Hillary Clinton's Neo-lib Nonsense Happened

Hillary Clinton was weighed in the balances, and found wanting.

Not my fault, says Hillary.

Hillary Clinton recoils at the thought of Medicare for All, (Twitter).

Consider Clinton's campaign from the only candidate who could have lost to Donald Trump. Below:

Hillary says she swears she's not to blame. What happened to
Hillary Clinton in one picture.

Hey Bernie Sanders, Keep Up the Fight

Update: California was in fact rigged for Clinton. Few saw this coming, Bill Clinton apparently knew. See How California Is Being Stolen for Sanders, (Palest), and  'It was just chaos': Broken machines, incomplete voter rolls leave some wondering whether their ballots will count, (Pearce, Los Angeles Times).
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Many inducements will be offered to Bernie Sanders to give up the fight for social justice today.

No cause to allow Hillary Clinton and the corporate media to substitute neo-liberalism for social justice.

Clinton and her allies would not be so desperate to induce Bernie Sanders to abandon ship, were not Clinton's fragile candidacy manifest.

Fight on to Philly.

Bernie Sanders Vows to Fight, Clinton Toes Corporate Line

Bernie Sanders fights on, having denied Hillary Clinton
the requisite pledged delegates to clinch the
pre-convention nomination

The life-long social justice worker, Bernie Sanders and millions of Americans stopped the corporate media and the Democratic Party from installing Hillary Clinton as the presidential nominee before the Democratic Convention.

That Clinton was halted from winning the requisite number of pledged delegates to clinch the nomination, (including the total from D.C. next week Clinton will have won less than 2,300 of the needed 2,382 pledged delegates), is a fact the corporate media avoids reporting.

That would be all of the corporate media and don't believe what you read, or hear on The Rachel Meadow Show, for example

Bernie Sanders and Clinton will vow for the votes of superdelegates at the Democratic National Convention the week of July 25. This is another fact you won't read or hear from the corporate media.

Some seven weeks is a long time in American politics, hence the desperate Clinton effort to be anointed as the presumptive nominee, while the FBI is investigating Clinton's Scott Walker-esque secret computer server, router and computers on which Clinton conducted official business while serving as Secretary of State, (2009-2013). A negative law enforcement report is difficult after the media confers presumptive nominee status.

The corporate media decided that although superdelegates are unpledged and can only cast their preference at the Convention, superdelegates will be polled and counted by the corporate media in anonymous journalistic conventions through secret contacts.

The corporate media is now the authority of establishing the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party, not the Democratic National Committee, a practice this goes unchallenged and unquestioned in the corporate media.

"The nomination is consecrated by a media organization, on a day when nobody voted, based on secret discussions with anonymous establishment insiders and donors whose identities the media organization – incredibly – conceals. The decisive edifice of superdelegates is itself anti-democratic and inherently corrupt: designed to prevent actual voters from making choices that the party establishment dislikes," notes Glenn Greenwald reporting facts that will also not be repeated by the corporate media, (The Intercept).

Sanders has vowed to fight on, as he should. "[W]e are going to take the fight for social, economic and racial justice to Philadelphia. We will continue to fight for every vote and every delegate," Sanders told 1,000s in Santa Monica last night.

Clinton, the Democratic Party's corporate establishment and the corporate media don't get it.

For Hillary Clinton, her lust for the nomination has been animated by a quest for power and ego which drove Clinton to support the segregationist Barry Goldwater, among other unsavory pursuits.

For Sanders, the nomination is simply a means to achieve the promise of social justice.

From the Sanders campaign:

SANTA MONICA, Calif. – To chants of “Bernie or Bust,” U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders told a roaring crowd of supporters on Tuesday that he will carry his White House campaign and their fight for a political revolution to this summer’s Democratic National Convention.

“The struggle continues,” he declared to the loudest cheers of the night in the climax of the speech.

He said he would campaign in next Tuesday’s final primary in Washington, D.C., the last contest in the nationwide series of primaries and caucuses that began last winter in Iowa and New Hampshire.

“Then we are going to take the fight for social, economic and racial justice to Philadelphia,” he told the 3,300 people packed inside an airplane hangar. “We will continue to fight for every vote and every delegate.”

The late-night crowd was dominated by young people who have been a major key to the success of Sanders’ campaign. “I am enormously optimistic about the future of our country when so many young people have come on board and understand that our vision of social justice, economic justice, racial justice and environmental justice must be the future of America,” the senator from Vermont told the rally.

