Posts Tagged ‘Clinton vs Sanders’
The week in review with Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda.
Sunday April 17: The week in review with Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda………… https://t.co/p5lQs7sBoP
— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) April 17, 2016
Clinton vs Sanders, the GOP and a few other stories with Barry Casselman
Guest: Barry Casselman, The Prairie Editor, joins me for a look at presidential primaries…..Wisconsin is behind us……New York is turning into quite a battleground for Mr Trump and Mrs Clinton, who are both defending their home states…….Kasich is now in 2nd place in NY…….the Sanders-Clinton is now within 10 points and getting very nasty……talk of a contested convention is in the air………… Click to listen:
And Senator Sanders, you’re no Duke Snyder
(My new American Thinker post)
It may go down like this at the next Clinton-Sanders debate. Mrs. Clinton looks at Senator Sanders, gets very serious and speaks with that raunchy voice: “I knew Duke Snyder, he was a friend of mine and you, Senator Sanders, are no Duke Snyder”.
Of course, Duke Snyder was the Brooklyn Dodgers’ centerfield, the Duke in the “Mickey, Willie & the Duke” song from the 1980s
Mrs. Clinton faces a critical situation in New York. She has the super delegates but Senator Sanders has the volunteers and the energy. Mrs Clinton is also trying to prove that she’s a native New Yorker, not the lady who moved there in 2000 because she couldn’t win a Senate seat in Arkansas.
Mrs. Clinton’s problems were detailed in a recent New York Post editorial:
Is the pressure of having lost seven out of eight primaries and caucuses to Bernie Sanders getting to Hillary Clinton? She’s sure saying some very strange things these days.
Now, Clinton has long been at high risk of getting into trouble whenever she veers from her carefully prepared scripts. But her loose-cannon problem has only grown as Sanders keeps winning.
Take her latest interview, with Politico’s Glenn Thrush, in which Clinton confesses to being “constantly amazed” by — airplanes:
“I mean, how it works, how the whole, you know, science of it . . . [how it] constantly manages to keep us afloat,” she said.
An effort to channel the lost innocence of her girlhood, maybe? But planes aren’t exactly new — unlike, say, the supermarket scanner technology that famously amazed the first President George Bush.
Clinton also pretends to have just discovered that Sanders has spent his life in politics as a proud socialist, saying breathlessly: “He’s a relatively new Democrat. I’m not even sure he is one.”
Just days before, she exploded after a presumed Bernie supporter challenged her on donations from (gasp) the fossil-fuels industry: “I am so sick — I am so sick of the Sanders campaign lying about me,” she barked. “I’m sick of it.”
All this follows a host of recent boners, like her claim that the United States “didn’t lose a single person” in Libya — which ignored the two employees of her own State Deparment and two other Americans slain in Benghazi.
Or her vow to “put a lot of coal companies and coal miners out of business.” Or her tribute to the late Nancy Reagan’s work on AIDS, which outraged AIDS activists.
Between her bizarre off-script pronouncements and the utter banality of her preprogrammed talks, it’s no wonder Democratic voters are so desperate for something new.
Hillary Clinton’s chief problem is a lack of authenticity. She tries and tries to connect but there is no connection.
I will never understand why she decided to pander to such a degree and commit herself to positions that will hurt her in the general election.
What if she had looked at the young protesters and told them that there is no such thing as something free? Or, stand up to the black matters group and told them to get consistent and talk about black on black crime? Or that raising taxes on the rich is counterproductive and actually kills jobs?
She should have borrowed a page from Margaret Thatcher who stood up and told people what they needed rather than wanted to hear. Instead, she pandered and pandered. The net result is that she is fighting for her political life against a socialist with a message not heard since Woodstock.
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The week in review with Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda
Sunday April 3: The week in review with Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda…………… https://t.co/qzGkUO4sTy
— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) April 3, 2016
The state of the 2016 race after Florida and Ohio with Barry Casselman
Tuesday March 15: The state of the 2016 race after Florida and Ohio with Barry Casselman….. https://t.co/YdeSVJ0UUR
— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) March 15, 2016
The GOP debate tonight and a few other thoughts
Thursday March 10: The GOP debate tonight and a few other thoughts……………… https://t.co/bKiYFRTlOw
— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) March 10, 2016
The 2016 primary and the state of the race
Tuesday March 8: The 2016 primary and the state of the race……….. https://t.co/NBQZj5o1au
— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) March 8, 2016
Sanders wins 2 ‐‐ and they say that the GOP has problems
(My new American Thinker post)
It’s easier to talk about the GOP races. More people are voting and the candidates are more diverse and dynamic. Our debates may be loud and lively but they are also very informative.
Frankly, the biggest difference between Mrs. Clinton and Senator Sanders is that the former was born under President Truman and the latter under President Roosevelt.
Another one is that Mr. Sanders was born before Pearl Harbor and Mrs. Clinton after Hiroshima.
Beyond that, they are both liberal and pandering. He panders to white college students and she panders to minorities. This is why she wins South Carolina with black votes and he wins New Hampshire with white voters.
There is a lot of talk about the GOP tearing itself apart, and there is truth to that. However, the Democrats are also in big trouble, as noted in the American Interest:
Consider two stories from yesterday’s papers. The first, in the New York Times, on plummeting turnout in the Democratic primaries:
Democratic turnout has fallen drastically since 2008, the last time the party had a contested primary, with roughly three million fewer Democrats voting in the 15 states that have held caucuses or primaries through Tuesday, according to unofficial election results tallied through Wednesday afternoon.
…Some Democrats now worry that Mrs. Clinton will have difficulty matching the surge in new black, Hispanic and young voters who came to the polls for President Obama in 2008 and 2012.
And the second, in the Washington Post on the latest turn in the ongoing investigation into possible misconduct by the presumptive Democratic nominee:
The Justice Department has granted immunity to a former State Department staffer, who worked on Hillary Clinton’s private email server, as part of a criminal investigation into the possible mishandling of classified information, according to a senior law enforcement official.
Hillary Clinton will be the nominee even if they have to rewrite the rules.
At the same time, I don’t see how she turns on all of those people who voted or will vote for Sanders.
Her choices are awful.
She could go left and call on Senator Warren and run as a liberal ticket. It may please the college kids but cost her more votes in the suburbs and white men.
She could go center-right and look for Senator Kaine from Virginia or that new pro-life governor from Louisiana.
It would balance the ticket but make make the “Sanders-itas” very unhappy.
Does the GOP have problems? Yes we do, and tough ones, to be honest. However, the other side is also in trouble, from ideological differences to few people voting in the primaries.
P.S. You can listen to my show (Canto Talk) and follow me on Twitter.
The week in review with Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda
Sunday March 6: The week in review with Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda………. https://t.co/eA1lxfSUOX
— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) March 6, 2016
The week in review with Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda
Sunday Feb 28: The week in review with Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda…… https://t.co/uDABCy1qv1
— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) February 28, 2016
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