The U.S. a leading nation, global power, democracy(?) and at last making history ….
Pakistan with Benazir Bhutto
India with Indira Ghandi (1966)
United Kingdom with Margaret Thatcher
Germany with Angela Merkel
Chile with Michelle Bachelet
Argentina with Isabel Peron and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
Brazil with Dilma Rousseff
and on and on … some great women from opposition groups after suffering under a dictatorial regime … true, women can be dictators too. this election cycle, it was a matter of time but the dnc and establishment (wall street) wanted HRC and coronated her before the tally was in … not truly a progressive party called democrats … so not really a great perspective except it accentuates a backward culture … how about a boost in enlightenment USA?
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Most of the World's Nations Have Never Had a Female Leader (Credit: Pew research)
Have other women world leaders gone around gloating ‘I made history’? Thanks for the list. Those women were/are not exceptional, only HRC is. My bad, the notion is only meaningful punctuated with an exclamation mark!
Maggie Thatcher might have, but at least she could claim to have gotten there in her own right and not through a hubby, father, or family. Don’t recall that Angela Merkel, Michelle Bachelet, Dilma Rousseff, and several others who also did it on their own have made such a claim. But none of them are “special” like Hillary.
Will add this (can’t embed tweets; so, this is the best I can do):
Hillary:
Naomi Klein:
I’m so old that I remember when feminists were cheering that broken glass ceiling at HP when Carly Fiorina was named CEO. (Do intensely dislike those sorts of feminists.)
Doesn’t pay to look too closely at those tokens…
And in HRC’s Homeland, (US of A in case anyone overlooked the miserly display of flags in San Diego), the Green Party has nominated two woman presidential candidates: Cynthia McKinney (2008) and Jill Stein (2012, 2016). The second one is black, to boot, can you imagine?, so put that in your pipe and smoke it Hillary!!!!! One detail: according to the people who matter the Green Party is nonexistent. There was also once a woman Democratic candidate for vice-president in around 1984 (I’ve forgotten the specifics). She’s never mentioned, airbrushed out of history, more so than Jimmy Carter (history isn’t for everyone, after all). But Hillary Clinton has indeed made history being responsible for the deaths of countless Iraqis and Libyans and for the wanton destruction of their countries. If she had her way Iran and Syria would have been highlights in her CV. If one day president, she will surely correct those omissions: ‘We came, we say, he died’, cackled the (former?) US Secretary of State. Such a fine, educated lady gloating that way, my goodness. The worst part of her prospective presidency will be her going around screaming at the top her lungs God Bless America as much as she can. God can forget all the others, no concern for anyone in the world who doesn’t adhere to the dictates of the Empire. Where is Gore Vidal when we need him?
That woman that made history in 1984 was a poor VP candidate; on the order of Lieberman in 2000. She followed that up with racist comments in the 2008 election. That’s why token appointees and nominations are a bad idea. There was another woman that made history in 2008 (another token but no dumber than Quayle) – and the GOP wishes they could erase her.
After GWB, one would think that the country had re-learned the lesson that legacy Presidents are a bad idea. But no, we seem more resistant to learning than ever before.
And we’ve forgotten two woman prime ministers: Helen Clark of New Zealand and Julia Gillard of Australia. Hillary Clinton looks more ordinary by the day. Ha, we’ll see her in office when she will be compelled to give new conferences. Or will she manipulate the media through spokespersons?That will be interesting to observe.
More.
IMO, those that succeeded a husband, father, or other family member (directly or by name recognition) should be discounted. Thus, even if HRC wins in November, the US is still backwards on this measure in comparison with some other countries.
This whole thing about her glas ceiling is a complete gas!
It’s real, but to smash it so that one or can get through it misses the fact that cultures and societies change very slowly and high level tokens shoved through don’t change it and also risk backlashes for others.
IMHO, Ferraro as Veep nominee set women politicians back by a few years; whereas, Chisholm running for POTUS in 1972 led to gains for women in the next few electoral cycles.
What was wrong with Ferraro?
First, she had less than six years in elective office. Prior to that she’d been an Asst DA for five years, but had been appointed by her cousin. She had weak campaign chops (and lost in two later Senate campaigns). Second, she had no name ID outside of her district. Third, a member of the House for Veep is a loser ticket. Fourth, family business and financial controversies.
Yeah, but at least she didn’t murder anyone, the way Hillary did.
Not aware that HRC murdered anyone either.
But she doesn’t mind supporting or voting for the US or others to kill some folks.