He spoke about the upcoming general election and defeating Donald Trump. “Our campaign from day one has understand that we will not allow right-wing Republicans to control our government. And that is especially true with Donald Trump as the Republican candidate,” Sanders said. “The American people in my view will never support a candidate whose major theme is bigotry who insults Mexicans, who insults Muslims and women and African Americans. We will not allow Donald Trump to become president of the United States.”

But he said the grassroots campaign that gave him victories in 22 states has another goal.

“Our mission is more than just defeating Trump it is transforming our country,” Sanders said. That mission includes ending wealth and income inequality and junking the corrupt campaign finance system that props up a rigged economy. “Democracy is not about billionaires buying elections.” He said it includes reforming the criminal justice system, breaking up big bans, providing health care as a right to all citizens, reforming our broken immigration system and making the billionaires and profitable corporations pay their fair share in taxes.

“What this is about is millions of people from coast to coast knowing that we can do much, much better as a nation,” Sanders said. “Our fight is to transform this country and to understand that we are in this together, understand that all of what we believe is what the majority of American people believe and to understand that the struggle continues.”

Support Bernie Sanders, Hope Insider Dems Come to Their Senses

Hillary Clinton is hopelessly corrupt and out-of-touch

Now is the time to support Bernie Sanders and work up to the Democratic Convention, the week of July 25, to help super-delegates come to their senses. Super-delegates are unbound and cannot vote until the Convention.

The media has anointed Hillary Clinton after the corporate media conducted secret phone calls with Clinton super-delegates yesterday, which both the media and the super-delegates will not disclose in detail. Notes Gleen Greenwald:

Perfect End to Democratic Primary: Anonymous Superdelegates Declare Winner Through Media
Last night, Associated Press – on a day when nobody voted – surprised everyone by abruptly declaring the Democratic Party primary over and Hillary Clinton the victor. The decree, issued the night before the California primary in which polls show Clinton and Bernie Sanders in a very close race, was based on the media organization’s survey of 'superdelegates': the Democratic Party’s 720 insiders, corporate donors and officials whose votes for the presidential nominee count the same as the actually elected delegates. AP claims that superdelegates who had not previously announced their intentions privately told AP reporters that they intend to vote for Clinton, bringing her over the threshold. AP is concealing the identity of the decisive superdelegates who said this.

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This is the perfect symbolic ending to the Democratic Party primary: The nomination is consecrated by a media organization, on a day when nobody voted, based on secret discussions with anonymous establishment insiders and donors whose identities the media organization – incredibly – conceals. The decisive edifice of superdelegates is itself anti-democratic and inherently corrupt: designed to prevent actual voters from making choices that the party establishment dislikes. But for a party run by insiders and funded by corporate interests, it’s only fitting that their nomination process ends with such an ignominious, awkward and undemocratic sputter.

Clinton accepted the latest attempt to impose a corporate-owned subsidiary onto the United States, after feigning surprise. Typical deceitful Hillary Clinton. You don't have to settle for a Clinton.

From the Bernie Sanders campaign:

Tuesday marks the largest set of primaries and caucuses in the Democratic nomination process with six states voting for president and 694 pledged delegates up for grabs.

Pundits and the political press want to call this race early before every last person votes. That threatens to suppress voter turnout in New Jersey, California, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and New Mexico. But we’re not going to let that happen. On Tuesday, we’re going to defy the pundits once more and reach for the kind of high voter turnout that will again shock the establishment.

We won’t settle for the status quo. We won’t settle for a rigged economy held in place by a corrupt system of campaign finance. We won’t settle for a fossil fuel industry hell-bent on harming our planet to pad their profits. We won’t settle for a health system that doesn’t cover everyone. In California, a high voter turnout won’t just mean a victory for our movement.

With large numbers of young people hitting the polls, we’ll boost so many Democrats in major primaries that right-wing Republicans will be locked out of general election ballots for some of the most important House and Senate races of the fall.

Members of the media and political establishment may have anointed Secretary Clinton from day one, but we know that this race is going to carry on until the delegates cast ballots at the convention in Philadelphia.

We should let the voters decide who they want the Democratic nominee to be rather than having the media decide for them. I am asking you to continue to stand with Bernie in pushing for the political revolution.

