[pe2-image src=”http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-iZ9V-oDNTd4/Vsq0r4aE63I/AAAAAAAAAh8/RL0Hk3xIqeI/s144-c-o/20160222_2230%252520Bernie%252520Sanders%252520will%252520be%252520the%252520next%252520president%252520of%252520the%252520United%252520States%252520%252528Inquisitr%252529.jpg” href=”https://picasaweb.google.com/102930737536139888016/Campaign2016#6254009698526489458″ caption=”(Feb. 21, 2016 22:30 ET) Bernie Sanders will be the next president of the United States, according to Salon. The Vermont Senator will require the help of young people and working class people to achieve his ambitious plans, and he is likely to get it. https://publicskeleton.com/media/?p=451″ type=”image” alt=”20160222_2230 Bernie Sanders will be the next president of the United States (Inquisitr).jpg” ] (Feb. 21, 2016 22:30 ET) Bernie Sanders will be the next president of the United States, according to Salon. The Vermont Senator will require the help of young people and working class people to achieve his ambitious plans, and he is likely to get it.
Is Bernie Sanders Campaigning Upstream with Only One Principled Paddle?
[pe2-image src=”http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/–eHJ-xDJ-uY/VsohlCCsmCI/AAAAAAAAAho/9Ccbu_DbFJE/s144-c-o/20160221_0600%252520Bernie%252520Sanders%252520Super%252520PAC%252520Superdelegate%252520progressive%252520kick%252520%252528time%252529.jpg” href=”https://picasaweb.google.com/102930737536139888016/Campaign2016#6253847952644413474″ caption=”(Feb. 21, 2016) Though Bernie Sanders' campaign for the presidency may be hindered due to his stance on abuse of super PAC and the corruption they instill into the election process.Sanders well reasoned and principled position against a corrupt campaign finance system has brought him support and the moral high ground during his campaign. https://publicskeleton.com/media/?p=444″ type=”image” alt=”20160221_0600 Bernie Sanders Super PAC Superdelegate progressive kick (time).jpg” ] (Feb. 21, 2016) The Bernie Sanders campaign for the presidency may operating under sound moral and ethical principle by not using or supporting super PACs, he may be hindering himself since the other candidates are moving against him at full steam.
Sanders well reasoned and principled position against a corrupt campaign finance system has brought him support and the moral high ground during his campaign. If he is not careful, that may be just all he walks away with.
He has also collected donations from millions of individual supporters where the average donation has been $27. Yet, the failure of the Sanders campaign to fully utilize all tools at his disposal may ultimately be his demise. The especially true since his only adversary, Hillary Clinton, has utilized all financial options at her disposal.
This, together with how the delegate distribution system is managed during the primary elections, stacks the deck against sanders.
Despite Sanders honorable position to not endorse or use super PACs, one PAC has decided to step in and begin fighting for Sanders.
It appears, since many people in the nation have heard and been receptive to Sanders rhetoric regarding campaign finance, and are supportive of how he has ran his campaign thus far, it is time to start fighting fire with fire by pulling out all super PAC support as needed to secure the win.
Once in office, Bernie Sanders could then make the changes he believes is needed to be made to remove unfair and corruptive campaign elements from the electoral process.
For now, he may be paddling up the campaign stream with one paddle which could loose him the election, however, without jeopardizing his beliefs.
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A California-based super PAC is beginning a new effort to help Bernie Sanders win the Democratic nomination by holding superdelegates accountable to Democratic primary voters.
