Martin O'Malley
Related: About this forum'The attacks on me are rolling in:
yesterday I found out the NRA is putting me front and center on one of their magazines. Check it out below. Also, apparently Donald Trump called me a "disgusting, little, weak, pathetic baby." And now, on the day I released my plan to expand Social Security, the Third Way says it's "political pandering at its worst."
Want to help me stand up against these attacks? Donate $15 today.
Here are the facts: just a week after I get a bump in the polls, more folks are putting my campaign and progressive vision for the nation in their crosshairs.
We're gaining momentum and I need your help to show these guys we're not afraidthat we stand by our progressive values. We stand by expanding social security and the right to unionize. We stand by gun safety regulations.
Donate $15 to stand up to the NRA. Donate $15 to tell Donald Trump we're not backing down. Donate $15 to tell the Third Way we WILL expand Social Security.
Donald Trump called me a little baby just one day after I stood with workers from his hotel in Las Vegas who want to unionize. I am not interested in a race to the bottom with Mr. Trump, and I am proud to stand with those who have the guts to stand up to him. We should be making it easiernot harderfor workers to organize.
Donate $15 if you're with me.
The National Rifle Association took out a whole feature to slam me for saying I'm "eager to make gun control an issue in [my] campaign to be president. Yes. I definitely am. I am proud to stand against the congressional gun lobbyists who think that it is extreme to support things like background checks or a ban on high-capacity magazines.
Donate $15 if you're with me.
The Third Way thinks I want to expand Social Security because it "polls well." This isn't about polls. I am proud to stand up for our most vulnerable because it's the right thing to do.
Donate $15 if you're with me.
This is just the beginning. They are coming after me now, and I am sure there will be more attacks. Commit to this campaign today to say youre on the right side of these issues.
http://martinomalley.com/donate
Thanks for your support,
Martin
Koinos
(2,798 posts)He's rattling the cages.
Wondering how many of these, and future 'complainers,' are/have been/will have been encouraged by tptb.
Koinos
(2,798 posts)As he gains traction and gets noticed, watch out!
He's not afraid of any of them. He has courage by the truckloads.
We are so pleased with him (and worried about his funding) that we sent him some more $.
and planning to do so shortly (in spite of the damn markets.)
Koinos
(2,798 posts)I would trust O'Malley more than the other candidates to lead us out of it. He was pretty good at the helm when Maryland got hit by the last recession.
But this will be a worldwide decline, led by price drops in commodities. We will see lots of contraction and deflation, especially if the Fed raises interest rates.
Scary stuff ahead. We will have to hug the people we love and hold on to the things that count.
Another thing I like about O'Malley, even though it goes against my nature: He is an unflappable optimist. He believes in people.
What a terrific and lovable fool he is.
elleng
(135,883 posts)(About the Fed, just heard the ST. Louis fed bd member thinks raising now a good idea!
Unflappable optimistic techie, sounds good to me!
Koinos
(2,798 posts)If they raise rates in September, that will trigger a recession and also likely a deflationary cycle. Very bad.
The world economy is going sour. The Far East and Europe are not going to do well.
About O'Malley: Everyone who meets him face to face likes him. He just has that kind of personality and can-do outlook that makes you feel comfortable.
elleng
(135,883 posts)World economy's a mess, and don't know that anyone has a handle on it.
Raine1967
(11,607 posts)I thought that, WAIT I was told here on DU that O'Malley was a Third Way Member!!!
After What MO'M did in Maryland against so many Odds, I WELCOME the NRA and its hatred (and it race bating) I posted this OP a little while ago: http://www.democraticunderground.com/12812551
To Trump and the NRA: MO'M supporters are more than happy to have you attack us!
I know how this media machine works and this is gonna get really interesting.
Koinos
(2,798 posts)And which billionaires, pray tell, are backing him up? The man is running his campaign on nickels and dimes.
Even the barest nodding acquaintance with his background and achievements would have dispelled that drivel.
But it takes time and hard work to read and learn and observe what makes a candidate tick. It is easier to repeat and magnify a few shopworn criticisms.
Soon O'Malley will be giving more free lessons in the difference between talk and action.
As he often says: First understand, and then act.
Raine1967
(11,607 posts)and lately untruths seems to get more attention than what is real and verifiable.
From the Third Way: http://www.thirdway.org/newsroom/press-releases/third-way-statement-on-governor-martin-omalleys-social-security-plan
Social Security is in crisis, and we need solutions to fix it, not deepen the hole we are in. The idea of giving out more Social Security benefits to every single American may poll well at first. But Governor OMalleys expansion-for-all plan is not progressive, it is political pandering at its worst.
Yeah, he's TOTALLY a member of that group .
Now, the next time anyone posts that silly picture, ask them to explain how beholden he is.
SHDM.
FSogol
(46,435 posts)JustAnotherGen
(33,444 posts)You mean - help me . . . I'm new to the world.
Expanding Social Security for our older Americans who can't get by is like -
NOT a "turd" way idea?
Who'da thunk it.
I need to get out more.
Pssstttt - a quick DU search of my user name and SS will yield all kinds of commentary over the years about how the simple act of taxing my full salary for SSI would give a tremendous boost to the fund while also allowing an expansion to who is eligible (age limits being lowered) and an increase in the benes. This is also a woman's issue - SS is when Ledbetter figured out how seriously she had been hosed. Think of this - at the peak of my mom's career she was a hotel management VP with close to 30 hotels under her region. At her peak in the 90's - she made about 60% of what I make now. She was born in 1947. Our baby boomers had the game's rules changed half way through. Our boomer and older women . . . They never had the full set of rules in the first place.
So yes - the burden for righting those two wrongs falls on Gen X and the millenials. I refuse to live in a country where older people eat cat food. I refuse.
JustAnotherGen
(33,444 posts)Why yes Mr. O'Malley - you are.
Hence my support for you!
Koinos
(2,798 posts)I turned away from the socialist candidate over this issue (can I get a refund?). O'Malley is clear about where he stands on this issue, and I agree enthusiastically with him.