Liars and Lunatics Define 2016 Campaign

The Big Con

Scamming Our Country

Updated: Bill Clinton called Bernie Sanders voters, "toast," this weekend, a stance Clinton offers to non-Clinton-donating Americans, (Yilek, The Hill).

The corporate media continues its Hillary Clinton-poised-to-win-[if-we-add-in-super-delegates] mantra prior to its declaration Hillary Clinton wins the nomination. In fact, super-delegates are unbound and cannot vote until the Convention.

After talking "politics" by phone with Bill Clinton last year, Donald Trump persists in his loosely staged wrestling match that Trump appears to be throwing with outrageous racial taunts against the fastest growing demographic in the electorate.

Bernie Sanders maintains defiance of the corporate-Hillary-DNC axis asking questions corporate media will not touch about American society and funneling wealth to the One Percent ... then to the Clinton Foundation.

Hillary Clinton laughs and refuses to answer queries asking
if Clinton will release transcripts of her paid talks to
Goldman Sachs. See the video of Hillary Clinton at The Intercept.

Some questions not being asked:

Why were Bill and Hillary Clinton talking politics with the leading birther, Donald Trump, last summer? Why would the Clintons even associate with a slime like Trump?

Why is the media including super-delegate totals, (since last year), in its reporting on the presidential primary? Why doesn't the media state the truism that super-delegates are unbound and cannot vote until the Convention?

What did Hillary Clinton say that compelled Goldman Sachs to pay her $Millions.

See

• Hillary Clinton Laughs When Asked if She Will Release Transcripts of Her Goldman Sachs Speeches (Fang, The Intercept)
• Hillary Clinton Again Declines to Disclose What She Told Big Banks in Her Paid Speeches (Fang, The Intercept)
• Hillary Clinton Won’t Say How Much Goldman Sachs CEO Invested With Her Son-in-Law (Fang, Moltke, The Intercept)

Why did the Clinton Foundation accept $Millions from human garbage in Saudi Arabia?

Wisconsin's Ron Kind's Broken Promise

U.S. Rep. Ron Kind (Corporatist-Wisconsin) is among the worst of the anti-jobs campaign of the New Democrats.

This may cost Kind who faces a strong primary challenge from Myron Buchholz of Eau Claire.

From Berniecrats Unite! and Myron Buchholz

In a 2008 interview with the La Crosse Tribune, Kind said he’ll use his 'superdelegate' vote to support whichever candidate gets the majority among 3rd Congressional District Democratic primary voters. "I’m going to keep faith with the voters and respect their choice," said Kind.

Eight years later and Ron Kind has changed his tune. He continues to pledge his support for Hillary Clinton even though Bernie Sanders won the presidential primary in the 3rd Congressional district  by 61% to 39% over Hillary Clinton. That's unacceptable.

To date our campaign has influenced Kind to co-sponsor long-neglected environmental legislation, and to finally vote against endless war. Let's work together to insist that he pledge his 'superdelegate' vote for Bernie at the Democratic Party national convention in July. Here's a link to help you make your voice heard, lobbydelegates.com.

And please support our campaign. So far we've accomplished a lot together. There's no telling what we can accomplish on August 9th.

In Solidarity,

Myron

Philly and Beyond, Fighting the Corporatists

Bernie Sanders supporters in Wisconsin passed a resolution at the 2016 Democratic Party of the Wisconsin State Convention calling for an end to super-delegates and their power to select the presidential nominee.

They did so on the weekend before Clinton and the corporate media will declare the Sanders-Clinton race over on the basis of super-delegates' perceived preference, (Johnson, Wisconsin Public Radio) (Sommerhauser, Wisconsin State Journal).

Super-delegates are Democrats in Congress and other dead-end Party functionaries, who largely toe the establishment line to curry favor with the financiers and Party minions, (Hughes and Peterson, Wall Street Journal).

Clinton's continuing her impersonation of the comically insincere Selina Meyer of Veep, (HBO), has been consistent over the last year: Hillary Clinton is entitled to the nomination because Clinton has the super-delegates' imprimatur, (Halperin, Epstein, Aug. 28, 2015; (BloombergPolitics)).

There is no need for the Democratic Party presidential primary, Clinton's campaign implied. The unmentioned corollary is that voters could have just stayed home.

This coming Monday or Tuesday, Clinton's sentiments will be joined in a definitive manner by the corporate media who have polled the same super-delegates, and will declare Hillary Clinton as nominee, echoing the Clinton campaign's oft-repeated posture of last winter and spring.

