American Prison Camps Are Built to Last, Evangelicals See Hand of God

"If you're at lunch, or if you have no appetite to hear what Germans have done, now is a good time to switch off the radio for I propose to tell you about Buchenwald."

It is on a small hill about four miles outside Weimar and it was one of the largest  concentration camps in Germany and it was built to last."
— Edward R. Murrow, April 11, 1945 broadcast from Buchenwald

For black and brown folk in the United States, child cages and concentration-camp complexes are an inviolate part of America, seemingly impervious to the political system.

It's part of who we are and democracy means no questions about who we are: a prison state erected by whites, for blacks and browns.

Whites are justified in calling down an armed police response to kill, imprison or fine you. And whites are feeling emboldened now-a-days.

See today for example, an eight-year-old, black girl sells water in early Summer in San Francisco. So, a resentful white phones the police hoping the cops come and arrest or kill someone. This idiot white has committed the moral equivalent of attempted homicide.

Not sure how Ginger Thompson and ProPublica managed to pierce the white American soul with their recordings of Trump abusing children at the internment camps, but ProPublica did just that.

Children getting abused and families being destroyed are acceptable outcomes of American society, favored outcomes in the white Evangelical mind because, you know, the authorities have deemed brutal treatment as just and necessary and we must obey as the Bible instructs.

The United States has a sordid history. This history should be understood as Trump expands the scope of the project of hurting people. [Read Amanda Schaffer's infuriating piece in The New Yorker about another eight-year-old, and then have a glass of wine and smoke-up, if you have it. (Great work, Ms. Schaffer.]

This expansion of cruelty is alarming as Evangelicals have already used the War on Drugs and post-911 police mania to inflict trauma and imprison black and brown folk, held in increasing disfavor.

Gov. Scott Walker (R) is the worst among a rouges' gallery of Republican offenders, but he had help.

Writes Savion Castro in the Capital Times this weekend:

Gov. Scott Walker offered something worse than deafening silence on Donald Trump’s unconscionable policy of tearing infants, toddlers, and children from their parents and placing them in 21st-century internment camps when he said he wouldn’t comment on a 'federal; issue.

Forty-eight hours later, when the governor traveled to Washington, D.C., to meet with Donald Trump, he still felt no obligation to speak out against the human rights violation occurring on our border against children. Instead, he has been fundraising off of Facebook ads on the need to build the border wall and sending Wisconsin National Guard troops to the border.

Make no mistake, Walker’s cruel, political calculus on 'baby jails' is the culmination of a 25-year pattern of indifference and hostility to children of color that he has displayed during his lifetime in elected office.

Walker was an early backer of the private-prison industry, now enjoying boom times building new detention camps.

In 2013, Wisconsin led the nation in concentrating black men behind bars as Walker and Clinton's racial politics bore its rotten fruit, (Corley, NPR) (O'Hear, Marquette Law School).

From 2015:

It isn't just divide-and-conquer poor people-bashing that led the Clintons, Tommy Thompson [1987-2001], Walker and Paul Ryan to rise to positions of political power.

Clinton, as Bill Clinton has admitted, used 'anti-crime' legislation to create the largest population behind bars in world history, (Cohen, Brennen Center; Loury, Boston Review).

Clinton's federal drive to imprison minorities was matched by ALEC legislation on the state level, and in Wisconsin led by then State Rep. Scott Walker (R-Wauwatosa, (1993-2002)) and Gov. Tommy Thompson (1987-2001) to make Wisconsin into a state 'leviathan,' as Glenn Loury terms mass incarceration, stocking prisons (private and public), making the imprisoned' lives a 'living hell,' as Thompson campaigned in an infamous political TV spot. (Mal Contends) (Mal Contends) (Adelman, Valparaiso University Law Review) and (ALEC Exposed, PRWatch).

'Walker pushed dozens of proposals in the state house to lengthen criminal penalties, for everything from perjury to privacy invasion to intoxicated boating. In just the 1997–98 legislative session, Walker authored or co-sponsored twenty-seven different bills that either expanded the definition of crimes, increased mandatory minimums for offenders, or curbed the possibility of parole,' notes Scott Keyes in The Nation.

Walker openly bragged about his bill, the infamous Truth-in-Sentencing law, which limited early parole, as having come from the corporate bill mill, the American Legislative Exchange Committee.
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Scott Walker is the classic 'double high authoritarian' who takes pleasure in deceiving and hurting perceived incarnations of the wrong [black] type of people, while also marked by the inclination and "willingness to submit to established authority, (and) their aggressiveness on behalf of that authority," (Dean, part one, CounterPunch and Dean, part two CounterPunch). Walker is obsequies to Donald Trump.

