Words like "honest" "trustworthy" are used sparingly in politics. Not surprising given the amount of "canned" BS that spews from the mouths of most main stream Establishment politicians who, as Marco Rubio so eloquently demonstrated are "scripted" by their donors to say (and repeat over and over again) what they believe voters want to hear. That's the nature of the beast and Republicans and Democrats alike are conditioned to respond that way even, as in Rubio's case, it sounds "robotic"
So, why are these words coming up at the voting booths these days?
As Hillary Clinton faces increased scrutiny for her use of an unsecured personal email server while secretary of state, the Democratic presidential candidate continues to struggle to win voters over on the basis of trust.
The wide majority of Democratic primary voters who focused primarily on the trustworthiness of candidates backed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) in the New Hampshire primary Tuesday, according to exit polls reported by ABC News.
Specifically, one-third of New Hampshire Democratic primary voters focused on the candidate who they believed to be most honest and trustworthy. Ninety-two percent of these individuals voted for Sanders, while 6 percent backed Clinton for the nomination.
Overall, Clinton lost the primary race to Sanders by 22 points.
Clinton’s honest rating, along with her poll numbers, has taken a hit since it was revealed last March that she used personal email to conduct government business while at the State Department. The Obama administration recently confirmed that nearly two dozen emails on Clinton’s server contain top secret information. Clinton has insisted that she never sent nor received information marked classified on her private email.
Clinton’s campaign has dismissed the controversy surrounding her email as the result of partisan efforts to damage her presidential ambitions. The FBI is currently investigating her email setup, which the agency formally confirmed for the first time in a letter earlier this month.
More than a quarter of Democratic primary voters in New Hampshire said they focused on the candidate who “cares about people like me,” according to exit polls Tuesday. Eight-in-10 of these voters backed Sanders, while 18 percent cast their ballots for Clinton.
Sanders beat Clinton among most demographic groups Tuesday, including women. Sanders dominated among Democratic voters under the age of 30, winning 84 percent to Clinton’s 15 percent. Sanders was similarly successful among younger voters in the Iowa Democratic caucus last week, where Clinton narrowly beat him.
During a speech from New Hampshire Tuesday night after the results were announced, Clinton acknowledged that she has “work to do” among younger voters. Her campaign has sought to minimize the importance of the first-in-the-nation Democratic primary, instead putting emphasis on states that vote in March.
While Sanders beat Clinton among most demographics , Clinton did prevail among those ages 65 and older and those belonging to families who make over $200,000 annually, according to the New York Times.
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
WHERE BERNIE STANDS ON CIVIL RIGHTS
It's not on a bridge going for a photo-op or a long winded speech about doing something. Bernie, for the lack of a better label, is a "mover and shaker" and has been in the civil rights causes for many years;
It isn’t that minority voters dislike Senator Bernie Sanders. They just aren’t familiar with him.
Sanders’ presidential campaign seems to be hitting its stride, based on polls coming out of Iowa and New Hampshire. But while he gains traction among those early primary voters, he is failing to generate enthusiasm — or even name recognition — with one key Democratic voting demographic: minorities.
As Jeff Weaver, Sanders’ campaign manager, told The New York Times:
Bernie addressed his relatively anemic support among African-Americans during an interview with George Stephanopoulos Sunday:
Sanders intended to do just that with an audience in Charleston, S.C., but he postponed that event after the deadly shooting there earlier this month. And when he spoke to a crowd of Latino government officials from across the country in Las Vegas in June, the Los Angeles Times reported that the room was about half-empty.
It is up to all candidates for the presidency, including every Democrat, every Republican and independent candidates, to address these issues in a forthright manner and to do outreach and communicate with communities that are besieged by these problems. Although his events in Phoenix, Houston and Dallas, where he loudly condemned police brutality and racism were a start, Sanders owes it to pay attention to these activists and listen to the concerns of marginalized groups whose civil rights have historically been suppressed. Sanders does have a record of fighting on these issues, and it should be only natural for him to be able to comfortably address them before a diverse audience.
