Bernie Sanders for President

NorthReport wrote:

I wish.

Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren Have Defeated Hillary Clinton's Political Machine

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-a-goodman/bernie-sanders-and-elizab_1_b_...

The great thing about that link is that the huffington post is on the roll! 

This could be it folks. This could bring Elizabeth! And onlly the most jaded bastards wouldn't see that as the dream team!

which unfortunately a lot of the people in that country are.

kropotkin1951 wrote:

VoD that is very true. 

It isn't as bad as Tommy Douglas who during his time in politics believed homosexuality, even though decriminalized, should be “recognized for what it is — a mental illness, a psychiatric condition, which ought to be treated sympathetically by psychiatrists and social workers?”‘ Of course that was not his view at the end of his career.

Your objection is valid and its like my objection, as an advocate for people with disabilities, to the cult of Nellie McClung.

The habit of judging  the historical opinions of people by today's conventions can be problematic, it's as if any comtemporary consensus of progressive opinion exists ahistorically for the past --and future.  I have no doubt that if (by some remote chance) civilization survives, many of our cherished progressive truisms no longer will be.
 
Douglas's remark was on the progressive end of mainstream opinion for its day (1968) made  during the debate of Trudeau's bill decriminalizing homosexuality (which of course Douglas voted for). Douglas's opinion was in keeping with the "best" and "most authoritive" medical opinion of the day.
Years later:

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In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder.[3] The American Psychological Association Council of Representatives followed in 1975.[4] Thereafter other major mental health organizations followed, including the World Health Organization in 1990.

Even more distressing to ahistorical progressives (as well his gleeful detractors) are his statements on eugenic and sterilization of "sub-humans" written in his 1933 masters thesis.  Those shocking  words were also  unremarkable mainstream sentiment at the height  eugenics "scientific" adoption widely institutionalized in universities and many  modern governments --including formally in some of Canada's provinces. Eugenics ony really became general anathema to progressives after its particularly sordid preditations the Hitler regime.

One funny note is Bill's "North Woods" lumberjack shirt:

I've spent too much time deliberating about monty1 and concluded that I would never get that wasted time back. I banned him, because fuck it, but also because he seems to show contempt for babble and has an appreciation for his own intellect that could only be equalled by a white teenage boy. The way I see it, this is a win-win: he gets to wear his banning like a badge of honour, and we don't have to read his drivel anymore.

Complaints, as always, to catchfire[at]rabble.ca.

ETA: Just read Gustave's veiled threats to lagatta and Brachina's flounce too. Wow! What a thread. Consider those guys gone too.

I hate to rain on the parade, but Sander's victory tonight means nothing in and of itself. New Hampshire doesn't send that many delegates, and being Sander's home turf, he was always going to win here no matter how strong the Clinton campaign was. It's very easy for the pundits to dismiss Sander's victory on those grounds and also on the grounds that New Hampshire doesn't have that many black voters, who seem to at this moment favour Clinton. The question is, is the Sanders margin of victory large enough to overcome these dismissals?

The thing about politics is momentum is very important. When undecided voters see he is a serious contender then his numbers are going to increase.

In the meantime stories like this are surfacing about the Clinton's that show they have no principles.

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And yet, on her first date with classmate Clinton in 1971, Rodham would later recall:

We both had wanted to see a Mark Rothko exhibit at the Yale Art Gallery but, because of a labor dispute, some of the university's buildings, including the museum, were closed. As Bill and I walked by, he decided he could get us in if we offered to pick up the litter that had accumulated in the gallery's courtyard. Watching him talk our way in was the first time I saw his persuasiveness in action. We had the entire museum to ourselves. We wandered through the galleries talking about Rothko and twentieth-century art. I admit to being surprised at his interest in and knowledge of subjects that seemed, at first, unusual for a Viking from Arkansas. We ended up in the museum's courtyard, where I sat in the large lap of Henry Moore's sculpture Drape Seated Woman while we talked until dark.

http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/18841/hillary_rodham_bill_clinton_...