President Barack Obama and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke look out a window at Mount St. Helens and Mount Rainier during a flight aboard Air Force One from Los Angeles, Calif., to Seattle, Wash., Aug. 17, 2010. Photo by Pete Souza
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.@nytimes: With Clemency From @POTUS, Drug Offender Embraces Second Chance
nytimes.com/2015/08/15/us/… friends - read this.
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Joshua DuBois (@joshuadubois) August 14, 2025****
Alan Schwarz: With Clemency From Obama, Drug Offender Embraces Second Chance
Rudolph Norris walked out of Morgantown federal prison two weeks ago carrying a duffel bag like no other. First, he had spent six months hand-stitching it himself from dozens of mottled leather scraps, symbolizing the shards of his life he longed to piece back together. Then he unzipped it and pulled out his invitation to try. “Dear Rudolph,” the letter began, “I wanted to personally inform you that I have granted your application for commutation.” It was signed “Barack Obama.” Mr. Norris’s 22 years behind bars over with the stroke of the president’s pen. Mr. Norris, 58, was one of 22 federal prisoners released on July 28 through a continuing bipartisan push to shorten the sentences of nonviolent drug offenders who, during the war-on-drugs fervor of decades ago, received punishments far lengthier than they would have drawn today.
Mr. Norris immediately called his parole officer to learn his responsibilities and pledge to follow them. (His clemency does not vacate the eight years of probation to which he was originally sentenced.) He applied for food stamps and, because all he had was his Morgantown inmate card, pursued a more marketable driver’s license. His commitment to playing by the rules was so strong that he avoided a day-labor landscaping opportunity because it paid in cash, and he wanted to pay taxes like everyone else. “As I navigate my way back to society and begin a productive life,” he wrote to Mr. Obama in April, “one of the first and foremost thoughts on my mind will be my solemn commitment to prove to you that your faith in me was not at all misplaced.”
More here
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A must read by @robgreeneII: Julian Bond And American Intellectual History sp.lc/QXQUG #JulianBond http://t.co/5ztfUxdR9W
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SPLC (@splcenter) August 16, 2025I've shared this already, but this Julian Bond lede from @DPAQreport is worth sharing again. washingtonpost.com/news/post-nati… http://t.co/NInhMUG3FS
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Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) August 16, 2025****
Robert Greene II: Julian Bond And American Intellectual History
Julian Bond personified the Civil Rights Movement, and more broadly, the history of the twentieth century iteration of the Black Freedom Struggle. His death will leave a gaping hole in national leadership on the question of civil and human rights in American society. As historians, we need to recognize the many ways he led during his long—although it feels like it wasn’t long enough—life. And as Bond’s life continued, he never stopped being an exemplar of African American achievement and intellect. He taught at several universities and authored books.
Bond served as a Georgia state representative and senator for twenty years, before losing a controversial Democratic primary race for U.S. Congress seat to John Lewis—a race that included accusations of drug use against Bond and was an ugly episode in the post-Civil Rights Movement legacy of two icons. A consummate Southerner who worked his entire life to change the South, and the nation, into a better place, Bond was a founder of the Institute for Southern Studies in 1970, and later led the Southern Poverty Law Center from 1971 until 1979. He served as Chairman of the NAACP from 1998 until 2009, and also wrote a syndicated newspaper column, Viewpoint, as well as hosted seventeen seasons of the political commentary show, America’s Black Forum.
More here
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Bravo to these two amazing women!
You won't find @JanelleMonae's anti-police brutality speech on The TODAY Show's website thefader.com/2015/08/15/the… http://t.co/exudOjYeoz
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The FADER (@thefader) August 16, 2025.@amandlastenberg is the socially conscious role model we need right now bit.ly/1IIepEZ http://t.co/ebj7HKxsV1
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John McCain Chased Off Reservation By Pissed-Off Navajo Activists (VIDEO) reverbpress.com/news/mccain-ch… Welp.
