Pivoting to the center doesn't help if you've been surrounded.
The Median Voter is the power behind the throne “Leadership” is about moving to where the voters are If you've ever taken a political science class, you've probably seen the graph on the right. It’s a...
View ArticleForget Castro and the Minutemen, this is the one that angered me.
Why does she do this?Politifact on Clean Power PlanThis angers me much more than smears and half-truths about 30 year old policy and 10 year old votes on obscure amendments. This is current, this is...
View Article“Responding to Clinton Barb, Sanders Blasts US Imperialism in Latin America”
“Responding to Clinton Barb, Sanders Blasts US Imperialism in Latin America”Deirdre Fulton, staff writerCommon DreamsThursday, March 10, 2016 'The key issue here was whether the United States should go...
View ArticleI Was Aquainted With Hillary Many Years Ago
This is not going to be a long or political diary. I just wanted to be a character witness for Secretary Clinton, whom I was lucky to be aquainted with in Arkansas in the 1980s. I used that picture...
View ArticleAwesome Turnout at Sanders' Tampa Rally (video)
crowd getting AMPED! Third rally in Florida today people are starting to FEEL THE BERN!!!! x YouTube VideoFull rally can be seen here: x YouTube Video Now it is your turn Sign up to...
View ArticleCurry: It Should Be Over For Hillary
Another great opinion/analysis piece from Bill Curry, published the other day at Salon: It Should Be Over for Hillary: Party Elites and MSNBC Can’t Prop Her Up After Bernie’s Michigan Miracle. A few...
View ArticleMiami Herald On Dem Debate: HRC = mostly false; BS = mostly true
From time to time I like to check in with newspapers from around the country to try and get a sense of how the election’s being covered from the perspective of a more casual follower of politics in...
View ArticleBernie supported gay rights -- 32 years ago!
In 1983, while the Reagan Administration was denying the existence of the AIDS epidemic, Bernie Sanders stood up for the gay community in Burlington, Vermont casting the deciding 6-5 vote to allow the...
View ArticleWall Street expert Asher Edelman shocks CNBC: Bernie Sanders is best for the...
Asher Edelman, a Wall Street financial expert, explains with economics in very simple term why Bernie Sander is better for the economy. It was evident that he caught some of the wards of the plutocracy...
View ArticleWidening Circles: A Case for Bernie Sanders
[also posting at NoIWillNotYield.com] I've been thinking lately of circles radiating outward, like ripples on a pond.The great poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote: I live my life in widening circles that...
View ArticleWest Coast Berning for Bernie Bigtime!
West coasters are putting their money where their heart is.The Seattle Times heartily endorsed Senator Sanders for President surprising everyone except the people who actually live there. Gene Balk’s...
View ArticleHillary Clinton credits Reagans as a positive force on HIV/AIDS awareness
You can’t make this stuff up. And I did not make it up. See and hear for yourself. Reagan’s refusal to even say “AIDS” or “HIV” until the very end of his term is well documented. And here’s Nancy's...
View ArticleUPDATED: protesters shut down Trump rally
UPDATE: I’ve been persuaded to uncouple this from Bernie. It has nothing to do with his campaign and shouldn’t be associated, though that was never my intent. I’m simply proud that there are protesters...
View ArticleIs Hillary Clinton Running a Real Campaign? [updt]
x Hillary Clinton: The Reagans, particularly Nancy, helped start "a national conversation" about HIV and AIDS. https://t.co/7sZp8X53fb— MSNBC (@MSNBC) March 11, 2016Full — unprompted — statement:“It...
View ArticleWhat We Might Conclude From Hillary's Reagan AIDS Gaffe
This latest misspeak was a big one for Hillary Clinton. There’s only one other gaffe that she has made that I am aware of that is of a similar magnitude and which causes the same underlying unease and...
View ArticleOhio Rep. Marcy Kaptur endorses Bernie Sanders! BAM!
Link: www.nytimes.com/…Today, Marcy Kaptur, excellent progressive U.S. Representative from Ohio, endorsed Bernie Sanders in Toledo, Ohio, while introducing one of Bernie’s speeches!Also at the Toledo...
View ArticleIs the Front Page REALLY going to ignore what Hillary said about Reagan and...
I arrived in New York City in 1987. As anyone who lived there will remember, one of the lasting memories of the period is of the steady parade of funerals you went to. There was always the friend of...
View ArticleSo Tell Me, How Do You Make Up for a Move this Bad?
I have no idea why Secretary Clinton said what she said. Campaigner’s fatigue, preemptive pivot to the center, historical amnesia. No idea. That’s not the point of this post.That a political pro could...
View ArticleTake Two: Second time's the Charm on NBC
As has been reported here and here, Hillary Clinton made a major mistake earlier today, while being interviewed by Andrea Mitchell on the her memories/tributes of the Reagans.For whatever unfathomable...
View ArticleSanders just gained about 6 statewide delegates in Polk County, Iowa (Clinton...
Note that this is a fast breaking story which will probably contain updates in the future.Whatever the reason (switched votes, bad original counting by the party, people not showing up), when delegates...
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