La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz for May 12, 2015

And the sad thing is, almost every major candidate in both parties would have exactly the same billboards, if we were to have truth in advertising. About the only one I can think of who’s not on that train is Bernie Sanders (and even he’s not perfect in this regard). He’s not accepting any super PAC money for his presidential race (nor has he in the past—regular PAC money, yes, but not those super PAC monsters). And he explicitly and strongly states that he will work to get big money out of politics. For these reasons and more, folks should seriously consider him and his ideas, despite the media’s wish to write him off this early in the process.

I wondered which of the candidates was going to spend money on the campaign. So, it’s Hilary, huh? Guess I’ll have to vote for one of the Republicans — they’d never ever engage in fundraising, and none of them have any savings of their own.

Amen. Let’s start by dumping Citizens United.

That’s “Clinton Cash” alright.

Go Bernie Sanders! He’s got the best ideas – especially about campaign finance reform.

Good strip. Latest poll: 42% of Democrats say Hillary is a liar who can not be trusted, yet 65% say they will still vote for her.

Unlike the republicans who believe every lie told to them if it’s from one of their candidates or, especially, Faux.

“We need to fix our dysfunctional political system and get unaccountable money out of it once and for all, even if that takes a constitutional amendment,” Hillary told a group of students at a community college in Iowa.

Hillary wants to overturn a January 2010 Supreme Court decision which made it legal for 501© organizations to spend money opposing or supporting a candidate for office.

Hillary is the only candidate who has, so far, come out against dark money. So, the obvious question is: Will she she accept money from questionable sources in her presidential bid. Yes, she will because she’s much too smart not to.

Obama was criticized during his first campaign when he said he wanted to reform campaign financing, restricting it to a specific amount per person, but then accepted whatever money he got from where ever. He didn’t really have any choice. When you want to play tennis, you show up with a tennis racket, but if the other team is playing hardball, you are going to lose and wind up with a really messed up tennis racket.

Well, yes, it is applicable to both parties but look at the disparity in where billionaires and corporations put the bulk of their money. The Republicans get over four fifths of all contributions from the big spenders. Why? Look at who supports tax breaks for the wealthy and deregulation of pollution policies and stripping of rights from women and the middle class and no health care, etc, etc, etc.The same for both parties? No.

i’m in Bernie’s corner. Right up until he loses to Hillary…

He also has a pretty good track record on Second Amendment issues, I hope he embraces those going forward. That’s one of the many reasons I’m voting for him…

Plus Bernie Sanders will not be supported by the Democrats because…

Rather than doomsaying, I think folks who want to support Bernie Sanders (or for that matter, any other candidate), should work hard to help him win. Part of what hurt the Democrats in the last election was a campaign strategy of telling their rank and file that it was heading toward “DOOM” (got spammed with a lot of annoying emails with that exact word in those exact caps in the subject line), which arguably helped suppress their own vote. It’s best to work toward positive change, especially this early in the game.

HRC: Bought & Paid For by Wall Street….

This is true to a point. But keep in mind that GOP candidates now get around 2/3 of Wall Street’s political contributions. In other words, HRC ain’t alone, and we need to keep all these politicians’ feet to the fire on this issue.

A compliment to Lalo from Indiethink? No WONDER I saw pigs flying outside my window this morning!!!!

Well done, Indiethink, well done.