Bullshit "Faith Confessions" Won't Cut It

It’s a temptation of human nature, I suspect, to want to separate Cause and Effect from each other as though you could live in a pure realm of either one or the other.  But the truth I suspect is like the chicken and egg situation.  Every effect has a cause, and every cause was instigated by prior effects.  Some people like Fred Price would like to take certain beliefs to extremes.  In his zeal for “Faith confession” he brags that he’s the Top and not the Bottom; he ‘s the Head and not the Tail; he’s the Cause and not the Effect.  But it dawned on me that certain rich people, Barock Obama for example- - though successful- - live in a world of almost continual Effect and aren’t the Cause of anything.  Obama hasn’t the guts to swim against the Tide as for instance Mohamed Ali did.  He’s perfectly happy to enjoy all the perks of being President and being rich and the last thing he wants to do is to rock the boat or get congress mad or upset the Military Brass in the defense department.  When Norman Goldman speaks of a vote for Bernie over Hillary is somehow a Betrayal of the poor and down and out, then I say that the statement doesn’t exist in a vacuum.  Hillary has a track record and proudly claims to be running for the third term of the Obama Administration, or perhaps the third term of a Clinton Administration (which sounds vaguely unconstitutional).  So we have some kind of idea what Hillary will be like as top dog.  (Maybe Wendy would prefer “top cat”) Of course I bought into this idea of “The other side”  (the underworld or whatever post life existence there is) where if you are a “Once upon a Time” fan, for everything in this world there is a copy of duplicate of it in the underworld.  My thesis is not that there is “negative matter” but that we deem a bathroom scale as saying Zero when there is fifteen pounds of air pressure all over it.  So my proposed realm speaks of something “Below apparent zero”.  You can call it anti-matter if you want.  But it would be measured in a way physicists have never been able to grasp.  In this realm of Pure Cause, one would not even worry about effects.  How does one exist or plan in a world like that?  You wouldn’t in our current consciousness.  So it would be “another form” of consciousness.

Another murder has taken place on the soap opera.  But Kate no way will be able to get away with pinning the crime on Nicole.  Yes Nicole and Demas had a “lover’s quarrel” but actually he was about to kill her.  But instead he decided to lecture what a great deal she was passing up by not becoming his mistress.  Nicole left.  Kate overheard the entire exchange and she wasn’t very forgiving about being betrayed on what would have been their wedding night in Las Vegas.  I’m not even sure Demas is dead.  They haven’t established that yet.  If Demas is dead Kate can make any claim she wants but nobody will believe her because it’s common knowledge Kate and him have been lovers for weeks or longer.  Whereas the same claim cannot be made about Nicole at all, who as far as most people knew were never even an item.  Clearly the rage will bubble through as Kate relates her tale of woe to Roman and he will figure it out that Kate killed Demas.  Meanwhile Nicole ran to Dario for comfort. 

 C-Span had an interview of Mitch Mc Conell by Lamar Alexander of all people.  Mitch had polio from age two to four which affected muscles in one leg, but his mother was worried about his “premature walking”.  She took him to Warm Springs, Georgia where he was healed.  They next thing we know he got in a fight with some kid.  Then he attended Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech.  He registered as a republican and got a job as some congressional aid barely 21.  In 1964 he voted for Johnson because he didn’t like Goldwater’s stance on the Civil Rights bill.  His term paper in college was on Senator Henry Clay, whom he admired.  He always goes to all the University of Kentucky football games.  His closest election was in 1984 when he was thirty points behind his Democratic incumbent opponent, who was well liked.  But he got a campaign guy and found a way to beat him.  His other electoral crisis was just two years ago in 2014 with this raft of conservative republicans running for Senate.  A bunch of them had lost in 2010 and Mc Conell joined a group that kept these same loser conservatives from running again.  The interview was informative.

 I had more of Shawn Hannity on.  Hillary appears to be in more trouble by the minute.  Shawn is continuing his tyrade against that judge who is hearing the Trump case.  Shawn says he should recruise himself.   At best, it seems like a dual of the con-artist universities.  But other republicans such as Newt Gingrich has condemned Trump's attack on the judge.  There is also this from yesterday.  I watched “This Week” and it was Hillary Clinton in a lengthly interview.  Then it was Senator Corker of Tennessee or something.  He was supposed to be endorsing Trump but found it nearly impossible to say one thing nice about him.  This is a problem Trump and Hillary alike are going to continue to have.  Those in the know say the Trump campaign is falling apart with key staff people not being hired.  Then it was some Republican official followed by the roundtable.  Clinton has a University with a lot of disgruntled students also.   Bill turned on Eye Witness news on.  The jury bequithed ten death penalties for “The grim sleeper” as he has become known as.  They ruled he should be executed once for each of the ten murders.  

