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thunderlips11 says

Rumor is

Rumor should carry no weight. If the rumors had any legitimacy, it would mean that other people are currently leaking classified information, specifically the people classifying it.

Dan8267 says

Rumor should carry no weight. If the rumors had any legitimacy, it would mean that other people are currently leaking classified information, specifically the people classifying it.

Only the investigation will tell us... well, I can think of a few others who have it and might leak it via a third party.

Dan8267 says

the sole purpose of their existence is to vote contrary to the pledged delegates.

Based on "A Brief History of Superdelegates" the several purposes of their existence are order and procedure at conventions and to assure electability of a nominee and to homogenize factionalism. Good link from another thread, Dan, thanks. So they should vote INDEPENDENTLY, not contrarily. You can make a case that if in their minds they perceive Clinton a weaker opponent to Trump they have justification to vote for Sanders, but the factionalism of the past is no longer extant and some of the weird rules of state primaries have also been homogenized over the years since the 70s and 80s. If Sanders were the Dem's frontrunner and polling ahead of Trump it would be one thing, but to say it is the duty of SDs to vote him in at the convention is a stretch.

Nope she is under investigation by the FBI. Now she was stupid enough to use private servers that ended up in the closet of a bathroom-I would never vote for trump or anybody who was that careless/cavalier in his attitude towards national security.

Guilt or innocence of criminal charges/statues will wait on the FBI. however has there ever been a Presidential candidate that ran that was under investigation by the FBI over acts they did as a Cabinet Sec?

neplusultra57 says

to say it is the duty of SDs to vote him in at the convention is a stretch

Superdelegates have no "duty" and no obligation to vote in any particular way or for any particular reason. However, the reason supedelegates were created was to prevent the party from losing the election because primary voters picked a candidate who does not appeal to the general election voters. There purpose is to override the base's choice when it is strategic to do so, but they have no duty and are not in any way constrained to do so. The superdelegate experiment -- and it is an experiment -- may very well fail. If Hillary is nominated and loses the general election, then the superdelegate experiment will have failed.

lostand confused says

Hillary is under investigation by the FBI. trump is not. if the roles are reversed and Trump was the Sec of State and he was stupid enough to conduct his email on a private server that was found in a bathroom closet

I can think of lots of better reasons not to vote for Hillary. Here's one. She's a chicken-hawk. Trump may talk tough with his base, but I doubt Trump will jump into bed with every war he meets. Hillary has.

I wonder if Donald is jealous of that picture.

Yep, both Hillary and Donald have ties to known KKK clansman. You know who doesn't? Bernie Sanders. He's the guy who marched with MLK, was arrested for supporting the civil rights movement, and has decades of consistent pro-civil-rights work. Yet, African Americans are just not voting for him. They are voting for Hillary. WTF?

Dan8267 says

Yet, African Americans are just not voting for him. T

they aren't voting for him.... because the voting is over except for DC, and he lost....

wrong verb there delusional dan. They didn't vote for him.... would be the correct tense. You just can't get your head around the reality that its time to stick a fork in it.... it's done!

Sharingmyintelligencewiththedumbasses, you really are a dumb ass. You're the type of person who gives the left a bad reputation and somehow soils the images of liberals as a result. You're like Triggly Puff. You are incapable of rational, intelligent, adult conversation.

The real reason Hillary Clinton is getting the African American vote is that Bill Clinton was and still is very popular with African Americans. And many such voters still have a strong emotional connection to the image of the Clintons.

http://www.npr.org/2016/03/01/468185698/understanding-the-clintons-popularity-with-black-voters

There are a lot of reasons for her strength with this demographic: her name recognition, her record and her politics, for example. But it's not just her; the Clintons are simply popular among African-Americans.

It's true that Bill Clinton enjoyed heavy support from the black community in the 1990s. But as Hillary Clinton seeks the nomination herself, some are raising questions about just how good the Clinton presidency was for black Americans — not to mention whether Hillary Clinton should get any credit (or, alternatively, blame) for her husband's legacy.

Unfortunately, you are simply not mature enough to discuss this subject at an adult level.

Please, master Dan, please tell us blacks how wez out to votes and all!

Wez just po dum black folk, votin clinton and all wiff out no thinkin and learnin...

That's why they call them "low info" voters. There's lots of older women and blacks that voted for Clinton. I don't know why and they don't either. They just vote for her because she is a woman.

errc says

That's why they call them "low info" voters. There's lots of older women and blacks that voted for Clinton. I don't know why and they don't either. They just vote for her because she is a woman.

yep, we po black womens, we duble stupid... black AND women.... errc and that Drumpf guy jus haz the gutz to speak what everybody else skared two say.

ain't racist at all sayin all us blacks is stuipid, and women too. jus sayin it how it iz.

