Hillary: Suspend Your Campaign [24% of Dems & 46% of Indies]

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Tuesday August 25, 2015 · 10:06 AM PDT

2015/08/25 · 10:06

Rasmussen latest poll asks voters "Should Hillary Clinton suspend her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination until all of the legal questions about her use of a private e-mail server during her time as secretary of State are resolved?" in a national survey of 1,000 likely voters, conducted August 23-24, 2015.

A whopping 46% of Likely U.S. Voters believe Clinton should suspend her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination until all of the legal questions about her use of the private e-mail server are resolved. 44% disagree, and 9% are unsure.

24% of Democrats believe Hillary should suspend her campaign.
46% of Independents believe Hillary should suspend her campaign.

Forty-five percent (45%) of all voters - but only 18% of Democrats - now consider the national security questions raised about Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server while serving as secretary of State to be a serious scandal. Twenty-eight percent (28%) of likely voters consider the matter an embarrassing situation, while nearly as many (23%) say it’s no big deal.

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168 votes Show Results

Should Hillary Clinton Suspend Her Campaign?

168 votes Vote Now!

Should Hillary Clinton Suspend Her Campaign?

Yes, stop embarrassing our party

37 votes

Maybe, if any more bad news gets out

29 votes

Maybe not, she should be ok now

8 votes

Hillary all the way!

94 votes

Cornel West: Bernie Sanders is a Prophetic Politician

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Thursday August 20, 2015 · 11:30 AM PDT

2015/08/20 · 11:30

Cornel West: The Fire of a New Generation (Interview)
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/...

Q: When it comes to race in America in 2015, what is to be done?

Well, the first thing, of course, is you’ve got to shatter denial, avoidance and evasion. That’s part of my criticism of the president. For seven years, he just hasn’t or refused to hit it head-on. It looks like he’s now beginning to find his voice. But in finding his voice, it’s either too late or he’s lost his moral authority. He can’t drop drones on hundreds of innocent children and then talk about how upset he is when innocent people are killed. You can’t reshape the world in the image of corporate interest and image with Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and then say that you’re in deep solidarity with working people and poor people. You can’t engage in massive surveillance, keeping track of phone calls across the board, targeting Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning and others, and then turn right back around and say you’re against secrecy, you’re against clandestine policy.

How can anyone take your word seriously after seven years about how we need to put a spotlight on racism when, for seven years, you’ve been engaged in political calculation about racism? But then you send out your lieutenants. You send out all your Obama cheerleaders and bootlickers and they say to his critics that he is president of all of America, not black America. And we say white supremacy is a matter of truth. Are you interested in truth? It’s a matter of justice. Are you interested in justice? It’s a matter of national security. Are you interested in national security?

Q: But is it really possible to speak courageous speech while acting as the most powerful country in the world?

(my emphasis)

I think that’s true for most politicians, actually. Now when it comes to the intellectuals who rationalize their deference to the politician, so they want to pose as prophetic even though they are very much deferential to the powers that be, they need to be criticized in a very intense way. That’s why I’m very hard on the Obama cheerleaders, you see, but when it comes to the politicians themselves, it is very difficult to be a prophetic politician the way in which Harold Washington was or the way Paul Wellstone was or the way Shirley Chisholm was, or the way my dear brother Bernie Sanders actually is. He is a prophetic politician. He speaks the truth about wealth and equality. He speaks the truth about Wall Street. He speaks the truth about working and poor people being afterthoughts in terms of the kind of calculations of the oligarchs of our day. He shows that it’s possible to be a politician who speaks the truth.
Once you occupy the White House, you are head of the empire. Then you have a choice. We’ve had two grand candidates in the history of the United States. We’ve had Abraham Lincoln and we’ve had Franklin D. Roosevelt. Both of them are full of flaws, full of faults, full of many, many blind spots. But they pushed the American experiment in a progressive way, even given their faults. And that’s what we thought Obama was going to do. We were looking for Lincoln, and we got another Clinton, and that is in no way satisfying.

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Monday August 17, 2015 · 7:06 AM PDT

2015/08/17 · 07:06

College Affordability: Comparing the Clinton and Sanders Plans

(Originally by Heather Gautney on http://berniesanders.com/...)