This is Monday June 6, 2016 and I guess it’s the anniversary of Robert Kennedy’s death after lingering near death for a whole day.  I’d feel more organized if someone would pick up that big plastic baggie of clothes that’s been sitting there for over a week.  I shaved this morning getting the hair that’s growing down my neck.  That’s been more of a problem lately.  But I don’t have as much hair growing down my back lately as I did say ten years ago and Federico would comment on it- saying I was a hairy guy.  Supposedly women don’t like men with hair on their back.  I got my medication from Ida and it was a long line like we’ve been getting so much with all the replacement of staff.  Ida is one of those names you hear in knock knock jokes.  Free Speech TV has fixed their live feed problem.  Of course they spend the time shoveling dirt on Bernie.  Can’t they give him one more day to campaign in peace?  Changing my mind, I decided to add a few more cat and dog pet names to that blog post.  I had “boots” down there twice.  I went to the store at seven and spent three dollars on cigarettes and a dollar cup of coffee.  I’ve been over-spending the past five days and need to get things under control.  I took the cup first here and then went into the dining room with it.  I trimmed my finger nails which I do once a month (whether they need it or not – old joke).  Actually I’m part cat and feel naked without finger nails.  Judy (from around here) keeps asking about coffee at the store but apparently she never has any spending money to try it.  It’s still “the end of the month” till tomorrow for a lot of people.  We had oatmeal followed by two waffles and pour your own syrup and a bacon strip.  Rico filled my cup of black coffee to the brim.  If you don’t get black coffee here I question the caffeine content of their “regular” coffee.   The new Patty doesn’t always smoke.  But I wonder living in this place whether she’s going to return to regular smoking out of peer pressure. 

President Obama's Never-ending Quest for World Domination

Like the foie gras producer ramming food down ducks’ throats in order to create diseased super-fatty livers that some humans find acceptable to eat, Barack Obama (via his friend and trade-negotiator Michael Froman) is trying to ram dictatorship down Europeans’ throats, for the benefit of billionaires. And, like the sweet words of the foie-grass lobbyists who say it’s all just the ‘free market’ at work, Obama’s commercial-treaties salesman is saying it’s all being done in order to support ‘free trade’.

Thus, on May 31st, a big promoter of ‘free trade’, Britain’s Economist, headlined “Europe and US in race to keep TTIP on track”, and ‘reported’ (i.e., stenographically transmitted) the U.S. President’s propaganda; they provided to Mr. Froman their (unjustifiably respected) platform, as an unpaid ad (‘news’ story) for the Obama Administration’s work-product, this treaty: “Speaking in Stockholm on a European tour to push TTIP, Michael Froman, US President Barack Obama’s trade tsar, warned that there was no ‘Plan B’ if talks were not concluded this year. ‘We either work together to help set the rules of the world or we leave that role to others.’” In other words: Obama, via Froman, via this freebie publicity provided by the Economist, is telling the Economist’s readers, that the way to advance free trade is by imposing the rules that govern it, so as to supply advantage to the people who impose the rules and sign Obama’s document, and so as thereby to disadvantage everybody else — all people who are outside the blessed self-selected closed circle of power-holders.

Naturally, being good propagandists, the Economist provides no real counter-argument to that (such as by pointing out that Obama is actually trying to replace “the rules of the world” that have already become established during decades by the far less partial World Trade Organization or WTO — replace those global rules by the discriminatory treaty-based trading-blocs rules that he wants in order for international corporations to be placed directly into the driver’s seat), but instead the Economist continues immediately with this caricature of such:

TTIP’s supporters have also been blindsided by increasing opposition to trade deals in the US, where Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has built his campaign around an antitrade message and Democrat Hillary Clinton, facing a challenge from the left, has abandoned her support for a similar Pacific trade pact.

In other words, according to the Economist: the domestic opposition to Obama’s trade-deals is comprised of two categories: of ‘antitrade’ populists, and of leftist yahoos who don’t know that Marxism is dead and ended ever since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990 — both categories of yahoos are simply behind-the-times, according to the Economist. Pity those non-subscribers to mega-corporate propaganda such as this.

