If you put Bernie Sanders in the same category as George W. Bush, you’ve got a screw loose.

Posted by: Bruno Marz | May 20 2016 18:27 utc | 3

Greek experiment: The puppet show continues

Posted by: nmb | May 20 2016 18:36 utc | 5

I have nothing at all to do with the management of this website (fortunately for everyone).
I had a strange personal project back in my hippie days in which I would work my way into many very different groups of people. I was possibly the only white guy to be allowed into Black Panther meetings. (They would rant constantly about how the “white man” was the source of all the troubles of the world.) I would also hang with billionaires on their yachts at sea. For that I needed to wear water tolerant, sticky soft rubber sole, blue canvas deck shoes. I liked them and wore them all the time. So the Panthers nicknamed me “bluesneakers”. So for my blog handle I shortened it to “blues” about ten years ago.

Posted by: blues | May 20 2016 18:50 utc | 7

Sanders is Neocon Light. Moderate Zionist. He wouldn’t lift a finger to change the dynamics in Palestine/Israel. Hillary is a raging hell-bent Neocon Zionist. We don’t know what Trump is. (establishment R’s are not sure he’s sufficiently Zionist).
(Dynamics: Israel crushing Palestine, stealing land, water, oil, olive trees, blocking roads, building settlements, razing houses, shooting children, pissing/defecating in the water wells, turning off the taps, etc.)

Posted by: fast freddy | May 20 2016 20:53 utc | 9

May 20, 2016 You cannot make this stuff up …
“A plane got blown out of the sky,” the presumptive Republican presidential nominee said at a fundraiser in Lawrenceville, N.J., tonight. “And if anything, if anybody thinks it wasn’t blown out of the sky, you are 100 percent wrong, folks. OK? You’re 100 percent wrong.”
Trump made the unsubstantiated claim while slamming Hillary Clinton for her apparent reluctance to use the term “radical Islamic terrorism.”
source – http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-missing-egyptair-aircraft-blown-sky/story?id=39242934
Wonder if ‘The Donald’s’ spawn will be aiming sniper rifles and spotting for our artillary in the ME?

Posted by: ALberto | May 20 2016 21:30 utc | 11

Posted by: rg the lg | May 20, 2016 5:07:21 PM | 10
Excellent observation except, who are the lesser evils (president) and they’re still evils, Right?

Posted by: Jack Smith | May 20 2016 22:00 utc | 13

#12 bernie policies on domestic issues are not bad but he is george the lesser, obomber, on foreign affairs Loves the f-35
I’ll be voting Green as normal.

Posted by: jo6pac | May 20 2016 22:28 utc | 15

Posted by: jo6pac | May 20, 2016 6:28:01 PM | 15
bernie policies on domestic issues are not bad but he is george the lesser, obomber, on foreign affairs Loves the f-35
I am not 100% agreement. Consider this: Dun need a Constitution law professor, Socialist, Libertarian or rocket scientist to know can’t have bread and butter on the table for every American if continue to pour billions aids to both Egypt and Israel and more billions to military industrial complex and regime change, Right?
As a Californian wait and see the outcome California’s June 7 primary and will vote either Green or… in November.

Posted by: Jack Smith | May 20 2016 23:00 utc | 17

Media pattern of allowing Hillary to get away with lies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW2LUlJELTE&list=PLfrlsC1yJ2dRKoVBWM7-7w7ai0OOtvVco
Petty Hillary Clinton in Action, She Shows Her True Colors:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k87hBjkM8-s&list=PLfrlsC1yJ2dRaST6vy0GHoY5nZgVfJLo2

Posted by: Tom Murphy | May 21 2016 1:39 utc | 19

Jack Smith @ 13 …
Lessor evil remains evil. By definition. The issue really is simple: when an lessor evil is defined, what makes them lessor? Generally only rhetoric – such as Obomba has made clear. The real difference between he and McCain was nothing more or less than simple rhetoric. Because of his rhetoric he was able to do more harm than McCain would have. So while the idiotic citizens thought they were voting for the lessor evil, in fact they were voting for the greater evil.
The same thing is evident in the current election: who is worse? Because Clinton might be able to ‘get more done’ … reality suggests that perhaps the person least able to do anything may be the best candidate. I suspect that might be Trump with Bernie following a close second.

