Bernie recently told Seth Meyers that his wife Jane took his famous mittens from the Biden inauguration and hid them for posterity. I hope when the time comes she will donate them to a museum somewhere!
Hey Ralphie - can you explain how delegates to the LNC are chosen?
It would be interesting to know how the various third parties choose delegates. I attended a convention once, and some people just showed up and were allowed to sit as delegates even though their state party was inactive.
Regarding Brent's poll from two days ago, it looks like the Democrats had a very good night: winning KY Gov, Ohio referendum, and both houses of the VA legislature. If they had taken the MS Gov, it would have been a great night for the Dems.
In my county, the Reps gained a little but still lost our county races 64-36%. This county used to be a Republican stronghold.
Chris Christie is already saying that the results are more proof that the Reps need to get away from Trump.
The video program below from 2013 gives an interesting perspective on Adlai Stevenson. It is a live broadcast that focuses on his two presidential campaigns. I give it a B+ because I think a chronological presentation would have condensed some duplication and would have opened time for a deeper discussion.
"Donald Trump represents a failure of character which is changing I think in many respects the psyche of our nation and the heart of our nation, and that is something which takes a long time if ever to repair..."
1. RFK might have drawn enough Democratic primary vote here and there to embarrass Biden, which is less likely now.
2. Would never-Trump Republicans vote for RFK rather than Biden? It seems like if they supported Biden in 2020 they would be likely to do so again.
3. One way for RFK to gain in the polls would be if either Trump or Biden have some health issues before the election. I have three friends who don't like Kamala Harris for various reasons - their order of preference is Biden-RFK-Harris-Trump.
4. Would young Democrats who want a Gen X candidate prefer RFK over Biden?
5. Maybe EPU or someone else can weigh in on whether people on the left would be likely to vote for RFK.
6. I can't imagine many Republicans abandoning Trump for a quixotic RFK candidacy.
At the time, Nye was serving on the committee on Military Affairs. He was quoted as saying "Keeping this country of ours out of war ought to be the primary purpose of every American. Jeannette Rankin has won so profound a place in the peace cause and work that her presence in Congress in these times would serve a most salutary purpose."
Here is my visited list: CO, DE, IL, IN, ME, MA, MT, NJ, NM, NC, OH, PA, RI, WV
You can find free parking right outside the state capitol building in Springfield, Illinois. I don't think I have been to another state capitol with plenty of free parking right there.
The state capitol in Raleigh was built with gray stone, and for some reason I always feel that it is dirty or dank.
I used to like the Pennsylvania state capitol building. Then I found out that during construction, a lot of the money allocated for it ended up in the pockets of politicians. [Silas Swallow discovered this.]
One day I was in Trenton for research, and Gov. Jim McGreevey was holding a press conference on the sidewalk right outside the state capitol. I often wish that I had stopped to chat with him.
Also as I recall Torricelli dropped out after the legal deadline to host a replacement candidate. The NJ legislature met and changed to law to allow Lautenberg to appear on the ballot. The Greens and Republicans filed a lawsuit but were unsuccessful in keeping Lautenberg off the ballot.
EPU is correct about JFK's connection with the CIA. You may recall that in the late 1960s, LBJ once referred to JFK's foreign policy as "Murder, Inc." JFK approved of the assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem, the president of South Vietnam (supposedly an ally of the US). JFK also approved of a proposed coup d'etat in Haiti, and his brother RFK personally led the CIA operation during the JFK administration to kill Fidel Castro. In the 1960 presidential election, JFK was the first politician to publicly call for a US-backed invasion of Cuba (that became the Bay of Pigs).
I don't know if JFK really wanted to scale back US involvement in Vietnam as proposed by a large group of people who investigate his assassination.
Okay realizing that no one here wants to hear the majority position on the JFK assassination ...
1) The holes in JFK's coat and shirt were in the location of the third thoracic vertebra, which correspond to the back wound identified on his death certificate. The doctors probed this wound and described it as being only one inch in depth and angled downward. It is *lower* than the throat wound and in no way can accommodate an upward trajectory through JFK's body required by the single bullet theory. This back wound was not in JFK's neck - take a look at the 1963 autopsy sheets.
2) At the time the shots were fired, the electricity in the Texas School Book Depository was down, which meant that its elevator was not operable. Victoria Adams walked down the building's single set of stairs from the fourth floor to the first floor immediately after the shots were fired, and she did *not* see Oswald running down the stairs. When Marion Baker met Oswald in the lunch room on the second floor soon thereafter, he had just purchased a drink from a machine and was not out of breath after supposedly running down four flights of stairs. No one has ever replicated Oswald's supposed race down the stairs, purchased a drink, and then not been out of breath in the allotted time.
3) A policeman named W.R. Westbrook found a wallet at the Tippit murder scene that contained an identification card for A.J. Hidell. This wallet was mentioned by James Hosty, an FBI agent in Dallas, on page 62 of his 1996 book, and a TV crew captured Westbrook looking at it (you can watch it on YouTube). Since Oswald had his wallet on him in the Texas Theatre, the wallet at the Tippit scene had to be planted. A witness that day who had helped Tippit before the police arrived stated he was certain that the wallet was not there at the time of the shooting.
4) In early November 1963, the Secret Service foiled an assassination attempt on JFK in Chicago, mostly due to the work of SS agent Abraham Bolden. The man being set up as the patsy there was Thomas A. Vallee, who worked in a tall building overlooking the proposed motorcade route. At the time Vallee was arrested, foiling the plot, his car had a New York state license plate. When law enforcement ran the plates, the car was registered to a man named Lee Harvey Oswald with a fake New York address. Another assassination attempt in Tampa had similar parameters to Chicago and Dallas, and white supremicist Joseph Milteer was recorded on tape discussing this plot before it happened. Milteer was also in the Dallas crowd, standing along Houston Street on 11/22/1963. The three plots had multiple similarities.
It's okay if you like Bugliosi or Posner, but you should take bits of information like this seriously rather than laughing them off without verification as irrelevant.
Here is a recent exchange between a Russian reporter and McCarthy, who was on a trip to Israel:
Question: We know that you don't support... aid to Ukraine... can you comment when U.S. policy will change?
McCarthy: No, I vote FOR aid to Ukraine. I support aid for Ukraine. I do not support what your country has done to Ukraine. I do not support your killing of the children, and I think from one standpoint you should pull out. And I don't think it's right. And I will continue the support because the rest of the world sees it just as it is.
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