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In reply to the discussion: Why would anyone trust a candidate with corporate donors to care about anyone BUT corporations? [View all]stupidicus
(2,570 posts)26. more meaningless garbage
that represents nothing but the dog bone I referenced, or when she's in the good cop role, as opposed to supporting say, bombing the Palestinians back into the stone age as the bad cop.
try again, no?
When Israeli forces attacked a UN school housing refugees in the Gaza Strip in July 2014, killing dozens of civilians, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) condemned it and the U.S. State Department issued a statement saying that it was appalled by the disgraceful shelling. By contrast, Hillary Clintonwhen asked about the attack during an interview with The Atlanticrefused to criticize the massacre, saying, ts impossible to know what happens in the fog of war. Though investigators found no evidence of Hamas equipment or military activity anywhere near the school, Clinton falsely alleged that Hamas was firing rockets from an annex to the school.
More tellingly, she appeared to argue that since Hamas had been firing rockets into civilian-populated areas of Israel, the Israeli government was not legally or morally culpable for their killing of Palestinian civilians, claiming that the ultimate responsibility for the deaths at the school has to rest on Hamas and the decisions it made.
In reality, however wrong Hamas has been in firing rockets into Israel, such actions simply do not absolve Israel of its responsibility under international humanitarian law for the far greater civilian deaths its armed forces have inflicted on Palestinians in Gaza. Indeed, it has long been a principle of Western jurisprudence that someone who is the proximate cause of a crime cannot claim innocence simply because of the influence of another party. For example, if someone starts a bar fight and a person ends up shooting him and a group of innocent bystanders, the shooter cannot claim innocence because the other guy initiated the conflict. http://www.juancole.com/2015/12/when-did-justifying-large-scale-civilian-deaths-in-bombardments-become-a-bipartisan-consensus.html
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Why would anyone trust a candidate with corporate donors to care about anyone BUT corporations? [View all]
Ken Burch
Dec 2015
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I sat with Molly and listened to Mike Moore at an event in Texas about 15 years age...
SoLeftIAmRight
Dec 2015
#4
And if a candidate actively seeks Republican, LIbertarian, Teabagger votes, why would Sanders care
seabeyond
Dec 2015
#3
He has said it more than once, out loud, in speeches and interviews. He may not ever "put social
seabeyond
Dec 2015
#11
Ah,... The rationalism is in the scale of. So cause Sanders is incapable of large scale due to lack
seabeyond
Dec 2015
#18
Actually, yes. He did hold a "town hall" with the hooded ones walking into Liberty University. So,
seabeyond
Dec 2015
#24
Like Obama and Hillary did in 2008 when they courted homophobic bigots?
beam me up scottie
Dec 2015
#43
Can you tell me who in the race is leading among union support and donations? nt.
NCTraveler
Dec 2015
#7
About as much as trusting a guy selling genuine Rolex watches out of the trunk of his car.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Dec 2015
#14
She renounced all advocacy for the disadvantaged with she helped form the DLC
Ken Burch
Dec 2015
#46
No you were not. Reality... She has spent her life advocating for others. From at least teenage year
seabeyond
Dec 2015
#50
When We Stand Together - No Citizen Need Settle For The Lesser Of Two Corporate Evils - Go Bernie Go
cantbeserious
Dec 2015
#23
It's Delusional to think Hillary will cross her Corporate donars in favor of people
Ferd Berfel
Dec 2015
#25
Because we are donors to Hillary also. Is supporting corporations like Lockheed Martin a problem?
Thinkingabout
Dec 2015
#28
Uhm, who do you all think will lose? Haven't we seen this movie enough times.
onecaliberal
Dec 2015
#33
why would anyone trust a person who works for a corporation as an employee to care about
msongs
Dec 2015
#36