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News Did Barack Obama Wait Too Long To Oust Debbie Wasserman Schultz as DNC Chief?
Debbie Wasserman Schultz was forced to resign the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee over an email smear scandal — throwing the party into disarray just 24 hours before it convenes in Philadelphia today for its national convention. The Jewish Florida congresswoman, a onetime rising star in Democratic politics, was pushed out following a Wikileaks…
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Fast Forward Wikileaks Shows DNC Was Ready To Play the Jew Card on Sanders
Wikileaks released close to 20,000 emails on Friday. Those related to the Democratic National Committee included some about publicizing Bernie Sanders’s faith to help Hillary Clinton. The DNC is supposed to be an independent body within the Democratic Party but these emails threaten the fragile unity between Clinton and Sanders on the eve of the…
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Fast Forward Did Democratic Rivals Plan ‘Atheist’ Smear on Bernie Sanders
— A top Democratic National Committee official reportedly suggested in May that “someone” should draw attention to Bernie Sanders’ atheist beliefs. In an email leaked Friday by Wikileaks Brad Marshall, the DNC’s chief financial officer suggested that the party should “get someone to ask” about “his” religious beliefs, The Intercept reported. “It might [make] no…
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Opinion No, Bernie Sanders Did Not Sell Out by Endorsing Hillary Clinton — Just the Opposite
Did Bernie Sanders sell out by endorsing Hillary Clinton? Some of his more ardent followers seem to think so. They’ve accused him of compromising his values, of going back on what he claimed to believe in, and of throwing his lot in with the enemy. But an ancient rabbinic distinction between different types of arguments…
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News Green Party’s Jill Stein Slams Bernie Sanders for Endorsing Hillary Clinton
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein criticized Sen. Bernie Sanders’ endorsement of presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton Tuesday in a series of brutal tweets. “If you don’t want to vote for a war monger or racist billionaire, there are more options,” Stein tweeted right before Sanders announced his endorsement of Clinton in New Hampshire. “The…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Poised To Campaign With Hillary Clinton
Democrat Bernie Sanders will team up with Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail for the first time on Tuesday, joining her in New Hampshire, where he is expected to endorse her White House campaign in a belated show of party unity. Five weeks after Clinton clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, the U.S. senator from Vermont…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Booed in Congress for Not Getting Behind Hillary Clinton
(JTA) — House Democrats booed Sen. Bernie Sanders on the floor of Congress Wednesday, sending him a strong message for not quitting his presidential campaign and endorsing Hillary Clinton. The House of Representatives session in the morning directed intense questioning at Sanders, a Vermont Independent senator, about why he has not yet endorsed Clinton and…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Platform Guru Insists: ‘I’m Not Anti-Israel’
(JTA) — James Zogby, one of Bernie Sanders’ appointees to the the Democratic Party’s platform committee, said he had been unfairly typecast as an anti-Israel activist. “I’ve just been cast as the anti-Israel guy,” Zogby, the founder and president of the Arab American Institute, said in an interview Friday in The Jerusalem Post. “People will type you.” This…
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