I PROUDLY STAND WITH BULLHORN BILL

[JaneyVee]

Reality: Bill Clinton created 25 million jobs. Longest stretch of peacetime in US history. Lowest black unemployment rate in US history. Nominated the 2 most liberal justices in US history. Raised taxes on the rich. And handed over a budget surplus.

Seriously guys, if everyone must pass a purity test, no one will. He was a southern Democrat in the 90s who had to claw back power from 12 years of Republican rule during the height of the conservative revolution. What were ya'll expecting, an ultra progressive warrior?

Its 2016.

[TM99]

1. I am not surprised.

[haikugal]

2. Yeah...no surprise here.

[roguevalley]

81. apparently ethics and laws are situational to some. I was there

when bill was excelling in the bubble and I was there when it burst. Now we have NAFTA and the rest. Enjoy your diminished life, youngsters.

[haikugal]

83. To too many of them

The end justifies the means.

[AtomicKitten]

88. They stood with her and defended her when she ran a race-baiting campaign in 2008.

It's no secret that they cheated in the Iowa and Nevada caucuses this year. There is video of Hillary people buzzing registration and going straight into the caucuses to vote without registering. And Massachusetts also fell of the back of a truck. In all three states, exit polling predicted Bernie the winner but close enough that they dared steal it. Their desperation is palpable.

I don't know if you recall, but Keith Olbermann in one of his special reports accused Hillary of running against Obama as if she were the Republican and he the Democrat. She is repeating that performance in precisely the same way. And her fans are FINE with it. By any means necessary. If she snatches the nomination, she will lose guaranteed. Both my kids (20s, 30s) have declared it's Bernie over Trump, Trump over Clinton. Young people don't feel an allegiance to any party, they feel an allegiance to truth.

[bkkyosemite]

3. I suspect that guy with the bullhorn was trying to distract people....

[TM99]

4. She doesn't care

if what he did was unethical or borderline illegal.

That has been made quite apparent.

[bkkyosemite]

6. The exit polls were changed just after 8pm...that's what I read....recently like today.

distraction....what was happening in that polling place or places for hours while voters waiting outside....maybe we will find out some time in the future.....maybe.

[CajunBlazer]

71. Oh good greif - is that all you have to complain about?

Let's assume the worst for just a moment - how many potential Sanders voters suddenly decided to vote for Hillary Clinton because Bill shook their hands in a voting center? Would the presence of Bill Clinton make you abandon Bernie? You're sure not giving Bernie voters much credit.

But let's a few of them got all weak kneed in the presence of the "great man". How many did affect 2, 3, 10...? How much did the votes of those few people affect the state results? Easy answer: None, zero, zip, nada....

Surely you folks have greater concerns that this.

[Omaha Steve]

85. Or if you didn't get to vote for Bernie because they blocked the ADA access for Bill

Defend that too.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511407040

OS

[CajunBlazer]

91. Whoa, let's back up here

So if a former President of the United States causes a traffic jam, he's violating the Americans with Disabilities Act.

And oh, by the way, Hillary just happened to win that precinct - so I guess Bill just blocked Bernie's voters. That's one heck of a trick; Bill's better than I thought.

[Kittycat]

92. So you didn't read it, and you're laughing at a law

That protects people with disabilities. Okay Trump. Fuck off!

[CajunBlazer]

107. Now, now - don't get your blood pressure up

What's funny is that someone would post stuff like this.

[dchill]

93. "Traffic jams" are illegal where he caused them...

Knowingly. With a bullhorn.

[CajunBlazer]

98. LOL!

Can you point to another incident in history where a guy with a bullhorn caused a traffic jam and got himself arrested for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act. If so, could you point me to the Article and Section of the law that the guy was supposed to have violated.

Do you realize how silly this is?

[dchill]

108. I know (snort) it's just federal election (chuckle) law (giggle)...

And it's only (snicker) one of a handful (guffaw) of laws he broke (snicker) that day. One wonders why (haw, haw) we even have them (hyperventilate) on the books. (Wheeze)

Oh, that's right - they DO apply to the rest of us.

