Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumBernie Sanders, Party Crasher: Notes On The [Looming] End Of A Campaign
http://www.npr.org/2016/06/15/481453188/bernie-sanders-party-crasher-notes-on-the-looming-end-of-a-campaignThis is an excellent read.
Sanders' experience in Southern California offers glimpses into everything that went right and wrong for his campaign. In more ways than one, at Lynwood and in Santa Monica and all throughout the primary season, Sanders was a party crasher. Sometimes that worked out for him. And sometimes it did not.
This week marked the final presidential nominating contest for the Democratic Party, in Washington, D.C. Bernie Sanders lost. And he isn't throwing in the towel just yet, he says. But Sanders also says he can do "arithmetic." And that math shows he did not get enough votes or delegates to be the Democratic nominee. (He trails Clinton by millions in the Democratic popular vote, and hundreds in party's delegate count, with or without superdelegates.) Hillary Clinton was declared the "presumptive nominee" last week, and she is now campaigning as one would expect a presumptive party nominee to campaign, complete with the endorsement of a sitting President. It'd be fair to say that the only thing keeping Bernie Sanders' campaign alive is that he hasn't yet said it is dead.
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In many ways, the Sanders campaign was a love revolution, with a message of unity, diversity and prosperity for all. But under the surface, the Sanders' movement was just as much an exercise in anger.
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It was a moment that, in several ways, could symbolize Sanders' entire campaign a victory and a defeat, all at the same time. And, in spite of it all, a dogged determination to keep pressing ahead and to seemingly never, ever admit you've lost.
LOTS more at the link.
tonyt53
(5,737 posts)Treant
(1,968 posts)You do actually have the boat to use an enjoy.
teamster633
(2,032 posts)...who decides that it is perfectly reasonable to stay for a month.
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)BlueMTexpat
(15,493 posts)I watched it again this past Christmas and laughed as hard as I ever did!
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)And we laugh each and every time! I've learned that we're not the only people who do that.
BlueMTexpat
(15,493 posts)with Darren McGavin is another of my faves to watch at Xmastime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Story
I also love Chevy Chase and "the Griswolds" in "National Lampoon's European Vacation." I remember staying in a London hotel in the 1980s that was just like the one the Griswolds stayed in - complete with shared bathroom down the hall!
The rest of the film is a hoot too - and a flashback to more innocent days in foreign travel.
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)I love ALL Chevy Chase movies (Fletch, Fletch 2, National Lampoon movies) because he plays the same sarcastic guy in all of them. lol
Hubby says I'm like Beverly D'Angelo in Christmas Vacation. I always seem to know how to fix things that he can't get to work. lol
BlueMTexpat
(15,493 posts)"European Vacation" - and yes, Chevy plays the same sarcastic guy, i.e., himself, in every film.
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)that Sparky videotaped (and what was later stolen - lol) was priceless. She played such an adorable character.
But the kids, too, were incredibly funny; daughter pining for her boyfriend back home and being reminded of him when she looks at a particularly large sausage; Rusty catching that a couple at a nearby table were "about to do it" - and they get into it right after. lol Very funny.
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)the get-go. OWS, a failed attempt to...whatever they were trying to do, fizzled out just like Sanders' campaign after a fiery start. Angry is not an attractive message to have. Common sense and strategy wins the day. Sadly, that's something Sanders, his campaign, and his most fanatical followers couldn't understand.
Edited to add:
"We started the Draft [Elizabeth] Warren effort first," she told NPR. "Ready for Warren came out of Occupy. And People for Bernie came out of Ready for Warren."
Wong is not shy about identifying Sanders and his candidacy as a tool to get Occupy Wall Street ideals into the mainstream. "It was always a tactic," she said at a Sanders rally in San Francisco. "In every way, at every step of the way."
displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)Does Bernie know he wasn't even their first choice?
That's gotta sting.
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)I doubt he cares since Bernie is in it for Bernie and for no one else. Both sides - Sanders and OWS - are using one another. What a pair!
liberal N proud
(60,936 posts)Native
(6,416 posts)and more concisely.
BootinUp
(48,918 posts)I especially noted the quotes from the BoB's.
Cha
(305,137 posts)everyone else look bad and hiding his actual record. But, the Americans voters said NO.. we don't want you.
Adios, burnie
Mahalo, BlueMT
teamster633
(2,032 posts)BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)believes in democracy and unity and not about ME! ME! ME! Those selfish people give Liberals a bad rep.
Cha
(305,137 posts)was thinking.
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)you could bet your house that it would be covered in the most ugliest manner by all U.$. media!
