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You know when those of us sounded the alarm on Clinton this is EXACTLY what we didn't want to happen by having the Democratic Party putting all of OUR eggs in her basket.
Most of this was known well ahead of time. But no one would listen.
Now instead of focusing on the very important issues of the day, it's going to be the Bill and Hillary show from now til end times.
Do you understand the consequences of having her as the candidate? Can you understand the holy hell she is going to create for everyone?
What the hell is so hard to understand about not wanting this behavior associated with the Democratic Party?
The brainiacs behind her second coming better have a damn good plan b.
This all or nothing shit is patently idiotic.
KMOD
(7,906 posts)It's sad enough when it comes from the RWers. It's even sadder when it comes from our own.
whereisjustice
(2,941 posts)KMOD
(7,906 posts)lol
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)BojackFan
(21 posts)on HRC is a good idea? I think that is what concerns the OP. I wouldn't question his motives based on that post.
I'm all for many candidates running for the primary.
But I have yet to see a better candidate than HRC running.
cali
(114,904 posts)but even so, she's a shitty campaigner and a very poor candidate. risk averse, opportunistic, unprincipled, far too hawkish, about as Israel right or wrong as you can get. Defender of Nuttyyahu. for attacking Syria and training forces there. Corporate entanglements to gag on. Hell, even on abortion:
" I have said many times that I can support a ban on late-term abortions, including partial-birth abortions, so long as the health and life of the mother is protected."
http://www.ontheissues.org/Cabinet/Hillary_Clinton_Abortion.htm
Hey, maybe she's changed on that.
She always voted the right way in the Senate, but that kind of rhetoric is not helpful- particularly now when abortion rights have been so sharply diminished.
Hillary is a master at weasel words and obfuscating.
She is against raising taxes on the wealthy- raising taxes on capital gains or raising the SS cap. "Inclusive prosperity" is slowed down trickle down with a few attractive fig leaves.
She's the ultimate follow the poll pol.
fuck that.
bvar22
(39,909 posts)That sums it up for me too.
"She is against raising taxes on the wealthy- raising taxes on capital gains or raising the SS cap."
All 3 of those Economic (and Democratic) measures would begin a turn around for the dying Working Class and the Poor.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)CanadaexPat
(496 posts)This kind of "bs" may well.
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)don't be too shocked when the vitriol continues from the OP and those who hit the rec button.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)What Nietzsche said..."What doesn't kill the Clintons make them stronger."
whereisjustice
(2,941 posts)Nope, you'll probably say it was Nader. You'll say Bill was very popular and did nothing wrong that would change anyone's perception about the Democratic Party. Well nothing that might cause them to vote for Bush.
Nope, couldn't have been anything Clinton did. Must have been Nader.
And you'll argue that it was so much fun the first time around, let's do it all over again.
Because history never repeats itself.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Interesting you bring up Nader not me.
whereisjustice
(2,941 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)NT
whereisjustice
(2,941 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)But he was the first one to be impeached for it.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)And despite that historians rate him as one of our more effective presidents.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)especially when it was revealed how those who were leading the Republican charge, including Newt Gingrich, Bob Livingston, and even the Republican Senator from Clinton's home state, the Reverend Tim Hutchinson, were also found to have had their own paramours.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)That being said I wouldn't want Bill as a B I L but he didn't invent infidelity.
BTW, you forgot Henry Hyde who made a cuckold of his best friend.
11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)Ms. Chenoweth (R. Idaho) was one of the loudest and most insistent callers for President Clinton's resignation over the Lewinsky affair. But wouldn't you know it, old Helen had indulged in a six-year long adulterous relationship of her very own.
A Republican hypocrite, who'da thunk it?
whereisjustice
(2,941 posts)a ton of cash though.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)We established that when I disabused you of the notion it was Nader's fault.
whereisjustice
(2,941 posts)to cover up the reckless behavior of Bill Clinton who's bad behavior gave us Bush and the Iraq War.
Would you have advised him to go ahead and have sex with an intern because he'd never get caught and there was no risk to Democratic Party?
You know, because everyone does it. Like running their own email server for the US State Dept business.
What could go wrong? I mean, it's a Clinton for god's sake.
You'll be bailing water for her the rest of her campaign.