[CajunBlazer]

110. Then why don't you file a complaint with the Federal Election Commission

Nah,...okay, then maybe the FBI... or some federal agency. They probably could use a good laugh too.

[dchill]

122. I didn't have to.

Besides, I'm not from Massachusetts. Are you?

[CajunBlazer]

124. Then I guess it isn't any of our business then.

[dchill]

125. Ooh! Double then, then.

I feel greedy being the only person replying to you so, goodbye!

[Omaha Steve]

97. Glad to know you can make fun of the disabled

[CajunBlazer]

100. I'm not making fun of the disabled...

I'm amused that someone would actually post this stuff. That not just funny, that's hilarious.

Thanks, it's not been the best of days and I needed a good laugh. Thanks again!

[JonLeibowitz]

109. Sorry Omaha Steve, as much as it is a crass ignorant post it really is not making fun of the disable

It is however a despicable comment which should never appear on a Democratic discussion board.

I respectfully disagree.

[JonLeibowitz]

106. Results of your Jury Service (I was Juror #6...)

On Thu Mar 3, 2016, 09:03 PM an alert was sent on the following post:

Whoa, let's back up here
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1409089

REASON FOR ALERT

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

ALERTER'S COMMENTS

Making fun of the disabled and ADA. Hide it!

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Thu Mar 3, 2016, 09:12 PM, and the Jury voted 0-7 to LEAVE IT.

Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: Tacky response but not OTT
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: Um, no. Not making fun of Americans with disabilities.
Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #5 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: The poster is an ass and mockingly dismissing blatant voter suppression and, yes, an ADA violation. I highly doubt this poster shares liberal values, but then several Democrats do not (many in Leadership).

However, this is not a post mocking the disabled personally or the ADA. It is just a crass ignorant post, and from a poster from whom I have come to expect exactly this. Vote to leave it alone.

(this is an example of a juror being disgusted with the comment but voting to leave because the highly objectionable comment does not quite violate community standards)
Juror #7 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No the person is not!

[monmouth4]

5. Janey needs a nap..n/t

[JaneyVee]

8. So let us know which Dem prez you prefer.

[bkkyosemite]

10. I wonder if Janey and MaggieD are best friends....seems so.

[MaggieD]

20. We're both informed - so that's nice

[JaneyVee]

26. Are you on twitter?

[alcibiades_mystery]

42. ROFL

Well played.

[MaggieD]

121. I might be ;)

[JeaneRaye]

115. Not so much.

Apparently not when it comes to election law violations.

[MaggieD]

118. Well go ahead and cite the law he violated along with proof

Then we can discuss. In the meantime, facts.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/01/politics/bill-clinton-campaigning-polling-place-super-tuesday/index.html

[jillan]

105. Oh no you didn't!

[Lucinda]

7. :)

[JaneyVee]

11. Hey girl!

[Lucinda]

12. Alloo!

Love to see BC out having fun on the campaign trail. Thankie for the thread!

[noamnety]

9. a note about that unemployment rate

"An oft-repeated myth about the Clinton administration is that although it was overly tough on crime back in the 1990s, at least its policies were good for the economy and for black unemployment rates. The truth is more troubling. As unemployment rates sank to historically low levels for white Americans in the 1990s, the jobless rate among black men in their 20s who didn’t have a college degree rose to its highest level ever. This increase in joblessness was propelled by the skyrocketing incarceration rate.

Why is this not common knowledge? Because government statistics like poverty and unemployment rates do not include incarcerated people. As Harvard sociologist Bruce Western explains: “Much of the optimism about declines in racial inequality and the power of the US model of economic growth is misplaced once we account for the invisible poor, behind the walls of America’s prisons and jails.” When Clinton left office in 2001, the true jobless rate for young, non-college-educated black men (including those behind bars) was 42 percent. This figure was never reported. Instead, the media claimed that unemployment rates for African Americans had fallen to record lows, neglecting to mention that this miracle was possible only because incarceration rates were now at record highs. Young black men weren’t looking for work at high rates during the Clinton era because they were now behind bars—out of sight, out of mind, and no longer counted in poverty and unemployment statistics."

http://www.thenation.com/article/hillary-clinton-does-not-deserve-black-peoples-votes/

[JaneyVee]

13. That trend started long before Clinton...

http://www.vox.com/2016/2/11/10961362/clinton-1994-crime-law

It actually started decreasing on his watch.

