The Hillary train is leaving the station, all aboard

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   janicket on February 28, 2016 at 12:14 am

   You did don your asbestos Underoos before posting this, didn’t you?

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   Oui on February 28, 2016 at 1:57 am

   ○ Why Hillary Clinton Will Not Be Good for Israel in the Long Term | Haaretz – Feb. 6, 2016 |

   Hillary’s inner circle on foreign policy are all hawks on sanctioning Iran and are pro Netanyahu’s right-wing romp cabinet oppressing Palestinians. Eight (?) more years of sucking the US into Middle East involvement.

   The second circle is made up of former lower-level officials who work with the campaign on a more regular basis. These include Nicholas Burns, who served as undersecretary of state for political affairs in the George W. Bush administration and who, among other tasks, negotiated the American military aid package to Israel; former undersecretary of defense Michele Flournoy, and former deputy secretary of state James Steinberg. HRC could just as well hire Israel’s hit-man Danny Ayalon as her Secretary of State.

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   Apparently promising as Commander In Chief she won’t be using her sissy R2P policy of regime change, but just bomb away with our powerful Armed Forces. Making America Great Again. Difference is in semantics only on foreign policy.

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     Oui on February 28, 2016 at 12:59 pm

     I’ve always been grateful to hold a minority opinion, even in the Democratic Party: from the Vietnam War till today. No anomosity towards Bill or Hillary, just making an honest assessment.

     DNC vice chair resigns, endorses Bernie Sanders

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     Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard

     Representative Tulsi Gabbard has resigned from her post as vice-chair of the Democratic National Committee in order to support Bernie Sanders. She made the announcement on the NBC show Meet the Press.

     “I think it’s most important for us, as we look at our choices as to who our next commander in chief will be, is to recognize the necessity to have a commander in chief who has foresight, who exercises good judgment,” she said.

     Gabbard, an Iraq war veteran and representative for Hawaii, is the fourth member of Congress to endorse Sanders. She elaborated on her decision on the show: “As a veteran and as a soldier I’ve seen firsthand the true cost of war.

     “I served in a medical unit during my first deployment, where every single day I saw firsthand the very high human cost of that war. I see it in my friends who now, a decade after we’ve come home, are still struggling to get out of a black hole.

     “I think it’s most important for us, as we look at our choices as to who our next commander in chief will be, is to recognize the necessity to have a commander in chief who has foresight, exercises good judgment, who looks beyond the consequences, looks at the consequences of the actions they’re looking to take, before they take those actions, so we don’t continue to find ourselves in these failures that have resulted in chaos in the Middle East and so much loss of life.”

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     Quentin on February 28, 2016 at 3:56 pm

     Unfortunately Clinton will just mean more war and destruction. If she still thinks that Libya was a ‘smart war’, I can’t imagine what a stupid one would be like. The oppression of the Palestinians is so beyond the pale that I can’t even begin to get my head around it. Evidently the continuation of the horrid situation has become some kind of a litmus test of respectability among the US elite. European too, I reluctantly admit. In France it is some kind of crime/felony to openly propagate the BDS movement regarding Israel. You can boycott privately, something like a secret thought crime, but not organize with likeminded. Have you ever heard such crap before. And Hillary Clinton will definitely support such laws against BDS which have been proposed in the US, if she has’t already.

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   TarheelDem on February 28, 2016 at 9:52 pm

   Heh, heh, heh.  Cranking up the railroad before the train gets to the station.

   Is this a common carrier or a private car run?

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   Shaun Appleby on February 29, 2016 at 4:29 am

   2016 #SCPrimary voter turnout vs. 2008: Democrats voters down about 175,000 – Republican voters up nearly 300,000.

   I don’t like the implications of this.

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     TarheelDem on February 29, 2016 at 7:48 am

     Why are establishment Democrats not getting turnout in Southern states?  It goes beyond the racism of the GOP.  And it has caused the loss of legislature after legislature to Koch-funded Republican legislators.

     Yes, the primary turnout in South Carolina is more and more troubling.  Strange that no one is reporting the votes for the down-ticket candidates in the South Carolina primary.  Or has the South Carolina Democratic establishment conceded all offices except Jim Clyburn’s Congressional seat to Republicans?

     It seems that neither the Hillary train nor the Bernie train has any down-ticket cars attached to it.  In that sense, there is no party running anymore.  No active alliances instead of passive endorsements.