It's Time For Hillary To Drop Out

By Jeff Simpson

Hillary Clinton, went further this primary season than some might have imagined at the outset, but despite her significant accomplishments, her race to the White House is over. Democrats will head into November with Bernie Sanders as their standard-bearer to face off against Donald Trump (assuming he survives an attempted coup by his party’s establishment).

In short, there is no plausible route for Clinton to overcome the momentum Sanders enjoyed with 8 straight wins. Since the former first lady leads the pledged delegate race but the lead is declining.   Unfortunately, the poorly named "super delegates" have decided that the people's voice does not matter and are trying to steal the election for Hillary Clinton.

That's just not going to happen. 

Clinton beat Sanders in the South where Democrats have not done well since Nixon.   She beat him in Florida where they have elected a person who gained his fortune by defrauding medicare. She beat him in white-dominated industrial states like Ohio but since then has taken a beating in the industrial heartland.

In caucus states, Bernie has dominated all but two, both of which leave serious doubts about who actually won.  While Caucuses might not be the most democratic process they are much more intimate where people show up who are passionate about their candidate.   It has been such a white washing in Caucuses, that the Clinton campaign and her Hillarybots keep pushing the false narrative that she is leading the popular vote.   Caucuses mean that that state does not have a primary so popular vote is not and can not be counted.   Its  misleading and meaningless and the Clinton campaign knows that!  

The problem is after performing poorly in the southern states, the Clinton campaign keeps trying to push the false meme that Mr. Sanders does not have the support of  African-Americans, Hispanics and Asians.  Blatantly false.   

The second half of the primary schedule looks far more favorable to Sanders. Caucuses in Idaho, Alaska, Hawaii, North Dakota, Wyoming and Washington should favor Sanders, as well as primaries in places like Oregon and Utah.

But he would still need to perform exceedingly well in states like New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as more and more people hear his message and the momentum builds it can happen.   . 

While we need to eventually get rid of the ridiculous super delegate hijacking of our elections, we have to keep pointing out that the super delegates are what is making the math so hard.   They pledged early to Ms. Clinton so people who would normally support Mr. Sanders would think it is an impossibility that he gets elected and vote for Hillary.  

Disgusting how badly some people need power.

Clinton is obviously free to stay in the race so long as hier supporters keep funding her efforts, she is heading to Hong Kong soon for a fundraiser with Goldman Sachs. But no one should get angry when the rest of the party starts focusing on the Trump threat.

Solidarity Fish Fry Gets National Coverage

I am both excited and humbled to point out that the Solidarity Fish Fry has gained national attention, via Laura Clawson at Daily Kos:

This could have been another run-of-the-mill, sad story of union busting, if it weren't for the response. Milwaukee's Serb Hall is trying to bust its union, which is already down to just about a dozen people. So Capper, of the blog Cognitive Dissidence, organized a Solidarity Fish Fry, urging people to show up and ask to be seated specifically at the tables of the remaining union waitstaff. It's been going on several weeks now, and management is not happy to see people waiting in the bar for union tables while other tables go unfilled. Unfortunately, one of the union waitresses has been harassed into leaving recently. Check it out, though, for a great story of creative activism.

I still don't think I did a big thing. I only told people to go eat fish.

The real heroes are the waitstaff who are fighting for their rights and you, gentle eaters, who go week in and week out to show your support.

Mitt's Libya Disaster!

Mitt Romney had the worst day politically, a presidential candidate could have.  It all started with a tragedy in Libya where the US Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed by extremist terrorists.

Mitt & Reince could not wait until the bodies were even cold before they were blaming President Obama and even worse accusing him of apologizing to the people who killed them.  

In a press conference delivered minutes after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addressed the attacks, Romney expanded on his initial statement, in which he said the administration’s first response was “to sympathize with those who waged the attacks.”

“We join together in the condemnation of attacks on the American embassies and the loss of American life and join in sympathy for these people,”Romney said. “It’s also important for me — just as it was for the White House, last night by the way — to say that the statements were inappropriate, and in my view a disgraceful statement on the part of our administration to apologize for American values.”

Not only did was he despicable in his lies, he appeared (literally) to be taking great glee from this tragedy.  Here is Mitt at his press conference where he blamed President Obama:
       
                                   
 To everyone's great relief, the sane wing of the republican party stepped out and let everyone know that what Mitt did today was unforgivable:

Some prominent republicans pulled no punches:

“I don’t think President Obama sympathizes with those who attacked us. I don’t think any American does.” — Former Bush administration DHS Secretary Tom Ridge

“In the wake of this violence, the rush by Republicans — including Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin and scores of other conservative critics — to condemn him for policies they claim helped precipitate the attacks is as tortured in its reasoning as it is unseemly in its timing.” — Mark Salter, former chief of staff and top campaign aide to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)

Then there is this from Kos:

 : "Over the decades we have survived the leadership of stupid men, and of criminal men. We have survived carpet-bombings of substanceless rhetoric, we have inched our way forward through blizzards of

of lies, we have pretended to be outraged about sex and pretended to not be outraged at misinformation; we are a hardy lot, apparently. I would hope, though, that we are still not so desperate as to look for leadership from someone who cannot even let a man's blood dry before scrawling his own name in it."

The sad thing is that while Mitt, who is the presidential nominee for one of two major parties in the US and  keeps doubling down on a folded hand of blame Obama, yet children from around the world have a greater understanding than he does. 

Looks like the republicans have the wrong nominee, when a 12 year old child understand foreign policy better than the actual candidate!