Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday vowed to continue his fight for the Democratic nomination beyond the primary season, telling reporters at a news conference in Los Angeles that he plans to go after Hillary Clinton's superdelegates.
Clinton currently has 2,313 total delegates -- 1,769 of which are pledged and 544 of which are superdelegates -- and she is expected to cross the 2,383-delgate threshold in the next few days to clinch the nomination. But Sanders, who has 1,501 pledged delegates and only 46 superdelegates, says he can still woo enough of her superdelegates between now and the Democratic convention in July to swing the nomination his way.
It's a tall order.
It is not just a tall order, it is an impossible order. (By the way after the Virgin Island primary Hillary picked up seven more so her total is now 1,776 pledged delegates.)
All Sanders can hope to accomplish with his take no prisoners attitude is to cause disruptions and chaos at the convention to the great amusement of the Republican party.
If he hopes to weaken the party that so graciously allowed him to run under their banner, and their eventual candidate, this is how you do it.
P.S. I heard a pundit today say that the difference between Hillary Clinton accepting her inevitable defeat in 2008 and graciously nominating Barack Obama, is that she still hoped to have a future in the Democratic party, whereas Sanders on the other hand is an elderly man with nothing to lose as he is not even really a Democrat.
P.P.S. It looks like some folks are tired of Sanders' shit.
I think we are going to see a lot more of this in the coming days and weeks..@BernieSanders just tried 2 take the stage at a Spanish-language festival at Plaza Mexico. He was denied. Staffer said, "This is OUR event"— Sam Sanders (@samsanders) June 5, 2016
P.P.P.S. By the way this is a recent tweet from Elizabeth Warren.
Make of it what you will.This is what Democrats united to beat @realDonaldTrump look like. Get ready, Donald – we're coming. pic.twitter.com/p8dFtvr9NV— Elizabeth Warren (@elizabethforma) June 5, 2016
Update: Hillary wins Puerto Rico. And the hits just keep on coming.
Bernie turned away by Latino organizers in LA today.
ReplyDeletehttp://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/282291-latino-organizers-refuse-to-let-sanders-speak-at-event
I guess he wasn't wanted. Bernie is more than capable of having his campaign set up a rally, others do not have to let him hijack theirs.
DeleteBernie # Loser/poorLoser
I'm sure that really pissed him off, but I'm glad to hear it! As many as possible need to go after the asshole and I hope we see more and more of it!
DeleteHillary Clinton will be our next POTUS. Bernie Sanders - like Donald Trump - doesn't have the self control and both are too emotional and reactive! Loony tunes might be a better word for them!
5:27 PM:
DeleteI totally agree!
I have decided to sit this election out if Hillary or Trump are the choices.
DeleteI am so sick of the Hillary supporters that I will take my chances with Trump.
Delete8:03 - whatever.
Delete8:15 - then you're a racist! Ugh!
DeleteBernie Sanders reminds me of Ralph Nader in the 1990s. Hell-bent to destroy 'the establishment', and thus the Democratic party. No matter that if the DP gets destroyed, the GOP wins.
DeleteAnon at 10:01 pm. I agree and wonder why these naysayers (like Nader and Sanders) always choose to "destroy the Establishment" by destroying the Democratic Party when the "Establishment" has always been controlled by the Republican Party. What has a Republican Congress ever done for ordinary Americans? Nothing. Republican presidents only ant tax cuts for the rich, turn up their noses at helping the poor, the sick. It's mind boggling.
DeleteBeglemom
Anonymous8:15 PM,
DeleteIf you vote for a candidate based on the supporters and not the issues, you're not fit to vote.
He's starting to remind me of $arah. Pathetic. Just a desperate grifter at heart. Where are those tax returns, Bernie?
ReplyDeleteGeorgiaPeach
I guess because I donated $5 to Bernie Sanders early on before I lost all respect for the man, his campaign thought it would be a good idea to phone me to be sure I knew where my polling place will be on Tuesday here in California. "Are you going to vote, do you have a plan, do you know your location, can we count on you to vote?" To which I replied, "Yep, but not for Bernie Sanders!" She was stunned. I told her I was voting for Secretary Clinton and hung up. Then I thought of all the things I could have said: where are his tax returns, what happened to his positive campaign, why should voters who do not care to be Democrats be allowed to vote in a Democratic primary where it is not permitted, why all the false claims of a rigged system when he knew the rules going in, why brag that you have no paid speeches to Wall Street when you're not allowed as a sitting senator? Or I could have simply said he's the turd in the punchbowl and I viscerally detest him.
ReplyDeleteAh, opportunity lost...
His campaign keeps sending me email crap to donate. I have never given, never signed up on any Bernie site so I guess they got my email address from when his campaign hacked Hillary's site.