Just don't call it fighting for change.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Bill Clinton had an approval rating in the 60s during the campaign despite Ken Starr's and the Republican's witch hunt, ergo:
Al Gore ran away from a uber popular president and lost. In fact if not for the pesky 25th Amendment Clinton would have wiped the floor with Bush as there is no precedent in history for a president not to be re-elected with an approval rating in the sixties.
-John Adams,
whereisjustice
(2,941 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Al Gore ran away from Clinton, picked a comically inept vice president, and lost. If you believe Al Gore lost for any other reason there is nothing I can do to disabuse you of that notion.
I am fully engaged so we can continue this "I'm rubber, you're glue" argument into infinity. I didn't get to 51,000 posts for nothing. Crazy and persistent has its benefits.
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)2 fucking wars that were completely immoral, illegal, and unnecessary, and at least a million lives!
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)I can retire from this board and allow the Clintons to be maligned or I can stay and defend them. The choices for me are mutually exclusive. It would be DU's loss because there is no way I can post here, see them attacked and not defend them.
*He actually won...We can litigate that too...
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)I don't know why you would even bother.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)NT
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)I don't know why you even bother.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)NT
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)Although it may not be obvious to others how hard you work, or what you call work, but this is not work.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)CanadaexPat
(496 posts)Notice the actual president has the lowest numbers - people are happy to love someone who isn't doing anything.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)But thank you for your input.
AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)no thanks
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)msongs
(67,420 posts)sadoldgirl
(3,431 posts)me for money for HRC? Is that an open primary
invitation or not??!!
sadoldgirl
(3,431 posts)from their side:
1) Make sure there is more than enough money
to discourage anyone else to run
2) Make sure that a "necessary" primary will only
encourage people, who are aiming at the 2nd spot
3)Make certain that even a lunch meal and everything
else is covered by the MSM
4) Preempt any popular other person by claiming
their support and using their issues.
I am sure there is more, but is that not a great start?
whereisjustice
(2,941 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)NT
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)And they are going to tear those meeses to pieces.
Enjoy the show.
It will end the same way the last one did.
Early, let's hope.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)With Clinton as our most popular living ex president?
A more apt analogy is the Clintons are the Road Runner and the Rethuglicants are Wile E. Coyote.
And I don't have to hope. I know.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
Tom Rinaldo
(22,913 posts)Like the Republicans won't invent scandals out of thin air to knock down any Democrat who runs? Yeah, right. John Kerry got swiftboated, Barack Obama is a secret Muslim. Al Gore invented the internet, etc. etc. etc.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Like the Republicans won't invent scandals out of thin air to knock down any Democrat who runs? Yeah, right. John Kerry got swiftboated when they alleged he shot himself to got his Purple Heart, and shot a VC teenager in the back as he ran away to get his Bronze Medal. Barack Obama is an illegal alien, a secret Muslim and "pals" around with terrorists. Al Gore invented the internet, etc. etc. etc.
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)made up out of thin air, and a situation involving say, what looks like an exchange of money for favors and/or access? Not all scandals are baseless.
Tom Rinaldo
(22,913 posts)They no doubt are shocked, shocked I tell you, to find out that there is gambling going on in the casino. Attacks on Hillary about this from Republican Party candidates who audition to become the personal servants of billionaires while taking orders from the Prime Minister of Israel would expose Republicans as crass shrill hypocrites, except for one thing: they already are exposed as crass shrill hypocrites and this just fits that narrative.
The Republicans are the boy who cried wolf one thousand times over. That is why attacks on Hillary now from them will always tend to backfire. Their true intent is always crystal clear and it never is a dispassionate public examination of proper ethical standards for elected officials to follow. They are chronic habitual shit throwers hoping something, anything, will stick on the wall, and they always come across as assholes doing it.
The Clinton Foundation is a large scale international charity that isn't outsourcing American jobs, and of course it won't always be spotlessly clean, but I hope the Republican Party knocks themselves out trying to make an issue out of this instead of speaking to the American public about issues that really matter to them, the way that I expect either Hillary or any other Democratic nominee will do.