Last week Hillary Clinton came forward with her plan to address the growing college affordability crisis in this country. She is to be commended for recognizing that student debt is crippling the financial future of younger generations – and some that are not so young. Her program would be a considerable improvement on the status quo.

That said, the Clinton plan doesn’t go far enough. More importantly, it fails to place the issue of college affordability in the proper context: as a societal, rather than an individual, problem.

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How do you feel about the college plans?

39 votes Vote Now!

How do you feel about the college plans?

I support Bernie & love his plan

28 votes

I support Bernie, but prefer Hillary's plan

3 votes

I support Hillary & love her plan

8 votes

I support Hillary, but prefer Bernie's plan

0 votes

Hillary's Climate Change Plan 'Just Plain Silly', Says Top Climate Scientist

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Thursday July 30, 2015 · 6:37 AM PDT

2015/07/30 · 06:37

James Hansen served as head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies for 32 years, testified before congress about the urgent danger of Climate Change in the 80s, is often called the godfather of the Climate Change movement, is considered one of the world's top Climate Scientists, and is currently an environmental adjunct professor at Columbia University.

Hansen, never shy to speak the truth, eviscerated Hillary's Climate pandering:
http://www.theguardian.com/...

"It's just plain silly... No, you cannot solve the problem without a fundamental change, and that means you have to make the price of fossil fuels honest. Subsidizing solar panels is not going to solve the problem."

"We have two political parties, neither one of which is willing to face reality," said Hansen, who now heads up the Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions Program at Columbia University. "Conservatives pretend it's all a hoax, and liberals propose solutions that are non-solutions."

Internationally known Climate action advocate & 350.org founder Bill McKibben said:

"Much of the impact of her climate plan was undercut the next day by her unwillingness to talk about the supply side of the equation... Ducking questions about the Canadian tar sands or drilling in the Arctic makes everyone worry we're going to see eight more years of an 'all of the above' energy strategy, which is what we do not need to hear"

Clinton dodges #kxl ?s, saying State Dept still studying it so she can't talk. Then why can she discuss Iran, Libya? http://t.co/...
- Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) July 27, 2015

Bernie @SenSanders demands ambitious climate agenda. This talking-about-issues-while-running-for-Pres thing is weird http://t.co/...
- Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) May 2, 2015

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Hillary's Climate Plan is...

261 votes Vote Now!

Hillary's Climate Plan is...

"Just plain silly"

234 votes

Good enough for me

27 votes

Climate Bombshell: Sea Levels to rise at least 10 feet in 50 Years !!

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Tuesday July 21, 2015 · 7:37 AM PDT

2015/07/21 · 07:37

I warn, this report may be shocking to those who don't closely follow the Climate Change issue. Many of us from the Climate movement community have been trying to sound the alarms and raise awareness, but the public's urgency to fight for our lives is not there yet.

http://www.slate.com/...

The study—written by James Hansen, NASA’s former lead climate scientist, and 16 co-authors, many of whom are considered among the top in their fields—concludes that glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica will melt 10 times faster than previous consensus estimates, resulting in sea level rise of at least 10 feet in as little as 50 years.

The study, which has not yet been peer reviewed, brings new importance to a feedback loop in the ocean near Antarctica that results in cooler freshwater from melting glaciers forcing warmer, saltier water underneath the ice sheets, speeding up the melting rate. Hansen, who is known for being alarmist and also right, acknowledges that his study implies change far beyond previous consensus estimates.

Hansen’s study does not attempt to predict the precise timing of the feedback loop, only that it is “likely” to occur this century. The implications are mindboggling: In the study’s likely scenario, New York City—and every other coastal city on the planet—may only have a few more decades of habitability left. That dire prediction, in Hansen’s view, requires “emergency cooperation among nations.”
"We conclude that continued high emissions will make multi-meter sea level rise practically unavoidable and likely to occur this century. Social disruption and economic consequences of such large sea level rise could be devastating. It is not difficult to imagine that conflicts arising from forced migrations and economic collapse might make the planet ungovernable, threatening the fabric of civilization."

Additional links:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
http://thinkprogress.org/...
http://www.nationalobserver.com/...
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Are you convinced yet that Climate Change is the most important issue this election?

42 votes Vote Now!

Are you convinced yet that Climate Change is the most important issue this election?

Yes, save our future!