That this scheme is in violation of Party rules is of no relevancy to Clinton.

The only way Hillary Clinton is going to win the nomination is when and if the super-delegates vote for her, and that is not taking place until the end of July [at the Democratic Party Convention]. A lot has been said in the Democratic primary about 'the rules being the rules.' I agree with that.

The rules are that the super-delegates do not count until the convention. Luis Miranda of the DNC made that abundantly clear himself last month.

Anyone who 'calls the election' on June 7th, be it the Clinton campaign or television networks, is knowingly and deliberately going against the very rules of the party, (King, CommonDreams).

Clinton—with Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz working for her with virtually the entire Democratic Party establishment—was able to run up the votes in states where Bernie Sanders could not compete. This does not confer any legitimacy to the presidential primary process.

The primary process was crafted for Clinton as the establishment's favored candidate, so this week's declaration by Bernie Sanders he is taking the fight to the floor of the Democratic Party Convention should be met by all reform-minded progressives as a vow to fight a thoroughly dishonest Hillary Clinton and the retrograde forces for whom Clinton fronts.

Clinton will tell the world that there is much more that unites Sanders' voters with Clinton than what divides Sanders' voters with Clinton.

Not if Sanders' voters are working for a change in which they can believe.

Hillary Clinton, Time to Bow Out and Take Wasserman Schultz with You

It's so much better for the Party if Bernie Sanders falls in line behind Hillary Clinton, say the commissars.

Is it possible for the two major political parties to be so out-of-touch? Right.

Clinton is an annoying troll and imperils the nomination of the stronger general election candidate, Bernie Sanders, against Donald Trump.

Clinton should leave politics, and Sanders and his supporters will clean up her mess.

Trump is going to be a more difficult proposition than the Democratic Party assumes.

Plenty of Time for Queen of Chaos to Self-Destruct

The American people should know: You don't have to vote for Hillary Clinton and the neo-con, neo-lib predations against the world.

Vote Bernie Sanders.

Sanders and supporters have denied Clinton winning the Democratic Party nomination with pledged/won delegates against all odds and against a rigged system. There is no way Clinton can win the nomination with pledged delegates.

If in late July at the Democratic Convention in Philly, superdelegates are so deluded or corrupt as to install Hillary Clinton, there is a fall-back position.

"The guys running the show in the Democratic Party are basically the funders --- and that's predatory banks, fossil fuel giants, war profiteers, and insurance companies," Jill Stein tells the BradBlog. "With the Democratic Party you see basically a 'fake left-go right' situation, where they allow principled, inspired campaigns to stand up and be seen, but they sabotage them when push comes to shove. That, unfortunately, is what we see go on right now with the Sanders campaign, which is making a valiant effort here to do the right thing and change the party."

Superdelegates want to run the show in Philly, then walk out and work for a Stein-Sanders ticket.

Of course, Hillary Clinton could do the decent thing and suspend her campaign, but I would not count on Hillary Clinton doing the decent thing.

Hillary Clinton: Ready or Not, 'I'm the Nominee'

Never have I seen politician so steeped in her own sense of entitlement for nomination to public office as Hillary Clinton.

And I've seen some beauts in Wisconsin where I live.

"I will be the nominee for my party," Clinton said in an interview this week with CNN's Chris Cuomo. "That is already done, in effect. There is no way that I won't be," (CBS News).

Of course, Clinton has acclaimed her entitlement to the nomination since at least last August when her campaign sent down the message the Democratic Presidential Primary race is over, (Halperin, Epstein, Aug. 28, 2015; (BloombergPolitics)).

Whether Clinton is so pathetically lost in ego, (I mean "Ready for Hillary," who wrote that one?), that Clinton sees herself as a historical figure without which America cannot survive or Clinton is just another power-hungry junkie looking to line her pockets installed by another corrupt political party, it may be voters in the nine primaries and caucuses left to be decided want their voices heard and their votes counted.

Americans can be funny about hanging onto the last vestiges of democracy.

It may be the $100 million-plus amassed by the Clintons about which they are close-lipped will see Hillary Clinton destroyed as a nominee in the next eight weeks. See How Hillary and Bill Clinton Parlayed Decades of Public Service into Vast Wealth, (Gross, Fortune) and (Jilana, AlterNet).

It may be Clinton's militarism will finally come to light: "From her First Lady of Arkansas days on, she has been a gung ho supporter of nearly every military adventure that the United States has undertaken – until, as always happens, they take such a sour turn that there is no percentage in continuing to defend them," notes Andrew Levine at CounterPunch.

