interventionist, tick.
Giving the wealth of the land to the few, tick
Ignoring climate change, tick.
On the wrong side of nearly every important issue that most Americans support, tick, until the issue cannot be denied any longer at least.
The ultimate DC insider, tick.
Yes, if you admire the oligarchy and the DNC she is perfectly qualified to maintain the status quo, in fact of all the candidates on both the "left" and the "right" she is far and away the best choice, miles ahead of anyone else. However the one thing this election is showing is that dissatisfaction with the status quo is actually bipartisan, universal meh if you like. At some point it will break, it actually cant go on as it is now, no matter how much duct tape you use.
The right seem to be coagulating around Cruz as the lesser of two slime-balls, the centrists are desperately trying to deny the left. The trashing of every progressive policy advocated up until Carter is being roundly trashed as unworkable, unimaginable and just not worth the time an effort, sod the poor.
Ever since Hillary lost the health care debate in the 90's she has just given up trying and indeed embraced what many democrats of the past would have thought of as unthinkable.
Yes she is uniquely qualified to keep the 99% in their place.
From Goldwater girl to Goldplated girl.
Go Bernie
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Every time someone lists one of the offices she held,
like Secretary of State, as proof of qualification, I want to reply that by that logic, Dubya is more qualified to be POTUS than Hillary because he has the experience. Just showing up for a job isn't enough, one must have accomplished something good in it to count as a qualification.
Mention Libya they throw you in with the stupidity of the
right, who made a major error in going all conspiracy theory. If they had stuck to the actual facts of the military intervention they might have made their point.
Exactly
I think it's because many people don't actually understand Libya (or Syria or Yemen or Iraq or Afghanistan or anywhere else Obama and co. are), and the discussion has been reduced to a knee jerk response of Republican decision = bad no matter what and Democrats = good no matter what, and in this election cycle, Clinton = beyond reproach at all times.
Yes, maybe teflon, but even teflon wears thin and ends up
sticking
I hope so
and I hope it wears soon. Thanks for this post, LF!
in high heat:
"Teflon ... coating breaks apart and emits toxic particles and gases."
(To be fair, in the heat of a political campaign Clinton emits toxic particles and gases.)
And mention Honduras and they just ignore you
like you didn't even make a comment. Or like it shuts them up. They know the culpability there and what it has wrought.
Of course, as I've mentioned before, these same asshat Hillary clowns have even defended the Iraq war -- not just her vote, but the actual war itself -- because Saddam is a "bad guy".
Bernie. Because Fuck. This. Shit.
"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."
-- John Lennon
They voted for Bush in 2000 and 2004
The anonymity of the internet gives these neocon Bush voters cover, and the dlcers like Kos, and Skinner backem up!
Wonder what a Clinton v. Ryan poll looks like?
The talking heads are suggesting a brokered rethug convention with a Ryan/Rubio ticket emerging after Trump fails to get the nomination in the first delegate ballot. Likely that means a third party run by Trump? Sure is a bizarre election.
I'm gonna keep on working for Bernie and hope we don't get republican lite corporate turd way self-styled democrat.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Well the Democrats have been slipping rightwards as even Obama
found out during the ACA where progressive ideas were not even on the table
They call themselves "New
They call themselves "New Democrats" so that you can you can tell that they are the ones who threw the the poor the unions, minorities & in general the working people of the country under the bus so they could pivot (suck up) to the monied class.
New Democrats = Reagan Republicans.
"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."
-- John Lennon
Obama Is No Progressive
Obama pushed all progressive ides off the table behind the scenes while claiming to the public to be pushing for them. ACA itself is a Heritage Foundation idea adjusted by the MA health care program Mitt Rmoney allowed to pass. He has been proving repeatedly that when he told Univision in December of 2012 that his policies were those of a moderate 1985 Reagan Republican, he was serious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677elaGIsKU
Transcript at The Hill: http://thehill.com/policy/finance/272957-obama-says-his-economic-policie...
I won't be surprised should he declare after leaving office that he really is a Republican once his LIEbury is completed and operational.
Vowing To Oppose Everything Trump Attempts.
I am voting
for Bernie no matter who is on either ballot.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
We Will As Well
The five votes living under my roof will write in Bernie rather than vote for Hillary. It's the last likely chance we have to peacefully avoid a corporatist takeover of the government.
Vowing To Oppose Everything Trump Attempts.
I'd suggest I'm more qualified than Hillary...
at least on Foreign Policy. According to the DOD ribbon I got, I did my job RIGHT.
I figure one successful job is better than the X number that she fucked up.
