OBAMA PRIVATELY TELLS DONORS THAT TIME IS COMING TO UNITE BEHIND HILLARY CLINTON

OBAMA PRIVATELY TELLS DONORS THAT TIME IS COMING TO UNITE BEHIND HILLARY CLINTON

Courtesy - MAGGIE HABERMAN and MICHAEL D. SHEAR- NEW YORK TIMES

In unusually candid remarks, President Obama privately told a group of Democratic donors last Friday that Senator Bernie Sanders is nearing the point where his campaign against Hillary Clinton will come to an end, and that the party must soon come together to back her.

Mr. Obama addressed the group four nights before Tuesday’s nominating contests, in which Mrs. Clinton was heavily favored. As it happened, Mrs. Clinton won at least four of the five states that voted — Missouri has yet to be called — further padding her lead in the race for delegates.

Mr. Obama went on to lavish praise on Mrs. Clinton, describing her as smart, tough and experienced, and said that she would continue the work of his administration. Mr. Sanders has very publicly criticized Mr. Obama on certain policies and has called for a “political revolution.”

Mr. Obama said that he understood the appeal to voters of a candidate who is authentic, the official said.

Congressman Jim Clyburn Firmly Believes that Hillary Clinton is the best choice for our nation

Congressman Jim Clyburn Firmly Believes that Hillary Clinton is the best choice for our nation

There are only two days until South Carolina’s primary, when voters across our state will converge at the polls to make their voices heard.

I believe that Hillary Clinton is the best choice for our nation. She’s the fighter that all Americans need and she believes in progress.

 

 

 

 

In recent months, things have been a little tense in my household. I’ve been getting pressure from several of the women in my family to get behind the candidate who could be our first woman president..

But my heart and my head have converged, and last Friday I made public my support for Hillary Clinton. I honestly believe Hillary will fight to protect and preserve the progress we have made under President Barack Obama.

In the early 1970s, my job in the office of Gov. John West took me to some of the most remote corners of South Carolina. I didn’t know it at the time, but Hillary wasn’t far away. She had just graduated law school, and instead of going to a big law firm, she worked with Marian Wright Edelman – a native of Bennettsville – and the Children’s Defence Fund, coming to South Carolina to investigate the conditions juvenile offenders faced while incarcerated in adult prisons.

Her efforts helped change the system, so young people who made mistakes would have a better chance for the second chance they deserved. She even went to Alabama to expose segregation in schools and started a legal aid program at the University of Arkansas.

Since then, much has changed. But not all those changes have been for the better. Today, in South Carolina, many of our students and teachers spend their days in dilapidated classrooms and using malfunctioning restrooms. Health disparities in communities of color are worse than ever. Many diseases – including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, certain types of cancer and infant mortality – more severely impact minority communities and kill African-Americans at much higher rates than their white counterparts.

Our state is still scarred with too many pockets of poverty and the I-95 corridor is not our only “Corridor of Shame.” In rural areas, many poor and minority residents have been neglected for decades and are struggling against nearly impossible odds trying to pull themselves out of poverty.

Hillary agrees this is not right and has gone on for too long. That’s why her campaign has repeatedly shone a spotlight on cities like Flint, Michigan, and towns like Denmark, S.C. – places where African-Americans have faced neglect and indifference for generations. Last week, she went to Harlem, New York, and spoke out against the systemic racism that still exists in our society. She challenged white Americans to interrogate their own privilege and perspectives, in a way that I’ve never heard a public figure do before.

She has matched her words with concrete plans, including a serious strategy for creating jobs in struggling communities. Her “Breaking Every Barrier” agenda will invest $125 billion in jobs, infrastructure and housing, specifically in places where people have been left out and left behind. It’s a strategy modelled on my own 10-20-30 plan (direct at least 10 percent of investment to places where 20 percent or more of people have lived in poverty for more than 30 years). This formula was tested in the “Recovery Act” and it worked beautifully. In making higher education more affordable, she will not jeopardize the stability and viability of HBCUs (historically black colleges and universities).

Disparities in wealth, jobs, education, health care and access to justice cut across racial and ethnic lines in profound ways. We can’t put all our faith and efforts in just one solution.

Hillary agrees we need to rein in the excesses of Wall Street, but she also understands that alone won’t solve the problems of systemic racism. It won’t fix deteriorating schools, or cure chronic disease, or reduce rampant gun violence. For those problems, we need different solutions. We need a presidential candidate who has been fighting to make progress against all these issues for her entire career.