Or Hillary's racism.

It may well be people are striving for better than let-your-children-fight-my-wars Hillary Clinton and the fix of the Democratic Presidential Primary by Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and will not vote for Clinton, should she be successfully installed as the nominee.

I am striving for better, and I won't vote for Hillary Clinton under any circumstances.

Exclusive: The Secret History of Superdelegates

How the Democratic Party degrades voters' votes, it's an
undemocratic thing, (Marcetic, In These Times).

Superdelegates are super-undemocratic.

Branko Marcetic at In These Times has the story.

Love to see Marcetic as a guest on MSNBC this week.

Love to see the Democratic Party ditch this anti-people tool of the special interests who apparently dictate to the Democratic Party.

Advice to Hillary Clinton: Reign in Wasserman Schultz and Dem. Insiders

Only Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party could screw up a general election against Donald Trump.

Facing an outright fascist like Trump, Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz decided the most effective communication to emit this week is to blast Bernie Sanders and the millions of Sanders advocates without whom any Democratic Party nominee is doomed.

Sanders, a life-long civil rights activist, understands the principle that without the people, especially the under-30 folks, (aka our future), no elected representative enjoys legitimacy or delivers effective public policy.

Public policy takes on heightened significance when considered in light of the fact our planet likely has passed a tipping point in the climatic change forcing event in which we load our atmosphere with emissions from fossil fuels, (with consequences made worse by associated feedbacks), (Hansen et al, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics).

Republicans have no regard for democratic, classical liberal niceties such as voting rights, one person/one vote principles, (Reynolds v. Sims (1964)), popular support, and open and transparent government, all of which are needed to combat suicidal special interests as a polity.

Republicans today seek at all levels of government to undermine popular influence on public policy, and at the same time voice support for a statist, authoritarian jurisprudence explicitly rejecting individual rights. And of course Republicans reject climatic science, and seek to eliminate the very mention of the topic in state government ruled by this science-adverse and corrupt Party, (Bence, WUWM Radio).

So, Hillary Clinton advocate and surrogate, DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, decided the wisest course forward is to undermine democracy in the already deformed Democratic Party Presidential Primary, and more explicitly repeat the lies coming out of Nevada in an attempt to directly undermine Bernie Sanders' run for the presidency.

That Sanders is a champion for sustainable energy is not lost on Bernie Sanders' supporters, (Sanders on Energy Policy, Sanders on Climate Change).

Anyone telling you the race for the Democratic nomination for the presidency is over is kidding you. In eight weeks anything can happen, and Hillary Clinton and the DNC would not be trying to undermine Sanders if they believed otherwise.

Clinton and Wasserman Schultz should be focusing their energies on the future of our planet, not so much on defaming supporters of the guy championing science and the biosphere against lunatic-fringe special interests.

Sanders Is the Clear Choice for President

Citizen cheers Bernie Sanders at Southern California rally
on May 17 2016, (Bernie 2106).

"Well, let me be as clear as I can be. We are in till the last ballot is cast," said Bernie Sanders last night after another victory in Oregon, (Kaplan, NYT).

Millions are with Bernie Sanders.

Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is not of them.

Wasserman Schultz rigged the Democratic Primary race for Hillary Clinton, and has called for the elimination of open primaries, (Mal Contends).

Americans casting their votes under the impression that one vote equals one vote are mistaken.

Superdelegates, or Party commissars, decide the nominee, and that's the way Clinton and Wasserman Schultz want it.

Sanders blasted the DNC for its anti-democratic stance last night.

"In the year since he launched a long-shot campaign, Sanders has taken on the Democratic Party establishment and won more than 45 percent of the pledged delegates to this July’s Democratic National Convention."

Speaking to his supporters in Southern California, Sanders had a blunt message for top party officials."

'I say to the leadership of the Democratic Party: Open the doors. Let the people in. The other option for the Democratic Party, a sad and tragic option, is to maintain its status quo structure and be a party with limited participation and limited energy,' said Sanders, (Bernie 2106).

Wisconsin has seen the consequences of option two.

Sanders is much better on the issues. And better on the democratic process, a significant feature of American elections to many. Clinton and Wasserman Schultz are awful.

If Clinton thinks Bernie Sanders supporters will stand with her in the event of a Clinton victory at the July convention, she's as crazy as Wasserman Schultz.