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Babel_17

(5,400 posts)
5. My 2 cents (if it gets posted)
Sun Mar 6, 2016, 12:13 AM
Mar 2016
It's taking all the investment banking money, and all the party leadership, to prop Secretary Clinton up. On an even playing field with Senator Sanders she'd be toast. She's popular with the leadership because she pays back her friends, with power, influence, and money. For those leaving the game, there are jobs in the private sector. For her enemies there is payback. And like Bush the press is dealt with in a like manner. The Clintons have a list of those who cross them, and they limit their all important access. Those that gush on them are rewarded. People are seeing the flaws, and in states not under the thumb of leaders looking for favors, the voters are rising up for Sanders. That wave is spreading and it will engulf the later states. Clinton's legal problems, and the public spectacle of her ethical lapses, are becoming more serious, and much more well known. She holds Obama's legacy hostage, but that will only carry her so far with the DOJ against an FBI that has built a heck of a case against her subordinates for an incompetence that rises to a criminal level. And where does the buck stop with that? Can you run for President while claiming to be dazed and confused as to how security procedures work? The bottom line is that there is no appetite for a Secretary Clinton who has grown worse than the Senator Clinton of 2008. Especially so now that we have the Sanders campaign. She didn't kill that campaign in its cradle; now it's growing, and it won't be faced down.


Lol, had to trim the last paragraph own, I was running into the character limit. Could have used some grammatical editing but I felt an urgent desire to just post it. Lol, you know how that can be.
As expected, we see clear attempts to control the narrative, public perception Rebkeh Mar 2016 #1
MSM journalism is pretty much dead Hydra Mar 2016 #2
This is because the Clintons zentrum Mar 2016 #8
Yes they did. nt silvershadow Mar 2016 #11
Ya, I know Hydra Mar 2016 #12
Hillary would care Gwhittey Mar 2016 #23
Even YAHOO did the same thing.. headlines CRUZER wins something BIG !!! pangaia Mar 2016 #3
Super delegates! Pharaoh Mar 2016 #4
My 2 cents (if it gets posted) Babel_17 Mar 2016 #5
+1 platitudipus Mar 2016 #19
They are doing this xloadiex Mar 2016 #6
They're not trying to anger Bernie supporters, they are rooting for their favorite corporate hillarysong2016 Mar 2016 #7
.+1 840high Mar 2016 #9
1% coverage for the candidate that scares the 1%. eom. OZi Mar 2016 #10
^Yup, that's their math.^ zentrum Mar 2016 #13
The Third Way is the 3rd party so she is a 3rd party candidate. Ivan Kaputski Mar 2016 #15
Rubio, like Bush, got crushed, so yes, the voters aren't accepting the establishment's picks Babel_17 Mar 2016 #22
Debbie is a member on JPR. Ivan Kaputski Mar 2016 #14
Really? I joined jackpineradicals recently, what's Debbie's user name there?? n/t hillarysong2016 Mar 2016 #17
Thank you. This is clear and true and needs, as you say, to get spread around! ancianita Mar 2016 #16
And here I read & believed that pledged Super Delegate votes meant they were "pledged," forgetting lexington filly Mar 2016 #18
I think there is an effect occurring that can't be measured yet. kristopher Mar 2016 #20
i have known for years, the mass media is the ENEMY of democracy. hello idiotocracy. pansypoo53219 Mar 2016 #21
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