May 30, 2016

Rise, Hillary. Rise.

Rise, Hillary, Rise – A Poem By Maya Angelou (April 4, 1928 - May 28, 2014)

Posted on January 19, 2008

You may write me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies,

You may tread me in the very dirt

But still, like dust, I'll rise.

This is not the first time you have seen Hillary Clinton seemingly at her wits' end, but she has always risen, always risen, don't forget she has always risen, much to the dismay of her adversaries and the delight of her friends.

Hillary Clinton will not give up on you and all she asks of you is that you do not give up on her.

There is a world of difference between being a woman and being an old female. If you're born a girl, grow up, and live long enough, you can become an old female. But to become a woman is a serious matter. A woman takes responsibility for the time she takes up and the space she occupies. Hillary Clinton is a woman. She has been there and done that and has still risen. She is in this race for the long haul. She intends to make a difference in our country. Hillary Clinton intends to help our country to be what it can become.

She declares she wants to see more smiles in the family, more courtesies between men and women, more honesty in the marketplace. She is the prayer of every woman and man who longs for fair play, healthy families, good schools, and a balanced economy.

She means to rise.

Don't give up on Hillary. In fact, if you help her to rise, you will rise with her and help her make this country the wonderful, wonderful place where every man and every woman can live freely without sanctimonious piety and without crippling fear.

Rise, Hillary.

Rise.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jan/20/usa.poetry

May 30, 2016

Clinton teeters on brink of nomination with superdelegates

Clinton teeters on brink of nomination with superdelegates
Hope Yen, Associated Press Updated 1:35 am, Wednesday, May 25, 2016

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton is closing in fast on the Democratic presidential nomination with the help of superdelegates.

After losing three of four state contests in May, Clinton has maintained a lead over Bernie Sanders of 271 pledged delegates won in primaries and caucuses.

She also continues to pick up much more support from superdelegates, the party leaders who can back any candidate of their choice, dampening Sanders' chances further even as he insists he can win them over later this summer. In the last week, Clinton picked up 12 new superdelegate endorsements while Sanders netted two, according to an Associated Press survey.

When including superdelegates, Clinton's lead grows to 2,305, or 97 percent of the 2,383 delegates needed to win the nomination.
The Democratic primaries are now in a two-week break. They resume in the Virgin Islands on June 4 and Puerto Rico on June 5, with 67 delegates at stake.
Just 78 delegates short, Clinton remains on a glide path to reaching 2,383 on June 7 after polls close at 8 p.m. EDT in New Jersey.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/Delegate-math-How-Clinton-wraps-up-nomination-by-7941497.php?cmpid=twitter-mobile

May 29, 2016

Go Barney......

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May 29, 2016

Of Sanders’s highest-paid employees, 10 are male and zero are female:

Speaking of campaign advisors.....

http://theslot.jezebel.com/an-investigation-which-presidential-campaigns-have-the-1762895557

Of Clinton’s highest-paid employees, six are male and four are female:

Jennifer Palmieri, Director of Communications, $138,412.04
Maura Keefe, Director of Congressional Affairs, $130,068.54
Jacob Sullivan, Senior Policy Adviser, $124,001.16
Michael Vlacich, NH State Director, $120,668.16
Dennis Cheng, Finance Director, $119,928.16
Robert Mook, Campaign Manager, $119,919.76
Oren Shur, Director of Paid Media, $117,753.12
Amanda Renteria, Political Director, $117,711.16
Marlon Marshall, Director of State Campaigns and Political Engagement, $116,685.68
Elizabeth Jones, Chief Operating Officer, $115,974.24

The campaign did not respond to request for comment.

Rich Pelletier, Field Director, $120,897.68
Jeffrey Weaver, Campaign Manager, $118,745.92
Michael Briggs, Communications Director, $102,640.68
Richard Eskow, Writer and Editor, $87,757.60
Jose Miranda, Arizona Director, $85,094.40
Arturo Carmona, Latino Outreach Director, $84,911.68
Marcus Ferrell, African American Outreach Director and SE Political Director, $82,895.20
Warren Gunnels, Senior Policy Advisor, $82,068.28
Jacob Limon, Texas State Director, $81,304.68
Marc Levitt, Director of Scheduling and Advance, $79,056.08
The campaign did not respond to request for comment.

May 29, 2016

Failure of Burlington College is a big problem for Bernie and Jane Sanders

Failure of Burlington College is a big problem for Bernie and Jane Sanders

By James Hohmann May 17 THE BIG IDEA: Burlington College is feeling the burn.

Bernie Sanders is huge on college campuses—or yuuuuge, as he likes to say—but the small private school in Vermont that his wife, Jane, ran for seven years announced yesterday that it will shutter because of “the crushing weight” of debt incurred under her leadership.