DeleteDon't beat yourself up. I have a unlisted land line to this day, and the LA Times called me up one night asking whom I was going to vote for. None of the above, to which I was told I must pick one and when I told them what they could do with their polls.
DeleteJust get rid of those land lines! Extra expense is what they are. If you are an average family you have one or more phones per adult (work and personal) and if you have the average 2 kids they have their own cells too, why have a land line?
DeleteIt's the biggest rip off that the cable companies are peddling now.
I get his spam emails begging for dollars too,it must have been from his dishonest team when they hacked Hillary's list.
DeleteSome of us who do not live in big cities cannot get rid of a landline. I live way out in the country where cell coverage is iffy at best. The landline is a life line for us. That said, I am listed on my state and national Do Not Call lists and blast ANYONE who calls me. I get their name, number and organization and turn the into the AG of IN. They fine them $1500 per call... some folks get a huge fine.
DeleteWe have both cell phones and the land line. It's a kind of safety net.
DeleteBeaglemom
O/T David French bows out! Ha ha.
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/davidafrench/status/739618528333008897
Isn't he the buddy of Sarah Palin? Thought she endorsed Trump AFTER the other guy - Ted. Boy, she knows how to pickum!
DeleteWow!
ReplyDeleteLook at that crowd fired up with Warren...
Not.
And GeorgiaPeach,where are the transcripts?
http://hillarytranscriptclock.com/
The emails that Hillary thought all got deleted?
FBI gots all them!
A tempest in a teapot. Y'all need to get a grip on reality, bless your hearts. GeorgiaPeach
Deletehttp://thehill.com/opinion/lanny-davis/281784-davis-five-undisputed-facts-about-clintons-emails
DeleteGeorgiaPeach
I gotta second GP's Bless your heart.
DeleteOh, and don't let facts get in the way of your ignorance. Fuck Bernie and Mitch McConnell.
DeleteGeorgiaPeach
Seriously, get therapy
Delete@5:16
DeleteReality is an FBI investigation.
Lol. No. Reality is a catfight between the State Department and the FBI. Be interesting to see who comes out on top. I'm betting on the State Department, and NOT because Hillary is Secretary of State, but because the FBI has been fucking up and losing turf.
DeleteJMO.
GeorgiaPeach
@5:26
DeleteLemme help you out here.
willful ignorance:
n. A decision in bad faith to avoid becoming informed about something so as to avoid having to make undesirable decisions that such information might prompt.
https://informedvote2016.wordpress.com/2016/03/18/do-i-really-need-to-worry-about-hillarys-emails-yes-she-will-be-indicted-full-form/
@5:28
Therapy?
For what?
I'm not in denial,you are.
GeorgiaPeach, staying classy. A good southern woman would not resort to such trashy language to enforce her point.
DeleteKentuckyWoman
@6:09
Delete"Reality is a catfight between the State Department and the FBI."
Wut?
The FBI investigates and forwards their findings to the DOJ with recommendation(s) as to charges,if any.
The State Dept. don't have shit to do with that unless they are covering up or with holding evidence.
"catfight"?
Phew,clueless much?
Um. No. The State Dept. admitted to their mistakes in re: Hillary's emails. The FBI has nothing to investigate. Hillary didn't willfully disobey the law. And yes, it is a catfight, that is costing taxpayers much for 'naught. It's a dead horse, that idiots keep beating.
DeleteGeorgiaPeach
6:45 PM - you have a problem with GeoriaPeach? Visit the pee pond sometime; they say worse being their version of politically correct.
DeleteSometimes FUCK is the only word left. Get off your damned high horse.
@6:57
Delete"The FBI has nothing to investigate.Hillary didn't willfully disobey the law."
Wow,yet they are and yes she did.
Change your name to Cleopatra.
Queen of Denial.
@Kentucky Woman
DeleteI am a good southern woman. I'm a profane good southern woman. Sorry you take offense.
GeorgiaPeach
7:16, what does what is acceptable at c4p or anywhere else, for that matter have to do with anything? Dumb reasoning.
DeleteIf you have to resort to crudeness or vulgarity to make your point, you have already lost the argument. Every 12 year old resorts to it, because it makes them feel so grown up and tough.
Grow up.
Well, bless your little heart, Peach. Fiddle Dee de! Or should I say, fuck Dee de?
DeleteMaybe you should say, Fiddle Dee fuck. Whatever you say, I take no offense. Bless your little heart.
DeleteGeorgiaPeach
4chan troll again? What, mommy not make rice krispie squares for you this afternoon? Poor baby. Go back to your mom's basement and play video games, troll.
DeleteObama and everyone else should just ignore this now-crazy-acting guy and just go about the job of defeating Trump. Go away Bernie.
ReplyDelete+1. But this has been true since NY.
DeleteThey are, and the rest of us are just laughing at the senile old coot.
DeleteElizabeth Warren isn't laughing at him.
DeleteI'm not laughing at him.
