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Hillary Clinton at The Family Care Center Event in Lexington

Posted in 2016 Election, Appearances, Campaign Events, Democratic Party, Hillary 2016, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton 2016, Hillary For America, Hillary for President, Hillary Rodham Clinton, policy/plans, Primaries/Caucuses, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , on May 10, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Hillary spent the day in Kentucky.  She held a roundtable with working parents at the Family Care Center in Lexington and then a rally in Louisville at Slugger Field.

 

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Clinton to Commit to Bold, New Goal As President to Limit Child Care Costs to No More than 10 Percent of Family’s Income

In Remarks In Kentucky, Clinton To Also Announce Plans to Expand Home Visiting Programs for New Parents and Boost Wages for Child Care Workers

Speaking at a family health center in Louisville this afternoon as part of her “Breaking Down Barriers” tour, Hillary Clinton will outline her vision to help working families afford the rising costs of child care.

In particular, Clinton will commit that, as President, she will significantly increase child care investments so no family pays more than 10 percent of their income for child care. From her earliest days after law school working as a child advocate to her work as First Lady to pass the Children’s Health Insurance Program, Hillary Clinton has championed the cause of parents and families and has always believed that “it takes a village” to raise a child.

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U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton shakes hands with parents during a campaign event, "Conversation with Young Parents in the Workforce" at The Family Care Center in Lexington, Kentucky, U.S., May 10, 2016. REUTERS/John Sommers II

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton shakes hands with parents during a campaign event, “Conversation with Young Parents in the Workforce” at The Family Care Center in Lexington, Kentucky, U.S., May 10, 2016. REUTERS/John Sommers II

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Live from the Silver Screen to Your Living Room: The 2016 Presidential Election!

Posted in 2016 Election, Democratic Party, Hillary 2016, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton 2016, Hillary For America, Hillary for President, Hillary Rodham Clinton, policy/plans, Republican Party, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , on May 10, 2016| 1 Comment »

These are Federal Reserve Notes aka U.S. paper currency.  Dollars. You can learn something about them below.

Federal Reserve Note

Federal Reserve Notes, also United States banknotes or U.S. banknotes, are the banknotes used in the United States of America. Denominated in United States dollars, Federal Reserve Notes are printed by the United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing on paper made by Crane & Co. of Dalton, Massachusetts. Federal Reserve Notes are the only type of U.S. banknote currently produced.

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To the consternation of some who could have used the notes to pay their bills (we hear ya!), at a rally for Hillary not long ago, Bernie Sanders supplied protesters with $1000 worth of these to shower upon Hillary’s motorcade as a metaphor for speaking fees.  OK. We got the point. It was a peaceful demonstration where no grown, nearly naked men were ripping “Mme. President” signs from the hands of little girls or shouting through bullhorns at little boys. (Like last Thursday in East L.A.) But that dollar demonstration proved an interesting point. Bernie Sanders knows what a dollar bill is and likely has touched a few Federal Reserve Notes recently.

Speaking with Chris Cuomo on CNN’s New Day Monday morning, Donald Trump made a stunning remark about printing more money to pay the debt.  Heads spun like Linda Blair’s in The Exorcist as Trump came on like Helen Mirren in Calendar Girls, “We’re down to our last 25! We need to print more calendars!”  Except he didn’t say calendars.

First of all, you have to wonder when was the last time Donald Trump actually handled a Federal Reserve Note. On the campaign trail, when Hillary buys a book for Charlotte or a necklace to wear at a Syracuse rally, I am pretty sure she uses paper money.  This would be because she knows that the cashier will replace the 10, 20, or 50 with one of her own in order to keep the bill Hillary used for the purchase.  People like Donald Trump never use paper money. I don’t use paper money either except on bridges and tunnels because I neither have nor need EZPass. I use plastic.  All the time almost everywhere.  But I know my balance. I know my bottom line.  I know what the plastic is based on.

Guys like The Donald sign for things. “Put it on my tab.”  Probably a lot of the time the autograph satisfies the bill. Does he have any real idea where dollars come from?  How?  And Why?  Ooohhh— yes! They come from The Mint where they have the big deal printing presses.

