HRC campaign yesterday: "disqualify him, defeat him and then they can unify the party later"

[kristopher]

This is a coordinated attack on Bernie:
Bernie mailer

Hillary Clinton herself just unleashed the first part of the new "disqualify him, defeat him and then they can unify the party later" strategy we told you about. Look at this new headline:

Washington Post: "Clinton questions whether Sanders is qualified to be president"

Polls in Wisconsin haven't even been closed for 24 hours, and we're already seeing the start of the Clinton campaign's full-on attack before the New York primary. We knew they were getting nervous, but candidly, we didn't think they would go this negative so quickly. We have to be ready for what comes next.

The media is going to go wild, but he is right - anyone who helped create, engages in, and seeks to strengthen a system of complete corruption based on legalized bribery is not qualified to be the People's leader.

This is the result of massive legalized corruption that has effectively stolen this country from the citizens. Sanders is correct - If Hillary is going to engage in this practice of legalized bribery, she is not qualified to be President.

APRIL 18, 2014
Is America an Oligarchy?

...a new study concluding that rich people and organizations representing business interests have a powerful grip on U.S. government policy. After examining differences in public opinion across income groups on a wide variety of issues, the political scientists Martin Gilens, of Princeton, and Benjamin Page, of Northwestern, found that the preferences of rich people had a much bigger impact on subsequent policy decisions than the views of middle-income and poor Americans. Indeed, the opinions of lower-income groups, and the interest groups that represent them, appear to have little or no independent impact on policy....
http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/is-america-an-oligarchy


The original study:

Sept 2014 journal "Perspectives on Politics"

Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens
Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page

ABSTRACT
Each of four theoretical traditions in the study of American politics—which can be characterized as theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy, Economic-Elite Domination, and two types of interest-group pluralism, Majoritarian Pluralism and Biased Pluralism—offers different predictions about which sets of actors have how much influence over public policy: average citizens; economic elites; and organized interest groups, mass-based or business-oriented.
A great deal of empirical research speaks to the policy influence of one or another set of actors, but until recently it has not been possible to test these contrasting theoretical predictions against each other within a single statistical model. We report on an effort to do so, using a unique data set that includes measures of the key variables for 1,779 policy issues.
Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence. The results provide substantial support for theories of Economic-Elite Domination and for theories of Biased Pluralism, but not for theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy or Majoritarian Pluralism.

The last paragraph of their findings:

Despite the seemingly strong empirical support in previous studies for theories of majoritarian democracy, our analyses suggest that majorities of the American public actually have little influence over the policies our government adopts. Americans do enjoy many features central to democratic governance, such as regular elections, freedom of speech and association, and a wide-spread (if still contested) franchise. But we believe that if policymaking is dominated by powerful business organizations and a small number of affluent Americans, then America’s claims to being a democratic society are seriously threatened.

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf

"...America’s claims to being a democratic society are seriously threatened."

[think]

1. Hillary's scorched earth campaign begins...

[Firebrand Gary]

2. Nice try, but the entire planet can see that it was Sander's who went scorched earth.

[kristopher]

4. "disqualify him, defeat him and ... unify the party later"

[Firebrand Gary]

8. "Hillary Clinton not qualified to be President" - Bernie Sanders

I think the entire media will disagree with you and I think you know it.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/06/politics/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-qualified/index.html

[kristopher]

10. I don't give a rats ass. They have been working for HRC since day 1.

[TM99]

27. Yes, he did.

In response to the bully queen who is miffed this is taking too long. Her campaign is going dirtier and dirtier.

It is high time Sanders fought back hard.

[Agschmid]

9. I see you are using quotes, who are you quoting?

[kristopher]

13. HRC's campaign put that out via their CNN reporter last night.

[Agschmid]

17. Okay so who put it out? Which campaign staffer? Was it written, or spoken?

[kristopher]

18. I'm not playing that game.

We've seen the media attack Sanders on Clinton's behalf for months - and this is her idea.
You want to claim she has plausible deniability that is on you. It is the standard ploy she uses to engage in completely corrupt behavior so why shouldn't you employ it to alleviate your cognitive dissonance.

