As witnessed by the repetitively bitter and predictably fact free responses you've provoked.

As a SEIU member since 1993, I have never been polled about any political endorsements.

And our SEIU pensioners/retirees haven't had a COLA since 2002. Up until then there were Cost of Living Adjustments every 4 to 6 years.

'68, '74, '79, '84, '89, '94, '98, '02.
http://sers.pa.gov/members-COLAs.aspx

Now it has been 13+ years without a COLA. And our wimpy state SEIU website advises:
"You should plan that your pension payments will never increase in retirement."


And what have we seen during those 13 COLA-less years? A huge fucking transfer of wealth to the One Percent.

What an amazing coincidence that those are the exact years in which the Clintons increased their wealth from being "flat broke" to quote Hill, to have a personal net worth of over $80 million.
http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-politicians/presidents/bill-clinton-net-worth/

http://www.therichest.com/celebnetworth/politician/president/bill-clinton-net-worth/

Interviewed this morning on MSNBC
Published on Nov 15, 2015

Former Admiral and Congressman Joe Sestak discusses the terror attack in Paris and the needed strategic changes to defeat ISIS. http://JoeSestak.com

Source: BBC News

Former US senator Fred Thompson - who mounted an unsuccessful bid for the presidency as well as acting in films and TV - has died at the age of 73. His family said he had been suffering from lymphoma.

As a lawyer, he served as chief Republican counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee that investigated President Richard Nixon. The son of a used car salesman first achieved fame as a young lawyer for a Senate committee during the Watergate hearings in the 1970s.

His questioning of former Nixon aide Alexander Butterfield uncovered the president's secret tape recording system. He asked the vital question: "Mr Butterfield, are you aware of the installation of any listening devices in the Oval Office of the president?"

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world/us_and_canada

Franco, a Penn State alum, is shilling for a candidate ranked unqualified by the state bar association, apparently because in a lower court case she walked back some of the NCAA sanctions against Penn State arising out of the Paterno/Sandusky cesspit.

This robocall is in tandem with an ad he filmed for GOP state Supreme Court candidate, Anne Covey.
Franco Harris Films TV Ad for Anne Covey (VIDEO)

Franco Harris was part of the legendary 1970’s Pittsburgh Steelers that won four Super Bowls. Perhaps more importantly, at least when it comes to his ability to sway voters, he is a Penn State alumni.

Harris has filmed a TV ad for GOP State Supreme Court nominee Anne Covey. Despite the fact that Harris appears to be a Democrat, he did not appeal across party lines but rather provided testimony as a well-known Nittany Lion.

The running back mentioned the Penn State appeal that Covey heard and how her actions led the NCAA to walk back some of their sanctions on the university.

With this spot, Covey is appealing to PSU alumni throughout the state who feel they and their alma mater was wronged by the NCAA punishments resulting from the Sandusky scandal.
“Get on our team!,” Harris and Covey exclaim in unison at the ad’s conclusion.

http://www.politicspa.com/franco-harris-films-tv-ad-for-anne-covey-video/70165/

Earlier this year, the Pennsylvania Bar Association did not recommend Covey, a Commonwealth Court judge, for the Supreme Court post, citing misleading campaign advertising in her 2011 campaign. She rebuked the group and went on to earn one of three GOP nominations in the primary along with Michael George and Judith Olson. All three are party-endorsed candidates.

http://blog.triblive.com/orp/tag/franco-harris/

My fave example: I wash and blow dry my own hair. Get a $30 hair cut about every 6 weeks. Before retiring onto a fixed income - I'd add a $15 manicure out of sheer hedonistic indulgence.

Let us consider Mrs. Clinton, for whom only the best is barely good enough.
Bottom line, as detailed and cited below: $600 for a cut & blow dry; $600 for the dye job; 20% tip adds up to $1440. And I'll bet cash money she got a mani-pedi & eyebrow shaping/tinting as well. Plus, the whole rest of the high end salon was totally shut down for the several hours she was there. Well, thank god that none of the salon's other wealthy clients were able to sneak a FREE iphone snap of Hillary and avoid the $2700 "donation" required to have a picture taken with her at one of her "Conversations with Hillary" gated-estate soirees. I hope she actually paid from her personal wealth for her cut & dye job. Since the whole salon was closed down for several hours, who made up the difference in income for all the other salon stylists/shampoo givers/manicurists/masseuses, etc.?

Also for your consideration - no waiting in line for Black Friday specials for Hill. She expects and receives the very special treatment of having an upscale store like Bergdorf's open early to provide her with exclusive private access for shopping. If Bergdorf's was in the UK, it would have a Purveyors to the Crown/Royal Warrant logo in all its' advertisements.

Hillary Clinton goes on private shopping spree at Bergdorf’s

Hillary Clinton went on a private shopping spree at Bergdorf Goodman early Tuesday morning, sparking further speculation that she’s suiting up for a 2016 presidential run.

Hillary was spotted entering the posh department store by a side entrance at 9 a.m., with a small entourage of security and assistants. . .Bergdorf Goodman opens to the public at 10 a.m.

http://pagesix.com/2014/02/05/hillary-clinton-goes-on-private-shopping-spree-at-bergdorfs/

http://cleburnepress.com/2015/07/30/hillary-clinton-closed-part-of-bergdorf-goodman-in-new-york-for-600-haircut-daily-mail-online/

Hillary Clinton closed part of Bergdorf Goodman in New York for $600 haircut | Daily Mail Online

Part of Bergdorf Goodman on Fifth Avenue was put out of action on Friday
Would-be Democratic presidential nominee arrived with large entourage
Entered by side entrance before heading for exclusive John Barrett salon
Entire elevator bank shut down so Clinton could see regular hairdresser privately

Headline: Hillary Clinton closed part of a swanky New York department store so she could have a $600 haircut.



Editor’s Questions: Does Hillary feel the pain of the unemployed and the under employed? Does she understand that approximately half of all graduating collage seniors can’t find employment in the field they have their major? What has Hillary promised to do to bring jobs back onshore from China and other American job killing nations?

My comment:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barrett_%28salon%29

So $600 for the cut & blow dry; $600 for the dye job; 20% tip adds up to $1440. And I'll bet cash money she got a mani-pedi & eyebrow shaping/tinting as well.

http://cleburnepress.com/2015/07/30/hillary-clinton-closed-part-of-bergdorf-goodman-in-new-york-for-600-haircut-daily-mail-online/

Hillary Clinton closed part of Bergdorf Goodman in New York for $600 haircut | Daily Mail Online

Part of Bergdorf Goodman on Fifth Avenue was put out of action on Friday
Would-be Democratic presidential nominee arrived with large entourage
Entered by side entrance before heading for exclusive John Barrett salon
Entire elevator bank shut down so Clinton could see regular hairdresser privately

Headline: Hillary Clinton closed part of a swanky New York department store so she could have a $600 haircut.

The article reports that a cut & blow dry at the John Barrett salon costs $600 and getting your hair colored can cost as much again. It also points out it is not known whether she actually paid for services, and if so, how much. If money did change hands, was it a "campaign cost"?

Part of Bergdorf Goodman on Fifth Avenue was put out of action on Friday while the would-be Democratic presidential nominee arrived with her large entourage. The former Secretary of State and her group were seen entering the building by a side entrance before heading for the exclusive John Barrett salon, according to the New York Post.

The salon is on the ninth floor of the department store. A source told the paper: ‘Staff closed off one side of Bergdorf’s so Hillary could come in privately to get her hair done.’ An elevator bank was shut down so she could ride up alone, and then she was styled in a private area of the salon. The store has four elevators close to the 58th Street exit that go to the salon. ‘Other customers didn’t get a glimpse.

Clinton is a regular client.

Editor’s Questions: Does Hillary feel the pain of the unemployed and the under employed? Does she understand that approximately half of all graduating collage seniors can’t find employment in the field they have their major? What has Hillary promised to do to bring jobs back onshore from China and other American job killing nations?

My comment: Well, thank god that none of the salon's other wealthy clients were able to sneak a FREE iphone snap of Hillary and avoid the $2700 "donation" required to have a picture taken with her at one of her "Conversations with Hillary" gated-estate soirees. I hope she actually paid from her personal wealth for her cut & dye job. But since the whole salon was closed down for serveral hours, who made up the difference in income for all the other salon stylists/shampoo givers/manicurists/masseuses, etc.?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barrett_%28salon%29

Cabinet appointment? VP slot? I expect he drove a very hard bargain.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/bill-de-blasio-hillary-clinton-nyc-launch-rally-118825

De Blasio will skip Hillary Clinton's launch rally
(headline)

Hillary Clinton has planned a lavish campaign kickoff on New York City’s Roosevelt Island this Saturday, but one of the Big Apple’s Democratic heavyweights isn’t attending.

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s press secretary confirmed to POLITICO Wednesday that the New York Democrat would not attend the rally. “I’m waiting to hear…her larger vision to addressing income inequality,” de Blasio said when asked about the event by Capital New York’s Azi Paybarah.

