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I unintentionally went off on FB again on PISAD just as I am trying to wean myself from this campaign that Hillary has all but won. And I just couldn't stop. While writing I though a lot of it was well written but I need a break and am not going back to read it now. Instead I'll post it here for posterity as it is much too long for FB.
Because there is no doubt
HIllary will win the nomination i am trying to wean myself away from the
is debate as what's the point - some of Sanders voters will vote for
HRC and some won't and I am convinced
there is not enough of them to make a dif in Nov. Uh-oh usually I
digress in the middle not at the start but here's another stipulation.
Sheila's doing a great job here, better than me and has even more facts
than me. But I gotta weigh in on pet peeve #3 of the misguided
neophytes inexperienced or inconsistently attentive to political
developments and realities - let me recap #1) HRC is neither an oligarch
or tool of wall street and never has been; paid speeches by GS are a
nothing but a baseless silly attempt to smear her by demagoguery and
avoid Bernie's failure to release tax returns - smart accomplished
people with influence and past or future positions of authority are paid
to give speeches to liven up and stimulate conference goers - they
always have they always will and anyone who thinks there is more to it
than that is inane and needs to read more - a lot more - and research
and listen to Barney Frank, a true brilliant financial expert and also a
heroic progressive civil rights advocate without whom persons with HIV
would have suffered far worse stigma and discrimination for far longer -
I KNOW I WAS THERE! SO WAS BARNEY AND SO WERE A LOT OF DEAD PEOPLE.
Right along with the current leader of the The Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law who at the time was a legal advocate.
I haven't even gotten to my point and i have to mention peeve #2 -
Hillary is responsible for all the infidelity in the US for both
straight and gay couples and if only she had left Bill no one would have
ever cheated again. Please - go see a therapist - I have - who hasn't'
been cheated on - martial issues are between 2 people alone.
OK
here's the point - #3 - DOMA and Don't Ask/Tell - so many had knee jerk
reactions and still do and are either ignorant of or ignore the
political realities of the time. A Republican Congress - elected
because Dems failed to vote just like 2010 and 2014
- were threatening to pass over the President's veto the most
regressive restrictive stringent legislation forbidding same sex
marriage, gays and lesbians from serving in the military and the end of
welfare and social service programs as we know them returning the uS to
the you're on your social policies up to the Great Depression. Instead
Bill Clinton brilliantly and ingeniously coopted the egomaniacal power
mad Gingrich and the R majority through shrew political strategy that
avoided a debacle that would have taken decades to undo and would still
be with us today. DOMA avoided a far worse fate of changing the
constitution and provided the basis for the legislative and legal
advocacy that have since established the right to marriage - it would
not have been possible without DOMA because something worse would have
been in its place and it may have still been in effect today.
Similarly, Don't Ask was a compromise - ethically and morally untenable
more than any other but still a compromise - while resulting in the
ousting from military service underservedly of many, it allowed a legal
environment that enabled many more to honorably serve and demonstrate to
even the most resistant military leaders the irrelevance or orientation
to service. And it was done in such away that it could be more easily
undone than if Rs had their3 way. And so too Welfare Reform, after
sustaining 2 vetoes with HRC's advice reform legislation was passed and
signed by the President based on the inclusion for the first time in
history of federal funding for child care and job training that enabled
millions of single mothers to find more lucrative employment and income
than welfare provided along with the benefit of self esteem. And I was
there for that one too , for 38 years enforcing federal civil rights
laws for the US Dept of HEW and then Health and Human Services, where
for several years our priority was to monitor the implementation of
welfare reform so that no one was denied benefits or services due to
language barriers or mental or physical disabilities or other factors.
And to the shock of so many from me to the Edelmans for the 5 years
that it included the federal funding referenced above - it worked!
At
the time of DOMA and Don't Ask same sex marriage and military service
was not even a remote possibility in the existing political environment.
It advances far faster than many including me thought but it needed
time. And still we do not have federal
laws prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation. When i
started my career I thought it likely that prior to retirement
legislation would be approved so that sexual orientation discrimination
would be among the bases I enforced. But to this day, in most of the
country, a same sex couple can get married in the morning and fired or
evicted in the afternoon. Of what use is marriage to them. Because of
case law advancements, court rulings, and administrative enforcement by
the Obama Administration, i was able to include in my last public
technical assistance presentation that federal law not prohibits
discrimination with respect to gender identity or conformance based on
the evolving legal definition of gender. There is new legal
developments that may lead to similar coverage within gender regarding
sexual orientation. but i and many believe orientation is different
than gender and what is needed as passage of the New Civil Rights Act to
include sexual orientation and gender identify and status, a huge
improvement over the weak and meager protections ENDA would have
provided while a significant faction of the Democratic Party opposed
adding orientation the Civil Rights Act. The next Clinton
administration will build on the achievements of the Obama
Administration that are far more significant in so many areas than
acknowledged today. And Hillary will continue to be the progressive
leader she has always been fighting the establishment, fighting Wall
Street, fighting for equity for all, advancing the rights health and
welfare of women children and the underserved as she always has not
through unrealistic impractical revolutionary change but through the
steady incremental work and steps that have been the basis for
progressive development in the US for over 100 years. and continuing
to "do as much as she can for as many as she can for as long as she can"
her lifelong motto.
