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Soul_Venom — 6 years ago(February 24, 2020 01:36 PM)
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee late Sunday called out Sen. Bernie Sanders over his decision to skip its conference next month in Washington and blaming his decision on his concern that the group provides a platform for leaders to "express bigotry" and oppose basic Palestinian rights.
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Sanders, who is on the heels of an emphatic win in the Nevada Caucuses, took to Twitter on Sunday to voice his concern about the influential lobby. The Vermont senator vowed that if elected president he would work with both Israelis and Palestinians to bring peace and stability to the region.
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AIPAC wasted little time to respond to the public rebuke and called his comments an ill-informed and an "odious attack." The pro-Israel lobby said Sanders never attended a conference, which is "evident in the outrageous comment."
"Senator Sanders is insulting his very own colleagues and the millions of Americans who stand with Israel," the statement read. "Truly shameful."
Last year, liberal groups like MoveOn called on Democratic candidates to sidestep the annual conference. The groups claimed that the lobby tried to thwart the Iran nuclear deal and backed Israel's unfair settlement policies, according to reports. A candidate's decision to shun the conference could bolster his progressive support.
Last year, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., one of the first Muslim women in Congress, insinuated that lobbyists with AIPAC were paying lawmakers to support Israel. Her remark drew bipartisan criticism and a rebuke from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Omar ended up apologizing for her comments.
Presidential candidates used to view the AIPAC gathering as a crucial campaign stop.
President Trump used the decision by top Democrats to skip last year's AIPAC event as evidence that they are anti-Israel.
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"I don’t know what’s happened to them but they are totally anti-Israel,” Trump told reporters on the South Lawn, according to The Hill. “Frankly, I think they’re anti-Jewish.”
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Soul_Venom — 6 years ago(February 24, 2020 01:36 PM)
Bernie Sanders is on a roll. After a strong showing in Iowa and New Hampshire, and “Berning” through Nevada, the socialist senator from Vermont is without a doubt the Democrat front-runner.
Odds-makers are giving Bernie a 55 percent chance of becoming the Democrat nominee.
Which raises a legitimate question: Do Democrats actually want to win the White House in November?
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I ask because it is generally agreed that ousting President Trump will require winning back those blue-collar workers in swing states who crossed party lines to vote Republican in 2016. Sanders is most definitely not the most likely candidate to do that.
There’s a reason that left-wing commentator Chris Mathews compared Sanders’ win in Nevada to France falling to the Nazis in 1940. For Democrats, it’s almost that dire.
But really, Bernie is not alone. No candidate seems to be tailoring his or her message to those traditional Democrats who rejected Hillary Clinton.
Remember them?
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Folks: this is simple. There are a great many longtime Democrats living in toss-up states who didn’t like the direction that President Obama took the country. Those voters, many of them union members, decided to take a flyer on neophyte candidate Donald Trump. Why? Because he talked about things that mattered to them – like jobs and manufacturing and trade deals. He also appealed to their patriotism and common sense, like putting America first.
In the end, better job opportunities and higher wages were more important to them than climate change or gender neutrality or a whole bunch of politically correct drivel that Democrats want to ram down the country’s throat.
These are people who love their country, and don’t buy Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden’s claim that it is essentially racist. These are people who go to church and abhor the Democrats’ enthusiasm for legalizing full-term abortion. These are people who work hard, pay their taxes, and believe others should do the same.
These are not nutty people; they are the backbone of our country. And right now, they are looking at Sanders and the other candidates who want to represent the Democratic Party – the party of their parents and grandparents – and saying: these folks do not care about me.
They would be right.
From the outset of the campaign, Sanders and Elizabeth Warren jumped on “Medicare-for-all,” dragging others along with them, convinced that health care was the issue that would topple Republicans. Ironically, they might have been right. The GOP has made a total hash of overhauling ObamaCare and proposing a better alternative, in part thanks to the late Sen. John McCain, who single-handedly undermined the party’s health-care initiative.
