Hillary vs Trump (and Cruz to boot)

[JoeFedorowicz]

Mar 10, 2016 13:22:29 GMT -5 coqui900 said:

3) I have to dig up the article but somewhere really reputable just wrote something about how all of these pundits that go on the airwaves are introduced as things like "an-ex Obama adviser" and the like but are straight up on the Clinton campaign payroll. And that part is completely ignored during their introductions. 

I was home Wednesday because my kid was sick and had MSNBC on all day. At one point between 10-12, they had three consecutive Hillary campaign surrogates on. In a row. I tweeted my disgust.

[1stflooredwards]

So Bernie gets 56% of the vote in Wyoming this week compared to 44% for Hilary and she still gets the bulk of the delegates for that state.

Talk about a rigged election. Why is there even a Democratic primary?

[gymrat67]

                          

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[JoeFedorowicz]

Apr 11, 2016 10:03:18 GMT -5 1stflooredwards said:

So Bernie gets 56% of the vote in Wyoming this week compared to 44% for Hilary and she still gets the bulk of the delegates for that state.

Talk about a rigged election. Why is there even a Democratic primary?

See, it's because this is how they've explained it. Has to do with Super Delegates. Hillary had them even prior to the vote. Since they are proportional, the actual score is 7 to 7 out of 16 delegates. Uncommitted got two. She got the four supers, which will become a problem if he passes her in pledged delegates.

[JoeFedorowicz]

Apr 11, 2016 10:21:53 GMT -5 gymrat67 said:

                          

                                     

[MisterD]

Love when people making less than 1% of what the top earners make carry their torches for no personal gain beyond whatever they get out of knowing they protected those super-duper-best-number-one-american-capitalists.

[theneumann64]

Apr 11, 2016 11:40:10 GMT -5 MisterD said:

Love when people making less than 1% of what the top earners make carry their torches for no personal gain beyond whatever they get out of knowing they protected those super-duper-best-number-one-american-capitalists.

2 Quotes on that from 2 of my personal heroes:

"It doesn't matter if most voters don't benefit, they all believe that someday they will. That's the problem with the American Dream, it makes everyone concerned for the day they're gonna be rich.
-Josiah Bartlet

"That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it."
-George Carlin


.....most of the things Bernie Sanders wants to do won't personally benefit me financially, some may even hurt a bit. But I have this wild idea that the best thing for the country doesn't always equal what lines my pocket the most.

[coqui900]

I was at the Temple rally last week. It was crazy.

I got down there about three hours before doors opened. The line was already wrapped 1.5 times around the building (to the point I was in an alleyway next to a dumpster behind a Wendy's). They reconfigured the lines, thankfully. But it was a madhouse when I got there. Apparently some people camped out to go.

The crowd was 90-95% college kids, which is to be expected since it's at a college. There was a certain "fringe" element there -- a lot more Marxist newsletters being offered than, say, a Phillies game. I think I may have been the only person in attendance to have ever paid the capital gains tax.

The crowd was so big they had to put kids in McGonigle (or however you spell it). That was jam packed, too. Bernie spoke over there for about 20 minutes before he got into the Liacouras. I was in the far upper deck and got there super early. I seriously cannot believe how many people went out to see Bernie speak.

Also, all of the food stands were open. I got Chickie's and Pete's crab fries while I watched a political rally. I don't know why that amuses me so much but it does.

Bernie came out and spoke for about 45 minutes. It was pretty much his stump speech. This is the one where he ran into some troubles for saying Hillary wasn't qualified to be president or whatever. When he said that it didn't even register to me as a big deal.

His wife gives off this vibe like she's in a fever dream and really can't believe Bernie's giving Hillary all she can handle. I think when she signed up for this, she thought that Bernie would get to make a bunch of speeches about income disparity and etc., he'd poll about 10%, get to participate in one or two debates and that would be it. But now she's the wife of a man who might not win the nomination but has hijacked the whole process.

I'm really glad I went. I wouldn't go to another one just because of the length of the day. I'm not a socialist by any stretch and I think a lot of Bernie's agenda is pie-in-the-sky. But I definitely think our country is a lot better place because of him.

[theneumann64]

He was at Marist just a few miles from me on Tuesday night. I couldn't go, but it was a similar scene. Bunch of overflow, and he went out and spoke to them for a while first. He had gone to the FDR Museum earlier that day (just up the road from Marist) so he spent a lot of time talking about FDR. Later on, he had dinner at a dinner a little south of here and I know that caused quite a scene with people rushing to the place once word got out on the internet.

Of course now the other shoe drops this weekend and the Republican front-runner is coming here on Sunday.