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Post by annaj26 on May 4, 2016 19:43:02 GMT -5
Clinton is far enough ahead at this point that it looks like she'll win the Democratic nomination for POTUS. Here's a good article about choosing a running mate. Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine is emerging as an early favorite to be Hillary Clinton's running mate among major Democratic donors, operatives and congressional Democrats, who argue the Spanish-speaking former governor could be a steady hand in a difficult election environment. As the party establishment begins to shift its attention to a likely general election matchup against Donald Trump, many Democrats are now arguing that Kaine could help balance out the ticket by helping Clinton with independents in swing states and even expand the political map in the fall with his moderate profile, executive experience and foreign policy background. And as a politician from a southern state who has endured tough elections, proponents believe he can handle the grind of a high-profile presidential campaign. "I would be 100% enthusiastic about Tim Kaine being our vice presidential candidate," said Peter Buttenwieser, a major Democratic donor and Clinton backer. "Nobody could be better." Sources: John Kasich to drop out How seriously Clinton is considering Kaine is far from certain. But Kaine has been atop Democratic running mate lists before, including in 2008 when Barack Obama's team was vetting the Virginia Democrat for the post before ultimately choosing Joe Biden. Senate Democratic leaders have not taken a position on Kaine as a running mate but would be supportive of his selection, sources said. n a brief interview last week in the Capitol, Kaine was coy when asked about his interest in the job. "I'm not on any list that I know of," he told CNN. Yet two Clinton confidants, who asked not to be named, said Kaine's name has been mentioned frequently as a possible running mate, but said it was too early to know how serious it was. Kaine, of course, has his drawbacks, too. He voted for fast-track trade authority last year -- something bound to anger the populist, progressive wing of the party led by Sen. Bernie Sanders. He has a more nuanced position on abortion than many liberals. And as a white male, he hardly would be a historic pick the way other prospective vice presidential candidates are. Moreover, as Clinton has struggled to excite the Democratic base, it's far from clear that Kaine -- a mild-mannered and affable 58-year-old -- would be able to do just that. Yet as a former chief executive of a swing state, along with his expertise serving on both the Foreign Relations and Armed Services panels, many believe his experience could make him the ideal running mate. "It's hard to construct a short list for vice president that he's not on," said Steve Elmendorf, a Democratic lobbyist and Clinton backer. "He has a business sense and international experience (and) speaks Spanish, which are both pluses," said Glen Fukushima, a Democratic donor who gave $100,000 to Clinton's super PAC last year. "He also has experience as a governor, which could complement Hillary's background." Other Democrats on Clinton's presumed list of potential picks would be far more historic than Kaine, including women such as Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, African-American pols like Sen. Cory Booker and former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, and two Latinos: Labor Secretary Tom Perez and Julian Castro, secretary of housing and urban development. Two other senators are viewed as potential running mates, including Kaine's Virginia colleague, Mark Warner, and the progressive populist Sherrod Brown of Ohio. Brown told CNN last month that "I don't really want" to be vice president. What could help Kaine's case is that his state has a Democratic governor, Terry McAuliffe, ensuring that the balance of power in the Senate wouldn't be affected if he became VP since the governor could name an interim replacement. Moreover, as a former head of the Democratic National Committee, Kaine has amassed a network of donors important for a national campaign. Rep. Gerry Connolly, who represents a suburban Northern Virginia district outside Washington, told CNN that he is hearing from both voters and party activists about speculation on Kaine as a possible running mate. But he also said the same people are speaking highly of Warner, whom he also praised as a logical choice for Clinton. "Kaine has a lot going for him -- he's Catholic, from a swing state, successful governor, speaks fluent Spanish, has political chops, was the head of the DNC," Connolly said. "He provides a lot of talent to the ticket and could step in and could certainly be an heir apparent." A Roman Catholic who taught at a Honduran mission during his law school years, Kaine is personally opposed to abortion but he is supportive of women's right to choose and opposes weakening laws permitting abortion. But Kaine's allies say he would be able to excite the base by tapping into concerns of income inequality, an issue of prime importance to the base. "Low-income people, minorities, elderly, people that usually get the short of end of the stick would consider Tim Kaine a friend," said Rep. Bobby Scott, a Democrat who represents Richmond and has known Kaine since he started his political career. www.cnn.com/2016/05/03/politics/tim-kaine-vice-president-hillary-clinton/index.html
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Post by watcheroo42 on May 11, 2016 15:53:17 GMT -5
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Post by beth on May 11, 2016 15:57:21 GMT -5
lol I take it you aren't a Hillary fan Watcher.
