2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumTone down for what?
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When policy is debated, it is when we find out that Bernie Sanders' proposed health care plan is not only severely underfunded and written to rip apart the Affordable Care Act to start a new experiment but will likely jeopardize abortion access and could well put birth control access in peril, while raising costs for the average family. When policy is debated, that is when we find out that Bernie's $5,000 tax bill for the middle class taxpayers will have nothing to show for in return.
Policy debates are when we find out that Bernie Sanders is so concerned with purity that he would have let Detroit go bankrupt in order to exact vengeance against banks - the same banks for whom he voted to open up the market of unregulated derivative swaps, mind you, and that he is so allergic to compromise for the common good that he voted against Amber Alerts.
When policy is debated rather than innuendos about paid speeches of someone who at the time was a private citizen not running for anything, we find out that President Obama's reforms on Wall Street have been successful and should be built on and that Hillary Clinton is the candidate with the stronger plan to regulate banking and that she is the only candidate with an effective focus on shadow banking. We find out that the richest interests in this country, among them Koch brothers and Karl Rove's billionaires, are quietly praying for a Sanders nomination.
There's your answer. Bernie dares tone down for nothing.
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hrmbaja
(59 posts)In other words, trash propaganda outlet.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023703153
Chichiri
(4,667 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)"Barack Obama actually took money from the company that was creating the nuclear waste and wanted to dump it in Nevada. So, you know, I think that that pretty much offsets Ted Kennedys endorsement"
Becomes
"And his eagerness to dump toxic nuclear waste from Vermont near a poor Latino community in Texas."
First quote is Dolores Huerta dumping waste on Obama, she is also repeating the same about Bernie.
Also interesting about Sierra Blanca Texas, where no nuclear waste was ever actually dumped is the fact that for many years the City of New York sent their sewage sludge there by train, where the shit was spread out over acres and acres. NYC did this when the Federal Government made them stop dumping the sludge in the Atlantic. Sierra Blanca Texas had been in the waste disposal business in service to NE States for many years. NY's Poo Poo Choo Choo all day and all night, for years.
Chichiri
(4,667 posts)one_voice
(20,043 posts)hrmbaja
(59 posts)about blind links.
I don't like 'em either, and doesn't make it easy for ANYONE. The only reason to use it is to hide the source.
George II
(67,782 posts)hrmbaja
(59 posts)People can read DU without posting for months, even years before coming online to say something.
Try it sometime.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)one_voice
(20,043 posts)else.
No such thing as a blind link. just put my little arrow over it and the address shows up at the bottom of my screen. I always know where the links go.
You can do the same.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)one_voice
(20,043 posts)I wanted to be part of the drama.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)Avalux
(35,015 posts)fun n serious
(4,451 posts)I can't wait!