President Obama has recently been on a "legacy tour" overseas.
Presidential legacies are notoriously hard to define because so much of depends on personal opinions. Only with the detachment of history do legacies become clear.
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This scandal wasn't a Republican hit-job. It wasn't from a vast right-wing conspiracy. This news segment wasn't from the hacks at Fox News.
Amos Beede, 38, was a homeless transgender man residing (if, in fact, a homeless man can be said to reside anywhere) in Vermont. Amos was found on the ground near a homeless encampment, unconscious, on May 23.
Beede suffered head trauma, including facial fractures, multiple blunt force injuries to his face and head and a number of broke ribs, police said. He had been diagnosed with bleeding on the brain known as a subdural hematoma.
What did Bernie just show us all? WE ARE THE CAMPAIGN......
Bernies online campaign tools are an exponential leap beyond anything we've seen. What do we do now? Learn field operations, run for office. Attend a Camp Wellstone campaign training. If you want to wield political power, you need to know how to run a campaign. If you're going to run for office you need to learn how to be a candidate.
On that Christmas Day Company I, First Platoon, was very hard hit. My good friend Oliver Coghill was on my right and a buddy named Palko was next to him. Both were killed, and I could hear Lieutenant Lawson calling for his mother.
- Excerpt from the written account of the combat experiences of Darrell Burdette Searls, former infantry soldier in Company I of the 290th Regiment of the 75th Division, United States Army, 1944-1945
Gopal Balakrishnan:
On numerous occasions since the 90s the left has rallied to a center-right candidate to ward off the far-right and the results have been disastrous. Not only is the far right strengthened by bolstering its credentials as the only real opposition force to the establishment, the left is drastically weakened at the expense of the center-right.
Tuesday May 29, 1906
From The Labor World: Mother Jones on Child Labor
Unlike TOP, this site will remain reality-based, and that goes double for presidential politics.
With that in mind, we need to acknowledge that while Hillary obviously broke the law, she will never suffer from this offense.
The coronation process hits another road block
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump's best ally in winning over skeptical Republicans is turning out to be Hillary Clinton.
Hello, I want you to click me for a moment and spend a minute watching my patterns and habits... I am here: https://www.berniepb.com
What did you see?
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I saw small slivers of hope, but I also saw a lot of apathy and despair. We've grown tired in the home stretch. We've grown angry, too angry to act. It's time to change that.