Here are 20 ways Sanders has stood up for civil and minority rights, starting in the early 1950s up to the present year.
It isn’t that minority voters dislike Senator Bernie Sanders. They just aren’t familiar with him.
Sanders’ presidential campaign seems to be hitting its stride, based on polls coming out of Iowa and New Hampshire. But while he gains traction among those early primary voters, he is failing to generate enthusiasm — or even name recognition — with one key Democratic voting demographic: minorities.
As Jeff Weaver, Sanders’ campaign manager, told The New York Times:
In an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll last week, 95 percent of nonwhite Democratic voters said they could see themselves supporting Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton for the party’s nomination, but only about one-quarter of respondents said they could see themselves voting for Sanders.“We’re reaching out, but it’s no secret that Bernie represents a state that is heavily Caucasian, and his decades of work on issues of importance to African Americans aren’t known amid the national conversation on race that is underway.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) chats with supporters during a visit to his Iowa campaign headquarters on June 13, 2015 in Des Moines, Iowa. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
“I have a long history in fighting for civil rights. I understand that many people in the African-American community may not understand that.“But I think the issues that we are dealing with, combating 51 percent African-American youth unemployment, talking about the need that public colleges and universities should be tuition free, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, creating millions of jobs by rebuilding our infrastructure. These are issues that should apply to every American.”
The struggle for Sanders, who as a college student organized sit-ins against segregation and attended the 1963 March on Washington, is to make his views known to African-American communities quickly enough to have an impact on the election.
Sanders intended to do just that with an audience in Charleston, S.C., but he postponed that event after the deadly shooting there earlier this month. And when he spoke to a crowd of Latino government officials from across the country in Las Vegas in June, the Los Angeles Times reported that the room was about half-empty.
Mariachi musicians sing and play serenadas as they encourage people to vote on election day in Los Angeles on November 6, 2012. (Photo: JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images)
Matt Barreto, a pollster who focuses on Latino voters, told the Los Angeles Times:
“His name recognition in the Latino community is somewhere in between zero and extremely low. And you’re not going to win an election without Latino support.”
Demographics are not necessarily destiny; but unmarried women, minorities and millennial voters will make up a majority of the total electorate for the first time in 2016, according to pollster and former Bill Clinton advisor Stan Greenberg.
“His name recognition in the Latino community is somewhere in between zero and extremely low. And you’re not going to win an election without Latino support.”
Demographics are not necessarily destiny; but unmarried women, minorities and millennial voters will make up a majority of the total electorate for the first time in 2016, according to pollster and former Bill Clinton advisor Stan Greenberg.
What voters need to do is get to now Bernie and then decide who's on their side.
Sanders has a 50-year history of standing up for civil and minority rights, as he told the attendants of Netroots Nation after he was interrupted by Black Lives Matter protesters. Of course, it’s understandable that they want to bring attention to the movement. Killings of people from Ferguson to New York City to Los Angeles to Atlanta have finally brought important issues like police brutality, systemic racism, mass incarceration and militarization of the police into the center of national dialogue.It is up to all candidates for the presidency, including every Democrat, every Republican and independent candidates, to address these issues in a forthright manner and to do outreach and communicate with communities that are besieged by these problems. Although his events in Phoenix, Houston and Dallas, where he loudly condemned police brutality and racism were a start, Sanders owes it to pay attention to these activists and listen to the concerns of marginalized groups whose civil rights have historically been suppressed. Sanders does have a record of fighting on these issues, and it should be only natural for him to be able to comfortably address them before a diverse audience.
Here are 20 ways Sanders has stood up for civil and minority rights, starting in the early 1950s up to the present year.
HEY JEB! YOU CAN'T BUY YOUR WAY INTO THE WHITE HOUSE
Jeb and I agree. Donald Trump may not be able to insult his way into the White House but he needs to be reminded that he's not going to be able to buy his way into the White House with the bank roll he receives for pandering to his billionaire-millionaire "donor" base. There's no doubt that Jeb! wants millionaires and billionaires in front row seat in his White House.