Then, this Economist ‘news’ ‘report’ (a.k.a.: propaganda) continues:

With the clock running out on Mr Obama’s presidency, officials on both sides now believe that the window is closing for a deal to be reached and approved in legislatures in Europe and the US before the end of the year. EU officials stress that they want to agree a working text by July.  A failure to complete the agreement before a change in US administration could condemn the pact to years of drift.

Get it done now, is the propaganda messsage. But, the intelligent reader will still be asking: should it be done at all? Viewed in narrowly economic terms alone, the three independently done (as opposed to mega-corporate funded) studies indicate that the major stockholders in international corporations (especially ones that are based in the U.S.) would benefit from these deals, at the expense of everyone else and especially at the expense of consumers, and of employees. However, that’s only the economics of it. More broadly, what Obama’s treaties will do if they become passed into law is to achieve internationally the dream of fascists ever since the time of Mussolini: to transfer sovereignty away from the public in a democracy, to, instead, as Mussolini himself sometimes called his fascist ideology, “corporationism,” which he defined as:

The corporation plays on the economic terrain just as the Grand Council and the militia play on the political terrain. Corporationism is disciplined economy, and from that comes control, because one cannot imagine a discipline without a director. Corporationism is above socialism and above liberalism. A new synthesis is created.

Earlier, he had said (and even legislated), tellingly:
Labor in all forms, intellectual, technical and manual, is a social duty. In this sense, and in this sense only, is it protected by the State. From the national point of view all production is a unit; its objects are unitary and can be defined as the wellbeing of the producers and the development of national strength.

He didn’t mention there “the wellbeing of the workers,” nor “the wellbeing of consumers,” because his ideology wasn’t concerned about those matters. He even asserted that labor “is a social duty. In this sense, and in this sense only, is it protected by the State,” so that workers’ rights have no protection in fascism. Only workers’ duties do. “National strength” was his goal, just as it is Barack Obama’s, and they don’t believe that workers’ rights are part of this. That’s why it’s ignored in Obama’s proposed treaties.

“National strength” is, of course, largely a military phenomenon. Here is Obama speaking on 28 May 2014 to graduating cadets at America’s academy for its future military leaders, West Point.

 It was Leo Le Port comparing “One Pass” with “Last Pass”.  Last Pass stores all of your other passwords on their cloud where if they discover the master pass-word, you’re sunk.   Here are some pet name passwords you should never use.  Ashley, Bowser, Beau,  Buster, Spike, Ginger,  Daisy, Buttercup,  T-bone, Mutton-chop,  Bernie, Hillary, Chelsea, Buddy, Barney, Sasha, Checkers, Patches, Fido, Rover, Rex, Regis, Spot, Blackie, Prince, Princess, Duke, Earl, Rusty, Dutchess,  Charlie, Harry, Jake, Fluffy, Mittens, Cheetah,  Tiger, Kitty, Missy,  Boots, Smokey, Susie, Hunter, Jaws, Lad,  Dino, Tramp, Scout and Queenie.  They were talking about one visual aid that doesn’t sound like new technology at all.  What would be new is experimentation they’ve done with optic nerve implants generating light impulses.  The Detroit Grand Prix was on the usual course on Belle Island, with some decent straight-aways.  

Let’s do Rhapsody in Black since I did decide to listen to a lot of it.  “Just Enough for the City” by Stevie Wonder was the first song.  Soon after I went out for iced tea but I waited in the sun a while for it to even be announced.   Then in succession they played “You Make Me Feel Brand New” by the Stylistics, “The Best Thing that Happened” by Gladys Night and the Pips, and that disco instrumental hit.  Then it was “The Big Pay-back” by James Brown, a song I’ve never heard before, and “Dancing Machine” by Michael Jackson.  Then I turned on the Detroit Grand Prix again and they were interviewing the winners.  Then it was “Tell Me Something Good” and “Good Times Don’t Last Forever” and “Step Up and See the Sideshow” by the Stylistics again, and “Rock Me Baby” and “Then Came You” and then I went out for another cigarette.  The interesting thing is that you can see that disco beat evolving before your eyes as the year progresses.  Of course being longer songs in 1974 means they can’t play as many of them.  Augustine got the air conditioning going in here.  

