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Voice for Peace

Voice for Peace's Journal
Voice for Peace's Journal
April 6, 2016

What was H protesting in her 20's?

She mentioned protesting in her 20's... What was her cause?

April 6, 2016

Bernie outsourced the NYC jobs to Vermont?

So confusing

April 6, 2016

My view of her at that time, while I was living in DC,

up close to the world of greed cheat deceit hypocrisy lobbyists lawyers politicians egomaniacs. She was pure one pointed ambition for the white house and was imo wormy, sleazy, pretentious. The Clintons have consistently surprised & disappointed. I'm however beginning to admire them in a new way, but more in the bonnie & clyde vein than as respectable citizens. A couple of clever kids rise out of the boonies and pull off the longest running most successful american hustle in history. A great movie one day no doubt.

April 6, 2016

Yes! no doubt New Yorkers are dumb enough to believe Bernie is responsible for crime in NY.

She' ll EASILY fool those uninformed voters, no doubt.

Those attack points are so compelling, convincing, upsetting, disturbing!!

April 6, 2016

All the New Yorkers I know, native born

are voting for Bernie. Don't trust Clintons.
Jewish dem-socialist-activists going way back.

April 6, 2016

As the junior Senator from Vermont, Bernie armed the Gangs of New York

and laughed about it with Fidel Castro.

April 5, 2016

...

I hope there is a Ghost of Interventions Past
who will awaken Hilary in the night and
'splain a few things to her.

April 4, 2016

Here is a bit

I accessed through the Opinion link at the site:

Charles M. Blow
There are two prominent features of the Democratic Party’s presidential selection process that are thoroughly undemocratic and undermine faith in the party: superdelegates (which favor Hillary Clinton) and caucuses (which favor Bernie Sanders).

As the New York Times editorial board explained: “Superdelegates are party bigwigs — 712 Democratic leaders, legislators, governors and the like. They can vote for any candidate at the nominating convention, regardless of whether that candidate won the popular vote. These unpledged delegates make up 30 percent of the 2,382 delegates whose votes are needed to win the nomination, and could thus make all the difference.”

Let’s start there. Superdelegates, whose votes are not bound by the millions of individual voters, make up nearly a third of the delegates that would be required to win the nomination. That, on its face, is outrageous.

It’s no surprise that superdelegates were created by establishment elites to increase their own power. Superdelegates were invented by a Democratic rule change in the early 1980s after the nomination of George McGovern in 1972 and the devastating loss of Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan in 1980, precisely to help the establishment prevent the nomination of insurgent candidates of whom the establishment disapproved. (Sanders is nothing if not an insurgent candidate.)

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