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Propane Jane (@docrocktex26) August 16, 2025Bernie Sanders: Apology to Black Lives Matter was 'sent out by a staffer without my knowledge' #twibdocket rawstory.com/2015/08/bernie…
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Straight outta compton is thug celebration but American sniper is a moving, emotional biopic..... http://t.co/BlJ0iTTcXy
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♡ ELECTRIC PUNANY ♡ (@FemaleGun) August 15, 2025Sold cocaine, threatened to kill cops, fought 7, knocked 1 out, destroyed police metal detector. Guess who's alive? http://t.co/1r955j1Cg6
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Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton, right, listens as President Barack Obama holds a round table discussion with local small business owners during a stop at Grand Central Bakery in Seattle, Wash., Aug. 17, 2010. The President met with the group to discuss strengthening the economy and creating jobs for the families and businesses of Washington State. Photo by Pete Souza
Galesburg Senior High volleyball players join in a cheer after meeting President Barack Obama during an unannounced stop in Galesburg, Ill., Aug. 17, 2011, as part of a three-day bus tour in the Midwest. Photo by Pete Souza
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Good Morning, Everyone
Congrats rikyrah on First! 😊
Good Morning TOD family and congrats on being furst rikyrah. Good morning NW and thanks for a weekend of wonderful, informative, and news worthy events we can’t get anywhere else.
My air conditioner pooped out yesterday and it is still 90 degrees in my condo. It was a miserable night so gotta call the air conditioner folks who probably are booked up. I will never again not get my unit serviced early before summer hits because we will have these hot summers earlier due to climate change. I normally don’t start using my air conditioner until Aug but this year I’ve used it since April.
Hope everyone have a wonderful day and week
Jojo! we talked about your AC unit just a couple of days ago. I’m so sorry cuz I know how hot it was yesterday. If there is anything I can do to help, please call or email me today!!!
Good Morning and Congrats rikyrah!
Congrats, Rikyrah! Missed a lot this weekend but am aware NW did a stupendous job of honoring the extraordinary life and service of Julian Bond.
Much thanks to your beautiful tribute to Julian Bond…as always, you are on point, TOD.
Thanks.
Oh my! Good morning. First???????????
Close, but Rikyrah edged in ahead of you.
Good morning, Nerdy and TOD.
It is another sunny day in NYC—very hot—-and I hope the President and his family will be enjoying the same sunshine with slightly cooler temp in Cape Cod. Golf weather, no doubt.
I am hoping to hear more Senators affirm their Yes on Iran Deal votes this week. Every Yes vote confirmed and in place brings us closer to the end of the propaganda onslaught against the Deal.
Hear hear, Vicki! Will keep trying to engage faith groups and peace groups to meet in person with as many Senators as possible during the recess. Sen. Merkley at least is trying to hear from as many constituencies as possible. Not sure why he thinks he needs more information to come out for the Iran Deal is hugely anti-war Oregon.
Good West Coast morning NW & TOD family.
Where’s that slacker named Chipsticks???
Einstein at Lincoln University
During the last twenty years of his life, Einstein almost never spoke at universities. He considered the honorary-degree ceremonies to which he was frequently invited to be “ostentatious.” Moreover, the abdominal aneurysm that would eventually take his life caused him increasing pain and made it difficult to travel. Given the constant stream of university invitations, he found it easiest to adopt a just-say-no rule. In May 1946, he broke that rule to speak at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. Both the year and the choice of school are significant.
About 60 miles from Princeton, Lincoln University was chartered in 1854 as, in the words of its eighth president Horace Mann Bond, “the first institution found anywhere in the world to provide a higher education in the arts and sciences for male youth of African descent.” In 1946, When Dr. Bond invited Einstein to Lincoln, the student body consisted of 265 men. “It was still a small school,” Mrs. Julie Bond, Dr. Bond’s widow, recalls. “But of course, everyone came to hear Einstein. We didn’t have a hall big enough, so we held the ceremony outdoors in the grove.”
“On Friday, May 3rd, a very simple man came to Lincoln University,” one student wrote a few days later in the school newspaper:
His emaciated face and simplicity made him appear as a biblical character. Quietly he stood with an expression of questioning wonder upon his face as…President Horace Mann Bond conferred a degree. Then this man with the long hair and deep eyes spoke into a microphone of the disease [racism] that humanity had. In the deep accents of his native Germany he said he could not be silent. And then he finished and the room was still. Later he lectured on the theory of relativity to the Lincoln students.
That night, Albert Einstein went back to Princeton…
Dr. Bond’s son chuckles today when he looks at an old photo of Lincoln faculty members’ children with the famous scientist: “Family lore has Einstein telling me ‘Don’t remember anything that is already written down.’ And although I do not recall this exchange” — he was barely four years old at the time — “I have followed this advice ever since.” (Whether Einstein’s advice helped or not, Julian Bond grew up to become a civil rights activist, State Assemblyman, TV talk-show host and Chairman of the NAACP.)