"The Greatest" Bites the Dust

Mohamed Ali died this morning.  A few days ago he was admitted to the hospital with respritory complications and at first it wasn’t seen as serious but then on the news last night they said it was a lot more serious than they all thought and you had the impression that something was brewing.  Mohamed Ali died at age 74.  Of course he was known as Cassious Clay and he defeated Sonny Liston in early 1964 and then he changed his name to Mohamed Ali, ahead of Lou Alcintor changing his name to Kareem Abdul Jabar just shortly afterward.  Apparently it was Elijah Mohamed of the Nation of Islam that suggested that name.  Ali and Malcolm X were known to hang out together.  I must say a thing or two on the question of boxing being a violent sport and Ali trying to be a conscious objector to the Viet Nam war.  Sure on occasion some people get killed in the ring, or else suffer brain damage and die years later.  But boxing is a voluntary sport.  In the Dylan song ‘Who Killed Davie Moore?’ there is note taken of how boxing isn’t legal in Cuba any more with the vague inference that communist nations are more civil in this regard.  But there is a violence of the State which reflects itself in a passive, beaten down population like they have in Russia that is too cowed by an over-bearing repressive state to even protest against.  And of course in Russia they have mental institutions to drug you up and make you passive.  Someone once said that the only “Peace” a Communist will accept is the peace of the graveyard.  There is a certain kind of violence which reflects itself in such “Peace” but capitalism is “messy” as Bernie Sanders might put it.  Democracy is “messy”.  Sometimes, not to mix metaphors or anything, you have to break an egg to make an omelet.  So it could be said that American sports are “messy”.  People suffer from football injuries to the head and are never the same.  But we in America don’t want to make our sports “safer” and free from risk.  Because we in America have always embraced risk.  It’s the price of freedom.  But when it comes to protesting the Viet Nam War this is something else altogether.  Here you have troops going and massacring innocent women and children in their villages and burning them to the ground.  There is nothing sporting in this.   Mohamed Ali didn’t flee to Sweden.  He stayed here and paid the price for his protest.  He was stripped of his championship.  Apparently Ali won back the championship twice more.  But first he was banned from boxing for over three years.  Then the Supreme Court overturned his draft conviction. In March of 1971 he had his comeback fighting smoking Joe Fraisure in Madison Square garden in early March of 1971 and Fraisure won and Ali  lost.  But they say he won the next two bouts with Fraisure.  Ali had various other big matches like the Thriller in Manilla and the Rumble in the Jungle in Zaire where he fought and beat George Forman.  But he developed Parkinson’s disease and people question whether it was worth it.  He did those “bugs” commercials.  Ali had a come-back of sorts when he carried the Olympic Torch in Atlanta taking it from Janet Evans, and he was shakey lighting the flame.  It was some commentator on the radio who said that giving the torch to Ali was a fire hazard.  Of course I have described myself as the Malcolm X of Christianity.  I’ve always been a fan of Malcolm.  He speaks the unvarnished truth about society today much as Bernie Sanders speaks the unvarnished truth.  Malcolm had a pure heart tword God and when he saw what ‘Real Islam” was like in March of 1964 he changed his views on race.  I changed my view on “The Last Times” after being at a Chuck Smith speech at the Convention Center in early September of 1977 and I recoiled in horror.  Jesus taught that Christianity was an instrument of Peace.  My prophecy book “God’s Winepress” could be called the Christian gospel without all the Calvary Chapel bullshit.  In the book I talk a lot about breaking out of walls and prisons and such.  I also speak of the totalitarian State getting you to rat out your brothers turning friend against friend.  In a portion of the book I deleted I spoke of the Viet Kong and US Troops perhaps getting together smoking a few joints and getting high together and reaching their own peace accords.  I spoke of cities like Saigon being inherently immoral because they were Westernized cities whereas the Viet Kong were from the country.  Some would criticize me because I don’t say “Jesus loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life” every few lines.  Black Sabbath had Christian lyrics, too.  But they were stridently anti war and therefore hated by Calvary Chapel people.  It took me a long time to figure out this connection.  But in those days you had people like Ali who were willing to pay the price for their uncompromising principles.  People don’t do that today and Barock Obama is a prime example of that.  Some say that the minute you get elected President they take you behind closed doors and instruct you how you will govern, particularly on foreign policy.   David Swanson has some strong arguments for NOT dropping the two A Bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima.  He says it was the arms merchants rather than the generals on the battlefield that were asking that the new weapon be demonstrated as kind of a “test to see what damage it caused”.   There were only a few Japanese cities that weren’t already carpet bombed into mass destruction so these would serve the purpose.  The mere fact that the A Bomb was “when we let the genie out of the bottle” is reason enough to give us all pause.  I don’t think Obama should have even visited Hiroshima if he was going to give such a confused and ambiguous message. 

