clinton vs. sanders your vote?- Page 32

[PalJoey]

Posted: 9/2/15 at 11:53pm

Yup. Here's what Hillary did in her 8 years in the Senate:

 

Sanders' supporters seem to have forgotten her many Senate achievements. Let’s remind them:

 

MILITARY / VETERANS / FIRST RESPONDERS

• As a U.S. Senator, Clinton was a champion for our service members and veterans. Hillary Clinton was the first New Yorker to serve on the Senate Armed Services Committee and made veterans a main focus. She introduced the Heroes at Home Act in 2006 and 2007 to help family members care for those with Traumatic Brain Injury. She also worked to increase the military survivor benefit from $12,000 to $100,000, and cosponsored the Support for Injured Servicemembers Act to extend benefits provided under the Family and Medical Leave Act. Hillary also worked across the aisle to keep the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station open during a time when the Pentagon was shuttering bases, which saved 800 jobs in upstate New York.

• Hillary Clinton, as a U.S. Senator, worked with Republicans to expand health care for National Guard members and reservists. According to McClatchy, then-Senator Clinton worked with Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) to “provide full military health benefits to reservists and National Guard members.” A statement from Graham’s senate office said, “Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) today announced that the Department of Defense Authorization bill conference report finalized today includes an amendment that will improve TRICARE benefits for National Guard members and Reservists, allowing all members of the Selected Reserve and their families to enroll in TRICARE with an across the board cost-sharing of 28 percent. Today’s victory builds on the Senators’ longstanding commitment to ensuring that members of our National Guard and Reserve and their families have access to the health care benefits they need and deserve.”

• Hillary stepped up for New York in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, fighting hard to secure funds for medical assessment, referrals and outreach for 9/11 rescue and recovery workers, and volunteers.

IMMIGRATION

• As Senator, Hillary Clinton fought to pass the DREAM Act and comprehensive immigration reform, helping to cultivate awareness of the issues in Congress. She introduced the Legal Immigrant Children’s Health Improvement Act, which would give states the option to provide federally funded Medicaid and SCHIP benefits to low-income legal immigrant children and pregnant women. She also wrote the Access to Employment and English Acquisition Act to meet the growing demand for English language courses and other job skills.

HEALTH CARE

• Hillary wrote a law as Senator providing grants to state and local governments to pay for respite care services for family caregivers, which allows expanded funding for temporary breaks for caregivers of sick or disabled people.

• One of Hillary’s Senate bills to distribute flu vaccines more efficiently inspired provisions of a law promoting the production and stockpiling of vaccines to improve our response to public health emergencies.

WOMEN & CHILDREN

• Hillary Clinton worked in the Senate to strengthen the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, introducing multiple bills allowing states to expand the program that she helped create as First Lady. The program, created in 1997, increased health coverage for children in low income and working families. Hillary also co-wrote a law compelling drug companies to conduct safety tests for products prescribed for children, and wrote a component of the No Child Left Behind Act authorizing funding for recruiting and retaining better teachers.

• Hillary Clinton was a powerful advocate for women in the Senate and was one of the original cosponsors of the Prevention First Act to increase access to family planning. As Senator she was a strong defender of a woman’s right to choose.

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 9/3/15 at 6:05am

So the numbers you used two posts above to knock Sanders for being a do nothing kvetch suddenly don't mean anything when those same numbers show Clinton was less productive during her time in the Senate than Sanders.

Updated On: 9/3/15 at 06:05 AM

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 9/3/15 at 7:28am

In a meeting with donors yesterday Joe Biden praised Bernie Sanders campaign, no mention of Clinton.

Biden in hush-hush donor meeting: Sanders ‘doing a helluva job’

Joe Biden sounded off Wednesday on one of his potential primary opponents — but it wasn't Hillary Clinton.

“I am not a populist. But Bernie Sanders, he’s doing a helluva job,” Biden said, puzzling at least a few donors at a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee fundraiser in Miami.

Biden also seemed to call out the donors, some of whom who paid $10,000 or more for the dinner, because they’re the so-called 1 percent who have 26 percent of the nation’s wealth – a system that he said is ruining the middle class, a donor said.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/joe-biden-bernie-sanders-213297#ixzz3kfr1q4MP
 

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 9/4/15 at 1:01pm

Looking Ahead: Evaluating Bernie Sanders Coverage in The Times

http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/04/looking-ahead-evaluating-bernie-sanders-coverage-in-the-times/?smid=tw-share&_r=0

[South Florida]

Posted: 9/4/15 at 4:59pm

Bring it Joe.

[Steve C.]

Posted: 9/4/15 at 5:44pm

I just caught up on the last two days of this thread. PJ thanks you make me smile but, nobody bashes HC when you're around. I'm re-reading Hard Choices and just can't believe how people believe the lies and not the truths. I'm proudly for Hillary Clinton!