BlueMTexpat
(15,493 posts)at least a week!
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)the American electorate forgets.
BlueMTexpat
(15,493 posts)I was just thinking that the incident seemed to have happened fairly recently - in the run-up to the CA primary. But yes, no one would have been allowed to forget - ever!
Cha
(305,137 posts)better coverage than Hillary. This wouldn't have helped their horse race for California.
But, this sure was out on Social Media.. so it wasn't entirely swept under the rug.. they were laughing about it on the Obama Diary and the Tweets went out.. IOW they thought BS got his just desserts.
BlueMTexpat
(15,493 posts)Obama Diary, Cha! I need to get over there more often!
Cha
(305,137 posts)some form.. they are all so politically smart and active!
I just saw this for the first time..
".. Orange is Not the new Black"! Perfect!
lovemydog~http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1187&pid=53592
"America's best days are still to come"!
Nice plug for Hillary! My President is so Good!:
BlueMTexpat
(15,493 posts)Cha
(305,137 posts)BlueMTexpat
(15,493 posts)but I am fan of the Netflix series ...!
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)Hillary Clinton, too. And how he finally explained TPP's main goal (aside from stricter environmental laws, stopping corporations from suing countries if they don't make a profit, etc.).
My president is THE BEST.
Cha
(305,137 posts)he's like for sure.. And, I didn't trust him way back then. I knew I could trust Obama.. he's earned it.. I knew nothing about that burnie sanders guy.. Except he wanted our President Primaried in 2012. That should have been the BIG RED FLAG right there.
Big dumb mistake.
forjusticethunders
(1,151 posts)I've always bought into the idea that the TPP was some stealth corporate cash grab that would backdoor privatize the entire world but honestly I don't know anymore. The professional "Left" has lied about just about everything else.
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)too late - not that not reporting it earlier gave either Orangeman or Fingerwagger any leverage. And yes, I do recall people posting and tweeting that Sanders-fiasco at Plaza Mexico. i remember that because it made me smile ear-to-ear.
Cha
(305,137 posts)BlueCali! March 16, 2016~
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)caught up pimping Orangeglow to be bothered with reporting the real news. Then again, U.$. Media have always gone after the Clintons with a vengeance. It's what we get when billionaires and their pals can buy up our cable, broadcast, and radio stations, leaving us with no true 4th Estate outside of social media - something Republicans have been fighting to tear away as well.
But thanks to the appellate court yesterday, their attempts to buy up our internet and decide what we get to hear and read was defeated by the Obama Admin! WoooHOOOO! I'm certain President Obama knows fully well how skewed the traditional M$M have become and stopped them dead in their tracks from taking over the only resource you and I and others turn to to get real news!
And although this is good news, we can't really celebrate yet since AT&T vows to take it to the U.S. Supreme Court - hence another solid reason to ensure we have Hillary Clinton in the White House so we'll either get Merrick Garland on the bench before then or another justice of her choosing, and that she can nominate the replacements for Bader-Ginsberg, Breyer, and possibly also, Kennedy! THEN we can crow ever loudly and ever happily that we've finally shattered that thick but cracked glass ceiling and that there'll be justice for ALL!
Cha
(305,137 posts)Good point.. Hillary in the White House and a Democratic Congress for Net Neutrality!
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)the moment now because of Orlando and because...well, I just love the man. But yes, President Obama deserves the credit for fighting discrimination against our LGBTQ brothers and sisters, and for stopping billionaire propagandists from buying up and controlling our internet use, and for his fiery condemnation of Orangeglow's anti-Muslim rhetoric because of what happened in Orlando.
Cha
(305,137 posts)Thank you!
forjusticethunders
(1,151 posts)My gratitude and admiration for Obama regarding LGBT issues, particularly trans issues and representation, cannot be overstated.
Her Sister
(6,444 posts)To read soon!
caquillo
(521 posts)Along with the addresses of "Brother" and 'Sister."
BlueMTexpat
(15,493 posts)paid more attention to the text than to the photos. But you're right - some of them give off some strange vibes.
And "Jesus" was apparently a "regular."
caquillo
(521 posts)"Or don't vote" what?
BlueMTexpat
(15,493 posts)but some of the first ideas that came to mind are not at all pretty.
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)where I had to join them with black ink in order to cast my vote for a candidate. I guess that's what he's trying to convey.
BlueMTexpat
(15,493 posts)would support that theory.
caquillo
(521 posts)BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)BootinUp
(48,918 posts)TexasTowelie
(116,573 posts)"throwing in the towel." If they can't lift me, then how are they going to throw me anywhere?