Mr. Podesta...Hillary's Campaign Manager.

[SoapBox]

Just a reminder about who she stands with.

[cali]

1. That this isn't an issue, that we collectively shrug

our shoulders and divorce ourselves from.this way of politics, speaks volumes.

[JRLeft]

47. Her supporters don't give a shit.

[rhett o rick]

50. Their admiration blinds them to her true self. I believe it's authoritarianism.

She is tough, is what they tell me. Doesn't matter that she is tough on the 99% and soft on the 1%. They admire the toughness.

It's "favoring complete obedience or subjection to authority as opposed to individual freedom: " * or authoritarianism.

Authoritarians favor General James Clapper over a whistle-blower. Authoritarians want to see anyone that speaks out against complete authority punished. They are against whistle-blowers, protesters, investigative journalists, OWS, etc.

[JRLeft]

51. Some just want to see a woman president so all of her corruption is swept under the rug.

[rhett o rick]

62. Yes I think there are som pseudo-liberals that believe they have to support a female

regardless of the fact that she is embroiled in the culture that has not been good to females.

When Obama ran against Clinton, these same pseudo-liberals thought that Obama's being partially AA out weighed Clinton's being a female.

[JRLeft]

63. Her corporatism is bad for income inequality.

[rhett o rick]

64. What the social justice warriors don't understand is that if we don't fight wealth inequality

we will lose everything we've gained.

[JRLeft]

65. Voting corporatist increases the gap.

[CorporatistNation]

80. Hopefully More Caucus Goers Give a SHIT Than Most!

True about her supporters... HillBill can do or could have done absolutely anything and the Hillbots will merrily skip along shouting her accolades. These people are ______________!

[daleanime]

2. But you have to keep your enemies close....

[Helen Borg]

17. Righto!

[Enthusiast]

44. Who would believe that?

[Faux pas]

3. Why does

she keep lying about EVERYTHING? Disgusting to the max.

[frylock]

18. Serial liars gonna lie serially.

[Faux pas]

19. I know,

grew up in a houseful of them. It was hard.

[frylock]

20. I'm sorry

[Faux pas]

21. Thank you frylock!

I fooled them all and came out alive.

[840high]

57. She's done it for years and it's

become a way of life for her.

[restorefreedom]

4. jeffrey berman, another advisor, was a lobbyist for profit prisons and keystone

yup. she has enlisted some real treasures......

“I'm not sure a lot of Americans know that a lot of the detention facilities for immigrants are run by private companies. They have a built-in incentive to fill them up - that there is actually a legal requirement that so many beds be filled. So people go out and round up people in order to get paid on a per-bed basis. I mean that just makes no sense at all to me. That's not the way we should be running any detention facility.”
Hillary Clinton made that statement in May, 2015.

One month later, she hired Jeffrey Berman, a lobbyist for Geo Group, to raise funds for her campaign. Geo Group is the second-largest private prison/immigration center corporation in the world. Five other donation 'bundlers' for her campaign have been lobbyists for the largest one, Corrections Corporation Of America. Berman also worked at the firm Bryan Cave and pulled nearly $1 million in two years lobbying for TransCanada’s Keystone pipeline project.

Clinton also continued her working relationship with private-prison lobbyist Richard Sullivan of Capitol Counsel AND Geo Group. However, in October, she was forced by ColorOfChange, Black Lives Matter and others to donate all funds she received from these lobbyists to charity. Yes, that’s right folks -- after being called on it, she flipped on the issue and agreed that prisons-for-profits is maybe not such a great thing after all.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/1467857/full_content

[DhhD]

66. It started with on of her favorite Administrators-Bill Clinton.

http://www.dunwalke.com/10_Clinton_Administration.htm

[restorefreedom]

72. what a sorry bunch

esp disappointed in gore.

[CharlotteVale]

5. Those are whose side she's on.

[ViseGrip]

6. Oh my, I'm so surprised and disappointed.

[Skwmom]

7. Clinton: The best candidate money can buy.

[RiverLover]

8. Wake Up America!

Please.

[hobbit709]

9. She's certainly not on the side of Florence Reese. Or anyone like her today.

[pangaia]

10. And Pete's version..

[ejbr]

11. Walmart is misspelled

I wonder if this demonstrates how one governs in prose. It would indeed be pragmatic to have these affiliations if change wasn't desired.