The enormous fundraising success that Bush showed in the first half of the year has long since subsided, with new donors slow to join a campaign that has languished. The campaign has had little success with grass-roots fundraising, leaving it highly dependent on wealthy donors. And the establishment figures who flocked to back him in the spring have grown jittery as winter nears.
The candidate, who once talked of the importance of campaigning with “joy in your heart,” now projects an air of bewildered resignation.
“There are two types of politicians,” Bush said during a brief appearance Thursday outside Geno’s Chowder and Sandwich Shop. “There are the talkers, and there are the doers. I wish I could have done a better job talking on the stage. I wish I could talk as well as some of the people on the stage — the big personalities. But I’m a doer.”
The enormous fundraising success that Bush showed in the first half of the year has long since subsided, with new donors slow to join a campaign that has languished. The campaign has had little success with grass-roots fundraising, leaving it highly dependent on wealthy donors. And the establishment figures who flocked to back him in the spring have grown jittery as winter nears.
The candidate, who once talked of the importance of campaigning with “joy in your heart,” now projects an air of bewildered resignation.
“There are two types of politicians,” Bush said during a brief appearance Thursday outside Geno’s Chowder and Sandwich Shop. “There are the talkers, and there are the doers. I wish I could have done a better job talking on the stage. I wish I could talk as well as some of the people on the stage — the big personalities. But I’m a doer.”
If the polls are correct I'm not sure JEB! knows what he's doing.
WHAT BERNIE KNOWS ABOUT OUR ECONOMY
Let's start with saying that there are a large number of "economists" that agree with Bernie's views of the American economy; why it remains severely damaged and is rigged to protect only the "millionaires and billionaires" that broke it.
Financial experts, academics, and economists from across the nation are officially endorsing Bernie Sanders’ proposal to break up big banks and bring justice to Wall Street.
In a speech earlier this month in the heart of New York City’s financial district, Sanders outlined his plan to reform Wall Street that included, among other things, passing a new law similar to the Glass-Steagall bill of the 1930s that would separate commercial banking from investment banking — effectively breaking up the biggest Wall Street banks into smaller institutions. Sanders also pledged to take action to cap ATM fees at $2 per use, make usurious interest fees illegal, levy a sales tax on all financial transactions on Wall Street to discourage speculative trading, and bring criminal charges against the banking executives responsible for the 2008 financial crisis. Here’s video of the full speech:
Among the 170 economists and professors backing Sanders’ plan are former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, professor James K. Galbraith of the University of Texas, and John Miller of Wheaton College. Other experts listed on the sign-on letter teach at top universities like Harvard, Cornell, and Cambridge (UK). Also included is a former member of U.S. Congress, a former researcher for the Federal Reserve Board, and even a former associate at Goldman Sachs, as well as numerous financial advisors and wealth management experts.
Financial experts, academics, and economists from across the nation are officially endorsing Bernie Sanders’ proposal to break up big banks and bring justice to Wall Street.
In a speech earlier this month in the heart of New York City’s financial district, Sanders outlined his plan to reform Wall Street that included, among other things, passing a new law similar to the Glass-Steagall bill of the 1930s that would separate commercial banking from investment banking — effectively breaking up the biggest Wall Street banks into smaller institutions. Sanders also pledged to take action to cap ATM fees at $2 per use, make usurious interest fees illegal, levy a sales tax on all financial transactions on Wall Street to discourage speculative trading, and bring criminal charges against the banking executives responsible for the 2008 financial crisis. Here’s video of the full speech:
Among the 170 economists and professors backing Sanders’ plan are former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, professor James K. Galbraith of the University of Texas, and John Miller of Wheaton College. Other experts listed on the sign-on letter teach at top universities like Harvard, Cornell, and Cambridge (UK). Also included is a former member of U.S. Congress, a former researcher for the Federal Reserve Board, and even a former associate at Goldman Sachs, as well as numerous financial advisors and wealth management experts.