[Motown_Johnny]

14. Yes, it is 2016, and we don't need to settle for a moderate

who is clawing their way back to power after 12 years of Republican rule.


The pendulum swings and right now it is swinging in our direction. Now is not the time to try to stop it. We need someone who sets progressive goals even if they are out of reach in the short term.

We need Bernie Sanders.

[MaggieD]

21. Well, we aren't electing a socialist

So, if that is your metric I think you are indeed going to have to "settle."

[Motown_Johnny]

23. Ahh.. red baiting. Nice.

[MaggieD]

27. That's what he labels himself, remember?

[Motown_Johnny]

30. Democratic Socialist.

Remember?

[redstateblues]

56. He's called himself a Socialist many times. Own it

He added Democratic when he started running

[bigtree]

29. pointing to opposition his European-model 'economic socialism' isn't 'red-baiting

...it's reality-based politics.

[Motown_Johnny]

32. Then isn't referring to Hillary calling herself a moderate reality based politics?

Or when she spent 19 minutes echoing Shrub so others would vote for the IRW along with her?

Or when she claimed Marriage was a SACRED union between a man and a woman, then flipping on it when the polls went in the other direction.

Or when she claimed repeatedly to have run from sniper fire in Bosnia?

Or when she claimed some black children were super predators who needed to be brought to heel?

Or when she worked to elect a segregationist President?

The list goes on and on... Isn't all of it just reality based politics?

[bigtree]

53. most of that is framed to suit the same cynical politics the right employs against the Clintons

...critics on the left still haven't clued in to how much that petty politics galls most Democrats.

[Motown_Johnny]

55. And calling Bernie a "Socialist" isn't?

Double standards are only used by those who need them.

[bigtree]

60. he fricking calls himself a socialist

...no one here had to make that up.

[Motown_Johnny]

61. I didn't make up anything in my list and he is a DEMOCRATIC Socialist.

[bigtree]

74. I'm not responsible for explaining his made-up label

...I do know he's said it's based on a European model of economic socialism and called himself 'a 'socialist' countless times in his career without including the Democratic part.

It's a nonsense label meant to opportunistically keep the Democratic party at a distance; a Democrat when it suits his politics, like in this election.

[JeaneRaye]

119. You know...

That Bernie Sanders stands for the very principles that the Democratic Party was founded on, right? You can throw around terms like 'socialist", like its dirty, but people were doing the same thing with the term "liberal" just a few years back. If you enjoy the benefits of"socialism" such as fire protection, police protection, infrastructure, Social Security or Medicare than you are a socialist too. So stop acting like it a bad thing.

[JaneyVee]

22. Apparently its not swinging in that direction.

[Motown_Johnny]

25. So Obama has the pendulum swinging toward the right?

Is that seriously your position?

[bigtree]

24. you will need to settle if the progressive choice overestimates the public's appetite

...for his brand of 'revolution.'

Either that, or stand aside as our coalition of Democrats continues the progress Obama has made.

[Motown_Johnny]

28. .

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/01/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-poll/index.html

^snip^





Dems vs Trump:
Clinton 52 - Trump 44
Sanders 55- Trump 43

Dems vs Rubio:
Clinton 47 - Rubio 50
Sanders 53- Rubio 45

Dems vs Cruz:
Clinton 48 - Cruz 49
Sanders 57- Cruz 40

[MaggieD]

33. Meaningless BS - the GOP wants him nominated

They will not unload on his socialism, love for Russia and other communistic countries, his weird, almost Todd Akin style essays from his 30's, his foreign policy faux pas.

And be real - he can't get nominated by the party so far. He's looking bad. Nothing is looking up in the near future. If you can't get through a primary it is silly to think you'd get through a GE. She's being NICE to him in comparison.