That must give you the warm fuzzies along with this:
That video is just grotesque. If I were her opponent, I’d use it in a campaign ad.
Just filth. This is the rich, respectable lady the Democratic Party Machine wants to become president: gloating about the misery she helped cause to the Libyan people. Oh, but she’s now a grandma.
Well, Stein and Trump have zero years of elective office combined. I listened to Stein Monday for 45 minutes. I don’t agree with all of her policies (but I do agree with most of them) but she’s not wild like Trump and doesn’t seem to change position like changing her coat as Trump and Clinton do. Johnson is consistent and has elected Gubernatorial experience. He isn’t a Christian Jihadist, but he believes in laissez-faire trickle down economics like Clinton.
Bernie was really the best candidate for working people. I’m glad my Union endorsed him. Unfortunately they will do an about face and endorse Hillary now.
It’s going to be bad for workers, young and old.
It’s why it’s difficult to get behind Stein as a viable candidate. (Apparently only those with more than half a working brain view experience in public office as valuable for a President. OTOH, all experience isn’t created equal, and the other GOP wannabes (with the exception of Kasich) offered anything that could be construed as experience of any value for the office of the Presidency. IMO, HRC doesn’t have the sort of experience and track record that makes her qualified either. So, perhaps no experience Stein would be better than Clinton.)
Sanders is the most qualified, but his age worked against him just enough in the early going that he fell behind in the critical fourth quarter of last year when he needed to surge and when HRC forces would have been off balance.
And, as I recall, she was a race whisperer during the primaries for Hillary.
Don’t recall that but didn’t her husband have some shady business dealings?
Also she was rumored to have Mafia connections but I’d expect that slur for any Italian-American candidate.
Jill Stein is black?
Jill Stein was born in Chicago and raised in Highland Park, Illinois. She is Jewish, and her family attended Chicago’s North Shore Congregation Israel, a Reform synagogue.
Black and Jewish, like Sammy Davis Junior?
There are black people in Highland Park, but they are pretty rare. The racial makeup of the city was 91.05% White, 1.84% Black or African American, 2.9% Asian, 0.18% Native American, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 2.51% of some other race and 1.48% of two or more races. 7.28% were Hispanic or Latino (of any race).
No, the reference was to McKinney, not Stein, who is black. (Most Democrats loathe McKinney, but I do like those that are generally right and have the moxie to be loud and proud.)
Whether you like her or not is hardly the point. She is a woman and was the presidential candidate of the Green Party before Hillary Clinton, who by the way is not yet the Democratic candidate..
I figured that out after checking but decided to yank Quentin’s chain a little. Sorry, Quentin. I couldn’t resist. I’m sure it was just a typo. I’ve made more than my shares of faux pas’ (what is the French plural?)
What sort of songbook will her policies inspire? I hope our writers are up to the task.
Whatever folks like Katy Perry write. Although, they may not be into politics beyond the superficial celebrity glitz level. Those that are have been with Bernie.
“Up yours, Jack, I’ve got mine! ” comes to mind.
If no one becomes inspired, Cream’s “Politician” is still out there.
Don’t know that one. I’ll look it up. But Ball of confusion still seems apropos.
I didn’t know that one, but it is fitting. One of my favorites is their song “My Girl”, but I won’t be singing that one during HRC’s administration.
Was that written with Mel Reynolds in mind?
I remember jurors telling reporters that they just couldn’t shake the image of the Congressman cruising the High School in his black Cadillac. It was too sleazy for even a Chicago politician.
I later learned that he was a Rhodes Scholar like Bill Clinton. What do they teach them over there?
I searched for song facts re: Cream’s “Politician” and found nothing, which is unusual. I guess no one wants to claim the honor. I didn’t know Mel was a Rhodes Scholar. Bill Clinton pardoned him for some prior charges. Mel’s back in trouble on misdemeanor tax charges.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-mel-reynolds-guilty-plea-letter-20160510-story.
html
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-02-18/news/chi-mel-reynolds-arrested-20140218_1_mel-reynolds
-hotel-manager-ex-illinois Second paragraph. Also on wikipedia. Up to you to decide which is the more reliable source.
Didn’t research it, but I’ll bet defrauding banks got him a longer sentence than criminal sexual assault of a minor. Defrauding banks is serious in today’s USA.