It's no great leap to imagine Walker, Trump and white Evangelicals accelerate the prison state, and if Americans are not already rereading Milton Mayer and Norman Cohn to understand the totalitarian mind, they should be.

Trump Will Hit Hillary on Nicaraguan Contras, Human Rights Violations, and Wars

Political curve balls will be flying off the lectern at the great debate as the blank slate to many that is Donald Trump offers a human rights-based critique of Hillary Clinton, (Mal Contends).

That Trump is a fascist is not of the moment in the theater.

The political world won't know what to make of human rights from Trump, nor for that matter will the American people.

Human rights are no concern to Trump of course. Nor are American minorities.

Trump will assure us dangers lurk, and he is the guy who will protect our families at home and abroad from the dark-skinned dragons.

Still, Trump will strike out tonight and Hillary will be acclaimed the victor.

No politician ever went broke by overestimating the militaristic fervor of the American people, and militarism has never cost Hillary Clinton and this won't change for the foreseeable future.

Hillary Clinton's Air War Needs Innovation, Urgency Fast

Hillary Clinton and allies need to run compelling TV spots capturing the imagination and defining Donald Trump for swing-state audiences, (NYT), (AdWeek), (VB and P), (Droga5).

If this appears obvious, then someone explain the spot, Role Models, playing in swing states in the days before the start of the Convention, (AdWeek). [Convention line-up today]

Where is the message about the urgency and danger of Donald Trump?

Trump is a vulgar ass, and while I have no data nor wild guess about the communications strategy during Convention week, I'm betting Trump-the-vulgarian is sufficiently well-known across the electorate.

The American people like compelling conventional-media TV spots, innovative and clever. And this is the Super Bowl of politics.

So, with some 100 days left in the presidential campaign, a suggestion for the creative minds working for the Clinton juggernaut, millions of impressions of Bernie Sanders hounding Americans to vote for Hillary:

Coming out of the Convention, Bernie Sanders is featured warning about the dangers Donald Trump brings to the world.

Visuals behind Bernie illustrate Trump's damage to the U.S. economy, the world economy, Trump on the minimum wage, student loans, tax breaks for billionaires, Trump's hypocrisy on off-shoring, manufacturing jobs and so on.

Sober, serious, and grave, Bernie explains why he endorsed Hillary, (with some edgy music), and why working to defeat Donald Trump is the most important activity in modern political history.

"... I'm 75 now, and I will spend every moment I have these next 100 days, standing with the American people in this most critical election of the last 70 years. Let's stand together to defeat Donald Trump. Let's move forward and elect Hillary Clinton as president of the United States. Make no mistake, the very future of your children and my children are at stake here."

Bernie Sanders Should Stay and Fight

Bernie Sanders for president because our country and
our future are worth fighting for.

The failure of the corporate political press, emphatically MSNBC, to report Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the DNC crafted the Democratic Presidential Primary to coronate Hillary Clinton ought not deter Bernie Sanders' run for the presidency.

Nor should the fact that the DNC has stacked the deck against Sanders at the Democratic National Convention by installing Clinton loyalists in key committees, (US Uncut).

Nor should the fact that the DNC employs Party commissars, aka superdelegates, precisely to halt progressive political campaigns like Bernie Sanders'.

Hillary Clinton has publicly trumpeted her amassed superdelegates since last August, effectively telling Democratic Primary voters the race is over, (Halperin, Epstein, Aug. 28, 2015; (BloombergPolitics)), months before the Iowa Caucuses and 11 months before the July 2016 Democratic Party Presidential Convention.

Bernie Sanders' supporters decided they would cast their preference in this republic anyway, the heck with Clinton's insiders and myriad Party careerists' support. Suckers for democracy are we.

Let's assume the Democratic Party's nominee against the lunatic Donald Trump is a genuine general election, and not prearranged theater like a wrestling match where the bad guy makes a lot of noise and throws the match to the good guy.

If Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the DNC decide large swaths of American voters are neither welcome nor relevant to the Convention, and the evidence is such a decision has already been made, then Bernie Sanders, denied a fair shot at the nomination, should bolt in late July and make an independent or third party run for the presidency.

It's a democratic thing, and a welcome frack-you card to a corrupt and anti-democratic Democratic Party.

