Those with thin lips are closer to being monkeys than those with defined robust lips. Check yours Mr. Johnson

Most black folks have shown signs of evolution by the shape of our lips. Your words define no one but yourself. So sorry for you Mr. Don Johnson. You can find nothing substantive about the best President your country has ever seen so you have to attack the man but by attacking the man you are revealing yourself.  Awwee sorry for your misery


Published October 12, 2016
Fellow Republicans have called on Dan Johnson to drop out of the race after numerous racially charged Facebook posts — but he vowed to “make Kentucky great again.”
By Kaitlyn D’Onofrio
A Republican candidate for Kentucky’s House of Representatives has expressed no remorse for a series of racially charged posts on his Facebook page — including several likening the Obamas to monkeys. Dan Johnson, the man in question, recently said he is in fact the candidate who will “make Kentucky great again.”
Johnson was caught posting a picture of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama likened to chimpanzees, as well as a picture of a monkey captioned, “Obama’s baby picture.” He also posted a picture of President Ronald Reagan bottle-feeding a chimpanzee with the caption, “Rare photo of Ronald Reagan babysitting Barack Obama in early 1962.”
Johnson denied these photos were racist and in fact said that not posting negative photos about the Obamas would be racist.


“I looked this up. There has been no president that hasn’t had that scrutiny. Not one. I think it would be racist not to do the same for President Obama as we’ve done for every other president,” he said in an interview with In addition, Johnson also posted photos of the Confederate flag and memes that call for a ban of Islam in America.
Last week, Johnson said he has no intention of dropping out of the race, despite calls from numerous Kentucky Republicans. Rather, he said, he will challenge political correctness and “the status quo.”
“There’s a need for change in Frankfort … somebody needs to take a sledgehammer to the status quo — and I’m that person,” he said. “I’m looking forward to it.”
Johnson proudly compared himself to Trump.
“If anybody is watching the news, the Republican Party has asked a few people to drop out of this race during this season,” he said. “For the record, Donald Trump, that’s running for the Republican Party, has been asked to drop out, and thank God he didn’t.”
He also invoked Trump’s campaign slogan.
“I’m that guy to take that sledgehammer — to make Bullitt County great again, to make Kentucky great again,” he said. “I’m willing to do the job.”


Trump’s well-known “Make America Great Again” catchphrase has been widely interpreted to mean “Make America White Again.”
The pictures, which first surfaced in September, have since been removed from Johnson’s Facebook. When first interviewed by WDRB News Johnson questioned, “Well, I’d like to know first off, what images that are being considered offensive.”
When shown the pictures in question Johnson said, “I love America. I love people. I believe red, yellow, black and white, all are precious in God’s sight. I’m not a racist.”
Johnson is a bishop at a church, and his church sign reads, “Jesus and this church are not politically correct.”
“It wasn’t meant to be racist. I can tell you that. My history’s good there. I can see how people would be offended in that. I wasn’t trying to offend anybody, but, I think Facebook’s entertaining,” Johnson said.
When questioned about his Confederate flag postings, Johnson said, “That flag was for state rights. The reason it is under attack now is we’re being attacked as state rights and constitutionalists. We are being attacked.”

Photos via WDRB News, Peacock Panache.

