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CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
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July 26, 2016 12:03 PM UTC
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Barack Obama may not be the best orator in his own home. It’s time to
Politico and The Fix are about as conventional as CW gets. They might have a good take, but it's a take that the DC Gang of 500 agrees on before distributing to their loyal followers. And what they mostly care about is the politics, not the resulting policies, and how Democrats and Republicans are mirror images of each other that must be treated as equally "serious", equally venal, equally patriotic, equally motivated.
False Equivalence is the great escape for lazy or timid journalists, which leads to cowardly politicians who use the "both sides do it" excuse for whatever malfeasance they are in the process of committing.
Klingenschmitt is crying about closing his bank accounts. Even though he's made $800,000 the last two years from his PIJN activities, he's "broke". His 2014 990 form shows $853,000 income with zero grants or distributions to charities.
He also claims not to have dental insurance for an $8,000 dental bill. Why would someone who makes 800 grand a year not have dental insurance? As the only employee and CEO of Persuade the World Ministries / Pray in Jesus' Name, why would he not have purchased dental and health insurance?
Still want to know what happened to that money he raised "for the orphanage in India".
Dental insurance is a fairly bad deal, mj. Mine limited itself to $1,000 per recepient per year (two recipients on my policy." Our bills have hit $14,000 or more. A single tooth can cost $8,000 if you need an implant. Sigh, we need two. That's why you need a 401k for emergency expenses when you retire.
As for the orphanage in India, have you checked out the massage parlor near Fort Carson? A lot of right wing preachers seem to feel their ministry starts there.
Praise the lord and pass the dental dam.
With any luck, Bill Clinton has just come down with a horrendous case of laryngitis, and Michelle Obama is being asked to speak in support of Hillary again tonight . . .
From your keystrokes to God's computer screen, Dio.
Bill did good. It was about HRC's history as a "change maker", not about him.
Yes he did. Michelle Obama is still the reigning champion convention speaker but he did a good job and let's hope they keep him on a short leash for the rest of the campaign.
The big dawg walked out to the mound and threw a no hitter. But did you notice the trembling hands? Parkinson's?
DEVELOPING:
Ugly stuff going down at the DNC. Conflicting rumors abound. Common Dreams reports: Nina Turner and Rosario Dawson ejected,their credentials stripped, for criticizing the DNC.
Others, among them Ben Jealous, tweeted that Nina Turner surrendered her credential voluntarily after Clinton campaign refused her request to put Bernie Sanders’ name in nomination.
What is certain is that there was a large walkout after Clinton was nominated, which was not covered by mainstream media. See #dncwalkout for details.
Massive walkout of ~500+ delegates, leaving hall 1/3 empty. Some reports that DNC brought in “seat fillers” afterwards.
https://twitter.com/search?q=dnc%20walkout&src=typd
Big street protests: https://www.periscope.tv/w/1nAJEbDDrBaxL
Some of this happened after the roll call. Some before and during Bill’s speech. Hundreds of supporters outside, marching down Broad street, trapped in media hall after DNC locked doors. Sparse coverage on regular media. CBS and USA today supposedly had some coverage.
Guess that as soon as the DNC got what they wanted from Bernie, they wanted all his people to shut up. No, Nina Turner and Rosario Dawson were not "Bernie or Busters". Some of the people who left were; most are not.
Here’s a post which sounds semi-sane:
The DNC would have been better off allowing Bernie Busters to demonstrate, and Nina Turner to symbolically put Bernie’s name into nomination. They should have allowed folks to have their say.
Is this what an HRC administration would be like?
I don't know the facts on this incident but as for Bernie or Busters, they don't exist anymore. Those calling themselves that at this point are Bernie's enemies. Bernie has been begging them not to pull these stunts anymore now that HRC is the candidate and getting booed for it. He's been trying to explain to them why it's so important to elect her and not just to stop Trump but for the advancement of the progressive movement and getting booed for it. He's been pointing to all the positions HRC and the party that he is now a part of are taking that are a result of his and his movement's success and getting booed for it.
They're Bernie booers, for God's sake.
If they'd stop throwing hissy fits for five minutes and look at their movement's and its leader's amazing success so far, how far he's brought them and the potential to expand on that with Bernie's Party, the Democratic Party (yes he's a Democrat now), in power, they'd be breaking open the champagne and getting ready to keep working for Bernie and for themselves by working to elect HRC and a Dem Senate.
These are clearly no longer Bernie supporters. Not in any way shape or form, not by any objective standard, not by any stretch of the imagination.
Thank goodness polls are showing 90% of Bernie's supporters are not like these knuckleheads and will support Bernie's candidate because they really do support Bernie.
Read into this what you will.
Not crazy about this move but it's actually reasonable. He's obviously thrown in with the Dem party and it is in his interests to work for a big Dem victory as he says he will. He's caucused with Dems since the 90s . He certainly can't get anywhere with the GOP in charge.
I remember how pissed off I was when I voted for Ben Nighthorse Campbell as a Dem and he switched to R without resigning and giving his constituents a chance to choose to reelect him as an R or vote in a D, as we thought we had, so I think Bernie is showing respect for his constituents by serving as what they voted for in his remaining two years.
I don't think this affects his and his movement's dependence on being part of a Dem majority with a Dem President and Dem elected Supreme Court.
I wish Nighthorse Campbell had shown the voters who elected him as a Dem the same respect. Of course what Nighthorse Campbell did was far more serious since he changed from a Dem caucus member to a GOP caucus member, a complete betrayal of the Dem voters who thought he was going to represent their interests as a Dem.
It certainly does, though, reinforce the complaint that he was never a Dem so why was was he running for the Dem nomination in the first place.
As it has played out I'm glad he did but hope he will align himself more closely to the party that made everything he has accomplished possible. Had he run as an indie he'd just have been another Nader type bringing a little more attention to a pet issue or two. He would not be the transformative force he's become.
DNC shenanigans notwithstanding he owes the Dem Party big time for the stature he has attained as a serious major party candidate and I hope he honors that debt.