Burlington College said its financial troubles are connected to Mrs. Sanders’s 2010 purchase of 32 acres of lakefront property, part of a botched expansion plan. The college was placed on academic probation in 2014 by its accrediting agency and it faced cash flow problems due to the imminent loss of a line of credit, The Post’s Nick Anderson reports. To survive, the school has tried to sell land but it was not enough to remain solvent.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2016/05/17/daily-202-failure-of-burlington-college-is-a-big-problem-for-bernie-and-jane-sanders/573a388c981b92a22d837b46/?tid=hybrid_collaborative_1_na--

The Sanders campaign has ignored repeated requests for comment on Burlington College’s failure. The uncharacteristic silence is telling.

May 29, 2016

Hillary Clinton is now ahead of Donald Trump in revised Rasmussen poll..

Hillary Clinton is now ahead of Donald Trump in revised Rasmussen poll, but will anyone report it?
By Bill Palmer | May 28, 2016 |

For the past week, cable news has been nearly obsessed with the May 18th Rasmussen poll which placed Donald Trump five points ahead of Hillary Clinton in early nationwide general election polling. The media largely failed to mention that this was an outlier poll standing in contrast with the majority of national polls, which instead showed Clinton slightly ahead of Trump. One false narrative after another was constructed as to why Hillary was suddenly “falling behind” when that hadn’t actually happened. Now that narrative is in even more trouble, as this week’s newly revised Rasmussen poll now has Clinton ahead.

So what changed? That’s not entirely clear. The official statement from Rasmussen Reports acknowledges the six point swing in a six day period, but doesn’t attempt to explain the shift. The margin of error for the poll is plus or minus three points, meaning the six point differential can just barely be explained away based on statistics rather than sentiment.

http://www.dailynewsbin.com/opinion/hillary-clinton-pulls-ahead-of-donald-trump-in-rasmussen-poll/24898/

White House Watch: Clinton 40%, Trump 39%

May 28, 2016

quick! Sanders rally or Trump rally?

Eric Boehlert ?@EricBoehlert 4h4 hours ago
quick! Sanders rally or Trump rally?

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May 28, 2016

Bernie Sanders Warns Hillary Clinton on Running Mate Pick

http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/bernie-sanders-warns-hillary-clinton-running-mate-pick-n582196?cid=sm_twitter_feed_politics


MEET THE PRESS MAY 28 2016, 6:23 PM ET
Bernie Sanders Warns Hillary Clinton on Running Mate Pick
by JORDAN FRASIER
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Senator Bernie Sanders doubled down on his warning to democratic rival Hillary Clinton that her pick for running mate will be critical to winning over his supporters going into the general election during an interview to air Sunday on "Meet the Press."....

The Vermont senator was adamant that Clinton pick a hardline progressive for vice president if she successfully secures the Democratic nomination for president. This could help her appeal to the supporters who have flocked to Sanders' campaign during the primary.

May 28, 2016

A Sander's Supporter has Admitted to faking Video (Updated 8:00pm EST)

For all the people blaming this on Hillary supporters.

http://americablog.com/2016/05/sanders-plays-kill-gays-rap-song-ca-rally.html

UPDATE: A Sanders supporter has admitted to faking the video of Bernie Sanders arriving on stage in California earlier this week to a homophobic rap song about killing gay and trans people.

The Sanders supporter claims he made the fake video in order to intentionally trick voters as a form of “social experiment.” He issued a statement, which concluded “Congratulations, you played yourself.”

No, congratulations to you, young man. You just ticked off thousands of people online with a story that seriously hurt your candidate, and is now going to be very difficult to pu

5/28/16 11:17am by John Aravosis 15

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders this week played a song at one of his California rallies that mocks transgender people and calls for gays to be shot.

Politico, BET, the Root, Billboard others reported that Sanders entered the rally in Lancaster, California on May 25, playing the song “Where the hood at?” by rapper DMX.

Here’s a video of Sanders’ entrance. I have a copy of it, in case it gets pulled. Interestingly, you’ll see Sanders come on stage right when the music turns to “niggaz” having sex “with the SAME sex.”

May 28, 2016

Bill Safire has shuffled off this mortal coil and HRC is taking the world by storm...

I hear so many posters marveling at the NYT's critisism of Clinton. Not sure where ya'll have been for the last 20 years but this is nothing new. In fact, it is same ol' same ol'...

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/08/opinion/essay-blizzard-of-lies.html

Blizzard of Lies
By WILLIAM SAFIRE
Published: January 8, 1996

Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our First Lady -- a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many in her generation -- is a congenital liar.

Drip by drip, like Whitewater torture, the case is being made that she is compelled to mislead, and to ensnare her subordinates and friends in a web of deceit...

In the aftermath of the apparent suicide of her former partner and closest confidant, White House Deputy Counsel Vincent Foster, she ordered the overturn of an agreement to allow the Justice Department to examine the files in the dead man's office. Her closest friends and aides, under oath, have been blatantly disremembering this likely obstruction of justice, and may have to pay for supporting Hillary's lie with jail terms......


Therefore, ask not "Why didn't she just come clean at the beginning?" She had good reasons to lie; she is in the longtime habit of lying; and she has never been called to account for lying herself or in suborning lying in her aides and friends.