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May 23, 2016

One more Superdelegate for Hillary!

Few news outlets are reporting this yet, but here ya go:

DNC superdelegate Zack Hawkins endorses Hillary Clinton: “I’m with her”

Hillary Clinton can add one more delegate to her haul, putting her that much closer to her inevitable clinching of the 2016 Democratic Party nomination. Zack Hawkins, the 1st Vice Chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party, confirmed last night that he’ll be casting his superdelegate vote for Clinton. He was asked “Can we get an affirmative HRC pledge from you today,” and his response was “You can. I’m with her.”

And here's the link: http://www.dailynewsbin.com/news/superdelegate-zack-hawkins-endorses-hillary-clinton-im-with-her/24866/

May 17, 2016

Jon Stewart

I'm assuming many of you saw/heard/read the recent Jon Stewart interview on The Axe Files, in which he was quite candid about his rather low opinion of Hillary. Now, I love Jon, and deeply miss his presence on The Daily Show. However, I have not always agreed with what he has said in the past (certain criticisms of Obama come immediately to mind), and in the case at hand I flat-out disagree. His comment about Hillary lacking the courage of her convictions is patently false, and what he said about there perhaps not being a "real person" who exists "underneath there," really made me angry. That is straight up bullshit - the same kind Jon used to preach against. Buying into and promulgating the "inauthentic" meme is a total cop-out and quite disappointing coming from such a generally lucid man. I am not throwing him under any vehicles, but I am definitely saddened by his opinion and his choice to share it NOW, when misinformed anti-Hillary sentiment from (his fellow?) Bernie supporters is already doing its share of harm.

Anyway, this op from the Boston Globe takes a shot back at Stewart and with all due respect I kinda have to say bravo. As the article says,

Throughout his tenure at “The Daily Show,’’ Stewart hammered one basic note: that the establishments we’re stuck with are hopelessly corrupt, that our politicians and journalists are buffoons.

That's a pretty dismal view to adopt in a year when we really need to be looking at the true worth of the candidates instead of plunging headlong into Cynical Lake. Jon argued that it isn't cynicism, but ... yeah, it is, actually.

Just because he's often right doesn't mean he's always right. And when it comes to Hillary, he's wrong. End of story. As for humor, it's true that Jon was elated at the prospect of a Trump candidacy, for it promised endless satirical potential. The sad thing is that what began as a joke has become a horrifying reality. Trump could actually win if this country doesn't get its head out of its rear end. Satire isn't going to save us. It sure as hell didn't in 2000 or 2004, despite the walking joke that was George W. Bush.

April 24, 2016

Obama's Legacy: A Great Man & Good President In Bad Times

This actually made me cry! I'm all nostalgic this week... must be the pregnancy hormones (either that or Obama is just a really wonderful president whom I'm going to miss terribly).

Enjoy - it's from January, but I don't think it was posted here at the time: http://crooksandliars.com/2016/01/obamas-legacy-great-man-good-president-bad

There have been times over the last seven years when the hope-and-change mantra that propelled Barack Hussein Obama to the presidency seemed like a cruel fiction. Yet despite taking the reins of a war-weary nation in the midst of an economic calamity and having to endure the unrelenting enmity of an obdurate opposition party, Obama has wrought enormous changes during what has been the most transformational presidency in 80 years.

He has implemented far-reaching reforms in a dysfunctional health-care system, raised school academic standards, legislated pay parity for women, revolutionized the way we produce energy through harnessing renewable resources, fought back against global warming, taken on the epidemic of childhood obesity with his First Lady, provided deportation relief to young immigrants, legalized same-sex marriage and opened new opportunities for women and gays in the military. He saved the domestic auto industry, has added nearly four million jobs, reduced unemployment to 5 percent and the deficit by two thirds to a puny 2.5 percent of GDP, engineered egalitarian tax reforms and eliminated the most usurious of credit card abuses, while today the U.S. is an island of relative calm amid the global financial crisis. He also took out Osama bin Laden, isolated Vladimir Putin, normalized relations with Cuba, stabilized relations with Iran and ended the war in Iraq.

Obama's presidency has been, as a live microphone caught Vice President Biden saying on the day he signed the Affordable Care Act, "a big fucking deal."

April 24, 2016

Donald Trump’s domination is teaching us one thing: we’ll miss Obama

This campaign is bizarre and unpredictable. Which only makes the president’s strengths clearer every day

YEP.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/01/trump-domination-us-election-miss-president-obama-strengths

April 22, 2016

What is this hoo-ha about Biden supporting Bernie?