Sanders has led a marvelously fact-free campaign. When asked how he will fund his programs, he dismisses the question and acts as though trillion-dollar price tags are insignificant details.
But the approach taken by Bernie and other progressives was so extreme – demanding the end of private insurance – that, rather than galvanizing support for Democrats, it fractured the party. Astonishingly, the candidates who jumped aboard single-payer health care never stopped to think about how their plan would impact union workers, who would be the group most opposed to ending private insurance.
For decades organized labor fought for the best insurance programs money could buy, and they got them. Companies preferred giving out lavish health-care and pension benefits to increasing wages, which would have a more immediate impact on their bottom line.
These days, the costs of those health-care plans are enormous, and the coverage is excellent – far better than would be available under Bernie’s nationwide government-run system. Union workers are not stupid; they know this would be a loss for them, and they will resist it.
Remember that Obamacare was to be paid for in part by a 40 percent tax on so-called “Cadillac” plans – the high-end plans that unions enjoy. That tax was delayed twice by Congress and finally repealed, so intense was the opposition from Big Labor.
That resistance hasn’t changed. Sanders found that out when the Culinary Workers in Nevada failed to endorse him, even as he was the obvious front-runner in their state.
It isn’t just on health care that Democrats have gone off the reservation. Consider the candidates – Bernie among them – vowing to ban fracking, and promising the end of fossil fuels. Are they not aware that in critical swing states like Pennsylvania and Ohio thousands of workers are making lots of money working in the oilfields? That those states have h -
Soul_Venom — 6 years ago(February 27, 2020 08:22 PM)
Radio host Tony Katz said on “Fox & Friends” on Thursday that former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg is a “made-for-TV candidate" trying to copy former President Barack Obama.
Buttigieg is facing more accusations of plagiarism after a montage emerged comparing his campaign rhetoric to Obama’s.
Political outlet The Recount shared a video on Monday showing several short clips of Buttigieg and Obama with similarly worded sayings during various stump speeches.
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One example is when Obama told supporters in Virginia in 2008, “If a voice can change a room, it can change a city. And if it can change a city it can change a state. And if it can change a state, it can change a nation.”
Comparably, Buttigieg told supporters in Las Vegas on Saturday, “If we can light up a neighborhood then we can light up a city. If we can light up a city, we can light up this whole country.”
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When asked about that specific comment, the Buttigieg campaign told Fox News it was a "throwback" to a rally held in Sparks, Nev., where the lights went out, prompting attendees to pull out their cellphones to use them as lights.
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"Just a thought" and "this country was built" were the more generic phrases that were lined up between the two Democrats in the video, but things also got very similar when "church basements" are invoked.
The two seemed even more aligned when they both spoke of the country "shining as a beacon" to the world.
“It is so good,” Katz said on Thursday reacting to the "spectacular" video highlighting the similarities.
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Katz said Buttigieg once referred to people calling him "unflappable," arguing that it's been "obvious" that the former mayor "wants to be known as this Obama-cool character."
“He’s lied about all the black support in South Carolina, from business owners or from civic leaders, which he doesn't have,” Katz said. “He lies about what’s happened in South Bend when the residents of South Bend tell you ‘this isn't a good place.’”
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He added, “This is a made-for-TV candidate, he just ain't made for the Oval Office.”
When host Ainsley Earhardt said it seems like Buttigieg “watched videos of Barack Obama’s speeches and then took notes,” Katz responded by saying, “Some quarterbacks study the tape, and so did Pete Buttigieg and he did everything but figure out how to sing 'Amazing Grace.'”
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Following his strong showings in the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary, Buttigieg came at a distant third in Saturday's Nevada caucuses, where he earned just 14.3 percent of support following Sen. Bernie Sanders' 46.8 percent and former Vice President Joe Biden's 20.2 percent.
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Barbagay — 6 years ago(February 29, 2020 07:50 AM)
One way to reconcile pro-housing and anti-gentrification concerns is to build where no one currently lives.
That is what this project does (with a sizable share of affordable housing included).
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.