Sanders Wins WV, Party Commissars Look to Correct Voters at Convention

Bernie Sanders won West Virginia last night as Clinton surrogates on MSNBC stood ready to downplay Sanders' latest victory.

That voters for Bernie Sanders will deny Hillary Clinton the 2,383 pledged delegates to secure the nomination before the convention is a fact blacked-out by the corporate media, especially MSNBC.

Clinton was anointed by the DNC in a rigged primary front-loaded for Clinton by DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz who advocates the abolition of open primaries, (The Hill, The Washington Examiner,, Bloomberg Politics, U.S. Uncut, Mal Contends).

In service to Clinton, the Democratic Party commissars, aka superdelegates who will cast delegate votes at the convention, are tabulated by the corporate press as already voted and been won by Hillary Clinton. In reality-land, the Democratic National Convention is held July 25-28 in Philadelphia.

The latest Clinton loss to Sanders exposes Clinton's weakness among actual voters, and assuming no deal has been made between allies Clinton and Trump, highlights the weakest potential Democratic Party nominee in recent history as Clinton alienates younger voters, (TruthDig).

There is an explanation for Clinton's weakness.

"There exists nary a war of aggression, a corporate privilege, a privatization of public services or an act against the common good that Mrs. Clinton has factually opposed in her years of public self-service," notes Rob Urie in CounterPunch.

These are inconvenient facts about Hillary Clinton that must be ignored.

Sanders' Movement Kills Insiders, Can Realign American Politics

Not too late for Hillary Clinton to say 'bye-bye.'

Since declaring his run nearly a year ago, Bernie Sanders proclaimed his intention to build a powerful force for change in American politics and garner the nomination of the Democratic Party.

Sanders has achieved his first objective bringing in the younger voters who must turn out if the Republicans are to be defeated in the U.S. Senate and in a long shot defy the Republican-gerrymandered House.

Against this progressive movement, Nicholas Confessore notes today:

[h]undreds of the party’s 'superdelegates' have endorsed Mrs. Clinton, a signal of her broad support among the party’s power brokers. The Democratic National Committee now relies on Mrs. Clinton’s fund-raising to provide a fifth of its monthly income, an arrangement the Sanders campaign has criticized.

And Mrs. Clinton is well positioned to block any proposals she would not want to defend in a general election. In January, the party chairwoman, Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, appointed dozens of Clinton supporters and advisers to the three standing committees of the Democratic Party convention. Of 45 potential members submitted by Mr. Sanders, she appointed just three ...

Since tying Sanders in Iowa, Clinton and her surrogates have called for her coronation in a repulsive display of the very anti-democratic, moneyed interests-rule maladies that Sanders has openly denounced.

Clinton has moved dramatically towards the FDR-Ike-LBJ domestic policy consensus harnessed by Sanders, but Clinton remains a corporatist in her outlook.

"I think what divides us is the understanding on the part of millions of people who are supporting my candidacy that it really is too late for establishment politics and establishment economics. We have to deal in very substantive way with income and wealth inequality. We need to understand that we are the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people, not to provide paid family and medical leave. We have to deal aggressively with a corrupt campaign finance system which allows big- money interests to buy elections. Those are areas I think of difference,” Sanders said Sunday on Meet The Press.

The argument advanced by Clinton's campaign that Sanders must now submit to the rigged Democratic Party primary is ludicrous.

To expect millions of Americans to disenfranchise their power is not only ridiculous, it is dangerous and risks a sure-thing victory of the off-the-charts Republican Party.

If come July 25-28 at the Democratic Party convention in Philadelphia and Sanders is not the nominee, Clinton will have to earn Sanders and millions of Americans' support by moving away from her neo-con and Wall Street alliances that Clinton still hides from scrutiny.

What Hillary Clinton does not get is these alliances are the problem.

Hillary Clinton and Her Support for the Nicaraguan Contras

What about it, Hillary Clinton: You agree Reagan's training and support for the Nicaraguan Contras were a disgrace and a human rights violation, correct?

Most who came of age during the age of Reagan, (1981-89), remember the creation of the CIA, the Nicaraguan Contras, remnants of the U.S.-supported dictator, Anastasio Somoza.

The Contras, a group of U.S.-financed terrorists went after soft targets—schools, daycare centers and healthcare facilities—and were among the most vile death squads in 1970s-80s Latin America, terrorists drawing bi-partisan but not unanimous American support, (Greenwald, The Intercept).