Bernie Sanders Arrest Photo Proves He Walks the Walk
[pe2-image src=”http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Kw6HaaaEdoI/VsfYEmwFzxI/AAAAAAAAAhY/TiKSmaEhh78/s144-c-o/20160219_1924%252520Arrest%252520photo%252520of%252520young%252520activist%252520Bernie%252520Sanders%252520%252528ChicagoTribune%252529.jpg” href=”https://picasaweb.google.com/102930737536139888016/Campaign2016#6253204181260554002″ caption=”Bernie Sanders Arrest Photo Proves He Walks the Walkby Daryl Parsons (Feb. 19, 2016 22:00) Some people may think having a photograph of you being arrested may lead to undesirable publicity, shame, and ridicule. However, in the case where the photograph shows Bernie Sanders getting arrested for demonstrating during the civil rights movement, well, that is another story. https://publicskeleton.com/media/?p=437″ type=”image” alt=”20160219_1924 Arrest photo of young activist Bernie Sanders (ChicagoTribune).jpg” ] Bernie Sanders Arrest Photo Proves He Walks the Walk
by Daryl Parsons
(Feb. 19, 2016 22:00) Some people may think having a photograph of you being arrested may lead to undesirable publicity, shame, and ridicule. However, in the case where the photograph shows Bernie Sanders getting arrested for demonstrating during the civil rights movement, well, that is another story.
“The black-and-white photo shows a 21-year-old Sanders, then a University of Chicago student, being taken by Chicago police toward a police wagon. An acetate negative of the photo was found in the Tribune’s archives, said Marianne Mather, a Chicago Tribune photo editor.”
Talking about having a proven record.
Jane Sanders is central in her husband’s surging campaign
[pe2-image src=”http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-H6ZtuUuxmTI/VsbASh5AOHI/AAAAAAAAAhA/bBoobOBFNd4/s144-c-o/20160218_1249%252520Jane%252520Sanders%252520is%252520central%252520in%252520her%252520husband%252527s%252520surging%252520campaign%252520%252528SFGate%252529.jpg” href=”https://picasaweb.google.com/102930737536139888016/Campaign2016#6252896557218150514″ caption=”Jane Sanders is central in her husband's surging campaignBy Catherine Lucey and Ken Thomas, AP ROMULUS, Mich. (AP) (Feb. 18, 2016 12:49) — When Jane Sanders saw an early cut of the "America" ad for her husband's presidential campaign, she felt something wasn't quite right. The problem? Her husband was talking in it. http://bit.ly/1SDD9Ym” type=”image” alt=”20160218_1249 Jane Sanders is central in her husband’s surging campaign (SFGate).jpg” ]
The article below really talks about what I think we see every time Jane escorts her husband to the podium. She, unlike the other candidates, is virtually always there providing her in-the-trenches support as she quietly hands him off to the microphone to address thousands of supporters at his rallies.
This says a lot about their enduring relationship, now a marriage for 27-years.
I think we are going to see more of this support from Jane in the upcoming months leading to the primary, and then to the general election.
Jane Sanders is central in her husband’s surging campaign
By Catherine Lucey and Ken Thomas, AP
ROMULUS, Mich. (AP) (Feb. 18, 2016 12:49) — When Jane Sanders saw an early cut of the “America” ad for her husband’s presidential campaign, she felt something wasn’t quite right. The problem? Her husband was talking in it.
The uplifting spot for Bernie Sanders features sunny images of his packed rallies while Simon and Garfunkel’s song “America” plays. Jane Sanders found herself being carried away by the mood and the music, not by the clip of him speaking.
“So I just asked to cut Bernie out,” she said. “He’s talking all the time in other places.”
