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Excellent op ed in The Huffington Post: Too Sick to Lead (Original Post) madaboutharry Jun 2016 OP
great piece Mosby Jun 2016 #1
K&R stage left Jun 2016 #2
K & R ......for visibility..nt Wounded Bear Jun 2016 #3
Important and perceptive article. Big K&R! nt riderinthestorm Jun 2016 #4
So our choice is between an obviously insane carrot-man JDPriestly Jun 2016 #5
+1000000! SammyWinstonJack Jun 2016 #10
For those of us who have voted for Senator Sanders in the primaries, what do say to us when madinmaryland Jun 2016 #12
It's long LittleGirl Jun 2016 #6
Really good read. cyberswede Jun 2016 #7
I like what someone wrote about his supporters in the comments: renate Jun 2016 #8
Good read malaise Jun 2016 #9
Spot on! smirkymonkey Jun 2016 #11

Mosby

(16,168 posts)
1. great piece
Fri Jun 3, 2016, 12:52 PM
Jun 2016

I especially like the part where he talks about the media, I hope they start listening.

I wonder if one of the cspan channels can be turned into a 24 hour news network?

That might be some motivation for cnn et al to start doing their effing jobs.

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
5. So our choice is between an obviously insane carrot-man
Fri Jun 3, 2016, 02:12 PM
Jun 2016

(could his insanity be due to too much carotene?) and a corporate hawk.

Once again, we teeter between madness and greed.

Sad.

I'm voting for Bernie Sanders on Tuesday.

I'm 73. I've been politically active since I went to grade school and wore my first button for Adlai Stevenson, and I finally get to vote for a candidate who has integrity and will stand up for the American people and not just the American oligarchs.

I present to you Bernie Sanders, an ordinary guy but for his policy wonkiness, from the small, mostly white state of Vermont. I'm proud to be voting for him on Tuesday, prouder of my vote for him than for any vote in my life.

Bernie Sanders is the most positive, most delightful, most himself candidate we have ever had. And his policy proposals are the best thought out, the most intelligent, the most needed that I have heard in all my life.

I say this with certainty: 20 years from now, many of you who have or will vote for Hillary will look back at your vote this year and ask yourselves how you could have made such a big mistake.

Well. You did make that mistake, and you will pay for it long after I am out of this world. Unfortunately, so will my children and grandchildren.

For shame.

madinmaryland

(64,920 posts)
12. For those of us who have voted for Senator Sanders in the primaries, what do say to us when
Fri Jun 3, 2016, 07:15 PM
Jun 2016

we vote for Secretary of State Clinton in the General Election? Obviously that is an assumption the SoS Clinton will be the nominee.

Just asking.

LittleGirl

(8,261 posts)
6. It's long
Fri Jun 3, 2016, 02:20 PM
Jun 2016

but worth the read. It's packed full of facts and a strong objection to what trump could do and is doing. The Media fed him and we need to stop him, everyone.

cyberswede

(26,117 posts)
7. Really good read.
Fri Jun 3, 2016, 02:31 PM
Jun 2016

...especially his condemnation of the GOP and the media.

First, the Republican Party. For too long it fed the GOP’s middle and working class base easy scapegoats - Washington, minorities - while the Paul Ryans of the party contravened its voters’ interests: pushing free trade, reduced entitlements, and tax cuts for the rich. Trump is what happened to the party when its electorate spat this pablum out.

Even more contemptible is the party’s embrace of Trump. For we have reached, as David Brooks wrote, the GOP’s “McCarthy moment” - a turning point when concern for country should override grubby pragmatism. Except this reckoning is even more pressing - Joe McCarthy was not running for president; Donald Trump is. We cannot - must not - invest him with this power.


and

But, with honorable exceptions, the broadcast media has been even more shameful and complicit. Worst of all is cable news -in pursuit of revenue and ratings, they have given Trump $3 billion in free advertising, feeding his candidacy - and his ego - by spreading the mythology of his imperviousness and power.

Wallowing in self interest, they have shrunk from saying what must be said: that Trump is unfit for higher office. Instead, they have breathlessly parsed his every move as if he were something grander, yet more normal, than a mentally disordered demagogue bereft of principles and starved for adulation.

renate

(13,776 posts)
8. I like what someone wrote about his supporters in the comments:
Fri Jun 3, 2016, 03:15 PM
Jun 2016

"He is their Oz."

(Props to Dave Beemon for using his real name to leave a comment.)

The article is very well written, too. It's impossible to put into words how bizarre and infuriating Trump is, but this author comes extremely close.

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