Sharingmyintelligencewiththedumbasses says

Please, master Dan, please tell us blacks how wez out to votes and all!

What, you can't read the NPR article you illiterate moron?

Sharingmyintelligencewiththedumbasses says

ain't racist at all sayin all us blacks is stuipid, and women too. jus sayin it how it iz.

No, you clearly are the form of racist who is the white guilt equivalent of the "white knight" sexist who thinks women must be protected from imaginary threats. You are right now demonstrating that you think African American need to be protected by some imaginary threat and you are the white knight they need to rescue them. That's highly fucking racist.

errc says

That's why they call them "low info" voters.

This is precisely the problem with America. And both morons on the right like Call It Crazy and morons on the left like dumbass are illustrations of low information voters. And instead of listening to more knowledgeable people, they just live in a bubble and attack anyone who doesn't agree with every stupid thing they say. No wonder Trump is doing so well!

Dan8267 says

No, you clearly are the form of racist who is the white guilt equivalent of the "white knight" sexist who thinks women must be protected from imaginary threats. You are right now demonstrating that you think African American need to be protected by some imaginary threat and you are the white knight they need to rescue them. That's highly fucking racist.

strawman. you don't get to make up my positions, then debate your made up positions. you really are deceitful lying millenial loser.

YOU have asserted that black people "should be voting for Bernie..."

I believe the majority of black voters, particularly primary voters, know what they are doing, and thus are intelligent enough to have picked the best candidate for themselves as individuals.

Your point of view is condescending and racist.

quit lying about my positions, you fucking loser.

jazz music says

Call It Crazy with 2 posts ever on patnet!

I also noticed the similarity between dumbass and CIC. They are nearly identical in personality even though technical opposites on the one-dimensional political spectrum employed by most Americans.

Sharingmyintelligencewiththedumbasses says

strawman. you don't get to make up my positions, then debate your made up positions. you really are deceitful lying millenial loser.

1. You clearly don't know what a straw man is. Read http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/straw-man.html
2. What the fuck is a "made up" position and how does it differ from a "not made up" position?
3. As I've already told you, I am not a Millennial. And as I've also told you, you are entitled to have whatever baseless, vile, and unrespectable opinions you want including that I'm a loser, but you are not entitled to your own facts. When you state that I am a Millennial, you are simply wrong as you are wrong in every other factual statement you have made today.
4. Why are you such a bigot against Millennials? Did one of them fuck your mother? The Millennials are the most educated generation in American history. Why such hate for them? Inferiority complex?

Sharingmyintelligencewiththedumbasses says

YOU have asserted that black people "should be voting for Bernie..."

Again, a factually incorrect statement. This time you might simply be wrong rather than lying. Your reading comprehension skills are quite poor.

I have never made the assertion that "black people should be voting for Bernie". I made two statements:
1. African Americans are voting mainly for Hillary Clinton rather than Bernie Sanders.
2. This fact is surprising given that Hillary has consorted with a KKK clansman and Sanders was pivotal in civil rights for African Americans for the past 40+ years.

The first statement is a fact. If you dispute it, you are simply wrong. The second statement is an opinion, but it is a reasonable one and I'm well within my rights to state a reasoned opinion.

However, I will make another statement that will directly challenge the claim you are trying to make. It would be in African American's self-interest to have voted for Sanders instead of Hillary because Sanders has a long history of protecting their civil rights. Feel free to argue that president Hillary would be in African American's better self-interest. I'd like to see that. It would be like watching a toddler try to solve differential equations.

Oh, and you might want to listen to what Cornel West is saying in the video below. I know you are too childish to read anything, so this is in video form...

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Dan8267 says

I also noticed the similarity between dumbass and CIC.

Fuck no. That's not cic. It's more likely RA. Plus, hrs right. Dan, your view regarding who black people should vote for is condescending. Blow had a good article about that this election cycle.

Dans facts: I want bernie to win, and I'm a crybaby, so I won't accept anything else.

MY facts:
1. the delegates have SAID they are voting for Hillary. FACT.
2. Hillary has nearly 400 more pledged delegates than Bernie. FACT.
3. Hillary had 4 million or so more votes in the primary than Bernie. FACT.
4. Everyone experienced in calling primaries, has called it for Clinton. Fact.

zzyzzx says

zzyzzx  

Dude, add a width="600" to your image tags.

Hillary caught on tape explaining she doesn't use email for political reasons.
www.tRnkN9C7gDw

In other words, she endangered US Secrets for her Political Purposes.

thunderlips11 says

Hillary caught on tape explaining she doesn't use email for political reasons.

Jesus Christ. Does Stan Lee have to appear as a cameo in every movie?

