When will Hillary Clinton give up her candidacy ?

I have very serious problems with Bernie's unqualified support of Israel and poor record of support for Palestine and Palestinians rights.

But if Bernie Sanders is a radical on economic changes in the United States, he is a pussycat when it comes to changes in Israel and Palestine. Five days ago, he gave an interview to Little Village, an alternative publication in Iowa, and endorsed continuing U.S. military aid to Israel and more economic aid to Palestinians. He did not condemn the Israeli occupation, but blamed actors on both sides of the conflict; and while rejecting Benjamin Netanyahu declined to endorse any of the leftwing programs re Israel, notably BDS, boycott, divestment and sanctions.

Fast forward to 2015, this past Saturday, when Bernie Sanders, an increasingly viable contender for the Democratic presidential nomination, held one of his biggest campaign rallies to date, drawing more than 20,000 people to an event at the Boston convention center. Among those visitors were a number of young activists from Boston Students for Justice in Palestine, who were curious about Sanders’ position on the occupied territories. They had a sign with them; in a playful nod to one of Sanders’ campaign slogans, it simply asked, “Will Ya Feel The Bern For Palestine?” The activists say they were well-received by other Sanders supporters in the crowd.

But staffers working for a candidate widely viewed as one of the most progressive members of the Senate were apparently not happy. Security was made aware of a threat: Some students who support Sanders were holding a sign with a question on it. A tactic right out of the Bush campaign “playbook” went into action.

“They told us to either put the sign away or leave,” said Sana Hashmani, one of the student activists. “We asked why, and they said that Bernie’s campaign staff had said the sign had to go.”

There had been no signs of trouble previously. The pro-Palestine group was doing nothing unusual — except, perhaps, for daring to question Sanders about territories occupied by Israel, of which Sanders has been a not-entirely-progressive supporter. “When we got there and entered the overflow space with our sign, people were supporting us and taking pictures, and other people had signs talking about various social issues as well,” Hashmani said.

In a brief cell phone video of the incident, security staff can be seen threatening to arrest the students if they didn’t leave the premises.

Two days after the students were ejected, a day after the group posted about the encounter on Facebook, a Sanders 2016 spokesperson acknowledged a campaign staffer was behind the ejection and that an error had been made. “What happened was a poor decision by a low-level staffer and doesn’t reflect campaign policy,” the spokesperson said.

To a certain extent, the episode reflects an underlying tension between Sanders’ base of young progressives and his comparatively friendly posture toward Israel.

Have you noticed that the republicans have posted attack ads for Hillary but not Bernie

If you cannot see the difference between America's attitude toward race. ..and its attitude toward the word "socialism"... then YOU ARE BLIND.

Why is Clinton embracing Obama so unapologetically? She has several good reasons. One is that on economic policy, immigration, and the use of force, Obama has governed as a prudent centrist, and Clinton shares that sensibility. Another reason is that Democratic presidents have a better record of job growth than Republicans do, and Clinton intends to make that a major campaign theme. A third reason is that Gore’s strategy failed, so she might as well try the opposite.

But the biggest reason might be that Clinton is a woman. She doesn’t need to manufacture or exaggerate differences with Obama, because she’d be the first female president, and that distinguishes her not just from her old boss, but also from her husband and every other president. And she’s betting that anyone who belittles her as Obama’s clone will look like a sexist. As she often puts it: "I'm not running for my husband's third term. I'm not running for President Obama's third term. I'm running for my first term.”

This is what Republicans wanted. All year, they’ve been trying to tie Clinton to Obama. It looks like she’s going to give them what they wanted. They may regret it.

I think its a least arguable that he's made her aware of a sizable segment of Democratic voters that are markedly progressive if not out and out liberal. I'm willing to believe at least some of her tack to some "right" issues had to do with trying to lock down her election. But there are several important issues she needs to let us understand her thinking on. For example:

How does she think recommending the reduction of cannabis from a Class 1 (with Heroin) to Class 2 (with Cocaine) is any sort of improvement?

And I'd like to hear it from her and not any of her surrogates. Shes the one who wants my vote.