New video from the Hillary Clinton campaign: "Fighter"

[Skinner]

Getting excited for the announcement event tomorrow!

[nolabear]

1. First proud K&R!

Thank you, Skinner.

[snooper2]

2. fighting!

wonder why her business experience isn't touted in these pictures?





NO DYNASTIES!

GO MARTIN!

[DURHAM D]

8. Oh look. The only female

among a bunch of old white men.

And, just for the record, she spent her time on the board fighting for minority hiring, raises and promotion policies. She also tried to raise issues of environmental awareness but by her own admission they just rolled their eyes when she brought it up.

[Thinkingabout]

11. She also was active in the "Buy America" program at Walmart.

[DURHAM D]

13. Good point.

I see her time on the board (about 4 years I think) as a positive. She knows how they think, how they talk and, this is most important, they will talk to her. Think the other candidates can get them in a room? NOPE

So the blather about her speeches where she takes money from them to help the poor shows a serious level of juvenile thinking. I think most of it is based on her gender and they probably don't even realize it.

[misterhighwasted]

36. Thank You for stating the obvious.

Pity she's had to maneuver through the man cave to get where she stands today.
She will be a remarkable & great caretaker of this Nation, when she finally takes her place in the Oval Office.
MPOTUS 2016.

Oh yes, and she did it in eFin high heels too.
HRC 2016

[MADem]

49. Wal-Mart' s first "green" store only was built because she badgered the board until

they did it to shut her up. To their shock, she proved that the concept could work, look good, and--a biggie for those cheap bastards--SAVE MONEY.

Most of the "innovations" in that store (recycled materials, a recycling program, using natural light and graywater, e.g.) became SOP for future efforts across the retail industry.

That was a big deal, what she did-- she doesn't get enough credit for that, either.

[R B Garr]

56. Why don't you put the actual article text that accompanied that picture

instead of a random Hillary picture that is supposed to malign her without context.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/us/politics/20walmart.html?pagewanted=all
"So Mr. Walton turned to a young lawyer who just happened to be married to the governor of Arkansas, where Wal-Mart is based: Hillary Rodham Clinton"

Walmart is based in Arkansas, which is where she lived with her husband who was governor there. Nothing wrong with a young attorney wanting to gain experience and not let their education go to waste.

[Beacool]

63. The first woman to be appointed to the board of Wal-Mart.

A board populated by middle aged white men. Sure, she single handedly should have changed Wal-Mart's business structure. What an unrealistic load of hogwash.........

[Iliyah]

3. K & R

[boston bean]

4. "I think people know by now, I don't quit"

yes we do know! Great Video!

[riderinthestorm]

5. Great video! K&R. Kudos for a terrific overview nt

[leftofcool]

6. Thank you for this, Skinner!

[lovemydog]

9. Thanks for sharing it here.

I'm undecided, leaning toward Bernie. I respect Hillary very much and would gladly vote for her if she's the nominee.

[Thinkingabout]

10. Here is a lady who has shown the ability to set aside differences she may have had in the election

of 2008 and work for the person in which she conceded the election. She does love this country more than continuing with a grudge. This will be the same ability in which she will use in trying to get Congress to compromise and start being functional again. This is a leader the US needs. I will be working hard for Hillary in her quest for the office of president. She had advocated for issues of women, children and health, she will not stop working.

[bigdarryl]

12. DAMN!!!!!

Excellent video nothing in that video paint her as some rightwing democrat as bad as the republicans.As I've been hearing from some Bernie Sanders supports.This guy called up Mark Thompson's show spewing the bullshit that Hillary is just as right wing as most republicans.Personally I think a lot of these so called Bernie supporters are under cover trolls from the republican party saying they are for Sanders then they go into this tirade about Hillary.

[Thinkingabout]

17. I wish it was not true but it is a talking point repeated over and over probably in a RW feeble

attempt to get a weaker DNC candidate in the ge so maybe they could get a republican elected.

