Hillary Clinton Goes Bush League
By William Rivers Pitt
Secretary Clinton bristled. "Wait a minute," she replied, "he has basically used his answer to impugn my integrity. Let's be frank here." Rather than be frank, however, Clinton went completely sideways and claimed that she takes barrels of corrupt Wall Street cash because 9/11 happened, or something. I've been watching political debates of all kinds since God wore short pants, and this ranked right up there with the most vile, disingenuous, sneaky, low-road slippery debate statements I have ever heard.
To wit:
You know, not only do I have hundreds of thousands of donors, most of them small, I am very proud that for the first time a majority of my donors are women, 60 percent. So I - I represented New York. And I represented New York on 9/11 when we were attacked. Where were we attacked? We were attacked in downtown Manhattan where Wall Street is. I did spend a whole lot of time and effort helping them rebuild. That was good for New York. It was good for the economy. And it was a way to rebuke the terrorists who had attacked our country.
So, let me get this straight. Because Clinton has a lot of women who donate to her campaign, and because two airliners obliterated the World Trade Center in an attack that had people jumping to their deaths out of 100-story windows on live television, her acceptance of millions in dirty money has something to do with being good for the economy, and because it is a "rebuke" to the terrorists.
Gotcha.
On a peaceful sunny day, invoking 9/11 as a means of misdirecting a legitimate critique of the company she keeps, and of the expectations those friends have for the checks they write, would be grossly inappropriate. When she dropped that line, Parisians were still hosing blood off the sidewalks, sweeping up the broken glass and trying to identify the dead. The people in the US she seeks to represent - most specifically New Yorkers, who were shaken by the Paris attack and whom she invoked so passionately - were used by her to score some debate points. Her invocation of 9/11 was not some verbal oops; it was a deliberate waving of the bloody shirt at a time when the nation and the world were still reeling from the events of the day before.
A number of commentators have compared Secretary Clinton's 9/11 debate comment to the 2008 campaign tactics of Rudy Giuliani, who 9/11 couldn't go 9/11 to the men's room 9/11 without 9/11 invoking 9/11 9/11 like a verbal hiccup 9/11. That tactic worked about as well as the wax wings Icarus used when he flew too close to the sun. It was grotesque then, and is grotesque now, but doing so on the doorstep of a massacre puts Clinton into a whole other category.
In baseball, when a player pulls some punk move - headhunting with a fastball, cleat-spiking during a slide, failing to run out a pop fly - the game has a universal retort: "That's bush league." Bush league is precisely where candidate Clinton has parked herself ... and that's "Bush" with a capital "B."
This is What It All Means:
Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Dick Cheney and the rest of that noxious cabal used the false intelligence provided by Chalabi to intimidate and terrify the nation into war, fulfilling a conquest dream they had been cuddling since Nixon was chased from office. They, by way of a useful fool named George W. Bush and with the full compliance of the media, deliberately employed the September 11 attacks against the US people as a means of getting their war, and the financial/political payday it came to be. It was a crime, as-yet unpunished, and Hillary Clinton voted for it.
That she would pivot a question about her questionable campaign financing into a self-serving harangue about 9/11, one day after the Paris catastrophe, is an act of verbal violence beyond moral repair. Know this: Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and the rest created ISIS, which I shall henceforth refer to as Daesh, by way of that war. They got their war by using 9/11 against their own people at a time when those people were feeling most vulnerable. People are feeling vulnerable again after Paris, and Hillary Clinton used 9/11 one scant day after the bloodletting to get Bernie Sanders off her back, and to lay a brick to the topic, because she does not like talking about her friends in low places.
People who will say anything to win office are truly frightening, and truly dangerous. Welcome to the Bush league, candidate Clinton. You just graduated.
Truth Out
Oops. I goofed on the excerpt thing. Fixed
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She's going to block me. 
Bernie & Elizabeth 2016!!!
and some were banned for it as I recall.
Even on DU3 when I served on MIRT I remember an under 100 poster being banned for it. MIRT only has power over new posters under a certain post count and has no jurisdiction over high post count PM trolls like VR, so I guess the nasty trolling simply must be tolerated if your block list is full and can't avoid the unsolicited PM's using that method. 
And this one is just exposing someone whose admitting they're trolling. That's not hide worthy imo.
I'd happily share a similar PM I received with the same statements, but with far fouler language, but can't afford the hide
... 
If you need a shoulder to lean on you know where to find me. 
I may need to cry a little.
<--- see? No ass. posts were removed. Also when a member has a certain number of posts hidden their Transparency Page is displayed.
Thank you!
#FeelTheBern #Bernie2016
Ironically, after ten years of posting, I finally put my first poster on ignore. I'll give you three guesses who it was, but don't post yur guesses.
Since that poster, I've stepped up my ignore game. Works wonders.
when I was an ignore virgin (which is how one remains an ignore virgin, I guess). 
That's all it takes. 
Hillary!!! 
