Thread: 2016 Democratic US Presidential Candidates

I was busy yesterday but I had been watching something on TV and left it running in the background..
Some sort of celebrity US reality contest. The celebs had to answer questions on how they would run the country.
They seemed to be under the imression that religion was really important and made constant references to God and how worthy they all were.
After many amusingexchanges, it quickly became apparent that none of the contestants were suitable to run the country ater all. I think the Americans will be pleased they got away with that one.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

With the sheer numbers of illegal alliens getting registered to vote

Citation Needed

You are the iconic symbol of an LIV booner. Your politics are those of a redneck, a bigot, and a science denier. And an abusive name caller, so partisan you can't see your arse for your elbow. I'm only bothering to tell you this to explain to you why you are going to lose, yet again. And as your (mine too) demographic succumbs to nature, ie dies, the nett role of you sheeplings has been to diminish the GOP as a political force, or anything credible. And frankly, I like the USA being a one party sytem no more than you do. Well done, cheap teabaggers.

Originally Posted by sabang

You are the iconic symbol of an LIV booner. Your politics are those of a redneck, a bigot, and a science denier. And an abusive name caller, so partisan you can't see your arse for your elbow.

Well said and the truth.

Originally Posted by chassamui

I was busy yesterday but I had been watching something on TV and left it running in the background..
Some sort of celebrity US reality contest. The celebs had to answer questions on how they would run the country.
They seemed to be under the imression that religion was really important and made constant references to God and how worthy they all were.
After many amusingexchanges, it quickly became apparent that none of the contestants were suitable to run the country ater all. I think the Americans will be pleased they got away with that one.

As I posted in the cartoon thread, it's a new show called "Republican Idol" (or they may change the name to "America's Got Twats").

The Republican candidates on Thursday night’s stage may have all been fighting for attention, but who really stole the show (at least on Twitter) was a presidential candidate from the opposite party.
Bernie Sanders had the most retweeted presidential candidate tweet during the debate, according to Twitter Friday afternoon.


“Most-retweeted presidential candidate Tweet of #GOPDebate came from Democrat @BernieSanders,” Twitter’s government tracking arm tweeted.
Sanders’ tweet, which read “It’s over. Not one word about economic inequality, climate change, Citizens United or student debt. That’s why the Rs are so out of touch,” had been retweeted nearly 22,000 times as of Friday afternoon.

It's over. Not one word about economic inequality, climate change, Citizens United or student debt. That's why the Rs are so out of touch.
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) August 7, 2015

The second most retweeted tweet came from Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.
“Watch the #GOPdebate? Bet you feel like donating to a Democrat right about now,” she tweeted with a link to her donation page.
A recent Monmouth University poll had Clinton in the lead at 52 percent and Sanders trailing with 16 percent. But 56 percent of voters said they would be satisfied if the Vermont senator became the nominee.

Bernie Sanders most retweeted candidate during debate - Eliza Collins - POLITICO

To appreciate the GOP debate, imagine you’re ‘extremely greedy and selfish,’ says Bernie Sanders



Bernie Sanders, the self-described democratic socialist running for president, had some advice Thursday for people preparing to watch the first Republican debate: Imagine you're “extremely greedy and selfish,” and the candidates will be speaking to you.
Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont who has emerged as the leading alternative to Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic nomination, offered his preview of the GOP’s 10-candidate encounter in Cleveland during an interview on “The Agenda with Ari Rabin-Havt” on SiriusXM’s Progress Channel 127.
[Here’s why Bernie Sanders plans to speak at Liberty University next month]
“Listen closely, and this is what they will tell you,” Sanders advised. “They want to give more tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires at a time when the rich are getting much richer. … Essentially, when you watch that debate, just imagine if you are one of the wealthiest people in this country and extremely greedy and selfish, and you're going to have 10 candidates more or less talking about your needs and not the needs of the working people.”
Sanders has seen his crowds swell and his poll numbers rise this summer as he rails against the political influence of the “billionaire class.”
[Democratic presidential hopefuls to debate for first time Oct. 13]
Sanders, Clinton and the other Democratic hopefuls will get their first turn at a debate in October, under a schedule of sanctioned debates released Thursday by the Democratic National Committee.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...ernie-sanders/