My reference to the Clinton marriage issue was sarcastic as well as referring to some folks well
known for quite some time who have often posted on this page but not on
this thread that they refuse to support Hillary based on their
perception that she undermined and worse women who allegedly had affairs
with Bill Clinton. You have never made this point but others have. On
Bros 4 Hillary there was a thread the other day in which dozens if not
more folks documented that many many persons have cited this reason for
opposing HRC. As well I have perceived in some that they oppose HRC
rather than support Bernie and many of those folks I believe will not
vote for her due to their perception of the fidelity or the corporate
issue and I don't' think any argument will convince them so I don't try.
The reason I raised it here is complex - I wanted to reference the
DOMA and DADT issue but since i referenced other annoyances without
naming them i decided to name them all. If you have never heard anyone
express antipathy for HRC due to their perception of her marriage good
for you but i have heard it so much i am sick of it. It is not Bernie's
fault either. Likewise but somewhat different, I know many friends who
fault HRC on financial issues and likewise it drive me crazy because I
believe it is based on false hood. I worked for her I know her not
personally but i have read her books. I already listed my documentation
so I am loathe to repeat it here because you will believe what you will
as is your right. She got paid for speaking at GS so what - Bernie
didn't release his taxes. His interview with the DN revealed he hasn't
the slightest idea how to break up the bid banks his signature issue.
I'll admit i don't know much about the monsanto issue but i know her
well enough to know she's not going to sell out consumer safety for the
sake of corporate interests. It's another thing my norcal friends raise
that i think will he resolved in time. i lived in SF for like i can't
even count that high 31 years and was a fed for 38 enforcing civil
rights laws as i referenced elsewhere as well as pointing out my
perception that your comments have been devoid of hate or insults even
if i disagree with you. It is reasonable that you would have expertise
on the Monstanto and food safety issues unlike me and that is important
to you. Finally - ever since I retired I like to write - I don't know
why - and I no longer have an editor for better and for worse. So some
days like today without intention or thinking ahead i start writing and
just don't' stop. i also started a blog when i retired where I stated
that I write for me, whether anyone reads is of not much interest to me.
I have also found it is my new therapy. My fb page is open and soon i
am going to copy and paste much of what i posted here and add it to the
blog and link it again on my FB page. the blog covers my career and
political views and electoral political experience. I have been
politically opinionated and strong willed since i was like 5, when I
started counting how many peas were on each of my 4 brother's plate.
Then in first grade i wanted to sue the Catholic Church for my
perception that they said only Catholics could go to heaven. That went
on for over a year till some one said perhaps others could if they were
good but they'd have to go to purgatory first. as I was about to
protest that i recognized my first concession due to my argument,
stuborness or plain annoyance and I never stopped. I worked for RFK in
high school, for Myrlie Evers in Pomona, for Dellums and the progressive
coalition in Berkeley and then for Harvey Milk.
See what i mean aren't you happy you asked. best wishes
i
keep waiting to hear all the great things Sanders has accomplished -
other than violating the Civil Rights Act and voting against gun
control. Day after day post after post month after month we fill this
page with Hillary's vast accomplishments her entire life but no one ever
lists anything Sanders has done. His whole campaign is evidence of his
incompetence and more. You have the right to believe whatever you want
however baseless foolish and devoid of documentation but STOP telling
us Sanders is superior to the brilliant effective accomplished Clinton
or least start telling us what Bernie has ever done to show he could
accomplish anything in the future.
t's
not that complicated; approving or disapproving of HRC speaking at GS
is a different point than amount of compensation; it's called equal pay -
why should GS pay less to a woman speaker than a man? the speaker is
irrelevant; they are paying because they
believe the speaker has knowledge, are among few who have successfully
attained high level positions in government or industry, achieved
success in performance of their positions, and continue to exert
influence among a sector the payor finds of value, whether or not you
agree with the payor's opinion of the speaker. They are paying the
speaker to share her/his knowledge, not to do their bidding. Asserting
nefarious motives without any basis is slanderous defamatory and without
merit
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has no chance in CA; for comparison, here are the results of the 2008
CA Dem Primary: Clinton - 51.5% popular vote - 204 delegates (46.3%
delegates)
Obama - 43.2% popular vote - 166 delegates (37.7% delegates)
by the way - votes to date in Dem primary
Hillary Clinton - 12,135,166
Bernie Sanders - 8,968,267
Clinton up by 3,166,899 over Sanders
Clinton up by 2,078,8115 over Trump[
Clinton - 2151 delegates
Sanders - 1338 delegates
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