2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumI'm not questioning Hillary's Integrity; She has none.
Last edited Tue Feb 23, 2016, 02:07 PM - Edit history (4)
*On edit - The list is still growing*
20 False statements involving Hillary Clinton
http://www.politifact.com/personalities/hillary-clinton/statements/byruling/false/
Clinton says she 'misspoke' about sniper fire
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/25/campaign.wrap/index.html?iref=hpmostpop
Hillary Clinton lied about not receiving email subpoena
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/08/hillary-clinton-lied-email-subpoena-benghazi
CBS Pelley Asks Hillary Have You Always Told the Truth?
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cbs-pelley-asks-hillary-have-you-always-told-the-truth/
Hillarys Top Donor Just Bought The Onion Started Publishing Propaganda Immediately
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/hillarys-top-donor-buys-onion-starts-publishing-propaganda-immediately/#y40wleHs3myUjElE.99
The Establishment Wants to Scare You with Superdelegates
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/02/after-sanders-big-win-in-new-hampshire-establishme.html
Guess who owns the lobbying firm for L'Oreal's slave labor mining company? You'll never guess
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511310239
Clinton Foundation received subpoena from State Department investigators
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clinton-foundation-received-subpoena-from-state-department-investigators/2016/02/11/ca5125b2-cce4-11e5-88ff-e2d1b4289c2f_story.html
Chamber of Commerce Lobbyist Tom Donohue: Clinton Will Support TPP After Election
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/chamber-of-commerce-lobby_b_9104096.html
Its The Corruption, Stupid - Salon
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511317646
liberal N proud
(60,339 posts)PonyUp
(1,680 posts)R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)Bobbie Jo
(14,341 posts)Herman4747
(1,825 posts)liberalnarb
(4,532 posts)w4rma
(31,700 posts)Bubzer
(4,211 posts)TTUBatfan2008
(3,623 posts)...when the Hillary camp stops attacking Sanders.
Kittycat
(10,493 posts)Because we don't know where she stands on issues. This her unfavorability ratings. And why people call her a liar.
PatrickforO
(14,586 posts)the establishment has been busy for months ratfucking Bernie - they are using the ugliest race politics I've seen Dems use since...gosh...2008 when they used similar tactics against Obama.
Bernie supporters are angry about this, particularly those of us who have seen this kind of divide and conquer strategy used again and again by the elites to strip the middle class of much of its gains under the New Deal.
Clinton cannot win in the general election because there's a criminal indictment simmering in the background which will surely come up around October. She's just not a good candidate, and she's a neocon at heart.
I support Bernie because of his stances on healthcare, social security, free college, reining in Wall Street, well, ALL of them. Bernie gets it and is directly campaigning on my family's kitchen table issues.
Look at the Hillary posts. Most of them are attacks on Sanders. Some of them are gloats because their race politics worked in NV, along with the help of the NV Dem party hacks. NONE of them talk about issues with the exception of telling us that Bernie's plans won't work, are too expensive, will result in tax increases, etc.
I'm so disgusted by the tactics being used by the Clinton campaign that I want to puke. Well...maybe just at the most egregious ones.
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)SCantiGOP
(13,871 posts)Impossible to tell DU from Free Republic in a lot of posts these days.
Bubzer
(4,211 posts)Guess that doesn't fit with your narrative.... sorry.
SCantiGOP
(13,871 posts)How many times have I seen CNN and the Washington Post cited as right-wing sources because they aren't "fair" to the Sanders campaign. How did they morph into progressive, neutral sites when they suit your narrative?
And on edit: The title of the OP alone is enough to mimic a Free Republic thread, or what you will see coming out of their GE campaign against Clinton.
Bubzer
(4,211 posts)Well, I'll keep that in mind when a Hillary supporter says or posts something absolutely horrendously bad...even if they may actually be a troll masquerading as a Hillary supporter... and I'll be sure to broad-brush apply it directly to you. You know, just to be fair.
And on edit: The title of the OP alone is enough to mimic a Hillary group thread, or what you will see coming out of their campaign against Bernie. Cause, yeah...it's exactly like that. Notice the broad-brush strokes there? Get used to it.
