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Posted: July 25, 2016 Filed under: 2016 elections | Tags: Bernie Sanders, Clinton/Kaine 2016, Corey Booker. Eilzabeth Warren, DNC Philadelphia 2016, Donald Trump and fascism, front pagers, Hillary Clinton, michelle obama 75 CommentsGood Afternoon!! 
I’m looking forward to the opening Gavel of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia tonight. Ohio Congress woman Marsha Fudge is the chair now of this DNC. The other DNC is being chaired temporarily by Donna Brazile. Elizabeth Warren will be the Keynote Democratic Convention speaker tonight. Other speakers include Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), first lady Michelle Obama and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
It is rumored that Bernie Sanders will turn over his delegates tonight. We shall see and we shall have an open thread for it. I’m excited to hear Booker, Michelle, and Warren. Hopefully, Michelle will joke mightily on how she has already had her words ring through the RNC.
Meanwhile, as you may have noticed, we have a new front pager. We’ve known her for a very long time as BlueLyon. Today, she’s our woman on the spot in Philadelphia as an important member of Team Hillary Nevada! She’s also been working since the caucuses with one of Hillary’s organizers that came to work with me in Louisiana so we’re getting all of our six degrees of separation connected! I’m going to be working on the Florida general as part of Team Louisiana but if I get a chance to call up to Nevada I surely will. I’ve got that image of the front of USA Today because Carissa is right there representing for Nevada and Hillary.
If you have an Apple phone. You can call and volunteer for Team Hillary and win cool swag. The Android ap is on its way. Check out the apple ap here. Help out those hard workers like Carissa Snedeker who are fighting to win a key state if you’re in a red state like me, or a super safe blue state like Boston Booomer.
I can’t think of a better way to welcome BlueLyon to our front page than by sharing the USA Today interview with her from Philadelphia. Well, that and to remind you that she is one helluva photographer too!!
“I’m so excited about the prospect that there could be children who are born who have never seen a
white man in the White House as president because we’ve had eight years of Barack Obama and then maybe we go to a woman and it’s just the paradigm, it’s changes the conversation in a way that I’ve seen in my own lifetime. I’m a child of the ‘60s and ‘70s and, I mean, the horrific things that are happening now, but yet we have marriage equality, and we have trans rights and we’re talking about gay people where they’re our neighbors and they don’t have to hide anymore, and women can be CEOs and there’s no help wanted ads where “help wanted male” and “help wanted female.” I’ve seen all these things change in my life so I know that we can still keep making progress. I don’t want to go backwards, I want to go forwards. I want to move forward, and that’s why I do this.”
So, obviously she’s very very busy and will check in with us when she can! Give her a great welcome and wish her luck!!!
So here’s a treat!!! There will be painted Donkeys all over Philadelphia this week. I’m going to feature some pix of them. Fifty Seven Donkeys will be on display throughout Philadelphia.
Ed Rendell came up with the idea. Obviously.
A collection of 57 painted donkey statues will decorate Philadelphia during the months of July and August, the former governor and current chairman of the Democratic National Convention host committee announced today at a press conference. The point of the donkeys, he says, is to get Philadelphians excited about this summer’s Democratic Convention and encourage delegates to visit different parts of the city. We’re guessing it doesn’t hurt that the donkeys will inevitably inspire tons of photo-ops and selfies, too.
“You all remember the bulls or the cows in Chicago,” Rendell said. “I thought, what a great idea to have donkeys around town. … The host committee wants this to be a great convention for the Democratic Party, but we also want it to be a great convention for the people of Philadelphia.”
That being said, not all the Bernie supporters are getting on the Hillary Train. I have a feeling we’re having similar problems to the ones we had in 2008 where Hillary Blogs got completely overrun by republican ratfucking Tea Partiers! If you were with us when this blog turned from my personal file cabinet to a functioning blog, you’ll remember it well. I do believe those folks abandoned Hillary eventually and went on to hate her as much as they hated President Obama. We were very critical of the President here–especially in his first term–because he seemed overly willing to give in to Republicans. That being said, Obama learned a few lessons and he’s been doing great and we support him while still being critical based on whatever issues we care about. We’ve been investigating Tim Kaine as part of that and are beginning to warm up to him.
