I think most Americans are past ready for a new direction forward which will not be found in clinton or trump. I moved to the Green party.

No thank you Mr. President,you already betrayed us once when we where there. Your slogan "the change we can believe in"was a fraud.
What a treason to serious American journalism are those like E J Dionne Jr. What a disgrace!

Dionne is a f**king tool !!!!

obama and pelosi are charlatans who owe 89 million americans billions of dollars for the failed obamacare policy that was shoved down our throats.i so regret voting for this puppet of nancy pelosi.

" Not even Americans are stupid enough to fall for it." -Paul Craig Roberts

http://www.paulcraigroberts...

This is Obama's legacy: his administration has sold more weapons than any other administration since WWII.

https://www.thenation.com/a...

That's TREA$ONOU$ Clintonality.

Broos ,you are a genius!. This definition should be enter in Wikipedia,and in the political dictionary

After over 7 years, inside the bubble, Obama cannot see the thousands of DEMEXIT and JillnotHill signs on the streets of Philadelphia. Of course the thousands protesting are on the other side of double wire fences, concrete barriers, and militarized police force with roof top snipers.

When Obama ran in 2008, he claimed doing the same failed policy over and over again, was a sign of insanity. So what did he do once elected? The same old failed policies. The policies the Democratic corporate sponsors want.

I bought the "We must vote for I of the 2 evil lessors" con & voted twice for PBO. I hereby swear that from this moment on I only ever vote my conscience: #JillSteinGP #GreenParty2016

"Continuity." Isn't this exactly what the problem is this election year? Are the Dems and nominally liberal pundits so tone deaf that they can't see the Trump and Sanders phenomena as a total rejection of "Continuity"? Continuity--neo-liberal global economics that continue to erode the status of middle class Americans. Neo-Con militarism in all parts of the world (Obama has been a war commander since day one and will go out as such--8 years. Continuity.). Wall Street over Main Street. Check. Sell out of minorities here and majorities around the world. Check. Austerity in the name of national security, Defense Department over Education Department. Check. Recalcitrant Republican Congress people thwarting anything and everything just because it's Clinton. So yes, let's celebrate continuity. After all,the media have a vested stake in their stories too.

Another misleading article to gain votes for WAR CRIMINAL HILLARY.

OBAMA'S LEGACY
https://latuffcartoons.file...

An Obama promise endures like a fart in the wind.

One promise he will keep: Passing The TPP

And that is how Obama saw the matter. “We are not a fragile or frightful people,” he insisted. “Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order. We don’t look to be ruled.” Trump, he said, “cozies up to Putin, praises Saddam Hussein, and tells the NATO allies that stood by our side after 9/11 that they have to pay up.

US PNAC = Protection Money = Godfather

Days of Revolt - The Corporate Coup d'etat with Ralph Nader
https://m.youtube.com/watch...

I agree that there is likely to be continuity if Hillary wins (which seems likely), but that's not something to get very excited about!! Given that this article does little more than summarize what was said, why did Truthdig see fit to post it?!

There ill be plenty of continuity in war. The Democratic Party convention was basically an open declaration of war. The Dems and their neocon advisors are in full regime change mode, but this time it’s not about a 2-bit dictator without functioning weapons. This time we’re talking about escalating in Syria, attacking Iran, and going after Russia. It boggles the mind that fearful pro-Hillary liberals – you know, those “love trumps hate” folks -- do not seem at all bothered by Clinton’s war fever. And make no mistake, these regime change wars are racist wars. Frankly, I’m more concerned with Clinton’s actual bellicosity and racism than I am with Trump’s rhetorical racism.

The Democrats, like the Republicans, ache to start wars. They're an obvious way to shift attention from domestic problems caused chiefly by the multinational corporations and big banks and Israel that have controlled the nation and ignored ordinary citizens since the election of Ronald Reagan. Continuity be damned.

"Continuity" my @ss. And this is Clinton's very own FiveThirtyEight.com:

http://fivethirtyeight.com/...

Does he mean continuity as in "bad to bad" as opposed to "bad to worse"?????

B.O./H.C./stooge Dionne = "continuity" = imperialist u.s. forever. NEVER.

"continuity we can believe in"....as in more endless war, the continued raping of Main Street by Wall $treet, more "trade" pacts written by big business, more war on the poor, continued offshoring of American jobs, further gutting of the safety net (as part of a "Grand Bargain), for our own good mind you, expanded austerity for the masses, continued increasing wealth for the already rich.

"meet the new boss, same as the old boss"

"Continuity we can believe in"... sort of like the hopey-changey stuff, but in an overpriced pant suit.

But there is more: Both must grapple with an impatience embodied in Bernie Sanders’s campaign [...]

(emphasis added).