Johnson’s interpretation is historically inaccurate, however. The Confederate flag is in fact not one of the three national flags that represented the Confederate nation during the Civil War. The flag, also known as the “rebel flag,” only became associated with the Confederacy after the Civil War ended. More recently, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) has used the flag to advance its agenda, although it is not the group’s official flag.
A statement on behalf of the Republican Party, released by Chairman Mac Brown, says, in part, “Dan Johnson’s comments and social media posts are outrageous and have no place in today’s political discourse. They represent the rankest sort of prejudice present in our society and do not in any way, shape or form represent the views of the Republican Party of Kentucky or the many fine candidates representing us on the ballot this November.”
Tres Watson, communications director for the Republican Party of Kentucky, said free speech does not equal the right to post comments such as Johnson’s.
“We have to not only understand what our rights are as Americans, especially when it comes to free speech, [but] have to show good judgment when exercising them,” he said.
Obamas Receive Racist Treatment
While every president does face insults, especially in today’s social media age, Obama and his family have faced significant racist treatment throughout Obama’s two terms, both from social media users across the country and other politicians.
Earlier this year, the comment section of an Associated Press article about Obama’s 17-year-old daughter, Malia Obama, was flooded with racist comments, calling her a racial slur, an “ape,” a “monkey” and accusing her of not deserving her entry to the university but getting it thanks to “Black privilege.”
In 2014, Elizabeth Lauten, former communications director for U.S. Republican Rep. Steven Fincher (Tenn.) resigned following a Facebook post in which she accused Malia Obama and sister Sasha Obama of having no class.
’Last year, the mayor of a small town in Washington that Obama was visiting called the president “monkey man.” When Obama arrived to the town, he was greeted by demonstrators waving Confederate flags.

Women are coming forward with sexual assault charges against Republican Presidential Nominee

http://www.diversityinc.com/news/pu-y-grabs-back-new-sexual-assault-claims-against-trump/?


Five women are now on the record describing unwanted sexual advances from Trump, confirming his boasts of entitlement to do so.
By Moses Frenck
The New York Times on Wednesday published a report in which two women said Trump touched them inappropriately without their consent — despite Trump’s insistence during last Sunday’s second presidential debate that he had never engaged in the behavior he bragged about engaging in.
According to the Times, Jessica Leeds and Rachel Crooks decided to tell their stories specifically because Trump denied ever kissing or groping women without their consent when asked repeatedly by CNN’s Anderson Cooper during the debate.
In the Times piece, which includes a video interview, Jessica Leeds, who was 38 at the time and is now 74, said she was on a flight with Trump, sitting next to him in first class.
Leeds describes Trump lifting the armrest and groping her, grabbing her breasts and putting his hand up her skirt. “He was like an octopus,” she said. “His hands were everywhere.”

Crooks told the Times she was kissed by Trump in 2005 when she was a 22-year-old receptionist at a company located in Trump Tower. She said she met Trump outside an elevator and introduced herself, but after they shook hands, Trump would not let go and began kissing her cheeks and “kissed me directly on the mouth,” Crooks told the Times.
“It was so inappropriate,” she said. “I was so upset that he thought I was so insignificant that he could do that.”
Related Story: Obama Says Trump’s Comments on Women Disqualifying
Meanwhile, the Palm Beach Post reported that a third woman says Trump grabbed her inappropriately while at his Mar-A-Lago resort in Florida 13 years ago. “Donald just grabbed my ass,” she told a friend immediately after Trump groped her, according to the Post.
None of the women pursued legal action, but the Times and Palm Beach Post spoke with friends and family of the women who said the women had discussed the incidents with them when they happened.
While the Trump campaign denied the allegations, a Clinton campaign statement said, “This disturbing story sadly fits everything we know about the way Donald Trump has treated women. These reports suggest that he lied on the debate stage and that the disgusting behavior he bragged about in the tape is more than just words.”
On Wednesday night, People Magazine published a report by one of its writers, who said she herself was physically attacked by Trump at his Palm Beach resort.
Writer Natasha Stoynoff said she was on assignment at Mar-A-Lago in December writing a profile of Trump’s one-year anniversary with Melania. When a pregnant Melania went upstairs during a break, Trump took Stoynoff into a room and “within seconds he was pushing me against the wall and forcing his tongue down my throat.”
Another woman who CNN anchor Erin Burnett has known for years, did not wish to be identified but has told of being sexually assaulted by Trump.
Related Story: Trump Defends Roger Ailes: He ‘Helped’ Women
Trump Supporters Call to Repeal Women’s Right to Vote
The ongoing revelations of Trump’s views and behavior toward women have continued to erode his support among women, leading to a poll released Tuesday showing a Trump win would be guaranteed if only men voted. The solution per Trump supporters: repeal the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which in 1920 gave women the right to vote.
The hashtag #RepealThe19th was trending on Twitter Wednesday, with Trump supporters — both men and women — fantasizing over a male-only electorate.
Tweets from female Trump supporters included statements such as: “I would gladly waive my right to vote to solidify the win!” or the similar sentiment, “I would be willing to give up my right to vote to make this happen,” and even “Men should never have given women the right to vote.”
The Twitter commentary was in response to an analysis published by Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight that showed if only women voted, Hillary Clinton would win the election with 458 electoral votes over Trump’s 80. Meanwhile, if only men voted, Trump would win 350 electoral votes over Clinton’s 188. A candidate needs 270 electoral votes to win.

