Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton and the Button

Submitted by DarkScholar82 on Mon, 09/12/2016 - 9:18pm

Today, I received an e-mail from MoveOn.org asking me to donate five dollars in order to fund a new commercial attacking Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. The commercial would focus on the prospect of Trump getting his hands on America's nuclear weapons. As the e-mail stated:

Donald Trump's climbing in the polls.1 It's time to go nuclear. (In a way.)

MoveOn made an important discovery in the course of our intensive research this summer: A key bloc of swing voters appears to be most strongly persuaded to vote against Trump when confronted with the threat of his finger on the nuclear button.2

As part of this research effort, our Video Lab made an ad, ran the video online to show it to voters in swing states, and teamed up with researchers at the Analyst Institute to study its effectiveness—and the results blew us away.

In our controlled study, men over the age of 30 who watched our video about Trump's finger on the nuclear button were seven percentage points more likely to support Clinton over Trump, compared to those who didn't watch the ad.

Given his at times erratic behavior, concerns over Trump getting the bomb are understandable. However, the people at Move On failed to consider the issue of their own candidate getting the bomb, which is arguably concerning in its own right.

My Gut Reaction: Somehow, I don't think someone who threatens to annihilate Iran is a safe option for the presidency, either.

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My 9/11 Anger At AMERICA'S LEADERS

Submitted by James Kroeger on Mon, 09/12/2016 - 9:12pm

Yeah, I remember Nine Eleven. I was on my way to teach a morning class and by the time that class was over, I was shocked to hear that both of the towers had collapsed.

Almost as soon as it became clear that it was a terrorist attack, the feelings of anger began to well up within me, but the anger I was feeling was definitely not the kind of anger that Bush was modelling for the media to transmit to the American people.

My anger was directed at America's leaders whom I could see were clearly responsible for this horrifying development.

The Anti-Antiwar Left

Submitted by Big Al on Thu, 09/08/2016 - 9:41pm

Many have lamented the lack of an antiwar movement in this country, the land of Empire and Imperialism. Many have also criticized the faux left that supports U.S. "interventions", those that support War Criminal Obama and want War Criminal Clinton to be the next President of the Empire.

We're not alone. They have the same problem in Europe.

If you dislike Clinton's conservative policies vote for Stein, not Trump

Submitted by betterdemsonly on Thu, 09/01/2016 - 12:37pm

It is really messed up for any supporter of the 99 percent to vote for Trump, because you are telling the elites you like ALL of Trump's policies, including the wall, the attacks on women, and getting rid of the estate tax, all of it. You are telling them you endorse all of his views. A vote for Stein leaves Trump with a possible victory but no mandate.

Regime Change: The Playbook

Submitted by Azazello on Tue, 08/30/2016 - 12:33pm

We didn't start this war, Assad did, when he bombed his own people.

That was President Barack Obama at a joint press conference with French President Francois Hollande back in November of 2015. If that didn't ring a bell, it should have. The claim that "Saddam gassed the Kurds" was one of the propaganda points that the Bush team hammered repeatedly in 2002 during the run-up to the Iraq war. US Senator Hillary Clinton made the same claim during her speech supporting the AUMF on October 10, 2002. If it seems like the Neocons in both political parties are using the same playbook, it's because they are.

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