Calling Bernie a 'senile old coot' makes you sound like an ageist.
@ anon 6:08pm
DeleteSorry, I'll correct myself. Bernie Sanders is a misogynistic senile old coot.
6:24. And yet, Hillary can't put him away. Heck, even Trump eliminated his competition and he had 16 of them to knock off.
Delete#weakHillary
@ anon 6:48pm
DeleteHillary is no longer campaigning against Bernie because he has already lost. Just you and the rest of the Bernie Bros and Bernie will just have to deal with reality.
Hillary put him away in April. #BernieMath
DeleteGood thing she quit trying, because she wasn't successful when she was trying. Hope you are satisfied with watching the rich get richer.
Delete@5:00
Delete"Obama and everyone else should just ignore this now-crazy-acting guy and just go about the job of defeating Trump. Go away Bernie."
Good luck doing that without Bernie's supporters!
Enjoy President Trump-you deserve him!
Even if Clinton has clinched the nomination, Bernie gave her a tough fight, which shows how weak a candidate Clinton is and how unexcited a large portion of the Democratic Party is with her as their choice. If Bernie goes 3rd party Independent, Hillary loses to Trump.
DeleteI am satisfied that a woman will finally, for the first time in American history, receive the nomination for President from a major political party. I am satisfied that she will protect President Obama's legacy and so is he. Pres. Obama & VP Biden hit the campaign trail on Wed.!
Delete8:06
DeleteIf you are stupid enough to take your marbles and go home in and have an immature tantrum when Bernies burn the house down tactics fail,you and your ilk will be the reason for having a Trump President.You enjoy him,you put him in office.
The main reason me thinks Bernie is campaigning until the convention is his funds are in the negative. He NEEDS the donations. He is going to stiff a lot of venues he used for his rallies. He's hoping to get enough fundraising cash so he doesn't have to sell his real estate properties AND be out of a Senator job.
DeleteBernie will not fo 3rd Party. Who will pay for his campaign? Your $29? He needs the DNC to fund him. Period.
DeleteScrew that Socialist. This has never been about the Democratic Party. Sanders does not care about destroying Clinton or the Democratic Party.
ReplyDeleteI think that all Sanders cares about is destroying Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party. He certainly seems unconcerned about the Republicans taking the White House or holding on to the Senate.
DeleteBeaglemom
"P.S. I heard a pundit today say that the difference between Hillary Clinton accepting her inevitable defeat in 2008 and graciously nominating Barack Obama, is that she still hoped to have a future in the Democratic party, whereas Sanders on the other hand is an elderly man with nothing to lose as he is not even really a Democrat."
ReplyDeleteGot a link on that specifically stating that?^^^^
Does the pundit in it's head count?
Delete@6:49
DeleteMust be the case 'cuz we're still waiting for a link...
Bernie Sanders will die of old age and his wife who was paid $200,000 to get out of her college and his children and grandchildren will think Bernie Sanders is a hero when others will remember him as the man who threaten to destroy Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party.
ReplyDeleteWe think Jane got 200,000. Without their tax returns being made public we do not really know what she walked away with, it is more than likely much more.
DeleteI am wondering how Sanders will have free college for everyone and give hamburger flippers a 50% raise? How can McDonalds pay high school students, high school graduates and anybody flipping hamburgers $15 an hour? It would be great to make $15 minimum wage but how can we pay for a Coke or a hamburger that the price will be raised to compensate for the $15 minimum wage?
ReplyDeleteOr, he could tax the extremely wealthy, many of whom pay virtually nothing. He also isn't a war hawk, so some of that billions and billions will help fund some of his platform.
DeleteOr, we can just continue on the Reagan, Clinton, Bush agenda, cause that seemed to work.
Reallocating the budget comes immediately to mind.
DeleteDoes the military really need a larger budget than that allocated by the next 9 world powers combined?
I'll bet we could cut it by 50%, still outspend the rest of the world and institute all those programs and more.
It's like people have no ability to Google for the actual information,they just make things up. Under Bernie,we all pay more taxes. A lot more.
DeleteBernie's plans will cost the average taxpayer $1000 a month. Even then, the nation will have 30 TRILLION more in debt in 10 years. Not one thing he proposes will ever get through Congress. The man has gotten nothing passed in 30 years IN Congress; why would that change?
DeleteOur taxes will got up from $5K to $19K... we are retired on a fixed income and do not have any way to make up that $14K besides cutting everything to the bone, FUCK SANDERS!
DeleteI already put my child through college, do I get a refund? If not screw him. Work on fixing the system of over the top admin at colleges (and fraud like his wife perpetrated at the college she ran into the ground).
Anonymous6:54 PM,
DeleteWhat exactly is his position on foreign policy. It's all very nice to say he is not a "war hawk" But exactly how would he deal with China, North Korea, Middle East, ISIS etc? Like everything else, he doesn't really know anything beyond "taxing the rich"? His solution to everything.