The United States of Women vs. The United States of Menhttps://t.co/F455bP3D8I pic.twitter.com/qjr6zLh640

— 538 politics (@538politics) October 12, 2016

Silver, a statistician and journalist who founded FiveThirtyEight (the name taken from the 538 total voters in the Electoral College), correctly predicted the winner in 49 of the 50 states in the 2008 presidential election and the winner of all 50 states in the 2012 presidential election.
The analysis published Tuesday was in the aftermath of video released last week where Trump boasted about his entitlement to kiss and grope women without their consent. The analysis did not include bombshell allegations of actual kissing and groping reported Wednesday.
With regard to repealing the 19th Amendment, the irony here is twofold:
First, Trump supporters claim to be staunch supporters of the Constitution. Despite countless innocent people killed shooting massacres, they oppose any form of gun control, saying the Second Amendment cannot be tampered with. Yet, when women denounce a sexual predator, they call for the 19th Amendment to be gutted without hesitation.
Second, in order to repeal the 19th Amendment, two-thirds of both the House of Representatives and the Senate would need to vote in favor of such an action. Approximately 20 percent of Congress currently consists of women.

Dan Rather on Last Debate

I am not sure it is possible to truly put into words what we witnessed tonight. This election has long since passed the stage of rationality and reason, the realm of the written page, and into the territory of the heart and spirit, where emotions swirl that we cannot fully distill into coherent sentences and paragraphs. But I will humbly try…

Rome was once a proud republic that devolved into a place of barbaric spectacle epitomized by the savagery at the Colosseum. As I saw the pit of the debate stage tonight as 9pm Eastern approached, I had a sense we could, if we are not vigilant, fall into a similar downward spiral. Part of what might prevent that from happening is a determined, independent, and free press. And on that count I believe the moderators tonight – Anderson Cooper and Martha Raddatz – played that role to great effect. When presented with generalities, they followed up demanding specifics. Not surprisingly Trump was critical of that type of questioning – as he has been of the press in general. It’s one of the things that his base loves most about him.

This debate was a bit more about the issues than I expected, but ultimately those matter less than the overarching question about what is in our political, cultural, and historical DNA. Editorial boards of all political persuasions have demanded that we treat this election as a plebiscite on the very future of our nation. They have laid out dire stakes if Donald Trump is elected, and those sentiments have been echoed by millions of voters. And yet Trump has his own legions of followers that see him as just what the complacency of Washington needs. This was the backdrop as the candidates took the stage – noticeably, if predictably, without a handshake.

Of course, tonight comes under the bright spotlight of an event – those audio tapes – that has transformed this election in a manner I have never seen before. It was clear that Donald Trump, faced with a reeling campaign and a brewing GOP civil war, tried to stick to talking points at the beginning of the debate – as limited as his quiver of arrows are in that department. But we may be well past a moment where any of that is viable or realistic. And the policy discussions didn’t always last long.