Among the supporters of the Contras were the politically ambitious Hillary and Bill Clinton, and last month at a debate Hillary Clinton sounded precisely like Ronald Reagan, (and not unlike Henry Kissinger), (Greenwald, The Intercept).

Love to see a question posed of Hillary asking if the Contras, Latin American death squads and dictators were repulsive terrorists that no decent American should have ever supported.

As noted by Glenn Greenwald after a March 10 debate co-sponsored by Univision, the Washington Post, and Facebook at Miami-Dade College:

Vehement opposition to Reagan’s covert wars in Central America, as well as to the sadistic and senseless embargo of Cuba, were once standard liberal positions. As my colleague Jeremy Scahill, observing the reaction of Clinton supporters during the debate, put it in a series of tweets: 'The U.S. sponsored deaths squads that massacred countless central and Latin Americans, murdered nuns and priests, assassinated an Archbishop. I bet commie Sanders was even against Reagan’s humanitarian mining of Nicaraguan waters and; supported subsequent war crimes judgment vs. U.S. Have any of these Hillarybots heard of the Contra death squads? Or is it just that whatever Hillary says must be defended at all costs? The Hillarybots attacking Sanders over Nicaragua should be ashamed of themselves.'

So, what about it, Hillary Clinton: You agree Reagan's support for the Nicaraguan Contras was a disgrace and a human rights violation, correct?

On Wisconsin—Walker's Budget Mired in Disaster, Sanders Moves Ahead of Clinton

Donald Trump trashed Scott Walker over Wisconsin's declining fiscal health under Scott Walker, saying "[Walker] is not doing a good job ... ," (Vitali, NBC News).

Actually, Wisconsin's fiscal health is much worse; Jake the macro-Econ man, has the breakdown in a piece entitled, February revenues collapse, Wisconsin budget even more on the edge.

Meanwhile in the 2016 presidential Democratic primary, Bernie Sanders is plowing ahead of Hillary Clinton who has left Wisconsin for a fundraiser from the Wall Street crowd.

While Sanders was in Madison on Wednesday for several appearances including a town hall meeting, Clinton was scheduled to be in New York City at a fundraiser hosted by former Morgan Stanley Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat.

Sanders' campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, noted the candidates' divergent approaches in an email to supporters on Wednesday. 'Hillary Clinton left the campaign trail for yet another high-dollar fundraising event on Monday,' he wrote, 'but she shared some news about the state of the race that we agree with: she said the trail to the Democratic nomination 'goes through Wisconsin.' (Fulton, Common Dreams).

Also worrying is the uber-hawk, Hillary Clinton.

In the Huffington Post, Oliver Stone sets the record straight on Hillary Clinton and her foreign policy  earning Clinton elsewhere the moniker, the Queen of Chaos.

Notes Stone:

Hillary’s record includes supporting the barbaric 'contras' against the Nicaraguan people in the 1980s, supporting the NATO bombing of the former Yugoslavia, supporting the ongoing Bush-Iraq War, the ongoing Afghan mess, and as Secretary of State the destruction of the secular state of Libya, the military coup in Honduras, and the present attempt at 'regime change' in Syria. Every one of these situations has resulted in more extremism, more chaos in the world, and more danger to our country. Next will be the borders of Russia, China, and Iran. Look at the viciousness of her recent AIPAC speech (don’t say you haven’t been warned). Can we really bear to watch as Clinton 'takes our alliance [with Israel] to the next level'? Where is our sense of proportion? Cannot the media, at the least, call her out on this extremism? The problem, I think, is this political miasma of 'correctness' that dominates American thinking (i.e. Trump is extreme, therefore Hillary is not). 

Clinton's foreign policy is the same as the Cruz-Trump line, just delivered more delicately.

Clinton's domestic fiscal policy comes straight from Wall Street.

To the extent these facts are known, Clinton's political fortunes will decline.

Hear the Sound of Hillary Clinton's Campaign Disintegrating

AP: "Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon declined to comment Wednesday."

The Hillary Clinton email story has turned out to be a blockbuster after-all:

Newly released emails show a 2009 request to issue a secure government smartphone to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was denied by the National Security Agency.

A month later, she began using private email accounts accessed through her BlackBerry to exchange messages with her top aides.

The messages made public Wednesday were obtained by Judicial Watch, a conservative legal advocacy group that has filed numerous lawsuits seeking the release of federal documents related to Clinton's tenure as the nation's top diplomat. ... 'These documents show that Hillary Clinton knew her BlackBerry wasn't secure,' Tom Fitton, the president of Judicial Watch, said Wednesday. 'The FBI and prosecutors ought to be very interested in these new materials.' (Michael Biesecker, AP).

