Twenty Days To Go October 19, 2016October 19, 2016 While one candidate is “on a presidential death march we’ve never seen before” — grotesquely coarsening and cheapening the national discussion, sowing dissatisfaction, division, and distrust (click that link if you have time) . . . . . . the other — eminently qualified, serious, steady, compassionate — hopes to put Americans to work in good jobs revitalizing our infrastructure; boost worker dignity and consumer demand (and lower government subsidies) by hiking the minimum wage; boost the economy and improve millions of lives by enacting comprehensive immigration reform of the kind that passed the Senate 68-32; reduce the burden of student debt by allowing federal loans to be refinanced at today’s low rates; enact the sort of sensible gun safety measures 90% of Americans favor — and much more. When they go low, we go high. Not perfectly, perhaps; but there really is a contrast. In that spirit, are you ready for two minutes of something actually uplifting? Watch this: “We are Democrats.” The “email” stuff is wildly overdone. Click here. The Benghazi tragedy –scandal-wise — is entirely without substance: WASHINGTON (AP) — A two-year investigation by the Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee has found that the CIA and the military acted properly in responding to the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, and asserted no wrongdoing by Obama administration appointees. Debunking a series of persistent allegations hinting at dark conspiracies, the investigation of the politically charged incident determined that there was no intelligence failure, no delay in sending a CIA rescue team, no missed opportunity for a military rescue, and no evidence the CIA was covertly shipping arms from Libya to Syria. . . . The Miami Herald (no Democratic puppet) has it right: “The narrative that Hillary Clinton is the lesser of two evils is patently wrong. Ms. Clinton is a pragmatic, tough-minded woman of accomplishment and political conviction with a demonstrated mastery of policy.” Not perfect, to be sure — read the whole thing. But “she fights the good fight, and she fights the right ones in the name of equality and democracy.” Twenty days to go. Click here to vote, here to volunteer, here to contribute — and here to see what Republicans are saying about Trump and Clinton.
Debunking a series of persistent allegations hinting at dark conspiracies, the investigation of the politically charged incident determined that there was no intelligence failure, no delay in sending a CIA rescue team, no missed opportunity for a military rescue, and no evidence the CIA was covertly shipping arms from Libya to Syria. . . . The Miami Herald (no Democratic puppet) has it right: “The narrative that Hillary Clinton is the lesser of two evils is patently wrong. Ms. Clinton is a pragmatic, tough-minded woman of accomplishment and political conviction with a demonstrated mastery of policy.” Not perfect, to be sure — read the whole thing. But “she fights the good fight, and she fights the right ones in the name of equality and democracy.” Twenty days to go. Click here to vote, here to volunteer, here to contribute — and here to see what Republicans are saying about Trump and Clinton.