This right here shows why Dionne doesn't and CAN'T get it and why all of his scribblings are filled with Democrap hagiographic nonsense.

This is why the Democratic party is the party of decay and deceit.

"Scribblings" and "nonsense" are definitely the best words to use for this stuff. The entire article is almost unreadably dumb propaganda.

Continuity is govspeak for "better the devil you know".

"Continuity?" ...as in, the source of the Patriot Act, C.O.G. (continuity of govt)
Which equates to "continuity" of fascism domestically, and war mongering abroad.

'Continuity of Government' Planning: War, Terror and the Supplanting of the U.S. Constitution, by Peter Dale Scott
http://apjjf.org/-Peter-Dal...

Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down (anti-war/empire video)

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

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So all the 1% needs to do to create a permanent overclass is to get the GOP to field ever more cartoonishly evil presidential candidates every four years?

Can it really be that easy?

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FREE AMERICA

DIRECT DEMOCRACY

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Yeah, maybe they think so. But what if one of them won?

http://fivethirtyeight.com/...

Shocking Secret Cause of World War 3
https://m.youtube.com/watch...

"His Excellency"? Holy Crap!
The truth hurts.

"Continuity" from Wall Street to the White House and back again.

A Hillary administration will be more revolving door pro-Wall Street/AIPAC/MIC /ALEC/Fossil Fuel Industry policies.

and nothing will change for the better to make much of a difference.

THIRD WORLD WAR HAS BEGUN (see Childhood's End)
https://m.youtube.com/watch...

Letter from a reader in response to Armageddon Approaches
http://www.paulcraigroberts...

The line continuity we can believe in tells us that past performance is just as important if not more so than party platforms in gauging what we can expect should a presidential candidate be elected. We should also note that we have elected at least one resume candidate before. That candidate's name was George Herbert Walker Bush. That didn't turn out so well.

We've seen with Obama a protection of private sector elites and the financial sector despite their roles in the economic crisis of 2008. We've seen policies, like Obamacare, that have primarily benefited the health insurance industry over the customers. We've seen the fast tracking of the TPP, though we should note that this was accomplished with vast bipartisan support. We've seen, as indicated in other comments, a demise in government transparency and accountability as the Obama Administration has prosecuted more government whistleblowers than all previous administrations combined. We've seen Obama excel past George Bush in militarism. In the meantime, the only difference between Obama and his predecessor rests in the advocacy of some social issues.

We should note that the party platforms are, for the most part, marketing tools designed to sell the respective parties to the public by obscuring past performances.

Obama must mean CONTINUITY OF GOVERNMENT (COG)

COG - Are You Interested?
https://m.youtube.com/watch...

Continuity under Obama resulted in 85% of income gains going to the top 1%.

Bernie Sanders actually said this in his speech, and then absurdly endorsed Clinton!

Continuity produced the TPP and the "all of the above" energy policy and weak climate policy.

We can't survive on that kind of continuity.

May not have to...

http://fivethirtyeight.com/...

Obama took continuity with BUSH to a new level, legitimizing Bush policy - not prosecuting their criminal behavior - and expanding it to new wars, massive deportation of undocumented people, kill lists, drones, attacks on whistelblowers, Wall Street bailouts, no criminal enforcement f Wall Street fraud, ….

the list is long

And the backers of Bush and Obama want to continue it with Hillary.

They may not get their wishes...

http://fivethirtyeight.com/...

I imagine that he is correct about the dark queen continuing the status quo. I have no doubts that her owners will crown her in November and the profits of the wall street crowd will keep coming in for the next 8 years. The government will become even less transparent (remember how that was supposed to work out 8 years ago?) Gitmo will be open for business as usual (remember how that was supposed to work out 8 years ago?). All will be well for the 1% ers. America is truly the land of opportunity, if you have the correct people in place to guarantee it for you, God Bless America.

About that word “continuity…” Is it from the COG (Continuity of Government) plan that is the back-up for an orderly and legitimate continuance of government in the case of nuclear strike, etc.?

Both Obama and Shillary are fakes…(probably the Donald also). These clowns already represent a COG government because the US government ceased to exist in any recognizable form after the coup d’etat in November 1963.

What with these continuing false flags and continuing phony wars it has now become critical that we take our eye off the phony pony show that the CFR, Bilderbergers and Illuminati are playing for us and look at what is really happening. Until we understand what they’re up to, what they have in mind for us, we are just a bunch of sheep being herded here and there by the Devil.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

And BTW: That ad that precedes the program is Google's way of diverting most of you who may want to watch what Weber has to say. (Don't give up!) This program has a great deal about Google, and Facebook, both of which are CIA fronts, as is the US government.