Mel Reynolds, a Democratic Congressman from Illinois, was convicted of bank fraud, 12 counts of sexual assault, obstruction of justice, and solicitation of child pornography. His sentence was commuted on the bank fraud charge and he was allowed to serve the final months under the auspices of a halfway house. Reynolds had served his entire sentence on child sex abuse charges before the commutation of the later convictions.
My guess was wrong.
… and how helpful Clinton’s commutation of sentence was, made him a much better person, a 2nd chance … NOT!
I guess it gave the Clintons insight in …. fraudulent exercises. 😉
○ Mel Reynolds arrested in Atlanta for violating bond in Chicago case – April 2016
○ Bill Clinton pardon controversy
This article discusses Bill Clinton’s pardons, since his half-brother Roger was recently arrested in California for DUI.
“The timing for Roger Clinton’s most recent arrest in California is particularly poor for his sister-in-law’s campaign. It was only hours after Hillary Clinton held a rally in Sacramento aimed at encouraging voters to cast a ballot for her in Tuesday’s primary in the state. But it also resurrects a few old scandals that, so far, have largely been out of the conversation during the nascent general election campaign. (How long will it be before Donald Trump starts talking about Bill Clinton’s pardons, anyway?)
A long history in the public eye has proven to be more of a liability to politicians than an asset in recent years, proven in part by the extent to which both likely nominees are viewed negatively. That’s the other thing about watching episodes of TV shows you haven’t seen in a while: You notice things that you missed the first time — or which have suddenly taken on new meaning.”
http://www.myajc.com/news/news/millennials-meet-roger-clinton-hillarys-brother-la/nrcDj/
My first question would be what sort of prayer book will her policies inspire? I think people will be doing a lot of praying, rather than singing.
Walter Miller’s “A Canticle for Liebowitz:
From the rain of the fallout, Domine libera nos!
I guess you might not be familiar with the muse that Margaret Thatcher proved to be…
“Tramp the Dirt Down” is a good introductory.
I wasn’t familiar with this song. I found an interesting article about Costello where he states his justification for renewing interest in the song after Thatcher’s death:
“The Thatcherite revolution is looked at historically as a great cleansing moment but it was not. A lot of things that belonged to us all communally were sold out from under us,” he told The Independent.
“They weren’t sold to private interests in England that enriched the country, they were sold to people in other countries. And it’s still the same bunch of slimes sitting there running it all.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/tramp-the-dirt-down-elvis-costello-defend
s-decision-to-continue-singing-anti-thatcher-songs-8706270.html
I’ve got a song: Big Ships In A Small Sea
Got my hand on my heart.
I’m doing my part.
It’s just a small war,
but at least it’s a start.
So let’s take a swipe
at a guy we dislike
wipe out his smile
with one quick airstrike.
We’ve got five year-olds in camouflage,
patriotic hits with a bullet you can’t dodge.
Let’s fly the friendly skies
where the peace is their Mirage.
Buy our brand of Democracy.
Big ships in a small sea.
In the land of palm trees
this war was a breeze.
They line their crooked streets
cheering you and me.
We flatten their stores,
treat their women like whores,
a few kids get killed
but, hell, this is war.
See us jumping out of aeroplanes,
kicking ass and taking names,
just like the ads
on the Sunday football games.
It’s a kind of Destiny.
Big ships in a small sea.
Watching TV
my eyes are fatigued.
Is the war over yet?
Who’s the enemy?
They hide everywhere.
They don’t fight fair.
I keep asking myself
what are we doing there?
Well, it seems this time
we’ve hit a snag.
Boys come back
in body bags.
Fighting someone else’s war
is such a drag.
From here to eternity,
big ships in a small sea.
Actually, I wrote it several wars ago, but somehow it still seems to apply.
David Sirota: The same country that got fleeced by Wall St & punished no one on Wall St went on to give itself this choice:
That’s a real whopper. Andy Warhol could have had a field day with the image. Their spouses stand in the deleted righthand half getting in on the fun. Donald is a real hunk, don’t you think?
Corbyn has many similarities to Sanders, with a right-wing HRC coming to the forefront Tony comes back in the news not being apologetic about the decision to wage war in the killing fields of Iraq (Fallujah), Abu Ghraib, CIA rendition, torture …. give Hillary a hand Tony … you’re one of a kind.
Damn, waging war with impunity and coming out of his blacker than hell shadow!