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
but but she said oops my bad and even the hundreds of
thousands that died as a result can respect that....hmmm
I would have been...
I would have been court-martialed if I said 'oops my bad' as many times as Hillary has.
War, War Never Changes - Fallout Series
ButButBut snipers shot at her!!!
That's foreign policy experience, right?
FEEL THE BERN: "But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing." - Thomas Paine
"Here I Stand, I can do no other." - Attributed to Martin Luther, 1521
What's up with this whole Biden thing?
I don't understand how they can nullify thousands of votes by just selecting someone else. Isn't that undemocratic? Shouldn't the people be upset about that? Am I totally off base on this?
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
I have not read anything on that, what Biden thing?
I get any news late here
This, LaFem
http://www.dailykos.com/comments/1510862/60760336#comment_60760336
Kos comment.
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
And this might be helpful,
from The Hill.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/273626-the-chaos-...
Euterpe2
It's an artifact
Seems like the media needs to find a way to gen up something rather than do actual news. Rather like the way they're trying to get the Democratic campaign to turn into something resembling the GOP pie-fight.
LMAO, Markos is sooo desperate
The interesting question is
why is Markos so invested in a Clinton victory. He is not burdened by any ideology so it can't be that.
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” -Voltaire
He sold off his stake in Vox for million$.
I wonder if he has plans for DK.
There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.
Who is this Markos and
why is everybody talking about him?
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He's a ......
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Johnny sure looks clean cut there eh? Who woulda thunk it!
With their hearts they turned to each others heart for refuge
In troubled years that came before the deluge
*Jackson Browne, 1974, Before the Deluge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SX-HFcSIoU
Bernie scares them
If we win the most pledged delegates, I think we win. If the party machinery wants to hold power so badly that they slip in Biden they way they're suggesting Ryan on the rethug side, the party will blow up. I don't think even they want to hold the wheel of a wreaked party. But I've been wrong before.
I just think we need to keep working toward having the most pledged delegates going into the convention. Bernie has proven again and again he is an effective politician and with the most delegates I think he will be nominated.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Ryan v Hillary now there is a choice, I think Hillary would
lose that one
Could be ugly.
Ryan is a fool and would be a puppet president but he looks pretty innocuous to the casual observer unlike the other GOP candidates. Given the various controversies, some entirely bogus, some all too real, that swirl around Clinton it could well be advantage Ryan.
Oh, puleeeeze
AND ignore the bullshit from The Hill. I'm betting either Markos stole from them or they from Markos regardless of whatever attribution that right wing website honks.
Biden said from the get-go he was done after this year. He's had it. Death of his son gutted him. Even in January of this year, he said not running was the right decision.
It's not his age, it's his life events.
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Muerte al fascismo. Muerte a la tiranía. colapso total de los que promueven tampoco. A la pared con el unico porciento%
That royally pisses me off
That's like if in a sporting event the MVP was someone who was out the entire season with an injury.
Nice message for the American people -- you can support whoever you want but we'll just pick whoever we want.
We could save a whole lot of time and energy if we just gave up the farce that's the electoral process if the Dems try to pull that -- maybe CNN and MSNBC could do something useful with the extra time like show "Hee Haw" reruns or something.
Biden an easy defeat
All his opponent has to do is bring up the details of the latest bankruptcy bill Biden pushed through the Congress, allowing corporations even more leeway to avoid paying debts (looking at YOU, Drumpf!) while making it that much harder for mere human beings to have the same privilege - and completely denying it to defrauded students over school loans.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jackson-williams/joe-biden-true-friend-of_...
"The final version of the bill was cleverly titled the “Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005,” but it wasn’t aimed at preventing abuse or protecting consumers, and everyone knew it."
http://dir.salon.com/story/opinion/huffington/2005/03/10/bankrupt/
“So what does the bill do? It makes it harder for average people to file for bankruptcy protection; it makes it easier for landlords to evict a bankrupt tenant; it endangers child-support payments by giving a wider array of creditors a shot at post-bankruptcy income; it allows millionaires to shield an unlimited amount of equity in homes and asset-protection trusts; it makes it more difficult for small businesses to reorganize while opening new loopholes for the Enrons of the world; it allows creditors to provide misleading information; and it does nothing to rein in lending abuses....”
Millions of voters would love to deliver a payback for this kind of legalized abuse. A smart Biden opponent would quickly be all over it, and Biden would look like the corporatist shill he is no matter what he said in response.
We'll save his promotion of credit card provider protections (like charging you outrageous interest) for another post.