I believe you have plenty of company. barnie bested her again last night in Nebraska.
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Post by Sysop3 on May 19, 2016 20:52:27 GMT -5
Clinton Doesn't Rule Out Sanders as VP Washington (CNN)Hillary Clinton didn't rule out Wednesday picking her Democratic presidential primary challenger, Bernie Sanders, from serving as her vice president. "I won't get into that," she told CNN's Chris Cuomo in an exclusive interview, when asked if giving Sanders a spot on the ticket would help bring the party together. She also declined to answer if Sanders was in consideration for the No. 2 slot. Clinton, who is leading the increasingly divisive Democratic contest, didn't completely shutdown the possibility of Sanders as her running mate, saying, "That's something down the road." Sanders has said repeatedly that he intends to stay in the contest until "the last ballot is cast." Tensions in the Democratic Party have boiled over, highlighted by a heated Nevada Democratic Convention in which disagreements over party rules led to a raucous response by Sanders supporters including posting state party chairwoman Roberta Lange's phone number and address on social media, which led to death threats. RELATED: Bernie Sanders, Democratic establishment battle boils over Sanders denounced the violence, saying in a statement, "Our campaign of course believes in nonviolent change and it goes without saying that I condemn any and all forms of violence, including the personal harassment of individuals." But many Democratic leaders called for Sanders to do more, including others rumored to be on the Clinton VP shortlist. "Bernie is a leader and he needs to condemn it without equivocation and without trying to deflect attention or blame to somebody else ... deflection of responsibility is not leadership," Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia told CNN's Manu Raju. Fellow potential VP pick Rep. Xavier Becerra called on Sanders to "act like a leader," telling CNN's Deirdre Walsh that Sanders should "send a very clear message, if he hasn't already ... that he does condemn activity that could lead to violence." Divisions in the party aside, Clinton said there is at least one thing that unites the two candidates. "What brings us together is Donald Trump," she said. www.cnn.com/2016/05/19/politics/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-vice-president/index.html
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Post by Sysop3 on May 19, 2016 20:55:25 GMT -5
Now that would be double trouble for Trump.
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Post by beth on May 19, 2016 22:02:04 GMT -5
Now that would be double trouble for Trump. Maybe. The voters who are genuinely FOR Bernie because of his ideals and honesty and courage and personality would probably stay with him and vote the ticket. Those who are only for him as a way to stay with the party but avoid Hillary would, more than likely, jump to Trump. Still ... it would go far to bringing the party together and she could do worse. Choosing a feminist female for VP would be worse.
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Post by beth on May 27, 2016 23:32:22 GMT -5
Hillary Clinton’s email problems just got much worseBy Chris Cillizza May 25 The Inspector General's office said on May 25 that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of a personal email account was "not an appropriate method" for preserving those emails. (Peter Stevenson,Sarah Parnass/The Washington Post) One of the two big dominoes in the Hillary Clinton email controversy toppled today: The State Department’s inspector general released its report on the email practices of Clinton and a number of other past secretaries of state. (The other major domino is, of course, the FBI investigation into Clinton’s decision to exclusively use a private email server while serving as the nation’s top diplomat.) The report, which you can read in its entirety here, badly complicates Clinton’s past explanations about the server and whether she complied fully with the laws in place governing electronic communication. And it virtually ensures that Clinton’s email practices will be front and center in Donald Trump’s fusillade of attacks against her credibility and honesty between now and Nov. 8. Here’s the key passage from the Roz Helderman and Tom Hamburger article on the report: The inspector general, in a long-awaited review obtained Wednesday by The Washington Post in advance of its publication, found that Clinton’s use of private email for public business was “not an appropriate method” of preserving documents and that her practices failed to comply with department policies meant to ensure that federal record laws are followed. The report says Clinton, who is the Democratic presidential front-runner, should have printed and saved her emails during her four years in office or surrendered her work-related correspondence immediately upon stepping down in February 2013. Instead, Clinton provided those records in December 2014, nearly two years after leaving office. Clinton used an inappropriate method of preserving her documents. Her approach would not have been approved if it had