BTW, how cranky do you have to be to get in the Hebrew Home? I know some people.....

[South Florida]

Posted: 9/4/15 at 5:56pm

People don't like to think a dynasty is being thrust upon them.  All sides, Bill in the White House as the first man?  I want to go to the party.  Bush, too familiar a name, bad decisions?  He has nothing to do with his brother.  That's why these early polls are meaningless, other than to admit we're messed up.  People like me are all for Bernie.  We're the left wing, we may serve that up to you.  :)!

 

[South Florida]

Posted: 9/4/15 at 6:11pm

Anyone want to come into the bolshevik party?  I think you can get in.  I don't remember but I think it exists.

 

[Steve C.]

Posted: 9/4/15 at 6:13pm

Let's see if the "Colbert Bump" is still in working condition..It starts 9/8 and he's already booked 

Jeb Bush

Joe Biden

Bernie Sanders

..in the first two weeks. I hope CBS doesn't F><k with him. Politics and Broadway shows in one place? 

Thank you Stephen Colbert!!! We missed you!!

Updated On: 9/4/15 at 06:13 PM

[BroadwayFan12]

Posted: 9/4/15 at 9:56pm

I like Biden, Sanders will still get my vote in the primary regardless of whether or not Biden decides to run. Elizabeth Warren is my first choice, though. It's a shame she's not running.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 9/8/15 at 12:47am

 

 

Sanders is officially OVAH!. It's all about BidenBidenBidenBidenBidenBiden from now on (until the inevitable Hillary Resurrection).

 

 

[DAME]

Posted: 9/8/15 at 3:52am

PalJoey said: " 

 

 

 

Sanders is officially OVAH!. It's all about BidenBidenBidenBidenBidenBiden from now on (until the inevitable Hillary Resurrection).

 

 

 

 

 

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Yup.  And it is only September.

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 9/8/15 at 6:29am

PalJoey said: " 

 

 

 

Sanders is officially OVAH!. It's all about BidenBidenBidenBidenBidenBiden from now on (until the inevitable Hillary Resurrection).

Ha! There were reports this weekend Biden was going around telling people to vote for Sanders in New Hampshire.

But at least you admit Hillary is in need of a resurrection!

 

 

 

 

 

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[HorseTears]

Posted: 9/8/15 at 8:31pm

Hillary Clinton on Private Email: ‘That Was a Mistake. I’m Sorry’ (ABC News)

 

I don't know what to make of this.  Was her campaign stupid or smart for dragging this on so long?   She's been leading up to this apology with WEEKS of interviews in which her level of contrition slowly "evolved" from completely unapologetic, to regret that her choice was confusing to people, to this actual apology.  Would be fascinating to know if she was the one dragging her feet on this all along or if her campaign management were the ones telling her not to apologize.  Guess we'll know when they all publish their books in early 2017.  

 

Oh, and, for the record.  I don't think she has anything to apologize for, I just think her campaign's handling of this "scandal" has been less than perfect.  

Updated On: 9/8/15 at 08:31 PM

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 9/8/15 at 8:38pm

At the very least, she should apologize for lying on March 12 when stating the server was set up "years ago for President Clinton." It has since been confirmed that she independently contracted the State Department aide (currently pleading the fifth) to set-up the server in late 2009. A server President Clinton has not used even one time since 2009. 

 

Always enjoy a little extra corruption with my nightcap. Mmmmm, yummy. 

[PalJoey]

Posted: 9/8/15 at 9:13pm

 

Name your poison.

 

 

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 9/8/15 at 10:33pm

"At the very least, she should apologize for..."

 

she he sure has one helluva nerve for not apologizing, huh Headband?

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 9/9/15 at 8:39am

she he sure has one helluva nerve for not apologizing, huh Headband?

 

 

[PalJoey]

Posted: 9/9/15 at 10:02am

 

 

And, once again proving that she is the only intelligent candidate on either the Democratic or the Republican side--and the only one capable of seeing the larger picture of global politics--Hillary announces this morning her 5-point plan on moving forward with the Iran nuclear agreement:

 

 POLITICO: Hillary Clinton offers 5-point plan on Iran

 

 

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 9/9/15 at 10:32am

I admire the tint of your rose colored Hillary glasses.

Updated On: 9/9/15 at 10:32 AM

[South Florida]

Posted: 9/9/15 at 7:42pm

Common PJ, ride on the Bernie Train.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 9/9/15 at 9:50pm

If Biden enters the race, Hillary will really have to stay on her toes.   She'll have some real competition. 

[South Florida]

Posted: 9/9/15 at 11:14pm

Bernie train's a holy roller, ride on the Bernie train.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 9/9/15 at 11:22pm

My guess is Biden is staying out of it until we see what happens with the E-mail debacle. I honestly hopes he throws his hat in the ring!

 

[PalJoey]

Posted: 9/9/15 at 11:22pm

 

Do you know how creepy that sounds?