Secretary Clinton befriended Recep Erdoğan and Muslim Brotherhood to attack Libya and Syria (Photo credit: Getty images)
○ Emir Al Thani, Sultan Erdogan and HRC Foreign Policy of Revolutions
○ Hillary Clinton lobbied by Cherie Blair to meet Qatari royal
○ A Strategy of Lies: How the White House Fed the Public a Steady Diet of Falsehoods by Oui on July 7th, 2005
What a wanker (Blair that is). Where was he when Syria became a refuge for Iraqis fleeing the disaster in their country that was created by Bush and Blair? Was Blair also in on the decision to rendition folks to Syria for torture?
Yes he was … Britain was full partner in rendition across Europe … 5 eyes … prime contractor with George Bush into Iraq … UK gov’t investigations have all been a white-wash of Blair’s handling of the war … still waiting for another extended investigation/report held-up by secrecy clausules of White House and Downing Street 10.
○ Chilcot Report delayed 7 years
Remember that he said that W was the most intelligent man he ever met? So you know he’s a world class liar.
MY God, that is Republican-level deflection. “Failure to prevent”…what a multitude of attacks that opens.
You thought Labour and Democrats haven’t been engaging in that level of rhetorical deflection for the past few decades? It’s just a little more obvious these days as they find themselves in a fight on the left after they’ve cozied up well enough with the masters of both parties.
She did indeed make history, and Berners can’t handle it. Never have, never will. One thing is for sure, Hillary Clinton now has the mantle of DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE,and Bernie has the mantle of DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL WANNABE. You can shout to the heavens about a rigged system, or rigged superdelegates, (the truth be told, the caucuses were the rigged ones because all the people didn’t vote), or other such nonsense, but Bernie was his own worst enemy. His attacks on Hillary and the DNC turned a lot of people off. As the campaign went on, he just made a further fool of himself, and his supporters were not much better.
Hillary goes on to the general election and Bernie licks his wounds. I’m not going to even try to convince anyone here to support Hillary because it would be a waste of time In fact, totally ignoring Sanders is the best course of action right now. Time to look forward.
Congratulations Hillary. Time to beat Trump and continue the policies of President Obama.
Keep that crap up and she’ll have to do it without 45% of the Democratic voters.
The heck with Sanders’ supporters, HRC is counting on 45% of the Repubs. She probably has already established a group “Republicans for Hillary.” The problem she will encounter is that Repubs vote for Repubs, since they are more rigid than Dems. Of course, HRC supporters are counting on those magical minority voters that are supposed to appear due to the changed demographics.
She apparently don’t know what Republicans think of her. But she definitely has a tin ear for working people. Remember how she screwed up so bad in Appalachia that Bill had to bail her out?
What an example of feminism! “Historic” woman keeps screwing up and being bailed out by her husband. Those working Mom’s baking cookies for the kids after eight hours of grueling work, that Hillary despised so much, never did that.
Uh oh. While few here seem to appreciate your on-the-ground impressions (as you know, I’m among the few), the NYTimes has confirmed your impressions.
Only half-way through the article, but a more accurate analysis of the 2012 election and electorate does help explain the polls that show Sanders more easily beating Trump than Clinton. Throw in higher enthusiasm and thus voting among the youngest demographics (which did exist in 2008) and Sanders would win with better than Obama’s ’08.
“Outside the South, he won 46 percent of white voters, even running ahead of Mr. Kerry and Al Gore in earlier elections.”
I don’t see HC doing that well considering the current sentiment in that segment of voters.
Hope is always a stronger draw in elections than fear. What HRC and her fans are missing is that Trump is actually selling the former and not the latter. Misreading that, her team thinks it’s enough to sell fear of Trump.
Hmm, that demographic still has some pioneer steel and will take the leap without looking too hard.
Our base is conservative and fearful. Don’t rock the boat. Bourgeoisie and older minorities. Few rebellions come from THAT!
They’ve been leaping since 1972 (Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, skipped 2000, GWB, and Obama, and somehow the outcomes are always the same.
Yeah, an Irish woman has to respect that determination. lol
And Hate is a stronger emotion than Love. But maybe I’m influenced too much by the Sicilian habit of vendetta. More northerly European types seem to lack honor, although I’m sure it’s really a different concept of honor. My people don’t like to admit it but Mexican and Puerto Rican machismo is a lot closer to our culture than German or English culture is.
Well, both sides are selling hate. Politicians that try to sell Kumbaya end up being losers (sorry Bernie; some of us really liked it, but forgot that it’s ultimately not a winner).
It’s the amity-enmity complex of group dynamics. Utter loyalty to the in group. Utter opposition to the out group.