But thank you Just the same
Her triangulation is typical for someone who wants to win the general election. We have no idea what she'll be like if elected, though we have some clues. Hell, I'm not a Hillary fan, I'm just not as hysterical as 99% of the Sanders crowd at DU about how awful she is. (And it bears repeating: Sanders does not like the kind of bullshit Pitt is shoveling).
Are you scum? Not that I know of, but be careful of the company you keep.
Taking part in a clothing drive in my neighborhood and then going to a show
a type of ironic comment often referred to as the pot calling the kettle black.
You, however, seem to be playing some sort of pointless non sequitur game, tho. Enjoy.
I'm sorry you have no friends. Why is that. Let me see if I can find you a mirror....
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btw... are you bernin' a mole?
You're only 24 hours late to the "me too" party. Nothing but leftovers.
Let's have Will speak for himself:
about a Rove indictment being imminent.
(He might well have been right about the imminence, but Luskin played the amnesia card at the last minute.)
That, of course, means Pitt can never be correct again.
It don't get better than that. 
I was quick for a change.
Still get to chat with him on Facebook, though. Where there is a Will, there is a way.
Response to marym625 (Original post)
I don't blame him for leaving. marym, it is because of hearing him speak in 2003 in Chapel Hill, NC, that I am an activist. Every thing he said turned out to be true, but I already knew some of it because I had gone to foreign websites after not finding anyone in our MSM who spoke the truth about Bush's lies. Here was this young man actually speaking the truth about the WMDs and our Civil Rights. I asked him where his security was and he replied "there is safety in numbers". I was afraid someone would try to harm him for speaking out.
Anyway, I'm here also, when you need a shoulder! 
Georgie calls Bill Clinton his “brother from another mother.”
Oh course he does.....
Tells you everything you need to know about those two...doesn't it.
And, look who's going to be "First Man" in the WH. We will probably see the Bush II's as regular visitors.
Yes,....it is "truly frightening & truly dangerous"
So do you, Mary.
Thank you. So do you!
Don't always get over to Truthout. Appreciate the link. You rock!
HRC showed her true colors in the debate Saturday... now it is up to us to get the word out.
#feelthebern
Thank you.
She sure did. Absolutely abysmal performance. While CBSis trying to hide it, too many saw it and taped it.
#Bernie2016 #FeelTheBern
Of course people that work at Non-profits get paid. It's a job, you know, like other jobs? And what are you talking about merit and quality of his work? He's got a large following that adore him... and it's his bosses who get to judge the quality of his work as a measure of his compensation, not you. And to bring his wife into this? Jeez...
i bet your whole problem with WRP is that he called Obama disrespectful names and "lied" to everyone about the Rove indictment. You can be all righteous-like and hold those grudges, but some of us have more important things to do.
Thank you
and remember that Obama gave them all a pass, too 
105 recs. Looks like a bang to me.
Low road! 
I agree that she stills owes the American people an explanation for her close ties and sky high donations from Wall St. Trouble is, there isn't much she can say without appearing greedy and corrupt.
Guess she's never heard of Main Street.
Anyway, substance...
BS: "Well, (gun ties) because...I represent a hunting state."
HRC: "Well, (business ties) because...I represented a business state."
I think the difference is that ties to either is a minus for most HRC supporters, whereas most
BS supporters seem interested in only one line of thought (Money, who has money, where money is
going, etc).
I get into talks with the few BS supporters I know in person and after a while it's like chatting up a
see 'n say. Back again and again to a few topics.
I definitely don't hate Bernie (certainly not with the bile some have towards Clinton), but I can't
see him as a president. He's just not at all rounded out.
It's so funny. Pitt is getting all the serious consideration he deserves
This see and say has an "I know you are but what am I?" option
The sub-thread at the top is an over 60 post swarm trying to make fun of someone. 
Just look around du. They even tried to blame the guy who tweeted. He actually responded on a du post.
Hillary of Oz.
Al From said they named it that because they were tired of having the DLC described as conservative and figured, if they included "Progressive" right there in the name, no one could call PPI conservative. LOL! Instead, we got
https://www.facebook.com/TomTomorrowFB/posts/131251126916303
As the aphorism goes, if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, putting lipstick on that pig would only be a waste of lipstick.
(That's how the saying goes, right? )
Haven't seen you in a while. How've you been?
This is not worth my time. Or worthy of it.
Have a beautiful night.
why should you waste your beautiful mind on something so trivial...
I read it in a Time/Life book.
such as calling Obama a Piece of Shit Used Car Salesman, yes, he did threaten violence against a homeless woman. And it would be hard to forget his infamous Obamacare gaffe.
But folks here eat this shit up.
Expected nothing but smear from the mouth of Pitt.
And he delivered .
Wow this is one big fat hit piece on a Dem candidate, that holds a far bigger resume, greater accomplishments and respect around the world, & more power in her pinky finger than Pitt ever would dream of having on his best day of writing public smear against HRC.
Pitt's opinion hit piece says all we need to know about any truth to his words.
A nastier page of lies could not have been opined on truthout by anyone but William Pitt.
Geezuz You should have put this in the bernie group.
Trash thread
