And today I listened to Loud and Clear which included a discussion of
Elizabeth Warren's positions. Her foreign policy positions sound like Hillary
Clinton's. And, for most of her life, she was a registered Republican. She was
an attorney employed by corporations to defend them against suits brought by
consumers. She worked for the company that made those breast implants which
caused breast cancer and other health issues in the women who had them,
defending the company against the women. I didn't know that. So there goes the
image of this lovely person who has been dedicated to consumer protection.
Well, perhaps she had a change of heart. People are allowed to change, reform,
whatever. But we're still left with her interventionist foreign policy.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2019 11:51 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: FW: What happened?
Yes. Color me depressed.
As long as the USA is controlled by an expansionist, corporate capitalist
mentality, we will have no presidential contenders who will go up against the
Pentagon and our God Given Right to ultimate control of the entire planet.
After all, it is our Divine Destiny.
Carl Jarvis, with tongue in cheek
On 09/13/19, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
But in the clip of the debate that I heard this morning on Democracy
Now, Sanders’ response to Univision’s question on Venezuela was
unacceptable to me because he didn’t argue with their statementement
that Moduro is a dictator. He said nothing about the US attempted coup.
Depressing!
Miriam
From: Ryan Grim
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2019 4:53 PM
To: miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: What happened?
"That was a lot," said Castro. Perhaps the most consequential moment
from last night’s debate will turn out to be the clash between Julián
Castro and Joe Biden, in which Castro bluntly suggested that Biden may
have forgotten something he said just moments earlier. It was a direct
shot at his apparently declining faculties, made all the more
aggressive by his repetition of it just moments later. Castro’s attack
is important because it gives permission to the media to begin talking
openly about whether Biden is slipping. It was a kamikaze move, in the
sense that most voters don’t appreciate personal attacks, but it
suggests he’s playing for vice president or some other future role in
the party, and doesn’t see Biden as the future of it.
What happened?
"That was a lot," said Castro.
Sep 13
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Perhaps the most consequential moment from last night’s debate will
turn out to be the clash between Julián Castro and Joe Biden, in which
Castro bluntly suggested that Biden may have forgotten something he
said just moments earlier. It was a direct shot at his apparently
declining faculties, made all the more aggressive by his repetition of
it just moments later. Castro’s attack is important because it gives
permission to the media to begin talking openly about whether Biden is
slipping. It was a kamikaze move, in the sense that most voters don’t
appreciate personal attacks, but it suggests he’s playing for vice
president or some other future role in the party, and doesn’t see Biden as
the future of it.
Remember that these debates aren’t won on debate night, they’re won in
the millions of clips people watch afterward, and that’s likely to be
a widely viewed one.
It also fed into a theme of the night, as Biden seemed unable to
remember some of the people’s names on the stage, didn’t get it when
Kamala Harris attempted a “Yes we can” joke, and needed to look at his
notes not to recall statistics, but for basic rhetoric. And
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his teeth nearly fell out.
To me, though, the most important moment of the night was when Biden
opened a window into how he thinks about the black community. Asked
about how the U.S. can repair the damage done by slavery, he meandered
around, and then suggested sending social workers into the homes of
parents to teach them how to raise their kids.
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My story on that stunningly paternalistic moment is here.
Oh, and during the commercial break,
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ZH870il4> Republicans aired an ad in which they burned Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez’s face and compared her to Pol Pot. Very normal.
I guest-hosted Hill TV again this morning.
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CJwMsrtB6aSF7b12c_PiyF4x3TpPWZiR4Y0o9NDP3E-Mac7J1SvGOb5lQA2g15TOoDth_W
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qwIulieE7Q1rmJ_6ht0KA> It was a fun show. I was filling in for Krystal
Ball, who’s in California for the Bill Maher show. Maybe she can talk
some sense into him.
Bernie Sanders struggled early with his voice, which is damaging to
him, as it reminds voters of his age, even though anybody can go
hoarse after months on the campaign trail. A huge chunk of the
beginning of the debate was spent on Medicare for All, which reflects
the media’s (erroneous) belief that small differences in health care
plans are stand-ins for the major disagreements within the Democratic
Party. That led to an endless debate about elements of health care
reform that will actually be hashed out by Congress.
Andrew Yang, meanwhile, probably picked up more support among young
voters, and is becoming an increasingly interesting element of this
contest. He said he’s going to pick ten people at random and give
them a thousand dollars each per month, and study how it affects their
lives. Can’t say he isn’t interesting.
Insta-polls, meanwhile, found that Sanders did best among college
students and
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Warren performed best overall. If Biden fades a few points and Warren
rises a few, she’ll soon overtake him in national polls, and if that
happens, a number of Sanders supporters may flee him for Warren,
looking to consolidate. Both camps know that it’s a race to be the
first to eclipse Biden, and Warren appears to have the inside track there.
Yesterday, Maryam Saleh reported on the new phenomenon of mainstream
news outlets increasingly quoting and citing white supremacist
organizations as if they’re just normal interest groups doing normal
Washington things.
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Her story is here.
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