Elizabeth Warren to Wall Street cop: ‘Step up’
http://rapidnewsnetwork.com/elizabeth-warren-to-wall-street-cop-step-up/...
Elizabeth Warren to Wall Street cop: ‘Step up’
http://rapidnewsnetwork.com/elizabeth-warren-to-wall-street-cop-step-up/...
Ha! She must be stumbling in the polls!
Hillary Clinton Tells Fight For 15: “We Need You”
In a phone message to workers gathered in Detroit, she defended the right to collectively bargain and gave shout-outs to adjunct professors and home care workers.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/coralewis/hillary-clinton-tells-fight-for-15-we-...
Here’s how Bernie Sanders could win: The one issue where Hillary’s vulnerable, and where the Tea Party might be right
If progressives want to retake government, a full-throated war on public corruption is the key to everything
http://www.salon.com/2015/06/14/heres_how_bernie_sanders_could_win_the_o...
Hillary Clinton addressed the Bernie issue by sounding like him in the campaign kick off yesterday. (I thought she already kicked off her campaign, how many times does she have to offically announce her run)
She sounds populist, but she made a reference at the end of the speech that we need to talk with republicans and work with them, not just with people who we already agree with. She was clearly taking a shot at Bernie, without mentioning his name. She would never do that, that would make his threat even more real.
She reluctantly agreed that TPP needs to be discussed further more just today, on a more low profile apperance. ("I kind of fall in the group that says 'what's in it?' And 'let's make it as good as it can be, and then let's make a decision.'"
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/hillary-clinton-just-sided-with-house-democrats-in-the-big-trade-spat-with-obama-2015-6#ixzz3d5iATktK)
I remember in the 2008 primary, both Hillary and Barack said that they will re open NAFTA, of course, that was just populist talk. I wonder how many people will Hillary convince this time around that she is the new Elizabeth Wareen
I would feel sad for the palestinians and whistleblowers like Edward Snowden if Clinton becomes president. I dont think she is a good choice.
She is also the great supporter of gays and lesbians and transgender people, when she only decided to support same sex marriage (one and half year ago?)
It is possible for Clinton to lose in the Iowa cacus , becaase its a caucus state but I doubt Bernie really has a shot at the nomination.
That said, alot of otherwise legitimate attacks against Clinton is laced with vulgar and sexist languages, and that will turn off many people who want to see the first female president.
'Inventing New Dragon to Slay': Clinton's Archaic Campaign Tactics Slammed by Russian FM Spokesperson
http://rt.com/usa/267148-moscow-clinton-election-populism/
"Hillary Clinton is running for US president on promises to protect Americans from 'traditional threats' like Russia and a 'rising' China, which Russia's FM spokesperson decribed as coming directly from populist pamphlets of the last century.
'So Welcome! The new enemies of the American people - the 'traditionally threatening' Russia and a 'rising' China."
Scott Walker and the Fate of the Union
In Wisconsin, where the labor movement took root a century ago, a campaign by the governor has broken its power. His political allies hope he can take a similar campaign nationwide.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/14/magazine/scott-walker-and-the-fate-of-...
Just read Bob Woodward's book "Obama's Wars".
The problem with both Hillary and Jeb is that they will both cave to the war-mongering Generals although perhaps Jeb may study things a little more.
My goodness hopefully neither one of these candidates will win.
Pondering Clinton & Jeb
It is very sad there is no possibility of Sanders winning, but there is way too much defence contractors' money against him
America is feeling the Bern: Bernie Sanders draws overflow crowds — and surges in the polls
Once written off as a fringe candidate, the Vermont senator's performance is taking many pundits by surprise
http://www.salon.com/2015/06/16/america_is_feeling_the_bern_bernie_sande...
While Donald Trump talked (and talked), Hillary Clinton got some very bad news
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/06/16/while-donald-t...
Jeb Bush by catering to the nut bar GOP leadership race has just eliminated himself from contention for the presidency by supporting the global warming deniers WTF!!!
It is very sad there is no possibility of Sanders winning...
Don't rule it out.