Meant to add that I always knew that Obama was more appealing to white voters outside the south than the national polls and chatter claimed. He’s likeable enough.
What I see with Trump and HRC is that neither are likeable enough. Which leads me to suspect that voter participation will decline unless one of the third party candidates makes some huge gains, but they don’t appear to be likeable enough either.
Yes, but Bill couldn’t bail her out in West Virginia this year. Bernie beat the tar out of HRC there. Also, Bill’s efforts in Eastern Kentucky fell on deaf ears this year and Bernie carried those counties by yuuge margins. I believe the Sanders campaign has asked for a recanvass in the state.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/05/bernie-asks-recanvass-kentucky
Don’t forget about some of those grannies out there that are not “with her”. How can these older women explain to their granddaughters that the first presumptive female nominee for President rose to power clutching the coattails of her husband? We older gals were taught just the opposite and we tried to live by it. All the demonstrations and marches for what? It’s just demoralizing.
Exactly. But Voice’s white granny data-set is limited to two and both voted for HRC in the primary.
This is the problem when one surrounds themselves with a limited audience who is overly positive out of obligation, necessity, or some ulterior motive. Best to get outside one’s bubble to determine the truth, rather than to create the truth. Also, most people have to roll with the punches and don’t have the luxury of determining their own truth.
Only one white granny. The other is white maiden aunt, an authentic career woman, one of the first female computer programmers, who encountered a lot of male put down as I’m sure you can relate too. White granny did her share of low level blue collar work, but was never interested in a career, just wanted a house, a husband, and a family. I know feminists despise women like that, but at least, she achieved her goals!
Only meant “white granny” to refer to women over a certain age. Marital status, children, education, career/work history not relevant.
Never met a feminist that despised women that desired a full-time career as a wife and mother. Not so many women manage to accomplish that goal and then have to struggle to both earn a living and keep the home going. What this feminist doesn’t like are upper middle-class women that from their privileged and life-long non-income earning perch think they know everything about work and life and believe they’re superior to other women because they landed a man with a well-paying job.
Yes, to all.
Marie,
In my experience, the ones in that group who are unlikable are the ones who are fearful that another woman or an addiction is going to knock them off their perch, and who try to hide their fears behind brittle bravado.
Thanks. My experience differs. Even when knocked off their perch, they remain the same — like Jasmine in “Blue Jasmine.”
This dissing on women who worked, yet “didn’t have a career” irritates me. My two aunts worked at blue collar jobs for years, but those jobs were union ones, so the pay was decent. They had “careers”, but they said they had jobs and both worked hard. They were interested in better pay and conditions for themselves and others, since both were union stewards. I learned a lot from those two.
Hillary Clinton:
This statement is a clue to her real problem, her ego-driven entitlement problem.
The truth of the matter:
A little modesty would serve her well.
Politically.
Bet on it.
AG
Did you know student debt has been on a rocket path since 2004? It is shocking. What the hell caused it?
http://blog.unibulmerchantservices.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Liquidity-Savings-Rate-and-Student
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Hmm. https:/jonathanturley.org/2016/06/08/the-clintons-university-problem-laureate-education-lawsuits-pr
esent-problem-for-clintons
Comments add some depth.
Here’s the graph:
Mother Jones has some great charts and graphs.
This explains some of it: federal legislative changes. A closer examination would reveal the effort to privatize the debt just right around the time that costs were escalating and public funding was decreasing.
Many monsters in this story. Perhaps the root of it is the anti-tax voters beginning in the mid-1970s, changing job and employer markets, and privatization of “college.” All of that has been synergistic. One factor that masked the looming crisis was the smaller size of the Gen-X population.
There’s probably no good reason why kids today need more formal education than they did in 1970. It been a massive collusion among politicians, employers, educators to sell more education as the only way to get a decent paying job. Step 1: depreciate the last two years of high school — then every body has to go to either a trade or two year junior college to obtained what people once got in high school. Step 2: decrease public funding and raise student fees — people value things they have to pay for more than that which is free. And so on.
Maybe a diary sometime on the issues you mentioned would be good? Could include some of the following: college debt, rising tuition costs, admissions of out-of-state students for $$, a two-tiered faculty (research vs adjunct profs), out-dated programs, administration heaviness, bureaucratic inefficiency, sports mania, havens for retired politicians, NASCAR-type logos on buildings, etc. It looks like our higher ed system needs reformed, but education is very resistant to change. Education should be the model for adaptability since students leave there for a work environment, which requires change.
