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Smarmie Doofus

(14,498 posts)
1. Too bad for Big Bill.
Mon Oct 26, 2015, 10:46 PM
Oct 2015

He looked good for a while. Actually showed some spine by standing up to the machine here. Or pretended to, anyway.


For a while.


SoapBox

(18,791 posts)
3. Guess he must have thought that the Bigs were more important...
Mon Oct 26, 2015, 11:11 PM
Oct 2015

Big Banksters

Big Billionaires

Big War Machinery

Too bad.

Admiral Loinpresser

(3,859 posts)
4. Endorsing Bernie is like the Iraq War Resolution vote.
Mon Oct 26, 2015, 11:52 PM
Oct 2015

It's a profile-in-courage moment. A lot of good people flunked the IWR. Some duds flunked it as well, of course. But like that vote, endorsing Bernie is about character.

 

swilton

(5,069 posts)
6. For the same reasons that others have identified, I see O'Malley doing the same thing
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 12:02 PM
Oct 2015

Things must be getting desperate for the Clinton camp in Iowa and with all the people showing up for the Bernie ralleys to have them bring out the Brown/Deblasio at this point.

n8dogg83

(248 posts)
7. although i am disappointed with his endorsement, im not going to throw him under the bus....
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 01:59 PM
Oct 2015

for endorsing Hillary. I think he has been a good progressive on a lot of issues and has done a lot (along with Elizabeth Warren) in helping progressive issues become mainstream. I can only try to understand the extreme amount of pressure politicians are under to endorse what the establishment considers the 'inevitable candidate'. If they go against Hillary and she wins, they will be on her shit list. Whereas Bernie wouldn't hold it against them if he wins so its kind of a win-win situation for them to endorse Hillary. OTOH, its pure party politics with all these early endorsements and I wish our elected representatives would refrain from any endorsements and just let the people decide, at least until after the nomination.

Robbins

(5,066 posts)
8. My take
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 02:11 PM
Oct 2015

is supporting the most centrist and corporist candiate shows you can't be serious calling yourself a progressive

some may think i am too harsh in how i called out Brown after his endorsement but If he was really opposed to TPP he couldn't
support Clinton.

They can endorse whoever they want but you can't be serious on issues if you claim to liberal or progressive if you endorse
the centrist,corporist,pro-war Clinton over progressive Bernie.

My attitude is just like bernie says "Enough Is enough!"

as long as liberals or progressives keeping doing the same thing voting for centrists who screw us over and expect different
results nothing will change.

Dems are going along with cutting SSI and medicare for more defense spending.How is that not a sellout?

If i wanted TPP,cut to my benefits,and more war i would have voted republican.

n8dogg83

(248 posts)
10. I certainly don't disagree with you about the issues and how corporate influence has....
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 02:59 PM
Oct 2015

corrupted both Dems and Repubs. I guess my anger is directed more towards the corrupt status quo and party politics that forces good people to toe the party line for their own political future instead of at the people themselves. Every time a good progressive endorses Hillary, it ups my support for Bernie, because I know that its the dysfunctional system that keeps most people (with a few exceptions) from standing on principal and supporting the candidate they truly feel is better for the country. I think what Thomas Jefferson feared about the U.S. becoming a factional country which holds political party loyalty above all else has come to pass.

TBF

(31,922 posts)
9. Mayor de Blasio Struggles to Curb Homelessness
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 02:15 PM
Oct 2015

By NIKITA STEWART and J. DAVID GOODMANO ~ OCT. 26, 2015 (NYTimes)

By one key measure after another, homelessness in New York City has worsened over the last two years.

The number of people entering city shelters has increased under Mayor Bill de Blasio, and when they enter the system, people are staying longer, striking markers of a crisis that has forced its way to the top of the mayor’s agenda.

As of Thursday, 57,448 people — more than 40 percent of them children — were sleeping in shelters overseen by the Department of Homeless Services, and organizations that aid homeless people are worried that in the coming months, as cold weather sets in, the numbers will return to the record high of December, when the peak was 59,068 ...

Much more here: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/27/nyregion/despite-vow-mayor-de-blasio-struggles-to-stop-surge-in-homelessness.html

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