Displaying 121 To 150 Of 3,237 Comments Biden Takes on Trump: A Call to Integrity and Courage in The Wave of Two Mass Shootings Perhaps I am too suspicious…so let’s assume we are both a bit idiosyncratic. Your concerns are generally mine as well. A point re. Johnson and the “popular will”…..I beieve that the public was duped from both sides in the referendum. One side hoped to use it to build a weakening coaltion. The hoped hoped to bring down that coalition, and if they were more successful than many thought they would be, bring down the EU. The history of the shadow party UKIP is a fine example of the use of temporary mechanisms to bring about such goals. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 15, 2019 @ 4:48 am Thanks for getting back to me on this. You have a number of complex, and at times contradictory positions. As do I. Your Party alignment is particularly intriguing given Labour’s committment to slow down the move to Brexit. Are you now of the same mind? A no-deal exit from the EU strikes me as a recipe for chaos. It seems that the leadership of that Party now holds to the same position. I share a number of your concerns re. the creation of a USE (United States of Europe)…..mostly out of the experience here of federalism’s impact on state government…and this is a relatively unified culture. Lastly as far as being welcome….as long as we maintain civil tongues in our heads the Planet is accepting of opinions from all sides…..I have often found myself on the opposite side of the fence from the predomnant mindset here as well. But boy is this kind of dialogue needed. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 14, 2019 @ 5:16 pm Good comeback…… » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 14, 2019 @ 5:07 pm There are demands from many quarters for significant reform….the challenges are that their are differing agendas particular to unique groups…how does one bring a Tump opposition together. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 13, 2019 @ 3:18 pm That is generally how I see it. I am not convinced that Biden is the only one who can pull this off. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 13, 2019 @ 3:17 pm My reply to Jake… I want to second AdLibs direction in re. to reporting suspected trolling activity. Ad is very good at tracking t his stuff down. Use the Contact Us link to report what you think is going on and since that link is secure you can include examples in support of your position….links that show the kind of parallelism that you are very much aware will make your case. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 11, 2019 @ 12:06 pm I want to second AdLibs direction in re. to reporting suspected trolling activity. Ad is very good at tracking t his stuff down. Use the Contact Us link to report what you think is going on and since that link is secure you can include examples in support of your position….links that show the kind of parallelism that you are very much aware will make your case. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 11, 2019 @ 12:05 pm I smell a rat as well….I would probably avoid “Ivan” digs as I think it weakens your own standing. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 11, 2019 @ 12:00 pm Trying to figure out the persona you present as YOU here. So….you are a Brit. Maybe of you share your political alignment there that would help. Where are you on Brexit for example and the current leadership in your own fractious nation. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 11, 2019 @ 11:58 am I believe that this post strikes the most balanced tone I have read in a while. Keep our eyes on the Prize, THE PRIZE, a Trump-Free WH. Now, how we get there….well there are likely a few paths….I am inclined to support Warren but she has hurdles, reflected in her own weakness in home state support, that she has to overcome BUT in nearly all of my other categories she fits my bill. What must be avoided is the kind of underground resistance to our own party’s candidate that marked the 2016 race. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 11, 2019 @ 11:55 am Here is what I wrote to Ad re. his concerns. I support our terms of service. All should abide by the operating principles at The Planet….I know I have erred at times when I got truly angry…I will counsel Jake to do as I try to do…….Stick with as neutral a tone as possible and let the facts woven together with logic and insight do the fighting. I can say this about him….he is a real warrior when it comes to Russian Trolling. He has been fighting the fight about 8Chan for example long before even a few were aware of it….he has a very wide perspective regarding the power of the false information, propaganda machine that Putin’s people are working so hard to keep Trump, and the Trump legacy post Trump himself in place. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 11, 2019 @ 11:46 am I support our terms of service. All should abide by the operating principles at The Planet….I know I have erred at times when I got truly angry…I will counsel Jake to do as I try to do…….Stick with as neutral a tone as possible and let the facts woven together with logic and insight do the fighting. I can say this about him….he is a real warrior when it comes to Russian Trolling. He has been fighting the fight about 8Chan for example long before even a few were aware of it….he has a very wide perspective regarding the power of the false information, propaganda machine that Putin’s people are working so hard to keep Trump, and the Trump legacy post Trump himself in place. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 11, 2019 @ 11:45 am That is the core manifesto that all dems need to stand by. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 11, 2019 @ 11:36 am Boy, this sure reads like false flag propaganda….there is just too much here that is unsupportable and it certainly looks like your aim is to spread out support away from front runners…leading, it seems, to a candidate lacking widespread support across the party’s ideological front (from left of center, to center, to right of center). BUT, the focus above all that must be clear is ANYONE but Trump. I mean that. And so should you if you are as you say you are. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 11, 2019 @ 11:34 am Single Payer……we have yet to see a plan that can be costed out such that it would work given all of the priorities. The ACA was working and rather well. With a few fixes (purposely unsupported by the GOP whose veto stopped them cold) the system would have continued to improve. Biden’s role in that was extensive both in design but in passage and implementation. I wonder who your “We” is…..when you speak of toppling Trump in 50 states you are either lacking in knowledge, are hopelessly optimistic, or are laying out a false trail. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 11, 2019 @ 11:28 am Your post just does not wring true to me. It seems to, at its heart say, if the Dems have Biden for their candidate, they are better off with Trump, or certainly no worse off. It strikes me that your purpose is to knock back the front runner and to push those whose support is weak currently or whose attraction is likely to make them less attractive in the long run. Just wondering. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 11, 2019 @ 11:23 am Reply to Niemand that I thought you might value: When someone writes something like this: As for Mueller, very sad, but the report was much ado about nothing, a damp squib as I intimated that it would be. Nevertheless, as I claimed it served as a vehicle with which to try and undermine Trump’s Presidency-witch hunt being an appropriate term. and when that person seems to be reasonable, well read and clear in their expression I have to wonder what is going on. The Mueller report, which I have read, makes it very clear that the Trump administration (usually at the behest of the Chief Executive) engaged in at least 10 separate episodes of obstruction of justice. That same investigation led to a large number of judicial findings but spared the WH, by and large, because DOJ policy, based on a memorandum of understanding, is that sitting Executives cannot be indicted, nor can indictments be seal for later release, nor can they be listed as an unindicted conspirator…..but what he makes clear is that his report does not vindicate the man and that, if were able to make such a statement, he would have. Your position on this invalidates the rest of your commentary from my POV. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 11, 2019 @ 11:17 am When someone writes something like this: As for Mueller, very sad, but the report was much ado about nothing, a damp squib as I intimated that it would be. Nevertheless, as I claimed it served as a vehicle with which to try and undermine Trump’s Presidency-witch hunt being an appropriate term. and when that person seems to be reasonable, well read and clear in their expression I have to wonder what is going on. The Mueller report, which I have read, makes it very clear that the Trump administration (usually at the behest of the Chief Executive) engaged in at least 10 separate episodes of obstruction of justice. That same investigation led to a large number of judicial findings but spared the WH, by and large, because DOJ policy, based on a memorandum of understanding, is that sitting Executives cannot be indicted, nor can indictments be seal for later release, nor can they be listed as an unindicted conspirator…..but what he makes clear is that his report does not vindicate the man and that, if were able to make such a statement, he would have. Your position on this invalidates the rest of your commentary from my POV. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 11, 2019 @ 11:16 am Biden had a very significant portfolio as VP. Maybe thinking like this would assist you in getting to know him. Joe Biden: The Most Influential Vice President in History? Barack Obama just can’t get enough out of Joe Biden these days. And anybody who’s been following Biden’s steady ascent in stature over the last several years — from gaffe-happy presidential contender to one of the most powerful vice presidents in U.S. history — couldn’t be less surprised. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 11, 2019 @ 10:58 am I can’t figure out who you are replying to here….your reply does not seem to fit in with any of the comments above it. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 11, 2019 @ 10:53 am We need to be strategic in this…..and the kind of observations you are making need to be given their due while at the same time looking for the candidate with highest aspirational draw. Not easy to do. Especially given the nature of the electorate….where fact based discernment is in scarce supply. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 11, 2019 @ 10:24 am Here is something that gives me pause from https://www.vox.com/2019/7/30/20691246/elizabeth-warren-massachusetts-unpopular Why isn’t Elizabeth Warren more popular in Massachusetts? By Ella Nilsenella.nilsen@vox.com Updated Jul 30, 2019, 10:14am This dynamic betrays a fear among Democrats who are already thinking ahead to a high-stakes general election matchup with President Donald Trump. Some worry Warren’s low approval numbers among Massachusetts independents — particularly men — foreshadow a potential lack of appeal to independent voters she would need in crucial states like Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin should she become the Democratic nominee. Those states were all sources of a painful Electoral College loss in 2016. “The fact that Warren underperformed Hillary Clinton in 228 of Massachusetts’s 351 towns, and did so in a blue wave year, speaks to her weakness with working-class white voters on the ballot,” said Cook Political Report editor Dave Wasserman, who analyzed the two-party vote share in each Massachusetts town in the 2018 midterms, when Warren was reelected. “Many parts of Massachusetts are culturally more similar to Wisconsin or Michigan than they are to Cambridge or Boston or Amherst. And that has to be a serious concern for next November, should it get to that.” It’s not a perfect comparison; Wisconsin and Michigan are different from Massachusetts. But Warren’s home-state standing gives us a glimpse into how she might perform elsewhere. Warren won reelection by a decisive 60 percent in 2018. But not only did she underperform Clinton’s 2016 vote share by 3 points in the two-party vote share, she also underperformed relative to Barack Obama in 2012 during her first Senate campaign. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 11, 2019 @ 10:11 am So many become so focused on THEIR CANDIDATE (and conversely so opposed to others) that they cannot get beyond the reality…..only one in the field can win the nomination and that nominee is NOW their only standard bearer…..I know SO MANY who resent the Hillary nomination and never got on board. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 11, 2019 @ 10:07 am My ouches were meant to be zings, or pffffftttt of an arrow hitting the mark……. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 11, 2019 @ 10:04 am ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch…… how about reposting this as an article for the front page….as a feature……..AND, if you are at NewYabz do the same there….it is easy to do that. Posting a feature here has some contortions you have to manage. If you want help I can provide the formatting but someone as sharp as you are really has a place on the front page. Ok….a comment on your comment……Yes, SC is very important insofar as it has a place as a laboratory for how a candidate will do with particular populations….but does that tell us how the candidate will do with that population in another state. Having lived in the South and in SC in particular and having lived in the North and Midwest I believe that the profile of black activism is very different from region to region. Thus high turnout in SC does not necessarily portend high turnout in Michigan for ex. Now let me add that SC will have zero value in the general election except where the ticket helps to boost state and local elections which means lessons learned there have limited application for the national race. Whatcha think? » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 11, 2019 @ 10:03 am Congrats……question is her high opinion of the three you list based on anything but their public personas and oratory….what I am asking is has she looked at what they have done, what notches are in their belts, what trophies are on their mantles…..I have a sense of this with all three….Sanders is the least accomplished for all his years in Congress he really has done very little..he is a gadfly but does not seem able to put together alliances to get things done….Buttigieg is very promising as a person of real wit and wisdom with a record as mayor that certainly indicates that he has a bright future still not enough to go on for me….Warren is my current favorite: smart, hard working, running a good campaign, knows how to take policy from principle to operation…. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 9, 2019 @ 7:03 pm I don’t disagree with much of this…..my post was about someone very clearly naming the reality in clear and cogent terms. Yes, he was reading a speech…..and every candidate has their well written speeches….initially read from teleprompters and then recited from memory. Obama in 2008 had four packaged speeches…I heard them over and over again….Obama was also good on his feet and ever so careful in how he answered something that Biden is not, and something that Trump has never even got close to being (but it does not seem to matter for him). I think Biden is too old. I think his ideas are not as current as they need to be. I think he has a lot of appeal to a lot of groups as his polling demonstrates. My attention right now is focused on Warren and Booker…..but….that is who I am supporting directly. All I have to say is that those who want someone else, and those someone else’s are going to have to make their case to the American voter in the key primary and caucus states. Nothing else matters. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 9, 2019 @ 6:50 pm And the chance of a dem winning tx is still very, small. Beto lost his Senate race. Dems in Tx ….. about 30 percent…on average. O’Rourke against Cruz, who is a nasty piece of work, came as close as anyone can recall….I only hope for your sake that Bideni is not the nominee as that will leave you with an awful alternative will it not? I am banking on Warren right now…. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 9, 2019 @ 6:34 pm I don’t disagree with your perspective…..I am actively supporting Warren…..my post was about someone very clearly naming the reality in clear and cogent terms. I think Biden is too old. I think his ideas are not as current as they need to be. And I think he has a lot of appeal to a lot of groups as his polling demonstrates. All I have to say is that those who want someone else, and those someone else’s are going to have to make their case to the American voter in the key primary and caucus states. Nothing else matters. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 9, 2019 @ 6:28 pm I don’t disagree with much of this…..my post was about someone very clearly naming the reality in clear and cogent terms. Yes, he was reading a speech…..and every candidate has their well written speeches….initially read from teleprompters and then recited from memory. Obama in 2008 had four packaged speeches…I heard them over and over again….Obama was also good on his feet and ever so careful in how he answered something that Biden is not, and something that Trump has never even got close to being (but it does not seem to matter for him). I think Biden is too old. I think his ideas are not as current as they need to be. I think he has a lot of appeal to a lot of groups as his polling demonstrats. All I have to say is that those who want someone else, and those someone else’s are going to have to make their case to the American voter in the key primary and caucus states. Nothing else matters. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 9, 2019 @ 6:22 pmComments Posted By MurphTheSurf3
From the fiscal cliff to gun control to Afghanistan, Scranton’s favorite son has transformed himself from affable gaffer to West Wing powerhouse.
Why Warren’s home-state political standing makes some Democrats nervous, explained.
BOSTON — Elizabeth Warren has long struggled to capture independent voters in her home state of Massachusetts.
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