Wonder why the big rush from Clinton surrogates to get behind Hillary Clinton?

We note again it would be very difficult for the FBI and U.S. DoJ to release the results of ongoing probes, or prosecute the presumptive Democratic Party nominee for any crimes.

So, Clinton needs the premature designation as presumptive Democratic Party nominee.

Hillary Clinton has unfavorable v. favorable ratings of minus-12 points, (updated daily at Huffington Post).

This new development won't help.

Next Up for Dems: Arizona, Idaho and Utah

The message emitting from Hillary Clinton's campaign continues.

Same as the message from August 2015: Hillary Clinton is the one, and to borrow from the Clinton campaign's words fed to the media last year, "At the Democratic National Committee meeting in Minneapolis, where Clinton spoke on Friday, senior Clinton campaign officials are claiming that she has already secured one-fifth of the pledges needed to win the Democratic presidential nomination," (Bloomberg Politics).

The delegates-won total at this point is: Clinton-1,112 delegates, Sanders-806 delegates; with 2,382 delegates needed to win the nomination. The delegate figures exclude superdelegates who won't vote until the Democratic Party Convention held the week of July 25, 2016. (RealPolitics).

Next Tuesday are elections in Arizona (winner take all), Idaho and Utah. The first three of 29 more Democratic Party elections and caucuses Clinton's campaign and surrogates want the media to believe won't matter.

"The second half of the calendar appears more favorable to Sanders than the states that have voted so far," notes Nate Silver this morning. That's an understatement.

Silver wants to believe in a static contest, a bizarre notion that he cannot believe to be true.

Call me "unrealistic" as Clinton supporters are apt. But consider on June 7 alone California and New Jersey vote (along with four other states), and California and New Jersey alone comprise 39 percent of the 2,382 delegates needed to win.

The New Dealer-Ike-LBG-Great Society Bernie Sanders is in to stay. Last night shows why.

"Sanders continued to bolster his electability argument in tonight’s contests. Among groups that hold special significance in general elections, like young voters and independents, Sanders performed particularly well," notes Tom Cahill.

Sanders' domination of young voters was overwhelming last night again.

Hillary the Chickenhawk and Henry Kissinger

In Milwaukee last night Bernie Sanders called out Hillary Clinton's ludicrous admiration for (and mentoring from) war criminal, Henry Kissinger, (Informed Comment), as Clinton sent her message to the war-mongering neocons: I'm with you.

Sanders would have none of it.

"I am proud to say that Henry Kissinger is not my friend. I will not take advice from Henry Kissinger. ... So count me in as somebody who will not be listening to Henry Kissinger."

Henry Kissinger? Are you kidding?

Three Questions for Sanders-Clinton Debate in Milwaukee

• Is this really the election when SuperDelegates—one Super equals 9,000-plus voters in delegate math out of New Hampshire—should determine the Democratic Party nominee for the presidency?
• Why have primary elections if Establishment Party insiders are calling the game?
• Ought polluting fresh water—literally our lifeblood—be considered a crime against humanity, and will you pursue policies reflecting this ethic?

Lobbyists Fret Clinton Loss

Lobbyists and consultants paid good money for Hillary Clinton, and she was slaughtered last night; they are not happy.

Lee Fang at The Intercept has the story.

Sanders and Clinton, Save Our Water

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders debate in Milwaukee on Feb. 11.

The candidates should be asked: Will you as president commit to massive, new funding for the EPA, aggressive federal enforcement of the Clean Water Act and declare a war: A war to protect our water?

Scott Walker and Idiots Have Another Great Idea for Wisconsin's Water

The predictable consequences of Scott Walker and the Republican scheme to sell off municipal water systems to an out-of-state, for-profit corporation is a health and environmental catastrophe.

Combine this imbecilic idea with the complete abdication of the state protecting our life-blood, fresh and safe water, and it should be clear Scott Walker is selling off the future of Wisconsin.

Charles P. Pierce has the details at Esquire.

Does anyone contend describing Scott Walker and his band of idiots as sociopaths, plotting to toxify Wisconsin citizens, is a reach?

When Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bernie Sanders debate in Milwaukee on Feb. 11, the candidates should be asked: As the "out of state money and the rising plutocracy chose Wisconsin as their lab rat for the new gilded age (Pierce)," will you as president commit to massive new funding for the EPA, aggressive enforcement of the Clean Water Act and declare a war: A war to protect our water?