The silliest kerfuffle of the day has been the Wikileaks DNC stuff. My bottom line is this on the very idea that an entire state or group of states can be rigged by the DNC. I’m tired of freaking conspiracy theorists from the left and right wing. I don’t think people have a clue about the idea of rigging elections. Just because a bunch of us learned to actively dislike and not vote for a candidate running as a Democrat to Grift the benefits of party apparatus and then actively showing contempt for everyone and everything is not evidence of anything illegal. Party politics with its internecine infighting is always ugly. There are too many state and local governments run by Republicans for a Democratic political entity to rig any state election. If you want to get rid of the worst of it, fight to end caucuses.
Joshua Holland has this to say and I agree completely. What worries me most is the idea that BostonBoomer discussed on Saturday. Trump is beholden financially to the Russian state and most likely the Russian Mafia and it’s likely the hack was done for wikileaks by Russians.
You can’t prove a negative, but when you strip away the furious spin, the DNC leaks provide strong evidence that the DNC did nothing to influence the outcome of the primaries.
The key here is just how candid and unvarnished these discussions were. It’s abundantly clear that they never imagined that these emails would ever see the light of day. They are frank in their contempt for people like Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver. They don’t hesitate to say fuck this or that person. They are open in their discussions of how to respond to various accusations that they were influencing the primaries.
And yet, in almost 20,000 very candid emails among seven high-level DNC officials over a five-month period, there is zero evidence that the organization took any action to tilt the playing field. There is a single email where one staffer floats the idea of intervening in the primaries by questioning Sanders’ religious beliefs in the South, but that idea was shot down. (I think it’s obvious that guy should resign or be fired.)
You can’t prove a negative — maybe they used a Get Smart-style Cone of Silence to discuss rigging the primaries. But one would imagine that in such a large trove of totally unguarded correspondence, some evidence of active intervention would emerge if it were indeed happening.
Again, there’s a lot of spin going on here, including by Wikileaks itself, which has been tweeting links to banal documents with inflammatory editorial comments this am.
The leaks reveal two things that are being spun as evidence that the DNC wasn’t neutral.
First, it’s clear than over the course of the campaign, an enormous amount of bad blood developed between the organization and the Sanders camp. This likely dates back to the NGP-VAN brouhaha. The objective facts were that a Sanders staffer breached the Clinton campaign’s data. The campaign apologized for it, and fired the staffer responsible, but then cried foul when its access was suspended for 24 hours while they investigated how it had happened. Their frustration then grew noticeably when the campaign accused the Nevada Democratic Party of breaking its rules at the state convention — claims that have been widely debunked. Whatever one thinks about those incidents, neutrality does not mean pretending that you aren’t pissed off about constantly being accused of corruption.
Others are seizing on the fact that the DNC leadership seemed pretty sure that HRC would be the party’s nominee. The implication is that they were only so confident because they had a thumb on the scale. The problem with that argument is that if you surveyed Washington DC-based political professionals, it’s likely that 90+ percent of them would tell you that they never though Sanders had much of a chance of securing the nomination. That includes people who *supported* Sanders. I backed him and never thought he could win, and I know many other knowledgeable Sanders supporters who felt the same way. Neutrality doesn’t require either believing that all candidates have an equal shot of winning, or pretending to believe it.
The DNC Leaks would be a big nothingburger aside from the fact that they entailed a very serious breach of donors’ private data, including financial information.
Also troubling is the fact that some individuals or groups, perhaps allied with the Russian government and perhaps not, are very purposefully trying to intervene in the election in a way that might lead to the ascension of a fascist. That’s the part that should be really troubling.
So, I really don’t want to give much space too Trump but there are two links that I really 
think you should have for reference. First, I’d like to just say that it appears that the hackers were Russian.
Is the Kremlin trying to throw the U.S. presidential election to Donald Trump? It sounds like something out of a spy novel. But many cybersecurity experts, as well as the Hillary Clinton campaign, are now saying the Russians are responsible for last month’s hack of the Democratic National Committee.
That hack has dominated the news cycle on the eve of the Democratic convention, and for good reason. The emails disclosed Friday by WikiLeaks are embarrassing. They show DNC chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, plotting to undermine the campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders, confirming the worst suspicions of the left flank of the party. She resigned her post on Sunday.
But the bigger issue is who was responsible for the hack in the first place. Bob Gourley, a former chief technology officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency and now the co-founder and partner Cognitio, a cybersecurity consultancy, told me Sunday that he thinks the Russians did it.
“The software code that I have seen from the hack had all the telltale signs of being Russian, including code re-used from other attacks,” Gourley told me. “This is a really big deal. Some people in the community are saying this is the Russians pretending to be a hacker, then giving that information to Julian Assange is all part of an operation.” (Assange founded WikiLeaks.)