Anon at 6:54 pm. No president can just "tax the extremely wealthy." That has to come from Congress and a Republican Congress is never, ever going to let that happen. That's just one of the problems with Bernie Sanders' great ideas: getting them transformed into laws. He doesn't seem able to explain how he would do that or anything.
DeleteBeaglemom
Wall Street Journal:
ReplyDeleteBernie Sanders Campaign Is Split Over Whether to Fight on Past Tuesday
The senator has vowed to press his case, but some urge him to unite behind Clinton
A split is emerging inside the Bernie Sanders campaign over whether the senator should stand down after Tuesday’s election contests and unite behind Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, or take the fight all the way to the July party convention and try to pry the nomination from her.
One camp might be dubbed the Sandersistas, the loyalists who helped guide Mr. Sanders’s political ascent in Vermont and the U.S. Congress and are loath to give up a fight that has far surpassed expectations. Another has ties not only to Mr. Sanders but to the broader interests of a Democratic Party pining to beat back the challenge from Republican Donald Trump and make gains in congressional elections.
Mr. Sanders in recent weeks has made clear he aims to take his candidacy past the elections on Tuesday, when California, New Jersey and four other states vote. But the debate within the campaign indicates that Mr. Sanders’s next move isn’t settled...
At a minimum, some of Mrs. Clinton’s supporters would like to see Mr. Sanders lay off the attacks. Alan Kessler, a longtime Democratic fundraiser, said Mr. Sanders’s tone is “a little disappointing.”
“There’s no reason why he shouldn’t fight for the things that he’s talking about, but there’s no need to continually make it personal,” he added.
Read more at
http://www.wsj.com/articles/bernie-sanders-campaign-is-split-over-whether-to-fight-on-past-tuesday-1465171997
Okay Bernie, let's say you become president
ReplyDeleteLet's say you are successful in raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
Bernie what are you going to do with people who are currently making $15 an hour? They will protest to make more money than a high school student.
Bernie what are you go to do with college graduates who have been working and making $20 plus dollars an hour? What are you going to do with their salaries?
Bernie, people who are 30 years older and more are going to want raises since you have given people 50% raises.
Bernie Sanders you have created a giant financial disaster.
Bernie Sanders is only saying crap that will get people who he is targeting to vote for him.
Or, we can continue to bend over and take it, since Hillary is in bed with Wall Street and the big banks...if their wages could increase 997%, why must the average American stagnate?
DeleteFrom the Economic Policy Institute:
Over the last several decades, inflation-adjusted CEO compensation increased from $1.5 million in 1978 to $16.3 million in 2014, or 997 percent, a rise almost double stock market growth. Over the same time period, a typical worker’s wages grew very little: the annual compensation, adjusted for inflation, of the average private-sector production and nonsupervisory worker (comprising 82 percent of total payroll employment) rose from $48,000 in 1978 to just $53,200 in 2014, an increase of only 10.9 percent. Due to this unequal growth, average top CEOs now make over 300 times what typical workers earn.
Funny how our nation could afford that enormous jump in the upper echelon's income, but most Americans have only gained about $7000.00 a year, in the 38 years since 1978!
DeleteAt least Bernie is making decent wages and fair taxation part of his platform. If it was possible to pay a worker $48000.00 almost 40 years ago, what has changed-other than greed?
7:03
DeleteDo some research instead of regurgitating Old Bernies lines.Hillary is for an increase in the minimum wage,just smaller and more gradual.
Just line Trump, he will say anything to get elected. Esp shit he knows he can't do.
DeleteAnonymous7:03 PM, Anonymous7:30 PM,
DeleteOh off off. I am probably considered " part of the 2.5%. But you know how I go here? My parents were blue collar workers. They've been to exactly two movies in their lives. The bought a rental property, worked daya and night (literally one worked day shift the other worked night shift). I took care of my two siblings from the age of 10 or 12). I had summer jobs from the age of 15. I went to a local college and studied laboratory technology and started working at the local hospital where I worked harder than anyone else I knew at the time. I was spotted by a start up medical company and joined them. We worked our asses off, many times spending the entire night in the lab. We grew the company to such an extent that it was purchased by one of the largest companies in the world. I am single no kids, no deductions and pay the highest relative taxes than anyone. I put everything I have into my house. In 2016 my effective tax rate was almost 52% due to performance bonuses.
People make choices and they need to accept responsibility for their life choices. I am all for a decent minimum wage and I donate to charity. But my stomach turns at paying even more taxes to cover people's life choices.
To expect people like me who built their life up from scratch to pay even more taxes to cover people's free college education is revolting. I paid for my college education at a local college. You can do the same.
Bonuses are always taxed at 50%, you get it back when you do your returns.
