"The Clinton Machine" - Deft In all The Dark Arts Of Corruption & Demagoguery (Sirota)

[kpete]

The Politics of Hopelessness
Posted January 22, 2008 | 12:57 PM (EST)

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This is truly the politics of hopelessness - a politics mastered by a Clinton machine deft in all the dark arts of corruption and demagoguery.

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It is a machine headed by a candidate who pushed the country into war, yet a candidate happy to attack an opponent for not opposing the same war more strenuously.

It is a machine only too thrilled to use innuendo to play the race card.

It is a machine, in short, that is ready to once again prioritize the ugliest impulses of two dynasty-seeking egomaniacs using vapid soundbites ("I'm a hand's on leader") and intelligence-insulting slogans ("Delivering Real Change") to run "over the dead bodies" of Americans hoping for something different.

more at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sirota/the-politics-of-hopelessn_b_82678.html

[papau]

1. Guess David will not vote for Hillary in the primaries

[bigtree]

2. he's been no fan of the Clintons

. . . a bit too freewheeling with the insults, I think.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

3. "happy to attack an opponent for not opposing the same war more strenuously."

I think HRC should be taken to task for this. SHE voted for the war period. Obama did not.

Sometimes you wonder if Karl Rove is her campaign manager?

[Kittycat]

4. I hear you, and she gloats up there when she's attacking.

I really wish she would get seriously called out on this.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

6. if people are so against the war why are they supporting her?

there's no guarantee for the next war

[Kittycat]

8. It makes no sense to me. It's like Republicans that vote against their own interests.

Single issue voters, I guess.

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. So, what is the defense against the dark arts of corruption?

I could really use a Patronus Charm, myself. Just sayin...

[pberq]

7. " . . .throwing millions of people into poverty"

http://www.credoaction.com/sirota/2008/01/the_politics_of_hopelessness.html

". . .Later in the debate, when John Edwards gave perhaps the most eloquent answer of all on a question about poverty, Clinton tried to one-up everyone by saying "when I graduated from law school, I didn't go to work for a law firm. I went to work for Marian Wright Edelman at the Children's Defense Fund." Yes, folks - forget about her time at Arkansas most powerful corporate law firm. Forget that she ignored potential conflicts-of-interest to serve at that corporate law firm even as her husband was governor of the state. Forget her role helping build Wal-Mart into the monster it is today. Forget even her sitting by and cheering as her husband's administration - which she now overtly asks voters to re-embrace with her candidacy - rammed NAFTA and welfare reform through Congress, throwing millions of people into poverty. Yes, just remember that for a few moments right out of college, she worked at a non-profit."