Continuity we can believe in? You and Obama are telling me to vote for Hillary out of fear for Trump. How about my fear of the continuity of what we have had since Ronald Reagan, a neo-liberal Democratic Party that has done more for Trickle down than any of the Republican presidents? I suppose if you are one of the elite on the receiving end of this great boom and not one of hose who was wiped out by the Great Bust before it, then yeah continuity is what you want. Continuity is not what I or the millions of Americans struggling along on low paying jobs, good jobs disappearing overseas with lessening unemployment security, increasingly disappearing benefits, both private and public, higher local taxes and fees, mass incarceration, a failing educational system, little opportunity for our children with heavy college debt, most of which was brought on by legislation and trade deals put through by a neo-liberal Democratic, want.

It's not "continuity" that is needed; it's CHANGE.

ahhh a change in the TD air.... Actually I've been surprised it's taken so long. See ya in 2017!

Is there a good reason why TD posts this shit from EJ?

Good question, who actually selected this?

TD has to fill up space, just like the NY Times or Fox news. As the Bruce Willis character in the film Fast Food Nation says, we all have to eat a little sh-- each day.

I doubt that was the reason.

I never saw Obama and Clinton that different as candidates in 08, policy-wise. At the time, like many, I thought they were both great, and it wasn't difficult to switch from one to the other for the general - even though it was certainly a "bloody" contest - emotionally complicated is how I remember.

But the disappointments of the Obama administration have a lot to do with my reluctance to support Clinton in this election. And because they were so similar. This neo-liberal agenda has been exposed more than ever - for either - and 08 criticisms of Clinton by the more grassroots Obama team back then - are more clearly proven than ever before (i.e. some said she was much militaristic, more involved with Wall St monies, so on) - magnified many times over, even, and since her State Dept., with Obama joining the same club - salvaged (if, at all) by the tiniest sliver of difference in temperament and discernment (i.e. yeah, I think, he would liked to have someone like Kerry in the State Dept from the beginning -- instead).

And now, it's as if the neo-liberal agenda has been chiseled ever more deeply into stone. It's not so much that Obama's point of view has changed - there's this chilling sense that the DP is becoming more representative than ever of some kind of dictatorship, even. Obama is handing the crown over - ensuring that it goes to Clinton only - and both of these candidates are basically puppets for the same interests behind the curtain.

Her speech - with its fervor and installed, paid cheerers - the delegate issues - ever more disturbing as a result - the rhetoric with ideas taken from Bernie - gutted of all meaning and real feeling - with this added militaristic nationalism on top. Her ultra white suit and perfect blonde hairdo - everything so perfectly choreographed to the T .. weird. She is not the same Hillary Clinton that I saw in 08 - or remember as a 1st lady (how I saw her then - how I felt about her) -- it's just totally different - and the cheering faces in the convention hall looked like brainwashed masses .. .under some type of fascism, unfortunately.

I sat there thinking about Trump's fascist qualities on this one side -- and the Democratic Party's fascist or dictatorship-like trends, on the other. Just feeling at a loss as to either.

I think it's really horrible what we're seeing happen in American politics. Though Bernie has provided some tools and approaches and hope.

She's taking so much money from Wall St., foreign governments - the wikileaks information showing (what everyone knew anyway) but ultimately, illegal collusion against Bernie's campaign, the bigoted remarks against various groups and people, the bribery with government positions .. and then, there's this recent info about money laundering into her campaign coffers via local party branches. Along with the FBI's failure to bring about an indictment .. her involvement in the Honduran coup, the collapse of Libya, so on...

If you donated money to Bernie's campaign, there is a class action law suit starting - and you should email their group - against the DNC, that is, with the wikileaks corroborating evidence.

The TPP will figure prominently in this election, I gather. She made the strongest statement against it, tonight in her speech. But her choice of Tim Kaine (big free trade advocate) along with the Va governor's unbelievable attitude in comments that they'll basically do what they want to do - and her whole history in this area along with the monies she's involved with - indicate that a much different path awaits -- just as it did with Barack Obama.

I think it's very frightening what's happening to the country. Both of these candidates lead in awful direcitons.

If you think Barack Obama went far afield from promises - just ya'all wait for Hillary's. And he has paved the way for that to happen. They both work for the same people.

I wouldn't vote for them either. (Notice it's a "them" not a "her." - You're voting for a group of interests.)

I'm going to take some time off since the end of this primary. See what develops. Certainly GP is one of the choices left. But I feel very concerned about the direction of our country, regardless. I think Clinton will win - as Trump is mostly a boogeyman designed to get the results "they" want for their sham election.

I think it's a very serious situation in America. I think it's worth voting Green, and I think more people will, but I think we're still a long ways off from shaking the yoke of this party system as it now stands.

(And, no, I don't think voting Green is handing the election to Donald Trump. I think it's pretty fixed, the outcome.)