[Motown_Johnny]

36. So your opinion is more important than polling data?

I sure hope that bubble is comfortable. It seems that you will never be able to escape it.

[CajunBlazer]

78. Hard to win the general election when you can't get nominated

[Marr]

128. That's what's so pathetic.

They literally have nothing but adolescent insults. Confronted with polling data, the former 'electability is everything' crowd just sticks out their tongue and starts tossing out silly insults. There's nothing consistent in their arguments, apart from the constant theme of 'it's Hillary's turn'.

[Gore1FL]

89. I am hoping that enough people have access to google and can look up Socilaism

rather than run around with their hair on fire knowing only that it sounds scary when some people say it.

[bigtree]

34. this is without a finger lifted to oppose Sanders from republicans

...actually enabling Sanders with unaccountable right-wing money in our primary against Hillary.

The kneecapping would come later for this presidential election neophyte.

[Motown_Johnny]

38. Oh please.

They have already run some ads against him.

More importantly, Hillary's numbers never go up. As pointed out by Lawrence O'Donnell, on air after a (D) debate. Hillary starts out at a peak and her numbers just go down from there.


Look at those numbers. They will be remembered as the good old days.

[bigtree]

43. you're doing yourself no good misrepresenting her support

...which outstrips the smaller number of voters who have bothered to show up for Bernie at the polls which count.

[Motown_Johnny]

49. We are now past the southern states.

To mischaracterize the entire country based on those results is dishonest.

[bigtree]

70. California, Florida, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, and another seven Southern states

...Louisiana, Mississippi, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina, and Ohio, all polling with Clinton leading comfortably.

[redstateblues]

80. I thought Bernie was supposed to drive turnout to historic levels

that meme has disappeared

[CajunBlazer]

79. Those polls mean nothing - he can't even win the nomination

[MaggieD]

31. Exactly - stand aside

I have personal experience with extremism standing in the way of actual progress. And that is exactly what I see Bernie proposing. Obstacles - not viable solutions. And that is his history. It is precisely why he has so few actual legislative achievements over the course of 25 years in congress.

[bigtree]

40. it's like his refusal to raise money for Dem candidates

...despite his agreement to coordinate with the DNC.

Fine, if he doesn't want to work with the party organization, but there's no apparent alternative in place or even considered by Sanders and his campaign. We've already seen and lived the results of politicians who do little more than just say 'no' or offer viable, supportable alternatives; not just throwing up pie-in-the-sky proposals which don't have a chance in hell of being enacted.

[MaggieD]

44. He never had any intention of honoring that agreement

It couldn't be more clear. And it's also clear he has no interest in helping the Dems elect down ticket candidates that could help enact progressive proposals. THAT is what makes his proposals even more pie in the sky than they already seem. IMO.

[CajunBlazer]

75. Why? He's not electible? He can't even get the majority of the Democratic vote

[noretreatnosurrender]

15. Bullhorn Bill Pathetic

I worked on Bill Clinton's campaign in 1992. I did not work on it 4 years later because of what he did in the first 4 years. I think the image of Bill Clinton with that bullhorn outside of a polling place is pathetic. Hopefully one day you will see why.

[AzDar]

16. That's unfortunate. Lots of other people recognize that NO ONE is above the law...More than 90,000:

https://www.change.org/p/massachusetts-attorney-general-maura-healey-arrest-prosecute-bill-clinton-john-f-mitchell-violation-of-ma-election-laws

[SheenaR]

17. Asleep at the wheel

While terror organizations grew

And the .com era was responsible for a lot more of the prosperity than Clinton.

Not going to get into anything he did to minority communities because according to DU since I am not one I am not allowed to provide analysis

[NCTraveler]

18. K&R

[MaggieD]

19. Damn straight

Thanks. K&R!

[Logical]

35. Sarcasm? Or are you serious? nt

[Nuclear Unicorn]

135. She's serious; but that doesn't necessarily obligate the audience to take her seriously.

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[jeff47]

37. It's nice for you to finally acknowledge that laws are only for the little people.

Up to now it's only been implied. So good on you for actually making it overt.

