Hillary Clinton is Hillary Clinton. As such, she will do what she and
her advisors believe is necessary to win the election. Cornell West,
a man of principle, did the only thing he could do, refuse to endorse
the Platform. Bernie Sanders, a man who has shaky principles, will
walk back many of his cries for a revolution, and support Clinton.
This decision to support Clinton is like Jesus Christ deciding to
support pontius pilate, as governor of Judaea.
Carl Jarvis
On 6/28/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@optonline.net> wrote:
> In fact, the committee opposed all of Ssanders' suggested platform planks.
> I
> didn't post the 2 articles about this that Common Dreams had yesterday.
> Cornell West refused to approve the platform as it exists .
> Miriam
> Trump Just Drove a Truck Through Hole DNC Platform Panel Left in Clinton's
> TPP Promise
> Published on
> Tuesday, June 28, 2016
> by
> Common Dreams
> Trump Just Drove a Truck Through Hole DNC Platform Panel Left in Clinton's
> TPP Promise
> Platform committee's waffling on trade leaves Clinton vulnerable to Trump's
> predictable attacks
> by
> Deirdre Fulton, staff writer
>
> Donald Trump on Tuesday attacked Hillary Clinton for her stance on trade in
> general and the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) in particular. (Photo:
> Reuters)
> Laying bare how dangerous it could be for Democrats to ignore populist
> opposition to corporate-friendly "free trade" deals, Republican
> presidential
> nominee Donald Trump on Tuesday attacked Hillary Clinton for her stance on
> trade in general and the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) in particular.
> Speaking in Monessen, Pennsylvania, Trump said the "TPP would be the death
> blow for American manufacturing" and vowed to "withdraw" the U.S. from the
> agreement.
> He said Clinton took "a leading part" in drafting the 12-nation deal,
> noting
> that the former secretary of state "praised or pushed the TPP on 45
> separate
> occasions, and even called it the 'gold standard,'" according to prepared
> remarks.
> "Hillary Clinton was totally for the TPP just a short while ago, but when
> she saw my stance, which is totally against, she was shamed into saying she
> would be against it too," he said. "But have no doubt, she will immediately
> approve it if it is put before her, guaranteed. She will do this just as
> she
> has betrayed American workers for Wall Street throughout her career."
> With this claim, MSNBC reporter Alex Seitz-Wald wrote on Twitter, Trump
> appeared to be "speaking directly to [Bernie] Sanders supporters." Sanders
> has made opposition to the TPP and other rights-trampling deals a
> cornerstone of his campaign.
> Trump also said he would renegotiate the North American Free Trade
> Agreement
> (NAFTA)-and placed partial blame for that deal also at Clinton's feet. "It
> was Bill Clinton who signed NAFTA in 1993, and Hillary Clinton who
> supported
> it," he said.
> The real estate mogul's speech comes on the heels of the Democratic
> National
> Committee's platform drafting panel voting not to oppose the TPP, despite
> the fact that both Clinton and Sanders have come out against the deal. As
> Common Dreams reported, the Clinton-allied majority on the committee
> outvoted the Sanders delegates 10-5 to defeat the anti-TPP measure, citing
> President Barack Obama's support.
> In doing so, argues Dave Johnson of the Campaign for America's Future in an
> op-ed Tuesday, they handed Trump "powerful ammunition" for his claims that
> Clinton is only "pretending" to oppose the agreement.
>
> Johnson writes:
> TPP and past "trade" deals are incredibly unpopular with working-class
> voters, and Republicans are preparing a full-scale attack on Clinton's
> credibility over the unpopular TPP. They are making the case that Clinton
> actually supports TPP but is pretending she does not in order to get votes.
> They say the president's efforts to pass TPP in the post-election "lame
> duck" session back up their claims. This pro-TPP vote by Clinton supporters
> on the platform committee will likely bolster the Republican argument.
> [...] It appears that the party elite just don't understand the public's
> overwhelming opposition to TPP. The pro-TPP members of the platform
> committee say they must support a Democratic president. But what about the
> interests of the public, labor and working people, the environment, the
> economy and their own nominee?
> In an interview with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell on Tuesday, Sanders agreed
> that
> establishment voices on the committee appeared to not only be working
> against the party, but undermining Clinton's own stated position.
> "I was really quite surprised to see that Secretary Clinton's delegates
> rejected our proposal to kill the TPP despite the fact that she has
> indicated she does not want to see it get onto the floor [of the U.S.
> Congress]," Sanders told Mitchell.
> Meanwhile, as in the primary campaign, Clinton's refusal to come out
> swinging against corporate-friendly trade deals is costing her support of
> working-class voters in the general election-a dynamic Public Citizen's
> Lori
> Wallach predicted back in March, when she declared: "Americans' opposition
> to job-killing trade policies fueled the stunning Bernie Sanders upset
> victory in Michigan. But it also could be a deciding factor in the general
> election, especially with Donald Trump being the likely GOP nominee. The
> outcome of the Michigan primary shows the potency of trade issues and
> foreshadows the trouble Hillary Clinton could face winning key Midwestern
> states in a race against Trump."