[misterhighwasted]

39. I swear they have a prewritten script.

Ya know how often their reply is the standard "you have a reading comprehension problem?"
They go by a standard script of insults to use when they get caught with their pants down, and have no answer but the prewritten script of insults to make a quick exit from some anti-Hillary lie they started.

They are predictable.

[MADem]

51. They also make shit up about what you or others have said.

The only way to fight back is to challenge every falsehood. Don't get distracted by bullshit or sucked into circular arguments. Hit 'em with facts!

[Voice for Peace]

44. nonsense. people like bernie better than hillary for a bunch of valid reasons.

[misterhighwasted]

50. They can love their candidate but its the spiteful words they use towards

..someone elses preferred candidate that gives them the reputation they have. There are some posters who are just as I said in my post. Its not a big secret around DU.
That is the truth.

[Voice for Peace]

70. but on the other side of things, Clinton supporters are seen the same way

and I imagine it's about 50-50 in that regard. I also don't see
any helpful discussion between Hillary and Bernie supporters.

[BainsBane]

73. Clinton supporters and even other Sanders supporters

are insulted as Third Way, aligned with Goldman Sachs and the 1 percent--often by people far more affluent than those they insult. One person who I know is affluent insults LGBT people and poor people that way all the time. Another announced that corporations had sent women and people of color into the Democratic party to subvert it from its true mission. A number of others spent days insisting that their right to hurl misogynist insults trumps a woman's right to be treated with respect. When polls come out showing that people of color do not favor their candidate, they call them "uninformed" and "low information voters" and even target with alerts a black member who said she did not like Sanders. They have also responded to simple questions about Sanders record and accomplishments with hostility and profanity. They make clear they hold him, a politician, above the citizens he seeks to represent. The entire ethos they present is anti-egalitarian. They target not the 1 percent and corporations but ordinary Democratic voters who fail to fall inline with their orthodoxy, all while willfully and repeatedly falsifying Secretary Clinton's record.

You could say you see Clinton supporters as doing the same but that is the kind of false equivalency cable news specializes in. The numbers of Clinton supporters are few, and they do not have the numbers to even engage in that kind of behavior. The resentment of Clinton voters is that they even exist. People here are using the jury system to rid the site of the Clinton supporters that remain. They may indeed be successful with that, but it has no bearing on the election. It only makes the site even more homogeneous, which is in fact the goal of some.

I have learned a lot about who people are. They have made clear they see me and others who don't adhere to the proscribed orthodoxy as the enemy, as inferior. You cannot claim to be part of a people's movement when you target as the enemy the people.

Sanders seems to be a good man with strong values. He has asked for a positive campaign. His supporters here reject his leadership and even denounce the very argument in favor of a positive campaign as Third Way. That is why I think this has far less to do with Sanders and the election than in the efforts by some here to proclaim their own, entirely undeserved, sense of superiority over the many. All of this behavior is entirely antithetical to Sanders values, yet none of that seems to matter even a little bit to members here. That they are systematically turning people off to their candidate is entirely inconsequential to them. They promote their own goals, even as they are ad odds with Sanders.

[misterhighwasted]

77. Thank You. Precise analogy of what is really behind the spite we see daily,

..here on our DU.
Much is about baiting to ban.
Pitiful immature behavior.

[Voice for Peace]

99. I'm not seeing any, or hardly any, of the stuff you are describing.

Sanders supporters I'm reading or interacting with aren't
doing that stuff. So.. maybe you are bumping into bad eggs.

[BainsBane]

100. I've bumped into a chicken coop.

[Voice for Peace]

101. heheh.. well, where I live, there are only six chickens living in the coop.

They walk around and around all day, in and out, doing their
chicken thing. They all look a bit alike, and if you didn't stop
to look closely, it might seem there are way more than 6.
Also six chickens clucking can sound like 50.

[misterhighwasted]

76. Agree, at least untill after Primaries are over.

Then the focus seriously shifts to the RW candidate.

[BainsBane]

71. 11-14 percent of the Democratic electorate likes him better

You are not all people.

