February 8, 2016

So who else has been blocked from the Hillary group?

Wow, are they touchy or what?

On one of their many posts about sexist attacks on Hillary, and I said:

"Sure. It's just that you can only get so much mileage out of these complaints"

Cue the outrage.

February 5, 2016

"The Tide Has Turned Against Clinton"

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2016/2/5/102056/6214

"Sanders came out of Iowa energized and with all the momentum.. And it showed in the debate last night. The first hour was a near-total debacle for Clinton.

It began when she fell into the trap I warned her about of coming across as the "No, We Can't" candidate.

I'm not sure why the Clinton campaign wants to fight over who's a progressive. The progressive movement pretty much defines itself as being in opposition to the politics of the Democratic Leadership Council and, to a significant degree, 1990's-style Clintonism. What she needs to do to appeal to progressives is not to insist that she is and always has been one of them. That just elicits incredulous guffaws of outrage. What she needs to do is show that she's not a clone of her husband, and never was. And, to state what should be obvious, no one who doesn't consider themselves a progressive is going to care if Clinton considers herself a progressive. The only people who care about this debate are the progressives who, overwhelmingly, agree that Sanders is progressive and Clinton is not.

Even more head scratching is her attempt to claim that she isn't part of the Establishment. She's the former First Lady, a former senator from New York, and a former Secretary of State. She's worth millions, and she and Bill run the Clinton Global Initiative that deals with the Establishment of countries all across the world. Saying that she's not the Establishment is ridiculous on its face. Imagine if Eleanor Roosevelt, while serving as Ambassador to the United Nations, had attempted to argue that she was a political outsider!

And that's before we add in that she can walk into the Conrad Hotel in Lower Manhattan to talk to Goldman Sachs executives and walk out a couple of hours later with a check worth more than her opponent's total net worth. "

Interesting post from a more center-left pundit who has generally supported Clinton up to now.