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quickesst's JournalCan you imagine...
... ever thinking to yourself: " if Hillary Clinton is not the Democratic nominee, I'm just going to give up and not lift a finger to keep Trump and the Republicans out of the White House"? I can't. Just a late night, before sleep thought.
Ahem, about Tonya Lee.....
Someone asked in another thread, " what has she done?"
http://www.bustle.com/articles/143716-spike-lees-wifes-endorsement-for-president-is-every-bit-as-important-to-note-as-her-husbands
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Spike Lee & His Wife Support Different Candidates
Spike Lee's Wife's Endorsement For President Is Every Bit As Important To Note As Her Husband's
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CATE CARREJO
6 hours ago NEWS
On Tuesday, Tonya Lewis Lee, wife of filmmaker Spike Lee, responded to the news that Lee is endorsing Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders by offering a separate endorsement of her own. "Just to be clear, while my husband @SpikeLee supports Bernie Sanders @HillaryClinton is my candidate! We need Hillary to be the next POTUS!" she posted on her Twitter and Facebook accounts. Her husband is currently featured in a Sanders radio ad aimed at South Carolina voters ahead of the state's upcoming Democratic primary on Saturday. But unlike Spike, Tonya isn't feeling the Bern
Her husband might have the more high-profile career, but Tonya Lee is a powerhouse and political insider in her own right. A native of New York City, she graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Virginia School of Law before working in a prestigious Washington, D.C. law firm. In 1992, she met her husband at the Congressional Black Caucus Weekend, and the couple has been together ever since. Tonya later started her own production company, and helped produce the award-winning documentary I Sit Where I Want: The Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education.
She has also been outspoken about public health issues prevalent in the African-American community. In 2007, Lee became the spokesperson for the Office of Minority Healths campaign A Healthy Baby Begins With You, which worked to combat the high infant mortality rate in the United States, which disproportionately affects the black community out of every 1,000 African-American babies born in the United States, 11 die in infancy. Lee also produced a short documentary to coincide with the campaign, Crisis in the Crib: Saving Our Nations Babies.
In 2012, Lee founded the website Healthy You Now, which promotes healthy living for women of color. "When it comes to women of color in general, we tend to be at the top of every bad list when it comes to our health," Lee told Black Enterprise during an interview shortly after the site launched. "I wanted to create the site to bring [public health] resources to the community."
Valentines? Aww shucks...
Thank you to whoever thought of me.
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Super delegates- the irony
Got to go into work now, but just thought I would drop this off here.
Snip:
Ironically, Tad Devine, Sanders' top adviser, who was instrumental in the creation of the superdelegate process, defended their existance.
"It's pretty hard to win a nomination in a contested race and almost impossible to win without the superdelegeates," Devine said in 2008 in an interview on NPR.
Now, Devine's boss, who is running on an anti-establishment message is losing the superdelegate race.
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/super-delegates-center-democratic-nomination-fight-again-n516891
It's just the way I see it....
....ungracious in defeat, even more so in victory. The Hillary hate still outweighs the Bernie love. They simply can't tell the difference.
Bernie's Supporters
Upon reading DU every day for the last couple of weeks, this is my impression.
Bernie's supporters after a primary loss:
Compare to....
Bernie's supporters after a primary win:
Bernie Sanders is great, but.....
Bernie Sanders is great, but.....
some of his most vocal supporters are becoming a problem
August 12, 2015 By Allen Clifton
snip:
But my biggest concern with Sanders hasnt really been that hell win the nomination, its that hell build up expectations from many liberals just enough to where if he eventually loses, its going to deflate enthusiasm and hand Republicans the White House next year. And based on how radical quite a few of his supporters have become, thats exactly what seems to be happening. If you dont believe me, let me show you what I mean. From what Ive been experiencing (and the feedback Ive gotten from many other liberals as well), many Sanders supporters are radical, aggressive and sometimes even borderline bully-ish when it comes to anyone who might dare doubt anything to do with Bernie Sanders. So, I decided to comb through the comments sections on just two articles Ive written:
5 Things Hillary Clinton Must Change About Her Campaign
5 Pros and Cons to Bernie Sanders the Presidential Candidate
Keep in mind that the following comments came from just these two articles:
Read more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/bernie-sanders-great-supporters-problem/
From August, but still relevant, if not more so, and I really don't think Sanders is all that great.
am i right about this?
we now know it haAs beeN reveALed that upOn the election of barack obama as president of the united states, the republican party vowed to halt, disrupt, or destroy any leGislation the president put forth in an effort to ruin him, and to make their partY(stop) look good. even if it was what republicans actually wanted, it was soundly fought, and rejected. It did not matter whether he was right or wrong, and it did not matter if lies, cherry picking, and distortion of facts were used to accomplish their goal. What did matter was that there were enough willfully ignorant people to buy into their crap. Thankfully enough didn't, and he was elected to a second term, although, they haven't stopped trying.
Just sayin'
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