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March 15, 2016

Hillary at 68% in NC early voting, per NPR

Just caught this on an afternoon show, link below. That will change of course but my suggestion to Bernie is beware the Ides of March!



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No transcript up yet but here's the audio link:

Tuesday, March 15, 2016
North Carolinians Vote Under New Rules

http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2016/03/15/north-carolinia-primary-vote
March 15, 2016

Hillary at 68% in NC early voting, per NPR

Will look for link



...............
No transcript up yet but here's the audio link:

Tuesday, March 15, 2016
North Carolinians Vote Under New Rules

http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2016/03/15/north-carolinia-primary-vote
March 14, 2016

Excepting of course AmericanCrossroads.org (Rove's SuperPAC) and Freedom Partners (Kochs'). Links:

Koch brothers' SuperPac:



Rove's SuperPac:

Conservative SuperPAC's Ads Take Aim At Hillary Clinton

The group ran ads branding Bernie Sanders as the only true progressive in the race.

http://www.npr.org/2016/02/26/468216156/conservative-superpacs-ads-take-aim-at-hillary-clinton
March 12, 2016

Nevertheless Rove and the Kochs are actively supporting Bernie. Not Clinton. LINKS:



Conservative SuperPAC's Ads Take Aim At Hillary Clinton

The group ran ads branding Bernie Sanders as the only true progressive in the race.

http://www.npr.org/2016/02/26/468216156/conservative-superpacs-ads-take-aim-at-hillary-clinton
March 10, 2016

Groups backed by Koch brothers sing Bernie Sanders' praises

Groups backed by Koch brothers sing Bernie Sanders' praises on Export-Import Bank
BY JOEL CONNELLY, SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF | Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Heritage Action, an activist offshoot of the Heritage Foundation, tweeted Monday: "Even Bernie Sanders knows Export-Import Bank is 'called the bank of Boeing'."

The Koch brothers have given the group a half-million dollars.


Bernie Sanders is the star in a new video put out by Freedom Partners, the center of the Koch political empire.
"Bernie Sanders is right about the Export-Import Bank," declares the video.


http://www.seattlepi.com/local/politics/article/Groups-backed-by-Koch-brothers-sing-Sanders-6880281.php
March 8, 2016

"The American people are bitter. They are angry, and they are confused."

That's what Senator Sanders wrote in his statement explaining why he voted in 2009 against the TARP legislation which, we now know, included funding for the highly successful auto industry bailout:

http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2008/10/01/wall-street-bailout

Secretary Clinton was right about that last night and that's the way the cookie crumbles. And for the record, I disagree with Sanders' vote and with his characterization of the electorate, or at least the part that I identify with.

March 7, 2016

Uh-oh. It seems Bernie said let Detroit go bankrupt back in 2009 and Hillary nailed him on it.

Game over folks. Ain't gonna happen, no way no how. Show's over, thanks for playing!

Clinton, who had not previously spent time discussing Sanders's position on the bailout, hit him on the issue Sunday night. That same dynamic was in place when Clinton landed a hit on Sanders over being the lone Democrat to vote against the Export-Import Bank.

"In January of 2009, President-elect Obama asked everybody in the Congress to vote for the bailout. The money was there and had to be released in order to save the American auto industry and four million jobs and to begin the restructuring," Clinton said. "I voted to save the auto industry. {Sanders} voted against the money that ended up saving the auto industry. I think that is a pretty big difference."

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/democratic-debate-flint-michigan-2016-highlights-analysis/


Ouch.

March 5, 2016

When Sanders says "Wall Street banks and billionaires buy elections," whose election does he mean?

And when he talks about "people like you" fighting back against "a corrupt system," who specifically is he encouraging people to "fight back" against?




And if as it appears he's talking about the current Democratic administration of Barack Obama and the earlier Democratic administration of Bill Clinton, why, after 74 years of not being a Democrat, did he decide to be one, and to seek an active role in the party? Doesn't joining a "corrupt system" mean that he too is corrupt?

I honestly find this baffling: if he's running as a Democrat, why in HECK is he bashing Democrats? Or what am I missing here?

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