Most amazing political news last week occurred on Super Tuesday – or as Joe Biden likes to call it Super Thursday – when Biden seemed to rise from the dead and outmaneuver former Dem leader Bernie Sanders. Biden’s overall performance was probably best illustrated in the state of Massachusetts. Mass. was supposed to go to Elizabeth Warren, but she finished a dismal third. What … [Read more...]
Sanders, Warren and Buttigieg Rally Votes in Northern Nevada on Second Day of Early Voting
The Nevada Independent Democratic presidential candidates are spreading out and holding rallies across Northern Nevada, hoping to gin up turnout on the state’s second day of “early voting” for the presidential caucuses just six days away. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg all scheduled campaign … [Read more...]
Czars Donaldov & Nixon win Democratic Caucus
“When your enemy is destroying himself, never interfere.” * I’m certain that King Donald never read Napolean but Richard Nixon certainly did and Trump is doing a pretty good imitation. Nixon’s racist divide-and-conquer southern strategy, upon which he hung the euphemism “law and order,” broke the Democratic base electing an re-electing him. Trump has long been doing … [Read more...]
Déjà vu all over again: Bernie turns 2020 into 1968
Bernie Sanders’ heart attack may have turned 2020 into 1968. His campaign just sent out an e stating “Bernie is in good health and is in good spirits,” adding “The fact of the matter is he’s coming out of this healthier and stronger.” God, I hope so. But questions about a candidate’s health can be fatal. Ten-term Congressman Walter Baring, D-Nev., kept his 1972 St. Mary’s … [Read more...]
Sanders Still Wants a Revolution, but Now He’s Got Company
By Will Weissert Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Bernie Sanders is still leading a revolution. But his ideas no longer feel quite so revolutionary. The Vermont senator acknowledges that many of his top proposals, which were dismissed as radical four years ago, have been adopted by much of the crowded 2020 Democratic presidential primary field: “Medicare for All,” … [Read more...]
Sanders Accuses Biden of Distorting ‘Medicare for All’ Plan
By Scott Sonner Associated Press CARSON CITY — Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders accused former Vice President Joe Biden on Friday of distorting his proposal to provide single-payer, universal health care through “Medicare for All.” Campaigning in the early caucus state of Nevada, the 78-year-old Vermont senator said one of the things that disturbed him … [Read more...]
Our Media’s Terrible Performance
As the 2016 presidential sails into the sunset, one fact ought to concern Americans who rely on an independent press for information – a good many reporters were not independent at all. They worked hand-in-glove with the Clinton campaign against both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. Consider the emails released by Wikileaks -- emails that would have remained secret, but now … [Read more...]
Elect Bernie Sanders president for good of nation
Among the welter of Republican candidates and the few Democrats running for president, Bernie Sanders is far and away the best. Senator Sanders, Vermont Democrat, socialist and presidential candidate, recently declared that immigrants should be welcomed and assimilated, not stigmatized and criminalized, as some Republicans insist on. Sanders would protect young immigrants … [Read more...]