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July 14, 2015
Posted: 07/05/2015 10:50 am EDT Updated: 5 hours ago
Democratic presidential candidate and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) offered a first glimpse on Sunday of some of the people he might consider for his cabinet in a potential Sanders administration, and a few that he certainly won't.
"My cabinet would not be dominated by representatives of Wall Street," Sanders said on CNN's "State of the Union." "I think Wall Street's played a horrendous role in recent years, in negatively impacting our economy and in making the rich richer. There are a lot of great public servants out there, great economists who for years have been standing up for the middle class and the working families of this country."
Prompted by host Jake Tapper, Sanders went on to praise Paul Krugman, the New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist. Krugman is a vocal opponent of tax cuts for the rich, and he has warned readers for years about the dangers of income inequality. "Krugman does a great job," Sanders said.
Also doing a great job, Sanders said, is Columbia University economics professor and Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, whose recent work has focused on the perils of radical free markets, such as those espoused by some in the libertarian wing of the GOP.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/05/bernie-sanders-cabinet_n_7730208.html
to Jefferson23:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251426778
I've said for a while, since HRC helped fund Bernie's Senate run, they don't have core differences. They merely have a difference in how to get to the same goals. They both support Israel, with Bernie being the one who elucidated his best, saying they protected us from ISIS, who he says must be wiped out.
He's not against sending tax dollars to defense corporations or funding wars he may not have approved of; he's even for using drones to prevent employing ground troops, but not ready to leave the theater of war in the Middle East. He voted for the bombing of Kosovo, too.
They're both for public schools, unions, free college and pre-school; increasing taxes on the rich and expanding the social safety net; and rebuilding infrastructure, both physical and social; they both see working on climate change and more positive foreign policy as goals.
There are other similiarities. I'm comfortable whatever either of them do. Clinton has been closer to seeing the responsibilities of POTUS. Let's not delude ourselves that voting for POTUS is voting for the Prince of Peace. That eagle holds olive leaves in one claw and arrows in the other.
I see him as just as 'hawkish' as she is but he seems less open about his foreign policy than she has been. After all, she was SoS and followed Obama's orders to keep us out of warfare not bound by treaties. Both support NATO.
Add to that, the GOP has long framed Clinton because of her community organizing, push for the rights of women and children; and other things that Democrats want, as a wild eyed socialist. A democratic socialist, with universal coverage of social services.
She has had to deal with the Gingrich majority and the Bush years. And then the Tea Party but less directly. The Koch front groups have been working on the American mind to get them to distrust and loathe her as much as Rush and RW fundies do. As Mike Malloy said:
"Clinton haters are the scum of the Earth."
Most of us who were of age when Bill was elected, saw the Starr Chamber, its intimidation and persecution of those who didn't say what they wanted them to say, terrorizing people and destroying lives, in order to derail his agenda, then shut down the government causing people to die, literally, and all they did to degrade the office of the POTUS, know just what has been said and done.
And virtually all the cable and radio pundits that made their start in media going after Bill daily, along with RW fundies, are still influencing the mind. This is the machine going after her, and it's just as effective as it has been since the Nixon era. I'm sure the RW cabal has not forgotten that HRC was right up there in D.C. trying to get Nixon impeached, but he resigned and was immediately pardoned by Ford.
And so they got away with it. I'm not content to let them get away with it again.
Well, his days of fame seem numbered now:
Bernie Sanders Hints At What A Sanders Administration Cabinet Could Look LikePosted: 07/05/2015 10:50 am EDT Updated: 5 hours ago
Democratic presidential candidate and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) offered a first glimpse on Sunday of some of the people he might consider for his cabinet in a potential Sanders administration, and a few that he certainly won't.
"My cabinet would not be dominated by representatives of Wall Street," Sanders said on CNN's "State of the Union." "I think Wall Street's played a horrendous role in recent years, in negatively impacting our economy and in making the rich richer. There are a lot of great public servants out there, great economists who for years have been standing up for the middle class and the working families of this country."
Prompted by host Jake Tapper, Sanders went on to praise Paul Krugman, the New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist. Krugman is a vocal opponent of tax cuts for the rich, and he has warned readers for years about the dangers of income inequality. "Krugman does a great job," Sanders said.
Also doing a great job, Sanders said, is Columbia University economics professor and Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, whose recent work has focused on the perils of radical free markets, such as those espoused by some in the libertarian wing of the GOP.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/05/bernie-sanders-cabinet_n_7730208.html
to Jefferson23:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251426778
I've said for a while, since HRC helped fund Bernie's Senate run, they don't have core differences. They merely have a difference in how to get to the same goals. They both support Israel, with Bernie being the one who elucidated his best, saying they protected us from ISIS, who he says must be wiped out.