In accepting the invitation, Einstein clearly intended to send a message to a wider audience. But the media then — like the media since then — had different news priorities. While almost all of Einstein’s public speeches and interviews were widely covered by the major media, in this case, most of the press treated the address by the world’s most famous scientist at the world’s oldest black university as a non-event.
http://www.theeinsteinfile.com/portal/alias__einstein/lang__en-US/tabid__3341/default.aspx
Thanks rikyrah, interesting article!
what a life…
WEB DuBois, Paul Robeson, Albert Einstein, MLK and every President since LBJ.
What a life, Julian Bond.
Thank you, Nerdy, for your stellar effort to get us to rise and “try” to shine. I hope our First Family enjoys every moment of their second week of vacation and that our President can absorb all the relaxation possible before plunging back into the boiling cauldron of DC. It’s always painful to return to the grind after a vacation and my heart truly goes out to him for all he has to face from an increasingly ugly Congress.
Yesterday, someone at our Hispanic Initiative meeting tried to tell me about about Trump’s latest anti-immigrant tirade and I told her that Trump was like a smelly odor in a crowded room. Everything he says is noxious and I can’t waste a moment of my time getting outraged about him. I am also sick of Bernie Sanders and wish that he would make his descent into irrelevance sooner rather than later. If VP Biden joins the race, I think that will eclipse BS overnight, for which I will be eternally grateful.
Good Morning Jackie.
I’LL SAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!….HILLARY’S HILL IS MORE THAN FLAT FOLKS!
hello Jackie….
how did your Fest…work out…
and IMO…Bernie Sanders is a Fraud
Good Morning NW and TOD. Looks like a sticky day at Martha’s Vineyard.
83 degrees is NOT HOT!
Our overnight LOW isn’t even 83!
http://www.abc15.com/7day
I agree. Let’s send them some real hot weather. I throw in lots of humidity.
My President needs great golfing weather…whatever allows him to enjoy his day on the links…works for me:)
Morning DF, we’ve cooled a bit, it’s only 72 at the moment 😋
How nice for you:) 72 seems like a dream for me….we have another excessive heat advisory today…I’m over it:) Needs to be October!! Best month of the year here…have a great day!!!
You 2! 😎
Good morning JER, those look like our temps out here in SoCal, except no humidity.
Climate change?????
Yes climate change, or another descriptive term: climate chaos!
113 IN PHOENIX TODAY AND 120 N DEATH VALLEY…THE NOT SO UNITED STATES IS GOING TO BE BAKED LIKE A PIZZZZZZA! I HAVE DECIDED TO FORESAKE CLOTHIING AND JUST WEAR BBQ SAUCE…..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here is a fitting selection from President Obama’s Day Time Playlist:
Morning everyone…just finally had the time to watch the video and read the story of McCain getting chased off the Navajo Res. That actually pisses me off! The Obama Administration has worked so hard to FINALLY open the govt up to all the Native tribes in this country and tend to their needs…listen to them and work toward a more transparent and cooperative Federal govt with regards to Native Americans for the first time in forever. Now this stupid ass struts onto their land and thinks he’s going to have a secret meeting and refuses to answer for his vote for a foreign company to operated a uranium mine on their land!! Back door deals to undermine progress is what they do…it’s ALL they do! People need to pay attention to what these people DO and not just what they SAY for the cameras…AND VOTE!!! Register OTHERS to VOTE! Get these idiots out!!
The other thing that I’m hearing from the MSM, is that the spill out west from the mine…was all the fault of the EPA. No it wasn’t!! This is the best explanation I’ve found as to the REAL CAUSE! No surprise..
“It was an accident. The EPA was trying to fix a problem created many decades ago when businesses were allowed to pollute public land, water and air with no regulations to stop them. The EPA did not create the problem. The mine and the pollutants are the product of the free market economics of the time in which the mine was operational, with little or no regulation or oversight, which caused harm to the public many, many decades after the mine operators had made their fortunes and moved on to exploit other resources.
But there was regulation now, right?
There are laws that regulate how human activities impact the environment today. The presence of contaminants within the mine site which were seeping into the groundwater created an environmental hazard that needed to be remedied. The recent mass release of the contaminants into the environment was apparently an accident resulting from the efforts of the EPA to investigate and fix the problem. The EPA and the regulation did not create the problem, they were trying to fix the problem that had been caused decades ago when the mine was operational.”