[SusanCalvin]

47. Heh. nt

[MaggieD]

51. There is no law against a Dem rock star glad handing

You think Bill doesn't know the laws? You and Bernie supporters know better? Bill is just stupid? Face it - you're pissed that a Dem rock star happens to be your opposition's spouse, and you want an excuse for why Bernie lost.

Whatever.

[jeff47]

57. Golly, it's too bad there's videos of him doing far more than that.

But hey, which should I believe? Video of what he did, or your beliefs?

[MaggieD]

59. Link?

LOL!

[jeff47]

68. You already replied to several threads with the videos.

So it's abundantly clear you really don't care.

[SusanCalvin]

58. Oh, I do think he knows the laws. nt

[marions ghost]

69. Oh yes there is

there absolutely are laws in every state to prevent what Bullhorn Billy did.

It was arrogant and crass, but it was also illegal.

[tularetom]

39. While we knocked ourselves out defending him from the consequences of his lack of self control

He was handing the entire country over to the bankers, the 1% and Wall Street. The results of his disastrous presidency are only now becoming apparent. He was only marginally less of a nightmare than Bush Jr. He might actually be worse because unlike Bush, he lacks the good grace and common decency to just go away and count his money.

The country as a whole is fed up with his white trash drama.

[bigtree]

50. the 'white trash drama' comes from those who insist on tongue-clucking over a consensual affair

...and blending it into their politics against our former Democratic president.

[tularetom]

62. Lots of former Democratic presidents had "consensual affairs"

Particularly those who got the most things done like Roosevelt, Kennedy and Johnson. And they were smart enough to keep a lid on it.

Maybe if Obama and Carter would have had something going on, they could have accomplished more.

But Bill Clinton was the only one stupid enough to get caught repeatedly and have it blow up in his face. Monica Lewinsky wasn't the only one ya know.

[bigtree]

77. no one really cares about the sex (no one with a life)

...people harping on it just believe it will hurt the Clintons.

Not much evidence of that.

[alcibiades_mystery]

41. The best part is that Bill's antics likely cost Hillary a few votes, if anything

Newton went to Hillary 61%-37%! By 4,000 votes. Wow, Bill's bullhorn must have been amazing to block up 4,000 Sanders voters in an area that went heavily for Clinton, in just a little over an hour. He sure picked the right hour!

What about New Bedford? Huh? Huh? Went to Clinton 55-44, again by more than a thousand votes

Honestly, people will latch on to anything when they're losing.

[MaggieD]

48. MA Dems love Bill

That's just a fact. He knows it. MA voters know it. Even GOP voters know it. Dog forbid he show up and shake hands. The fact that he does that is why they effin love him.

Bernie should try a bit of that. It would probably help.

[marions ghost]

72. You don't get it do ya?

It's indicative of Clinton sleaze...and it is illegal.

But the ethically challenged don't see any problem

[whatchamacallit]

45. Moral Relativism

It's What's For Dinner.

[SusanCalvin]

46. So you're saying

that because he's done good stuff in the past, it's OK for him to do bad, or at least careless and ill-advised, stuff in the present.

Ooooooookaaaaaay....

[me b zola]

52. Oh goodie. Then you will cheer when Trump creates curcus' at the polls in the general election

[great white snark]

54. K&R

[Hekate]

63. And after Bush v Gore, our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity was over....

I wonder if anyone remembers? Or has Clinton Derangement Syndrome spread that far into the Democratic Party?

[Vattel]

64. Some of your "reality" is actually fantasy.

He didn't create 25 million jobs. Just because something happens during a president's term doesn't mean he caused it to happen.

He didn't preside over the longest stretch of peacetime in US history. There was a 33 year stretch between the Civil War and the Spanish-American war.

Ginsberg and Breyer are not the most liberal justices in US history. Ginsberg is very liberal, God bless her, but Breyer, besides being kind of second rate, is less liberal than many other supreme court justices in US history. He is even less liberal than Stevens and Souter were, and they were both appointed by Republicans..