SCantiGOP
(13,871 posts)equating a Hillary group thread to a Free Republic thread.
Just the way to win friends and influence people.
Bubzer
(4,211 posts)And you think you're gonna have a better time at winning friends and influencing people?
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)Bubzer
(4,211 posts)VulgarPoet
(2,872 posts)I can't take these people seriously anymore.
liberal N proud
(60,339 posts)Cassiopeia
(2,603 posts)and hidden from view?
Interesting concept.
I thought Hillary was a strong candidate that can handle anything that comes her way. I also keep reading it will be so much harder facing the Republicans, shouldn't Hillary and her supporters be able to handle the truth about her here?
MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)she's a flip flopper and one of the reasons she can't be disgusted.
I'm truly disgusted.
liberal N proud
(60,339 posts)But only to become President.
chervilant
(8,267 posts)Thanks to the internet, and other contemporary technology, awareness of Hi11ary's propensity to "misspeak" has turned the majority of US citizens against her. This, and the simmering toxic brew about her SOS emails amassed on her unsecured private server, puts a giant hole in her campaign's lifeboat.
The SS Hi11ary has embarked on its last cruise. Now, she'll have to be content to bounce her grandchildren on her knees.
Lorien
(31,935 posts)after the GOP takeover of the party by the "DLC", whose mission it was to destroy liberalism within the party and push the Dems to the far right. Guess what; THEY SUCCEEDED!
Bubzer
(4,211 posts)Fairgo
(1,571 posts)What does she reveal about herself, if se can so cavalierly abandon her deeply held belief that marriage is between a man and a woman? To have no moral center is worse than having a misplaced one. It means that she is capable of anything.
RiverLover
(7,830 posts)Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)Need I say more?
liberal N proud
(60,339 posts)explain what you mean
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)For many here (me among them), our primary loyalty is to progressive policies, not the Democratic Party as an intitution. If that party nominates candidates that we don't feel actually advance a progressive policy agenda, then those candidates don't get our support. Just having a " D)" at the end of their name isn't good enough.
Bubzer
(4,211 posts)Exactly!!!
Jester Messiah
(4,711 posts)VulgarPoet
(2,872 posts)But the jar of chicken salad they're peddling is really a jar of chicken shit, and they expect us not to tell.
RiverLover
(7,830 posts)Clearly Hillary has proven that to be erroneous.
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)There are plenty of things I admire about Hillary Clinton, don't get me wrong. But I do not consider her to be remotely progressive, and I can't support her candidacy. I won't vote for her in November unless, against all odds, my state actually looks to be in play...I'll hold my nose and vote against the Republican then. Otherwise, I'll likely leave the presidential slot on my ballot blank.
Francis Booth
(162 posts)a candidate who has such a cavalier attitude about forthrightness.
John Poet
(2,510 posts)With the morals to match.
sammythecat
(3,568 posts)what is in the OP is the truth. If you can show that it is not the truth I'd be very seriously interested in reading that... if it is indeed the plain truth and not spin, or obfuscation and deflection. Not interested in more of that.
Broward
(1,976 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Super unfortunate, I wouldn't want to defend that CV either.
Ferd Berfel
(3,687 posts)maybe we shouldn't even be considering that person.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)timmymoff
(1,947 posts)First off she is supposed to be the most vetted candidate ever and tough as nails, able to and ready to handle all situations. I need to ask you how does her own record destroy her? When we speak about Hillary supporting NAFTA how many of us lied? When we speak of how she supported TPP until a recent "evolution", how many of us lied? When we speak of her condoning and taking support from the private prison lobby, how many of us lied? When we speak of her being for keystone before she was against it, how many of us lied? When we speak of her support for fracking, how many of us lied? This is all public knowledge, when did pointing out facts in a primary become destroying a candidate? I must ask you, did she not realize this is public record? If she didn't would you trust her judgment? Her record speaks for itself and being on both sides of nearly every issue has earned her the distrust people have for her. Why, would you consider this baggage to be good? Why would you continue to call her a liberal when in fact her economic support shows otherwise. Why would you want us to coddle her, considering you think she can beat the gop? Are they going to be kind and genteel? This baggage is why she is the weaker candidate. Her nomination actually puts our lower office potential gains at less likely. As a good democrat, you and I both should be calling for her to step down from this race. Will you join me?