Vowing To Oppose Everything Trump Attempts.
You aren't off base at all
Floating Biden as some kind of alternate is breathtakingly insulting to voters and the process of election, no matter who is doing it. (And I really want to know how Clinton feels about this, she must be pretty furious LOL!)
So far off base it's bloody hilarious
They do that and I don't vote period.
It is undemocratic
and I have told Markos that. I cannot believe that he thinks that he has credibility when he post sh*t like he has been posting over there for some time now.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
I am still waiting for this unique historical event --
in which the Stockholm Syndrome is once and for all beaten, and the public finally decides to turn on its neoliberal captors...
“When there's no fight over programme, the election becomes a casting exercise. Trump's win is the unstoppable consequence of this situation.” - Jean-Luc Melanchon
Good analogy. Oh look scary shit
Love it
"From Goldwater girl to Goldplated girl."
C99, my refuge from an insane world. #ForceTheVote
Constitutionally, Clinton is qualified
The only qualifications in the Constitution is that the person be 35 years of age or greater, and be a natural-born citizen (the definition of which is still up in the air especially if Calgary Cruz beats out Trump). She's just as qualified as Bernie Sanders or Jill Stein. That doesn't mean that she's the best choice, or even the only choice.
It also helps if you don't flaut the Constitution
The USA has been having a bit of a problem with that lately. 4th Amendment comes to mind.
Stay on track. Stay in lane. Don't throw rocks.
There a twitter hashtag #HillarySoQualified
started by Hellery supporters to worship her, but got hijacked also by Bernie's army. It has been hilarious to read all the anti-Hellery tweets.
Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.
What I get all worked up about
is that Hillary supporters get mad and say it is sexist from Bernie to say that Hillary is not qualified.
Quit using lies to divide us, if you suck you suck no matter your religion, race, gender, age, experience, sex, etc. Do not get my wrong there are bias in the world, but for this discussion do not bring that weak ass argument into it.
god... now that's the essay i wish i had written. brava.
“There are moments which are not calculable, and cannot be assessed in words; they live on in the solution of memory… ”
― Lawrence Durrell, "Justine"
Sanders Campaign explained it to ABC News
Sanders Camp Says It Will '100 Percent' Contest Convention If Clinton Doesn’t Clinch Delegate Majority
by Jordyn Phelps -- Apr 7, 2016
Bill's blow up with Black Lives Matter might be big
BLM folks brought up the bills signed by Bill Clinton in 1996 (if I am not mistaken)
#Bill Clinton was the top of twitter list for a few hours. It is now third
there will be a lot about this in the news tomorrow. Here is one article
Bill Clinton Says Black Lives Matter Activists Are Defending Murderers
Well, the Black fire wall might be in trouble.
Just in the last couple of days more people are being kicked off food stamps -- people not working 20 hours per week. But some of these folks cannot work for various reasons: health, few jobs, transportation, etc.
Ohio ranks third in food insecurity after MISS and another southern state.
I hope this is brought up in the campaign and the debates.
Money for bombs, but not money for food stamps.
BLM now "under the bus"- also about "qualified"
those people love to use that phrase, "under the bus", when we say criticize the PACs that endorse Hillary as if those PACs are the actual organizations. And now, after all the screaming at Bernie because of the early BLM events like Netroots Nation, we see it was all phony. BLM is, we find out, protecting "super-predators". Goldang, they're so phony I can hardly stand it!
By the way, all of those hillbots are sick to their stomach. They were Bernie fans until yesterday (sure....) but now that Bernie has said Hills is not qualified they've switched. They point out that Hills never said Bernie was unqualified, although it was clear enough for the Washington Post to report it....but now it's not.
Well the funny thing is, Bernie never said straight out "Hillary is unqualified". It was all couched in "ifs". Like "if she's wrong about this and if she's wrong about that..." and instead of arguing that she's qualified becauses she's NOT what Bernie said, they cry because she is EXACTLY what he said.
Lawyer talk.
I've been tired of it for a very long time.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
Take Adam B’s typical lawyer talk on TOP as an example… n/t
I ran across a unique rant on Hillary
…from a fresh young voice, that happened to have highly detailed source linking. The 18 year-old author was addressing her numerous personal objections to candidate Clinton. At some point I forgot I was reading about Clinton and embraced the idea that I was a first-time voter presented with a voting choice that could only be described as an assault.
She also adds a few words about "incrementalism" which I found particularly poignant, given the young author's background:
How shameful that young voters are facing such a dismal choice.
Something went very, very wrong in the US.
Links and sources.