I’m pissed already. Must be Monday
Thank you, df. Do you have a link to the article? I need to share it with some people, but I can also just copy what you have quoted here.
Not what I was trying to find, but a good article just the same (I know, DK)
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/11/1410611/-Republicans-Who-Cut-and-Tried-To-Defund-EPA-Now-Attack-It-For-Not-Preventing-Colorado-Mine-Spill#
And then there’s this
http://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2015/08/11/officials-downstream-from-colorado-mine-spill-demand-answers
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency took full responsibility Tuesday for the mine waste spoiling rivers downstream from Silverton, Colorado, but people who live near the idled and leaking Gold King mine say local authorities and mining companies spent decades spurning federal cleanup help.
They feared the stigma of a Superfund label, which delivers federal money up-front for extensive cleanups. They worried that corporations would kill a hoped-for revival in the area’s mining industry rather than get stuck with cleanup costs. And some haven’t trusted the federal government, townspeople say.
The EPA pushed anyway, for nearly 25 years, to apply its Superfund program to the Gold King mine, which has been leaching a smaller stream of arsenic, lead and other wildlife-killing heavy metals into Cement Creek. That water runs into the Animas and San Juan rivers before reaching Lake Powell and the lower Colorado River, a basin serving five states, Mexico and several sovereign Native American nations.
Asked if Superfund designation could have helped to prevent this accident, regional EPA administrator Shaun McGrath indicated it could have.
“Being listed under a national-priorities list … makes available to a clean-up effort resources under the Superfund, which are significant resources,” McGrath said. “And it does allow for potentially more extensive clean-up.”
The USNews story fits your needs…the EPA had been trying for years to clean this up and the people refused them…afraid the stigma of a designated Superfund site would be bad for business, so they turned the help away…..now they’re all up in arms, blaming the EPA for something they have been trying to fix for years….and Republicans make political theater out of it because that’s what they do….
Thanks DF for the follow up materials. This sounds like a more plausible explanation. They refuse assistance, then blame the government when things go wrong.
Correct!
Ah, I see. Thanks very much for both links. I’ve been hearing several people say that it’s a shame, after President Obama has worked so hard to regain the trust of Native Americans, that the EPA has to mess it up. It’s a terrible thing no matter the cause, but it’s good to have more background information. I was also thinking of all the cuts to the EPA so Republicans who are trying to blame them are also just trying to distract from a problem they helped cause.
They would love nothing more than to completely get rid of the EPA so there are zero regulations and oversight for polluters…
DF, this explanation should be posted or tweeted because it is not the explanation that was reported on Monday. Thanks for uncovering it!
I know!! That’s why I’m feisty about this! This was from a forum online and this was someone’s comment…though I DID read something similar in a news story…that one doesn’t fit the meme, so it’s not the one they tell millions of people…because, you know, you must hate your inept govt that can’t do anything right ( their motto!)Let me see what I can find…..
Good morning folks. I spent a weekend in Washington recently and spent a few hours at the American Indian Museum. Time well spent and I learned so much. I’m going back in the fall all by myself so I can spend more time there. This president has done so much to bring the plight of the American Indians to the forefront. What did McCain do for these people in all the years he was in Congress? Not much if anything; I have to go research that. Good for them! I’d run his ass off too.
and the difference between Trump and Jeb’s positions?
Jeb tells them, politely in Spanish, you can stay here, but you’ll never be a citizen.
that’s pretty much it.
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Trump eyes mass deportations for millions
08/17/15 08:00 AM
By Steve Benen
It was just a couple of weeks ago when Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump first raised the prospect of mass deportations for millions of immigrants already in the United States. The GOP candidate quickly joined what the Washington Post’s Greg Sargent calls the “Cattle Car Caucus.”
At the time, Trump made no effort to explain how, exactly, he intends to identify, detain, and deport roughly 11 million people, or how he intends to pay for such a massive undertaking. “Politicians aren’t going to find them because they have no clue,” Trump said. “We will find them, we will get them out.”
As MSNBC’s Anna Brand noted, Trump is now going into a little more detail on the issue that’s helped propel him to the front of the Republican pack.
Donald Trump on Sunday released his detailed immigration reform plan, encompassing the sentiment he expressed in an interview on “Meet the Press” that aired just an hour earlier: Undocumented immigrants “have to go.”