DeleteAnonymous8:35 AM,
DeleteNo you don't. Not if you have no deductions. My bonus moved me (just barely) into the next tax bracket and I still ended up having to pay $36k at the end of the year. I could have stayed home the last 3 months of the year and I would have been further ahead financially.
"Spanish language Festival"? Puerto Ricans really need to get with it and realize that they are Americans and that we, as Americans,speak English. So sick of pockets of America that insist in speaking languages other than the one that was chosen to be OUR native language.
ReplyDeleteNot sure why Bernie'd want to run around with a bunch of folks that don't speak our language anyway.
@6:42
DeleteWhat the actual fuck are you talking about?
"OUR native language"
Our white asses stole the land from the REAL natives of America.
Read up,dumbass.
http://www.ncai.org/about-tribes/indians_101.pdf
6:42...yeah Hillary never panders for ethnic or racial votes... Riighht!
DeleteOur language? English isn't our language if you are talking about American languages. Get over your bigotry, it's 2016.
DeleteI bet you are a barrel of laughs during Oktoberfest .Those guys in Lederhosen need to drop the hozen and get with the tube socks like a real American.
DeleteAs Americans, don't most Puerto Ricans speak English too?
Deletedowl
There is no 'native language' here. Ddi you know that in most of the world, students learn the language of their parents, as well as English and one or two more? In Switzerland, half the nation speaks German and half Frence, and they all get along fine?
Delete@anon 2:31pm
DeleteThere are multiple Native languages here.
"we, as Americans,speak English ...the one that was chosen to be OUR native language."
Delete-----------------
Bullshit. There is no official language of the United States.
We, as Americans, have the right to speak any language we like, with all the advantages and disadvantages that come with speaking and understanding only one, or maybe more, languages.
We, as Americans, have the right to celebrate the many cultures and diverse heritages that make up our country.
I have a short Anglo-Saxon suggestion for you. Figure it out.
Maybe instead of this "revolution" Sanders supporters are wanting, and I agree we need drastic reform, maybe they should step away from their computers and run for office. That is how it's done.
ReplyDeleteMildred
Maybe they should stop the gambling game of money exchanging hands to get their candidate in? We will all suffer no matter whom it is. Think any of them care about you or me, Mildred? They don't.
DeleteI am reminded of when the Pharisees cast lots on who was going to go home with Jesus' cape and I haven't been to church in months.
Not everyone is a leader Mildred. Some of us are simply activists and supporters.
DeleteNothing wrong with that and it doesn't mean we are less committed than Hillary or Trump supporters.
Absolutely nothing wrong with activists (me at one time) and supporters. It's the violence and anger that gets us nowhere. We saw that in the sixties. You can change a bad system if you get the right folks into office. It's too easy to sit on the outside and complain. Run for office. Get involved supporting those good guys running. Do what suits your capabilities, it take good people in all levels to make the system run well. For the people, by the people.
DeleteMildred
Anyone who is for Bernie should be phone-banking. One final day! Berniepb.com. If you don't, you can't really say you gave it your all.
DeleteAnd if you do phone-bank, say positive things about Bernie. That's the only way to win any campaign.
Negative campaigning does not work (e.g.,some anti-HRC comments always posted here are robotic, like a broken record.) Enthusiasm is catching. Learn how to campaign!
Wavin' at ya, Mildred, but it will never happen. See Citizens United. I remember the sixties well, and we got Nixon in the end.
DeleteAnonymous7:53 PM
DeleteIf people had given President Obama a Democratic senate and house at the both midterms, we could have had a much more progressive two terms. But progressives took their ball and went home.
There are at least two SCOTUS nominations on the line here. And if people allow Trump to gain the White House, you can bet your ass that tehir will be a lot more C.U. decisions as they positions are replaced with right wing supremes.
You are right, Anon at 7:53 pm. Remember the super progressive types who were miffed at President Obama for not producing miracles (although he did produce a couple - like the Detroit auto bailout and the hard-fought for though wounded ACA) and sat out the midterms. They are to some extent responsible for the obstructionism that has permeated the last six years in Congress.
DeleteBeaglemom
Bernie Sanders may have suppressed the vote in Puerto Rico, with an official coming forward on Sunday to accuse his campaign of requesting a massive cut in polling places that ultimately led to lines of several hours for voters.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.inquisitr.com/3173097/did-bernie-sanders-suppress-voting-in-puerto-rico-officials-accuse-sanders-campaign-of-requesting-drastic-cut-in-polling-places-leading-to-long-lines/
I believe it, usually those that try and accuse others of something are the ones doing it.
Delete#SendBernieToJail
My understanding of the story is that both campaigns were supposed to provide poll watchers, and since Sanders didn't have enough, something like 400+ polls had to be closed. I'm not citing a source at the moment because there's some question as to what sources are accurate.
