Election 2016

Hill IS running out the clock

Submitted by Writerinres on Tue, 09/13/2016 - 9:14am

So that's what this "pneumonia thing" is all about! Just read a Chris Cillizza post in today's Washington Post about how Hillary Clinton's sudden (but not too serious, although it is mildly contagious) case of "pneumonia" may have her out of commission for six or more weeks, perhaps through October. What an absolutely convenient way for her to run out the clock and avoid pesky debates and press conferences (yet free her schedule up for fundraisers).

Tribes

Submitted by Cassiodorus on Tue, 08/23/2016 - 11:04am

There are no issues in the 2016 Presidential race.

Maybe there were issues when Bernie Sanders was running. Sanders made an issue of honesty, of whether or not any of the political rhetoric you hear coming from the mouths of the politicians had any relation to what the politicians were going to do. And then Sanders endorsed Clinton, and, lo and behold, it didn't, again. And the issue disappeared.

The Perfect Republican Candidate MD@NYT

Submitted by TheJerry on Sun, 08/14/2016 - 7:20pm

So, I am not, nor never have been, a fan of Maureen Dowd. I think she's pretty close the to the definition of what's wrong with the main stream media.

She's also notorious for what we formerly called HDS (Hillary Derangement Syndrome) but which we now know as HRS (Hillary Reality Syndrome).

But when she is right, she is right, and she does an excellent job of laying out points that most of us here agree on in her new NYT editorial.

C-Span.org live on my iPad

Submitted by Writerinres on Thu, 07/07/2016 - 9:49am

I am getting the live-streaming House hearing on "The Honorable" James Comey's non-explanation of why Hillary Clinton slithered out of yet another vast, right-wing conspiracy witch hunt concerning her emails. I left in disgust after a few minutes of Elijah Cummings comparing David Petraeus' slap on the wrist with Hillary's nothing burger (according to apologizer-in-chief) Cummings.

The Coronation is Almost Complete

Submitted by Writerinres on Thu, 06/16/2016 - 12:42pm

The AFL-CIO (what's left of it) and Oprah, just endorsed Hillary. In voters' minds, Hill's looking more and more like presidential material as time marches on. Does anybody think that the lawsuits going through the courts alleging electoral fraud by the DNC are going to be quashed at this point? I do. Will Bernie cave tonight? I think so.

I'm Back! Alpha's Primary watchers live blog for W.V. & Nebraska

Submitted by Alphalop on Tue, 05/10/2016 - 12:48pm

Hi guys!

Sorry I missed the last one, with family in town I haven't had a second to do anything but clean and entertain, lol!

I sent them all off to Disney Land as present for my wife's graduatio, for a few days of a quite house for me, and of course, to allow me to able to hang with my C99P Peeps for tonight's primary. Smile

BBC reports Cruz selects Carly Fiorina as running mate

Submitted by thanatokephaloides on Wed, 04/27/2016 - 9:01pm

And just when you thought things were as weird and fucked up as they could get,

...... Republican Reconstructionist Christian Theocrat Ted Cruz has announced that he has selected Carly Fiorina as his running mate, according to this online report from the BBC.

A Path to a Different Sort of Victory

Submitted by joe shikspack on Sat, 04/09/2016 - 6:08pm

The pundits are all abuzz about whether or not Bernie Sanders has a "path to victory" in the Democratic primaries. Handicapping the horse race in all its minutiae from "the true math" to speculation over superdelegates and the size of campaign war chests fills the airwaves and plugs the tubes of the internets.

They are talking, largely, about a victory within the arcane electoral rules set up by the parties, but they are generally studiously ignoring the elephant in the room - the struggle of the 99% to achieve political and economic power.

Underneath all of the bloviating and rhetoric, power is what the so-called insurgent candidacies are really about.

Democratic Establishment says, 'C'mon under our big tent and get yer diminished expectations right here!'

Submitted by joe shikspack on Thu, 03/10/2016 - 4:15pm

We are in the midst of a moment in American politics where change is possible; as the success of outsider candidates makes clear, a sizable body of the people want real, substantive, paradigm-shifting (perhaps even radical by American standards) change. Given the tenacity and success of establishment candidates, you can see that there are is also a sizable body of people who oppose change that comes in large increments as either unproductive or potentially disruptive.

In the Democratic race, the positions and policies of Sanders and Clinton have been dissected, compared and contrasted - but the key debate is about the kind of change we are to have.

The change debate is the transcendent issue of this contest. The contested issue is whether the American people can demand and have implemented by their "representatives" in government wholesale change, or if they must settle for minor incremental changes described as pragmatic and "progressive" (for people who like to get things done) - because the representatives must ask the permission of the 1% before proceeding.

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