Making of Hillary Clinton

CounterPunch is re-running its must-read exposé on Hillary Clinton.

For those undecided on the Hillary-Bernie race, Jeffrey St. Clair and Alexander Cockburn's three-part piece will reveal how calculating and callous Hillary Clinton is, over the last 55 years.

Bernie and Hillary in Dead Heat in Iowa

Coin flips for delegates, Hillary Clinton falsely claiming victory last night, and a disorderly process marked the cluster-frack defining the 2106 Iowa Caucuses last night.

Sanders relied on the will of the people throughout his campaign against the Establishment.

This people-should-rule campaign is a thud to Clinton's campaign, so desperate already, she is placing placing her hopes already on the super-delegates.

Reports Tony Leys for the Des Monies Register:

'I think the people of Iowa have sent a very profound message to the political establishment, to the economic establishment and, by the way, to the media establishment,' Bernie Sanders told supporters.

Many political experts dismissed Sanders’ chances when he joined the race last May. But the Vermont senator drew increasingly big and enthusiastic crowds by relentlessly projecting his passion to fight economic injustice.

He lives this. He’s the real deal,' said Lloyd Levine, 62, of Des Moines, a retiree who watched Sanders speak at Grand View University on Sunday night. 'He’s speaking the truth, and he’s supported these issues all his life.'

Grassroots v. the Establishment

From the Bleeding Heartland:

2:30 am: The Iowa Democratic Party released a statement a few minutes ago, which I’ve enclosed below. According to the party, statewide turnout was 171,109, much higher than I expected but nearly 70,000 below the record turnout of 2008. The party says 'Clinton has been awarded 699.57 state delegate equivalents, Bernie Sanders has been awarded 695.49 state delegate equivalents, Martin O’Malley has been awarded 7.68 state delegate equivalents and uncommitted has been awarded .46 state delegate equivalents.'

O'Malley announced he is suspending his campaign.

The Clinton campaign looked dazed and confused last night, as its massive campaign infrastructure coronating her as the nominee met the will of the citizenry who in theory elect public officials in American democracy.

Reports Jason Noble of the Des Monies Register: "In all five situations [where a coin toss took place], Clinton won the toss."

The state delegate equivalent totals as of early this morning are just outside the margin of coin tosses.

Hillary Clinton decided she is entitled to win, the people voting in the Democratic Party primary for the presidency the have different thoughts on the topic. We should all listen before the Democratic Party rigs the election and blows a historic opportunity.

Pierce on the Anti-Clinton Politics Embodied in Bernie Sanders

Charles P. Pierce on the progressive politics waiting to explode in Iowa: "people ignore it at their peril."

Hillary in Full Slime Mode in Iowa

The last Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics poll shows the race virtually tied the weekend before the Iowa caucuses, so Hillary Clinton is doing what she does best: Lying.

Clinton has an ad saying Bernie Sanders is hostile to Planned Parenthood though Sanders was working for civil rights before Clinton was a Goldwater Girl.

Sanders has a 100 percent rating from NARAL and Planned Parenthood Action Fund's rating dating back as far as data are available.

Clinton has the Democratic Party establishment behind her, and is facing a grassroots, people-focused campaign in Bernie Sanders that has Clinton in a desperate situation. A confident campaign does not go negative the weekend before Election/Caucus Day.

Lose Iowa, and the dominoes will fall the wrong way for Clinton.

The establishment leadership is behind Clinton, and the grassroots is behind Sanders.

Only a fool would vote for Hillary Clinton because she will sell you out, and put Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid on the chopping block, then announce a third way with Paul Ryan and the Health Insurance industry from which Clinton has sucked in $ 13 million.

Wisconsin Poll: Sanders Outperforms Clinton in General Election

Get realistic folks, we cannot afford Hillary Clinton as the Democratic Party nominee.

The new Marquette Law School Poll shows Bernie Sanders significantly outperforming Hillary Clinton against three named Republican opponents the weekend before the Iowa Caucuses.

The Poll reads: "[i]n possible matchups for the November general election" in Wisocnsin:

Sanders leads Rubio by 11 points
Clinton edges Rubio by one

Sanders leads Cruz by 12
Clinton edges Cruz by one

Sanders leads Trump by 18
Clinton leads Trump by 9

These results track with other national polls and show Sanders a stronger nominee than Clinton, a fact the corporate press is trying to bury.