DeleteThis is certainly a case of 'more than one side to this story'. I'm definitely not going to pass this one along or report it anywhere until I've checked it out.
Philly4Hillary @Philly4Hillary 5h5 hours ago
ReplyDeletePhilly4Hillary Retweeted Kate Linthicum
Desperate Sanders supporters, they have literally nothing left. #fleethebern
Philly4Hillary added,
Kate Linthicum @katelinthicum
Bill Clinton is getting shouted down by Bernie Sanders supporters, one of whom is holding up his middle finger.
Susan Sarandon is as Racist and Misogynist as She is Insane
ReplyDeletehttp://thedailybanter.com/2016/06/susan-sarandon-is-as-racist-and-misogynist-as-she-is-insane/
I hardly think that has any relevance, but I don't choose my candidate based on which celebrity has endorsed them.
DeleteSorry for the o/t, Gryphen, but it would appear that David French is taking a pass on Kristol's offer.
ReplyDeleteI think it's on his website, can't link from here.
The Palin Curse strikes again.
DeleteSaw on the national news that California is a dead heat.
ReplyDeleteThat has to BERN!
No not at all.
DeleteIf Bernie wins it will be by the slimmest of margins which means they will split the delegates right down the middle.
And besides that before the California votes have even been tallied Hillary will already have won the nomination.
So no we're good.
The Bern berned out already, he's a Loser.
DeleteJust shows that Hillary doesn't have the support of half of Californians, even though her husband beat Gerry Brown in his home state!
DeleteThe CA Democratic Party is organized and behind HRC. The Latino community here is behind HRC, esp. after the treatment of Dolores Huerta in Nevada by Sarandon and Bernie supporters. Sanders has no ground game here. They are really disorganized. CA will break for HRC. But it won't matter, because she will clinch by New Jersey.
DeleteI expect Bernie will get a lot of votes from 1) idealistic young people (those who bothered to register and vote), 2) poor people who think there really is a magic wand Bernie can wave to make their lives better, and 3) misogynists who are not ready for the first female President.
DeleteI also expect Hillary will win California. The primary rules here play to her favor, not Bernie's, and her speech last week was a total home run in these parts.
With all that organization and having the DNP, the Latino community and what with Sanders having no ground game, why is he expected to take half the state's delegates? Seems HRC should have creamed him!
Delete#weakHillary
8:39 - projections put her ahead of him. She's already banked a ton of votes. Just watch.
DeleteCA Demographics -
Delete"And non-white voters are likely to make up nearly half the Democratic electorate; those voters have been much friendlier to Clinton than white voters, who have generally been better for Sanders. The PPIC poll shows Clinton leading by a 47 percent to 41 percent margin among white voters, but by a wider 52 percent to 43 percent margin among Hispanic voters, who make up a huge percentage of the electorate in Los Angeles. African American and Asian American voters are each likely to account for between 8 percent and 10 percent of the vote."
http://capitolweekly.net/exit-poll-tight-race-absentee-voters-favor-hillary/
DeleteLol. Gryph still doesn't get what even a slim Clinton win in California means.
DeleteThere's a cream for that.
DeleteGryph stated it perfectly
DeleteA tie or win by Sanders in CA wouldn't necessarily prove CA Dems aren't behind Clinton. CA's primary is semi-open. Voters who intend to vote GOP in the Nov general election can vote for Sanders as the preferred opposition rather than record a primary vote for Trump, Cruz, or whomever.
DeleteSusan Sarandon: Trump's New BFF
ReplyDeletehttp://crooksandliars.com/2016/06/susan-sarandon-trumps-new-bff
Can't stand her. Brought us Bush.
DeleteI hope she's happy with endless war, the end of the middle class, and taking women back to the 1950's.
DeleteSit the fuck down old man. Oh, and get the hell off my lawn!
ReplyDeleteLOL. My father is not too many years older than Bernie, and a little but further down the road temperamentally. Such massive similarities between them: spoiled little boys who attained a measure of power and influence, unwilling to exit the stage gracefully as their faculties decline. Diminishing in one's old age is sad; not admitting it is sadder. And resolving to inflict as much damage as humanly possible along the way is just plain pathetic.
DeleteTime to sit down and STFU, Bernie.
Yeah, that Clinton is quite the spring chicken at 68.
DeleteAt least she doesn't look like this on the campaign trail! LOL
Deletehttps://twitter.com/abcpolitics/status/739570772717522945
Palins are not the only ones with torn jeans.
ReplyDelete-Too Blessed To Be Stressed
@7:19 PM You are like a gnat that needs to be swatted.
ReplyDeleteGo Georgia Peach! Sometimes a good woman has to resort to telling it like it is with a fuck here and fuck there!
ReplyDeleteSad but true. Women often have to use profanity just to be heard. I consider it punctuation. :)
DeleteGeorgiaPeach
I am sure you do, GP. Speaks volumes about you, too.
