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Most of the people out there (my parents included) know nothing of Linda Sarsour and are far from Bernie loyalists. Many are marching on behalf of Hillary Clinton. I don't like some of the organizers either but this is much, much, much bigger than them, and I don't want it to be tarnished or played down because of that. We'll get enough of that from the right, not that it's going to matter - this is a huge event. A few of the organizers' petty intentions have been drowned out and made irrelevant to the majority of those marchers who know nothing about it.
The old Red Line still doing me proud:
Funny in its presentation from Samantha Bee, but scary as shît from a brilliant Russian journalist, a lesbian who fled Putin's regime and has spoken a lot about this recently: For the record, I think Gessen is both clear-eyed and very right about Trump and her country and potentially very wrong about how our nation will react - the United States does not have the history of institutionalized fascism that Russia does. Americans love being the ugly rebel. She is absolutely right that the only way out is to stay vigiliant and active.
Sigh. Meanwhile: Trump admirer Kanye can't play the inauguration because, according to Team Trump, it's a "traditionally American" event. See, Kanye? They'll never love you.
I wouldn't go that far, I'm just going off her impression of things. I do recall hearing about that interview.
I don't know that his heart wasn't in it in '80, but that's before my time. My mother was behind him that year, I know that much.
My mother (who didn't think she'd live to see a black man become President, and who worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign before he was killed) didn't even want him to be out in the open on Election Night for long. I was also nervous.
Trump is burning about this, just as he surely is about the pitiful inauguration line-up.
I think Ted Kennedy had a great legacy of service.
You've been over 14 for a long time, act like it. Now then, good news everyone:
Even for your compulsive need to post hot guys because you're horny, this is tired.
Hillary did good work as SoS. It wasn't perfect, but it wasn't terrible either.
I think you can see the real Hillary when she talks to people one on one. Most of that doesn't end up on TV, or is caught by accident. I don't think it's that far removed from the Hillary we see in the public eye, but speeches have never been her forte. I just don't think there's that intense a divide. I don't think people have ever given her humanity enough credit. She wouldn't be just a wife, so people decided to make her into a thing.
I think they put a lot out there about her, more than she's given credit for. And we hear a lot about her when she's one on one with people in appearances, rallies, etc. vs. being scripted. But they still could've done more. And the fatal flaw was taking certain Democratic strongholds and the Rust Belt for granted, and that was tin-eared. There was a piece about this months ago, but I don't think the problem with Hillary is that she's insincere - the problem is she's had to put on a 'perfect' public face since the early '90s, when she was savaged for speaking her mind and talking from the heart. Since then she's had to retreat into being a calculated version of herself to get things done. That's not all her fault. In a lot of parts of the country and in a lot of circles in the press, Hillary Clinton has never been able to win for losing simply because she is a woman with a brain and power.Important Information
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