DEMOCRAT CANDIDATES DEBATE - JUNE 2019

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In the USA, ten Democrats have taken part in a TV debate.

Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts senator who has been surging in opinion polls, asked "Who is this economy really working for? It's doing great for a thinner and thinner slice at the top."

Warren said: "We need to make structural change in our government, in our economy and in our country."

Warren supports replacing private medical insurance with government-run healthcare.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio backed her on healthcare.

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Ohio congressman Tim Ryan insisted the US must stay "completely engaged" in the Middle East.

Tulsi Gabbard, an anti-war Hawaii congresswoman, hit back: "Is that what you will tell the parents of those two soldiers who were just killed in Afghanistan?"

Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii is standing as the anti-war candidate, because she’s been to war a lot of times and she’s seen war firsthand and realized that it, in fact, is bad.

New Jersey Senator Cory Booker was the only candidate who did not raise his hand when asked whether he would sign back on to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal as it was originally negotiated under the Obama administration.

Bernie Sanders, a Democratic socialist, is promising a "political revolution", including free healthcare for all and paying off America's $1.6tn (£1.25tn) student debt mountain.

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US PRESIDENCY 2020 - CANDIDATES - PART 3

Democrat Julian Castro was mayor of San Antonio Texas, and served as secretary of housing and urban development under Barack Obama 

Julian Castro has Hispanic-immigrant (Mexican) roots.

Julian Castro has visited Israel and has spoken of his admiration for Israel.

Democrat John Delaney, a former four-term congressman from Maryland

John Delaney supports the United States' relationship with Israel.[93]


Tulsi Gabbard has represented Hawaii in the U.S. House since 2013. She previously served in Iraq.

Tulsi Gabbard, in 2012, became the first Samoan American and the first Hindu member of the United States Congress.

Tulsi Gabbard favours a noninterventionist foreign policy.

Tulsi Gabbard has been friendly towards Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

She had to apologize for past anti-gay comments.

As of 2019, Gabbard supports same-sex marriage.

In March 2015, Gabbard said that the United States’ relationship with Israel "must rise above the political fray, as America continues to stand with Israel as her strongest ally."[86]

In January 2017, Gabbard said that she shared the Obama administration’s reservation about the harmful impact Israeli settlement activity has on the prospects for peace."[86]

Democrat Andrew Yang is a tech entrepreneur who created the test-preparation company Manhattan Prep and then Venture for America, which tries to incubate start-ups.

Andrew Yang was born in Schenectady, New York,[5] to immigrant parents from Taiwan.[6]

Andrew Yang favours a $1,000 per month universal basic income for every American adult.

"As part of his focus on reducing military spending, Yang would redirect 10 percent of the annual military budget to a domestic infrastructure initiative."


Democrat Marianne Williamson is a Jewish author, lecturer, and activist. 

Marianne Williamson is the founder of Project Angel Food, a volunteer food delivery program that serves home-bound people with AIDS and other life-threatening illnesses.[4]

She is also the co-founder of The Peace Alliance, a nonprofit grassroots education and advocacy organization supporting peace-building projects.[5]

She says: "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure."

She writes on her website, "My campaign for the presidency is dedicated to this search for higher wisdom."

She criticized Hillary Clinton for coziness with corporate interests.

Marianne Williamson's mother is Sophie Ann Kaplan.

Williamson is a life-long anti-war activist.[58]

She has also stated that the U.S. needs to be an "honest broker" in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.[59]


Cory Booker, a senator from New Jersey.

Cory Booker has been close to Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and to Wall Street

In September 2017, Cory Booker joined Bernie Sanders and 14 other co-sponsors in submitting a single-payer health care plan to congress called the "Medicare for All" bill.[144]

On foreign policy, Booker supports scaling down U.S. involvement in Afghanistan and is against intervention in Syria.[145][146]

After the US strike on Syria in April 2017, he criticized military action "without a clear plan" or authorization from Congress.[147]

He supports a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.

On Iran, Booker has stated the country poses a direct threat to American and Israeli security and feels all options should be on the table for dealing with the conflict.[145]

However, his decision to back the Iran nuclear deal framework[148] damaged his long-term relationship with Jewish voters and supporters.[149]


Democrat Joe Biden, former Vice-President.

Joe Biden was a long-time member and former chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. 