been requested by a more junior member of the State Department staff. The report also suggests that despite a Clinton aide’s insistence that the method of preserving her emails had been submitted to a legal review back in 2010, there is no evidence that such a review took place. And, here’s the kicker: Clinton refused to sit for a formal interview. Oomph. Double oomph. Heck, that might merit a triple oomph. The Clinton campaign will push back hard on this report — as it has against anything that suggests she was at all in the wrong in the creation and protection of her email server. Here's how her press secretary, Brian Fallon, put it on Twitter: Clinton’s team has spent months casting the State Department inspector general’s office as overly aggressive and working hand in hand with congressional Republicans to cast the former secretary of state in the worst possible light. That’s a very hard story to sell, given that the current inspector general was appointed by President Obama. It is, by the way, the same problem Clinton faces when she tries to cast skepticism on the ongoing FBI investigation. This is an FBI that is overseen by an attorney general — Loretta E. Lynch — who was also appointed by Obama. It’s tough to make the case that a Democratic administration filled with Democratic appointees are all somehow out to get the presumptive Democratic nominee for president. Then there is the argument, which Fallon makes above, that Clinton was far from the first secretary of state to use less-than-airtight methods to ensure the preservation and security of her email correspondence. As the IG report makes clear, she wasn’t. Again, Helderman and Hamburger: The 83-page report reviews email practices by five secretaries of state and generally concludes that recordkeeping has been spotty for years. It was particularly critical of former secretary of state Colin Powell — who has acknowledged publicly that he used a personal email account to conduct business — concluding that he too failed to follow department policy designed to comply with public-record laws. There are two very important differences among Clinton, Secretary of State John F. Kerry, and former secretaries Powell and Condoleezza Rice when it comes to email practices. The first is that Clinton is the first and, to date, only secretary of state to exclusively use a private email address and server to conduct her business as the nation’s top diplomat. All of the other names above maintained both a private and a government-issued email address. That alone doesn’t make her guilty. But it does make her unique. Second, Clinton is the only one of that group who is currently (a) running for president and (b) the very likely nominee for one of the country’s two major parties. 'We could have done a better job' with email preservation, State Dept. says A spokesman for the State Department said May 25 that the department "could have done a better job" of preserving email records of former secretaries. The news conference comes after State Department inspector general criticized Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's email practices. (Reuters) Because of her elevated status in our political world, she is — and should be — subject to more scrutiny than, say, Powell, who hasn’t voiced an interest in running for president in 20 years. That’s particularly true because Clinton has put her time at State at the center of her argument for why she should be elected the 45th president of the United States. Look at what I have done and judge me by it, she says. That has to include the bad as well as the good. This is a bad day for Clinton’s presidential campaign. Period. For a candidate already struggling to overcome a perception that she is neither honest nor trustworthy, the IG report makes that task significantly harder. No one will come out of this news cycle — with the exception of the hardest of the hard-core Clinton people — believing she is a better bet for the presidency on May 25 than she was on May 23. Clinton remains blessed that Republicans are on the verge of nominating Donald Trump, a candidate whose numbers on honesty, trustworthiness and even readiness to lead are worse — and in some cases, far worse — than hers. But Trump’s task of casting her as “Crooked Hillary” just got easier. Takeaways from Hillary Clinton’s e-mails Clinton has come under fire for using a private email address during her time as secretary of state. The emails are being screened and released in batches. Here are some things we’ve learned from them. www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/05/25/hillary-clintons-email-problems-just-got-much-worse/
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Post by beth on May 27, 2016 23:36:36 GMT -5
This helps a little more with understanding this situation. I keep expecting it to be so much more than it actually seems to be. Other S of S have done the same thing and skipped away with no reprecutions. Of course, they didn't presume to run for POTUS, either.
This Washington Post article helps shake it out in the light of day and ponder how important it really is. She knew she would be scrutinized but didn't particularly try to hide use of the private server.