[Juicy_Bellows]

40. Wall Mart is where they sell Chinese made walls at discount prices!

They probably meant Wal Mart though - spell checker got them in their hastened meme!

[elias49]

53. Poetic justice right here.

[pangaia]

12. I just can not understand why anyone who calls themself a progressive

would prefer Hillary Clinton OR Martin O'Malley when they Have Bernie Sanders.

Bernie has the issues right. It's simple.

The only constantly repeated arguments I see are 'he can't be elected' and 'he won't be able to get anything done.'

[JonLeibowitz]

22. I can understand O'Malley -- he has actual achievements on his resume

And he is pretty progressive himself. As the party moves leftward I can see him being a reasonable "establishment" pick once the establishment realizes how far the base really is.

[pangaia]

25. That's a good point.

I must be a little partisan.

[oasis]

27. President Mondale also had the issues right. nt

[navarth]

39. I remember the Mondale campaign

I voted for him. But that didn't feel at all like Bernie's campaign. I'm not sure it's a good comparison.

Too bad about Mondale, he was the first to select a woman for his VP. Good guy too. But I never saw him inspire like Bernie's doing.

My 2 cents

[oasis]

55. I was there when Mondale was heckled at an event at USC. Those

snotty, spoiled, privileged brats were the exact opposite of the crosstown student body at UCLA.

[senz]

43. Mondale did not have 10,000 people cheering at rallies.

Mondale did not connect with the people. He was also far more "establishment" than Sen. Sanders.

[oasis]

54. I guess proposing to raise taxes wasn't as popular back then. nt

[rpannier]

73. I can see progressive O' malley supporters

He hasn't experience running a large city and a state
He is progressive on most issues
He has a pretty long list of progressive accomplishments (check with Elleng she has several posts about them) and they are rather impressive
He is good in small groups (and larger ones)
For all the mocking people made about him meeting with the one guy in Iowa, it had snowed pretty badly and the guy showed up. O' Malley spent a lot of time with the guy
There are candidates, Trump most likely, that would have just said, "Screw it! The weather is too awful and it's only one guy, and the guy said he wasn't really a supporter."
Takes perseverance and some class to sit there and talk 1:1 with a skeptic

[TIME TO PANIC]

13. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

It's obvious she's not on our side. PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP AMERICA!!!!!

[Mass]

14. Campaign chairman, not campaign manager. Robby Mook is her campaign manager

It works better when it does not have factual errors.

[Duval]

15. Speaks volumes. K&R

[ChairmanAgnostic]

16. He was on MSNBC this mourning.

Insulting, intrusive, interrupting, inept, and ingratiating as only a true Hillarian could be.

[EdwardBernays]

23. Don't forget

His firm ALSO represents Saudi Arabia.

His brother who co-owns the lobbying firm is considered to be one of the most powerful men in DC. A super-lobbiest.

He's also one of Hillary's biggest fundraisers.

Podesta is also the Founder of Center for American Progress, whose current head is also part of the Hillary campaign staff.

Three of the top 10 biggest corporate tax cheats are represented by the Podesta's firm as well. And several of the weapons manufacturers they lobby for both donated millions to the Clinton Foundation AND got hundreds of millions in defense contracts while Hillary was SOS.

[senz]

49. Good information!

It's amazing how they all rub each other's backs.

Saudi Arabia connects with Podesta, the Clintons, and the Bushes -- all of whom connect with one another.

Center for American Progress website ThinkProgess, a good progressive site, often promotes Hillary.

As you pointed out, Podesta lobbies for weapons manufacturers who got deals from and donated to the Clintons.

It is these sorts of favor-trading connections that account for much of the Clinton power in D.C. -- not their "progressive" creds. All they are is wheeler-dealers. It's hard to believe so many good little Democrats fall in line behind Hillary. She does not represent us.

Thanks, EdwardBernays.

[Punkingal]

24. What a great guy!

[EdwardBernays]

26. One more thing.

He was part of both the Bill Clinton and Obama staff.

He was the deputy COS and COS for Bill and Advisor to the President for Obama.

[bigdarryl]

28. And you dont think that if Sanders becomes President he's not

Going to look to experienced people from the Obama and Clinton administrations.All new Presidents do that because they know they have experience I the WH:

[EdwardBernays]

30. Equating

Experience with corporate lobbying is patently ridiculous.