Posted by: rg the lg | May 21 2016 2:15 utc | 21

{Quote} Fascinating, do tell us more of your dobie gillis radicalism? {Unquote}
The Dobie Gillis show was an early 60s comedy show.
There was nothing about running out into the D.C. Beltway with cars going 70mph inches around you like I dad back then to escape the police.
Also, my exploration project was not at all easy. Plus I learned a few things that most people would rather not know about. About myself and about the world.

Posted by: blues | May 21 2016 6:23 utc | 23

Keep up the good work, Bernie.
The longer you stay in the race, the greater the chances of Hilary
ending up as burnt toast.

Posted by: chris m | May 21 2016 11:26 utc | 25

Posted by: radiateur | May 20, 2016 6:51:19 PM | 16
No they haven’t and if they do I’ll back the Pirate Party, grrrrrrrrrrrrrr;)
JS, I’m in Calif. also.

Posted by: jo6pac | May 21 2016 15:20 utc | 27

it’s very poor analysis to claim sanders is same as obama or clinton.
their funding, track records, actual proposals and bases of support are substantially different.
sanders is cautious in what he says on foreign policy but qualitatively different from clinton who is proven hawk.
there is significant chance clinton would take the USA to war in syria. that would lead to war with iran and possibly russia. sanders record and statements clearly indicate he will not. he is explicitly against ‘regime change’ policy. anyone who cannot see the difference in their approaches does not have color vision.
here is short description of bernie in Vallejo California the other day:
http://dissidentvoice.org/2016/05/bernie-comes-to-vallejo/#more-62696

Posted by: rick sterling | May 21 2016 15:39 utc | 29

Posted by: jo6pac | May 21, 2016 11:20:10 AM | 27
JS, I’m in Calif. also
radiateur could be right. NeoCon and Neoliberal will do anything to confuse the sheep with fears, lies or slogans. Take for example in 2008 – “Change, Change you can believe in” and Bernie recent slogan. “A Future you can believe in”.
jo6pac, go with the Green. Made up my mind who to vote in June 7 primary, but undecide and might go with Green (Jill Stein) in Nov. if CA decide the lesser of two evils.
BTW, my County is on the ball just receive (Sat. May 21. 10:15am local time) Ca official voter information guide and can’t wait to cast my vote!

Posted by: Jack Smith | May 21 2016 17:44 utc | 31

Here’s a vid ‘Hillary Clinton lying for 13 minutes straight’ that the WP made sure their readers saw last week. The individual who put it together did a good job – http://wapo.st/1quftsZ
I admire Bernie’s fighting spirit and he should in no way leave the arena. Clinton is vulnerable. She is not and will not fire up the base to get out the vote. The contrast b/w her ’08 campaign to ’16 is remarkable. She had the fighting spirit then and the support of Dem/Indy women as evidenced by the PUMA’s who were shocked again and again by the lengths in which the DNC, especially the Rules committee, went out of their way to keep her within striking distance of the nomination. I see no fight in her this time around. Only entitlement. And she feels tired to me.
As for Trump? He reminds me of a chameleon. I’m cutting the guy some slack for now, b/c refreshingly, he is not trying to pretend he is a professional hack. I think his mouth hurts him more than anything, but it doesn’t appear to be bothering the conservatives too much, the faux conservatives yes, but not the hardened ones.
The 2016 campaign for me is shaping up to be more about the destruction of the Uni-Party’s power structures. Preibus appears to be managing the RNC and Trump the ‘outsider’ rather well, while also containing, at least for now, the Romney/Kristol/Bush camps. But Wasserman Schultz is blowing it on the D side. Her loyalty to the Clinton entitlement crap has left a huge opening for the Bernie surge to build, forcefully, inside the void she’s blindly created. For Van Jones to go on the record this week saying he wished Preibus was his Party’s chair, well, that says a lot.
The candidates are the candidates but the Uni-Party structures being forced to boot out the self-serving dynasty’s from their leadership ranks is something I am enjoying watching, very much. May the days of the neocons and neoliberals control of the Uni-Party come to its rightful destructive end in 2016.