Gourley is not alone among cybersecurity experts. When the hack of the DNC was first disclosed in June, the security firm Crowdstrike alsopointed to the Russians. Crowdstrike investigated the incident for the Democratic party and concluded it was the same actor that penetrated the State Department, White House and Pentagon unclassified systems in 2015. Describing the code used for the penetration in a blog post, Crowdstrike co-founder Dmitri Alperovitch wrote: “Both adversaries engage in extensive political and economic espionage for the benefit of the government of the Russian Federation and are believed to be closely linked to the Russian government’s powerful and highly capable intelligence services.”
Yesterday, folks were trying to say folks were trying to reignite the cold war. Again, Cybersecurity and Intelligence experts say it’s the Russians not just Clinton Supporters.
Here’s a link which is from Reddit and contains the very troublesome, autocratic records, affiliations, comments, and foreign dictators of Trump. I’ve provided a few examples which are just a few of us outrageous acts of war statements.
Trump openly calls for the U.S to commit war crimes and advocates for the murder of innocent women and children.
- http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/12/15/3732671/trump-isis-kill-family-members/
- http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-reiterates-desire-to-murder-terrorists-families-a6912496.html
- http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/02/politics/donald-trump-terrorists-families/
- http://www.dailywire.com/news/3891/trumps-horrifying-anti-military-slur-last-nights-ben-shapiro/
- http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/mar/3/donald-trump-says-hed-force-us-military-commit-war/
Trump doubles down after veterans speak out claiming U.S soldiers would not commit war crimes or torture children even if ordered to. Trump responds with, “They’re not going to refuse me. If I say do it, they’re going to do it.“
- http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/mar/3/donald-trump-says-hed-force-us-military-commit-war/
- http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/dec/17/rand-paul/rand-pauls-right-geneva-conventions-bar-donald-tru/
- http://theweek.com/speedreads/610361/donald-trump-doubles-down-torture-war-crimes
- http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/The-US-Military-Will-Commit-Donald-Trumps-War-Crimes-20160307-0011.html
- http://reason.com/blog/2016/03/03/donald-trump-says-military-wont-refuse-h
- http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/a-retired-major-general-sets-trump-straight-after-he-advocates-war-crimes/
- http://www.democracynow.org/2016/3/1/donald_trump_wants_to_commit_war
Trump on torture: “Even if it doesn’t work they probably deserved it anyway.”
- http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/11/opinions/trump-wrong-on-american-torture/
- http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/trump-waterboarding-it-works-if-it-doesnt-work-they-deserve-it
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/24/donald-trump-on-waterboarding-even-if-it-doesnt-work-they-deserve-it
Trump renews calls for torture citing public executions and mass rape committed by ISIS promising for the U.S to do the same, “fighting fire with fire.”
Trump says Geneva Conventions a problem and needs to be changed since, US soldiers are to afraid to do their job due to laws which outline the definition of war crimes.
Go check out the entire thing because if you ever need to convince any one we’re dealing with a fascist, this list will open your eyes.
This other link is from The National: “Trump’s vision is one of exclusion and enmity.” I have no doubt that this week in Philadelphia will be all about the opposite thing as we see the faces of all American and not just the angry few.
Historically it’s rare that the public isn’t warned about a would-be demagogue well in advance of their actual rise to power. Typically, this work is done by the narcissistic aspiring strongmen themselves. And in the case of Donald Trump, by now no American can claim they haven’t been put on ample notice about his character and intentions.
Last week’s Republican convention – a festival of rage, loss, anger and hatred – said it all. It was driven by vicious, personalised hatred against the Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton, as delegates persistently chanted “Lock her up!”
One of Mr Trump’s campaign advisers suggested she should be shot for treason. Ben Carson accused her, literally and with a straight face, of being in league with Satan.
Hysterical outrage was compounded by the relentless cognitive dissonance of a movement that, no matter how brazen, is moving so far beyond the bounds of propriety that it has cultivated some deniability. Virtually every important message was shadowed by some twisted doppelganger lurking visibly in the background and contradicting it.
Mr Trump’s main appeal is his alleged competence. He claims the country is being run by crooks, losers and idiots, three of his favourite epithets, and suggests that not only can he do better, but that “I alone” can solve the apocalyptic “crisis” facing the country.
But the convention itself, and the Trump campaign more broadly, strongly suggest he can’t run a bath. From plagiarism to high-level defections, tedious programming, stunning no-shows and a reliance on the candidate’s own children, rather than national party leaders, to endorse him, one couldn’t have wished for a more thorough refutation of claims of minimal competency, let alone excellence.