Originally Posted by bsnub

To appreciate the GOP debate, imagine you’re ‘extremely greedy and selfish,’ says Bernie Sanders



Bernie Sanders, the self-described democratic socialist running for president, had some advice Thursday for people preparing to watch the first Republican debate: Imagine you're “extremely greedy and selfish,” and the candidates will be speaking to you.
Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont who has emerged as the leading alternative to Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic nomination, offered his preview of the GOP’s 10-candidate encounter in Cleveland during an interview on “The Agenda with Ari Rabin-Havt” on SiriusXM’s Progress Channel 127.
[Here’s why Bernie Sanders plans to speak at Liberty University next month]
“Listen closely, and this is what they will tell you,” Sanders advised. “They want to give more tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires at a time when the rich are getting much richer. … Essentially, when you watch that debate, just imagine if you are one of the wealthiest people in this country and extremely greedy and selfish, and you're going to have 10 candidates more or less talking about your needs and not the needs of the working people.”
Sanders has seen his crowds swell and his poll numbers rise this summer as he rails against the political influence of the “billionaire class.”
[Democratic presidential hopefuls to debate for first time Oct. 13]
Sanders, Clinton and the other Democratic hopefuls will get their first turn at a debate in October, under a schedule of sanctioned debates released Thursday by the Democratic National Committee.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...ernie-sanders/

Just goes to show the U.S. is quickly becoming a country of people wanting the good life with out putting in the effort.

Originally Posted by RPETER65

Just goes to show the U.S. is quickly becoming a country of people wanting the good life with out putting in the effort.

As compared to putting in the effort working two minimum wage jobs to barely make ends meet because of conservative policies that benefit the uber rich? How much effort does a shareholder put in?

Americans won't vote for a socialist Jew, but they'll go to church every Sunday and worship one.

Originally Posted by pickel

Originally Posted by RPETER65

Just goes to show the U.S. is quickly becoming a country of people wanting the good life with out putting in the effort.

As compared to putting in the effort working two minimum wage jobs to barely make ends meet because of conservative policies that benefit the uber rich? How much effort does a shareholder put in?

Americans won't vote for a socialist Jew, but they'll go to church every Sunday and worship one.

Where are all these people working for minimum wage I find it quite strange that you guys post about people working for minimum wage as the only ones I know are the kids working at the fast food places. If you will check there are few if any skilled workers making minimum wage. I see since Seattle started raising the minimum wage ti $15 an hour people are now asking for less hours so they don't loose there govt. hand outs.

Originally Posted by RPETER65

Where are all these people working for minimum wage I find it quite strange that you guys post about people working for minimum wage as the only ones I know are the kids working at the fast food places.

From that I can only presume the only time you leave your house is when you turn off the Fox news and grab a quick drive-thru. Service industry employment is found in places other than fast food joints you know.

Originally Posted by RPETER65

If you will check there are few if any skilled workers making minimum wage.

Define skilled, and how someone gets these skills whilst working long hours to make ends meet and not enough money for college.

Originally Posted by RPETER65

I see since Seattle started raising the minimum wage ti $15 an hour people are now asking for less hours so they don't loose there govt. hand outs.

I can only guess where you saw that.

Originally Posted by RPETER65

I see since Seattle started raising the minimum wage ti $15 an hour people are now asking for less hours so they don't loose there govt. hand outs.

Bullshit lie. I am in Seattle and have not heard one word of this. More bullshit lies from the right wing alternate reality. They also tried to claim that there were several restaurant closures due to the new minimum wage that DOESN'T EVEN KICK IN UNTIL 2016!! Sick liars.

Protesters drove Bernie Sanders from one Seattle stage. At his next stop, 15,000 people showed.



Bernie Sanders came to Seattle on Saturday with plans to give two speeches.
The first didn’t happen. An appearance by the senator from Vermont at an event celebrating the anniversary of Social Security and Medicare was scuttled after protesters from a local Black Lives Matter chapter took over the stage.
Hours later, Sanders, who has been drawing bigger crowds than any other presidential contender, drew his largest yet: about 15,000 at the college basketball arena where the Washington Huskies play.