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Post by Sysop3 on May 29, 2016 21:14:26 GMT -5
Clinton - Sanders ticket? Here we are in California, I’m knocking my brains out to win the Democratic nomination,” Sanders said. “What happens afterwards, we will see. But right now, my focus is on winning the nomination.” The Vermont senator called the California primary “the big enchilada.” While Sanders admitted winning more pledged delegates than Secretary Clinton is an “uphill fight,” California remains an important piece of that puzzle. Yet the Sanders campaign won’t rely on pledged delegates alone to cross the finish line. Sanders will also “make the case to the superdelegates” that he is the stronger candidate to defeat Donald Trump in November. Superdelegates, according to Sanders, “have got the very grave responsibility to make sure that Trump does not become elected President of the United States.” On the issue of party unity, Sanders repeated that he will “do everything that I can” to ensure Trump is defeated, but he put the onus on Clinton to convince his supporters why they should back her. “If Secretary Clinton is the nominee, it is her job to reach out to millions of people and make the case as to why she is going to defend working families and the middle [class], provide healthcare for all people, take on Wall Street, deal aggressively with climate change. That is the candidate’s job to do.” Sanders also weighed in on the politics surrounding the Clinton email controversy, saying “there is little doubt” Donald Trump and the Republicans will “seize” on the FBI report when it becomes public. Yet he remains adamant that he does not want to focus on Secretary Clinton’s emails, “There’s an investigation that is going on. It will play out and we’ll see what happens.” Additionally, Sanders dismissed a New York Times report, claiming his supporters are hoping for criminal charges against Clinton following the FBI’s report. “I have a real problem with The New York Times, which from day one, has been trying to be dismissive of our campaign and be very negative about our campaign. You can go out and you can talk to millions of people and you get any response that you want…Our campaign is about defeating Secretary Clinton on the real issues.” Finally, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is bubbling up as a potentially controversial issue for the Democratic Party platform committee, with two of Sen. Sanders’ appointees criticizing Israel’s position in the West Bank. They include Dr. Cornel West, who called for the platform to bring more attention to “the plight of an occupied people,” referring to the Palestinians. In response, Sanders affirmed his commitment to a “level playing field” on both the Israeli and Palestinian sides of the issue, while criticizing the media for making this “into a great conflict.” “There will be a general recognition by the entire Democratic convention that of course Israel’s right to exist in peace and security is not in debate. But on the other hand,” he continued, “the Palestinian people’s needs must also be respected…I think there’s going to be broad consensus within the Democratic convention on that issue.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/bernie-sanders-doesnt-say-no-hypothetical-clinton-vp-slot
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Post by Sysop3 on May 29, 2016 21:14:49 GMT -5
It's the smartest move they could make.
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Post by annaj26 on Jun 7, 2016 9:41:41 GMT -5
Hillary Makes History Almost eight years to the day after ending her first presidential bid while celebrating the 18 million cracks her supporters put in the “highest, hardest glass ceiling,” Hillary Clinton took a major step towards breaking through that final barrier Monday evening, and towards becoming the country’s first woman president. Clinton surpassed the “magic number” of delegates needed to clinch the Democratic Party’s nomination, according to NBC News projections, to become the first woman in America’s 240 year history to be selected as the nominee of a major political party. The projection, based on new commitments from superdelegates, came one day before voters in California and five other states were set to push Clinton over the threshold of delegates needed to claim the party’s presumptive nomination. “It’s been an incredible journey,” Clinton told reporters Monday in California before she was declared the presumptive nominee. “My supporters are passionate. They are committed. They have voted for me in great numbers across our country for many reasons. But among those reasons is their belief that having a woman president will make a great statement, a historic statement, about what kind of country we are, what we stand for. It’s really emotional.” The historic nature of Clinton’s candidacy has been an undercurrent throughout her second presidential bid, but rarely at its forefront. That will likely change Tuesday night when Clinton declares victory at a celebratory rally with supporters in Brooklyn. “It’s a revolution, really,” said Terry O’Neill, the president of the National Organization for Women. “It’s not quite yet the highest, hardest glass ceiling, because that would be the presidency, but it’s just an amazing first.” the rest www.msnbc.com/msnbc/hillary-clinton-makes-history
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Post by annaj26 on Jun 7, 2016 9:43:54 GMT -5
Whether or not you "like" her, it was time to open the old barriers and have a woman taken seriously enough to win the nomination.
Compared to Trump, she is probably the best choice, although I don't like her connections with Wall Street.
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Post by beth on Jun 7, 2016 15:40:06 GMT -5
Whether or not you "like" her, it was time to open the old barriers and have a woman taken seriously enough to win the nomination. Compared to Trump, she is probably the best choice, although I don't like her connections with Wall Street. Gender doesn't really play a part in who I'll vote for .. since that's never been important to me. I *would* like to see someone as our President who could hold their own as a diplomatic equal with other world leaders. Too soon to make that call but I'll be watching.
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Post by beth on Jun 22, 2016 22:14:07 GMT -5
Scottish Lassie said (on the poli cartoon thread in response to a cartoon posted by chefmate.
Hi Chefmate, why be so mean, surely things can't be that bad. I personally think that she will do a good job as President, give her a chance. I trust her.!!!
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Post by beth on Jun 22, 2016 22:16:50 GMT -5
To which Chef replied:
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Hi Chefmate, why be so mean, surely things can't be that bad. I personally think that she will do a good job as President, give her a chance. I trust her.!!![/quote]
I would trust the devil quicker as I already know his tricks....she is not a ggod choice.
Our first black president has been a disaster and this one will be worse.
Carry on ladies.
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