After more than a year of unprecedented, systematic dishonesty, Mr Trump posed as a champion of truth. “There will be no lies here,” he promised. It’s easy to tell when he’s lying: his body language, penchant for repetition, and, above all, his insufferable catchphrase: “believe me” are his sure-fire “tells” (unconscious admissions of deception). Whenever he says “believe me”, he knows he’s brazenly lying.
So, I’m going to end with something cheery besides those marvelous Donkey Statues. Hillary has promised us a very different convention from the HATERPALOOZA we saw last week.
Hillary Clinton pledged that Democrats would offer the country “a very different kind of convention” than Republicans as she campaigned Monday in this battleground state a few hours before the start of her party’s gathering in Philadelphia.
“I’m very excited about contrasting our vision and values with what we saw from Donald Trump and the Republicans,” Clinton told supporters packed into a theater here. “He offered a lot of fear, bigotry and smear.”
Here is the link to the live stream from Youtube of the convention. As I type, I’m hearing Spanish!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUKLYor68-s
See you during the speeches tonight!! We’ll be here!
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Welcome to BlueLyon! I have been a long-time reader of hers, and think she’s going to be a wonderful addition to one of my favorite websites.
I hope Carissa will include some of her photographs in her upcoming posts! They are stunning.
Hi BlueLyon – and welcome! I remember you from the 2008 primaries – you were a rare safe place to go! Thanks for all your hard work!
Welcome, and look forward to working and helping you.
Stellar post BB, lots of linky goodness and terrific news Regarding BlueLyon joining Skydancing! Welcome BlueLyon – I’ve been a fan of yours since hm, 2007!
waves!!! It’s me !!!! but thx!!!
Doh, some times my brain is not in gear Dak 😜 That’s why I don’t post much anymore.
Welcome BlueLyon! dak, you promised us a good surprise and you delivered!
yup! I was and am excited!!!
The hacking story is still unfolding. It looks like some of the “hacked emails” may have been fabricated. I suspected that when I saw a couple supposedly from Hillary with language she would never, ever use.
https://twitter.com/shashj/status/757637332463919104
I am glad the experts are all coming out on this, because it is a big deal. The Cybersecurity Experts article that Dak recommended was chock full of information. Bob Gourley, the former CTO for the Defense Intelligence Agency, his background, his education, and the information I read at LinkedIn was really impressive. As you might remember, I was one of 22 million federal employees at the Office of Personnel Management that was hacked.
Paul Manafort said all this was absurd………call his ass out, he connected at the hips with Putin and Trump.
Michael Isakoff on the Russian hack:
Exclusive: Suspected Russian hack of DNC widens — includes personal email of staffer researching Manafort
But MSNBC and CNN still don’t think it’s as important as a few emails that maybe criticized Bernie.
I’m going to be waiting for Comrade Manafort’s latest tweets as probably encouraged by Comrade Putin.
Wow.
Throwing this in because you know who owns this .
For the Last Time: Here’s Proof the Democratic Primary Wasn’t Rigged Against Bernie Sanders
Read more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/for-the-last-time-heres-proof-the-democratic-primary-wasnt-rigged-against-bernie-sanders/
The only people who thihk that it was rigged against Sanders, are the Sanders supporters.; and they thought that in every primary they lost. And then the media which continually fans the flames. I made the mistake of watching a few minutes of MSNBC (only because I think CNN is worse) yesterday, and a bunch of their own commentators were saying, “Well, this shows that Sanders and his supporter were right, it was fixed.” They actually said that. So it continues to be a very tough slog, against the insidiously lying Trump and Manafort, and against the media, which simply tells the narrative it prefers to tell.
I turned on MSNBC for two minutes just now, and they were preparing to show a Trump-Pence rally. Maybe they thought that the Republican convention was still going. CSPAN was showing a long interview with a “reporter” for the virulently right-wing Washington Times
William – I share your disgust of CNN and have been watching MSNBC reluctantly They did absolutely talk about how the emails were a Firing Offence for DWS, etc. blah blah. So today I’m reading how the only controversial email DWS sent said “Bernie’s not going to be President” – this in April when he would have had to win 68% of the remaining delegates. The only other thing they have is the debate schedule, which they conceded and gave him more debates after which he promptly lost anyway. Lost big in NY right after that debate.
So the nothingburger emails are the story – not the Russians helping Trump. Got it.
