Biden: ‘Abortion Is Always Wrong’

Following the story that Vice President Joe Biden used the privilege of his office to invite both co-chairs, Kevin McCarthy and Teri Hawks Goodmann, who are leading Biden’s draft Biden movement in Iowa, and were active in Biden’s 2008 Iowa campaign, to DC for prime spots in Pope Francis’s schedule, we followed links not only in the local Iowa papers, but then onto the reliable London rag Daily Mail.

This was quite a stopover for HWN where we listened to a most interesting discussion with the US Vice President on abortion and life beginning at conception.

Does that mean Vice President Biden would accept a personhood amendment for fertilized eggs, if passed by Congress? That very specific question wasn’t asked.

To be accurate here, Vice President Biden did say that ” … I’m not prepared to impose doctrine that I’m prepared to accept on the rest of [the country].”

Hillary Dominates Zogby Poll

“A brand new Zogby Analytics Poll of 515 likely Democratic primary/caucus voters nationwide, with a margin of sampling error of +/- 4.3 percentage points, shows that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton holds a huge lead over all of her rivals for the nomination. The new poll, conducted online September 18 and 19, has Mrs. Clinton leading Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders 52% to 24%, with former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley at 3%, former Virginia Senator Jim Webb with 2%, and 19% either undecided or choosing another candidate.

Mrs. Clinton leads by wide margins among men (46% to 29%) and women (58% to 20%), Democrats (60% to 21%), liberals (63% to 29%), moderates (48% to 26%), conservatives (46% to 17%), Hispanics (52% to 24%) and African Americans (65% to 20%). She and Mr. Sanders are close only among independents with Mrs. Clinton at 33% to Mr. Sanders’ 31% and 31% undecided.

Joe Biden’s 2016 Moment Is Gone, Hillary Has Withstood the Summer Assault #HillaryMen

In politics, as in life, timing is everything.

For a moment this summer, the gatekeepers of our national conversation believed they had achieved their singular mission: to derail Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

In the midst of that fierce summertime attack, some Democrats lost their nerve and succumbed to the seductive sirens of the anti-Hillary commentariat who floated a series of male saviors for the Democratic Party, shining knights who could salvage them from the supposed “dream-turned-nightmare” of the first woman president.

As we approached that nadir, according to the pundits, our Vice President would step in and save the day, rescuing America from the “weak woman.”

Here’s the problem for Joe Biden, a good and decent man whom we admire and respect tremendously: that moment has passed.

Hillary has survived one of the fiercest assaults ever launched against a political leader.

Clinton On the Move

Clinton’s Lead Over Sanders GrowsCNN

Morning Joe practically accused the polls of being wrong just now. Trust us, we don’t hang on them either at this point. Mitt Romney went into the 2012 election ahead in the polls. But at least it may shut up the media for a day or two.

A new CNN poll puts Hillary ahead by 18 points, with Clinton being backed by 42% of Democratic primary voters; Sanders by 25% and Biden by 22%. This result has forward motion for Clinton, who was at 37%, Sanders at 27% and Biden at 20% in the same poll a month ago.

Candidate Clinton is in Louisiana this morning, where going nowhere Republican 2016 presidential candidate Gov. Bobby Jindal has challenged her to a health care debate, reports TIME.

137 Billionaires Join Giving Pledge

2016 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders demonizes billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg, Oprah and Warren Buffett and demands that we throw the deadbeats out of America if necessary.

In July 2015 the Vermont Senator said in front of a large crowd in Dallas: ‘Your Greed is Destroying America, and We Are Going to End Your Greed’, writes D Magazine.

Without condoning billionaires and how each made his or her money,GlobalCitizen.org reminds us that137 bilionaires have pledged to use their money for good. The campaign was announced in 2010 by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, with 85% of the billionaires living in the US, if not born here.

Read details of GlobalCitizen’supcoming concert in Central Park.