Trump went on the offensive, as advertised, drilling down to an attack on Bill Clinton. It was a strategy that was all Trump. And HIllary Clinton responded with a volley of all the other insulting statements and lies by Trump over the course of the election season. As Trump preened, paced and swayed, Clinton’s steely face spoke volumes. As Trump stood, looming over Clinton, threatening her with a special prosecutor and even imprisonment, the optics of the GOP nominee could be seen as either that of a schoolyard bully or a determined pugilist depending on your point of view. Clinton was better answering questions directly and better at laying out what she would like to do as President. Trump was more determined to levy personal attacks to put Clinton on defensive, especially in the early going.

Clinton engaged mostly with the audience and moderators. Donald Trump addressed her directly with hand gestures and eye contact. When she spoke, he sometimes stood pacing, or passively, gripping his chair. When he spoke, he often tried to tar his opponent with guilt by association – calling into question Clinton’s “friends” on taxes in particular and referring to Clinton’s husband to avoid the glare of his own misconduct. It seems that Trump does everything he can to avoid personal culpability or responsibility. He argues that his faults are not so great because Clinton and her associates have done much worse – his words are not so dangerous because “locker room” talk has long been excused for men. Clinton called for an apology to the many Trump has spoken ill of. None was forthcoming. I can’t see any of that moving the needle compared to the tsunami that has engulfed the race in the past few days.

For those of us who have lived long and eventful lives, we often are able to find calm in the crisis of the moment by invoking the perspective of time. You understand that history is always rough in the early making and the years and decades that follow will often smooth these jagged peaks into the gentle contours of a rolling landscape where big themes and movements hold sway over the details that overwhelm us in the here and now. But this is not always the case. There are some inflection points that explode with such violence and monstrous effect that any semblance of continuity is hopelessly disjointed.

Most often these moments are ones of violence – wars, civil unrest and assassinations. But make no mistake, what we have seen in the past few days is proof that we are living through such an instance. And the violence here has been in ripping asunder our self-confidence in our system of government and in the unity we share with our fellow Americans.

We have serious problems facing our nation, and our world. Our ship of state must be prepared to navigate the perilous shoals of our complicated world – and yet I feel tonight as if we have been hijacked into an alternate universe. This national nightmare will end one way or another and we will awaken to the same world from which we have been so disengaged. That is our challenge and it is a challenge from which none of us can opt out.

If you want a reason for hope – the two candidates did shake hands at the end. Perhaps when this is all over we can do that as a country.

Fall of America

This election has shown the world how far down the totempole American has slidded. What a shame.  I do not think American's do "not so great anymore" very well.   Dan Rather's sobering thoughts are worth reading for those who are concerned about Amerca's future

When will the CIA apprehend Donald Trump for threatening to shoot Hilary Clinton?

http://www.diversityinc.com/news/trump-second-amendment-hillary-clinton/?utm_term=


Is America becoming the laughing stock of the world because of Donald Trump? Is that the kind of President America deserves?


What a joke. America is a joke?  It is bottoming out. Gone crazy.

Rebuild, reboot. Vote for Hilary Clinton

Experts think Trump is Mentally Ill

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/trump-clinically-crazy-increasing-number-psychologists-and-commentators-think-so?

Twenty-five of Hilary Clinton's Promises you can hold her to if she becomes President. Make her the President

Here are 25 points as directly quoted or paraphrased from her speech.

1. Make economic and social justice issues 'front and center.' Clinton made that pledge when praising Sanders and his campaign, saying that’s “where they belong… I want you to know I have heard you. Your cause is our cause. Our country needs your ideas, energy, and passion. That is the only way we can turn our progressive platform into real change for America.”

2. Comprehensive immigration reform—not Trump’s border wall. “We will not build a wall… When we have millions of hardworking immigrants contributing to our economy, it would be self-defeating and inhumane to try to kick them out. Comprehensive immigration reform will grow our economy and keep families together—and it’s the right thing to do… And we’ll build a path to citizenship for millions of immigrants who are already contributing to our economy.”