> This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
> License
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> Trump Just Drove a Truck Through Hole DNC Platform Panel Left in Clinton's
> TPP Promise
> Published on
> Tuesday, June 28, 2016
> by
> Common Dreams
> Trump Just Drove a Truck Through Hole DNC Platform Panel Left in Clinton's
> TPP Promise
> Platform committee's waffling on trade leaves Clinton vulnerable to Trump's
> predictable attacks
> by
> Deirdre Fulton, staff writer
> . 76 Comments
> .
> . Donald Trump on Tuesday attacked Hillary Clinton for her stance on
> trade in general and the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) in particular.
> (Photo: Reuters)
> . Laying bare how dangerous it could be for Democrats to ignore
> populist opposition to corporate-friendly "free trade" deals, Republican
> presidential nominee Donald Trump on Tuesday attacked Hillary Clinton for
> her stance on trade in general and the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) in
> particular.
> . Speaking in Monessen, Pennsylvania, Trump said the "TPP would be the
> death blow for American manufacturing" and vowed to "withdraw" the U.S.
> from
> the agreement.
> . He said Clinton took "a leading part" in drafting the 12-nation
> deal, noting that the former secretary of state "praised or pushed the TPP
> on 45 separate occasions, and even called it the 'gold standard,'"
> according
> to prepared remarks.
> . "Hillary Clinton was totally for the TPP just a short while ago, but
> when she saw my stance, which is totally against, she was shamed into
> saying
> she would be against it too," he said. "But have no doubt, she will
> immediately approve it if it is put before her, guaranteed. She will do
> this
> just as she has betrayed American workers for Wall Street throughout her
> career."
> With this claim, MSNBC reporter Alex Seitz-Wald wrote on Twitter, Trump
> appeared to be "speaking directly to [Bernie] Sanders supporters." Sanders
> has made opposition to the TPP and other rights-trampling deals a
> cornerstone of his campaign.
> Trump also said he would renegotiate the North American Free Trade
> Agreement
> (NAFTA)-and placed partial blame for that deal also at Clinton's feet. "It
> was Bill Clinton who signed NAFTA in 1993, and Hillary Clinton who
> supported
> it," he said.
> The real estate mogul's speech comes on the heels of the Democratic
> National
> Committee's platform drafting panel voting not to oppose the TPP, despite
> the fact that both Clinton and Sanders have come out against the deal. As
> Common Dreams reported, the Clinton-allied majority on the committee
> outvoted the Sanders delegates 10-5 to defeat the anti-TPP measure, citing
> President Barack Obama's support.
> In doing so, argues Dave Johnson of the Campaign for America's Future in an
> op-ed Tuesday, they handed Trump "powerful ammunition" for his claims that
> Clinton is only "pretending" to oppose the agreement.
> http://commondreams.org/killing-messengerhttp://commondreams.org/killing-mes
> senger
> Johnson writes:
> TPP and past "trade" deals are incredibly unpopular with working-class
> voters, and Republicans are preparing a full-scale attack on Clinton's
> credibility over the unpopular TPP. They are making the case that Clinton
> actually supports TPP but is pretending she does not in order to get votes.
> They say the president's efforts to pass TPP in the post-election "lame
> duck" session back up their claims. This pro-TPP vote by Clinton supporters
> on the platform committee will likely bolster the Republican argument.
> [...] It appears that the party elite just don't understand the public's
> overwhelming opposition to TPP. The pro-TPP members of the platform
> committee say they must support a Democratic president. But what about the
> interests of the public, labor and working people, the environment, the
> economy and their own nominee?
> In an interview with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell on Tuesday, Sanders agreed
> that
> establishment voices on the committee appeared to not only be working
> against the party, but undermining Clinton's own stated position.
> "I was really quite surprised to see that Secretary Clinton's delegates
> rejected our proposal to kill the TPP despite the fact that she has
> indicated she does not want to see it get onto the floor [of the U.S.
> Congress]," Sanders told Mitchell.
> Meanwhile, as in the primary campaign, Clinton's refusal to come out
> swinging against corporate-friendly trade deals is costing her support of
> working-class voters in the general election-a dynamic Public Citizen's
> Lori
> Wallach predicted back in March, when she declared: "Americans' opposition
> to job-killing trade policies fueled the stunning Bernie Sanders upset
> victory in Michigan. But it also could be a deciding factor in the general
> election, especially with Donald Trump being the likely GOP nominee. The
> outcome of the Michigan primary shows the potency of trade issues and
> foreshadows the trouble Hillary Clinton could face winning key Midwestern
> states in a race against Trump."
> This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
> License
>
>
>
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