Quite the reception for Sanders in Seattle. pic.twitter.com/dibVAOGd5x
— Dan Merica (@danmericaCNN) August 9, 2015

Aides said Sanders, who has emerged as the leading alternative to Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic nomination, spoke to a full house of 12,000 inside the arena and to what police estimated to be an overflow of 3,000 people outside of it.
Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, was met with boisterous cheers as he decried the political influence of the “billionaire class” and pledged to raise the minimum wage, mandate family leave and push other policies that improve the lot of the working class.
"This is the country we can create," Sanders said during an hourlong stump speech was broadcast live on social media.

#BlackLivesMatter Protesters shut down Bernie Sanders rally in Seattle Protesters shut down Bernie Sanders rally | TheHill pic.twitter.com/MoPYyl19MX
— Craig Newman (@craignewman) August 8, 2015

The first event — which was held at a city park and live-streamed by a Seattle television station — went less swimmingly.
Sanders was the final speaker on a long program held at a city park. Shortly after he took stage, a small group of protesters from a Seattle chapter of Black Lives Matter took the microphone and demanded that the crowd hold Sanders “accountable” for not doing enough, in their view, to address police brutality and other issues on the group’s agenda.

After sharing a few local grievances with the crowd, including school disparities and gentrification in Seattle, the protesters asked for a period of silence to commemorate the one-year anniversary of Michael Brown being shot and killed during a confrontation with a police officer in Ferguson, Mo.
Event organizers allowed the period of silence, as some in the large crowd booed and shouted for the protesters to leave the stage. Afterward, Marissa Janae Johnson, who identified herself as a leader of the Black Lives Matter chapter in Seattle, asked the crowd to “join us now in holding Bernie Sanders accountable for his actions.” She motioned for Sanders to join her at the microphone.
After several minutes of frantic conversations, Sanders left the stage and greeted people in the large crowd who had turned out to see him. Many chanted his name.
In the hours that followed, several activists took to social media to question whether Johnson was speaking for the broader Black Lives Movement.

The tense scene in Seattle was reminiscent of one July 18 in Phoenix, when a larger group of Black Lives Matter activists disrupted a Democratic presidential forum at the liberal Netroots Nation gathering that featured both Sanders and former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley.
At the Netroots event, both O’Malley and Sanders were able to continue speaking, though neither filled their allotted times.
At Saturday’s event, Johnson noted that O’Malley had since released a plan on criminal justice, which calls for several policing reforms, including widespread use of body cameras.
Though Sanders has not formally released a similar plan, he has been speaking out about policing issues, including during an appearance last month before a gathering in Louisiana of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, one of the nation’s oldest civil rights organizations. In that speech, he called for the “demilitarization” of police forces, an end to privately run prisons and an effort to address the “overincarceration” of nonviolent offenders.

As Sanders left the event in Seattle on Saturday, he told reporters that he found the situation "unfortunate."
At Saturday night's rally, Sanders made a brief reference to the early episode, saying that "on criminal justice reform and the need to fight racism there is no other candidate for president who will fight harder than me.”
"Too many lives have been destroyed by the war on drugs," Sanders said. "Too many lives have been destroyed by incarceration."
Some of his biggest applause lines came when he declared that college education should be tuition free and that the United States should move to a single-payer, "Medicare for all" health-care system.
Saturday night's rally was the latest around the country where Sanders has filled arenas and convention halls. By contrast, Clinton's largest crowd, which her campaign estimated at 5,500, came at her formal kickoff in June in New York.
Sanders is in the midst of a three-day swing on the West Coast. Aides say the campaign is also expecting large crowds at events in Portland and Los Angeles.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...er-protesters/

Originally Posted by bsnub

They also tried to claim that there were several restaurant closures due to the new minimum wage that DOESN'T EVEN KICK IN UNTIL 2016!! Sick liars.

rpeters' 'see' proof needs glasses

Originally Posted by panama hat

Originally Posted by bsnub

They also tried to claim that there were several restaurant closures due to the new minimum wage that DOESN'T EVEN KICK IN UNTIL 2016!! Sick liars.

rpeters' 'see' proof needs glasses

You really mean not fully implemented until later.