DeleteRight on, sisters.
DeletePower through profanity! We have come a long way, baby!
DeleteNow, show some cleaveage and really show em how empowered you are!
Pathetic.
@8:41
DeleteLol. You silly man. Only you would equate my cleavage with my empowerment. Although it would help if you spelled cleavage right. Who's pathetic? Still laughing. Bless your heart.
GeorgiaPeach
Saggy baggies are hardly empowering. Have some more biscuits and gravy and fried chicken and peach cobbler, and another plate of pretend you know anything.
DeleteAm homeschooling my daughter and read that in in 1848 the Whigs nominated Zachery Tayler and the Democrats nominated Henry Cass. Many Democrats who did not want Cass broke away and formed the Soil Party and chose Marin Van Buren for President. The Soil party favored free speech, free labor, and free men. Zachary Taylor won the election. He received 163 electoral votes, and Cass had 127. The Free Soilers took votes that would have gone to Cass. The issue of slavery back then decided the election by splitting the democratic party. Taylor took office in 1849. This is straight out of the history book I have, and as I aid and ebed my daughter in her education, she noticed that things haven't changed. I never knew this stuff and was shocked that as humans we even repeat history. How embarrassing. We never learn.
ReplyDelete"aid and abet".
DeleteSo, the Free Soilers wanted to end slavery and perhaps prevent the Civil War?
And the Whig candidate won?
Not sure where you're going with this. Or why.
It has been a while since I gave visited this blog. Back in the day I was Regular eagar for the latest gossip about the Palins. We're the days......now it appears to be just a bunch of trash talking . Maybe that's all it ever was.😕
ReplyDeleteWhat? Huh?
DeleteToo bad you didn't use the time away to learn English.
DeleteIf your life revolves around all things Palin, maybe you should make it a longer while until your next visit. "We're the days???"
DeleteBernie on film being told his campaign had no poll workers or resources in Puerto Rico
ReplyDeletehttp://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-quick-cuts/watch/sanders-faces-criticism-from-pr-staffers-686810179995
Meet Al Giordano, the man who's running for Bernie's senate seat in VT. Article by Joy Reid.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/06/meet-al-giordano-the-man-who-wants-to-take-bernie-down.html
Bill Kristol’s Independent Candidate David French Bails Out
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Hillary Clinton speech in San Diego, CA on June 2, 2016
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQt4KxUmnzw
She is now just 60 delegates short of the 2,383 needed to advance to the November general election.
ReplyDeleteThe party said Clinton won 84.2% of the vote, while Bernie Sanders earned 12.2%. Under Democratic National Committee rules, a candidate must win at least 15% of the vote to be eligible to receive delegates.
It was almost as big a margin as Barack Obama had in 2008 when he beat Clinton by 90% to 8%.
It’s weird, but to find this story I had to go to BING search. The only stories regarding Clinton that you can get to appear in Google, even when you sort by date, tend to be negative. The only exception to this is the positive press from Thursday’s foreign policy speech, which is now two day old news. She’s on a five day stump through California so there should be fresh press every day, but there isn’t. Somehow all the negative stories are being gamed. Stories that are two to three days old are being kept at the top of the stack with continual but meaningless updates or something.
ReplyDeletehttp://littlegreenfootballs.com/page/320372_Clinton_Opens_Up_Double-Digit_
Trump’s Commander-in-Chief Test
ReplyDeleteHe needs more than insults to rebut Clinton on national security.
The general election has arrived, and the tone will not be more elevated than in the primaries. Hillary Clinton opened a coruscating attack on Donald Trump’s foreign-policy credibility on Thursday, and despite her own weak record, the Republican will need a better response than he’s mustered.
Mrs. Clinton has identified Mr. Trump’s greatest liability, which is the Commander-in-Chief test. Americans expect their Presidents to possess some knowledge about the world and the coolness and intellectual gravity to manage its problems, or try to. Mrs. Clinton will argue through November that Mr. Trump fails to meet these minimum standards.
The Democrat said Mr. Trump was “temperamentally unfit to hold an office that requires knowledge, stability and immense responsibility”; his ideas are “dangerously incoherent”; and all but described a Trump Presidency as an extinction-level event. Her attack scored some points because Mrs. Clinton merely had to quote Mr. Trump’s own words.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-commander-in-chief-test-1464994479
The Daily Trump
ReplyDeletePeople will look back on this era in our history, to see what was known about Donald Trump while Americans were deciding whether to choose him as president. Here’s a running chronicle from James Fallows on the ways in which Trump has been unpresidential in an unprecedented way, and of the evidence available to voters as they make their choice.