[url=http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/06/my-prediction-bernie-sanders-will... Zuesse: Bernie Sanders will win the White House (June 1, 2015)[/url]
On May 12th, I presented my analysis of the polling as of that time, headlining, “The Early Signs of Whom The Next U.S. President Will Likely Be: Presidential Polls Look Confusing Regarding Bernie, But Downright Bad Regarding Hillary & All Republicans.” Based on the net-favorability ratings of candidates in the first poll that had really meaningful results on that most important of all factors (which poll had just been published), and also based on the latest available reliable poll of Americans’ ideological preferences (which had been taken in 2011, but that’s okay because ideology changes only very slowly), I concluded that Vermont U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders was likely to surprise on the upside at the start of his contest, and that, “Sanders would probably be able to crush any Republican except perhaps Rand Paul, if he were to win the Democratic primaries.” He is already surprising on the upside (though pundits haven’t yet caught on that Hillary’s a dud), and so I am now predicting that Sanders will win, first, the Democratic nomination, and then the White House. But, first, to summarize:
The crucial net favorabilities were shown and documented in that May 12th article to be outright terrible for every candidate except Scott Walker, Marco Rubio, and Bernie Sanders; they were merely bad for Walker and Rubio; and they were probably marginally good for Sanders, but the latest poll hadn’t even included Sanders’s name, and so for him I extrapolated from ideologically the only candidate, who had been named, who was at all similar to Sanders ideologically, and this was Elizabeth Warren; and she had a slightly positive net favorability rating, which was by far the best of any of the named candidates (either male or female). Based on information that I’ve been provided access to, she will not be entering the contest, and Senator Sanders will be the only progressive candidate running in the Democratic primaries.
The 2011 ideological poll showed that of the five ideological orientations that were named, the one with the highest net-favorability — the ratio of “positive” to “negative” ratings — by the American public, was “Progressive,” at 67%/22%, or 3.05; and the second-highest was “Conservative,” at 62%/30%, or 2.07. Like Senator Warren, Senator Sanders is one of the U.S. Senate’s three leading (if not the Senate’s only three) progressives. He clearly represents the most-widely-shared ideology: progressivism. If he wins the Democratic nomination, then the nation will be in for its first clear ideological choice since 1932 in a two-major-Party contest between a progressive Democrat versus a conservative Republican. That time it was FDR versus Herbert Hoover. Of course, FDR won.
A 75 year old Jew from Vermont, who's a self-described Socialist with wild white hair and a deep Brooklyn accent winning the presidency of the USA? I guess anything's possible.
Hey if the NDP can get elected in Alberta...
True.
Jeb Bush by catering to the nut bar GOP leadership race has just eliminated himself from contention for the presidency by supporting the global warming deniers WTF!!!
Um... waiting for [sarc] tag, not seeing it. Perhaps implied?
A 75 year old Jew from Vermont, who's a self-described Socialist with wild white hair and a deep Brooklyn accent winning the presidency of the USA? I guess anything's possible.
frankly, Obama won in 2008 with a pile of voter negatives that was hard for even Sanders to beat ...
http://time.com/3842314/bernie-sanders-age-chart/#3842314/bernie-sanders-age-chart/
Bernie would be the oldest U.S president in history..
If they, read: Hillary, block him, he should run as an Indie
Democrats May Keep Bernie Sanders Off New York Primary Ballot
If they, read: Hillary, block him, he should run as an Indie
Democrats May Keep Bernie Sanders Off New York Primary Ballot
Hey, NorthReport... how about this:
oldv,
I expected to hear from the people who supported the right-wing Wynne Liberals in the Ontario election. So you are kinda confirming my hunch abourt Leadnow.
TPP passed the House because Obama really want to work with the republicans to get this done, more than anything else.
The Vileness of the Clintons - by Joseph Grosso
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/06/25/the-vileness-of-the-clintons/
"...Yet here Bill and Hillary remain: a world class philanthropist and a presidential frontrunner and not any frontrunner but one who large parts of the media are, despite all the evidence of the past two decades, actually brandishing with progressive credientials..."
Democrats still love Obama , they will vote for Hillary
Clinton - 43%
Sanders - 35%
Bernie Sanders: Obamacare not enough
http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/28/politics/bernie-sanders-obamacare-hillary-...