[Voice for Peace]

72. Let's see.. did I say I am all people? Or anything remotely resembling it?

I was responding to the suggestion that the Bernie Sanders
fans on DU are not real fans, but Republican plants intending
to undermine support for Hillary. I say, that is nonsense.

[BainsBane]

74. You said "people like him better."

I qualified the percentage of people that statement applies to.

[Voice for Peace]

98. ok let us clarify: I meant the people supporting Bernie on DU.

As it was implied if I remember correctly that Bernie supporters
were Republican plants or some such thing, and that was the
reason they were dissing H.

[DURHAM D]

14. Thanks for posting in GD.

Very brave of you.

[Skinner]

16. I wish more Hillary supporters would do so.

Keep the Hillary posts positive, and don't respond to the nasty people. (Or put them on ignore.)

FWIW, the aggressively negative posts aren't nearly as painful to read if you accept ahead of time that they are going to happen. In fact, it's kind of a fun game -- when someone goes ballistic, you can smile to yourself and think, "How unoriginal. I totally saw that one coming."

[onehandle]

20. Exactly right.

And GD and LBN don't scare me.

If I have news about Hillary or her campaign, I put it out there.

Thanks again for http://www.hillarymojo.com

[Voice for Peace]

46. Skinner I'm interested in your point of view re Hillary vs Bernie

[Skinner]

60. I like them both.

I'm supporting Hillary for president, but I will gladly support whomever gets the nomination.

[riversedge]

54. good pts. Thanks

[BainsBane]

65. That's a mighty long ignore list

[leftofcool]

84. I am starting to see them as adorable.

[Cha]

97. I do see it coming.. that keeps me from reading so many posts without even using the Ignore feature.

I've had a lot of practice with supporting President Obama on DU.. and now Hillary.

Good advice, Skinner.

[bigtree]

15. should be a huge reception

...thanks for the vid.

[Lisa D]

18. Great video!

And the perfect lead-in to the rally tomorrow! Thank you

[Starry Messenger]

19. K&R

[Lisa D]

21. Kick!

And highly recommend

[Kingofalldems]

22. Kicked, recced and tweeted.

[Sheepshank]

23. K&R I support HRC and her 40 years fight for people like me

she IS a fighter and just doesn't give up. I think she will make a great Madam President.

[freshwest]

24. Skinner, will you be able to make it to the launch tomorrow? TIA.

Great video, and the first part brought tears to my eyes! Thanks!

[Skinner]

26. Yes. EarlG and I are driving up to New York for it.

[freshwest]

27. Can you take pictures and make a photo thread like you did for the DNC? That was awesome. TIA.

And have a great time!

[Skinner]

29. Yes. We also might try posting pics to Instagram in real-time

https://instagram.com/HillaryMojo/

[freshwest]

37. If one doesn't instagram will they should up there? TIA. HillaryMojo a great site, BTW. I can't see

instagram, twitter or facebook pictures on DU. Even if I follow the link, it won't show.

I must have set my browser a long time ago to block them, and it won't give me permission. Or because I'm signed in.

Thanks again, will visit HillaryMojo to see them there.

[SunSeeker]

47. Awesome! Thanks!!

[DawgHouse]

57. Fantastic! Following!

[Omaha Steve]

25. One hell of a video

I'm impressed.

[Politicub]

28. K&R!!

[JaneyVee]

30. Wow! KNR!

[stonecutter357]

31. K&R!

[Tarheel_Dem]

32. K&R!

[NCTraveler]

33. Thank you for this.

Also, thanks for the instigram link above. I look forward to pics from the ground.

[SidDithers]

34. Oh now you've done it...

making a positive post about Hillary Clinton at Democratic Underground?

What on Earth were you thinking?

DU rec.

Sid

[freshwest]

38. Testing the alert system, maybe? Just kidding. n/t

[misterhighwasted]

40. LOL.

[freshwest]

58. Since Skinner and EarlG are attending it tomorrow they won't ban themselves. Folks can write Elad!

There will be a coup at DU!

Their transparency pages will read:

'I hate those guys!'