Elizabeth Warren’s Social Contract: ‘There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own’
[pe2-image src=”http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Q_aKu-TvabY/VsaG4ZxG0nI/AAAAAAAAAgs/Q577qyh9GYU/s144-c-o/20110922_1200%252520Elizabeth%252520Warren%252520on%252520The%252520Myth%252520of%252520Class%252520Warfare%252520%252528addMoreJuice%252529%252528YT%252529.jpg” href=”https://picasaweb.google.com/102930737536139888016/Campaign2016#6252833436198163058″ caption=”(Feb. 18, 2016 21:45 ET) Since Bernie Sanders' rise in the polls after putting up tough competition in Iowa and in New Hampshire against the purported "inevitable" contender Hillary Clinton, there has been a lot of talk about who Sanders' running mate may be. Many have contemplated Sen. Elizabeth Warren as an ideal candidate who has sported parallel stances on issues the Sanders campaign has been touting during his campaign. https://publicskeleton.com/media/?p=421″ type=”image” alt=”20110922_1200 Elizabeth Warren on The Myth of Class Warfare (addMoreJuice)(YT).jpg” ] (Feb. 18, 2016 21:45 ET) Since Bernie Sanders’ rise in the polls after putting up tough competition in Iowa and in New Hampshire against the purported “inevitable” contender Hillary Clinton, there has been a lot of talk about who Sanders’ running mate may be.
Many have contemplated Sen. Elizabeth Warren as an ideal candidate who has sported parallel stances on issues the Sanders campaign has been touting during his campaign.
Only speculation can be derived as to why Warren has not outwardly “endorsed” Sanders.
Perhaps she is allowing her supporters to make up their own minds and determinations by looking at her stances on the issues, and not who she may be endorsing for the presidency.
The impassioned Warren, while campaigning in August 2011, made some impacting remarks captured on video and then subsequently posted on YouTube the following month in September.
One of Warren’s most resonating quotes from that Andover, Mass., meeting, “There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody,” has left a favorable impression with her supporters.
You can watch the 2-minute video and read a transcript of that meeting below.
Video:
Transcript:
From 00:55:
There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own.
Nobody.
You built a factory out there – good for you.
But I want to be clear.
You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for.
You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate.
You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.
You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory,
and hire someone to protect against this because of the work the rest of us did.
Now look. You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea.
God Bless!
Keep a hunk of it.
But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.Elizabeth Warren, August 2011
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Susan Sarandon: ‘I don’t vote with my vagina’
[pe2-image src=”http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-F-iugNpZuXA/VsZa4uVQcFI/AAAAAAAAAgg/yxsVAmVhSjg/s144-c-o/20160218_1800%252520Bernie%2525202016%252520Susan%252520Sarandon%252520Not%252520a%252520Vagina%252520Voter%252520v1.jpg” href=”https://picasaweb.google.com/102930737536139888016/Campaign2016#6252785063206875218″ caption=”Susan Sarandon: ‘I don’t vote with my vagina’ (Feb. 18, 2016 19:00 ET) In case you missed it, actress Susan Sarandon has endorsed and is voting for Sen. Bernie Sanders to be the next president of the United States. Sarandon has been a stanch supporter of Sanders, and has spoken at many of his rallies. In January Sarandon spoke at a Sanders rally in Brooklyn, N.Y. She said she has fallen in disfavor of some women. https://publicskeleton.com/media/?p=414″ type=”image” alt=”20160218_1800 Bernie 2016 Susan Sarandon Not a Vagina Voter v1.jpg” ] (Feb. 18, 2016 19:00 ET) In case you missed it, actress Susan Sarandon has endorsed and is voting for Sen. Bernie Sanders to be the next president of the United States. Sarandon has been a stanch supporter of Sanders, and has spoken at many of his rallies.
In January Sarandon spoke at a Sanders rally in Brooklyn, N.Y. She said she has fallen in disfavor of some women.
Speaking to a large crowd Sarandon explained, “I don’t vote with my vagina,” she said. “It is so insulting to women to think that you would follow a candidate just because she’s a woman.”
“He (Sanders) is just right on. Every single thing he has said was prescient, strong and brave.”
Super-PAC’s Composition Reveals Donors, Contributors and Operators Behind Them
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By Daryl Parsons
(Feb. 17, 2016 22:30 ET) In today’s article in the Intercept, “Hedge Fund Billionaires Fund Super PAC Ad Against Bernie Sanders and Minimum Wage Hike,” information about the donors, contributors and operators behind the Super PAC provides perspective and context to their mission and add campaigns.