He's not against sending tax dollars to defense corporations or funding wars he may not have approved of; he's even for using drones to prevent employing ground troops, but not ready to leave the theater of war in the Middle East. He voted for the bombing of Kosovo, too.
They're both for public schools, unions, free college and pre-school; increasing taxes on the rich and expanding the social safety net; and rebuilding infrastructure, both physical and social; they both see working on climate change and more positive foreign policy as goals.
There are other similiarities. I'm comfortable whatever either of them do. Clinton has been closer to seeing the responsibilities of POTUS. Let's not delude ourselves that voting for POTUS is voting for the Prince of Peace. That eagle holds olive leaves in one claw and arrows in the other.
I see him as just as 'hawkish' as she is but he seems less open about his foreign policy than she has been. After all, she was SoS and followed Obama's orders to keep us out of warfare not bound by treaties. Both support NATO.
Add to that, the GOP has long framed Clinton because of her community organizing, push for the rights of women and children; and other things that Democrats want, as a wild eyed socialist. A democratic socialist, with universal coverage of social services.
She has had to deal with the Gingrich majority and the Bush years. And then the Tea Party but less directly. The Koch front groups have been working on the American mind to get them to distrust and loathe her as much as Rush and RW fundies do. As Mike Malloy said:
"Clinton haters are the scum of the Earth."
Most of us who were of age when Bill was elected, saw the Starr Chamber, its intimidation and persecution of those who didn't say what they wanted them to say, terrorizing people and destroying lives, in order to derail his agenda, then shut down the government causing people to die, literally, and all they did to degrade the office of the POTUS, know just what has been said and done.
And virtually all the cable and radio pundits that made their start in media going after Bill daily, along with RW fundies, are still influencing the mind. This is the machine going after her, and it's just as effective as it has been since the Nixon era. I'm sure the RW cabal has not forgotten that HRC was right up there in D.C. trying to get Nixon impeached, but he resigned and was immediately pardoned by Ford.
And so they got away with it. I'm not content to let them get away with it again.
July 13, 2015
Because it's the new American Exceptionalism. We're the most evil thing on the planet. USA USA USA!
Strange how that belief system comes up in all situations. No other country ever did anything bad, they're not capable of such stunning evil.
No, we're the experts, the rest of the world knows nothing. We're responsible for all that happened, even before this nation was a glint in the Founding Fathers' eyes.
Look at it that way, creatively and it all works out that we can still be superior! 'All things are possible for those who believe.'
in case it's needed...
July 13, 2015
Don't have the time for it, but it is in there... Will post more if you want it, Sancho.
What a great find you posted. Thanks...
Links I posted to his plan. It was the equivalent in terms of as a war. Sorry, no time to edit:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024005190#post5Don't have the time for it, but it is in there... Will post more if you want it, Sancho.
What a great find you posted. Thanks...
July 12, 2015
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness...
~ The American Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1776.
Repeated until the end of time, around the globe. No matter the fallout that ensues, the ideal remains the same.
Time for Greece to recite part of this document:
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness...
~ The American Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1776.
Repeated until the end of time, around the globe. No matter the fallout that ensues, the ideal remains the same.
July 12, 2015
Right there at the very end...
I loved those old movies! Here's the musical version. Tell me who's who in this one:
Looks like a temper tantrum at the end, though. I can see either candidate as Godzilla. Note there is no evil applied. Godzilla is just... Godzilla.
He can after he gets help from... Space Godzilla!
Right there at the very end...
I loved those old movies! Here's the musical version. Tell me who's who in this one:
Looks like a temper tantrum at the end, though. I can see either candidate as Godzilla. Note there is no evil applied. Godzilla is just... Godzilla.
July 12, 2015
Then took a breather with her family when Kerry took over. But she has never been out of touch. Obama and Hillary embrace here, as the votes came in to pass the ACA:
She has long experience working with the people on the Hill, longer than many have been there with the Watergate, hearings where she went after Nixon to impeach him;
To when she thought that the population would rise up and demand single payer as FLOTUS, but it didn't happen;
To her term in the Senate. She did manage within a GOP majority to get SCHIP and the children of military people covered with health insurance;
She has lot of veteran support trying to get single payer for many years, which is definitely a democratic socialist position;
She even had HILLPAC fund Sander's run for Senate, as a priority. That's why he calls her his friend, she's on his side on the issues that count.
The votes have never been there for single payer, even VT was unable to get its state legislature to make use of he single payer option that is part of the ACA, on a state by state basis.
Obama did what he had the odds of passing, busy cleaning up the GOP mess, starting with the country being bankrupt in 2009. The pressure has never let up and she needs to get Congress ready to do what is needed if she is elected.
Bernie has also been thinking post-election, having said who he would put in cabinet level positions, such as Krugman and Stiglitz (sic?) to help deal with the business sector.
