[blind-democracy] Re: Go Ahead, Back Hillary Clinton and Forget All About Her Record

  • From: Carl Jarvis <carjar82@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 08:12:17 -0700

I'm already bending way over backward in supporting Bernie Sanders as
the Democratic Candidate. At least with Bernie there are cracks in
the Empire's protective walls. Sanders could be pushed by popular
pressure, into becoming a People' President. No other candidate with
even a remote chance of winning, can disentangle from their puppet
strings.
But we must not go into this campaign with Rose Colored Glasses.
Bernie Sanders will only be as good as the pressure brought to bear.
If the Establishment puts the greatest pressure on him, he will most
surely bend their way, despite his personal progressive leanings.
After all, Sanders is a politician. As such, he will work for
consensus over personal ideals.
But at least we have a glimpse into Sanders basic philosophy. We have
no such glimpse into that of any other candidate. Unless being a
mindless parrot is a personal philosophy. If Sanders has enough
support to be successful, we need to remember that he is only a step
in the right direction. He can never be the solution. He has been
swimming in the political Corporate Pool too long to be clean. But if
he can point us in the right direction, and if we can spread some
understanding among the Working Class, we might see the beginning of
the collapse of the Corporate.Military Establishment.
Along with pressuring Sanders to stand with the American People, will
be the need to begin conversation about what form of government we
want to replace the corrupt corporate capitalism now in control. If
we could all spend just as much time each week in serious discussions
as we do in cheering our favorite football team, we would find that we
can move mountains.
Which reminds me, what time do the Sea Hawks play on Sunday?

Carl Jarvis


On 10/10/15, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Go Ahead, Back Hillary Clinton and Forget All About Her Record
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/go_ahead_back_hillary_clinton_and_forget
_all_about_her_record_20151009/
Posted on Oct 9, 2015
By Robert Scheer

Hillary Clinton speaks during a Step It Up for Gender Equality event in
New York City in March. (JStone / Shutterstock)
Go ahead and support Hillary Clinton, those of you for whom having the
first
female president is the top priority. She is by far preferable to Carly
Fiorina, though of course no match for likely Green Party candidate Jill
Stein (I know: You want to win). Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a principled and
electable person, is not available, and political integrity be damned.
Just admit that you will be voting for someone to be president of the
world's most powerful nation who has not only been profoundly wrong on the
two most pressing issues of our time-economic injustice and the ravages of
unbridled militarism-but, what is more significant, seems hopelessly
incapable of learning from her dangerous errors in judgment.
Like her husband, she is certainly smart enough to avoid advocating what
President Obama has aptly termed "stupid stuff." However, the good
intentions of the Clintons are trumped by opportunism every time.
For confirmation of the Margaret Thatcher hawkish side of Clinton, simply
refer to her book "Hard Choices," which clearly is biased against choosing
the more peaceful course and instead betrays a bellicose posturing that
seems to harken back to the Goldwater Girl days that reflected her earliest
political instincts.
What one finds is a litany of macho bleating in defense of bombing nations
into freedom, leaving them fatally torn-Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria.
Honestly, wasn't Hillary Clinton's record as secretary of state horridly
devoid of accomplishment compared with that of John Kerry, who achieved
long-overdue normalization of relations with Iran and with Cuba, to name
two
stunning accomplishments?
But it is in matters of economic policy-driving this election-where the
failure of the Clintons is the most obvious, and where Hillary Clinton
seems
to be even less conflicted than her husband in serving the super rich at
the
expense of the middle class.
A continued deep deception in such matters was once again on full display
in
her major policy statement printed Thursday on Bloomberg. In an article
headlined "My Plan to Prevent the Next Crash," Hillary began by blaming it
all on nefarious Republicans led by President George W. Bush.
Of course, the Republicans have been terrible in their zeal to unleash Wall
Street greed ever since the moderate Republicanism of Dwight Eisenhower
came
to be replaced by its opposite, the Reagan Revolution.
But the reality is that Ronald Reagan presided over the savings-and-loan
scandal and as a result was compelled to tighten banking regulations rather
than obliterate them. It remained for President Clinton, in his patented
zeal to obfuscate meaningful political debate with triangulation, to
enshrine into federal law that primitive pro-Wall Street ideology.
One key piece of that betrayal was the reversal of the New Deal wall
between
commercial and consumer banking, codified in the Glass-Steagall Act, which
Franklin Roosevelt had signed into law. When Bill Clinton betrayed the
legacy of FDR by signing the so-called Financial Services Modernization Act
of 1999, he handed the pen used in the signing to a beaming Sandy Weill,
whose Citigroup had breached that wall and commingled the savings of
ordinary folks with the assets of private hustlers-a swindle made legal by
Clinton's approval of the legislation.
Hillary Clinton, in her statement this week, made clear that in opposition
to positions taken by Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and even John McCain
she will not revive Roosevelt's sensible restriction if she is elected.
Instead, Clinton blamed Republicans for the fact that "In the years before
the crash, as financial firms piled risk upon risk, regulators in
Washington
couldn't or wouldn't keep up." How convenient to ignore that Citigroup, the
result of a merger made legitimate by her husband, was one of the prime
offenders in piling up those risks before taxpayers provided $300 million
in
relief.
Brooksley Born, a head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in
Clinton's second term, made a heroic effort to regulate the nefarious
marketing of dubious mortgage debt securities until Bill Clinton betrayed
her by signing off on legislation that explicitly banned any regulation of
those suspect mortgage derivatives, involving many trillions of dollars.
It was that president's parting gift to the banks but also to his wife,
whose Senate career would come to be lavishly supported by Wall Street's
mega-rich leaders. They are now quite happy to back a woman for president,
as long as it's not someone like Brooksley Born or Elizabeth Warren who is
serious in her concern for the millions of women whose lives were
impoverished by Hillary Clinton's banking buddies.