By drawing attention to the underlying structure of these Super PACs, beyond the mere fact that they are directed at a particular candidate, helps the public’s understanding of them, contributes designing counter-information campaigns against them.
Since the term “Super PAC” has been used over and over during this year’s presidential election cycle. It’s easy to quickly roll one’s eyes and be dismissive about them. As a result, the true nature of any one particular Super PAC gets overlook. All these bad actors behind the Super PAC are then able to secretly continue their agenda as “business as usual.”
In Jilani’s article specific details of the Super PAC now launching add campaigns against presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders has been brought to light. By exposing the true inner structure of this particular Super PAC, it actually provides a great background to refer to when coming into contact with the media communications they put out into the public forum. There should be public registries, obviously online, where each Super PAC is required to disclose their contributors, membership and mission statement.
Though Citizens United Supreme Court case permits these Super PACs to operate as of now, disclosures of their inner structure is also part of the discussion. The public then will have all of the information about the Super PAC’s messages, both their media products, as well as their base structural foundation.
At the end of the day, researching information about any of the underlying Super PACs which have been activated during this election cycle provides context to the messages contained in their media campaigns. At the end of the day, the louder the distorted message put out by targeted Super PAC campaigns, the louder the counter-information campaign is heard addressing the inaccuracies, special interests, and any other information in the Super PACs media package which were not disclosed at the time it was released.
Sanders Delivers ‘Huuge’ Ypsilanti Michigan Rally
[pe2-image src=”http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-j-mbeTYPrNM/VsLXhuOhfdI/AAAAAAAAAf4/QUJ-rAot4M8/s144-c-o/20160216_2043%252520Sanders%252520in%252520Michigan%252520talks%252520ecomony%25252C%252520trade%25252C%252520environment%252520%252528Detroit%252520Rree%252520Press%252529.jpg” href=”https://picasaweb.google.com/102930737536139888016/Campaign2016#6251796207088270802″ caption=”Sanders in Michigan talks economy, trade, environment YPSILANTI (Feb. 15, 2016 20:43 ET) — The line snaked for several blocks as more than 9,000 people crowded into the Convocation Center at Eastern Michigan University to see Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders during his first visit to Michigan this election season.The crowd, mostly young people, came to hear his messages on income inequality, the need for campaign finance reform and aggressive action to protect the environment. And Sanders did not disappoint.” type=”image” alt=”20160216_2043 Sanders in Michigan talks ecomony, trade, environment (Detroit Rree Press).jpg” ] Sanders in Michigan talks economy, trade, environment
By Kathleen Gray and Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press
YPSILANTI (Feb. 15, 2016 20:43 ET) — The line snaked for several blocks as more than 9,000 people crowded into the Convocation Center at Eastern Michigan University to see Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders during his first visit to Michigan this election season.
The crowd, mostly young people, came to hear his messages on income inequality, the need for campaign finance reform and aggressive action to protect the environment. And Sanders did not disappoint.
Trump Hints Going Independent
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(Feb. 15, 2016 13:41 ET) –At a town hall today in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, Donald Trump floated the idea — without explicitly threatening to do so — that he may run as an independent candidate.
Trump attacked the Republican National Committee, saying it “better get its act together” and it “does a terrible job.” Trump said he believes the RNC treated him unfairly.
While Republicans, Obama Duke It Out, Supreme Court Justice Confirmation History Tells All
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Then there were the reports that mentioned President Obama’s intention to not delay moving forward with nominating a replacement.
Eventually, the reporting broke away from that rut, broadening into more substantive areas such as; 1) what the usual length of time was for nominations to be confirmed; and 2) what was the history of nominees submitted during the last year of a presidents term.
Below is a breakdown prepared by The New York Times which begins to address the first question regarding the length of time to confirm. The other question, regarding the practice and history of last year nominations, was not fully discussed, “. . . few presidents have successfully filled vacancies announced in their final full year.”
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