Originally Posted by RPETER65

Where are all these people working for minimum wage I find it quite strange that you guys post about people working for minimum wage as the only ones I know are the kids working at the fast food places.

There are many more people working for minimum wage than kids at fast food places. Will even say you are mistaking those "kids" working in fast food places for young adults who have families.

Other people working for minimum wage are EMS workers, nursing assistants, security guards, retail salespeople, retail cashiers, janitors, hotel and home housekeepers, food processing workers, preschool teachers, chauffeurs...I can go on.

Too many black men in jail? The right question to ask is whether we are putting people in jail who don't deserve to be there whatever their race. If we are, we have to stop. If we're not, then this woman should be ashamed of her blatant race baiting.

But, of course, we know she isn't, and it's only going to get much, much worse...

Hillary says too many black men are in jail | New York Post

WASHINGTON — "Hillary Clinton pledged Thursday to reform the nation’s criminal justice system if elected, saying it’s “clear as could be” that it favors white suspects.

Speaking on the Rev. Al Sharpton’s radio show, Clinton pointed to the “tragic set of facts” that show too many Americans are behind bars and they are disproportionately black men.

“It is unfortunately clear as it could be that there is a bias in favor of white men who are arrested or charged with the very same offenses as African-American men,” Clinton said.

The Democratic presidential front-runner called for sentencing reform, alternatives to prison and smarter community policing.

Clinton’s campaign is hoping to keep the support of minorities who helped President Obama win two terms".

The Hildebeast wants the black vote bad.

Originally Posted by Storekeeper

The Hildebeast wants the black vote bad.

Yes, and this pandering is pathetic.

The Dem nominee will get the black vote.

I assume she wants to get as many black out to the polls as possible.


Pretty pathetic that these antics have already begun, with the election 15 months away.

Originally Posted by Black Heart

Originally Posted by Storekeeper

The Hildebeast wants the black vote bad.

Yes, and this pandering is pathetic.

The Dem nominee will get the black vote.

I assume she wants to get as many black out to the polls as possible.


Pretty pathetic that these antics have already begun, with the election 15 months away.

But the republitards have been trying to find ways to stop them voting since McCain lost.

HILLARY CLINTON SIGNS COURT STATEMENT THAT SHE’S TURNED OVER ALL STATE DEPT. EMAILS

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says in a sworn statement submitted to a federal judge on Monday that she has turned over all emails reflecting official government business.

The statement, which carries her signature and was signed under penalty of perjury, echoes past public statements that Clinton has made in the last few months regarding her private email account.

In the statement, she declared that she had directed all emails from her personal account “that were or potentially were federal records” be provided to the State Department. She said 55,000 pages of emails were turned over to the State Department last December.

The declaration was made as part of a lawsuit filed by the conservative group Judicial Watch, which had sued for records related to Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state.

Clinton acknowledged use of her private email account in March. She said she used it as a matter of convenience to limit the number of electronic devices she used.

Federal investigators have begun looking into the security of Clintons’ email setup amid concerns from the inspector general for the intelligence community that classified information may have passed through the system. Clinton’s lawyer, David Kendall, has said he and Clinton are “actively cooperating” with the FBI inquiry.

Clinton has said she exchanged about 60,000 emails in her four years in the Obama administration, about half of which were personal and were discarded. She has said she turned over the other half to the State Department."

Hillary Clinton Signs Court Statement That She's Turned Over All State Dept. Emails - Breitbart

She's gonna look good in an Orange Jumpsuit!

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

The Koch suckers have nigh on a billion dollars of corporate and billionaire money with which to try and buy the presidency though.

And that's a good thing!

Another General Election poll. Maybe Walker should take advantage of the new plan after Hillary takes office. He’ll have some extra time on his hands.

Clinton vs Bush - 41-29
Clinton vs Rubio - 41-28
Clinton vs Cruz - 41-27
Clinton vs Trump - 43-29
Clinton vs Christie - 42-25
Clinton vs Walker - 44-24
Clinton vs Carson - 44-24

Under my plan, tuition will be affordable for every family. Students should never have to take out a loan to pay for tuition at their state’s public university. We’ll make sure the federal government and the states step up to help pay the cost, so the burden doesn’t fall on families alone.