I had Shawn Hannity on over the noon hour and also after one and a little after two.  Unemployment statistics are the weakest since September of 2010 with only 38,000 new jobs.  How then does the unemployment number itself drop to 4.7%   There are drops in the construction industry.  This whole thing with Trump attacking the Latino race of the judge in his Trump University case is really strange.  According to Hannity the Judge is a member of 'La Raza" and hence should recruse himself from the case.  It's just Trump exercising another oppertunity to let his racism show.  In the one o clock hour Shawn had the author of the book and soon to be movie in “Clinton Cash”.  The movie showed at the Khan festival and will be out a week before the democratic convention.  Geraldo Rivera is leading a group called “Latinos for Trump”, which is some kind of joke.  Shawn was obsessed with this scuffle in San Jose where the Latino anti Trump protestors got roudy and were beating up people in Trump tee shirts.  But Shawn broadened this into an attack on liberals in general who “operate and come to power by these means.  Violence is their way of life”.   Shawn also said you must assume every Muslim is lying when they swear allegence to the the laws of the land and the Constitution.  “The ISIS people instruct them to lie to the authorities”.  He spoke of a “master plan” to take over Western Europe and America with Sheria Law courts and there are now 88 of them in England, according to Shawn Hannity.

Hillary's speech in San Diego the other day was very basic.  There were no specifics and if indeed we are fighting five or six wars simotaniously we need to hear specifics and justifications for all of those wars.  The things Hillary says about Donald Trump have become obvious to everybody now.  Even if you thought of considering Trump several months ago - - Trump has made an ass of himself over in speeches ten times over since them.  What I want from Hillary is why she is a BETTER person for the job than Bernie, and I didn't get that.  Once again the “Ring of Fire” page was blank even under “clips”.  I hope "Free Speech" isn't evoluting downward due to a lack of funds or something and they can no longer do live coverage.  Democracy Now was all news reruns from yesterday including Ken Starr resigning as president of Baylor University in Texas due to the handling of some sex scandal.    Now they are talking about a “Ring of Fire” network, but I’m not seeing specific episodes listed.    So after “Democracy Now” I did catch a Sam Cedar interview on Ring of Fire and then it was Ed Schultz for fifteen minutes critiquing Hillary’s speech in San Diego yesterday.  Ed wanted to know foreign policy specifics on ISIS and such, but we may never get these.   The war in Afghanistan is “Operation Enduring Freedom” (fifteen years now).  Operation “Inherent Revolve” is the official name of the ISIS war.  And of course “Operation Iraqi Liberation” or OIL was the official designation of that war.  We are waging five wars right now and each of them have these cute little names.    That’s as many as Norman Goldman counts.   We are at war in Somolia and Yemen. 

Thom Hartman stated that 59% of the elected delegates have to vote for any candidate in order to win in the Democratic Party.  Chris Matthews admitted the other day that there is a conspiracy to declare Hillary the winner of Tuesday’s primaries at five o clock.  Then I watched Hillary Clinton’s statement on national security where she briefly touched on other relevant topics.    In the middle I got two cups of iced tea.  Patty was out there and she was talking to that new guy, Chewy.  Then I caught the rest of Hillary’s speech and right now I have a national security briefing on audio.   