[cherokeeprogressive]

65. Bullshit Bill, huh?

Ain't you special.

[Blue_In_AK]

66. Color me shocked.

[d_legendary1]

67. If 25 million is the amount of jobs he's created overseas since NAFTA and WTO

then more power to you! Peacetime is great if you ignore Kosovo, the Iraq bombings, and the WTC bombing. He raised taxes on the wealthy and also raised taxes on Social Security income (from 50% to 80%), which oddly enough contributed to the surplus.

He also created the DLC and the third way Dems. So stand proud and say it loud: Long live the Clintons!

[Thinkingabout]

73. Bill Clinton was a good president, left to create the CGI to help those in need,

And yes he still continues to be respected. He speaks and many listen.

[UtahLib]

76. K&R

[R B Garr]

82. They are just finding any excuse to discount Bill's influence

because he's so popular. Hillary has two Presidents in her corner. They would take that in a heartbeat if they could, so this is all sour grapes.

[elmac]

84. He was a damned good republican

and if I were a republican I would vote for him today.

[Gorgatron]

117. Bahahahaha that's great, no sarcasm

[BeatleBoot]

86. K&R

Did my best when he was President.

[valerief]

87. Bill Clinton didn't create jobs. The tech industry did. nt

[cer7711]

90. Indeed it is 2016!

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Thus, time for not-a-Clinton to capture the presidency--
a once-in-a-lifetime, FDR-like figure to reverse the ever-rightward drift of this plutocratic oligarchy.

[CajunBlazer]

94. Bernie Sanders isn't Barack Obama, and he certainly is no FDR

Read your history, there is absolutely no comparison between FDR and Bernie starting with, but certainly not limited to the fact that FDR won the Presidency four times and Bernie can't even win "his" party's nomination.

[zentrum]

95. 3.2 Manufacturing jobs

….lost by Americans and shipped overseas because of NAFTA. But it took a while. These were relatively high paying jobs with benefits. The jobs that increased (in large numbers) were low paying service jobs. Not sure where you get the stat of 25 Million—where can I see it?

Tremendous increase in growth of Prison Industry. Criminalization of poverty and the results of poverty.

Great increase in poverty of families on welfare, which is still playing out.

Deregulation of banking which is still playing out.

Creation of the DLC and the massive corporatization of our Party, which we may never recover from.

[MisterP]

96. NAFTA *lost* jobs and the neoliberalism meant there was no safety net

people don't count as unemployed in jail

Telecom Bill, Glass-Steagall, DMCA

he spent three years giving the GOP fodder because he pulled a Piterberg

and he broke the law six times in Massachusetts

[zentrum]

126. ^+1^

[Loudestlib]

99. Imagine being a white Jewish guy from the Bronx in the 60's.

A white guy that is seeing the way black folk are treated and he does something about it. The clubs came out, he was manhandled and chained up. Yet he kept fighting. Now over 40 years later people are telling him that it doesn't matter. What have you done for me lately?

I love the Clinton's for what they did, but the 90's were a different time. We now have income equality that's higher than during the Great Depression. Unarmed black folks are getting gunned down in the streets by COPS. The bankers get away with doing what ever they want and buying whoever they need.

Now is the time we need that Jewish guy from the Bronx. We need that guy that would risk chains and clubs to fight us.

[CajunBlazer]

123. When did that become a qualification to be President?

If that were a qualification, a whole lot of people would be lined up in front of a guy who got arrested once during a protest at the university he was attending. Thousands of people took far more risks with their lives multiple times in the battle for civil rights. Many were beaten, had dogs set on them, endured countless humiliations, and some died for the cause. Let's not act like we have some kind of civil rights icon here.

[retrowire]

101. Wow you own it. bravo then. nt

[Nyan]

102. Wait. I thought this was supposed to be sarcastic.

Is this for real?

[jillan]

103. Of course you do.

[LS_Editor]

104. When Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party lose 2016, we can thank people like you.

For trying to sell Americans a Democratic Party that is simply Republican-lite.