Nothing untoward in any of this. I'm not saying you are, nor am I lecturing, just putting this out there for everyone to think on.
I don't think it was part of her duties as SoS. And she hasn't held an official position since.
She was in the Senate, ran against Obama on single payer quite vehemently, then was appointed SoS.Then took a breather with her family when Kerry took over. But she has never been out of touch. Obama and Hillary embrace here, as the votes came in to pass the ACA:
She has long experience working with the people on the Hill, longer than many have been there with the Watergate, hearings where she went after Nixon to impeach him;
To when she thought that the population would rise up and demand single payer as FLOTUS, but it didn't happen;
To her term in the Senate. She did manage within a GOP majority to get SCHIP and the children of military people covered with health insurance;
She has lot of veteran support trying to get single payer for many years, which is definitely a democratic socialist position;
She even had HILLPAC fund Sander's run for Senate, as a priority. That's why he calls her his friend, she's on his side on the issues that count.
The votes have never been there for single payer, even VT was unable to get its state legislature to make use of he single payer option that is part of the ACA, on a state by state basis.
Obama did what he had the odds of passing, busy cleaning up the GOP mess, starting with the country being bankrupt in 2009. The pressure has never let up and she needs to get Congress ready to do what is needed if she is elected.
Bernie has also been thinking post-election, having said who he would put in cabinet level positions, such as Krugman and Stiglitz (sic?) to help deal with the business sector.
Nothing untoward in any of this. I'm not saying you are, nor am I lecturing, just putting this out there for everyone to think on.
July 12, 2015
Deborah Nelson's endorsement has already been posted on DU, but I thought the reason behind it deserved attention. Will more superdelegates follow suit? Seems a fitting tribute to Teddy, if you ask me.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6089159
Other of Senator Obama's colleagues in the Senate endorsed him. Obama said more than once he anticipates HRC being his replacement in a few places...
Particularly at those White House Press Correspondents Dinners. He really roasted the media and the GOP mocking the GOP wanting a white candidate in the White House again.
He invoked her likelihood of winning the White House after him. HRC and Obama have become fast friends. Obama said to the GOP they would get a white candidate in the White House - Hillary. And that their worst nightmare was going to come true..
Or words to that effect...
Ted Kenney didn't turn his back, though:
Ted Kennedy Inspires New Obama Delegate EndorsementDeborah Nelson's endorsement has already been posted on DU, but I thought the reason behind it deserved attention. Will more superdelegates follow suit? Seems a fitting tribute to Teddy, if you ask me.
State Senator Peter Burling of Cornish and Deborah Nelson of Hanover, two former Edwards superdelegates from New Hampshire, plan to announce their switch at a news conference this morning, the Associated Press reported...
Nelson told the AP she made up her mind as she watched the news coverage of Senator Edward M. Kennedy's diagnosis with brain cancer this week. "I thought, here's someone who represents everything that matters to me, and he supports Obama, so what am I waiting for?" she said in a separate phone interview.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6089159
Other of Senator Obama's colleagues in the Senate endorsed him. Obama said more than once he anticipates HRC being his replacement in a few places...
Particularly at those White House Press Correspondents Dinners. He really roasted the media and the GOP mocking the GOP wanting a white candidate in the White House again.
He invoked her likelihood of winning the White House after him. HRC and Obama have become fast friends. Obama said to the GOP they would get a white candidate in the White House - Hillary. And that their worst nightmare was going to come true..
Or words to that effect...
July 11, 2015
BTW, these two sweet guys are still raising big cats. They insist the mauling by Mantecore was not an attack, but a defensive act as Roy was having a seizure from the flashing lights. It's a form of epilepsy, for those not in the know, and rapid light changes trigger it.
Which is exactly what happened at their show, too many flashing lights. And cats carry each other by the throat, the way that their mothers move them. Roy had a very poor prognosis and had to have a lot of terrible surgery but exceeded all expectations and is doing well, only slightly handicapped. There are a lot of good pictures of the pair at the Daily Mail.
to them and you! Thanks for all you do for HRC. Hitlery! 
We expect no less from you, Siegfried Hitlery!
BTW, these two sweet guys are still raising big cats. They insist the mauling by Mantecore was not an attack, but a defensive act as Roy was having a seizure from the flashing lights. It's a form of epilepsy, for those not in the know, and rapid light changes trigger it.
Which is exactly what happened at their show, too many flashing lights. And cats carry each other by the throat, the way that their mothers move them. Roy had a very poor prognosis and had to have a lot of terrible surgery but exceeded all expectations and is doing well, only slightly handicapped. There are a lot of good pictures of the pair at the Daily Mail.
to them and you! Thanks for all you do for HRC. Hitlery!
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