[IsraelTimes] President-elect’s isolationist stance on security and rejection of international trade pacts cause concern in Europe.
They may all be their nations' chief diplomats, but they seem to be struggling with the concept of a negotiating position. This is going to be fascinating.
It's never their fault, is it. Did Comey do the pay-for-play? No. Did he set up a private server to avoid FOIA? No. Is he a fake, a congenital liar, and an unlikeable bitch? No.
Presidential candidates have a long history of blaming forces outside their control for their losses. In 2004, John Kerry linked his defeat to a videotape of Osama bin Laden that appeared days before the election, stoking fears about terrorism. In 2012, Mitt Romney told donors he had lost because President Obama had vowed to bestow "gifts" on Democratic special interests groups, namely African-Americans, Hispanics and young people. actually true. The "Free Shit" crowd votes themselves goodies
Mrs. Clinton's contention appears to be more rooted in reality ‐ and hard data. An internal campaign memo with polling data said that "there is no question that a week from Election Day, Secretary Clinton was poised for a historic win," but that, in the end, "late-breaking developments in the race proved one hurdle too many for us to overcome."
Still, Mrs. Clinton’s instinct to shun any personal responsibility angered some Democrats. Several donors on the call, while deeply bitter about Mr. Comey's actions, said they believed that Mrs. Clinton and her campaign had suffered avoidable missteps that handed the election to an unacceptable opponent. They pointed to the campaign's lack of a compelling message for white working-class voters and to decisions years ago by Mrs. Clinton to use a private email address at the State Department and to accept millions of dollars for speeches to Wall Street.
"There is a special place in hell for Clinton staff, allegedly including Cheryl Mills, that okayed the email server setup," Jim Manley, a Democratic strategist and former senior aide to Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, wrote on Sidewire, a social media site, referring to a longtime aide and lawyer to Mrs. Clinton.
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crap. I KNOW I hit page 6
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Bill Clinton's former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich talked about creating a third party if the Democratic Party does not move in a more progressive direction.
“The Democratic Party can no longer be the same; it has been repudiated,” Reich said on a conference call with members from the progressive grassroots group Democracy for America. “This has been a huge refutation of establishment politics, and the political organization has got to be changed. … If the Democratic Party can’t do it, we’ll do it through a third party.”
The Democratic Party is in an all-out civil war between the more progressive wing of the party and the more corporate wing of the party.
Some in the party are blaming progressives who supported Bernie Sanders for refusing to rally behind Hillary Clinton.
“The Sanders people should be mad at themselves,” said one well-connected Democratic strategist to the Hill. “If they had come out to vote, Donald Trump wouldn’t be president.”
Others say that the corporate wing of the party has to be purged to appeal to more working-class voters.
“Everybody in the building needs to be fired immediately,” Cenk Uygur, the host of the progressive political commentary show The Young Turks, told the Hill.
It is unknown who will lead the Democratic Party as the party looks forward to the midterm elections in 2018 and then the 2020 presidential election. But one thing Democrats agree on is that they were ineffective at turning out older, working-class voters in states like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
“There were people who felt left out of the economy over the last eight years, who were never able to get back on their feet–blue collar men and women,” former Sen. Ken Salazar (D-Colo.) said. “Donald Trump was able to capture them in terms of emotion and sentiment.”
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But one thing Democrats agree on is that they were ineffective at turning out older, working-class voters in states like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
That's one explanation. Or maybe, just maybe, those people simply weren't buying what you were selling.
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Bill Clinton's former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich talked about creating a third party if the Democratic Party does not move in a more progressive direction.
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But one thing Democrats agree on is that they were ineffective at turning out older, working-class voters in states like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
They did turn them out, only to vote for the other side. And the one's you called simply played the game you taught them - just say what they want to hear because otherwise they'll call you racist, sexists, homophobic. They learned the game be big boys play, lie though your teeth (see - Affordable Care Act)
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One of the more amusing stories I've out of this is that in western PA, the heaviest turnout precincts for Trump also had the heaviest door to door Hillary effort. That would seem to say that when the Hillary people came knockin', voters decided to go down and vote for Trump.
