Where does Barrack Obama really stand?

blast from the past, 05/04/08

Hillary Clinton has re-opened her sharp attack on Barack Obama's position on guns, with a mailer in Indiana that seeks to raise questions about him with both supporters and opponents of gun rights.

The mailing -- perhaps the sharpest-edged of Clinton's five negative mail pieces in Indiana -- casts him as a typical politician, saying different things to different audiences. It also revives his damaging comments in San Francisco that small town people cling to guns.

Then, making the harsh case more broadly, the mailer asks: "What does Barack Obama really believe?"

The piece is particularly striking coming from Clinton, who has been seen for most of her career as a firm advocate of gun control, but more recently has emerged -- without dramatically shifting her stance on specific issues -- as a defender of the Second Amendment who fondly recalled being taught to shoot by her grandfather in Scranton.

Wake Up, Democratic Party: You're In Serious Trouble

In reality, the Democrats only fully control seven state governments, and only have even partial sway over 12 more. That's just 19 out of 50 states. That means the GOP dominates elections in over half of our states. And with the Republican tendency to engage in election fraud, it would be foolish for the Democratic Party to rest on its laurels.

This is the result of four years with Debbie Wasserman Schultz as Chair of the Democratic National Committee . She took over from Tim Kaine in 2011, after his program, "Organizing for America" not only failed to expand Democratic control, but handed control to the Republicans. However, instead of reversing Kaine's work, she effectively solidified his programs and tactics. The end result is that while in 2009, the Democrats had solid control over a sizable portion of state governments and both houses of Congress, their numbers have since dwindled dramatically.

And the program which Kaine replaced was the one put forth by Howard Dean in 2005, the 50 state strategy. The strategy Dean pioneered landed control of both houses of congress to the Democrats, and landed a scrawny black kid from Chicago with a funny name in the White House. His strategy worked beyond just the federal level as well, landing Democratic control in states which had been previously Republican strongholds, such as Montana. In other words, despite the DNC leadership's objections, going full-tilt in all 50 states (instead of focusing mainly on battleground states) was a rousing success. In fact, Dean's program was so successful that none other than Karl Rove was pushing for the GOP to engage with their own version.

Yet, for some reason, the Democrats have abandoned a strategy that works for one that keeps failing over and over again.

Bernie Sanders debates Donald Trump! (comedy)

I love James Adomian and his Bernie imitation gets better every time I see it:

Seth MacFarland (Family Guy, Ted) introduces Bernie Sanders 10/14/15

Pretty funny: good busts on Jim Webb's debate performance at the beginning.

Bernie Sanders rescues Andrea Mitchell from media stampede

Source: Yahoo News

I assume this was after the debate. Video from Yahoo:

https://www.yahoo.com/politics/watch-bernie-sanders-help-save-reporter-andrea-044504898.html

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/politics/watch-bernie-sanders-help-save-reporter-andrea-044504898.html