[Agschmid]

19. So option B, personal attack? Got it.

[kristopher]

21. I'm not playing that game

We've seen the media attack Sanders on Clinton's behalf for months - and this is her idea.
You want to claim she has plausible deniability that is on you. It is the standard ploy she uses to engage in completely corrupt behavior so why shouldn't you employ it to alleviate your cognitive dissonance.

[Agschmid]

23. So repost the personal attack at me?

Really?

Rather than cite a source you attack?

The "new" DU just isn't what it used to be.

[kristopher]

24. You have been here and you saw the report last night - it was all over DU

You don't need me to tell you what you already know.

[Dem2]

31. It was made up by Jeff Zeleny

“they're running out of patience. So they're going to begin deploying a new strategy. It's going to be called: "Disqualify Him, Defeat Him" … I'm told, beginning here in the New York primary in two weeks on his gun record, on other things.”

I'd like to know who "I'm told" is.

[LuvLoogie]

26. That is editorializing by the press. Nobody is quoted as saying that.

[dchill]

3. "disqualify him, defeat him and ... unify the party later"

That statement alone is enough to disqualify her. Let alone the fact that she had just said that she was proud that the Democrats had run such a clean campaign. Then Wisconsin happened. Then the internal polling went south.

Unqualified and disqualified.

[CorporatistNation]

11. The Greater The Pressure Applied On Hillary... The More She Comes Unhinged! Her "Methods" Are

characterized as quite questionable...

Rosario Dawson ... WHY She Supports Bernie...

&nohtml5=False

[dchill]

14. Ethics are for everyone whose name is not Clinton.

[LuvLoogie]

28. She Who Laughs Inappropriately! Fie!!

[malokvale77]

32. I can only hope...

that once we kill the Hillary campaign, the signers to her "Victory Fund" will collapse upon it's corpse.

I'm sick of these pretend Democrats.

[azmom]

5. She is a big player in the corrupt system.

That disqualifies her in my book.

[kristopher]

7. She and Bill built the system

That's what all the iterations of the Third Way were about.

[ViseGrip]

6. Hillary said it first, so it's okay. Give her 200 and let her pass go.

I'm so sick of her shit. She lobs hate, bernie put substance to her claim and sends it back, and they all cry foul.

It's time for Hillary to grow up. America has been forced to. Enough of her shenanigans.

[dchill]

15. I don't care if she grows up or not.

I just wish she'd go away.

[Hydra]

12. *lmao*

She declares scorched earth...and Berns herself.

If she alienates most of the party, how is she supposed to win the primary, let alone the GE? Tactical minds would like to know how 1-1 = Win

[sadoldgirl]

16. Did this statement come from her campaign?

I don't know where it came from, so I want the source.

If true, she should disavow it or stand the heat that

comes with such a plan.

[kristopher]

20. The gave it to CNN's stringer at her campaign >for dissemination< last night

It was all over DU last night.

[litlbilly]

22. seems like she is saying, screw the dem party. im the only one who is important, besides

its my turn. How dare Bernie respond to my putrid crap, hes so rude... How pathetic their internals must be.

[dchill]

25. It's too late. You can't just wish us away, Hillary.

At first it was "anyone but Hillary" because of the sleazy, shoddy campaign she ran in 2008 as an entitled carpetbagger from New York.

Then along came Bernie, with the REAL Democratic philosophy and the credibility to attract true liberal Democrats. We REALLY have his back, and will put our money where our mouths are. Put that in your golden pipe and smoke it.

How's that internal polling look?

[malokvale77]

30. Oh, they want to wish us away.

Poor babies.

[malokvale77]

29. Hillary will burn in the mist of her own scorched earth.

Feel the Bern.