Fearless
(18,421 posts)Renew Deal
(81,869 posts)earthside
(6,960 posts)Renew Deal
(81,869 posts)It's the denial that Sanders can't stop her.
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)Has your stae of mind been analysed yet; surely Clinton would like to know where your enthousiaism comes from? If only for the prupose of forcing it down everbody else's throat?
Renew Deal
(81,869 posts)The voters are handling it
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)I'd call that a 50/50 chance of getting the nomination, unless you are aware of some cunning tricks and foul stunts that Debbie is planning. But then: she isn't really a voter is she? So she is not who you say is handling it...
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)Could easily have gone the other way, and it would still have been a tie.
MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)but after reading so many right wing talking points used against Hillary by so called Bernie supporters (the same ones that don't have a voice when it comes to actually taking on republicans), I'm now Hillary 100%
Herman4747
(1,825 posts)whom you support?
You do have your own brain, and can use it to assess the wisdom and positions of each candidate.
Bubzer
(4,211 posts)noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)I've seen several statements like this, and I always think they are complete bullshit. "I was gonna vote for Bernie, but some random asshole on the internet was mean to me, so now I'm voting for Clinton" Dumbest shit...ever. Doesn't stop some from pushing it though.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)That's the definition of a conservative in my book...unable or unwilling to do the heavy lifting of doing the research to make an intelligent, personal decision.
I'm tired of this...whichever way it goes. I changed my vote because someone was naughty. This is not grammar school.
RiverLover
(7,830 posts)social security until it was forced by moveon and she helped write the TPP and she only became pro-gay rights in the last 2 years, and she's been the recipient of more fossil fuel industry donor money than anyone either party and so on.
All things us lefties care about and all verifiably true. I'm thinking you'll still be 100%.
jhart3333
(332 posts)Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)Because this is word for word what 15 others have posted on this site. Sounds like premanufactured talking point, at this point.
Bubzer
(4,211 posts)I wonder how many of those 15 were generated pretty close to the same time-frame.
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)chervilant
(8,267 posts)Are the issues raised about Hi11ary "right wing talking points" because the right wing uses them, or are they "right wing talking points" because Hi11ary's supporters want to deny that their candidate is a YUUUGE risk as our nominee?
Feel the BERN!!!
#NotMeUs
(Please do not bother to respond. Besides this being a rhetorical question, I have updated my IL...)
Old Codger
(4,205 posts)Just because they are ,in your mind at least, right wing talking points makes them no less valid...If that seems rough coming from Bernie supporter what do you suppose real right wingers may do if she in fact makes it to the nomination.. It will be a slaughter and we will have a president trump...
yourpaljoey
(2,166 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)I got over 240 recs for this piece of tactical advice for instance...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002374653
Bubzer
(4,211 posts)There is a definite shortage of Hillary supporters able to defend her terrible judgment... or those who're willing to engage in anything more than attacks against Bernie supporters.
earthside
(6,960 posts)The OP lays out just a very small part of the scandal that is Hillary Clinton.
Clinton: Well, but, you know, you're asking me to say, Have I ever? I don't believe I ever have. I don't believe I ever have. I don't believe I ever will. I'm going do the best I can to level with the American people.
cali
(114,904 posts)I've also said from the very beginning that Hillary will be the nominee. Do explain how that has anything to do with desperation.
Renew Deal
(81,869 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)Logical
(22,457 posts)amborin
(16,631 posts)Bubzer
(4,211 posts)GummyBearz
(2,931 posts)Mainly because I want to know how long it will last...
Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)Would likely be banned as well, If you are one of the sacred few allowed to post fan mail for her there, feel free to post it and send me a link to view how it goes or more likely is erased.
GummyBearz
(2,931 posts)Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)That will be erased before you hit the post button
GummyBearz
(2,931 posts)I thought I made a good case by saying "This is just Hillary giving interviews, why should it not be allowed?"... That simple reasoning didn't fly.
Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)It is not a protected group so much as a place to post Hilary idol worship and fan mail. Once you understand that, you understand that group.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)from which many if its members spring, police their turf with a zeal and intensity that would impress Josef Stalin. Even imagined dissent merits the immediate banhammer.
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)GummyBearz
(2,931 posts)Posted at 9:32am PST
Message saying I'm blocked arrived at 9:40am PST
Did I at least set a record or anything?
edit: Sadly the video is 13min long, so no one watched the whole thing... why don't HRC supporters care about being informed??
Herman4747
(1,825 posts)Last edited Tue Feb 23, 2016, 08:32 PM - Edit history (1)
Those running the HRC forum have an aversion to the truth, just like Hillary.
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)The crap posted there. One Hillary supporter claims to have damning STUFF about Sanders, but it is deleted everytime it is posted. I told this person about an anti-Sanders post that was deleted because it was factually incorrect, and suggested that his damning STUFF was probably deleted for a similar reason. Then he got on the Clinton supporters' cross and repeated the oft-repeated claim that Clinton supporters are get their damning STUFF about Sanders posts deleted because of a conspriracy...by Sanders' supporters of course. So, I went to the HRC group and copied all the anti-Sanders threads there in reply to this poster and asked: If there is a conspiracy to delete anti-Sanders posts, why are these still here? Crickets, of course.
GummyBearz
(2,931 posts)The first segment on LGBT talking points should be enough to make any normal person realize this person will say or do anything for her own gain. Do we really want a president that is so dishonest?
Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)Last edited Tue Feb 23, 2016, 01:35 PM - Edit history (1)
[font size="1"]She's a racist that ruined many young black men sending then to prison and sentenced over a million kids to poverty in the nineties[/font]
GummyBearz
(2,931 posts)In some ways I give Bernie props for running his positive campaign, but I wish he would call her out like this too. He has had several chances. She will say anything unless kept in check with facts.
Bubzer
(4,211 posts)Duval
(4,280 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)anyone since Cronkite or Murrow. I miss him, too.
ybbor
(1,555 posts)He was the best I've seen in my life.
Phil Donahue was great before getting tossed, as well
kath
(10,565 posts)MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)strongly in favor of Hillary.
Let's not let facts stand in the way of Bernie supporters.
chervilant
(8,267 posts)I see an imminent return of the dreaded fainting couch!
(And, just as with Caucasian voters--and Latino voters, and young voters--there are Black voters supporting both candidates, so you can bury that worn-out canard.)
Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)minorities, or liberals for that matter would support her.
This is all public record stuff , in fact some of it recorded stuff, as shown in the video.
Not all minorities support Hillary by the way, largely because of the unfortunate and uncomfortable truths posted above.
What? Did you just assume I was white because my Icon is a green Dragonfly (dead give away of white folks I suppose, I should change it so as to confuse less people that think I'm white)
VulgarPoet
(2,872 posts)at least that's the sense I seem to get
MaeScott
(878 posts)NAFTA..the reason their good jobs left
The private prisons and legislation that fills them with their sons, daughters, and kinfolk.
If that distinction was hammered, you'd see her numbers drop.
Bubzer
(4,211 posts)You talk about Bernie supporters not letting facts stand in the way... yet you haven't addressed a single fact offered in the OP...I daresay you haven't let a single fact get in the way of your narrative. You're either projecting or being hypocritical... maybe both.
erlewyne
(1,115 posts)So, Bernie, you are stuck with me and my 6 registered Democrats
(my old house).
I always like to read as opposed to listening.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Then the star was Richard M. Nixon. Absolute truthlessness.
GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)bigwillq
(72,790 posts)MissDeeds
(7,499 posts)K&R
PonyUp
(1,680 posts)asuhornets
(2,405 posts)Bubzer
(4,211 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)asuhornets
(2,405 posts)Best qualified, experienced, smart, and the list goes on and on.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)Logical
(22,457 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)If it's too difficult to support my own candidate, I'll simply trash the other. ~ The Irrational Mind
Bubzer
(4,211 posts)It's nowhere near as binary as you're suggesting. Part of the reason I support Bernie, is he has consistently stood for things I believe in... where hillary has embraced many things I don't. What you bemoan as trashing the other candidate (I reject your framing, by the way), I call a contrast of reasons... reasons why I wont vote for her... which, in contrast, emphasize my reasons to favor Bernie Sanders.