Donald Trump says, as Hillary has remarked, “… a lot of things.”

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She has chosen, wisely, to ignore his personal comments and says she is not running against Donald Trump but rather for her vision for America.  But to all y’all out there urging me to ignore what The Donald says, might I remind you:  He is the presumptive GOP nominee, and Mr. Loose Lips, who lacks a filter, is now receiving national security briefings. Ignoring him will not make him go away.

To cite yet another  based-on-true-events movie, in Game Change Sarah Palin did not know what The Fed was and did not know why North and South Korea were two different countries. OK she was in the second slot, McCain lost, is still alive and kicking, and we never did have to contend with a President Quayle (sigh of relief).  But we are talking about the top slot here. This guy is running for head honcho.

In many town halls, Hillary Clinton has stated that running the government is not like running a business.  Trump’s business model includes filing Chapter 11 when initiatives fail.  Bankruptcy options may be fine for businesses (he certainly kept landing on his feet), but they are a nuclear option in government.  One need look no further than Puerto Rico to see the implications for all those who bought government bonds in good faith and no further than Brazil to witness the endgame. Checkmate!

Donald Trump’s plan for the economy is a blueprint for disaster.

A silver spoon has a way of shielding people from reality – even when their last job was on reality TV.  When I was a kid, I had a few Silver Certificates of my own that I deposited, like a good girl, in my savings account for college.  Those silver-backed notes were chopped up long ago and replaced by Federal Reserve Notes. But no matter what the currency rests upon, printing more of it solves nothing – there are protocols and rules – and even the POTUS cannot make his or her own.

If you thought you witnessed vacuity in 2008 from Sarah Palin, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet!  When I turn on the morning news, I do so with dread. Monday morning I really hoped that what I was hearing was just the end of a really bad dream I was having about Donald Trump. I thought my head would settle after a cup of tea. That didn’t happen.

This is not a movie.  This is not a bad dream. These are real policy proposals from the GOP all-but-nominee: the guy who doesn’t really know where money comes from.  If you are one of those people who calls C-SPAN in idle moments, touts your master’s degree, and declares support for Trump, you should sue your university for not providing you with developmental reading and critical thinking skills.

Bernie Sanders may have his head in the clouds, and his plans may be as substantial as those clouds, but Donald Trump is completely detached from reality.  Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, has her feet planted solidly on terra firma and her sights set on ways to break down barriers so that everyone who works hard, pays into the social contract, and plays by the rules has a fighting chance at the American Dream – which is not to become a real estate billionaire – a few hope to accomplish that. We all just want a safe, secure, unified country for our kids, grandkids, and their grandkids. That is not too big a dream, and it’s a nice one.  I hope one day to wake up knowing that we have elected the realist with the plans that will provide for the common defense,  promote the general welfare, and help us form a more perfect union.   Plans that are neither dreams nor movie scripts.  Plans that align with our Constitution.

Here is what Hillary’s campaign sent out yesterday:

Our next President needs to do three things:

  • Keep our nation safe in a dangerous world

  • Help our working families get ahead here at home

  • Bring people together to get things done

Here, in case you have not read it recently, is the Preamble to our Constitution:

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Which candidate holds your posterity near and dear?  Make no mistake!  This election is not a TV show, and it is not a movie we are watching on Netflix.  In the wise words of Elliot in E.T., “This is reality!”

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Hillary Clinton In Virginia: Selfies and Hugs!

Posted in 2016 Election, Appearances, Campaign Events, Democratic Party, Hillary 2016, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton 2016, Hillary For America, Hillary for President, Hillary Rodham Clinton, policy/plans, tagged , , , , , , , , , on May 9, 2016| 1 Comment »

In Virginia on her “Breaking Down Barriers” tour, Hillary spent a part of the day after Mother’s Day hearing from parents about the challenges of juggling family duties, work, and related struggles like commuting and providing benefits as small business owners.  Daycare was a major topic at the roundtable where kids and babies were welcome and very well-behaved. Hillary punctuated the Virginia visit with a stop at a daycare center where selfies and hugs reigned supreme, and Hillary was in her element.