Dan8267 says

I sincerely doubt that Hillary violated any law in emailgate and that the FBI will indite her

She didn't violate any law, but she put herself outside the policy she was supposed to enforce as the Boss - bad judgement and bad leadership.

thunderlips11 says

She didn't violate any law, but she put herself outside the policy she was supposed to enforce as the Boss - bad judgement and bad leadership.

On that I can agree wholeheartedly, but Hillary has done many things far worse like
- voting for the USA Patriot Act
- voting for the Bush wars
- opposing marriage equality
- supporting the TPP secrecy
- supporting keeping Gitmo open
- supporting bailouts to big banks and opposing financial reform
- taking huge bribes from special interests

Her email fiasco is small beans in comparison.

Dan8267 says

On that I can agree wholeheartedly, but Hillary has done many things far worse like

No disagreement here.

She supported the Bankruptcy Reform Act, also.

Here's why you are belittling black people.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/02/11/opinion/campaign-stops/stop-bernie-splaining-to-black-voters.html

If Hillary crossed the pledged delegates, Bernie will not be taking it to Philly. Trump won the pledged delegates. If Hillary's superdelegates switch to bernie-he is the nominee.

lostand confused says

If Hillary's superdelegates switch to bernie-he is the nominee.

If frogs had wings, they could just fly gently down after every jump, instead of bumping their asses so much...

YesYNot says

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/02/11/opinion/campaign-stops/stop-bernie-splaining-to-black-voters.html

1. You can't just put "-splaining" after a noun to make an intelligent argument. You sound like a SJW.
2. If you were to call anything here "-splaining" it should be "cornellWestsplaining" as demonstrated in this video.
3. Falsely accusing someone of belittling black people is a form of racism called race-baiting. That is exactly what you are engaging in right now.
4. As Cornell West eloquently explained, African Americans overwhelmingly support Bernie Sanders after and only after they get the correct information about his long history fighting for civil rights. This is also exactly why Cornell West so enthusiastically supports Bernie Sanders.
5. It is unethical of you to use African Americans as pawns in your deception to attack Bernie Sanders via his supporters. That is just a morally bankrupt tactic.

lostand confused says

Trump won the pledged delegates.

This is a true statement, which is why the GOP will have be a contested convention. This is also surprising because a few months ago, most people thought the GOP convention would be contested and the Democratic one would not. This has been an election season full of surprises, so I wouldn't be surprise if future historians look back on this as one of the pivotal elections in American history. I think this election marks the beginning of a transition to a seventh party system in which Nixon's South Strategy is no longer viable and the unholy union between religious nuts and the owner class has been broken at the same time the Democratic Party can no longer be a party for the upper-middle class white demographic alone.

Interesting, Trump not only won the primary, it was a landslide even for a two-candidate race, and he was in a 17-way race. That makes the landslide even more incredible. So when I say that Trump has a very good chance of defeating Hillary, there is plenty of basis for that belief. Now that Trump has eliminated all competition on the GOP side, he is focusing his full attention on Hillary and he's being just as effective at tearing her apart as he has been with every GOP candidate.

The previously unthinkable Trump administration is right now quite plausible.

Sharingmyintelligencewiththedumbasses says

lostand confused says

If Hillary's superdelegates switch to bernie-he is the nominee.

If frogs had wings, they could just fly gently down after every jump, instead of bumping their asses so much...

The flaw in this idiot's, for lack of a better word, thinking is that frogs cannot grow wings but the superdelegates most certain can, and have considerable incentive to, switch their votes and doing so would be fulfilling the very purpose of their existence.

So dumbass should really have said, if money could buy things, then having lots of it would make you rich.

Dan8267 says

1. You can't just put "-splaining"

Take it up with blow and the nytDan8267 says

3. Falsely accusing someone of belittling black

In your head, stating that blacks got their votes wrong, because they were ignorant is not belittling? Dan8267 says

. It is unethical of you to use African Americans as pawns in

Look in the mirror. I don't have to use anyone as a pawn or come up with convoluted arguments, because HC beat Bernie fair and square. Anyway, I voted for Bernie. But it's time for him to move on.

YesYNot says

Take it up with blow and the ny

The opinion of one New York Times editor does not reflect the opinions of all NYT editors, and even if it did, one can disagree with opinions, but not facts. People are attacking my factual claims, not my opinions, and that makes them wrong. The fact remains that Bernie Sanders has a long history of supporting civil rights particularly for African Americans whereas Hillary Clinton supported the polices that led to the routine murder of unarmed black people, including a sleeping 9-year-old girl, that is exactly what the #blacklivesmatter movement is trying to fight. This is not opinion. It's fact.

YesYNot says

In your head,

It is a fact that you have no idea what is going on in my head. Don't pretend to have access to my thoughts. That is the epitome of a straw man argument.

thunderlips11 says

She supported the Bankruptcy Reform Act, also.

If ever there was an act named in double speak.