Selene Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 Spike Lee just made a radio commercial for Bernie that will play in South Carolina immediately. There are some astute folks that are planning for a long fight with their solid repeatable message, that even his opponents know is probably true, that the system is rigged. Quote Senator Bernie Sanders has a fellow son of Brooklyn making new radio ads on his behalf: Spike Lee. “Wake up. Wake up, South Carolina!” Mr. Lee begins – nodding to the opening of his 1989 film “Do the Right Thing” – in a 60-second commercial released on Tuesday in the state, where the Democratic presidential primary is on Saturday. Mr. Lee, who has spent his career making films about race and discrimination, may help Mr. Sanders as he struggles to cut into Hillary Clinton’s support from black voters. “I know that you know the system is rigged. For too long we have given our vote to corporate puppets,” he says, echoing Mr. Sanders’s crusade against a “rigged economy.” “Ninety-nine percent of Americans were hurt by the great recession of 2008, and many are still recovering,” Mr. Lee says in the ad. “And that’s why I am officially endorsing my brother Bernie Sanders. Bernie takes no money from corporations. Nada. Which means he is not on the take. And when Bernie gets into the White House, he will do the right thing.” “How can we be sure?” he says, rattling off Mr. Sanders’s civil rights record: “Bernie was at the March on Washington with Dr. King. He was arrested in Chicago for protesting segregation in public schools. He fought for wealth and education equality throughout his whole career. No flipping, no flopping. Enough talk. Time for action.” If they can peel off about 8% of her vote and depress another 5%, they will have a solid game plan for super Tuesday and this radio ad will be played in every one of them. http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/02/23/spike-lee-in-radio-ad-endorses-my-brother-bernie-sanders/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted February 23, 2016 Author Share Posted February 23, 2016 Quote As delegates arrived in Chicago the last week of August 1968 for the 35th Democratic National Convention, they found that Mayor Richard J. Daley, second only to President Lyndon B. Johnson in political influence, had lined the avenues leading to the convention center with posters of trilling birds and blooming flowers. Along with these pleasing pictures, he had ordered new redwood fences installed to screen the squalid lots of the aromatic stockyards adjoining the convention site. At the International Amphitheatre, conventioneers found that the main doors, modeled after a White House portico, had been bulletproofed. The hall itself was surrounded by a steel fence topped with barbed wire. Inside the fence, clusters of armed and helmeted police mingled with security guards and dark-suited agents of the Secret Service. At the apex of the stone gates through which all had to enter was a huge sign bearing the unintentionally ironic words, "HELLO DEMOCRATS! WELCOME TO CHICAGO." The dirty little secret was that: Quote As delegates arrived in Chicago the last week of August 1968 for the 35th Democratic National Convention, they found that Mayor Richard J. Daley, second only to President Lyndon B. Johnson in political influence, had lined the avenues leading to the convention center with posters of trilling birds and blooming flowers. Along with these pleasing pictures, he had ordered new redwood fences installed to screen the squalid lots of the aromatic stockyards adjoining the convention site. At the International Amphitheatre, conventioneers found that the main doors, modeled after a White House portico, had been bulletproofed. The hall itself was surrounded by a steel fence topped with barbed wire. Inside the fence, clusters of armed and helmeted police mingled with security guards and dark-suited agents of the Secret Service. At the apex of the stone gates through which all had to enter was a huge sign bearing the unintentionally ironic words, "HELLO DEMOCRATS! WELCOME TO CHICAGO." The dirty little secret is that: Quote ...this Potemkin village setting weren't enough to intensify anxiety among Democrats gathering to nominate their presidential candidate, the very elements and conditions of Chicago life contributed to a sense of impending disaster. The weather was oppressively hot and humid. The air conditioning, the elevators and the phones were operating erratically. Taxis weren't operating at all because the drivers had called a strike before the convention began. The National Guard had been mobilized and ordered to shoot to kill, if necessary. Even as delegates began entering this encampment, an army of protesters from across the country flowed into the city, camping in parks and filling churches, coffee shops, homes and storefront offices. They were a hybrid group—radicals, hippies, yippies, moderates—representing myriad issues and a wide range of philosophies, but they were united behind an encompassing cause: ending the long war in Vietnam and challenging Democratic Party leaders and their delegates to break with the past, create change—yes, that was the term then on every protester's lips—and remake the battered U.S. political system. As Rennie Davis put it, speaking as project director for the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, the largest and most important group for the planned protests: "Many of our people have already gone beyond the traditional electoral processes to achieve change. We think that the energies released...are creating a new constituency for America. Many people are coming to Chicago with a sense of new urgency, and a new approach." We have a good shot at a modern version and it could get very, very ugly for Evita "Humphrey" Rodham Clinton. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/1968-democratic-convention-931079/?no-ist A... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted February 24, 2016 Author Share Posted February 24, 2016 If the Bernie people and the "outside community agitator/organizers/black liberation theology cadres/Union thugs/New Black Panthers/Black Lives Matter/the MS Gangs/the environmental anarchist/etc.all converge, they could tear that party to pieces and take over the Convention... Occupy the Convention and try the Bosses - a perfect tableau for a marxist revolution in Philadelphia - what a story line... Quote One 1968 memory remains indelible 40 years later. Throughout that week I had been a guest commentator on NBC's "Today" show, broadcasting live from Chicago. Early Friday morning, a few hours after the convention ended, I took the elevator to the lobby of the Conrad Hilton Hotel, where I had been staying, to head for the studio. As the elevator doors opened, I saw huddled before me a group of young McCarthy volunteers. They had been bludgeoned by Chicago police, and sat there with their arms around each other and their backs against the wall, bloody and sobbing, consoling one another. I don't know what I said on the "Today" show that morning. I do remember that I was filled with a furious rage. Just thinking of it now makes me angry all over again. A... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules Troy Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 Bernie would let the entire country burn to the ground if it meant he could rule the ashes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted February 25, 2016 Author Share Posted February 25, 2016 2 hours ago, Jules Troy said: Bernie would let the entire country burn to the ground if it meant he could rule the ashes. An Irwin Corey governing the ashes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules Troy Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 Haha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted March 12, 2016 Author Share Posted March 12, 2016 And now, we will have this in Cleveland for the Republican Convention... http://bigstory.ap.org/article/17787a327ac849c1b7d0f0cfc4463ca6/trump-faces-questions-about-rally-violence-gop-debate Quote There were isolated physical confrontations between some members of the crowd after the event was canceled. There was no sign of Trump inside the arena on the college campus, where dozens of UIC faculty and staff had petitioned university administrators to cancel the rally. They cited concerns it would create a "hostile and physically dangerous environment" for students. Before the announcement the event wouldn't take place, a handful of intense verbal clashes took place between Trump supporters and protesters as the crowd waited for his arrival. For the first time during his White House bid, the crowd appeared to be an equal mix of those eager to cheer on the real estate mogul and those overtly opposed to his candidacy. When one African-American protester was escorted out before the event started, the crowd erupted into chants of "Let them stay!" Veronica Kowalkowsky, an 18-year-old Trump supporter, said before the event started that she had no ill will toward the protesters — but didn't think they felt the same way. "I feel a lot of hate," she said. "I haven't said anything bad to anyone." Hours before the event was scheduled to start, hundreds of people lined up outside the arena at the University of Illinois at Chicago — a civil and immigrant rights organizing hub with large minority student populations. Trump backers were separated from an equally large crowd of anti-Trump protesters by a heavy police presence and barricades. Some Trump supporters walking into the area chanted, "USA! USA!" and "Illegal is illegal." One demonstrator shouted back, "Racist!" One protester, 64-year-old Dede Rottman of Chicago, carried a placard that read: "Build a Wall Around Trump. I'll Pay for it." However, 19-year-old Rusty Shackleford of Lombard, in line to attend the Trump rally, said he was there to "support the man who wants to make America great again." Chicago community activist Quo Vadis said hundreds of protesters had positioned themselves in groups around the arena, and that they intend to demonstrate right after Trump takes the stage. Their goal, he said, is "for Donald to take the stage and to completely interrupt him. The plan is to shut Donald Trump all the way down." Quo Vadis and this asshole "journalist" actually put that in the story!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted March 12, 2016 Author Share Posted March 12, 2016 Now this is interesting... Quote An Ohio judge has granted teenagers who will turn 18 before Election Day the right to vote in the state's presidential primary elections in a new decision that could boost Bernie Sanders's chances in the state on Tuesday. Sanders's team sued to change the state law, but a judge decided Friday on a different state-level case that effectively provided the same outcome. The Vermont senator's White House campaign has been boosted by strong support from younger voters, so the decision could prove important in the crucial state of Ohio, which has 143 delegates up for grabs. Ohio had barred 17-year-olds from voting on primary day regardless of if they would be eligible for the general election. But the timing of the decision, just days before the Tuesday primary, could dampen any potential gains. Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted bashed the ruling in a statement released after the decision. “This last minute legislating from the bench on election law has to stop. Our system cannot give one county court the power to change 30 years of election law for the entire state of Ohio, 23 days into early voting and only four days before an election," he said. "We will appeal this decision because if there is a close election on Tuesday we need clarity from the Supreme Court to make sure that ineligible voters don't determine the outcome of an election." His statement added that 17-year olds are eligible to vote in other local elections. The ruling's implications are more clouded on the Republican side, since no one candidate has laid claim to younger voters. http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/272740-ohio-judge-rules-some-17-year-olds-can-vote-in-primary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merjet Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 It's starting to look like the 2016 Republican convention in Cleveland will be more like the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted March 12, 2016 Author Share Posted March 12, 2016 40 minutes ago, merjet said: It's starting to look like the 2016 Republican convention in Cleveland will be more like the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago. Yep. Two for the price of one ...Cleveland and Philly!! Riot gear will be the proper dress for attendees... Long, hot summer ahead. A... Post Script: What was that about history again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merjet Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 11 minutes ago, Selene said: Post Script: What was that about history again? "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." - Mark Twain (allegedly). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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