3. End targeting and racial profiling of Islamic Americans. Replying to Trump’s proposal to stop Muslims from visiting from overseas and increasing police surveillance at home, Clinton said, “We will not ban a religion. We will work with all Americans and our allies to fight and defeat terrorism.”

4. Believe in government public service and be competent. “So it’s true. I sweat the details of policy, whether we’re talking about the exact level of lead in the drinking water in Flint, Michigan, the number of mental health facilities in Iowa, or the cost of your prescription drugs. Because it’s not just a detail if it’s your kid, if it’s your family. It’s a big deal. And it should be a big deal to your president, too.”

5. Make it a top task to revive America’s economically stagnant regions. “My primary mission as president will be to create more opportunity and more good jobs with rising wages right here in the United States… Especially in places that for too long have been left out and left behind. From our inner cities to our small towns, from Indian country to coal country. From communities ravaged by addiction to regions hollowed out by plant closures.”

6. Reform campaign finance as the key to changing the economy. “I believe our economy isn’t working the way it should because our democracy isn’t working the way it should. That’s why we need to appoint Supreme Court justices who will get money out of politics and expand voting rights, not restrict them. And if necessary, we will pass a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United.”

7. Hold corporations accountable and have them pay a fair share of taxes. “I believe American corporations that have gotten so much from our country should be just as patriotic in return. Many of them are, but too many aren’t. It’s wrong to take tax breaks with one hand and give out pink slips with the other. And I believe Wall Street can never, ever be allowed to wreck Main Street again.”

8. Oppose trade agreements that privilege corporations above everyone else. “If you believe that we should say no to unfair trade deals; that we should stand up to China; that we should support our steelworkers and autoworkers and homegrown manufacturers, then join us.”

9. Climate change is real, and the solution is a new energy infrastructure. “I believe in science. I believe that climate change is real and that we can save our planet while creating millions of good-paying, clean energy jobs.”
10. Achieve a higher standard of living, starting with higher minimum wage. “If you believe that companies should share profits, not pad executive bonuses, join us. If you believe the minimum wage should be a living wage, and no one working full-time should have to raise their children in poverty, join us.”

11. Expand Obamacare and a health care safety net. “If you believe that every man, woman, and child in America has the right to affordable health care, join us!"

12. Raise Social Security benefits. “We should expand Social Security.”

13. Protect reproductive rights. We should “protect a woman’s right to make her own heath care decisions,” Clinton said.

14. Make sure women get equal pay for equal work. “If you believe that your working mother, wife, sister, or daughter deserves equal pay, join us. That’s how we’re going to make sure this economy works for everyone, not just those at the top.”

15. Make the biggest infrastructure investment in decades. “In my first 100 days, we will work with both parties to pass the biggest investment in new, good-paying jobs since World War II. Jobs in manufacturing, clean energy, technology and innovation, small business, and infrastructure. If we invest in infrastructure now, we’ll not only create jobs today, but lay the foundation for the jobs of the future.”

16. Make public universities tuition-free for most. “Bernie Sanders and I will work together to make college tuition-free for the middle class and debt-free for all.”

17. Cut and restructure student debt. “We will also liberate millions of people who already have student debt.”

18. Expand job and trade skill programs. “Sure, college is crucial, but a four-year degree should not be the only path to a good job. We will help more people learn a skill or practice a trade and make a good living doing it.”

19. Open up lending options for small businesses. “We will give small businesses, like my dad’s, a boost, make it easier to get credit. Way too many dreams die in the parking lots of banks. In America, if you can dream it, you should be able to build it.”

20. Tax the rich to pay for these public programs. “We’re going to pay for every single one of them. And here’s how. Wall Street, corporations and the super-rich are going to start paying their fair share of taxes. This is not because we resent success, but when more than 90 percent of the gains have gone to the top 1 percent, that’s where the money is.”

