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Cease fire

By Flavius on Wed, 07/06/2016 - 8:53am |

I always liked the Tom Lehrer lyric that went

We are the folk song army

Everyone one of us cares

We all hate poverty

War and injustice

Unlike the rest of you squares

Somehow I'm unpleasantly reminded of it by the ever popular insult war  between the Dagblog Sander-rites and Hillary-ites.

Just taking a stand

By Flavius on Fri, 07/01/2016 - 9:50pm |

As an unequivocal  Hillary supporter I think Bernie is quite right not to endorse her until the convention.

Not just ¨ within his rights¨ but right. Full stop.

He was not a marginal contender he was the major opposition. Not a frivolous exercise but something to which he devoted a year of his life at a time when that commodity is in dwindling supply. He has earned the right to be heard at the convention and to be allowed to make his case with respect to the platform ,meaningless as that document will ,as usual, be.

Bernie, Hillary,Eric and Sync

By Flavius on Tue, 06/28/2016 - 6:02am |

(From Harold Ickes  ´ diary)

In 1933 FDR appointed William Woodin as Secretary of Treasury and Dean Acheson as  Under Secretary.

During the appointment process Acheson joked he had no qualification for the post.  The joke ceased being funny , Woodin was in poor health  and Acheson soon was in effect the actual Treasury Secretary and

FDR ś plan for Treasury was to  salute and say ¨yes sir¨ as he restlessly experimented to try to find a way to exit the Recession.

Let me be the ant

By Flavius on Thu, 06/09/2016 - 7:18am |

at the picnic.

It was great to celebrate Tuesday night. And Hillary didn´t miss a beat. She could have been practicing that speech for 8 years. Maybe she was.

Now.

She ain' t gonna win unless Bernie supports her. Enthusiastically.

True? Who knows. But we need to think that way.

A home run

By Flavius on Tue, 06/07/2016 - 11:32pm |

Hillary´s ¨acceptance speech¨. When all is said and done it´s always helpful to be smart.

Now if she can just stay out of jail maybe Obamacare can be improved and reissued as Hillarycare. What goes around comes around. Sometimes twice.

Bernie was just being intellectually respectable

By Flavius on Sun, 06/05/2016 - 10:25pm |

when he said he was sick and tired of hearing about the emails.

It´s at the very least inconsistent to admire Snowden´ s exposure of  the dangerously illegitimate over reach of the security apparatus and simultaneously express alarm about Hillary' s  view that the Secretary of State would be more effective if she  could work at home..

Clearly the Inspector General  ,like the Ferguson Police chief , knows he thinks should be in charge.

The question is , said Alice, whether you can make words mean so many different things.

The News from All Over

By Flavius on Tue, 05/31/2016 - 12:31am |

well at least from some other places.

According to TPM Bill Kristol says he'ś found a viable third party candidate.

According to Daily Kos former Attorney General Holder says that Edward Snowden´s revelations (Holder seemed to be trying to avoid the term ¨whistle blower¨) did some good. While still claiming that overall Snowden damaged the interests of this country and endangered some specific individuals.

Hmn. 

I could comment but why?  

What happens in Las Vegas

By Flavius on Thu, 05/19/2016 - 9:40pm |

get's discussed .And discussed. And disc.......

 According to  a political reporter/guest  today on  NYC's Brian Lehrer show, Senator Sanders emailed his supporters before the Las Vegas  count requesting them to behave respectfully.

According to another reporter- from  Jezebel a sensible sounding Sanders supporter- she was able to  chat with   3 Sanders supporters who'd phoned some of the  threatening remarks to the Nevada Democratic party election chairwoman. 

Ms. Jezebel 

1. they sounded like legitimate Bernie supporters

HIllary won Kentucky,Bernie, Oregon

By Flavius on Tue, 05/17/2016 - 11:47pm |

That's all. Just think those results should appear here.

Bernie's Wall Street problem (and ours)

By Flavius on Tue, 05/17/2016 - 11:17pm |

Seven years ago, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department bailed out the largest financial institutions in this country because they were considered too big to fail...If any were to fail again, taxpayers could be on the hook for another bailout, perhaps a larger one this time.

-- Bernie Sanders

Reminds one of what Mary McCarthy said about Lillian Hellman: "Every word she writes is a lie, including if, but and 'the'."

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