can we?

as she loses points and Bernie keeps gaining on her with OVER a year to go. Sorry Mrs. Clinton... i like you but, you are not the Candidate America needs.

Jeesh! Has she no shame?

only to immediately kick them to the curb on inauguration day. Why would they trust her a millimeter?

Does she think Trumka and company are blithering idiots?

Points for sheer brass, though, but she has never lacked for sheer brass.

Whatever else she is, she is a politician, and trying to nail down endorsements before anyone has seen even one debate is a savvy move, even though it looks tacky to people who'd like to see some actual democracy at work.

Anything about Hillary anywhere on any medium always seems to include a 'but'...

How would any of us feel to live our lives like this?

Hillary has a strength and fortitude I can't imagine - but I'm sure you all will attribute it to something vile and nasty, 'cause, you know, it's Hillary.

Nine more years of this!

the proceeds, then take unpaid leave of absence from your jobs and use your new-found free time to work your asses to get out the vote for me, send around a few "officials" to monitor & disrupt Bernie's events. Just do these few things for me - because you love me - and I'll add your organization to my list of preferred donors.

HRC ----->

p.s. It would be rude to mention anything about foreign donations to my, er...our foundation, anything about pay per speech, pay to play, etc, the allegedly-classified emails, the server I put in only with the intent of saving the taxpayers the expense of another government-owned/operated/secured server at my State Department, or of course any position I may or may not have had held prior to June 1st, 2015 - that's so waaaay in the past while youngsters like me are all about my future - I mean your future. And don't believe anyone making up up bullshit about me flying away on a Dassault Falcon 900B business jet, the one that burns 347 gallons of fuel per hour, after my impeccable, groundbreaking address about green energy and fighting climate change. Those photos were planted by Rush Limbaugh and the person in the photo was really Ann Coulter pretending to be me. And on the XL, just elect me and I'll tell you my position. Just trust me - I'm soooo worth it and trust is our family's middle name. I have it from a great well-placed source that as soon as I take office, when you look up "trust" on wiki, they'll have my picture!

-Hilly

Save us Bernie-wan, you're our only hope!

What gain could they get by signing up with Hillary now?

It would be stupid to sign up with Hillary. There are so many issues on which she is anti-union.

As for the TPP, if just wages and unions were the problem. . . .

But the TPP is a corporate coup, and all the labor provisions put in to resolve issues resolved in favor of working people ON PAPER would be overridden by the provisions favoring management and big businesses and private enterprise, etc.

No to Hillary. No to the TPP.

But this proves to me that Hillary is essentially pro-TPP, pro corporate-coup. Because if she thinks the problems with the TPP can be resolved and support can be won with just a couple of provisions "protecting" labor but leaving the corporate perks and the special corporate arbitration and other courts for big business in place, she is either not very smart or really not on the side of the American people and especially American working people at all.

We need the freedom to change our laws and evolve our country like she evolves her opinions and the TPP will, and of this I am certain, rob us of the opportunity to be flexible in solving problems that are coming toward us. Those include environmental problems, immigration, managing corporate greed, public utilities, protecting our agriculture and our industry and our colleges and universities and health care choices.

No to the TPP.

No to Hillary Clinton. This shows where she stands on TPP.

She is looking for a "compromise." It's a rotten deal. See the letter that was leaked today. It's a corporate coup and nothing else and if we want to continue as a nation we have to say no to it.

She has the resources already to run her campaign, it's not like she needs the union endorsement right now. The difference between endorsing her now or waiting until next spring if she is the nominee is nil. Anyone that says otherwise is just outright lying. The primary is a chance for each candidate to court the voters. Whomever the nominee is the unions will support.

If the unions endorse her now they pretty much give up any pull they will have down the road for securing agreements.

I'd want a very specific answer to that, including time periods.

Hillary Clinton's vacation includes Hamptons fundraisers

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/hillarys-vacation-includes-hamptons-fundraisers-120828.html

And she is going to be the nominee and our next President.

They will endorse her. Get used to it.

inevitability meme I'm calling you as a witness.

Be my partner in supporting TPP that will move plants offshore, off shore profits, and eventually destroy unions, cities and towns. As if her husband wasn't responsible with the global economic meltdown.

You show solidarity with the union, not the other way around!

…..is not enough to protect us from this deal. The TPP is the loss of national sovereignty and the take over of our legal system, regulatory system and laws of environmental protection by global corporations. If they want to frack or build an oil well —we cannot sue them. We cannot stop them. Our courts are now rendered moot. There's no undoing this once it passes.

They also want to privatize many of our public institutions and we'll be helpless.

So clearly she supports the TPP so long s there's some window dressing.

What will happen to the resources in our national parks if we join the TPP?

What will happen if we get a Republican president who authorizes all kinds of drilliing, mining, etc. for natural resources?

Will we be like sheep taken to be sheared?

Think coal. Think oil. Think gold and silver and other metals that may be protected in our national park system. Will the TPP endanger those sacred treasures, our national parks? Will it require that they be run not for the good of the people, for the good of nature, for the good of the animals that live in them, but according to business principles?

I am asking these questions because I read the letter written in the course of the TPP negotiations that was released today.

There is so much more thant just wages and jobs at stake, important as wages and jobs are.

The gall of some people is astounding.

It sounds like there's a hole big enough to drive a truck through right in the middle of her platform?

I believe many of the member unions will withdraw their AFL-CIO affiliation and would certainly be justified in doing so.