[CajunBlazer]

111. I don't believe Hillary will lose to Donald Trump....

Thanks for your concern though.

[MaggieD]

112. LOL - Hillary is not going to lose

Bernie is going to lose, but Hillary is not going to lose.

[JeaneRaye]

113. Election laws Violations!

The fact remains that he broke election laws and he should know better. I wonder if you would be standing behind Republicans when they flip votes. What he did is called voter intimidation. Also, the fact that some of those polls were closed down for a while may have kept people who only had a narrow window in which to vote, from doing doing just that.

[Armymedic88]

114. The country isn't center right anymore..

It's more of a center center country... with a young generation of Liberals! Get over the 90's it's 2016! BTW the rust belt is still suffering because of BULLSHIT BILL!!

[basselope]

116. 2 Most liberal justices? That's some powerful stuff you on!

More liberal than Thurgood Marshall, Earl Warren or William Brennan??

Sorry, but... no.

And what stretch of peacetime are you talking about? We were dropping bombs all over the damn place under Clinton.

And sorry to burst your Clinton bubble, but the dot com BUBBLE created 25 million jobs. The de-regulation he continued from the Reagan administration led to the crash in 2008.

He was, as Michael Moore said.. the best Republican President of our lifetimes.. that is until Obama came along.

[longship]

120. I have worked polls in three states.

In none of those states was anybody allowed to campaign within a certain distance from the polling entrance and certainly not within the building! It was illegal in all three states! With good fucking reason!

Why? Because voting is one of those sacred things of a democracy of the people, by the people, and for the people.

There are very good reasons for these laws. If campaigning were allowed near the polling places it may interfere with people's access to the polls! Which is precisely what happened with Bullhorn Bill. (Love him, but he was very wrong to do that.)

The campaign ends on election morning when the polls open. PERIOD! If one is in trouble then, it's too late to turn a victory.

If you campaign in or near the polls you've probably violated voting restrictions in every state of the country.

It is that simple. And anybody who has worked the polls knows that because one is not allowed to work the polls unless one takes training to understand the law and the requirements.

Big Dawg screwed up. I don't think he changed the outcome, but it did not look good. It looked smarmy!

[Fumesucker]

129. Clinton didn't "screw up", he knew exactly what he was doing

Everything they do and say is calculated to the "meaning of "is" is" level....

Which means I guess that we disagree on semantics.

[longship]

134. Then he also knew that he was violating regulations.

Which is some kind of fucked up.

And BTW totally unnecessary!

The fucking campaign is over when the polls open and, as you say, Big Dawg knew it.

It's the optics on this very strange thing which is bad. I don't blame Bernie supporters (of which I call myself) for claiming attempted voter cheating. I don't go that far because I don't think Bill swayed the election. But this is precisely the kind of fucking dirty trick that Nixon's ratfuckers would try.

That is why those regulations are in place in the first fucking place! To eliminate even a hint of attempting to cheat.

It gives truth to the ongoing narrative that Hillary will try anything to gain power, just like fucking Tricky Dick Nixon.

Now is this where Hillary wants to be a few weeks into the primary season? If so, I recommend that that Bernie's staff keep their fucking eyes open. And Hillary supporters wonder why some Bernie supporters claim that they can never vote for her. With overtly unethical stunts like this, sometimes I don't blame them.

[Nye Bevan]

127. Me too. Great to see the Big Dog looking good and having fun!

Enough with the sour grapes "send him to prison" crowd.

[silvershadow]

130. you're standing in illegally in a protected zone of the highest

you're standing in illegally in a protected zone of the highest order.

[desmiller]

131. JaneyVee excused Clinton criminal activity. Check

[CBGLuthier]

132. Cheating comes easy to some folks.

Rules are for others. Laws are for others. Principled behavior is for others.

[Contrary1]

133. Yeah, it's 2016...

And, if you are expecting an 8 year re-run of the pre-multi-millionaire Bill and Hillary years, you're in for a big disappointment.

[hobbit709]

136. So you proudly stand with voter hindering and electioneering inside the polls?