I'm seeing Facebook posts about a supposedly pro-Sanders stance from Biden, which apparently many are taking as a pseudo-endorsement. WTF?

https://www.facebook.com/PeopleForBernie/photos/a.1657630031123871.1073741829.1645816202305254/1788878757998997/?type=3&theater

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/us/politics/biden-looks-back-aspirations-intact.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share&_r=1

http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-dem-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/04/joe-biden-clinton-criticism-bernie-sanders-222264

April 22, 2016

Daily Banter: It's Time for Bernie Sanders To Face Reality and Avoid Going Scorched Earth

Another great read from Chez Pazienza, whom I may not agree with in matters of faith, but whom I ADORE in political op ed.

The article also makes a very good point about Trump and the media, namely, while we Dems are busy focusing on one another, Trump has quietly begun a pivot to the GE and, like a chameleon, is changing colors to suit the setting. At this point, every ounce of hatred leveled at Hillary by Bernie Sanders and his followers is helping the GOP and by extension putting the entire country (and beyond) in very real danger. A Trump presidency would make the Dubya years look like frigging Woodstock in comparison. Nothing y'all don't already know, but I for one am getting a tad nervous. I may live abroad, but damn, I still love the Motherland and couldn't bear to see her go down in flames with that neon buffoon at the helm.

Bernie Sanders isn't going to win the Democratic nomination and he isn't going to win the presidency. Short of a bolt of lightning coming out of the sky and striking her dead, Hillary Clinton is going to get the nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. She almost certainly isn't going to be indicted, regardless of what apparently insane people like perennial Sanders fabulist H.A. Goodman says, and she isn't going to somehow begin losing by double digits in nearly every single remaining primary state, which is what it would take for Sanders to pull out a win in pledged delegates. Also not going to happen: Sanders's team isn't going to be able to convince the landslide of superdelegates he'd need to win to jump ship from Clinton at the convention. These are the facts and believing anything else at this point is pure, delusional denial.

Full article here: http://thedailybanter.com/2016/04/face-reality-bernie-sanders/

April 21, 2016

Just to keep things in perspective...

THIS is what we're up against on the right:

1. The great orange hope (read the comment section; it's golden)
http://gawker.com/someone-tell-donald-trump-we-can-hear-him-1770409368

2. The crazy soup guy (whaaaaat?!?!)
http://gawker.com/after-his-honeymoon-ted-cruz-immediately-bought-100-ca-1770893594

Can we start a group specifically to mock them or is that beneath us (it's not really beneath me)?

April 20, 2016

IT'S OVER

This is a great article from Business Insider UK, including perfect responses to the usual lame but-but-but arguments put forth by the Sanders folks. Enjoy!

Hillary has the Democratic primary in the bag

Technically, the Democratic presidential contest is not yet over.

But let's be real. It's over. Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee for president.

It's not just that Bernie Sanders lost delegate-rich New York by a wide margin Tuesday night. It's that the margins by which he'd need to win in the remaining contests to overtake Clinton are implausible.

Currently, Clinton has 55 percent of the pledged delegates and almost 2.7 million more votes than Sanders.

That might not sound like a huge lead, but almost two-thirds of the pledged delegates have already been awarded. So, as Nate Cohn of The New York Times notes, Sanders would need to win the remaining contests by an average of 18 points to overtake Clinton in pledged delegates. So far, he's only managed that big a margin in two primary states: New Hampshire and Vermont, his home state.

Full story here: http://uk.businessinsider.com/hillary-clinton-democratic-nomination-bernie-sanders-2016-4?r=US&IR=T

April 14, 2016

Has anyone else noticed this?

I've noticed something super irritating about checking the election news via Google, and it is far from being a lone incident. When I type "Sanders" into Google news, the results are almost always pro-Sanders articles. Yet when I type "Clinton," they're almost always negative. Here is today's example:

SANDERS
-Sanders condemns supporter's 'whore' comment
-Sanders draws 27,000 to Washington Square Park Rally
-Sanders draws thousands to NYC rally
-Bernie Sanders takes Greenwich Village
-Bernie Sanders rally in New York strikes at heart of establishment

CLINTON
-Money influences everybody. That includes Hillary Clinton
-Democratic debate: is politeness over?
-Clinton vies for black voters as New York battle looms
-Jane Sanders: Clinton will fall short of pledged delegates
-Hillary Clinton has a superdelegate problem

See? Maybe I'm being overly sensitive, but these kinds of results are what pop up 90% of the time. And Sanders folks whiiiiiine about how the media are sooooo pro-Hillary. Um...which media, exactly? My favorite is when Huffington Post articles, especially those written by certified nut job H.A. Goodman, whose "original" take on reality has been compared to a mixture of "condensed sugar and meth," are among the top four results. Really, Google? This counts as news?

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Another American living in France (15 years and counting!). Native San Diegan, independent Brand Writer, semi-new mother and staunch Democrat. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are my people! And I DO have a blog - glad you asked: www.mot-juste.com