Monday, February 8, 2016
GUESS WHO THE WINNER IS ON ELECTION DAY?
IT'S YOU AND YOUR ONE VOTE!
That's right. It's not a dream. What you hold in your hands when you step into a voting booth is so valuable a small group of people have invested billions of dollars either trying to buy it from you or distract you in to not using it. The Iowa caucuses is an example of the value of one vote. Bernie Sanders, the self professed "progressive democrat" who the Establishment wrote off as a socialist that no one would vote for came up from being behind double digits in the polls to being just a fraction of a percent and almost defeating Hillary the Establishment shoe-in who was able to grab it with the toss of a few coins not votes. Bernie did not come so far up from behind by taking away votes from Hillary but because he was "given" votes of "first time voters" who decided to wake up that day and trek on down to their caucuses and make their vote(s) count.
Probably some were the 42% of the "losers" Romney so easily wrote off (see video).
Probably some of the votes came from the almost 6 million people who lost their homes in the "housing crash of 2008 (read this).
Maybe some of those votes came from those who lost over 2 Trillion dollars of their nest eggs (read this) in the 2008 crash..
No matter how you break it down 99% of Americans lost no less than 10 trillion dollars in 2008 (read this) and there's a good chance one of them showed up to vote for Bernie on that day.
It's almost unimaginable to believe that 1% of our population could inflict so much financial damage on the other 99% of Americans in such a short period of time and get away with it it!
Here's what Bernie has to say to you (see video)
If you're thinking your vote doesn't count, think again. That's how until now only 1% of our population have successfully been able to grab and hold on to almost 50% of America's wealth leaving what's left to be divide up among the 99% of those that are left. If you complain they try to shame you by labeling it "class warfare" when what it's really "income inequality." That word inequality is what get's em.
So, when you wake up on election day either in your parent's basement or in your own bed after a sleepless night of wondering if; now that your nest egg is gone, if the day will come when you can finally sleep in, or just thinking, maybe this could happen to me one day, you might make it worth your while to get up, get dressed, and head on down to your polling station and put that vote of yours to good use.
That's right. It's not a dream. What you hold in your hands when you step into a voting booth is so valuable a small group of people have invested billions of dollars either trying to buy it from you or distract you in to not using it. The Iowa caucuses is an example of the value of one vote. Bernie Sanders, the self professed "progressive democrat" who the Establishment wrote off as a socialist that no one would vote for came up from being behind double digits in the polls to being just a fraction of a percent and almost defeating Hillary the Establishment shoe-in who was able to grab it with the toss of a few coins not votes. Bernie did not come so far up from behind by taking away votes from Hillary but because he was "given" votes of "first time voters" who decided to wake up that day and trek on down to their caucuses and make their vote(s) count.
Probably some were the 42% of the "losers" Romney so easily wrote off (see video).
Probably some of the votes came from the almost 6 million people who lost their homes in the "housing crash of 2008 (read this).
Maybe some of those votes came from those who lost over 2 Trillion dollars of their nest eggs (read this) in the 2008 crash..
No matter how you break it down 99% of Americans lost no less than 10 trillion dollars in 2008 (read this) and there's a good chance one of them showed up to vote for Bernie on that day.
It's almost unimaginable to believe that 1% of our population could inflict so much financial damage on the other 99% of Americans in such a short period of time and get away with it it!
Here's what Bernie has to say to you (see video)
If you're thinking your vote doesn't count, think again. That's how until now only 1% of our population have successfully been able to grab and hold on to almost 50% of America's wealth leaving what's left to be divide up among the 99% of those that are left. If you complain they try to shame you by labeling it "class warfare" when what it's really "income inequality." That word inequality is what get's em.
So, when you wake up on election day either in your parent's basement or in your own bed after a sleepless night of wondering if; now that your nest egg is gone, if the day will come when you can finally sleep in, or just thinking, maybe this could happen to me one day, you might make it worth your while to get up, get dressed, and head on down to your polling station and put that vote of yours to good use.
Sunday, February 7, 2016
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)