Trump: "I am an idiot".
Candidate Donald Trump talks immigration, gay marriage and ISIS
http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/28/politics/donald-trump-immigration-gay-marr...
US Activist/Analyst Don Debar reviews the candidates starting with Donald Trump (and vid)
http://www.vineyardsaker.co.nz/2015/06/28/don-debar-sums-up-the-empire-a...
I read that Donald Trump is a close second to Jeb Bush in New Hampshire primaries.
That country is so fucked up that I can'' t help but hope that Trump wins the Republican nomination.It would spell the end of the US empire.
But, but......I'm rich, you can't do that to me.
NBC and GOP, dump Trump for his Mexico insults
http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/27/opinions/sanchez-trump-nbcu-ties/index.html
CNN needs to make up their mind - is he a racist,or or is he so rich that he can make racist comments and not be called racist.
Karl Penhaul Dropped by CNN After Tweets Calling Donald Trump ‘Racist Idiot’
http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/karl-penhaul-dropped-by-cnn-after-tweets-...
BAR: Both Major US Parties Are Plagues On Humanity - by Glen Ford
http://blackagendareport.com/both_major_parties_plagues_on_humanity
"There has never been a dime's worth of difference between the Clintons (Bill and Hillary) and Barack Obama, and less than ten cents separates the worldviews of these Democratic political twins from the Bush wing of the Republican Party.
They all lie for a living and they live to lie..."
In a letter to prominent Jewish leaders, Hillary Rodham Clinton expressed her “alarm” over calls to boycott Israeli products to push Israel to improve its dealings with the Palestinians.
Mrs. Clinton has largely avoided discussion of foreign policy in her early months on the campaign trail. But in the July 2 letter, whose recipients included some of the biggest donors to her campaigns and a “super PAC” supporting her, the former secretary of state said the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment, or B.D.S., campaign against Israel was “the latest effort to single out Israel on the world stage.”
The letter was provided to news organizations by a public relations firm working for Haim Saban, a prominent Clinton donor who has been particularly outspoken in opposition to the divestment movement. A Clinton spokeswoman said the letter was also sent to other prominent pro-Israel leaders, many of them leaders of large Jewish nonprofit organizations.
Mrs. Clinton called for a bipartisan effort to “make countering B.D.S. a priority” and said she sought the recipients’ advice on “how we can work together — across party lines and with a diverse array of voices — to reverse this trend.”
Mr. Saban, the Hollywood mogul behind the Power Rangers fortune, who also owns a majority stake in Univision, has expressed concern about the current negotiations with Iran and other issues involving Israel. Mr. Saban, who has contributed at least $2 million to a “super PAC” backing Mrs. Clinton, also spoke at an anti-B.D.S. conference in Las Vegas in June hosted by Sheldon Adelson, a casino billionaire and leading Republican donor.
Nevertheless, at a campaign rally on Saturday in Hanover, N.H., Mrs. Clinton reiterated her support for President Obama’s framework for a deal to curtail Iran’s nuclear program — but she called the country “the world’s chief sponsor of terrorism.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/donald-trump-to-jeb-bush-your-w...
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/06/donald-trump-mexican-immi...
Donald Trump launched another attack on Mexico on Monday – this time accusing Mexicans of being responsible for “tremendous infectious disease ... pouring across the border”.
Not the NYT: More on Israel and the Clinton campaign from the odious zio Pamela Geller
Hillary Clinton's Top Advisor Defends Claims that Israel is Nazi Germany and Israelis Must Leave Israel
http://pamelageller.com/2015/07/hillary-clinton-top-advisor-defends-clai...
"Are wealthy quisling Jews going to further undermine the Jewish state and its people and support this pro-'palestinian' radical? While Politico rants and raves that Hillary Clinton will be good for Israel, what's been overlooked is that her closest advisor, SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL, defends claims that Israel is Germany, and Israelis must leave Israel.
In her secret emails, Sid Blumenthal was essentially running the State Department from outside the government. In repeated 'confidential' emails, Sidney Blumenthal provides advice to Hillary on conflicts all over the world. Blumenthal repeatedly stands against Israel. In fact, he is also a fierce defender of his anti-Israel son, MAX BLUMENTHAL, who is an activist solely devoted to harming the Jewish people.