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Go Ahead, Back Hillary Clinton and Forget All About Her Record
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/go_ahead_back_hillary_clinton_and_forget
_all_about_her_record_20151009/
Posted on Oct 9, 2015
By Robert Scheer

Hillary Clinton speaks during a Step It Up for Gender Equality event in New
York City in March. (JStone / Shutterstock)
Go ahead and support Hillary Clinton, those of you for whom having the
first
female president is the top priority. She is by far preferable to Carly
Fiorina, though of course no match for likely Green Party candidate Jill
Stein (I know: You want to win). Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a principled and
electable person, is not available, and political integrity be damned.
Just admit that you will be voting for someone to be president of the
world's most powerful nation who has not only been profoundly wrong on the
two most pressing issues of our time-economic injustice and the ravages of
unbridled militarism-but, what is more significant, seems hopelessly
incapable of learning from her dangerous errors in judgment.
Like her husband, she is certainly smart enough to avoid advocating what
President Obama has aptly termed "stupid stuff." However, the good
intentions of the Clintons are trumped by opportunism every time.
For confirmation of the Margaret Thatcher hawkish side of Clinton, simply
refer to her book "Hard Choices," which clearly is biased against choosing
the more peaceful course and instead betrays a bellicose posturing that
seems to harken back to the Goldwater Girl days that reflected her earliest
political instincts.
What one finds is a litany of macho bleating in defense of bombing nations
into freedom, leaving them fatally torn-Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria.
Honestly, wasn't Hillary Clinton's record as secretary of state horridly
devoid of accomplishment compared with that of John Kerry, who achieved
long-overdue normalization of relations with Iran and with Cuba, to name
two
stunning accomplishments?
But it is in matters of economic policy-driving this election-where the
failure of the Clintons is the most obvious, and where Hillary Clinton
seems
to be even less conflicted than her husband in serving the super rich at
the
expense of the middle class.
A continued deep deception in such matters was once again on full display
in
her major policy statement printed Thursday on Bloomberg. In an article
headlined "My Plan to Prevent the Next Crash," Hillary began by blaming it
all on nefarious Republicans led by President George W. Bush.
Of course, the Republicans have been terrible in their zeal to unleash Wall
Street greed ever since the moderate Republicanism of Dwight Eisenhower
came
to be replaced by its opposite, the Reagan Revolution.
But the reality is that Ronald Reagan presided over the savings-and-loan
scandal and as a result was compelled to tighten banking regulations rather
than obliterate them. It remained for President Clinton, in his patented
zeal to obfuscate meaningful political debate with triangulation, to
enshrine into federal law that primitive pro-Wall Street ideology.
One key piece of that betrayal was the reversal of the New Deal wall
between
commercial and consumer banking, codified in the Glass-Steagall Act, which
Franklin Roosevelt had signed into law. When Bill Clinton betrayed the
legacy of FDR by signing the so-called Financial Services Modernization Act
of 1999, he handed the pen used in the signing to a beaming Sandy Weill,
whose Citigroup had breached that wall and commingled the savings of
ordinary folks with the assets of private hustlers-a swindle made legal by
Clinton's approval of the legislation.
Hillary Clinton, in her statement this week, made clear that in opposition
to positions taken by Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and even John McCain
she will not revive Roosevelt's sensible restriction if she is elected.
Instead, Clinton blamed Republicans for the fact that "In the years before
the crash, as financial firms piled risk upon risk, regulators in
Washington
couldn't or wouldn't keep up." How convenient to ignore that Citigroup, the
result of a merger made legitimate by her husband, was one of the prime
offenders in piling up those risks before taxpayers provided $300 million
in
relief.
Brooksley Born, a head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in
Clinton's second term, made a heroic effort to regulate the nefarious
marketing of dubious mortgage debt securities until Bill Clinton betrayed
her by signing off on legislation that explicitly banned any regulation of
those suspect mortgage derivatives, involving many trillions of dollars.
It was that president's parting gift to the banks but also to his wife,
whose Senate career would come to be lavishly supported by Wall Street's
mega-rich leaders. They are now quite happy to back a woman for president,
as long as it's not someone like Brooksley Born or Elizabeth Warren who is
serious in her concern for the millions of women whose lives were
impoverished by Hillary Clinton's banking buddies.
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