He opposed the Gulf War in 1991, but advocated U.S. and NATO intervention in the Bosnian War in 1994 and 1995. 

He voted in favor of the resolution authorizing the Iraq War in 2002 but opposed the surge of U.S. troops in 2007.

Biden is a strong supporter of Israel.

There have been multiple photographs of Biden, aged 77, engaged in what commentators considered to be inappropriate proximity to women and children, including kissing and or touching.[373][374][375]


Democrat Steve Bullock, the governor of Montana

Steve Bullock signed an executive order requiring internet service providers with state contracts to abide by net neutrality principles.

The order makes his state the first to push back on the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to repeal the open internet rules.

Bullock is a persistent opponent of big money in politics.

Wayne Messam, an American businessman and mayor of Miramar, Florida.

Wayne Messam's parents were born in Jamaica.

Days after launching his White House bid, Wayne Messam headed to Israel.

Florida mayor heading to Israel ...

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US PRESIDENCY 2020 - CANDIDATES - PART 1
US PRESIDENCY 2020 - CANDIDATES - PART 2
US PRESIDENCY 2020 - CANDIDATES - PART 3

SCHULTZ, HARRIS, GABBARD

Howard Schultz

Brabantian writes: 

Trump just gave his annual speech which wags call the 'State of the Union of USA and Israel'

With shoulders often hunched, Trump looks defeated ... but the powers may be moving to have this good ally of Israel re-elected

Jewish Starbucks billionaire Howard Schultz is becoming an 'independent' candidate, who would be expected to take away mostly Democratic votes and let Trump win

Schultz suggests that the term 'billionaire' is an 'anti-semitic dog whistle'... just like 'evil bankers' is anti-semitic (lots of Jewish bankers) or 'evil George Soros' is anti-semtic.

It is forgotten now but George H W Bush, US President 1989-93, despite other evils, got sick of Israel and tried to dis-allow settlements taking Palestine ... 3rd party billionaire Ross Perot began to run, destroying Bush's re-election chances ... but then the anti-immigration etc Perot looked like he might win, so he was sabotaged ... enter the Clintons


Kamala Harris

Brabantian writes:

The Hillary replacement contest for USA President 2020, is defined by two women, both curiously with partly-Hindu backgrounds

Likely winner is half-black Hillary clone, California Senator Kamala Harris, Jamaican father, India Hindu mother ... and Jewish husband now, after early years as a girlfriend of Calfornia's black political machine king Willie Brown.

Kamala talks 'progressive' but is fully in line with the war machine, big companies etc, tho of course is pro-minority, pro-LGBT, pro-immigrant, anti-Trump. As a prosecutor, Kamala was known for being cruel to accused black people. She is criticised by some blacks now for not being 'truly' black. Big money backing her, 'checks the right boxes' as female, black etc ... but not so inspiring.


Tulsi Gabbard

People love, but the establishment hates, Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, part Samoan, openly Hindu, and quite anti-war and anti-intervention, tho a reserve soldier who served in the Mid East, Tulsi one of the 5 or so people in the 435-person USA Congress who speaks a lot of truth.

Attractive, crowd-pleasing, Tulsi is popular not only with the Democrat side - many Trump voters and right-wing people like her and plan to vote for her too, for her strong anti-war views, which the Trump voters see Trump as now abandoning.

Tulsi's family's religiosity, is tied to the Hare Krishna movement, and a spin-off by Bhaktivedanta's former protégé Chris Butler in Hawaii, sometimes criticised for having 'cult' abuses.

Israeli lobby people are tweeting how Tulsi needs to be totally destroyed so only pro-war, pro-Israel candidates remain. With nice articles about her in Russian media she of course is called a 'Kremlin agent'. Even the far-right likes this part-Samoan, as a beautiful woman opposing the 'Jewish wars'

It is interesting that the new 'right wing' has little problem with 'social' economic policies like 'medicare for all', i.e., national health care, which Trump himself has said makes sense. Right wingers have urged Trump to offer US people an ultimate 'deal' - the Wall, and health care for everyone in the USA, together, without those 1000-a-month USA insurance premiums.

Tho the Democrats are talking again about 'medicare for all' - like Jimmy Carter in 1976 and 1980! - Congress Speaker Pelosi just privately assured health care oligarchs that it'll be like Trump's wall, it won't happen, it's just talk for the stupid voters, it's 'too complicated' to give everyone health care.