to supporters of all: your candidate's best policy position?

[restorefreedom]

i am hoping to get a roundtable list of where the three stand and what is attracting people to them

maybe such a list will help us convince crossover votes from friends and family..many open and semi open primaries out there

[elleng]

1. Not sure which is his 'best,' there are SO MANY,

so here's a list of Governor O'Malley's policies and plans:

15 Goals to Rebuild the American Dream
https://martinomalley.com/category/15-goals/

Addiction treatment and prevention
https://martinomalley.com/policy/addiction-treatment-and-prevention/

Criminal Justice Reform
https://martinomalley.com/policy/criminal-justice/

Making College Debt Free for all Americans
https://martinomalley.com/policy/make-college-debt-free/

Holding Wall Street Accountable
https://14d2r744okfe40r1ug1oqm6y-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/OMalley-Wall-Street-Reform.pdf

Expanding Social Security
https://martinomalley.com/the-latest/expanding-social-security/

Homeland Security
https://martinomalley.com/vision/homeland-security/

Immigration
https://martinomalley.com/the-latest/immigration/

National Service
https://martinomalley.com/national-service/

Environment
https://martinomalley.com/climate/iowa/
https://martinomalley.com/climate/
https://martinomalley.com/climate/agenda/

Foreign Policy
https://martinomalley.com/policy/truman-national-security/

Gun Reform
https://martinomalley.com/policy/preventing-and-reducing-gun-violence/

Trade Policy
https://martinomalley.com/policy/trade-policy/

Campaign Finance Reform (Restoring our American Democracy)
https://martinomalley.com/the-latest/restoring-our-american-democracy/

Why We Need a Constitutional Amendment to Secure the Right to Vote:
https://martinomalley.com/the-latest/news/right-to-vote/

Veterans and Military Families
https://martinomalley.com/policy/veterans/

[restorefreedom]

2. hard to choose, hey?

great list!

[elleng]

3. Sure is hard to choose,

from such a great list!

[restorefreedom]

4. hope we get others chiming in too

with all the putrid bile around here lately, it would be nice to see some good policies that some or all of the dem candidates are behind. one of the many reasons dws screwed us so badly is that the gop tripe has been center stage, and all these great dem ideas are sitting in the barn doing nuthin while the public laps up the gop ideas in almost total igorance of the alternatives.

thanks for being the first one in the pool!

[elleng]

5. So do I hope others chime in,

dws has surely screwed us, and so many heads in the sand, NOT recognizing from whence come good policies and plans, but rather bathing in bile and mud.

Glad you've provided an opportunity for the POSITIVE around here, restorefreedom.

[restorefreedom]

6. its hard to stay positive these days,

but i think its worth a try..

[elleng]

11. It's surely worth a try,

but also difficult.

[restorefreedom]

15. yup on both. nt

[Romulox]

7. Hillary: REGIME CHANGE! nt

[restorefreedom]

8. which regime? nt

[Romulox]

9. Iraq, Libya, and next, Syria.

[restorefreedom]

14. yeah. i worry about syria

and all our troops that would be sent there.

[LWolf]

10. Too many for just one, but

of all those listed at the link, I would put these first:

Racial justice
Income and Wealth Inequality
Combating Climate Change
Strengthening and expanding Social Security
Fighting for Women's rights and LGBT equality
Making College Tuition and Debt Free
Getting big money out of politics...(this is not just Citizen's United, but deals with public campaign financing as well.)

https://berniesanders.com/issues/

Another issue that doesn't appear on his issues page, for me, includes the issue of high-stakes testing. I'm a public school teacher.

On the issue of high-stakes testing, all candidates will say things about "too much testing," but they don't like to confront it directly. The best response I've heard from the three on this issue was Sanders; a straight-up comparison of the questionnaire that all 3 candidates answered for the NEA last spring left Sanders as the best. Unfortunately, those questionnaires are no longer available at the original source, or any other that I can find, since the NEA has endorsed Clinton, or I'd post some clips. I can only give you this teacher's take. Sanders was the strongest supporter of schools, of students and teachers, and the strongest opponent of the corporate education reform/privatization movement.

If you are an NEA member, you can still access interviews with candidates here, where he talks about the "absurdity" of the current high-stakes testing regime:

http://www.strongpublicschools.org/members/presidential-candidate-interviews#complete-interviews

[restorefreedom]

16. another great list! nt

[Maedhros]

12. Bernie Sanders: Government belongs to US, not to the Corporations. [n/t]

[restorefreedom]

17. good one! one of my faves. nt

[Live and Learn]

13. Reduce climate change and overturn Citizens United. nt

[restorefreedom]

18. both very critical to our future. nt