March 5, 2016

i was on the fence. after reading how "horrible" the supporters of bernie sanders are, i decided

to pay attention to the republican hawks intending to support hillary clinton over the probable republican nominee, donald trump.

repeating, with cohen's contextual emphasis, “Hillary is the lesser evil, by a large margin”

certain ubiquitous republican hawks are much more horrible than any anonymous bernie supporters in web forums could be..............

again, referencing cohen's “Hillary is the lesser evil": i guess they all like hillary's "this house" commercial:

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March 2, 2016

thom hartmann covering the super tuesday analysis with ANTI-TPP/TTIP ed schultz right now

rt america (terrestrial & cable)

March 1, 2016

voters would be wise to heed the warnings of candidate obama in 2008 regarding the losses of...

voters would be wise to heed the warnings of candidate obama in 2008 regarding the losses of the clintons' tenure in the 90's and, considering the president's analogous losses during these past eight years, vote for the only democratic candidate that unites rather than divides. it's the only way we'll win the g.e.





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http://abcnews.go.com/images/Politics/Strategy_BO_Feb_5_No_4_PROOF.pdf

February 27, 2016

Hillary Clinton: "If you do your part you ought to be able to get ahead..."

full quote (tweet): "If you do your part you ought to be able to get ahead—and when everybody does their part, America gets ahead too."

i guess a whole bunch of americans are slackers /s

February 25, 2016

Black thinkers like Bernie Sanders. They've studied the Clintons' true cost (Steven W Thrasher)

Spike Lee is the latest black public intellectual to endorse Bernie Sanders and to question the sanity of black voters and politicians pledging their allegiance to the Clintons, who have done as much harm to black America as any living political couple. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I am mystified by robust black support for Bill and Hillary Clinton.

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Bill Clinton governed through playing to white fears by hurting, locking up or even executing black Americans. He left the campaign trail in 1992 to oversee the execution of Ricky Ray Rector, a black man so mentally incapacitated, he reportedly did not eat the dessert from his final meal because he was “saving it for later”. When in office, Bill Clinton ended welfare for poor children and destroyed countless black families through a crime bill even he now admits made mass incarceration worse, while Hillary Clinton would go out and whip up support for this accelerated disenfranchisement and marginalization of black America, even when it meant referring to children as “superpredators”.

The case against Clintonian neoliberalism is compelling. I am glad to see black thinkers making a case for Sanders’ democratic socialism and its potential to address structural racism as an alternative. If anyone is smart enough to effectively make Sanders’ case to black America, it would be the intellectual leaders who have endorsed him thus far.

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Much less intellectually sound are the arguments of Clinton’s black surrogates. When she was endorsed by the corporate-funded Super Pac of the Congressional Black Caucus (not by the CBC itself or by its members), the only reason seemed to be political expediency. The black members of congress seemed intent on maintaining their relationship within the Clinton power structure, no matter how deeply invested it may be in white supremacy. Like Clinton, much of the CBC is beholden to Wall Street. So Sanders – with no connection to Wall Street or to a global foundation ripe for harvesting political chits – offers CBC members little possibility of power except by way of his gamble for the White House.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/24/black-thinkers-bernie-sanders-studied-clintons-true-cost

Steven W Thrasher is writer-at-large for Guardian US. He was named Journalist of the Year 2012 by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Village Voice, Rolling Stone, BuzzFeed, the Advocate and more.



http://steventhrasher.com/

February 23, 2016

"Please make this nation remember how futures are built."

But the hard truth is that not everyone is sharing in this city's splendor and glory. A shining city is perhaps all the President sees from the portico of the White House and the veranda of his ranch, where everyone seems to be doing well. But there's another city; there's another part to the shining the city; the part where some people can't pay their mortgages, and most young people can't afford one; where students can't afford the education they need, and middle-class parents watch the dreams they hold for their children evaporate.

In this part of the city there are more poor than ever, more families in trouble, more and more people who need help but can't find it. Even worse: There are elderly people who tremble in the basements of the houses there. And there are people who sleep in the city streets, in the gutter, where the glitter doesn't show. There are ghettos where thousands of young people, without a job or an education, give their lives away to drug dealers every day. There is despair, Mr. President, in the faces that you don't see, in the places that you don't visit in your shining city.
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We must win this case on the merits. We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it not so much with speeches that sound good as with speeches that are good and sound; not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that will bring people to their senses. We must make -- We must make the American people hear our "Tale of Two Cities." We must convince them that we don't have to settle for two cities, that we can have one city, indivisible, shining for all of its people.
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We believe -- We believe as Democrats, that a society as blessed as ours, the most affluent democracy in the world's history, one that can spend trillions on instruments of destruction, ought to be able to help the middle class in its struggle, ought to be able to find work for all who can do it, room at the table, shelter for the homeless, care for the elderly and infirm, and hope for the destitute. And we proclaim as loudly as we can the utter insanity of nuclear proliferation and the need for a nuclear freeze, if only to affirm the simple truth that peace is better than war because life is better than death.
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We believe we must be the family of America, recognizing that at the heart of the matter we are bound one to another, that the problems of a retired school teacher in Duluth are our problems; that the future of the child -- that the future of the child in Buffalo is our future; that the struggle of a disabled man in Boston to survive and live decently is our struggle; that the hunger of a woman in Little Rock is our hunger; that the failure anywhere to provide what reasonably we might, to avoid pain, is our failure.
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We know we can, because we did it for nearly 50 years before 1980. And we can do it again, if we do not forget -- if we do not forget that this entire nation has profited by these progressive principles; that they helped lift up generations to the middle class and higher; that they gave us a chance to work, to go to college, to raise a family, to own a house, to be secure in our old age and, before that, to reach heights that our own parents would not have dared dream of.
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Now, it will happen. It will happen if we make it happen; if you and I make it happen. And I ask you now, ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters, for the good of all of us, for the love of this great nation, for the family of America, for the love of God... Please make this nation remember how futures are built. Thank you and God bless you.

Mario Cuomo, Democratic Convention Keynote Speech - 07/16/1984 (extracts)

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we support bernie: his speeches are good and sound as well as sound good; his speeches bring people to their feet as well as bring people to their senses.

to contributors at du as well as those that lurk & read, please remember how futures are built

speech excerpts:


full 39 minute speech:
http://www.c-span.org/video/?323534-1/mario-cuomo-democratic-national-convention-keynote-speech

February 13, 2016

learning about ignore and posters........

can anyone help? searched in this forum w'out luck.

how to find-search previous poster's posts so not to waste time responding?

thank you in advance. have a great friday night!

February 13, 2016

new du member's attempt at levity within gd:p forum lacks "poll creation" (clinton/sanders)

which democratic presidential candidate(s) included the following in a commecial?:

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shucks... i gave away the hint including carrier video (no, not the company today - 02/12/2016 - relegating jobs to mexico, it's an aircraft carrier) in the commercial:

- hillary clinton

- bernie sanders

https://www.hillaryclinton.com/briefing/videos/2016/01/20/this-house/

February 9, 2016

i want to thank the anonymous heart donor especially

hi all,

i want to thank the anonymous heart donor especially since the first response to my first post just a few minutes ago was so hostile.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=7594529

i thought the play on words in the picture would bring a smile. oh well...

thank you again anonymous donor!