Posted on Mar 15, 2016
Sorry, Hillary, but we’re done: Keep repeating racist myths and praising Kissinger and the...
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If I didn''t post this stuff from Salon, who would?
"With the presidential election all but being handed to them, the Democratic Party’s powers that be have almost unanimously decided that Hillary Clinton is liberal America’s best hope to keep the nation from being taken over by right-wing maniacs. (In terms of endorsements, FiveThirtyEight.com’s formula currently has Clinton ahead of Bernie Sanders by a total of 478 to six. Even the much-reviled Donald Trump has more support among Republican power brokers than Sanders has from Democratic pooh-bahs).
The problem with this decision is that it’s becoming clear that Hillary Clinton is a really bad candidate. I say that not as a Bernie Sanders supporter: my attitude toward the Democratic primary has been that just about the only relevant consideration is the question of whether Clinton or Sanders would be more likely to win the general election, given how catastrophic a GOP win would be.
Until recently, I was assuming that Clinton would be a stronger challenger to either Trump or Cruz, so I was hoping she would win out against Sanders. But I’ve changed my mind about that.
Clinton keeps making serious mistakes – and these mistakes follow a pattern that reveal why she’s making it increasingly difficult for even mildly progressive voters to support her.
Clinton’s latest blunder was her bizarre claim that Nancy and Ronald Reagan played an important role in getting Americans to talk about AIDS in the 1980s: “It may be hard for your viewers to remember how difficult it was for people to talk about H.I.V./AIDS back in the 1980s,” Clinton told MSNBC. “And because of both President and Mrs. Reagan – in particular, Mrs. Reagan – we started a national conversation, when before nobody would talk about it. Nobody wanted anything to do with it.”
This is not merely false, but the precise inverse of the truth. Ronald Reagan managed to avoid ever mentioning the AIDS epidemic for the first several years of his presidency. The famous activist slogan “Silence = Death” was coined in response to the Reagan administration’s studied refusal to even acknowledge the epidemic. Indeed, the Reagans “started a national conversation” about AIDS in the same sense that Donald Trump has started a national conversation about the extent to which racism characterizes much of the Republican Party’s base."
"With the presidential election all but being handed to them, the Democratic Party’s powers that be have almost unanimously decided that Hillary Clinton is liberal America’s best hope to keep the nation from being taken over by right-wing maniacs. (In terms of endorsements, FiveThirtyEight.com’s formula currently has Clinton ahead of Bernie Sanders by a total of 478 to six. Even the much-reviled Donald Trump has more support among Republican power brokers than Sanders has from Democratic pooh-bahs).
The problem with this decision is that it’s becoming clear that Hillary Clinton is a really bad candidate. I say that not as a Bernie Sanders supporter: my attitude toward the Democratic primary has been that just about the only relevant consideration is the question of whether Clinton or Sanders would be more likely to win the general election, given how catastrophic a GOP win would be.
Until recently, I was assuming that Clinton would be a stronger challenger to either Trump or Cruz, so I was hoping she would win out against Sanders. But I’ve changed my mind about that.
Clinton keeps making serious mistakes – and these mistakes follow a pattern that reveal why she’s making it increasingly difficult for even mildly progressive voters to support her.
Clinton’s latest blunder was her bizarre claim that Nancy and Ronald Reagan played an important role in getting Americans to talk about AIDS in the 1980s: “It may be hard for your viewers to remember how difficult it was for people to talk about H.I.V./AIDS back in the 1980s,” Clinton told MSNBC. “And because of both President and Mrs. Reagan – in particular, Mrs. Reagan – we started a national conversation, when before nobody would talk about it. Nobody wanted anything to do with it.”
This is not merely false, but the precise inverse of the truth. Ronald Reagan managed to avoid ever mentioning the AIDS epidemic for the first several years of his presidency. The famous activist slogan “Silence = Death” was coined in response to the Reagan administration’s studied refusal to even acknowledge the epidemic. Indeed, the Reagans “started a national conversation” about AIDS in the same sense that Donald Trump has started a national conversation about the extent to which racism characterizes much of the Republican Party’s base."
Sorry, Hillary, but we’re done: Keep repeating racist myths and praising Kissinger and the...
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Capt Walter Miller Thank you for posting this piece and starting this discussion. We are an electorate that can fact check on our own and we know we are faced now with a group of politicians that we know continue to distort the truth and tell lies. It's appalling to think that the choice is between picking the one who lies the least or lies the best.
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SSG Warren Swan
Ma'am isn't this how it's always been? Make a ton of promises. Get folks to feel your desire to make their lives better. Talk said folks into voting you in, not knowing that some major donor slipped in 100k a few times to "pad" this candidate along. You're always going to have to choose between Liar A and Liar B. The only honest politician is either doing time, or is pushing up daisies.
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Capt Walter Miller
It's a big mess and no mistake. HRC has stolen the DNC. She is so horrible. One thing is the huge number of people who think she is compassionate and competent. It blows my mind.
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Elections, no matter what political party, are all about creating the most victims and then getting them to vote for you.
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If you're going to nit pick at the fallacies that she has spoken on, and then apply it to others, then you'd never vote for anyone. ALL of the candidates have something that they "bent" the truth on in some way, form, or fashion. Trump didn't know who David Duke was, yet was in the same political party as he was? I guess the author has never really listened to the BS that all candidates spew out of their oxygen burners I guess. Cruz didn't know after 44 years he had dual citizenship, but notices it just in time to run for President? Rubio condemns Obama for his experience, but when you compare the two, they're almost exactly the same? It's a game of who can tell the best lie, at the right time, and not be caught.
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"I will, of course, vote for Clinton if she’s the nominee – she is after all vastly preferable to either Trump or Cruz – but by now this is starting to feel like pointing out that a sprained ankle is preferable to a heart attack."
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