21. Track down tax evaders and make them pay. “We are going to follow the money. And if companies take tax breaks and then ship jobs overseas, we’ll make them pay us back. And we’ll put that money to work where it belongs: creating jobs here at home.”

22. Get military-style weapons off the street through new gun controls. “I’m not here to repeal the Second Amendment. I’m not here to take away your guns. I just don’t want you to be shot by someone who shouldn’t have a gun in the first place. We will work tirelessly with responsible gun owners to pass commonsense reforms and keep guns out of the hands of criminals, terrorists, and all others who would do us harm.”

23. Work to heal divides on race and bigotry. “That starts with listening—listening to each other, trying as best we can to walk in each other’s shoes. So let’s put ourselves in the shoes of young black and Latino men and women who face the effects of systemic racism and are made to feel like their lives are disposable. Let’s put ourselves in the shoes of police officers, kissing their kids and spouses goodbye every day and heading off to do a dangerous and necessary job.”

24. Enact criminal justice reform and address abusive polling. “We will reform our criminal justice system from end to end, and rebuild trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve.”

25. Protect civil rights and liberties, including LGBT rights. “We will defend all our rights: civil rights, human rights, and voting rights; women’s rights and workers’ rights; LGBT rights and the rights of people with disabilities. And we will stand up against mean and divisive rhetoric wherever it comes from.”

Trump has gone over the top now

http://www.diversityinc.com/news/trump-continues-demean-muslim-family-fallen-soldier/?


America, wake up from your slumber. Is this the kind of President you want running the so-called greatest country on earth? My my, come on Americans.  This is not a joke anymore. I think Trump might have entered the race as a joke to prove how smart Americans, how easy it is to pull the wool over their eyes with money and power and perhaps he did. Okay he proved his point. Now you prove yours by doing something that has never been done before, fire him from the Republican Party for going against Republican values.  Do you have the guts to do that.


Vote Hilary Clinton and save America and save the Republican party from further damage.

Compassion Integrity, Intelligence in a leader trumps (no pun intended) Business Chutzpah

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/clinton-vs-trump-whose-acceptance-speech-hit-right-note?


Listen people an intelligent leader will be wise enough to take the advice of the best people in their fields but has to weigh what make business sense with what makes sense for the majority of the people. Look at Greece, the leader could have chosen austerity measures and starve out the middle and poorer classes but it chose the less autere measure and is surving today. That is leadership.
All business men and women are concerned about is making a buck. They  put money above the welfare, moral and spiritual values of its people.  That is not a leader that is a business person.
     Americans deserve a caring leader because business scorns poor people. Poverty has no colour.  If you are red, brown, black or white and you're poor, someone like Trump will think you are lazy and deserve nothing. There is no compassion.  Vote Hilary Clinton, she is a woman and a mother. Women take care of their families and put families even above their own needs, that's a mother, that's a woman and that is the leadership of the future.
Vote for Hilary Clinton, there is no other viable choice at this time.

See what the Next President of the United States of America Promises - Vote for Hilary Clinton Vote and Make History

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/poised-and-confident-hillary-clinton-unveils-very-progressive-agenda-will-sanders?


Men had a long run of governing the USA and look what a mess they made.  It took a Black man to clean up the mess and bring respectability, class and dignity back to America and it will take a woman to finish the job.  Put a man back in governance and we'll be deeper in hog shit than we've ever been before. America you have the power to lead your country that benefits you, your children and seven generations to come.  Do the right thing and vote Hilary Clinton for President.






Election 2016

Poised and Confident, Hillary Clinton's DNC Speech Lays Out a Progressive Agenda

After a week of snubs, their grassroots revolution is acknowledged.

By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

July 29, 2016

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Photo Credit: Hillary 2016 campaign - Twitter

Hillary Clinton made history in more ways than one in Philadelphia.