And to have to watch Andrea Mitchell talk about Hillary’s “unfavorables” as if Clinton is just naturally unlikeable is torture. Like Mitchell and cohorts had nothing to do with that perception.
I’m hoping for a good convention with lots of unity. Trump must not become POTUS!!!
Tomorrow we’re going up to Door County, Wisconsin for a few weeks. It should be much cooler there. Take care, everyone. See you later!
oh love there! We went there when I was a kid to see the Dells and watch the dog jump!!!
Have a great trip Beata.
The list of Repubs for Hillary has been growing. Eleanor Clift reports..
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/25/the-biggest-gop-names-backing-hillary-clinton-so-far.html?via=newsletter&source=DDAfternoon
And finally Al Gore endorses Hillary.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/gore-endorses-clinton-226138
And literally no one cares.
Poor Al, late to the party. 😴
as always it seems
Poor Al…….Too late, again. BTW…..We don’t want any advice from you Al.
I don’t know. If Uncle Al endorsed from the podium I would appreciate it.
If you’re female and running for president, you better be perfect
OPINION | MADELEINE MAY KUNIN
Kathy, thank you so much for your blog post today – it’s the best reading out there.
A couple of thoughts on this whole DNC kerfluffle.
First of all, you may remember that I was on staff at a Democratic political committee dedicated to electing Democratic legislators. I wrote hit pieces against Republicans for a living. Of course, the staff (and the board) liked some candidates and their campaign managers more than others! Of course there were some we rolled our eyes over and made jokes about and speculated about and cringed over. Mostly those were the ones who lost, and for good reason. Bernie lost on his own; the DNC emails were just the staff background chorus. It’s another example of the Bernie supporters – I call them Trump enablers disguised as progressives – grasping at straws.
Secondly, how gullible can the Bernie supporters be? Here we have – on the eve of the DNC – an email leak pushing all their buttons. Oh no, nothing underhanded here! They are being manipulated by the very forces they claim to want to defeat.
yup. I know you know what you’re doing and I think folks need to know we have a Senator Patty Murray because of your hard work!
I tried to reason with an outraged friend just a minute ago and she still insists that the DNC changed the rules of the primaries which has been completely debunked after I said maybe we should just stop and see what the Russians made up and changed before we all go at each other.
I’ve got like a half dozen friends that just seem to be outrage junkies, I swear!
and thank you for the compliments! We try really hard here!
Yes, I know what you mean about the outrage junkies. The local Ds here are rife with Bernie diehards and they drive me crazy. Emily tells me I need to stop arguing with them; she’s afraid I’m going to get a Facebook stalker or something. I just can’t resist telling them off, even though I know it’s a waste of energy. Maybe I’ll just go get a giant Patty Murray yard sign and relax.
Hey Mary, thank you for all your hard work for Patty Murray! She is a treasure, and I am so proud to have her my Senator.
Welcome, BlueLyon! I’ve been following you on Facebook.
Thank you Dak, wonderful amount of data to read, and share. Let’s party like a democrat! Ready steady, opening gavel.
Hello BlueLyon. I’m looking forward to reading your opinions and perspective. Welcome Aboard.
I was so happy to see Jerry Emmett at the opening of our convention………she’s 102, and was 6 years old when women got the right to vote. I love her, and she brings tears of joy to our lives.
The choir was super, just wonderful, though the mike wasn’t always working, I enjoyed them.
Lovely
Ah, that is balm to the weary heart and mind.
I LOVE Blue Lyon!!
Lorraine Miller “the most diverse convention ever”
What is wrong with these Sanders supporters? What exactly do they expect? They will boo so much and Hillary will say, “Screw it, I give up. Bernie wins.”? I don’t get it. I honestly don’t.
Oh, okay. Bill Press just explained. They’re having a tantrum because they are unhappy that Warren or Brown or Sanders weren’t picked as Veep. Well, alienating Democrats hasn’t worked so far so I wonder how they think their behavior will change things?
Bernie supporters booing every mention of Hillary’s name and shouting “lock her up” just like the GOP. They are determined to bring fascism to the U.S.
I’m so fed up with these idiots #Bernieorbusters. I’m really fuming. If Bernie Sanders doesn’t come out swinging against these numbskulls, and give the greatest endorsement ever, I want him to have ZERO role for the remaining of the campaign.
I think I need a glass of wine.
Despite what you’ve heard, Democrats aren’t in disarray. Their party is under attack from the outside.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/07/25/despite-what-youve-heard-democrats-arent-in-disarray-their-party-is-under-attack-from-the-outside/
I was just reading that
… It’s excellent.
