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NWCorona

(8,541 posts)
Wed May 18, 2016, 03:45 PM May 2016

Yes, Hillary Clinton is beatable in the general election. Just watch this video.


The video above — 13 minutes devoted to Hillary Clinton's shifting position on lots and lots of issues — has been viewed almost 7 million times since it was originally posted by someone named "Michael Armstrong" back in mid-January.

Kathleen Parker, a conservative-leaning columnist for the Post, dedicated a piece to the video on Wednesday. In it, she writes:

Most of the highlights will be familiar to anyone who follows politics — her varying takes on Bosnia, health care, Wall Street, NAFTA — but the juxtaposition of these ever-shifting views is more jarring than one might expect. Politicians count on Americans’ short attention spans (and memories) as much as they do their own policies and/or charms. This video, inartfully titled “Hillary Clinton lying for 13 minutes straight,” clarifies blurred recollections and recasts them in an order that, among other things, reminds us how long the Clintons have been around.

That's right in several different ways. One is that the video doesn't capture Clinton "lying" for 13 minutes as its title states. The second, which largely makes the first point irrelevant, is that what the video does do very effectively is remind you that (a) Clinton has been around the political game for a very, very long time and (b) her positions on things like gay marriage, Wall Street regulation/reform and a host of other issues have changed — often markedly — over time.


And those two facts are what make predictions about how Donald Trump simply has no chance against Clinton in the fall so tenuous. As I have written, there's no question that Clinton — thanks in large part to entrenched demographic and electoral college realities


https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/the-fix/wp/2016/05/18/13-minutes-of-video-that-show-why-hillary-clinton-isnt-unbeatable-in-the-general-election/

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jamese777

(546 posts)
1. The only candidates who are unbeatable...
Wed May 18, 2016, 03:55 PM
May 2016

are those who get to run unopposed.

How soon we forget:
The Gallup Poll's Annual "Most Admired" Persons

Most Admired Woman
1990: Margaret Thatcher
1991: Barbara Bush
1992: Barbara Bush
1993: Hillary Rodham Clinton
1994: Hillary Rodham Clinton
1995: Mother Teresa
1996: Mother Teresa
1997: Hillary Rodham Clinton
1998: Hillary Rodham Clinton
1999: Hillary Rodham Clinton
2000: Hillary Rodham Clinton
2001: Laura Bush
2002: Hillary Rodham Clinton
2003: Hillary Rodham Clinton
2004: Hillary Rodham Clinton
2005: Hillary Rodham Clinton
2006: Hillary Rodham Clinton
2007: Hillary Rodham Clinton
2008: Hillary Rodham Clinton
2009: Hillary Rodham Clinton
2010: Hillary Rodham Clinton
2011: Hillary Rodham Clinton
2012: Hillary Rodham Clinton
2013: Hillary Rodham Clinton
2014: Hillary Rodham Clinton
2015: Hillary Rodham Clinton

No other individual has finished first more than 13 times (General & President Dwight Eisenhower).
Hillary Clinton has finished first 20 times.

 

arcane1

(38,613 posts)
2. And they're all right-wingers. What fine company she keeps there.
Wed May 18, 2016, 03:56 PM
May 2016

PS: congratulations on your reincarnation!

 

Txbluedog

(1,128 posts)
3. And Bernies been beat in the primaries
Wed May 18, 2016, 03:57 PM
May 2016

Do you not realize the contests produce winners and losers?

 

Seeinghope

(786 posts)
5. 13 minutes of lies, 13 times voted women most admired, 13 is a number that is considered bad luck to
Wed May 18, 2016, 06:39 PM
May 2016
 

Seeinghope

(786 posts)
4. After watching her lie and lie repeatedly would anybody with any ethics be able to have anything
Wed May 18, 2016, 06:37 PM
May 2016

positive to say regarding the subject matter of the video regarding these lies and the proof of her dishonesty?


Would anybody have any sarcastic comment to make to the Bernie Sanders supporters about the lies spanning decades?

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