Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Re: [blind-democracy] Trump Just Drove a Truck Through Hole DNC Platform Panel Left in Clinton's TPP Promise

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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