an important Hillary concession

OK, how about apologizing to the people of Honduras for engineering the generals' coup against Zelaya in 2009?

And immediate reinstatement of Pres. Zelaya as the only authentic President of Honduras.

Anything less than that is not acceptable for me.

With or without Bernie, I'm not voting for the criminal actions of a former Secretary of State. Forgive, yes. But words are hollow without actions.

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Pricknick's picture

never apologize for anything she's done.
She'll just say "I made a mistake" and laugh while doing so.

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Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.

and I'd certainly never believe anything she said. HRC is a pathological liar. May the evil she's perpetrated on others rain down hard on her this election season, to send a message.

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ngant17's picture

if you don't make steps to correct the problem.

"The Clinton campaign last week denied that she changed her position on the coup,"

http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-clinton-honduras-coup-20160501-story....

Does Bernie really want to throw his support toward a person acting as reprehensible as this? Does he follow Latin America much at all? I don't think he's out of the loop on this one.

Former Honduran president Manuel Zelaya is thinking about running for president in the next 2017 election.

OK Hillary, the ball is now in your court. Time is coming to make your foreign policy statement. Inquiring minds want to know. Put up or shut up. Are you with us or against us?

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snoopydawg's picture

Honduras since the coup.

The U.S.-backed Honduran coup ushered in a wave of neoliberal policies that have systematically violated the economic, cultural, and social rights of the nation's Indigenous people, women, and farmers, while leaving activists and rights defenders—such as the late Berta Cáceres—vulnerable to criminalization and violence.

And isn't Hillary supposed to be the champion of women? That's what I keep reading on LOF anyway.

What's more, this violence has particularly targeted women—including through structural violence such as restriction of their civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights. "The climate of fear in both the public and private sphere, and the lack of accountability for human rights violations against women is the rule, not the exception," the report states.

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/06/07/report-details-how-us-backed...

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There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?

Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.

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fingerprints all over the troubles in Columbia? Everything, every single thing, that she touched as SOS turned into heartbreak and misery for the the little people, the plebs. But the Clinton's always came out ahead somehow.

The Clinton-Colombia Connection
https://consortiumnews.com/2016/05/19/the-clinton-colombia-connection/

As we have seen, both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton reversed course once in office. Clinton may simply have been following the President’s lead, but critics point to her family’s unsavory financial connections as another explanation for her change of heart. As International Business Times reported last year:

“When workers at the country’s largest independent oil company staged a strike in 2011, the Colombian military rounded them up at gunpoint and threatened violence if they failed to disband, according to human rights organizations. Similar intimidation tactics against the workers, say labor leaders, amounted to an everyday feature of life. . .

“Yet as union leaders and human rights activists conveyed these harrowing reports of violence to then-Secretary of State Clinton in late 2011, urging her to pressure the Colombian government to protect labor organizers, she responded first with silence, these organizers say. The State Department publicly praised Colombia’s progress on human rights, thereby permitting hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. aid to flow to the same Colombian military that labor activists say helped intimidate workers.

“At the same time that Clinton’s State Department was lauding Colombia’s human rights record, her family was forging a financial relationship with Pacific Rubiales, the sprawling Canadian petroleum company at the center of Colombia’s labor strife. The Clintons were also developing commercial ties with the oil giant’s founder, Canadian financier Frank Giustra, who now occupies a seat on the board of the Clinton Foundation, the family’s global philanthropic empire.

“The details of these financial dealings remain murky, but this much is clear: After millions of dollars were pledged by the oil company to the Clinton Foundation — supplemented by millions more from Giustra himself — Secretary Clinton abruptly changed her position on the controversial U.S.-Colombia trade pact.
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http://www.ibtimes.com/hillary-clinton-pushes-colombia-free-trade-agreem...

On the eve of South Carolina’s Democratic presidential primary, the U.S. State Department released 1,500 pages of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s emails from her tenure as secretary of state. Included in the 881 emails published Friday night are messages highlighting Clinton lobbying for a controversial Colombian trade deal she previously pledged to oppose.

During her 2008 presidential run, Clinton said she opposed the deal because “I am very concerned about the history of violence against trade unionists in Colombia.” She later declared, “I oppose the deal. I have spoken out against the deal, I will vote against the deal, and I will do everything I can to urge the Congress to reject the Colombia Free Trade Agreement.”

But newly released emails show that as secretary of state, Clinton was personally lobbying Democratic members of Congress to support the deal, even promising one senior lawmaker that the deal would extend labor protections to Colombian workers that would be as good or better than those enjoyed by many workers in the United States.

One of the 2011 emails from Clinton to U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman and Clinton aide Robert Hormats has a subject line “Sandy Levin” — a reference to the Democratic congressman who serves on the House Ways and Means Committee, which oversees U.S. trade policy. In the email detailing her call with Levin, she said the Michigan lawmaker “appreciates the changes that have been made, the national security arguments and Santos's reforms” -- the latter presumably a reference to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos. She concludes the message about the call with Levin by saying, “I told him that at the rate we were going, Columbian [sic] workers were going to end up w the same or better rights than workers in Wisconsin and Indiana and, maybe even, Michigan.”

Froman — a former Citigroup executive who as trade representative was lobbying for passage of the deal — responded by thanking Clinton for her "help and support.” Hormats, a former vice chairman of Goldman Sachs who subsequently was hired by Clinton at the State Department, later chimed in, telling her “terrific job” and “GREAT line on Columbian [sic] workers!!!!!”

http://www.ibtimes.com/hillary-clinton-pushes-colombia-free-trade-agreem...

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I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa

His mandatory endorsement speech at the convention (which I still hope he won't have to do) will be more tepid than Ted Kennedy's for Carter. Besides, Hillary won't want him to stump for him. Can you imagine? Put him in front of a crowd or a mike on TV, and he won't be able to help himself. He'll start speaking the truth of what should change in this country. He'll keep telling us what we need to fight for. Call it a genetic defect, if you must, but I don't believe the man is capable of telling a lie.

I volunteer at a food pantry where there's a strict rule against politics. I wear my Bernie pin anyway. So, on Tues I was talking about Bernie to some other volunteers & the somewhat bossy woman who always enforces the rules came over & sternly said "No politics." So I said, "I was just talking about Bernie." Her reply, "That's politics." (I don't know what got into me) I said "He's not a politician." "Oh, yeah, what is he then?" My answer: "He's honest." I could not believe how everyone just quietly stood there grinning at me, even the woman who'd confronted me. And I know that some of them voted for Hillary.

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Pricknick's picture

never apologize for anything she's done.
She'll just say "I made a mistake" and laugh while doing so.

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Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.

snoopydawg's picture

SOS benefited the Clinton foundation. Every deal made by the United States when selling weapons or other things helped her foundation.
How that can be legal?
I hope Comey nails her to the wall!

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There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?

Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.