De Blasio has thus far refused to endorse Clinton, despite having managed her successful U.S. Senate campaign in 2000, and has kept his distance from the former secretary of state’s nascent campaign.

The New York mayor also did not attend another major Clinton speech in his backyard in late April. Then, the former secretary of state made headlines in an appearance at New York’s Columbia University for declaring that “it’s time to end the era of mass incarceration” and coming out against many of her husband’s 1990s-era criminal justice policies.

De Blasio has sought to establish himself as a national progressive leader in his first year in office, leading calls for raising the minimum wage and aligning himself with progressive favorites like Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Earlier this year de Blasio, Warren and Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz unveiled a 13-point “Progressive Agenda to Combat Income Inequality” in an attempt to outline a leftward agenda before the 2016 campaign fully takes off.

http://nypost.com/2015/06/15/de-blasio-still-waiting-on-hillarys-vision/

De Blasio says Hillary Clinton lacks 'vision' (Headline)

Even after delivering a campaign speech packed with eat-the-rich rhetoric, Hillary Clinton was still unable Sunday to win an endorsement from her far-left-leaning former protégé, Mayor Bill de Blasio.

“I’ve been waiting to hear a vision,” de Blasio said. “She’s doing more each time to give us a clearer picture, and I’m very optimistic, but we’ve got to see the plan of how she’s going to turn around this horrible income-inequality problem.”

In her Saturday campaign kickoff rally on Roosevelt Island, Clinton pledged support for gay rights, universal pre-K, paid family leave and higher wages for workers — all while vowing to keep corporate CEOs and hedge-fund managers in check.

But it wasn’t enough for de Blasio, who seeks to be a progressive kingmaker.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ilanbenmeir/peter-king-de-blasios-absence-from-clinton-rally-a-knife-in#.hcO6jJvzd

Peter King: De Blasio’s Absence From Clinton Rally “A Knife In The Back”

“She’s saying all the things now that de Blasio is saying. I guess de Blasio’s answer is that he really means them, and she doesn’t.”

I'd like to see a book analyzing the Clintons, co-authored by Machiavelli, Freud & Shakespeare.

Of course posts like yours will not dissuade true believers/"strong supporters" of the Clintons, but they are read by and given serious consideration by the many who follow DU without joining or posting.

So be not discouraged by "the swarm" when you post on DU. Their very sarcastic responses on any thread are testimony to the fact that posts critical of HRC qua presidential candidate have hit too close for their comfort.

Or as Sheldon would say, Bazinga!

Bill Clinton was a serial adulterer.

Sure, I know women who choose to look the other way, but they had the luxury of that option because their husbands/partners had the class to keep their infidelities on the down low - and I can understand it if wives traded financial security for self respect, and/or had so little sense of self-worth and ability to make a decent living on their own that they hung onto their marriage/meal ticket. And I do know one couple where the wife raised holy hell, threatened to bankrupt hubby in the divorce and they got counseling and the marriage seems to have survived without any further infidelities on his part.

But here we have Hillary, with her Ivy law degree. Bill joked she was making more money than he was when she was a partner in the Rose law firm and he was governor. She's extremely bright and could have made a very lucrative living on her own. Perhaps she'd even have found a second husband who would not treat her so shabbily. Forgive the guy once? Fine. But repeatedly? Her choice, but don't give me any garbage that she's a feminist.


Then there's this: PBS film eyes Clinton


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2012/01/pbs-docu-eyes-clinton-womanizing-071382#ixzz3pa5lvslq

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/33223-know-it-to-the-bone
(excerpts)

It is getting dark earlier and earlier in the evenings here, and staying dark later in the mornings. The weather during the daylight hours has been gorgeous - cobalt blue skies, warm sun, cool wind - which makes the ever-earlier departure of the sun all the more poignant. The leaves are turning finally and fast, delayed by a warm September. The goldenrod is gone from the back yard, and battalions of turkeys strut the land.

I am going to miss my sepia dawns, and will have to spend my time now with the dark. That's cool. As Dr. Seuss said, don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened. It happened, and my dawns will return after a budget of cold and snow. In the meantime, I will wait.

I will sit in the dark and think of my friend Brian, and of everyone who has lost someone dear. I will try to figure out how to convince people - one at a time, for as long as it takes - that this isn't working, that blunted indifference is the wellspring of sorrow to the tall profit of a few. Because it is how it is does not mean this is always how it has to be. I believe that. I know it to the bone. I will sit in my dark, and when the sun climbs over the mountain, I will get back to work.

I am a very patient man.