" With the Indiana primary drawing nearer , Bobby's hope was to carry a substantial white vote that would match his dominant strength among African Americans . He saw it as a positive sign when he experienced appreciative welcomes from both groups in Gary , Indiana , four days before voters would go to the polls .
     There , he rode in a convertible seated between Mayor Richard Hatcher , the city's first African American leader , and Gary's most famous citizen , the prizefighter Tony Zale . Known as the ' Man of Steel ' for the mills where he had once worked and always had lived near , Zale was a two - time middleweight champion . Bobby would end the day with his own hands bloody , cuff links and even shoes missing , so frenzied were his reaching fans . ' That being touched all the time , ' he told a reporter . ' I do not like it . But people can hear everything about a candidate ; and it is the touching him they never forget . ' 
     ' The people here were fair to me , ' he said late on election eve . ' They gave me a chance . They listened to me . If they do not like you they let you know ; if they do like you they let you know that  , too .  '
     In the end , Bobby Kennedy won the Indiana Democratic primary , receiving 42 percent of the vote . The popular governor , Roger Branigin , running as a favorite son , won 31 percent , Senator McCarthy 28 .
     Richard Goodwin , who had left the McCarthy campaign and returned to the Kennedy fold , believed Bobby had found his message . ' His inner urge toward defiance -- of unjust privilege , indifferent power , concentrated wealth , which provide so much hatred among some -- was also the source of his greatest strength , arousing the hopes and expectations of millions who felt themselves victimized . '
     As Bobby himself saw it : ' I have proved I can really be a leader of a broad spectrum . I can be a bridge between blacks and whites without stepping back from my positions . ' "    

sirmoonie wrote on Dec 11^th, 2017 at 4:33am:

moonie ?

sirmoonie wrote on Dec 11^th, 2017 at 4:33am:


rubbish

Joey ?

https://youtu.be/8CvYBx0qEbk

The fantasy that is Fox and Friends would be a safer place for you then young Joey.

Edith Grove wrote on Dec 13^th, 2017 at 12:02pm:


Edith...thanks for the chuckles. that is too funny!

Alabama went Trump shaming.

You can lead a horse to the facts, but you can't make the horse understand the facts if he's a dumbfuck horse stuck on stupid.

Edith Grove wrote on Dec 14^th, 2017 at 7:29am:


Trump won the state by over 25 points just last year. A loss here no matter how small is significant. But it is not a condemnation of the GOP agenda just a distain for a putrid candidate. Jone will have a hell of a time getting re-elected . Hopefully by then "Not a Judge Anymore" Roy Moore will have conceded.

Edith Grove wrote on Dec 14^th, 2017 at 3:28pm:


It could cut Joey's post total in half!

< ----------   Some Guy   ... ?!    ......  !!!!!    :









https://www.wsj.com/articles/when-donald-met-kirsten-1513210449







" When Donald Met Kirsten "

" Democrats have finally figured out how to turn Trump’s tweets into their own weapon.  "




By Daniel Henninger





" Americans were forced this Tuesday morning to take time from their holiday preparation to scroll through these exchanges between the president of the United States, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and other members of the U.S. Senate, known in more innocent times as the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body.

A Trump tweet: “Lightweight Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a total flunky for Chuck Schumer and someone who would come to my office ‘begging’ for campaign contributions not so long ago (and would do anything for them), is now in the ring fighting against Trump. Very disloyal to Bill & Crooked-USED!”

Sen. Gillibrand, whose aides made sure reporters would note she was in a Bible study meeting at the moment of the tweet, replied: “It was a sexist smear attempting to silence my voice, and I will not be silenced on this issue. Neither will the women who stood up to the president yesterday.”

Sen. Elizabeth Warren joined the colloquy: “Are you really trying to bully, intimidate and slut-shame @SenGillibrand?”

And then Sen. Mazie Hirono : “The only way to stop this president who has a narcissistic need for attention, he’s a misogynist and an admitted sexual predator and a liar, the only thing that will stop him from attacking us is his resignation.”


American politics is dividing now into a series of concentric circles, not unlike Dante’s circles of Hell.


The innermost circle is occupied by political professionals who soak in the toxic political intrigues of Democrats and Republicans in the Trump era.

Outside this inner circle stands the general public whose members continuously chant the two truisms of their time: They have never seen a more polarized political environment, and have never struggled so hard to make sense of what is going on.

We offer a path toward understanding, if not contentment.

Forget your political biases, which impair comprehension in direct proportion to their intensity. Clarity comes only to those willing to see all this for what it is: a crude death struggle for power.

The fulcrum political event is of course Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 presidential election. A Kirsten Gillibrand would look at this and simply say: He won, we lost. Now we have to win. How we do that is irrelevant.

(By the way, regarding “do anything”: The Almanac of American Politics details Sen. Gillibrand’s eye-rolling flip-flops—famous in New York political circles—from upstate House conservative to progressive Senate saint, described in an apparently forgotten New York Times account.)

With Democrats themselves admitting they have no coherent message that could win a presidential election, the opposition strategy has been built around Mr. Trump’s personality, his alleged collusion with Russia to disable Hillary Clinton, and now the return of the same accusations of sexual harassment that did not cause him to lose the election.

To be clear about the strategy: If the U.S. was being bombarded by killer asteroids, you would be hearing nonstop of Mr. Trump’s failure to protect us from the asteroids. Whatever works. As Hyman Roth told Michael Corleone : “This is the business we’ve chosen.”

In the past week, the Democrats may finally have hit upon the Achilles’ heel that will fell or weaken this president: his tweets.

The tweets have worried Republicans and Trump supporters since they started. Mr. Trump rejects this criticism. He said, with a tweet, that they energize his base. But Roy Moore just lost in Alabama.

At the level of political chess, the Democrats of late have been masterful against their opponent. The biggest nonpolitical story for months has been sexual abuse, starting with Harvey Weinstein. It was only a matter of time before the politicians would figure out how to manipulate harassment for their own purposes.

The Democrats forced both John Conyers and Al Franken to resign last week. They took their harassers off the table, which left Mr. Trump self-aligned with the one alleged harasser on the board—Roy Moore.

Then on Monday, the day before the Alabama election, came the following: Three women repeated sexual harassment accusations they’d made against Mr. Trump during the campaign; the congressional Democratic Women’s Working Group called for an investigation of the charges; and Sen. Gillibrand called on the president to resign.

On display here is how Democrats have learned to exploit one reality, which is that Mr. Trump’s political orbit of interest radiates about two feet beyond him. They have discovered how to make his tweets their weapon.

On election day, Mr. Trump’s candidate, Roy Moore, was on the bubble with voters, especially among women. No matter. Mr. Trump’s Tuesday-morning tweet suddenly elevated a B-level New York senator, and the media instantly recycled the Trump sexual-harassment details. Doug Jones defeated Roy Moore by just 1.5%, and the Republicans’ Senate majority fell to 51. By day’s end, Sen. Gillibrand was soliciting funds via email for her 2018 election. They figured out how to make the Trump side lose. It’s the president’s move now. Checkmate awaits. "

gimmekeef wrote on Dec 15^th, 2017 at 7:38am:

One day I will be able to tell my great great grandchildren that my generation defeated the republicans.