I saw Bernie’s speech this afternoon to his delegates, and thought it was lukewarm at best for supporting Hillary. All I can say is – part of the negotiations for axeing DWS better include a rousing endorsement by Bernie, the release of his delegates, and a promise to keep his people in line. Those whips better be good and committed.
Yes. Those kids are letting their idea of perfect win out over a very real good. I still think they are rat-fondlers in disguise.
After Diane Russell speech today, State Rep. Maine, Democratic supporter for Sanders, who is pragmatic about the vote this fall for Hillary Clinton.
John Lewis, I am a 66 year old black man lucky enough to be alive, thankful I wasn’t shot down for being black. I cry with you, we are so proud of you John Lewis.
That was Elijah Cummings, not John Lewis.
I have to tell you too, that I didn’t like the response from Sanders supporters, while he was speaking, and it really tears me up, because I am reminded of Dolores Huerta and the disrespect shown her. I’ll never get over it.
I’m trying to move on, trying.
Sanders delegates are obscene. Elijah Cummings is speaking, and their chanting over him, “Stop TIPP!” Five year olds are more polite, and more intellligent, too. Why don’t they chant at the President, who is the one who is in favor of TIPP? I swear that most of these people don’t really care about the country, or the laws, or anything, but winning some kind of imagined video game. I wish they would go back to whatever party or non-party they came from.
Horrible
My apologies, that was John Lewis, of course. The absolute selfish effrontery of those people trying to drown him out. What a bunch of self-indulgent children.
That was Elijah Cummings.
Yes it was, I was wrong in identifying John Lewis………..thank you Janicen, and William.
Childish behavior, it will pass.
The Democratic Party does not need to expand its inclusion to keep these toddlers!
Okay, Paul Booth, a white male is speaking so they won’t shout him down.
Donna Brazile offered up a apology to Bernie Sanders and democrats, it was a very nice thing to do. Timely too. I didn’t know that this was her second interim chairwoman for the DNC……….the last time was when Tim Kaine stepped down to run for Senate!
This is giving me some serious headaches. Bernie Sanders and Jeff Weaver cultivated the childish behavior these imbeciles are displaying here for too long.
Where was Bernie after his initial endorsement? Still negociating for the DNC to charter him a jet so he can fly around the country as if he were the nominee and claim credit for any Dem victory?
I’m sorry if somebody mentioned this story already:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/evanmcsan/bernie-sanders-private-plane
Yay, Ben Jealous, we have the most progressive platform ever, and we will defeat Donald Trump and elect Hillary Clinton for President. Join us at the ballot box!
In the “it figures” file, MSNBC has been having Ben Jealous on virtually every day for months, as he supported Sanders, and criticized Hillary. Now, today, he gives a convention speech which is actually urging people to vote for her, and the same station interrupts it to talk about Hillary’s problems with Sanders supporters..
I have been watching both on c-span and then switch back to CNN as time goes on.
We need to hang “VodkaGate” around Trumps neck, just like the second rate DNC burglary that brought down Tricky Dick.
The only way to hear the speakers is C-SPAN.
yup. and I just put the link to the live feed up in a new post up top!!!
“I’m so excited about the prospect that there could be children who are born who have never seen a white man in the White House…” Wow.
What an amazing statement.
I think about the girls that will grow up with the first President they ever remember is a woman.
How fantastic. I almost get a little choked up thinking about it.
The best President of my lifetime was a white boy. Are real life certifiable “Bubba,” who looks nothing like me, and I love him. He was my guy.
It looks like in the future it will not be only minorities who can say that.
I love the Clintons. I believe in them and what they stand for, but I don’t know if white folks understand how much it means to me to know that there are white voters who feel the same way about Barack and Michelle Obama. They do not think less of them for not being white.
We are about to cross the same threshold in regard to gender and I am so excited I I can’t hardly stand it.
Donald “Fluffy-Doo” Trump can talk sh!t about what’s wrong with America all he wants but I know we are moving in the right direction!!!!
Remember, when they ask the “right track/wrong track” question people don’t answer with only he current POTUS in mind. They are talking about the congress, and the state and local govts too. People are feeling the gridlock congress, and bullshit cable news, and hate radio when they say ‘wrong track” whether they realize it or not.
So FCUK OFF Fluffy-Doo, America is already great!
What you said, Ron!
And welcome, BlueLyon! I’ve been reading you since 2008.
Welcome to the front page BlueLyon I’m so excited and glad you are here….xoxoxo