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Hillary Clinton on Families, Kids, Healthcare, and More at her Virginia Roundtable

Posted in 2016 Election, Appearances, Campaign Events, Democratic Party, Hillary 2016, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton 2016, Hillary For America, Hillary for President, Hillary Rodham Clinton, policy/plans, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , on May 9, 2016| 2 Comments »

In Loudoun County, Virginia, Hillary sat down with working moms and dads facing every challenge there is as they try to raise their kids, support their families, and navigate the overlap between home and work demands.


Balancing work and family isn’t a Democratic or a Republican issue, but it should be a voting issue. Join Hillary for a roundtable discussion on paid leave, health care, child care, and work-life balance with Virginia families.

 

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In Loudoun County, Virginia, Clinton Emphasizes Her Commitment to Young Parents and Families


Today, Hillary Clinton began a two-day tour of Virginia and Kentucky where she will meet with women and young families to discuss issues important to them. In Loudoun County, Virginia, Clinton held a conversation with young parents about the challenges of balancing work and family. The average age in Loudoun County is just under 35 years old, and 73 percent of households with children in the county have two working parents. During the discussion, Clinton emphasized the importance of investing in early learning programs and making quality child care affordable for working families, as well as ensuring that families have good schools and affordable college as their kids grow up.

As First Lady of Arkansas and a young mother herself, Clinton 

helped introduce

 the Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) program, which provided resources for parents to better educate their children at home before they begin kindergarten. A new Hillary for America video today highlights Clinton’s lifelong record of fighting for children and families by emphasizing her involvement in bringing HIPPY to Arkansas. HIPPY now operates in 22 states, including Virginia, and the District of Columbia.

A transcript of Clinton’s introductory remarks in Loudoun County are below:

“Well, thank you all for coming and having this conversation with me. It’s clear that there are so many challenges facing young families today that we have to come to grips with. And we have to work together to try to find the best menu of options. Because there is just no ‘one-size-fits-all’. People have different needs – childcare needs, sometimes even more, as Shanda and I were just talking about, even more challenging with special needs kids and how we start early and provide that sort of support.

“For some it’s family leave and particularly the absence of paid family leave because that makes it more difficult to deal with everything from newborns to aging relatives. Others, it’s just a continuing stress of a workplace that doesn’t provide enough compensation with rising incomes. There still is a challenge with equal pay for women, which is real – it’s not made up.

“There are lots of concerns in the workplace that I’m hearing about increasingly – about the work day never ends, the schedules are often unpredictable. And even when you think you’re gaining some control over that work day it’s subject to so many variables that are out of your control and often end up throwing big monkey wrenches into what should be your family time and your efforts to try and organize and stick with that.

“So I hear about this all over the country, and I really want to talk about it and hear from you more than me talking. Because there are some obvious, maybe even typical, responses, but I’m trying to get a much broader view about what will work. These are issues that I’ve worked on for a really long time going back to my own life as a mother, a daughter, and some of the challenges there, but also in the work that I’ve done for the Children’s Defense Fund and other ways of trying to figure out how we have a more cohesive and frankly welcoming set of expectations and supports for families in today’s world. 


“Because, it’s just harder I think. It’s just my take. I think costs are greater. Everything from commuting time to feeling like if you take that vacation day, you’re going to be viewed as slacking off. I mean they are just–they are cultural as well as economic and structural challenges, so I’m just very interested in hearing what all of you might have to say.”

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Hillary Clinton on Face the Nation

Posted in 2016 Election, Appearances, Democratic Party, Hillary 2016, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton 2016, Hillary For America, Hillary for President, Hillary Rodham Clinton, policy/plans, Republican Party, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 8, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Hillary sat down with John Dickerson on Friday for a segment that aired on Face the Nation this morning.

ICYMI:  The video is here >>>>

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Dickerson asked about her designation of Donald Trump as a “loose cannon,”  Hillary offered as examples his suggestions to: allow other nations to acquire nuclear weapons and  pull out of NATO. Some statements like going back to using torture, going after families of terrorists concern her.

She pointed to Republicans raising questions about their presumptive nominee.  She very carefully differentiated “their nominee” from “Donald Trump.” She said she doesn’t think it is personal but rooted in respect for the office.