36 votes

Not quite, technology will save us

0 votes

Not really, I have other priorities (explain in comments please)

1 vote

Not at all, we'll be fine

5 votes

AP Poll: Hillary Only 39% Favorable Nationally

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Thursday July 16, 2015 · 1:06 PM PDT

2015/07/16 · 13:06

AP-GFK has released a new poll, enforcing what the polls have suggested for a few weeks now - Hillary is starting to tank in the polls.

Her favorability has tanked to a mere 39% (only 18% very favorable), with an unfavorability of 49%. Compare to Obama's 46% favorable (24% very) vs 47% unfavorable here, so she is failing to even gather his coalition behind her. In 2.5 months, she has lost 7% favorability.

A shockingly low 31% see her as "honest" (12% very) with 19% as "not at all", a 6% slide. Yikes.

Only 40% see her as "compassionate" (15% very), vs 58% who don't. I remind you that Obama won both elections because most people felt that he "cares about people like me", and Hillary is not making people feel that way.

Only 37% see Hillary as inspiring (17% very), a 7% slide. She has also lost 9% in how "decisive" she is seen, down to 47%.

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Tuesday July 14, 2015 · 9:42 AM PDT

2015/07/14 · 09:42

Quote is from this article:
http://www.vox.com/...

Does Hillary's rhetoric raise serious doubts about her present & future support for this deal?
Vote below!

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Does Hillary's rhetoric raise serious doubts about her present & future support for this deal?

111 votes Vote Now!

Does Hillary's rhetoric raise serious doubts about her present & future support for this deal?

Yes, she can't be trusted

21 votes

Maybe, her rhetoric is evasive

11 votes

Not really, Hillary is just managing her tent of interests

11 votes

No, she is genuinely for peace

65 votes

Hillary knows war is what we really need against Iran

3 votes

Bernie Sanders to make Hillary the next Cantor?

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Wednesday June 25, 2014 · 8:12 AM PDT

2014/06/25 · 08:12

Please read this before you vote in the poll…

Bernie Sanders is busy lately practicing his stump speech for his unofficially-declared 2016 run. Sanders made some strong comments after returning from a trip to Iowa and before heading back to New Hampshire.

Sanders is thinking of calling himself an "independent Democrat"… “That would mean running in the Democratic primaries and caucuses, but acknowledging that I am an independent, and have won every election I have run as an independent.”

Sanders then goes on to describe the situation like Cantor's race:

“Everyone was shocked by Eric Cantor. My guess -– my experience –- is that when you go out and you talk to working people, there’s a lot more dissatisfaction with the status quo and status quo politics than you think… And if that if my conclusion is true, we’ll do better than I think people think.”

Now Bernie gets classy and then says exactly what needs to be said:

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215 votes Show Results

Bernie Sanders 2016…

215 votes Vote Now!

Bernie Sanders 2016…

Socialism is evil

2 votes

Won't vote for him, don't think he can win the general election

52 votes

Interesting, tell me more…

23 votes

Will vote for him, but not sure he can win the general election

53 votes

Will vote for him, time for a revolution!

84 votes

Challenge Hillary?

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Tuesday June 24, 2014 · 5:10 PM PDT

2014/06/24 · 17:10

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 13:  Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discusses her new book, 'Hard Choices: A Memoir,' at the Lisner Auditorium on the campus of George Washington University June 13, 2014 in Washington, DC. Clinton is on a nationwide tour to promote the new memoir with media interviews and book signings but has said she would not decide whether to run in the 2016 presidential race before the end of the year.  (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

With Hillary's new book out, its clear she wants our vote, though she has yet to offer us something substantial in return. I think we all should want to hear where she stands on the following:

Citizens United,
Too-big-to-fail Banks,
Snowden & NSA,
Jobs,
Inequality,
Living Wage,
Bankster Regulations,
Expanding SS,
TPP/TPIP,
Fracking,
Marijuana legalization,
Her War-Hawk history

Vote your opinion below!

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Should HRC at least be strongly challenged on these issues in the primaries?

106 votes Vote Now!

Should HRC at least be strongly challenged on these issues in the primaries?

No, I am worried it would weaken her for the general election

13 votes

Yes, I think these are valid questions

15 votes

Yes, I think Hillary needs to be pushed to the left

18 votes

Yes, I'd like to see someone left of Hillary win the primary

60 votes

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