Just in case: icon:

[Cali_Democrat]

55. Why are you replying to yourself?

[freshwest]

83. He's a lone sock, his mate was lost in the washing machine! BWAHAHA! Love both of 'em! n/t

Just in case it's needed:

[Rex]

35. Wow!

Be safe! I am so jelly of everyone going! Oh well...I will have to go watch it at my parents house.

[misterhighwasted]

42. It is livestreaming.

If anyone knows the livestream link, please post.
Thanks.
Thank You Skinner.
Your HillaryMojo is da bomb!

[Rex]

43. Awesome, but we will make it a family get together.

My parents are huge HRC supporters.

[misterhighwasted]

48. That will be a great fun day then.

What an historic event tomorrow will be.
Get ready...Here she comes!!!

[Rex]

52. I am excited! This is going to be a great day!

[sheshe2]

81. I will miss it all in real time.

I work, then a family cookout that night. I will have a lot of catching up to do.

Rex~

[Rex]

87. Have a great weekend!

This is her moment. I bet most of the planet will be tuning in to see what she is going to say. Family cookouts at night are the best sheshe2!

[sheshe2]

89. I love my family...

and extended family. We are very close and we are Democrats one and all.

I read she is going to talk about her mom for one thing.

Hillary Clinton spent the opening weeks of her campaign addressing policy issues like criminal justice reform, voting rights, and equal pay for women.

But as Clinton transitions to a new, more intense phase of her campaign, expect her to get personal.

At Clinton’s first official campaign rally this Saturday in New York City, aides say the Democratic presidential candidate will make her most extensive pitch yet on why she should be president. And her late mother, Dorothy Rodham, will play a central role.

snip

Over the years Clinton has often shared her mother’s life story, which was full of trauma and abuse. In Clinton's telling, Dorothy Rodham was abandoned by her parents as a young girl and sent to live with her unloving paternal grandparents in California. At the age of 14 she left home and found work as a housekeeper.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/11079002

Rex~

[OKNancy]

62. link

HillaryMojo has a link; http://www.hillarymojo.com/2015/06/12/hillary-clinton-launch-event-will-stream-live-on-hillaryclinton-com/

[misterhighwasted]

75. Thanks. I will check the website for details. Got an email from Hillary' Team

With info also.
I'll be on mojo tomorrow.

Can't Wait!!!!

[McCamy Taylor]

41. Thanks for sharing! Great video! K&R

[MADem]

45. DAYUM, that's GOOD!!!

That is a really STRONG piece -- whoever produced that should be proud as hell.

That RESONATES. It's award-winning material, that.

Pitch PERFECT.

[freshwest]

85. Especially the part in Beijing! Changing the world! n/t

[MADem]

91. Yep, that was quite the speech--and it's woven into the video beautifully. nt

[freshwest]

92. I've only seen second hand reports of it... Not the reaction of all those women! A real egalitarian.

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I've seen the speech where she got thunderous applause saying that about gay rights in a more friendly venue, but just as important.

Saying that where the practice of killing baby girls was literally taking place then as well as forced abortion, that took the strength of one's beliefs and principles. But then, elling the truth emboldens us.

She changed the world for some of the most oppressed women. Her reputation for this and other works abroad is never discussed in media seriously. It's just 'women stuff.'

And the work is not over yet. I believe that empowering women will end so much evil in the world. Controlling women - as the means of reproduction - is a factor in wars, famine, ecological damage through overpopulation and is not being in tune with the Earth.

The possibilities are endless, it is a world view never imagined by most and deeply resisted by Power. Her words on voting in Texas have already changed it. The rightwing knows she means business about Rights.

Her record shows she can be the second feminist POTUS:

The First Feminist President, Barack Obama

by Mandy Van Deven

March 23, 2009

On January 20th the first self-identified feminist was named President of the United States of America. Just two days after taking office, Barack Obama performed his first presidential act of solidarity with women around the world by repealing the Global Gag Rule. Established in 1984 by President Reagan, the Global Gag Rule denies aid to international groups "which perform or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning."