It's not the details of this alleged latest scandal that will register on the average non-Republican voter, it is the cumulative knee jerk piling on negativity of their reflexive attacks on Hillary that will stick. With Hillary Clinton they no longer have the political luxury of defining her negatively before she had a chance to define herself to the American people. Personal attacks on Hillary are already fully baked into the political equation after two decades of non stop Republican assaults. It demonstrates how the Republicans have nothing constructive to offer the voters now far more than it says anything negative about Hillary.
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)Why not?
Tom Rinaldo
(22,913 posts)People tend to try to return favors in one way or another, even when there is no explicit trade off. Corporations sponsor programs on PBS for the "good will" it "buys them". It is considered a business investment even if it isn't reported as same.
And people, and corporations, donate large amounts of money to political campaigns. Even though everyone swears up and down that no votes are being purchased, and claim that simply purchasing "access" in that way is merely a wholesome exercise of American democracy.
Our entire politics is rife with conflicts of interests or at least the appearances of same. It's unseemly to say the least but it leads to large amounts of money getting raised, sometimes for good, sometimes for evil.
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)Not like the Republicans have to invent anything when it comes to Hillary, her imagination is enough to get r' done.
Tom Rinaldo
(22,913 posts)Oh wait a minute, she was, and she won high approval ratings from the public while in that office. No one on the national stage for a generation or more never said anything that was not totally accurate. Her chances in a general election will not hinge on such trivial gotcha attempts..
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)25 years of lying on the national stage of politics, and you dinnt blink.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)As I have said, ad infinitum and ad nauseum, that which doesn't kill the Clintons only makes them stronger.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026536413
Faux pas
(14,681 posts)Just ignore the 'deniers' they'll never get it. They're blinded by the that false clinton glow.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)But we will just have to live through another dozen or so more faux scandals before our Hillary becomes 45
Faux pas
(14,681 posts)already saw the 'polls'. It's easy to to be ahead when you're the ONLY 'Dem' running. Have a good one!
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Why folks such as yourself embrace the rightwing noise machine's crap like this book---you will have to answer for that yourself.
Faux pas
(14,681 posts)the 'rightwing noise machine's crap' that I base MY opinion on, it's years and years of watching, listening to HER two face BS noise machine. Thank you and have a nice day.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)That you do so because you agree with its contents is hardly a defense
Faux pas
(14,681 posts)I NEVER said I agreed with it's contents, you're PROJECTING. I just don't like hrc it's simple really. You're baiting me. I'm liberal squared bordering on socialist. That is all.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)as a legitimate critique of Clinton for which only she can be blamed. And explicitly assuming that the contents of that rightwing piece of agitprop are accurate.
Moreover, you are attacking critics of that rightwing piece of agitprop.
When you go so far left you wind up holding hands with the right, it's take to get perspective.
Response to geek tragedy (Reply #113)
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geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)One less post to read on all future threads. Thanks for saving me some time.
JTFrog
(14,274 posts)Metric System
(6,048 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)I remember Gary Hart and his problems and yes the GOP is going to pull some very dirty stunts. The GOP worked a deal with Iran before the 1980 election and Jimmy Carter was defeated by Ronald Reagan and that was a shame. Dirty rotten politics. Nixon pulled the Watergate break in and though Nixon was elected he was pulling dirty stunts. The GOP worked their asses off to keep Bill Clinton in continuous scandal but Bill still did his job despite the GOP efforts. President Obama has worked very hard and the GOP has worked overtime to destroy him even having McConnell say he was going to work to make sure Obama did not have a second term. We can choose to follow the RW trash talking or we can choose to work hard for our candidates to be elected.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)What got Nixon into trouble is he was meddling in our primaries and scheming to get the Democratic presidential nominee he wanted to run against.
Sound familiar?
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)And he has many working to help him. Of course Rand and others surely doesn't want Hillary running, the clown car will work overtime but Democrats needs to work to get Democrats elected in order to turn this country around.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)This is a sticky subject and while I will zealously defend Hillary I don't want to sow more seeds of divisiveness...
The Republicans are scared s--tless of Ms. Clinton and would prefer to run against anybody but her. Their track record against the Clintons is not exactly stellar. That's a fact. That's why their minions are tacitly encourage a Democratic battle.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Please question the source before relying on rightwing hacks.