Watching the interview yesterday, the exchange pointed to an apparent contradiction. “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd asked the GOP candidate, “You’re going to split up families. You’re going to deport children?”
“No, no,” Trump responded. “We’re going to keep the families together. We have to keep the families together.”
Todd followed up, “But you’re going to kick them out?” To which Trump replied, simply, “They have to go.”
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-eyes-mass-deportations-millions
“They have to go” so says the man whose first wife was an immigrant, his third wife is one,his mother was one and he is the son of an immigrant. How far back is he planning to go? I guess I have to start packing then. I am an immigrant and I guess my children are my anchor babies, but wait, they might have to leave too! Today he wants the “illegal” immigrants to go, next he might ask those of us not born here to leave. Silly man!
Nothing happens good in Bangkok.
What Trump is proposing sounds like a police state nightmare to me. Walls. Deportations. Denial of birthright. Add in his racism and the picture is alarming, to say the least.
This appears to be the vision the GOP has been waiting for. At first I ignored Trump.. Much as I’ve discounted Bernie. I am still confident that Bernie Sanders will not be our nominee. But it looks like the Repubs just may be led by The Donald.
Please tell me this is not possible.
I can see Trump appointing Joe Arpaio to lead the charge…..I just hope he’s in jail or prison by then.
I think it highly likely Trump will emerge as the GOP candidate. And, that’s just as it should be. He is the Republican Party.
Then, the issue before the American People will be as obvious as it could ever be.
The choice will be ours: a xenophobic, fascist state or an inclusive, equitable democracy.
Agreed
But if Trump lived in this region, he would know that the people he wants to corral and deport are the very ones who are paying taxes and trying to live productive lives in America. If his plan was to be implemented, we would be left with the undesirables who live in the shadows and don’t pay taxes, don’t work and live off of the Emergency Rooms.
Also, is he going to apply his rules to the Asians that come over here and do the very same things that the Latino do?
Stop clouding the issue with facts!:)
And empathy. can’t have any of that.
A 2nd good morning, TOD
Congrats on 1st rikyrah!!
Thank you NW for starting the week with a poignant R&S!!! + a few cool pics of PBO
In other news ….
more updates on Ukraine, Iraq, Iran Deal, DAESH, …. in the side bar ….
Lovely. And peaceful. Mornin’!
GM TOD - I got seriously thrown by the article about Sanders NOT apologising to BLM so I read the article
“I understand that you said a staffer put it out, but you felt an apology was necessary?” Todd pressed the senator.
“No, I don’t. I think we’re going to be working with all groups. This was sent out without my knowledge,” Sanders said.
True foot in mouth disease after a staffer attempted to sort it for him.
Good morning, NW and TODers. It’s Monday, hope you have a smooth beginning of the week. The Bay Area had a quick but strong jolt earthquake to wake up to about 6:49am. Magnitude 4.2, centered in the East Bay in Piedmont. Felt like we got the tail end whip of it here in SF.
This is our man:
Really??? http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/boxing-out-joe-biden-121413.html?hp=t2_r
EDGARTOWN, Mass. – As Joe Biden considers a possible run for president, the donors he’d need to be viable appear to be ruling him out.
Not all 400 people who gathered at a waterfront estate here on Sunday have been die-hard supporters of Hillary Clinton. In fact, many of them recall a rough summer eight years ago when Martha’s Vineyard’s liberal elite split their loyalties between Clinton and Barack Obama. But on Sunday, they were reveling in party unity and had little appetite for Biden to complicate the field, despite their affection for him.
Story Continued Below
“I like Joe, but I’m hoping he doesn’t” run, said Kathryn Allen, who campaigned for Obama in the 2008 primary. “I really believe that there is no one more qualified at this point,” than Clinton.
I think it’s more likely they are AFRAID he WILL RUN! Upset their Clinton coronation…
Nailed it.
YUP!
THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!DF
These people are so condescending and patronizing. Disgusting!
Also, it should be mentioned that these remarks were made at a Clinton fundraiser!
Also notice in that piece HRC still saying she’ll have more success working with Republicans. Sorry but that is laughable.
those kind of statements are so misleading and dishonest….they infer that it was the President’s fault that the GOP would not work with him…instead of calling out the obstructionism of the GOP that became their mantra
Exactly right. They confer on her the magic potion to fix it all, as if she’s immune to the entire ball of hatred they now display in every realm of public life.