Posted by: h | May 21 2016 17:59 utc | 33

JS at 32:
True, insofar as examples, but might it not be possible that the threat is more damaging than the reality? Could it be that the beaten wife has merely endured pain, while the threatened wife lives under the constant fear of being beaten?
Granted, both are evil … but one is a physical situation whilst the other is psychological. Which is actually worse? One the surface of it, a beating seems worse because it has an immediacy of pain. The fear of potential beating may have even more impact than the impact itself. I’m not quite sure which one is worse in the long run. Unless, and until, we know the eventual outcome, I am not convinced that one is truly worse than the other. Both are evil … which is lessor is hard to distinguish.
Is the fact that we know Killary has a track record of violence against others really worse than the potential of Bernie or Trump? I’m not smart enough to know for sure which will have the most negative long term outcome. What I do know is that Trump does threaten but has no real track record; Bernie is on record for supporting violence. Because of the way AmeriKKKans tend to think, I suspect that any of the three would turn to violence to sustain their credibility in the end.
Yes, amigo mio, I am a cynic. [Cynicism being the hard shell an idealist grows to protect the self from reality.]

Posted by: rg the lg | May 21 2016 19:23 utc | 35

Unaparty
It’s the Unaparty.
The Fuckin UNAPARTY.
They kill millions. Simply because they are sadists. Not even sociopaths.
SADISTS!!!
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Posted by: blues | May 21 2016 23:48 utc | 37

Bernie staying, forcing a tired Hilary into an uncomfortable space.
Looks to me like she gonna be forced to put her gloves up in defence… Man… Donald is gonna maul her. He’s only now hitting his stride, polishing his act, Hilary gonna be too wrecked from a Dem campaign with no moral compass up against the Mr nice guy approach. The total contrast in political opponent will be too much… the Dem campaign will have prepared her zero…

Posted by: MadMax2 | May 22 2016 3:43 utc | 39

Posted by: MadMax2 | May 21, 2016 11:43:52 PM | 39
Does that mean Bernie now the sole surviving Dem candidate in Nov?
and who will be his VP, Tulsi Gabbard?
Time to figure whom to vote in June 7….

Posted by: Jack Smith | May 22 2016 3:55 utc | 41

This Monday is the DEADLINE to Register in California for Democratic Primary
see video about that and other points: https://goo.gl/2b1rCo

Posted by: Tom Murphy | May 22 2016 6:53 utc | 43

@41 your raising Tulsi Gabbard for leadership in a Sanders administration is interesting. Here’s a question, why hasn’t Sanders used her? The woman stepped out of the DNC leadership quagmire and endorsed him long ago. I’ve seen no evidence of her anywhere in his campaign nor on the trail. I don’t watch the talking heads so don’t know if she’s been on any of the news shows speaking on his behalf. I do find it curious that he’s not used her and his other surrogates more during this season.
For those interested in ‘hacking the vote’ here are two articles that may be of interest to you –
Clinton Does Best Where Voting Machines Flunk Hacking Tests: Hillary Clinton vs. Bernie Sanders Election Fraud Allegations – http://bit.ly/1Te2Ob2
and
This 2-Part Series by Hopsicker over at madcow – Election company in NY primary has ‘arm-long’ rap sheet – http://bit.ly/1RhAJbs
The latter piece shows a sordid history of those who run the company tabulating NY’s votes that leads back to the 2000 ‘hanging chads’ debacle.

Posted by: h | May 22 2016 13:28 utc | 45

Trump;35 % tariff on Mexican goods entering USA.Hoo hah!Whose gonna pay for the wall?

