Watching what the Republican candidates say and do is to a certain degree, entertaining, but in most cases, disgusting and worrying to anybody who hopes for the better future to the America.
Democrats are much more civil, and much more united… or do they?
OUR ONLY GOAL IN 2016 IS TO ELECT THE DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT.
So, our immediate goal is to chose the ‘electable’ candidate, putting aside the most personal opinions. When the time comes we have to stand united, without reservation, behind the candidate who wins the Democratic Convention Nomination.
Until then, a two-candidate race is a fierce contest. Both the Secretary Clinton and the Senator Sanders kept promising the issues oriented campaign. Senator Sanders even refused discussing the ‘email scandal’, which clearly showed the Secretary Clinton’s lack of judgment.
The New York Primary is approaching. It comes down to who is trustworthy in his/her message, and who has, historically, the record showing a consistency of the political position, thus indicating the chances of carrying forward his/her political agenda.
On April 6, in the interview on MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’, Clinton uttered a number of demeaning remarks about the Senator Sanders, skillfully hinting (and stopping short of saying it straight) that the Senator in not qualified to be president - as summarized by The Washington Post (1*). When the next day, Senator Sanders asked the audience to decide if the Secretary’s record is the base for qualifications (with the wrong votes on the Iraq War, and on all, disastrous Trade Agreements), he played the same game.
Unfortunately, the mayor media outlets, even the MSNMS, are so biased toward Secretary Clinton, that no one even noticed that they behaved identically.
To all fairness, the Secretary’s record is not so glorious:
- She voted for the war in Iraq.
- She voted for all Trade Agreements, which decimated the well paid workers’ jobs in the States.
- She voted for the financial institutions bail-out, making them even more powerful and ’too big to fail’.
- She collected hundreds of thousand of Dollars from the speeches given to the financial institutions and doesn’t want to reveal the transcripts.
- She collected millions of Dollars from the ‘Wall Street’ for her campaign (Wall street, she claims, she wants to regulate - and the voter has to believe, that there are no strings attached - how naive, she thinks, we are?).
And yet she, in her attacks against the Senator Sanders, used, to say the least, misrepresentation, half-truths, or simple lies.
She accused Sanders on voting against bailout of the automotive industry - omitting to say that the bill Sanders opposed was a mainly financial-institution-bail-out bill, where the automotive industry bailout was just a small attachment. He opposed the bill on principle.
She attacked Sanders on multiple occasions, instigating the whole movement promoting the bill allowing suing the gun manufacturers by the victims of gun violence. Senator Sanders opposed this bill, logically, on principle, that you can’t sue the manufacturer of the legally available product for the product performing its functions.
Everyone should be revolted by the gun violence, especially the mass shootings, which happen in our country. We, the society, should do all we can to end this violence. We should influence our legislators to make it more difficult to obtain a firearm, with the mandatory background checks, and mandatory registration. We should have the ‘assault’ style rifles banned completely and available ONLY to the military, and law enforcement personnel.
But making the gun manufacturers liable is not the way to go - if they do, what they do in a legal way. Hysteria shouldn’t be a part of our political reality.
On April 4, The Daily News published an interview with the Senator Sanders, which led some commentators to conclude that he didn’t know anything on how to brake up the ’too-big-to-fail’ financial institutions. This opinion stuck to the media (I heard it repeated several times by the CNN, MSNBC, etc). Secretary Clinton repeated the accusation, without a blink of an eye.
However, as explained in the article in The New York Times a day later (2*), which revealed that last year Sen. Sanders introduced the bill which dealt with this problem, and to which his answers in the original interview obviously referred.
It wasn’t a blunder on part of Sen. Sanders, but on part of the interviewer. And yet, the blame for being ‘unprofessional’ stuck to the Senator.
It hasn’t started in April, let’s move back to the beginning of January: “Chelsea Clinton claimed, on January 12, that Bernie Sanders’ health care plan would “empower Republican governors to take away Medicaid” and undo Obamacare. That line of attack was deemed “mostly false” by the left-leaning fact-checkers at Politifact.” (3*)
All this missteps by the media and the Secretary Clinton campaign are offensive, and mislead the general voter into wrong conclusions. Those, who follow Senator Sanders, and who want him to get the Democratic Nomination, and who know a bit more in depth what the Senator Sanders stands by, are appalled and angry.
Unfortunately, the only outcome of this situation is not going to be for the Democratic Party. As polled by MSNBC on April 07, more than 60% of the Senator Sanders supporters would not vote for the Secretary Clinton if she gets the Nomination. Susan Sarandon is one of these people, saying: "I think Bernie would probably encourage people to [support Hillary if he loses] because he doesn't have any ego in this thing," Sarandon said. "But I think a lot of people are, 'sorry, I just can't bring myself to [vote for Hillary].'" (4*)
Sadly, this would result in the Republicans getting to the White House, and the bleak future for the America’s Middle Class, and the poor.
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1* - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/04/06/clinton-questions-whether-sanders-is-qualified-to-be-president/
2* - http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/07/upshot/yes-bernie-sanders-knows-something-about-breaking-up-banks.html
3* - http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/06/chelsea-clinton-accidentally-calls-bernie-president-sanders/
4* - http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/03/28/susan_sarandon_i_dont_think_i_could_vote_for_hillary_if_sanders_loses.html
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