By Tuesday, she was the first woman nominated by a major political party. On Wednesday, President Obama wholeheartedly passed her the leadership baton. Before she took the stage Thursday, mainstream media was calling the Democratic National Convention a great success, while the TV ratings at the DNC have exceeded the GOP's overall. And then Clinton gave a poised and clear-eyed speech accepting the nomination and presenting a very progressive agenda.

And, in a manner unmatched by any previous speaker on the previous three nights, Clinton thanked Sanders for his campaign, thanked his supporters for their energy, and invited them to join her to win the White House and make their agenda a reality.

“I want to thank Bernie Sanders,” she said. “Bernie, your campaign inspired millions of Americans, particularly the young people who threw their hearts and souls into our primary. You've put economic and social justice issues front and center, where they belong.”

“And to all of your supporters here and around the country: I want you to know, I've heard you,” she continued. “Your cause is our cause. Our country needs your ideas, energy, and passion. That's the only way we can turn our progressive platform into real change for America. We wrote it together—now let's go out there and make it happen together.”

Sanders supporters did not respond with wild cheers. But that’s to be expected, not just because the leader of the revolution they believed in didn’t win. But because even as she laid out an agenda that shared many of their goals, one far more progressive than what Obama campaigned on or hoped for, many weren’t ready to take her at her word.

That’s because the convention was not welcoming for the representatives of the largest grassroots insurgency in the party’s history since Rev. Jesse Jackson’s 1988 bid—and this one is quite a bit bigger. It may seem small to step back from Clinton’s agenda spanning the social and economic justice spectrum, her trashing Donald Trump with poise and wit and barbs, and her sincere-sounding an invitation for all to join her revolution.

But for most of the 1,900 Sanders delegates in Philadelphia, it the convention was a turbulent and trying affair. It began with DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz being forced to resign a day before it opened, after WikiLeaks posted emails of aides plotting against Sanders, but then she was rewarded with a top appointment to the Clinton campaign. That didn’t just affirm their suspicions about DNC bias, but it more ominously signaled that the party and Clinton campaign didn’t care about them. And it set a tone that many Sanders delegates felt all week here.

All week long there were petty slights, from turning off the lights above their California delegation when they vocally protested, to yanking a Sanders delegate’s credentials after she apparently refused to read a nominating script they drafted for her. “It’s just stupid as hell. What the DNC is doing is sabotaging this election,” said Danny Fetonte, a retired union organizer and delegate from Austin, Texas. “It makes it harder for us who are trying to convince those Bernie people to come along [and support Clinton].”

But it wasn’t just the DNC that was squandering the chance to turn a page with Sanders delegates, who are the messengers to the party’s progressive base. Clinton delegates, beyond the party apparatus, could have reached out but mostly did not. As state after state announced it delegate counts, the speeches—in some states Sanders won big—did not mention that. “It didn’t reflect the voters on the ground whatsoever,” said Karen Bernal, a California delegation leader. “It spat in their faces. There was no reflection of their voices whatsoever.”

That smoldering attitude was part of the backdrop to Clinton’s speech Thursday, which was the last opportunity in the convention to change hearts and minds inside the party and across America. On TV, Clinton delegates waved “stronger together” posters, but on the floor their delegations more often than not were like ships in the night passing at uncomfortably close range. It was a strange dichotomy that lasted for days, creating a mood that didn't really break until Clinton herself spoke on Thursday.

“Democrats are the party of working people,” she said at one point, then raising many issues that Sanders campaign on. “I believe that our economy isn't working the way it should because our democracy isn't working the way it should. That's why we need to appoint Supreme Court justices who will get money out of politics and expand voting rights, not restrict them. And we'll pass a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United!”

She didn’t stop there. “And I believe Wall Street can never, ever be allowed to wreck Main Street again,” she said. “I believe in science,” she continued, to laughs. “I believe that climate change is real and that we can save our planet while creating millions of good-paying clean energy jobs… Whatever party you belong to, or if you belong to no party at all, if you share these beliefs, this is your campaign.”