The Global Gag Rule has come to be seen as a litmus test of the current US President's stance on women's rights, though it is just one aspect of the complicated story of the impact of American reproductive rights policy in countries around the globe. [17]



After witnessing the impact of President Bush's reinstatement of the Global Gag Rule, Michelle Goldberg, journalist, author, and long-time critic of the Bush Administration's policies on sexual and reproductive health, decided that a book about the global battle for reproductive justice was long overdue. So she wrote The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World. [17]

The cover art depicting a woman holding the Earth on her shoulders is more than appropriate for this deeply-researched, historically-informed examination: fifty years worth of research about four continents has convinced Goldberg that women's oppression is at the crux of many of the world's most intractable challenges. She illustrates how US policies act as a catalyst for or an impediment to women's rights worldwide, and puts forth a convincing argument that women's liberation worldwide is key to solving some of our most daunting problems.

"Underlying diverse conflicts - demography, natural resources, human rights, and religious mores - is the question of who controls the means of reproduction," she writes. "Women's intimate lives have become inextricably tied to global forces."

http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2009/03/23/controlling-means-reproduction-an-interview-with-michelle-goldberg/

The war on women is not just a war on women, but on men, too. Men who don't support women's rights are sealing their own fate.

Not just an American problem. It is about global control and reducing all of mankind to commodities.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/110212801

More on that thread, including a male prosecutor's denunciation of anti-abortion laws and the right.

[riversedge]

53. Great video. Shows her

perseverance over the years for things she cares for

[R B Garr]

59. K&R! Can't wait to watch and see your pictures, too.

Have fun.

[Beacool]

61. Great video!!!

Hillary IS a fighter and a hard worker (a workaholic if you ask those close to her). I have no doubt that she will fight tooth and nail for the American people.

Thanks for uploading this video, Skinner.

[BainsBane]

64. Fantastic video

Even when I opposed Clinton in 2008, I recognized then she has a remarkable perseverance. She does not give up, and that is an important trait. And contrary to the fabricated and demonized narratives created about her, she indeed does fight for the poor and underprivileged. Her record shows just that.

Women's rights are human rights, and human rights are women's rights.

[Lilith Rising]

68. "Once and for all."

That was a great video.

[great white snark]

66. KICK.

[DonCoquixote]

67. Selling her as a "fighter" only works

a) when she is not as likely to slam a fist into a liberal's face as that of a "dear friend" like John McCain
b) when she is not as willing to be "bipartisan" and sell liberals out
c) when in foreign policy, we actually need to STOP fighting, especially in the Mid East.

[Cha]

86. Hillary is a Fighter.. she doesn't need to be sold.

[DonCoquixote]

88. she will fight

she will fight to get Keystone xl up and going, and to send more Millennials out to die in Syria so that she can fancy herself a heroine.

[Beaverhausen]

69. Excellent!

[kentuck]

78. Good video.

[MoonRiver]

79. K&R big time!

[Ron Green]

80. A very well-produced video.

I don't believe her election would start the change we need, but it's a great job.

[sheshe2]

82. Brava Hillary~

Thank you Skinner. You guys have fun tomorrow.

[okasha]

90. A great video

and a history of dedication to liberal causes that none of her rivals can match.

[lunamagica]

93. Wonderful! K&R!!!

[askew]

94. Name one policy that she has successfully led and fought for in her entire career.

The only time in her entire career she led was on healthcare in 1993 and it was an epic disaster due to her poor personal skills in dealing with Congress and her mismanagement. She didn't lead on anything in the Senate and was in a support role as SoS. Heavy lifting on foreign policy was done by Obama and Biden.

This is the kind of soft-focus, vapid video that is shown during the convention for a nominee. She really does think she has this wrapped up already and doesn't have to fight for our vote.

[Cha]

95. Excellent video to support her history, Skinner, Thank you. Pic of Hillary and Pres Obama when ACA

passed!



They "both love their country"..

[eridani]

96. So when will she fight against TPP? n/t

[George II]

102. Great video