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I was gonna fly in with a snarky height joke, but I see Charger already won this thread. Take a bow, my man!
Thanks, Raj!
(Bows, throws out back)
That would seem to say that when the Hillary people came knockin', voters decided to go down and vote for Trump.
They screwed up. They reminded voters that Hillary was the alternative to Trump.
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My home town is a reliably purple spot in Oklahoma. After the Clinton manipulated won the primaries all of the the Bernie signs disappeared. Weeds and grasshoppers replaced them.
[UK Daily Mail] The chance encounter a mother hiking with her daughter had with Hillary Clinton the day after losing the election may not be what it has been made out to seem.
Margot Gerster was out hiking with her daughter when she ran into Hillary and Bill Clinton in the upstate New York town of Chappaqua, where the Clintons have a home. Clinton was said to have been out walking her dogs with former president Bill Clinton, when Gerster spotted them. She took a photo with the former first lady who beamed from ear to ear, appearing to have had the weight of the world lifted from her shoulders as she stood next to Gerster.
The chance encounter Gerster had with Clinton gained national media attention as it was the first time Clinton had been photographed after losing the election.
However, some critics allege that their meeting while hiking was staged and not random at all. Adding more fuel to those claims is the fact that it's actually not the first time they've met.
When Gerster was in high school, her mother held a fundraiser for Clinton at Crabtree’s Kittle House in Chappaqua. Gerster and her sister posed for a photo with Clinton inside the restaurant which happens to be one of the politician's favorites, as the siblings smiled next to a beaming Clinton.
The fundraiser their family hosted may have been during the period of time Clinton was running for senator or when she served as senator for New York.
The caption Gerster wrote for the most recent photo of her with Clinton this week said that she was 'so heartbroken' after the Democrat's stunning loss.
Gerster has since removed both photos from her profile on Facebook.
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So, any time a person screams at you for not supporting this fake person, you are being screamed at by a fake person. Not that you needed the emotional insulation...
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Where else you gonna find plants than in a forest?
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[Dhaka Tribune] President-elect Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... began laying the groundwork on Friday to take office on January 20, 2017, gathering the most loyal advisers from his bad boy campaign and three of his children to plot his transition strategy as Protesters across the US are gearing up for weekend demonstrations over the election of Donald Trump.
The announcement was one of several surprises, as Trump shook up his transition team by putting running mate Mike Pence in charge and named a cohort of Washington insiders ‐ and three of his children ‐ to help with the process of choosing a new cabinet.
The reshuffle came as anti-Trump protesters spilled onto the streets for a third straight night, with the Republican facing mounting calls to reassure Americans who fear a xenophobic crackdown under his authority.
Throngs of people ‐ among them families and children ‐ rallied late Friday in New York’s Washington Square carrying banners reading "Peace and Love" and "Your wall can’t stand in our way." Local media estimated a turnout of some 4,000 protesters.
Early Saturday, Portland police said on Twitter that they were investigating a report of a shooting and a possible injury on a Willamette River bridge that protesters were heading toward. They asked the public to leave the area. It wasn’t immediately clear if the report had anything to do with the protests.
In Portland, Oregon, a demonstrator was shot and sustained non-life-threatening injuries after what police believe was a confrontation. The suspect then fled the area.
And more than 1,000 people gathered in Miami, with weekend protests planned in a number of other cities.
The 70-year-old incoming president has a mammoth task of fleshing out his cabinet, as well as steering the complex transition of power, and announced on Friday he was elevating Vice President-elect Pence to lead the process.
Trump included three of his children and his son-in-law Jared Kushner on the transition team ‐ a move likely to raise eyebrows, since the tycoon earlier announced that should he win he would place his vast business interests into a blind trust operated by Donald Trump Jr, Eric Trump and Ivanka Trump.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Bill Clinton's former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich talked about creating a third party if the Democratic Party does not move in a more progressive direction.
[Dhaka Tribune] President-elect 