Sources in the know indicate that one of Hillary Clinton's other longtime advisors and associates is extremist New Israel Fund supporter Karen R Adler."
Bernie Sanders: Anti-Russian Propaganda and 'Vermont Socialism' - by Caleb Maupin
http://journal-neo.org/2015/06/28/bernie-sanders-anti-russian-propaganda...
"The presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders - an anti-Russia, Israel-supporting politician from Vermont - revives an archaic feud among leftists. The old debate about 'sewer socialism' is back.
Senator Sanders is running for president, and openly describes himself as a 'socialist'. Despite using this word to describe himself, with many well intentioned anti-capitalist activists supporting him, Sanders platform in reality articulates a strategy for strengthening global monopoly capitalism and its expanding militarism..."
Weekend at Bernie's, except that he's the one dragging around the social corpse, ie: the 'progressive' wing of the Democratic party.
I watched a speech by Bernie Sanders, I think it was the one in Wisconin, and its was a damn good one.
Trump just shows why no one should be allowed to get that rich
Trump just shows why no one should be allowed to get that rich
America is ready for socialism!
Massive majorities back Bernie Sanders on the issues — and disdain Donald Trump
Trump channels the right's angry Fox News id. But Sanders speaks to America's soul — and our values
http://www.salon.com/2015/07/11/america_is_ready_for_socialism_massive_m...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/14/1402268/-Trump-campaign-posts-a...
Trump campaign posts a tweet depicting soldiers in Nazi uniforms. Who gets fired for this?
Fired? I fully expect that asshole go up in the polls, he's already first.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/18/donald-trump-john-mccain-...
Donald Trump attacked the Arizona senator John McCain on Saturday, for being shot down while a navy pilot during the Vietnam war.
Trump, who has been in a war of words with the 2008 Republican nominee, jibed of McCain: “He’s not a war hero. He’s a war hero because he was captured? I like people who weren’t captured.”
The Donald Trump Insult Generator:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/donald-trump-insult-generato...
What a gift that would be to Hillary.
GOP's nightmare: An Independent Donald Trump
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/23/politics/donald-trump-third-party/
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/01/mike-huckabee-end-abortio...
At a succession of campaign stops this week, the former Arkansas governor said he would violate a landmark supreme court ruling to accomplish his goal of ending abortion.
“I will not pretend there is nothing we can do to stop this,” Huckabee said at one stop in Iowa.
The Rolling Stone reporter Matt Taibbi pressed Huckabee at the next campaign stop, asking if he would use the national guard or the FBI to stop abortions. Huckabee responded: “We’ll see, if I get to be president.”
Trump's Triumph: Billionaire Blowhard Exposes Fake Political System - by Mike Whitney
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/08/07/trumps-triumph-billionaire-blowha...
"Last night FOX News GOP Presidential Debate Extravaganza featured the most riveting two minute colloquy between Republican frontrunner Donald Trump and Fox moderator Brett Baier.
The pugnacious casino magnate revealed the appalling truth about the American political system, that the big money guys like Trump own the whole crooked contraption, lock, stock and barrel, and that, the nation's fake political leaders do whatever they're told to do.
Without question, it was the most illuminating commentary to ever cross the airwaves. Here's the entire exchange direct from the transcript..."
American Oligarchy
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-04/american-oligarchy-400-families...
"400 families gave 50% of $ raised by 2016 US presidential candidates so far."
Like USA, most Canadians are well aware their government, their political parties, and their democracy is 'fake.' They pretend to believe otherwise so they don't have to deal with this elephant in the room. Subservience becomes second nature and denial becomes easier than confrontation.
Trump's Triumph: Billionaire Blowhard Exposes Fake Political System - by Mike Whitney
thanks for this...priceless, but it ought to go in a Canadian election thread!
Yes, thanks for the link, ndpp. There is also this piece, by Lee Fang at The Intercept, and an earlier one by his colleague Jon Schwarz about cases in which politicians have admitted who owns them.