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Dickerson asked Hillary what hard questions she would ask Trump. Her general response was to point to a basic vacuum for what he says,

Americans don’t need a raise – based on what? Evidence indicates that he does not understand what is happening in the economy to ordinary people.  She pointed out that Trump does not have a plan,  He has a slogan.

Climate change a Chinese hoax -based on what?  Once again it is a slogan.

Punishing women who have abortions, rounding up immigrants for deportation – what do these statements mean and how would we go about that? She said maybe he doesn’t understand that running the gov not the same as making real estate deals.  Putting the credit of the U.S. at risk would have a horrible outcome.

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Hillary’s website explains all of her plans and how they are paid for so clearly there is a constituency for a candidate who puts specific plans out there, was  She has confidence in common sense of American voter

Hillary is not going to run an ugly race. She is going to run a race based on issues.  She doesn’t feel she is running against Donald Trump. She is running for the vision she has for America and to knock down the barriers that prevent Americans from getting ahead. She is going to stay focused on that,

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Hillary will run an outreach campaign to voters across the political spectrum who want a candidate is running based on issues, has put out plans and will explain them, who has a track record.  Hillary believes people who take their votes seriously will agree with her.

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Was she trying to lead Bernie Sanders to the exit?  She said her 2008 experience is a good reminder of how close she and Obama were then. She and Sanders have a lot of same goals. Will work together toward them and to make sure Donald Trump does not become president.  They shares many goals and she hopes they can work together.

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The emails came up again.  She is looking forward to having that wrapped up. So far no one has reached out to her.  She said it is a security inquiry, she has always taken security very seriously.

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Is there a broader lesson?  Hillary said if you don’t keep learning you will stagnate. Anyone who is running for POTUS should answer the same questions.  Hillary,  “I have 33 years of tax returns in the public domain.” and Donald Trump has none.  “What’s there?”

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She pointed to her record as secretary of state. Has a serous and focused approach to taking care of the nation’s business.

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Hillary said she will stand for American values, interests, and security and that Trump has no coherent foreign policy and makes statements that are of concern.  Why after 70 years trying to prevent proliferation would Trump be so cavalier in wanting other countries to get them?

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The interview ended a bit abruptly on that last note.  To Dickerson’s credit: some of the questions were refreshing and new, and some of the older issues were approached from a fresh perspective.  He did not ask her any wasteful questions that would be better answered by the party or parties who lodge those questions which she always has to answer with “Well I think you would have to ask him/her/them….”  It was one of the better recent interviews in that sense. Very efficient.

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Hillary Clinton’s American Quilt

Posted in 2016 Election, Democratic Party, Hillary 2016, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton 2016, Hillary For America, Hillary for President, Hillary Rodham Clinton, policy/plans, Republican Party, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on May 7, 2016| 1 Comment »

There are two impressive scenes in the movie “How to Make an American Quilt.” In one of these scenes, Winona Ryder first sets her eyes upon the wedding quilt her grandmother, grand-aunt, and their quilting circle have made for her, and it is a sight to behold.

The women have been meeting for weeks bringing scraps of fabric significant to them for various reasons and painstakingly repurposing the remnants into squares of individual significance to each member.

While the quilters have been industriously crafting this lovely product, Ryder’s character, who does not know the quilt is for her, has been writing her master’s thesis. She does this, inexplicably, on a typewriter (the movie is not a period piece), on single sheets of paper without benefit of carbon paper (google it if that compound noun is alien  to you), and without making a daily run to the local Office Max or wherever to make copies. One day, a strong gust of wind picks up the loose papers and blows them all over town. That is the second impressive scene. Months of toil gone with the wind. One character wonders aloud how anyone would be so stupid as not to have made copies.

Throughout the film, Ryder’s character, Finn, pounds away at her thesis while treating the quilting bee group to recordings of tribal music all in a very single-minded, self-centered fashion while the bee ladies sit in their circle  and share their stories both past and current.  These reminiscences are as rich as the quilt they ultimately complete. We never know how rich Finn’s thesis might have been. Minus binding or tacking, the winds have dispersed it.

In the wake of the head-spinning week we have experienced, I find a metaphor here for what is happening politically in this country.