Bobbie Jo
(14,341 posts)dig, dig, dig, dig, dig.
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)It's getting harder and harder to tell them apart.
Sid
blm
(113,065 posts)Did you crawl in a hole and give up after the Left Behind Books came out, too?
There would never be ANY Democratic candidate ever with your reaction to RW propaganda - which is exactly why the professional propagandists keep putting it out - for stupid GOP voters and trembling Dems too inarticulate to counter the abject lies.
NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)You don't think it'll happen with someone like Warren or Sanders? You bet your ass they'll find something to attack ANY Democrat on.
HR_Pufnstuf
(837 posts)He can win.
Evergreen Emerald
(13,069 posts)You might want to consider his record and his stance on the issues.
treestar
(82,383 posts)I think people are tired of and don't care about this stuff.
Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)Most of the news reports I've seen on this book have referred to it as "written by a former Bush aid, and rightwing author"... They even said that on the Today Show. But certain DUers find no issue in using right wing hatchet jobs to smear Hillary...
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,989 posts)I don't understand.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,989 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Hekate
(90,714 posts)Media should be cautious with Republican activist and strategist Peter Schweizer's new book Clinton Cash. Schweizer has a disreputable history of reporting marked by errors and retractions, with numerous reporters excoriating him for facts that "do not check out," sources that "do not exist," and a basic failure to practice "Journalism 101."
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)an ex-con. Not sure why it's being marketed on DU though.
Hekate
(90,714 posts)It doesn't matter who our nominee is -- the RW will lie about them. Why do we tolerate it here? Why the enthusiastic support among some here?
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)And then the legitimacy will be established for this issue.
Hekate
(90,714 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)NT
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)There were dozens of articles in the " New York Times and the Washington Post" about Whitewater and the legitimacy of it as an issue was never "established"..
DemocratSinceBirth
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)And the legitimacy of that issue was established, even though he lied about it!
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)They hounded and continue to hound the man for twenty five years and all they got on him is a consensual blow job...I am of the opinion if his detractors would have given or gotten one they wouldn't be so ornery.
#lol@me
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)People don't forget that type of thing.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Cinderella.
#lol@me
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)-Major Hogwash
#lol@me
Vinca
(50,279 posts)That's what this amounts to: swiftboating.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Hekate
(90,714 posts).... smear equivalent of money laundering.
-- Make up a lie --
-- publish it in a book --
-- the story about the book, not about the veracity of the author or his "sources", gets repeated in newspapers --
-- through the miracle of 24/7 television "news" the story gets repeated on air with few disclaimers, except to call it "controversial."
-- If questioned, the cutie-pies on The Cycle can say they read it here! or someplace. Maybe the WaPo or the NYT. But people are talking about it!
-- Lather, rinse, repeat, repeat, repeat.
Historic NY
(37,451 posts)where is your sense of checking facts?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026538763
or better yet..............
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2015/04/21/rachel-maddow-explores-clinton-cash-books-connection-to-new-york-times-washington-post/
Don/t come here spouting RW bullshit.....that the media darlings know is false.
William769
(55,147 posts)Skinner also has a OP up http://election.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6542897 I'm sure there's a source you would like to use also.
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Hanging one's hat on a hoax press release is an accurate gauge of objectivity versus bias for many reporters.
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)and because the OP hasn't had a chance to come back and acknowledge their use of right-wing sourcing to attack a Democrat.
Sid
ismnotwasm
(41,989 posts)"Who kicked this dammit" but I appaud your effort, and I won't trash the tread as I wait with baited breath for the no doubt forthcoming explanation
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)especially when the shit being stirred falls apart under closer scrutiny and further reporting.
Sid
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)99Forever
(14,524 posts)I have had more than enough of the on-going Clinton Drama Saga for this lifetime. I want a President that doesn't have to spend 90% of his or her time defending their personal history instead of FOCUSING on the problems of working people.
pnwmom
(108,980 posts)to lead the pack, no matter how strong.
John Kerry was the first swift boated candidate, attacked on totally spurious terms, whose greatest strengths were twisted into weaknesses. It worked, so the techniques will be used on whomever we put up.
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)is predictable reccers for a thread already shown to be hogwash. I wonder how many originally recc'ed and then changed their minds bwah haa haa haa