The Daily Trump, a Time Capsule Series
It’s increasingly evident that something is seriously wrong with Donald Trump. That would be his own business, and his own problem, except for the chance that he could become the next president and thus be in position to command major regulatory, investigative, and military powers. As a reminder, during this period when Trump could still become president, and when more and more of the Republican party is deciding to deem him acceptable, the items in this series are for-the-record notes of things he does and says that no real-world president would or should.
http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/all/2016/05/the-daily-trump/484064/#note-484055
Bernie Sanders Campaign Is Split Over Whether to Fight on Past Tuesday
ReplyDeleteThe senator has vowed to press his case, but some urge him to unite behind Clinton
http://www.wsj.com/articles/bernie-sanders-campaign-is-split-over-whether-to-fight-on-past-tuesday-1465171997
When Hillary exceeds 2026 pledged delegates, which she will do tomorrow, Bernie needs to give it up because otherwise, he will be asking the superdelegates to do exactly what his own supporters would cry foul to were this race the other way around.
DeleteIf Bernie got, say, 2182 pledged delegates and had say, 500 supers already pledged (2682), and the Hillary campaign (her with 1869+212=2081) said it was going to try to woo a majority of the supers to vote for her, we'd never hear the end of it. It would be considered Hillary trying to 'steal' the election.
I don't see why Bernie supporters don't see it that way. I really, really, really do not understand.
Yes, supers CAN change their minds. But if Hillary wins 53.9% of the pledged (say, 2182 out of 4051) and Sanders wins 46.1%, how does he see it as in any way fair that of the 712 supers, 513 or 72% should vote for him?
'Cause that's what he'd need for the magic 2382 number: 1869+513
(Just a note: My numbers above include the 20 pledged from DC who don't actually vote until the 14th.)
This is why we are saying it is All Over, even though, yes, technically, the supers don't 'cast' their ballots until the convention. The idea that 72% would vote for the candidate that didn't even exceed 50% of the pledged delegates is in a realm of crazy improbability that Bernie supporters would never, ever accept were the shoe on the other foot.
The media is going to call it for her on Tuesday, just like they did in June 2008 for President Obama. The President and VP Biden will start campaigning for her on Wed. Hillary and President Obama have a joint event together in NYC on Wednesday. The General Election will be "official" enough then, as it was in 2008. Bernie is going to look like a real dope.
DeleteI was just reading "The Thinker". Lots of trump/triano articles. Not sure what it has to do with everything. Probably related to the big reveal on the dump trump stumps asap page at daily news. trump/triano
ReplyDeleteHillary Clinton visits Oakland church:
ReplyDeleteWithout naming him, she jabbed at Sanders, saying, "I wish it was about speeches, promise the moon, make all these rhetorical flourishes -- that would be easier than the job is."
http://www.mercurynews.com/politics-government/ci_29980761/hillary-clinton-visits-oakland-church-compares-city-warriors
Still getting "it's not over" messages from a relative, and I can't really blame him. Student loans won't be paid until he's 54, ACA brought sky-high premiums with $12000 deductible, the equivalent of paying a mortgage but still having to rent a house.
ReplyDeleteAnd I remember the pain not wanting to accept Gene McCarthy losing to the establishment Hubert Humphrey. For young-uns who may not know, "Students … radicalized by years of sit-ins and demonstrations, affluent and mobile, rose in a great crusade. But the McCarthy movement was not just the exuberance of youth. It moved across many age groups in many places. Tired of the war, bored with political rhetoric, they found in the new face, quiet voice and subtle, enigmatic phrasing of Eugene McCarthy a leader worth following." (From www.minnpost.com/politics-policy/2011/05/two-favorite-sons-humphrey-mccarthy-battle-1968)
-meh
The fact you state that HHH was ever "establishment" makes me think your whole post is phoney.
DeleteI campaigned for HHH as a child. My Democratic activist parents were certainly for him.
DeleteThis man is truly showing himself to be a total horse's ass. One thing will be guaranteed if he keeps this shit up, right up to the Convention.
ReplyDeleteIf he does that, he may as well quit the Senate. He will be a pariah to both sides, and whatever hope he had had of gaining a Chairmanship, should the Sems regain control of the Senate, will have evaporated into thin air, and by his own doings. So fuck you Bernie!!! You reap what you sew, you Gargamel, Statler, Q-Tip MFer.
I've been running to and from center city Philly for the past few weeks, and Bernie's campaign and Hillary's have wrapped vans/trucks "Black Men for Bernie" had little, if any, action. Hillary just has her slogan and her profile and people are waiting in line for their bumper stickers and whatever else they're doing, her campaign already has offices, cars with bullhorns, etc, and we've already voted. Her campaign workers are really fired up, knocking on doors, informing people, etc. Unless they're wearing street clothes, I hardly see any campaign workers on Bernies team. I got my paws on a few pamphlets today, and they're from Hillary, reprints of words that came out of trump's mouth, annotated and sourced. and comparisons of her policy visions vs Trumps.
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