The campaign Hillary Clinton has been running is the quilting bee.  She hears from Americans, sees the problems set before her, and devises practical solutions to put forth.  Her plans and issues overlap and intersect like patches on a quilt.  There is an artfulness to it. There is tacking holding the pieces together.  What is  good for workers, farmers, families, women, students, and children – those things are good for America.  That is Hillary’s thread – what is good for America.

The Sanders campaign consists of single sheets of typed script with no cohesion within the text. No tacking. Each issue is addressed in isolation.  We do not know that Finn’s thesis is incohesive, probably not, but once the papers fly the semblance fits.

Donald Trump’s campaign  – well you could argue that it is represented by the random scraps of fabric, but it is more like Finn’s research on 3×5 index cards (for those of you who remember putting your research on those) or better yet, a thesis written on post-its.

No campaign this cycle has the cohesion that Hillary’s has. You may remember the Quilters for Hillary.

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Hillary has been making an American quilt all along. Every part is tacked down, all the pieces fit together.

Two articles on Medium struck me hard today. I agree with both of them.

Laurel Brett  5min read

I Hate This Election

Yes, I do. I hate this election especially after what I saw in East Los Angeles this week.

And this one – so like me that I could have written this one myself.

Suzie Perlstein 4 min read.

Boo. I don’t know you but I love you.

With every primary and caucus, Hillary adds to her delegate count. She won the Guam caucuses today.  She is applying for a job, but in the process she demonstrates her work ethic and work style.  She keeps her nose to the grindstone and keeps moving ahead.  She says she is not a natural campaigner. Maybe not, but she does work at it, and the work shows results.

It would be negligent not to note that the others left in the race also demonstrate their work styles within their campaigns.

Donald Trump’s work style was best described by President Obama this week who warned that the job is not reality TV.

Bernie Sanders fails to take responsibility for any remarks his surrogates make and when they go too far he only praises their loyalty. So that’s an F in management.  Among his many accusations against Hillary is his allegation that she flip-flops.  Early in the week, he promised to back off the personal attacks and to work with the party. By week’s end he had resumed his full on attacks on Hillary, had failed to renounce the harassment of Hillary and her  supporters in East L.A., and had made it clear that “working with” the party is his term for arm-wrestling the DNC into submission … or else.  Let’s be clear. This is not internecine sparring.  It is an assault from outside the gates. The style is to come into the party like gangbusters and blow the rules, structure, traditions, and even the primary results to the four corners of the earth – much the way the wind took Finn’s thesis.

Give me a quilt any day.

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Hillary Clinton’s L.A. Times Interview

Posted in 2016 Election, Hillary 2016, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton 2016, Hillary For America, Hillary for President, Hillary Rodham Clinton, policy/plans, Primaries/Caucuses, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on May 6, 2016| 1 Comment »

Hillary spoke with the editorial board of the L.A. Times this week.  Here is the transcript of that interview.

Transcript

Hillary Clinton speaks to the L.A. Times editorial board about war, women and her ability to navigate partisan obstructionism

The following is a transcript of Hillary Clinton’s phone interview with the Los Angeles Times’ editorial board on May 4, 2016.

Nicholas Goldberg: Welcome. I’m Nick Goldberg, I’m the editor of the editorial pages. We have a lot of questions for you. I’m hoping you can keep your answers kind of short so we go around the room and we can get everyone’s questions in. We’re on the record. I assume that’s OK with you?

Hillary Clinton: Yes it is. Of course.

Goldberg: We have some people here from our newsroom. The rest are from our opinion pages. I was told you would give us a short one or two-minute introduction and then we can lay into you with questions.

Clinton: I appreciate the chance to talk about a lot of the questions that are on your mind.  All I really want to say is that I’m excited about running for president. I believe we’ve got a real chance in this election to lay out an agenda that will, if verified by the voters, move the country forward, create positive results for Americans in their lives, knock down barriers that are holding them back, protect our country, maintain American leadership around the word and unify our nation. I’m more than happy to answer your questions, and we’ll try to get as many in as possible.

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Hillary Clinton’s Essay on a Future for Appalachia

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Building a future for Appalachia that’s worthy of its past.