It would require more than a diary. And entail a lot of research to nail down the available facts to the extent that they are known.
At a macro-conceptual level, I see it as another facet of neoliberalism. Which is essentially nothing but theft from the commons.
Here is the link that shows the student loan debt clock (over $1.4 trillion). The student debt is compared to credit card debt (62% of student debt) and auto loans (53% of student debt). I’m seeing quite a few articles discussing the student debt bubble crisis that is coming. This country doesn’t need another financial bubble bursting, since it’s only been a little less than 8 years since the housing bubble burst. There was about 8 1/2 years between the dot-com bubble burst and the housing bubble burst.
http://collegedebt.com/
http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-cuban-sweet-briar-college-college-debt-bubble-crisis-2015-3
What, financialization is ~25% of our economy these days under neoliberalism. That is what it survives on–bubbles.
http://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/novdec-2014/frenzied-financialization/
Good article.
That was an excellent article. Books have been written about how financialization destroys countries: Spain, Holland, England. Some historians state that financialization is the final stage of an empire. Interesting times we live in.
Today my right-wing uncle emailed the information in the Johnathan Turley article about the Clintons and Laureate Universities International. You can bet the Republicans will use this to counter Trump & Trump University. Turley indicates that the MSM have been virtually silent, but people are becoming aware of the media’s role in promoting HRC. I believe we’ll hear more about Laureate Universities.
Imagine what the GOP could do if they had a candidate as good as McCain (but without Palin). Unfortunately, nobody can name even one Republican politician with creds and chops equal to McCain’s (in ’08 or earlier). They had fifteen other candidates that all sucked worse than Trump.
Wonder if the Republicans could draw on the generals, too, if they manage to lose Trump?
Petraues’ plea deal would seem to have taken him out of the running and there seems not to be another one around with name ID.
Plea deal? Tell me more.
David Petraeus Enters Into Plea Deal With Justice Department.
And a convicted felon cannot run for President? You know the Wurlitzer can justify anything…
“There is no restriction against a felon running for the office of the President. Only the Constitution may spell those restrictions and it doesn’t address the issue. This is because the Constitution is minimalist in nature; the belief was (and remains) that the individual states’ would be sufficient to provide all the additional vetting of the candidates for the Office of the President of the United States.”
Tough sell. At the presidential level. One neither party has seemed inclined to test out. Perhaps not as tough as an atheist, Muslim, or Buddhist, and wouldn’t be surprised if it gets tested before those three faith/religious persuasions. Not inconceivable that the ’16 general election could be between two candidates that are under indictment.
Kasich was the last to drop out. I wonder if he’s still in the mix. He’s establishment, but did a gig on Fox news and is a governor now. Maybe somebody like Tea Party favorite Nikki Haley could be the VP candidate. She’s a woman from immigrant parents, and from the South. Southern candidates appeal to the Repub base. Nikki managed to get the Confederate flag removed from the State Capitol without a big reaction. She’s establishment, but has very high approval ratings in her state of South Carolina. She’s no Sarah Palin either. Just my $.02.
http://thehill.com/opinion/brent-budowsky/266359-brent-budowsky-nikki-haleys-date-with-destiny
○ Another Hillary Scandal: For Profit Colleges by Steven D @Booman on March 13th, 2016
heh! It’s possible that Bill Clinton earned more off Laureate than Trump earned of his scam school. Did Trump U get any public dollars?
Good question. Was it set up to process student loans?
Seminar type course school never used to qualify for federal loans and other funding. That could have changed, but I doubt it. With the USG making some moves in the past few years against the private college operators, Trump U would have been at the top of the list if it were getting any federal funds; so, that would seem to confirm that no federal dollars were involved.
Stumbled upon THIS series on AA primary voters…”while this is true in the trivial sense that she has won votes from a majority of those who actually voted, this framing erases the overwhelming majority of voting-age black Americans who either voted against Clinton or declined to vote at all. In fact, based on an analysis of exit polls, turnout numbers and census data, an extraordinary 87.9 percent of voting-age black Americans have not voted for Clinton.”
http://www.carlbeijer.com/2016/06/black-voters-and-2016-primaries-part-3_9.html
http://www.carlbeijer.com/2016/02/black-voters-and-2016-primaries-part-2.html
http://www.carlbeijer.com/2016/02/black-voters-and-2016-primaries-part-1.html
This could make midterms a real opportunity for progressives and a bloodbath for DNCers, because falloff in AA women is almost up there with youth voters.