Daily Archives: October 21, 2015


Why Most Black Voters Still Aren’t Feeling Bernie Sanders

The Root has the article Why Most Black Voters Still Aren’t Feeling Bernie Sanders.

Still, there’s something in the way he’s doing it that’s not clicking with most African-American voters. This isn’t an argument against Sanders. It’s genuine fascination with his dilemma, because no candidate can win the Democratic nomination without the black vote. Despite memorable debate lines and cover for an email-embattled Clinton, Sanders didn’t really budge all that much with black voters. Here are three main reasons that’s the case … and why it probably stays that way:

Even on the Tavis Smiley interview, Bernie Sanders immediately went to the economic issues as the reason why black voters should support him. For once in his life, maybe he could start out with BLM and Sandra Bland before he gets to economic issues and high rates of incarceration.

The anger issue comes up in thie article in a slightly different way.

2. Bernie should watch more black pastors on Sunday. While it’s still anecdotal, the core of Sanders’ black-voter problem could be this: He’s too depressing. Comedian Larry David couldn’t resist the temptation in last week’s SNL skit to call out Sanders’ aggressive “the sky is falling” ethos.

For sure, African-American voters generally love the public figures who claim to “keep it real” and cast rebellious shade at the “system.” But candidates who successfully woo black constituencies are those who can illustrate hope.

Sure, the black interruptions at the Sanders events have displayed a lot of anger. That’s only the side of the discussion that we have seen. There are other facets to the discussion.


Warren Buffet Warns Elizabeth Warren

The Young Turks has the video Warren Buffet Warns Elizabeth Warren.

Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, discusses Berkshire Hathaway CEO and chairman Warren Buffet who had some choice words for the current Democratic senator from Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren.

I didn’t really get all that was wrong with what Warren Buffet said until I heard the discussion by The Young Turks.

Come to think of it, pinning the too angry label is not restricted to Elizabeth Warren and women. It is being used against Bernie Sanders. It was actually what pushed Howard Dean off the political stage. However, it is true that Elizabeth Warren is way below the threshold where they apply the angry label to men.

I also realize that one of the reasons I am not as much a fan of the left wing ranting media as the right wing is for Faux Noise and its ilk, is the anger factor. There is only so much of it that I can take.


Inexcusable! Corporate Prosecutions Were Much Higher Under Bush than Obama

Ring of Fire Radio has the article Inexcusable! Corporate Prosecutions Were Much Higher Under Bush than Obama.

According to a new report, prosecution of corporate crime has fallen by almost 30% in the last ten years. These are for instances of corporate fraud, abuse, and mismanagement. But just because prosecutions have fallen, don’t fall into the trap of believing that crime is going away. Quite the opposite is true. According to the report, the instances of prosecutable violations is increasing year to year, even though actual prosecutions are falling to near-record lows.

If anything shows the danger of electing a Wall Street representative to be President, this should make it clear. Yes, this all went down hill from Bill Clinton’s administration. President Obama took it to new extremes. Hillary Clinton has learned absolutely nothing from this experience. The Savings and Loan crisis was handled orders of magnitude better under the George HW Bush administration than even under the last three administrations, two of which were Democratic.