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Hillary Clinton 4 min read

Over the past two days, I’ve taken a road trip through some of the most beautiful parts of our country — and had some tough and poignant conversations.

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I’ve met with families in coal communities who deserve our gratitude for the work their parents and grandparents did to build this country. I’ve talked to steelworkers who are frustrated that China gets away with undercutting our jobs and businesses. And I’ve heard from railroaders who are watching the decline in steel and coal cut the region off from future jobs.

From the hills of Kentucky to the coal fields of West Virginia to the small towns of Ohio, Appalachia is a vital part of the United States. Yet too often, the people across this region aren’t treated that way.

For generations, Appalachian coal kept the lights on in people’s homes and schools and kept assembly lines rolling in factories. The region’s steel plants helped build our skyscrapers, and its chemical plants made the products that shape modern life.

These jobs were tough. More than 100,000 miners died on the job in the 20th century, and more than twice that many succumbed to black lung disease. The United Mine Workers put their lives on the line to protect miners on the job and in retirement — and their hard-won victories have helped strengthen the labor movement in other industries nationwide.

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Hillary Clinton Live from Chappaqua with Anderson Cooper: “Loose Cannons Tend to Misfire”

Posted in 2016 Election, Appearances, Democratic Party, Hillary 2016, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton 2016, Hillary For America, Hillary for President, Hillary Rodham Clinton, policy/plans, Republican Party, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on May 4, 2016| 7 Comments »

In the wake of Donald Trump’s victory last night, Hillary sat down at home in Chappaqua with Anderson Cooper.

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Hillary said Trump’s victory was clear for a long time.  She said she has seen the presidency from two different perspectives and knows what it takes.  She took on Trump’s stances:

1. It is OK for other countries to have nukes;

2. Wages are too high;

3. Women should be punished for abortions.

Hillary portrayed Trump as a loose cannon who has said many things, e.g. Climate change is a hoax, and said  “Loose cannons tend to misfire.”

 

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Hillary said she is ready and has been in the arena for 25 years.  She is not running against Trump. She is running for president on the issues she has campaigned.

Hillary said Republicans did not raise issues because they agreed with him.  They were trapped and could not run on issues.  She can. She said that if he wants to argue against peace and prosperity she will argue 22 million jobs created since 2009 and will take that on.

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Asked about Trump’s use of the media, Hillary said that grand statements and accusations are one thing, but when you are running for president you have to tell people what you are going to do and how you are going to do it.  It is not enough to call in and get a media platform.

Asked about Trump’s attacks on her trade agreement history, Hillary said, “I am against bad trade agreements and have voted against them”

Hillary said  it is time to get serious. Being a loose cannon does not exempt him from the hard questions.

Cooper brought up Trump the counter-puncher.  Hillary said he is the one who chose that path and is running the negative, aggressive, bullying campaign.

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Hillary is going to keep being specific.  Anyone who has listened to Trump knows who he is.

Re: Trump putting coal miners back in the mines, Hillary cited her $30 billion plan for coal country.

Is Hillary ready for the kind of fight Trump will mount? Arguably a National Enquirer tabloid fight?  ” If he wants to go back to the 1990s let him.”

She said he GOP did not know how to run against him and now invites Republicans and Independents to get off the blue and red teams and  onto the American team.

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Hillary said she has confidence, is optimistic, and has been consistent.  She will do all she to  can to even the odds for those who have with the deck stacked against them.

She is not calling herself the presumptive nominee.  She has been in Bernie’s shoes but could not close the gap in 08. The gap now is far wider than the 08 gap.  She is counting on Bernie to help defeat Trump.

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Going to Blazes: Republicans Turn a Corner onto #ImWithHer Street

Posted in 2016 Election, Democratic Party, Hillary 2016, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton 2016, Hillary For America, Hillary for President, Hillary Rodham Clinton, policy/plans, Primaries/Caucuses, Republican Party, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on May 4, 2016| 2 Comments »

In a week when we lost Fr. Daniel Berrigan of the Catonsville Nine, more conflagration.