Posted by: dahoit | May 22 2016 15:19 utc | 47

pantaraxia at 48, yes… reagan…still trump more ‘renewal’ i guess it just struck me…in comp. to sanders, clinton and others…

Posted by: Noirette | May 22 2016 18:06 utc | 49

Posted by: jo6pac | May 22, 2016 5:46:45 PM | 50
Thanks, staggering new voters’ registration. Not surprisingly Dem, Latino and millennial generation being the most.
Since spring Dem.’s foot soldiers were around my neighborhood. Knocked at my door – a black kid early twenty after he showed me, his clipboard’s freaking Donald Trump with a marked RED cross. I said – GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY PROPERTY and said I will vote for Donald Trump.” This is how much I hate the Democratic party.
My observations on the grounds here: Black, Latinos and minorities will vote Hillary, White – mainly lower income for Donald Trump and millennial generation for Bernie. I lived in a poorer neighborhood and most living from paycheck to paycheck some minute to minutes.
It’s amazing to note Black unflinching support for Obomo a proven liar and murderer. Mostly or most were clueless what going on in Ukraine, Syria and least of all in Gaza…. They always blame the Repug and never Oboma and the Dem.
jo6pac, our votes matter. We will decide who will be the next freaking president. Go for GREEN Party you are the right track. 🙂

Posted by: Jack Smith | May 22 2016 23:21 utc | 51

Excerpts from a Counterpunch article by John V. Walsh:
“Only Donald Trump (among the Presidential candidates) has said anything meaningful and critical of US foreign policy.“ (And that includes Bernie Sanders.)
No, that is not Reince Priebus, chair of the RNC, speaking. It is Stephen F. Cohen, Emeritus Professor of Russian History at Princeton and NYU, a contributing editor for The Nation, that most liberal of political journals.
Cohen tells us here that:
Trump’s questions are fundamental and urgent, but instead of engaging them, his opponents (including President Obama) and the media dismiss the issues he raises about foreign policy as ignorant and dangerous. Some even charge that his statements are like “Christmas in the Kremlin” and that he is “the Kremlin’s Candidate”—thereby, further shutting off the debate we so urgently need.
Let me just rattle off the five questions he (Trump) has asked.
(First) why must the United States lead the world everywhere on the globe and play the role of the world’s policeman, now for example, he says, in Ukraine? It’s a question. It’s worth a discussion.
Secondly, he said, NATO was founded 67 years ago to deter the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union ended 25 years ago. What is NATO’s mission? Is it obsolete? Is it fighting terrorism? No, to the last question, it’s not. Should we discuss NATO’s mission?
Thirdly, he asks, why does the United States always pursue regime changes? Iraq, Libya, Ukraine, and now it wants a regime change in Syria, Damascus. When the result is, to use Donald Trump’s favorite word, the result is always “disaster.” But it’s a reasonable question.
Fourthly, why do we treat Russia and Putin as an enemy when he should be a partner?
Fifth Trump asks, about nuclear weapons – and this is interesting. You remember he was asked, would he rule out using nuclear weapons – an existential question. He thought for a while and then he said, “No, I take nothing off the table.” And everybody said he wants to use nuclear weapons! In fact, it is the official American nuclear doctrine policy that we do not take first use off the table. We do not have a no first use of nuclear weapons doctrine. So all Trump did was state in his own way what has been official American nuclear policy for, I guess, 40 or 50 years.
…It seems to me that these five questions, which are not being discussed by the other presidential candidates, are essential. ….
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/05/23/only-donald-trump-raises-five-fundamental-and-urgent-foreign-policy-questions-stephen-f-cohen-bemoans-msms-dismissal-of-trumps-queries/

Posted by: anonymous | May 23 2016 13:47 utc | 53

48;If the American people were ever leveled with,and told the whole War of Terror is the Israeli security and expansion scheme,at our expense,there would be rioting outside Israeli embassies,and the end of this poisonous relationship.
9-11,who ever did it,was the result of Zions powerful influence on US,and every stupid military exercise in futility.

Posted by: dahoit | May 24 2016 13:52 utc | 55

You might want to listen to http://21stcenturywire.com/2016/05/22/episode-136-sunday-wire-rogue-diplomacy-with-guests-jamila-assi-vanessa-beeley-mike-robinson/ beginning at 140.
Also if you haven’t looked at https://RichardCharnin.wordpress.com election fraud. He compares exit polls to Democratic primary results– BEFORE they corrected the polls to match the Primary vote “counting”.

Posted by: Penelope | May 25 2016 21:00 utc | 57