So the next Dem president will spend its time undoing her GOP compromise like PBO has had to do.
F them and their big dollars. I will give all of my Social Security checks for a few months and tap into my pension benefits every month and then I’ll send in my quarters from my jar. That’s what we did for the president and that’s what we’ll do for Joe. F them all!
So goes Joe Biden, so goes my vote and my donations. President Obama was the person that I have ever donated money to, and if Joe decides to run he will be the second person that I have ever donated to. I know you’re not supposed to end a sentence with to, but whatever.
Me, too:)
Ditto!!
That is my story too, Don.
I LOVE THISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS…………………………………..
yep yep.
I can’t wait until my son goes back to school next week, I need some alone time.
The parents had my school ALL had smiles last week:) you are not alone:)
He starts back next Tuesday, I can’t wait for the peace and quiet.
I know.. It’s coming…
Sure is.
Good morning…..Is it safe to come out? It’s awful hot and muggy out.
Hey Good Morning Sailor! It’s good to see you here on TOD. You’ve been missed. Hope you’re feeling much better
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Somewhat Mamacita. Thanks. Gastrointestinal problems are no joke.
Growing old is definitely not for wimps!
yard….good to see you…i hope all is well…
Yup….still on the right side of the grass. 😉
Question? How can Bernie run for the Dem primary when he is an independent? I can not see how he would qualify to be on the Dem ballot in every state.
Something something revolution, bankers going to jail, argle-bargle, down with Whitey!
I heard it’s a “no-apologies tour.” Think he even has a clothing line out now ~ only available in New England, of course.
I think he has to get permission in every State from the Dem party.
Vermont does not allow anyone to register as a party member.
Thank you.
Bernie Sanders is a fraud
Imani Gandy @AngryBlackLady
Bernie Sanders: Apology to Black Lives Matter was ‘sent out by a staffer without my knowledge
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Oh, Bernie, you old dawg. I’m a 68-y/o woman who actually lived through the “women’s movement” of the ’70s, which you may have marched in (probably next to Gloria Steinem) or, possibly, heard about. Saying “a staffer” (male or female) put out your apology to BLM without your knowledge is exactly how the now-old coots of your generation always blamed “the girl in the office.”
First of all, if anybody’s working on your campaign ON YOUR STAFF and we’re to believe they don’t know protocol in sending out apologies, then we deserve Donald Trump as president. Secondly, man up. You had to know an apology was going out … admit that was the wrong course, if you feel that way. Third, you’re quoted, by the way, as saying, “and, by the way, reforming a broken criminal justice system.” Well, good for you. But there’s nothing “by the way” about reforming our totally broken criminal justice system, by the way. It’s a front-and-center issue. Start NOW working on it, if you have The Plan. Does President Obama have to do EVERYTHING?
Please have your “staffer” call me. We’ll do lunch. I have some tips for “getting the red out” of your facial tone. It’s ghastly.
Signed,
Former “girl* in the office”
(And BTW we fought to be called women, so excuse that reference*) (red-faced fool)
P.S. I actually love some of your socialist viewpoints.
Oh no, can’t be seen apologizing to those blacks. This guy gets on national television and says a staffer sent out an apology and he didn’t know anything about it, so now he has a rogue employee going around apologizing on his behalf.
I just don’t get it, a candidate can have all the answers in the world to correct every issue from healthcare to war to poverty to banking. But when it comes to dealing with African Americans ALL of them stumble about as if they’ve never had to deal with African Americans before.
Maybe hes new African American Press Secretary did it.
Not a good look to throw her under the bus already.
Thanks for this tweet, Bobfr!!
The “Joe won’t run” nonsense de-bunked.
1) It’s too late. WRONG. The Iowa caucus is more than 6 months away.
2) The strategists are all promised to HRC. WRONG. Hill’s people (Jennifer Palmieri, John Podesta, Neera Tanden) returned to her and a few of the President’s workers did join HRC. But not most. Not the best of them.
3) The big donors went to Clinton. WRONG, again. Plenty of big donors haven’t committed. Many others routinely fund more than one candidate, hedging their bets. The Obama Coalition will be donating to Biden (as I have done several times already.) VP Biden has his own long-standing network of supporters and donors.
The big issue is how the Vice President himself feels and what he wants to do. We will see within the next month what that decision is.
^5
Watching Jeb! Bush eat a chicken wing in public is like …
Eek.
GM all.
