Progressive Senator Elizabeth Warren Leads Hillary Clinton Fiery Anti-Trump Firewall

Warren to meet with Clinton this morning, fueling VP speculation Washington Post

Given that the press got EVERYTHING WRONG in their early morning speculations about what would happen yesterday, we wouldn't read too much into this headline.

There is no doubt that Warren and Clinton will be coordinating their strategies. Imagine this possibility:

Warren and Clinton coordinate a group of 10 high-profile women -- because The Donald loves women -- and they launch a relentless and epic Twitter and social media campaign against him. Because she is so good at it, Warren is chief social media in chief coordinating the daily talking points for the women. The assault is relentless and informed and Warren is the general. Maybe the Clinton campaign gives Warren a small staff and they take their strategic marching orders from her. And a group of women do it - which adds to his macho humiliation.

Just sayin' there are many reasons for Warren to meet with Clinton. Besides, the women need to form a more personal bond. ~ Anne

Many of the factors that helped Hillary beat Bernie will let her crush Trump VOX

Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is heading into a general election battle against Donald Trump, reality-show kingpin and probably the most controversial and entertaining presidential candidate in a very long time. As usual, Hillary's attack plan is boring, by media standards.

Reality is that Hillary Clinton's boring strategy worked well against Bernie Sanders and many strategists believe it will work even better against Donald Trump. Hillary and Bernie truly do share many of the same progressive values. Trump is her ideological opposite, relying like Bernie on slogans, mega rallies, and aggressive white male supporters.

Compared with the Sanders's campaign, Hillary Clinton's focused on policy details, consultations with a wide array of stakeholders, data, and elite endorsements. Journalistically, the media had no interest in policy details or educating voters about nuanced differences between the two candidates. 

While Sanders created the more interesting American narrative, drawing enormous crowds, he lost the election. Pundits and pollsters, be damned, because voters got the message. Clinton beat Sanders with the same strategy she will use against Trump. With Trump having no political expertise and an ego larger than Texas, he's probably thinner-skinned than Sanders, who is also noted for taking offense easily. Trump simply can't handle the pressure of being belittled, and the Hillary Clinton campaign will do everything possible to portray him as being volatile, unstable and unfit to be president.

This Is How Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump Are the Same Person by Jonathan Capehart Washington Post

In this delicate period for Bernie Sanders and his supporters, we will post provocative essays like this one from the highly-regarded pundit Jonathan Capehart. Our current position is not to go out of our way to criticize Bernie but we won't depress our coverage of other people's positions, so as not to anger Sanders supporters.

By next week our post goals will be 40% Hillary, 40% Trump and 20% Bernie -- unless all hell breaks lose. Now to Capehart.

Two stories in the past 48 hours cement my view that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the vanquished Democratic candidate for president, and Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, share the same DNA. These two stubborn outsiders believe they are their campaign’s best political mind. And the damage that outsized and misplaced view of their capabilities has done on their respective quests for the White House is plainly apparent.

The lead of the Politico story on the “bitter last days of Bernie’s revolution” says it all.

There’s no strategist pulling the strings, and no collection of burn-it-all-down aides egging him on. At the heart of the rage against Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party, the campaign aides closest to him say, is Bernie Sanders.

{ . . . }

Trump and Sanders ran populist presidential campaigns from opposite ends of the political spectrum. That’s why it was no surprise to me early in the primary season to hear that voters were trying to decide between wanting to “feel the Bern” and “make America great again.” That’s why it was no surprise that Trump started using Sanders’s arguments against Clinton to bolster his “Crooked Hillary” nickname for her once he cleared the field en route to becoming the presumptive Republican nominee.

In the battle of the outsider egos storming the political establishment, Trump succeeded where Sanders failed. But the chaos unleashed by Trump’s victory could spell doom for the GOP all over the ballot in November. Pardon me while I dab that single tear trickling down my cheek. "

Anarchists for Donald Trump -- Let the Empire Burn The Daily Beast

What’s needed now in American politics is consternation, confusion, dissension, disorder, chaos — and crisis, with possible resolution — and a Trump presidency is the best chance for this true progress.  This is a politics of arson.  I’d rather see the empire burn to the ground under Trump, opening up at least the possibility of radical change, than cruise on autopilot under Clinton.

I’m not alone here. Travelling across the country, I keep meeting people who voted for Sanders in the primaries but mutter under cover of night and a few drinks that they’ll vote for Trump in November. Friends out in the wildlands of the intermountain West, hard gun-toting anarchist redneck Amy Goodman progressives, say so. Big-city journalists, too. I suspect that the left-contrarian, anti-Hillary, pro-Trump arsonist crowd is larger and wider-spread than the cubicled creatures in the Clinton campaign have accounted for.

Trump arsonist-progressives are mostly embarrassed to go on the record. An editor of a major progressive website tells me in an email that if I outed him/her as a Trump supporter, “We’d probably lose the last funders that we have!!!” 

