Of course you’re right that this kind of racism existed in more subtle terms in the Republican party, but I am absolutely okay with this. She’s explicitly calling out Trump as a racist (which is a pretty gutsy thing for a candidate to do to their other candidate), and it absolutely will sway SOME fence-riding moderate…

Bullshit. Your candidate, and he is YOUR candidate because he is now the head of the Republican Party, got *more votes* than any Republican in history. He went on Fox news day after day and spoke to YOUR people, and YOUR people voted for him in droves.

“No, Moderate Republicans didn’t do this, we voted for other people who got steamrolled because the media gave Trump so much god damned free Publicity.”

Lol go fuck yourself. Liberal media deserves the blame? Try the last 8 years of Fox News. Fox News is the one that propped this motherfucker up, giving him hours of airtime to spew bullshit about Obama not being American and other asinine things. Seriously, you’re just so fucking in denial it’s ridiculous. Of course…

How is that the smart thing? It energizes Republicans to vote against her, even if it means voting for Trump (possibly resulting in Repubs controlling the House and Senate), all so she can appease the far left, which already decided she was a corporatist secret Republican.

Nah. Even the GOP still thinks GWB is toxic. There is a reason he spends all his time at the ranch painting in his bathtub. He knows he’s going to end up a bottom-5 president of all time. At best bottom-10 if he stays above all the guys that steered us into the Civil War.

She’ll win handily, but a few percentage points down ballot could mean a world of difference in Congress.

“Hillary Clinton is also letting the GOP off the hook for decades of strategic, institutional racism.”

The myriad problems of holding up George W. Bush as an ideal leader aside...

The smart thing? No, it would be the cathartic thing. And the honest thing. But not the smart thing. Cudgels are pretty useless in politics, especially when the other party is a bunch of nihilists and they control the house. The smart thing is to convince enough GOP leaning voters to just stay home so that the Dems…

those few percentage points mean the difference between the media branding it a whoopin’ and branding it a landslide. It’s worth it.

Of course it’s always been there (well, since 1964) - Hillary’s just trolling moderate Rs to try to get them to stay home in disgust at the current volume of the dogwhistles. If that takes a bit of flattering, eh, whatever.

I quoted President Obama because he is the highest ranking politician in the US, I agree with what he has to say and his words were directly on point, not because of his identity.

I respect your opinion. But I’m with President Obama on this one:

Aw, thanks! And since I’m ranting, I have to say something else about Hillary. She isn’t responsible for the mess in Syria, Bashar al-Assad is. (If there’s a secondary foreign person, it’s Putin). It seems almost too obvious to say, but Obama and Clinton and Kerry are trying to contain the damage, avoid US/NATO ground…

I am so, so tired of people like this. And by this I mean purists. True believers. People for whom compromise = death. They are the reason we have Bernie bros, and everything to do with Jeremy Corbyn.

A friend was talking about Jill Stein and I said “Do you really want a physician with no political experience dealing with Putin?” And he said “Oh hell no. I’m voting for Hillary.”

These guys have so much money to throw at these little elections and the sad thing is, this is where they have the most effect and let them have total control. What's more important? The presidency or a majority of governorships, the house, the senate, state senates, state reps, and county boards? The dems have…

The Koch brothers poured a ton of money into the Wake County School Board elections a few years back. They were interested in increasing segregation and spending on charter schools, ‘cause you know, they think Black kids and White kids in Raleigh, North Carolina should be subject to the whims of billionairesfrom…

yeah—and unfortunately this is where the dems need to start spending $$ too. These elections groom the political “talent” (term used loosely) that work their way up the ranks in state government and eventually run for congress, governorships, etc. This is why voting in your local elections really fucking matters!