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The Brazile email- perhaps tellingly- is one of the few that has been directly addressed. Denying it, of course, also helps to poison the well.

Any chance Trump does NOT take this bait?

Obama: “I’d advise Mr. Trump to stop whining and go try to make his case to get votes,”

Petralicious said: "I am beginning to think that he knows there is no way in H*ll he thinks he can win. But for some stupid reason he just wants to cripple her and her Presidency.

I'm pretty sure one can say the word HELL on BWW without being struck off the mailing list [one can live in hope !].

Kettle /black again--who now is thread jumping SF?

You and me, but it is 5.22am in Australia and I am up to face the new day/do my exercises and then off to see the Miss Saigon movie later this morning-can't wait to be thrilled. or disappointed. Perhaps I'll report.

SL

Updated On: 10/18/16 at 03:14 PM

NEW YORK MAGAZINE: New Polls Show Clinton on Pace for a Landslide



http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/10/new-polls-show-clinton-on-pace-for-a-landslide.html?mid=full-rss-krang,dailyintel,scienceofus

I'm really surprised that millennial men support Clinton 20% more than millennial women.

Bernie Looks Ahead

"But is there a case to be made for Hillary, solely on her own merits?

On a number of issues, I believe Hillary Clinton’s positions are quite strong. I was happy to negotiate an agreement with her in the party’s platform which said that she would support making public colleges and universities tuition-free for families making $125,000 or less. That is pretty revolutionary. That will not only transform the ability of people to go to college, it will have an impact on kids in elementary school today who know that if they study hard, they can get a college education. She and I also agreed to a doubling of the expansion of community health centers. That’s tens of millions more people who will have access to primary health care and dental care and low-cost prescription drugs and mental health counseling. I want to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, and I think Clinton is open to moving in that direction, to at least $12 an hour. She supports infrastructure projects that will put millions of people back to work. She understands the significance of not acting on climate change, while Donald Trump does not believe that climate change is real, which is a real threat to the planet.

So what I would ask people is to take a hard look at (a) what a Donald Trump presidency would mean for this country, which in my view would be a disaster, and(b) how Clinton’s views on a number of issues are fairly good. That is what we should be focusing on—not the personalities of the candidates, but what their policies will do for the middle class and working families of this country.

You certainly played a major role in pushing Clinton to the left on some key issues, at least in the party’s platform. But many of your supporters don’t believe that Hillary really supports those positions or will make good on those promises. They see it as something she did in the platform to appease the left.

I think that Hillary Clinton is sincere in a number of areas. In other areas I think she is gonna have to be pushed, and that’s fine. That’s called the democratic process.

Right now, you have a majority of Republicans—of Republicans—who believe we should raise taxes on the wealthy. Do I think Clinton is prepared to do that? Yeah. Do I think she is prepared to do away with loopholes to get rid of outrageous tax breaks for large multinational corporations? Yeah, I do. Do I think she is serious about climate change, and that we can push her even further? Yeah, I do. Do I think that under Clinton we will raise the minimum wage? Yeah, I do. I’m not quite sure it will be 15 bucks an hour, but it will bring millions of people out of poverty.

Through the work of millions of people, we created a Democratic platform which is far and away the most progressive platform in the history of the United States of America for any political party. Our job the day after the election—and hopefully after Clinton is elected—is to make sure that that platform is implemented.

So what I would ask of young people is to turn off CNN. Let’s assume that Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders and you and everybody else are not perfect human beings, all right? Let’s take a look at the needs of ordinary people and which candidate will be better on that as president of the United States. On that approach, there is no debate to my mind that we should elect Clinton."

https://newrepublic.com/article/137103/bernie-looks-ahead

Ecuador claps back.

Ecuador Confirms It Has Cut Off Julian Assange's Internet Access

http://gizmodo.com/ecuador-confirms-it-has-cut-off-julian-assanges-interne-1787949101?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Sure SF, stir all that up again. That's just what we need!

I know, the fault was mine for responding to SF. It's a great read, and I'll be sharing it with the people I think still need to hear it. Thanks!

Updated On: 10/18/16 at 08:10 PM

The only one in the entire Democratic world currently stirring up intra-party SH*T is South Florida. Other than his idiotic passive-aggressiveness, we're all good.

All the bad feeling has disappeared, and the great work is soon to begin.

Isn't she perfect?



"As our intelligence agencies have said, these leaks are an effort by a foreign government to interfere with our electoral process and I will not indulge it. Further, I want to warn my fellow Republicans who may want to capitalize politically on these leaks: Today it is the Democrats. Tomorrow it could be us."

--Senator Marco Rubio

Wait, I thought we were supposed to hate Laura Benanti since she took Patti Murins side in

"The Great BWW Messageboard Wars"

Has she finally "apologized"?