Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: If most DU members would support Bloomberg over Sanders they haven't looked at his record [View all]Jake Stern
(3,146 posts)The key is how much they've improved and how close they will put us into the WH.
John Kennedy - Shagged damn near every female he came in contact with, authorized assassination attempts on Castro, expanded the number of "advisors" in Vietnam.
Lyndon Johnson - A world class asshole and bully, knowingly went along with a lie to escalate our involvement in Vietnam. Look up the 1948 Box 13 scandal to see how he and his buddies conveniently "found" a box with hundreds of votes to put him over the top in a tight senate election.
Jimmy Carter - Fucked up royally by allowing the Shah into the country for cancer treatment knowing damn well it would piss off the new Iranian regime to no end, in 1979 he started funding the Mujahideen in Afghanistan which included a young Saudi construction heir named Osama Bin Laden.
Bill Clinton - Couldn't keep his dick in his pants, kneecapped welfare, happily signed a law that drastically expanded the federal death penalty.
Each of them had pretty bad skeletons in their closet yet they're revered by the party as elder statesmen.
Does Mike Bloomberg intend to keep going with stop and frisk? From statements he made it doesn't seem like it and the honesty is that he is really getting under Trump's skin in a way that even Biden isn't.
Trump his terrified of Bloomberg because Bloomberg is everything Trump claimed to be on the campaign trail and more. He's an actual billionaire, a real self made man who doesn't have string of failed businesses and bankruptcies behind him, nor scandals involving hookers and porn stars.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided