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[Robert Naiman]

The world has changed since that 4/30 NYT report.

Author Marianne Williamson qualifies for Democratic primary debates
BY TAL AXELROD - 05/09/19 03:21 PM EDT
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/442980-author-marianne-williamson-qualifies-for-primary-debates

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Robert Reuel Naiman
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On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 11:48 PM J.B. Nicholson via Peace-discuss <
peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> Robert Naiman wrote:
> > Whatever else we may disagree on, let's agree on trying to make sure that
> > Tulsi Gabbard and Mike Gravel get on the Dem debate stage. Let's try to
> > make sure that gazillions of Americans get to hear what they have to say
> > about the Empire.
>
> Again, whether anyone hears from Gabbard & Gravel on the DNC-run so-called
> debates is really up to the DNC not us. According to
>
> https://democrats.org/press/dnc-announces-details-for-the-first-two-presidential-primary-debates/
> the DNC have capped the events at 20 candidates and the DNC says there's
> possibly polling involved to determine who will get one of the 20 spots.
> I'm skeptical of these polls given the DNC/RNC collusion in the
> 'Commission
> on Public Debates'-run so-called debates over many years, the high number
> of corporate media outlets running these polls, and one recent CNN poll
> which put Biden at #1 (39%) and Sanders at #2 (15%) among Democrats didn't
> ask enough people from age 18-49 to register a figure in their poll[1]
> (the
> columns for roughly half of the country showed up as "N/A"). That CNN poll
> claimed Gabbard came in with 2%. But the establishment doesn't have to
> worry because the New York Times reports[2] that Biden and Harris are
> among
> the candidates who are very likely to be invited to the DNC-run 'debates'.
> After what the DNC did in 2016, I think you'll have no problem finding
> people who will tell you that they don't trust the DNC (particularly if
> you
> ask people aged 18-49).
>
> The DNC Corporation decides who speaks for that company regardless of
> whether they follow their own rules. If you want people to qualify for
> that
> job and be heard talking about American empire, talk to the DNC. That's a
> lot more actionable than anything you would have me try to accomplish. I
> refuse to take responsibility for the DNC's choices. Also, it's not my
> responsibility to help the DNC. Arguments along the line of 'viability'
> need not apply: those self-serving claims likely come from the same media
> that told us Hillary Clinton was a sure bet to be US President-elect in
> 2016. Apparently Mrs. Clinton had just as much chance to win that job as
> the Green Party's Dr. Jill Stein despite their polar opposite politics.
>
>
>
> [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d36QXSnSRgM and
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boG9BLs4V1g are among the shows talking
> about this.
> [2]
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/29/us/politics/democratic-primary-debates-2020.html
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