Although the problems we face sometimes seem insurmountable, progress is still possible. Just look at the 18 million people who can afford to see a doctor, thanks to Obamacare. Look at the millions of Americans who have found new jobs since the Great Recession and the record- setting sales in the automobile industry, thanks to President Obama’s policies. Hillary Clinton will build upon Obama’s tremendous record of economic growth and progress.

Hillary Clinton is a fighter, and she’ll keep fighting for what’s right. With her in the White House, my spouse, daughters and granddaughters will have a reason to be proud, and so will yours. We all will.

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Linda Tolbert   : Geez....Another foreign Hillary Clinton paid troll. One would think that if Clinton sincerely cared about American jobs, she would at least hire an American troll at minimum wage versus one from India, whom she likely pays $.60 per hour.

My Reply

Hello , I have started this blog some two years back when Hillary did not have an idea to stand for U.S presidential election. I am her ardent supporter , follower , admirer and she is my favourite leader.

No Another foreign Hillary Clinton paid troll.

I have not taken a single $ from Hillary for this blog and I am contributing on my own. Further , Hillary team never paid a single $ even though they are having abundant. Please do not underrate Indians.

Please note that

• 38% of Doctors in U.S.A are Indians.

 

• 36% of NASA scientist are Indians.

 

• 34% of Microsoft Employees in USA are Indians.

 

• 28% of IBM employees in U.S.A are Indians.

•  17% of Intel employees in U.S.A are Indians.

•  12% of total scientists in U.S.A are Indians

 

              

Hillary Clinton tweet crushes biotech stocks

Wall Street is already betting that a President Hillary Clinton may not be good for the red-hot biotech industry

Biotech stocks tumbled on Monday after Clinton fired off a tweet about "price gouging" in biotech drugs.

Prices had skyrocketed overnight to $750 from just $13.50 each for a drug called Daraprim -- a 62-year-old drug used to treat a life-threatening parasitic infection. Clinton sent out a link to a New York Times article about it.

Clinton promised to unveil a plan on Tuesday to take on "outrageous" price increases like that one. Her campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment on specifics.

In her Twitter message, Clinton commented yesterday as follows:

Price gouging like this in the specialty drug market is outrageous. Tomorrow I'll lay out a plan to take it on. -H

The former first lady's comments clearly spooked investors. The iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology ETF (IBB) went from flat on the day before the Clinton tweet to closing down nearly 5%.

Biotech stocks helped knock the NASDAQ into the red on what had been an otherwise positive day for U.S. stocks. The nine biggest losers on the Nasdaq 100 were all biotech stocks, led by BioMarin Pharmaceutical (BMRN) and Biogen (BIIB), both of which tumbled 6% apiece. Other big biotech names under pressure include Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (REGN), Gilead Sciences (GILD) and Celgene (CELG).

One of the hardest-hit biotech stocks was Retrophin (RTRX), which plummeted 14% on Monday

Courtesy : CNN Money

In Church , Hillary Clinton Learns to be Nicer to the Press

In Church, Hillary Clinton Learns to be 'Nicer to the Press'

During remarks this morning at the Foundry United Methodist Church in Washington, D.C., where Bill Clinton, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton were celebrating the church’s 200th anniversary, the Democratic presidential candidate said she got some blunt campaign advice from her former pastor.

 

"I got some advice from Dr. Wogaman just earlier this morning, which I promise I will put into effect," Clinton, a lifelong Methodist, remarked from the pulpit, referring to former pastor J. Philip Wogaman. "Basically he said, if you’re going to read and listen to Romans 12 you got to be nicer to the press."

The Foundry United Methodist Church is where the Clintons worshipped during President Clinton’s two terms in the White House.

The former president Bill Clinton made an unexpected appearance at the service as well -- his third public appearance with his wife since she announced her candidacy for president. He did not speak, however, and was introduced by the church's pastor as "Hillary's husband" and "Chelsea’s Dad" -- a remark that drew some laughter and applause from the churchgoers.

 

During her speech, Hillary Clinton, who described herself today as a "Methodist both by birth and by choice," thanked the church for being a place where the Clintons "could worship, study, contemplate, be of service, get some good pastoral advice and step outside all the commotion of life in the White House in Washington.

 

Courtesy: Liz Kreutz – www.abcnews.go.com