"Who rigs every Oscar night? WE DO!! WE DO!!"

Homer joins a secret society called the Stonecutters, like the Masons. They sing a song about all the power they have

Winning Iowa? Being way ahead in the vast majority of states?

She blew a huge lead.

I thought your post in another thread, to which I just responded, was an aberration of judgment. Now I come into this thread and find this post of yours, which tells me these rather bizarre opinions of yours aren't aberrations but reliable identifiers.

Sure: Hillary Clinton has made no mistakes in her campaign. LOL.

The number of mistakes today was pretty noteworthy as well- "A place in hell" for all the little traitor girls who won't vote for her? Goodness...

or something

Yep.

Carl Bernstein does not like Hillary at all. I'm not at all surprised that he has negative opinion of her. He's always putting her down.

The entire Clinton circus deserves to be put down. Early and often.

completely someday. Prefer sooner to later.

Her incompetence has been known for years, he shouldn't have been surprised.

But her incompetence has also been a disaster for Hillary...she was supposed to organize a coronation, not start a civil war. We owe a debt of gratitude that "Heck of a job, Brownie" is fouling up the Queens plans.

That sounds so republican.

But I think he is far too honorable and dignified to act that way.

Unfortunately.

and that is why. There were plenty of people qualified (John Kerry would have taken the job back then)

I don't believe him anyway. The only time he shows up on TV now is to bash Hillary, all because he wrote a book about her in 2008.

Seemed to me he was just trying to report honestly on the White House's angst over the race. I actually figured he might be a Hillary supporter since he wrote that book about her and didn't really have anything nice to say about Bernie.

He should have stuck with us instead of letting Emmanuel call us fxxxin' retards and get away with it.

And the Establishment sticks together when the chips are down.

I like it.

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The two scientists in the household occasionally use it. I just like seeing it artfully used for emphasis.

The establishment is crapping themselves!!

...has not appeared to put down Hillary. I expected a Woodward book unveiling more Clinton scandals. Hope Woodward isn't in ill health...

Don't know if I can get through that. In the first go-round, I was defending them. Now I just want them to go away and leave us alone.

"How Can I Miss You If You Won't Go Away?"

and Hoffmann wanted top billing.

but will vote for hillary if she's the nominee. can't let the presidency go back to the republicans.

just now?

i will vote for hillary if she's the nominee. i've said that all along.

However, I would guess he'd have other worries about Sanders as well.

I think Obama has been invested in HRC succeeding him for the past four years and is worried it's all falling apart.

That's my question for this thread.

It's about the only thing Obama has overtly campaigned really hard for, and he had to solicit lots of Republican support when the majority of his own party in Congress was opposed to it.

Hillary-- "TPP sets the gold standard for trade agreements."
-- "With what I know today, I would not be in favor of it."
-- "I will not actively lobby against the TPP."

Bernie-- "I will do whatever I can to defeat the TPP."

Good to "see" you, my friend!

Say "Hi" to your husband for me.
And let me know the next time he comes to my neighborhood! (He was practically just down the street from me last time, and I didn't even know it).

What we are seeing is that Hillary Clinton could be a very capable President, but she is a terribly flawed candidate who has ethical baggage that is costing her terrifically, the GOP is exploiting it, and in Bernie Sanders we have a candidate who has begun a real movement the likes of which we haven't seen -- and I'd like to know what Bob (Beckel) thinks about this -- since Bobby Kennedy.

That there is a potential -- I never would have believed this a few weeks ago -- for him to go on and win the nomination, and he has hit on the issues that go to her weaknesses which have to do with character issues and trust.

Bernstein began by expressing his hope that Clinton and Sanders would not attack each other on the issue of Flint's problems:

"I would hope this rises above this political race, that both she and Sanders have said the right thing. Sanders has said that this governor should leave office. He ought to be recalled. This is a terrible thing that's happened and shouldn't be exploited in a presidential campaign. They're both on the same wavelength -- Sanders and Hillary -- on this."

He then pivoted to Clinton's paid speeches which he saw as a big problem:

"And let's talk about the real questions. And the real question that's been raised, as Chuck Todd did last night, is this question of the transcripts of Hillary Clinton's meetings and speeches before these groups. It's not going to go away. She's going to need to produce them, or she is in terrible, terrible trouble if she can't."

After all, if she has the only copies, she just needs to make sure what she releases has nothing particularly damning in them, and no one will be able to produce proof that anything was edited out.

There's no evidence of the speeches, and no other copy of the transcripts. It would be easy to edit and then release them.

Yep, they hate the idea of a left populist movement...

Eat your damn cake.

Be glad the banksters didn't take every house!

I guess I don't understand everybody's fear regarding Bernie.

Thanks.For posting

glue their mouths shut. That's step one.

This would include, Howard "Hum A Few Bars & I'll Fake It" Dean; Claire "Hammer & Sickle" McCaskill; Madeleine "Hot Blue Blazes of Hell" Albright; and not least, Gloria "This Is All About Genitals" Steinem.

They aren't doing her any favors.

how much I miss his program. He can throw the hurt onto Trump as well or better than anybody.

The hashtag #SixWordBernieStory was trending on Twitter today and Jon had this tweet to offer:

Daily Show Jon ?@DailyShowJon 6h6 hours ago
He's had integrity since the beginning. #SixWordBernieStory
118 retweets 216 likes

If there comes a #SixWordHillaryStory hashtag...
Hillary not so much I say

He's talking to HBO about a possible weekly show similar to Maher & Oliver.

Also loved your post 45.

kind words.

I hope the rumor you've heard comes to pass. I could listen to Jon on just about any topic. I love that he can do hard-hitting parody and comedy, but when it's time to make a serious point, he's just as good at that.

But I don't think any or all of it would be enough.

Every time she opens her mouth people expect to hear a lie.

problems in her campaign.

It lacks a thematic rationale.

It lacks language. With the dough she has to spend she could hire a dozen speech writers.

It lacks emphasis on 'We' and over-emphasizes "I" whenever she fields reporters' questions.

It lacks coherence and coordination. Her surrogates are a complete mess.

And as you indicate, it kind of lacks a candidate, too. Her limitations are vulnerabilities and she just is not making a case for her candidacy right now.

If there is a drive to care about the American people, it comes across as: confront our enemies with rancor. Building a consensus by defining a common enemy only works in the short term. It is not a vision, it's a defense. She has to keep circling the wagons, defining all who disagree with her as her sworn enemy. Didn't work in 2008, and it doesn't appear to be working now.

Besides his integrity, Bernie doesn't have too many advantages over Hillary. It's been working because his opponent appears completely lacking it.

(it's not just the rogue surrogates). And at the same time, that lack of self-awareness is maybe the largest problem.

If Sanders is running solidly to enthusiastic crowds about the 1 percent, why would she invoke Kissinger? But of course she did.

Tone-deaf and out-of-focus.

D and see lol

Stemming from 2008 and such.

But they are working out of the same office, so to speak...and he can't be happy that she's a potential anchor tied to him that could wind up sinking his precious "legacy."

Also, this is also a sign of panic from the establishment. I think I'm going to need more popcorn before this is done.

He's too cool for school.

Now, some of his aids I could see taking issue.

Actually, scratch that...

I think it's probably VP Biden.

It's her mega-donors figuring returns, and not liking the numbers.

Sad day in oligarchland if you ask me....

And not being able to hide all their loot offshore.

And move their factories to slaveland.

And not being able to pollute at will.

And, the list goes on.

What's worse is, even when it's clear the old playbook isn't working, her team and supporters just double down on them.