And experience is not as valuable as judgement. Hiring someone that makes money when a weapons manufacturer as a political advisor is obviously incredibly poor judgement. The same goes for someone that makes money when a pharmaceutical company makes money. Or someone that makes money by keeping Saudi Arabia and their crimes out of the press.

[Lordquinton]

34. I'm thinking we need a little less "experience" in DC

When the same people have been running the show aside from the figurehead, well, it explains a lot.

[hopemountain]

81. hoping he appoints mr. reich to

a powerful post - overseeing wallstreet - or working to support unions.

[malokvale77]

29. Thank you so much for this post.

I've been posting a link to this slimeball's profile for the last 2 or 3 weeks, but only a few people seemed interested.

[AzDar]

31. K & R & ...

[Phlem]

32. K&R!!!!

Nice.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

33. Not living in Australia

does that still give me the right to say, "CRIKEY?"

[ProudToBeLiberal]

35. Robby Mook is the campaign manager. Is he being ignored because he's LGBT?

Something fishy is going on. Why are Sanders supporters calling Podesta the campaign manager when Robby Mook is?

[99Forever]

36. Known by the cronies she keeps.

[democrank]

37. The only thing missing in that photo

is Henry Kissinger.

[bvar22]

46. I thought so too, so I added it:

Awww, what a cute couple.
Between the two of them, they have run up an impressive body count.

[democrank]

67. Thanks, bvar.

Nice photo of the "Progressive" Hillary Clinton and her good friend.

[Nyan]

75. Oh man...I feel my stomach churning.

[840high]

58. what about her best friend - Bush?

[felix_numinous]

38. K&R

[FlatBaroque]

41. Reason number 879 why she can NOT win any national election. /

[Doctor_J]

42. she is probably the most corrupt candidate ever to run as a democrat

Pretty much no redeeming features about her. If she were a man her campaign would have been over months ago

[840high]

60. Back in '08 I backed

her. My ex husband kept telling me exactly what you just said. I wish I had believed him. Now I do.

[onenote]

45. FWIW, John Podesta hasn't been a part of the Pedestal group for more than 20 years

He left after five years.

Yes, his brother runs the Podesta group, but that's not what the OP "poster" says.

[Hiraeth]

48. Birds of a feather ...

you know the rest

[saltpoint]

52. Re Mr. Podesta...

---

Mr. Podesta
Not the besta

---

Ok, it's not the most ambitious poem ever undertaken. But it's free. I don't charge for this service.

And on a fashion note, I could do without the red tie, John. It's not the tie's fault. It can be red if it wants to. It's the juxtaposition of the red tie around your neck suggesting your, uh, financial interests worldwide.

[billhicks76]

56. He Also Said Cheney Lied About 911

Till the Clintons shut him up.

[zentrum]

59. Had no idea

….he was this….bad.

Thanks for the information. Says it all.

[treestar]

61. Most of the voters don't demonize the entire economy

or the biggest companies in it. BS people live in a bubble on this. You think that alone is supposed to mean people won't vote for her?

[brooklynite]

68. Clinton's Campaign Manager is Robby Mook (who I've met)

But a cute infographic makes it all okay.

[Armstead]

69. Podesta is a high operative and close ally of the Clintons

[brooklynite]

70. ...but not the Campaign Manager

[Armstead]

71. Splitting hairs....It's the company (companies) they keep

But government by Corporate Dictate is fine, I know. Such things don't matter. All that matters is beating the GOP....But I fail to see why go through the motions since so many "centrists" Democrats currently sound more like the GOP every day

[californiabernin]

77. Is this really the most point you have to make? You have no other comment, seriously? n/t

[JonLeibowitz]

79. brooklynite may simply have wanted to indicate that they are close with the Clintons.

It appears his/her closeness with democratic establishment is a regular feature in their posts.

[Nanjeanne]

74. He is Clinton Campaign Chairman

Higher up than Campaign Manager Mook.

[saltpoint]

76. She just seems to latch on to

these icky people.

John Podesta.

Mark Penn.

Brock.

[nikto]

78. Friends matter

[raouldukelives]

82. We live in the most democracy Wall St shareholders will allow.

When someone says "Not in my name" one must check if they are shareholders first. Because if so, it absolutely is in their name. From resource wars against the least, to climate change ignorance to incarceration for profit.

If there is a way to make the world worse and make a buck, a shareholder will fall over themselves to get an early taste.

[amborin]

83. that's whose interests she will continue to promote