Obama reneges on two more vitally important promises to 90% of American people!

In 2008, I cautiously, but hopefully voted for Obama, after all, Palin made it a no brainer. In 2012, he supported the big bank bailout, while bailing out on the damage the meltdown did to Main Street America and our workplace, it was back to another election where the choice was about who to vote against, I checked the Obama box once again, but reluctantly.

Obama care was a wonderful story, but it was clearly flawed from the git-go. In spite of the tremendous short-term good it did for many Americans, the clear winners were obviously the insurance and pharmaceutical companies.

As time has gone on, it has become clearer and clearer that Obama is a Trojan Horse for the 0.01%, and not the savior he promised Main Street.

Cutting to the chase, yesterday following his organically grown breakfast with his organically fed family, he signed the Monsanto-sponsored bill gutting any possibility for truthful and meaningful food labelling. This in spite of 90% or so of Americans being for it.

Today in a joint press conference in Singapore he flatly stated that in spite of the near total opposition of the American people, and even Hillary Clinton, that he would sign over ownership of our country to the corporatocracy that owns him.

An open letter to Hillary Clinton, from "Never Hillary" to "Reluctantly and Cautiously Hillary"

Hillary, your political machine secured your nomination, but make no mistake, you did not defeat Bernie, his ideas & philosophies, or those who ascribe to them.

Many of us fully appreciate that in the end, you agreed to incorporate much of our vision for America into yours and we sincerely, but cautiously, look forward to you genuinely embracing them. We wish you well, but please be assured that we will be standing beside you as a constant reminder of the promises you made to America’s Main Streets.

Convince us that you will put your energies into forwarding our mutual agenda and I can assure you that a huge percentage of the people who brought Bernie’ dream to within a few points of becoming the nominee will bring their dedication and innovative spirit to your campaign.

Humbly, we have repeatedly demonstrated our strength, commitment & boundless energy, and it's proven effectiveness. Needless to say, we have earned the trust & dedication of huge segments of Main Street America, Americans you will sorely need in November.

Earn our trust, and we can turn a coin toss election into a Democratic & Independent landslide with long down-ballot coat tails. 

An open letter to Hillary Clinton, from "Never Hillary" to "Reluctantly and Cautiously Hillary"

Hillary, your political machine secured your nomination, but make no mistake, you did not defeat Bernie, his ideas & philosophies, or those who ascribe to them.

Many of us fully appreciate that in the end, you agreed to incorporate much of our vision for America into yours and we sincerely, but cautiously, look forward to you genuinely embracing them. We wish you well, but please be assured that we will be standing beside you as a constant reminder of the promises you made to America’s Main Streets.

Convince us that you will put your energies into forwarding our mutual agenda and I can assure you that a huge percentage of the people who brought Bernie’ dream to within a few points of becoming the nominee will bring their dedication and innovative spirit to your campaign.

Humbly, we have repeatedly demonstrated our strength, commitment & boundless energy, and it's proven effectiveness. Needless to say, we have earned the trust & dedication of huge segments of Main Street America, Americans you will sorely need in November.

Earn our trust, and we can turn a coin toss election into a Democratic & Independent landslide with long down-ballot coat tails. 

My takeaway from 2016's Super Tuesday

The most important thing I am taking away from Super Tuesday is the way the “Political Elite” in both parties are trying to subvert the wishes of their members. In the case of the Democrats, very successfully, on the Republican side, not so much - yet.

On the Democratic side, it starts with Vermont’s Senator, Patrick Leahy, and Governor Peter Shumlin thumbing their noses at the wishes of over 80% of their state’s voters, voters who have supported Leahy time and time again by returning him to office with consistently huge margins. Their endorsements of Clinton, who trailed even Trump in Vermont’s polls, went against the clear sentiments voiced on our Main Streets, sentiments which overwhelmingly favored Bernie. I strongly expect both Leahy & Shumlin will go a step further and support casting Vermont’s “Super Delegate Votes” for Clinton.

Initially, the Republicans supported the excitement of a large and diverse field. Then when Trump flew in the face of every rule of politics and became the dominant force, they saw their hold on power slipping away overnight. Government “by the people” was rising its ugly head and they hated it. Now their “elite” are frantically conspiring in smoke filled rooms to find a way to squash it. To be continued, but I assure you it will be a world class donnybrook.

From the git-go the Democratic Party elite have had their thumb on the scales to ensure Clinton would be their nominee, regardless of what their membership wanted. “Dirty tricks” abound; the debates were engineered to create minimum viewership in order to discourage Hillary’s competition from gaining traction and challenging her front runner status. False accusations were made that the Bernie’s campaign was cheating on a massive scale – all mention of which magically evaporated as soon as the actual realities began coming to light; facts which establishment politicians found embarrassing and the media all but ignored.

Their exclusive use of “Super-Delegates” to discourage outsiders from running and winning the nomination became an important tool to subvert the value of our votes, and DNC Chair Wasserman-Schultz admitted to exactly that, and repeatedly justified it on national television.

When Bernie’s small $27 Main Street donors were well on their way to generating more than forty million dollars in donations in February alone, far surpassing Clinton’s haul, the DNC panicked and overturned Obama’s 2008 party donor rules which banned donations from federal lobbyists & PACs and took a giant step toward limiting special interest influence in Washington. Considering O’Malley’s weak standing, this was to the Clinton campaign’s sole benefit.

Then there is the corporate media’s virtual monopoly on public communications and the press, and its near total blackout of the Sanders people powered campaign and its democratic (not socialist) values. Not to mention their constant misuse of “Socialist” as his descriptor in order to negatively skew perceptions against his fairness based, people and business focused, "Social Democratic" ideology.

Even Elizabeth Warren, who many, including me, viewed as the Patron Saint of Main Street, stood idly by watching the political establishment triumph over the people’s candidate and our children’s futures.

In its entirety, this is a slap in our faces and a total disavowal of our importance in America’s grand experiment in democracy. God forbid that democracy prevails and the political power brokers lose their hold on the “catbird seat”.

Our “for and by the people” government is slipping away and the support America’s left, right and center is showing for “outsider” candidates, regardless of their party, is tangible proof of just how much we all want Bernie’s “Political Revolution”, and how hard Main Street will fight to get it!