Father Berrigan, right and his brother Philip Berrigan seized hundreds of draft records and set them on fire with homemade napalm in 1968. Credit United Press International

You may remember that in February, former New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman, once touted as a possible presidential candidate herself, followed current NJ Gov Chris Christie’s endorsement of Donald Trump with this declaration:

… she says she’s planning to vote for Hillary Clinton if Trump gets the nod. She’s keeping her options open, in case we find out something new and horrible about Hillary. But that’s her plan now:

“You’ll see a lot of Republicans do that,” Whitman told me. “We don’t want to. But I know I won’t vote for Trump.”

The morning after a not-so-Super Tuesday with only one measly primary (I don’t mean Indiana is measly, I mean a single primary does not a Super Tuesday make), everyone woke up at the bottom of the rabbit hole with a big “eat me” note signed by Donald Trump.

#ICYMI Donald Trump won the Indiana primary yesterday after, based on a National Enquirer report casting Ted Cruz’s father, Rafael, as a kind of Zelig/Forrest Gump character allegedly seen close to Lee Harvey Oswald in a photo.  N.B. Lee Harvey Oswald was the purported “single actor” in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.  Prior to 11/22/63 Oswald spent some time working for the “Fair Play for Cuba” coalition in New Orleans and hung with some Cuban refugees at the time.

Outrageous as the story appeared, not to mention the absurdity of a presidential candidate citing the National Enquirer as a source, it not only dominated the news all day yesterday but also served its purpose in that Cruz swallowed the bait and addressed it in a news conference rather than brushing it off as farce.  In the wake of his resounding loss in Indiana last night, and, some speculate, the shady attack on his father, Cruz suspended his campaign leaving Trump as the presumptive GOP nominee.

Then came the dawn … and the inferno.

Republicans burn registration cards and rally behind the #nevertrump campaign as lifelong GOP voters prepare to support Hillary Clinton in a bid to block Trump

  • Republicans are burning their voter cards and rallying behind #nevertrump
  • The billionaire business mogul is now the GOP’s presumptive candidate
  • But he remains deeply unpopular with swathes of the party elite and voters
  • Many Republicans are planning to vote for the Democrats to keep him out

By Corey Charlton for MailOnline

Published: 04:08 EST, 4 May 2016 | Updated: 10:02 EST, 4 May 2016

A number of disappointed Republicans have torched their voter cards and declared support for the #nevertrump campaign after the billionaire businessman clinched the party nomination following Ted Cruz’s resignation.

Such is the resentment towards Trump, many are now readying themselves to vote for the Democrats despite being lifelong Republican supporters.

Photographs of them burning their voter registration cards have appeared on social media, while others Breaking newssay they are prepared to vote for Hillary Clinton.

Until a short while ago, the Mathematical Impossibles, Bernie Sanders (who won Indiana by a small margin but has a snowball’s chance in a bonfire of being nominated) and John Kasich (who won a single primary – in his own state of Ohio) remained.  Breaking news is that Kasich will hold a presser from Columbus, OH at 5 pm EDT and will also sing his swan song.

In other news, the New York Times reported yesterday on our first U.S. climate refugees in Louisiana having to evacuate their ancestral home for higher ground – or rather – for ground – as their island is slowly being inundated.  Today, the New York Times reports, an entire town in Alberta Canada is also under evacuation due to “apocalyptic” wildfires.  Climate change disaster is already upon us.  It is biblical. Floods and combustion abound and one viable candidate remaining has a plan for climate change and a long history of battling it.

Hillary Clinton steadfastly maintains that she is not the one to tell Bernie Sanders to suspend his bid since she remained into June 2008.  But, clearly, there are issues.  Hillary is the candidate with the concrete, pragmatic plans.  Even Republicans are flocking to her.

John Kasich, saying his heart is not in this, is listening to his party leadership and exiting. Bernie Sanders, while he runs under the Democratic Party banner, should also withdraw at this point.  It was never his party to begin with, and the stakes are too high for grandstanding.

Disaffected Republicans are not feeling the Bern.  They are burning their Republican registration cards and grabbing the one sensible hashtag: #ImWithHer.  Hillary is the revolution. Bernie is too myopic to see it. He should do his part in the #NeverTrump movement and move aside so that Hillary Clinton can adjust her focus to the real threat: A Trump White House.

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