President Obama's Parrellel Universe

Yesterday Obama gave a speech on the economy in Elcart, Indiana or some place where the unemployment rate fell from double digits to four percent as though President Obama did that.  The President, one has the feeling, lives in a parrellel universe when it comes to the economy.  We know for example that as a percentage of the population, the labor force is down to 62% and that was last seen in March of 1978.  Incomes have fallen steadily for the past sixteen years under the Bush - Obama administration.  There are some areas such as enforcement of certain laws such as Whistle Blowing are up and Wall Street Prosecutions have never been lower.  There has been an almost seamless transition in foreign policy as we ease from one Mideast war on to another.  We are told that there are still carrier Bush people in the justice department.  Productivity gains per worker are through the roof and it’s not being reflected in wages.   The 1968 minimum wage figure translates to $12.40 in today's dollars.  However if you factor in productivity per worker, Thom Hartman says it figures out to about twenty dollars per worker in terms of what we'd have to raise the minimum wage to to match.  There are four myths Obama talked about in his speech on economics yesterday.  One was that we are getting more “free stuff” today from the federal government and this is bankrupting our workers.  Tax rates of course have dropped from what they were in the "good old days" of the Clinton administration, which Dr Levy talks about so fondly.  The Clinton administration added 23 million jobs and this administration has added only 14 million jobs.  However if you look at the month to month figures on unemployment you know that an awful lot of months see a relative LOSS in jobs due to people leaving the labor market and going on welfare.  The number of people on food stamps has never been higher.  This of course subsedizes Wall Mart employees with low wages so that the government is really subsedizing Wall Mart profits.  Then there is the myth that regularions are choaking out business.  Of course back when we had a democratic congress prior to 1994 there were always new regulations being passed.  We used to hear it in the news all the time such as the Americans with disabilities act passed under a republican administration.  President Obama stated that as a proportion of funds this administration spends less on domestic spending than it did in the Ronald Reagan administration.  You can credit the change in congress for this.  The magnitude of the revolution of 1994 can't be overstated.  Then there is the subject of immigration.  It could be that immigrants are taking our jobs.  But the president's stance on immigration was reasonable saying that deportations are up since the Bush or Reagan administrations.  The Obama admimistration's position really isn't far removed at all from what Marco Ru7bio advocates in terms of "bringing people out of the shadows" and paying taxes.  Obama reminds us that immigrants can't get food stamps and most of them are working at low wages helping the economic bottom line of corporations.  Whether these immigrants drive down the wage base isn't that important because there are other more obvious reasons for drops in wages including these trade deals.  The fourth “myth” is that trade deals are bad.  Obama thinks trade deals are good.   Here is an area where Obama is truely living in a parrellel universe.  These trade deals are tailor made for corporations of an international variety and Obama knows this.  These trans-national corporations are catered to at the expense of what Americans might consider more important.  These would be product safety and environmental considerations and rights of labor.   We've passed too many trade deals in the past twenty plus years and Obama wants to ratify more of them and all of them will be equally bad and in many cases worse.  It would appear right now that the Trans Pacific Partnership will not be passed by this congress.  We can only hope they won't.

Chris Matthews stated or "uncovered" a media conspiracy to declare the race over and Hillary Clinton the winner of next June's primaries before the Western states are done voting at five o clock.  The goal is obviously to discourage people voting for Sanders.  But in point of fact Hillary Clinton will have to win 59% of the elected delegates to win the nomination and she won't reach that figure even with New Jersey's votes.  Sanders is pulling even in California and I've heard rumors that for once California is a winner take all state for the democrats.  This would make it very important.  Hillary has decided to rearrange her schedule and spend more time campaigning out here.  California is obviously important to her.  Back inh 1960 all Jack Kennedy lacked at one point was four votes from Wyoming to get a winning majority of the deligates and win a first ballot nomination, and he got it.  But he wouldn't be able to do that today if it takes 59% of the vote of all elected delegates to win.   By the way I sympathise with Hillary in 2008 and I would be the first to say she got a raw deal then.  She sent a letter to the party in May of 2008 complaining that she'd gotten more votes than Obama and they were in key states needed to win.  If I'm not mistaken Hillary even won here in California.  She said that Obama had won in the rural states while she took the urban states.  Today the situation is almost completely reversed and Bernie Sanders finds himself in a similar place to Hillary in 2008.  However Hillary Clinton had a better case.  I highly doubt that Bernie Sanders will get a high ranking Cabinet post if he plays ball with Hillary.  I don't even think Sanders would want such a job because it's too important to keep a guy like that in the US Senate.  Back then Hillary argued that the super-deligates should vote for her at the convention.  Sanders is trying to make the same argument for the same reason, that Sanders does better in the polling against Trump.  Sanders beats Trump by double digits whereas Hillary is struggling with many key states in doubt.  In 2008 Hillary made her case that only she could beat John Mc Cain and Mc Cain beat Obama in a head to head poll.  But I imagine the democratic head honchos won't listen to Sanders this year any more than they listened to Hillary in 2008.