Both are perfectly valid arguments to favor Bernie.
That you dislike one over the other, doesn't do much to disprove anything on that list.
Logical
(22,457 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,389 posts)Thanks for the thread, Bubzer.
LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)For the day after the General Election when the question will be "Why Did She Lose?"
davidthegnome
(2,983 posts)Below are the results of a jury vote on this OP. I was juror # 3 and would like to once again, make my challenge to the alerter (and to anyone else) to use facts, to use information, to use reasoned argument to debate the points made in this OP. If you have evidence of Clinton's credibility, point it out, this is the place for it. If you have evidence, or reasons why the OP is full of lies/nonsense/character assassination, make your argument in this thread so we can read it and discuss it. My support for Sanders is not set in stone, nor is my lack of support of Clinton. I would hope that we are all willing to challenge our candidates, and ourselves - and to frequently re-examine who we are voting for and why.
This is an election, one of these two people might very well be President of the USA in time... and we want the best person for the job. Let's argue their merits, their faults, their strengths and weaknesses and ask ourselves, again, who we are voting for, and why. Just my two cents...
On Tue Feb 23, 2016, 01:20 PM an alert was sent on the following post:
I'm not questioning Hillary's Integrity; She has none.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511317433
REASON FOR ALERT
This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.
ALERTER'S COMMENTS
This looks like a post from World News Daily. Pure character assassination.
You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Tue Feb 23, 2016, 01:30 PM, and the Jury voted 1-6 to LEAVE IT.
Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #2 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: I agree. It's one thing to debate. It's one thing to disagree. This looks like something straight off a republican website. I have no illusions about this being hidden, but I have to vote my conscience. There's no discussion, there's no reasoning for this, it just one giant hit piece. On a democratic site no less.
Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: Criticism of our candidates (both of them) should be constant, as should our challenges to them. Let's let the truth (or falsehoods, as the case may be) be known and debated and discussed. If the alerter (or anyone else) wishes to debate the information contained with this post, please do so using facts, reasonable arguments, or whatever you may have at your disposal. This doesn't warrant a hide simply because it fiercely criticizes a particular candidate, IMO.
I have voted to leave similar posts that have attacked the credibility of Mr. Sanders, because, this is an election - and the character, integrity, policies and abilities of all candidates should be challenged like mad. We want the best person for the job - and they signed up for this when they decided to campaign for President.
Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No, Wingnut Daily doesn't quote sources like The Guardian and Democratic Underground. If you don't like what is being said, make a counterargument.
Juror #5 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: The truth will set you free!!! Great Post.
Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #7 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: This is opinion. This is a political messageboards where we post opinions. I'm continually astounded that people alert simply because they don't agree. That is amusing the system.
Thank you very much for participating in our Jury system, and we hope you will be able to participate again in the future.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Bubzer
(4,211 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)Fairgo
(1,571 posts)Don't stare at it, you'll go mad.
dana_b
(11,546 posts)that there are certain Hillary supporters that I have NOTHING in common with.
If people can actually not only excuse the blatant lying and lack of judgment on their candidate's part, but then LAUGH at people who are not down with a dishonest candidate, then I truly have nothing to say to them or hear from them.
Bubzer
(4,211 posts)The ones I don't respect are generally those who use: as their counter argument for anything they cant counter with discussion.
Those posing reasoned arguments, even ones I disagree with, are the ones I respect.
VulgarPoet
(2,872 posts)KMod and Empowerer come to mind for me, I've had fairly civil chats with them before
LondonReign2
(5,213 posts)Isn't stunning, isn't it, that people who claim to be Democrats are not only perfectly fine with the lies they actually cheerlead for them?
Karma13612
(4,554 posts)AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)AikenYankee
(135 posts)Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)rock
(13,218 posts)You can probably finish this statement yourself.
Bubzer
(4,211 posts)AND... you've not refuted a single point. All you have done, is imply an attack at me. A typical Hillary supporter non-argument.
rock
(13,218 posts)Clue: it's not in quotes.