Why do the Hillary Clinton people keep doing this-taking credit and in some subtle and not so subtle ways trying to diminish PBO?
It really does seem as if both the Right and ” Left” want to erase his accomplishments or take ownership for someone else.
It is very annoying and is happening more and more.
The global authority is thanks to PBO but I do give her credit for rebuilding the relationships that Bush and Uncle Grunt wrecked.
As Sec of State, she was carrying out policy not acting on her own. If she did that well fine but don’t take ownership of policy as if HRC acted all on her own.
It is the same rubbish a number of her supporters write about how she started all the LBGT policy at the State Dept of allowing benefits to partners, access to hospital as a partner etc.. Such policies were enacted across all Gov’t depts not just at State but don’t tell that to her supporters.
I’m not saying she did and I’m well aware the Secretary of State doesn’t carry out their own agenda.
But either you do a good job or you don’t and Secretary Kerry said she did a terrific job rebuilding those relationships. He didn’t say she was just carrying out PBO’s agenda which was a given. For that I give her credit.
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Can’t bring myself to watch that but why does every photo of that bloated creep look like his entire head is about to explode into a million pieces? Must be all that wealthy white privileged rage.
Yes , I see him as bloated also. It looks like alcohol bloat, but he claims he does not drink.
The video has him saying he likes John Bolton for military advice.
OMG, John Bolton? WHACK.
Sounds like Sarah Palin’s I read everything remark to Katie Couric’s question of what she reads.
Okay, I’m freaking out. I have a dear friend who is a retired school librarian. She’s intelligent, well-read, empathetic, decent, caring. I’ve known her for 15 years.
She just “liked” a photo and the FB page of BEN CARSON!
She just moved from Chicago to central Illinois to be closer to family. Has she perhaps breathed in too many manure fumes from the corn fields?
Take a deep breath. Block Ben Carsons page and you won’t see her like him anymore. 😊
Did you like your new Dr.? Take care.
Don’t know if I can ever look at her the same way again. She was in my quilting group, and we were all staunch Democrats. She’d agree with us on a lot of things but didn’t get into the conversation like we did. At one of our last meetings before she moved, she stood up for Republicans. But we all assumed she was moderate. And sane. Ben Carson? Oh. My. God.
And now, because CarolMae said so, I am lowering my blood pressure and will not let it bother me.
Oh Dear, she hide her real self. That’s tough. My only Dem friends are on TOD & twitter. I’m dreading the get together for MIL 90th BDay tomorrow because they’re rabid Repubs. Don’t know who they like but I’m guessing trump. I’m having panic attack. 😉
h/t criquet for the heads up ….
bbl ….
You are welcome, Bobfr.
It is amazing to see some of the lengths they go too.
Apparently HRC started the pivot to Asia yet was dithering all over the place and seemed to be waiting for the reports from polls and focus groups to determine whether and how much she would support TTP.
Really?
No authenticity with the campaign is a big problem, IMHO.
And frankly it makes no sense. Here’s a piece she wrote in 2011 about the importance of pivoting to Asia Pacific.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2011/10/11/americas-pacific-century/
It’s spot on so why run away from it now? Ridiculous.
Precisely. I HAD to tweet that, criquet.
Ooopsie
These are emails that were retroactively deemed to be classified. This is a fake scandal.
I think for me, and I’m probably alone in this, it’s the entire premise of the private server in the first place. I’ve worked in very large hierarchical public institutions where this would be considered insane from the outset.
As SOS, HRC was always in the position of receiving and sending sensitive information, whether it was deemed classified or not. So for me, it’s a judgement issue on how she chose to handle her communications, outside the purview of the White House’s rules. Even if it doesn’t rise to the level of “scandal,” I don’t see any of it as acceptable in any way, shape or form. JMO.
No Meta, you are not alone in your assessment of Hillary and the emails…I also agree with you!!!
Agree criquet, DerBingle & meta!
#DiplomacyHasConsequences
These are the folk who can most readily bring an end to the Assad regime and enforce a movement toward inclusive government. Without RU & Iran bought into that vision, the slaughter in Syria and DAESH’s reign of terror will continue.
now, I’ve gotta run to my 930a mtg!!!!
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2015/08/17/chat-away-646/
Also, someone of FB wanted to know if the DNC was blackballing Sanders and how come no Dem’s in congress have endorsed him yet. I jsut shook my head and replied” he is not a Dem. he is an Independent Socialist. Big difference. No come bacl.