“If you believe that we should say 'no' to unfair trade deals,” Clinton continued, citing perhaps the hottest-button issue for Sanders delegates, opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership, “join us.”  And then she mentioned Sanders again by name and a key issue, college affordability.

“Bernie Sanders and I will work together to make college tuition-free for the middle class and debt-free for all! We will also liberate millions of people who already have student debt,” she said. “It's just not right that Donald Trump can ignore his debts, but students and families can't refinance theirs.”

And as she closed, she once again implored everyone who shares these goals to join her campaign. “I know that at a time when so much seems to be pulling us apart, it can be hard to imagine how we'll ever pull together again. But I'm here to tell you tonight—progress is possible.”

Those were some of the most forward and direct appeals during the convention to the people who responded to Sanders’ call for a political revolution. Before the speech, it was common to hear delegates say they planned to go home and get involved in local politics. Whether Clinton’s invitation is too little, too late, remains to be seen.

It was, however, the most appreciated words spoken to the Sanders delegation all week.
Watch Clinton's nomination acceptance speech:

Steven Rosenfeld covers national political issues for AlterNet, including America's retirement crisis, democracy and voting rights, and campaigns and elections. He is the author of "Count My Vote: A Citizen's Guide to Voting" (AlterNet Books, 2008).

Mr. Trump You need Help.

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/understanding-trump?


Regardless of how crude and obnoxious Trump may be he needs love. Here is a man that is showing all signs of a childhood devoid of love but strict compliance to his father's will. Trump appears to be the kind of child who wanted to be loved and did whatever he could to get the crumbs his father would throw at him.
No one wakes up one day and be a Trump. Listen to the way he reacts when anyone is against him. He cannot stand another attack, another let down, another put down. He has steeled himself against such things since as a child. He learned to hold in but sometimes one breaks. When he reacts with tantrums and name-calling, vitriolic hate etc. that's not because anyone has poked his sore spot it is because that is what is inside of the man. Whatever is inside must come out.  It is years of abuse, neglect and put downs that has turned what could have been a good man into the kind of man Trump is.  What do you get when such a man becomes a leader. It's like giving him a pistol or a sword to slay his enemies.
    Trump lacks love and therefore he does not have it to give. He needs big time prayers and a personal commitment to change or he will never know peace and his riches will not give him peace.  It may buy him love as it has done so far from his wife and ex-wives and even his children.
Trump has to stop and think about what he is passing on or what he has already passed on to his heirs. Someone has to have to guts to stop this man from destroying himself and possibly America. Trump is not a bad person but he did not get the upbringing a child needs to become a balanced adult.  Maybe this exercise may serve as an awakening experience for him when he realize that his money and power can only get him so far but not as far as the White House. Vote for Hilary Clinton, America has not other choice. 


Mr. Trump I love you but you need to love yourself. Love yourself. All this is not real. One day you will lie in your grave and rot like the poor man on the sidewalk.  Connect with your inner child and find the peace you've forgotten you have.

White Power Movement on the Rise as Trump Rises

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/dangerous-white-collar-white-power-movement-believes-it-has-newfound-relevance-thanks?a

Watch your posture at airports

http://www.alternet.org/fear-america/psychologist-behind-tsas-behavioral-screenings-wants-you-explore-your-atlas-emotions?

Torture that leaves no mark

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/sleep-deprivation-leaves-no-physical-scars-its-torture-how-california-prisons-are?akid=14266.35630.6N1fg_&rd=1&src=newsletter1056595&t=18

CIA Operative helped to capture Nelson Mandela

http://www.alternet.org/world/retired-cia-agent-us-assisted-capture-nelson-mandela?

Spot a Terrorist

https://theintercept.com/2015/03/27/revealed-tsas-closely-held-behavior-checklist-spot-terrorists/