Hillary Clinton Headlines June 10, 2016

Top Clinton adviser rallies greens as general election begins The Hill

Hillary Takedown: 8 Right-Leaning Films Set for Theatrical, Online Release Hollywood Reporter

Joe Scarborough Finally Declares War on Trump, Calls Endorsers 'P*ssies' The Daily Beast

America Awaits Hillary Clinton's 10 pm Speech On Her Historic Nomination

Dear Berners: A Word About Your Threatened Coup! HillaryWomen News

Hillary insists that we behave with decorum and compassion at this difficult time in the Sanders campaign. We are digging deep into our souls because we remember how we felt exactly 8 years ago, when Hillary took herself out of the election. She was way closer to being tied with Obama than you are with her.

BUT, if you think that you will wrestle the Democratic nomination out of Hillary Clinton's arms over some silly poll argument that EVERY major polling organization says is nonsense; if you think that you are going to stage a coup against a lead of probably 3.5 million votes by midnight and 300 pledged delegates -- well you have a pussy riot waiting for you in Philadelphia.

Whatever demonstrations you have planned will wither compared to the millions of women and men across America who will be marching to Philadelphia to protect what Hillary Clinton has won fair and square. You think we have no enthusiasm?? You think again.

We just want you to understand where the Hillary crew is coming from. And it won't be pretty. When I saw these glam biker babes, I just had to get my point across. ~ Anne

How Hillary Clinton Locked-Up the Democratic Nomination in 10 Steps NPR

Speaking Monday night, Hillary Clinton said, after hearing that she had garnered the necessary votes to become the Democratic party nominee,  "according to the news, we are on the brink of a historic, historic, unprecedented moment. But we still have work to do, don't we?"

Hillary Clinton has fought very hard to emerge from this campaign season victorious. The always tenacious leader got there by applying lessons from her failed 2008 bid, forming strong alliances with Democrats, President Obama and voters of color. And the entire country watched in awe as she survived an epic 11-hour congressional hearing.

Here's a look back at the Democratic primary and 10 steps Clinton took to climb to the nomination:

1. Cracks In The Glass Ceiling

On June 7, 2008, four days after the final votes were cast in the lengthy and contentious Democratic primary, Hillary Clinton gave quite possibly the best political speech of her career. She was bowing out of the race, conceding what news organizations had already called. Barack Obama had won more pledged delegates and had more so-called superdelegates lined up behind him. He was going to be the party's nominee.  Read on.

Hillary Clinton's Long Grueling Quest New York Times

"If there was a single moment that captured what would carry Hillary Clinton to the cusp of the 2016 Democratic nomination, it came not during her sun-splashed campaign kickoff in New York last June, or in any of her speeches celebrating hard-fought primary victories over Senator Bernie Sanders.

No, it was the unscripted instant in which a blasé Mrs. Clinton coolly brushed from her shoulder a speck of lint, dirt — or perhaps nothing at all — as a Republican-led House panel subjected her to more than eight hours of questioning in October over her handling of the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya.

She may not be the orator President Obama is, or the retail politician her husband was. But Mrs. Clinton’s steely fortitude in this campaign has plainly inspired older women, black voters and many others who see in her perseverance a kind of mirror to their own struggles. And Mrs. Clinton’s very durability — her tenacity, grit and capacity for enduring and overcoming adversity — could be exactly what is required to defeat Donald J. Trump."

Bernie Sanders's Factually Incorrect Delegate Math Hillary Women News

Reading a statement from the Sanders campaign that REPEATS their 3 Pinocchios rating from the Washington Post, we must push back on the fundamental lie of the campaign that a good 400 or more superdelegates were in for Hillary before Bernie got going last spring.

THAT IS NOT TRUE AND HAS BEEN REFUTED BY THE WASHINGTON POST!!!

Still, we repost last week's clarification of when superdelegates actually committed.

Four months after Sanders was rolling and playing to huge summer crowds, in August Hillary had 130 public commitments. When AP surveyed superdelegates in November, they came up with a count of 359 for Clinton, lower than a Bloomberg Politics estimate of how many superdelegates were in the Clinton camp. Those superdelegates watched the rise of Bernie Sanders and his crowds and avid supporters and decided for Hillary right before Thanksgiving.

John Legend Defends His Support of Hillary Clinton with the Perfect Comeback Bustle

John Legend will join Christina Aguilera, Andra Day, John Legend, Ricky Martin, Stevie Wonder and HILLARY CLINTON at tonight's sold out 'She's With Us' Los Angeles concert at the historic 5,900-seat Greek Theater in Griffiths Park.

Bustle shares an example of the kind of harassment even top Clinton supporters get online. Personally, I've never been called ignorant so many times in my life as in the last six months. But reading what a Twitter user said to John Legend, we're all in rarified company. ~ Anne

"On May 23, someone tweeted the 37-year-old artist, "I see you are performing at a Hillary Clinton concert. Q: Why Hillary over Bernie. Super curious!!" On the same day, he answered, "Hillary has already won the nomination. I love Bernie, but it's time for Hillary over Trump now."

Well, that didn't sit well with one Twitter user who replied on June 5 to Legend's tweet, "i hate when ignorant artists with limited to no education act like they know what's up. Research Hillary." Here's where Legend defended himself beautifully, "I think you need to research me before calling me an ignorant artist."

By the way, Legend graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania (an Ivy League school) in 1999 with a degree in English concentrating in African American Literature and Culture. Yeah, I think he's pretty educated."

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