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Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
Tue May 10, 2016, 12:31 PM May 2016

"She doesn't have the courage of her convictions"'


“I imagine her to be a very bright woman without the courage of her convictions, because I don’t know even know what they are … She reminds me of Magic Johnson’s talk show. Magic Johnson was a charming individual, but he wasn’t a talk show host. If you watched his show, you could almost see Arsenio’s advice to him, in real-time rendering … but it never seemed real or authentic. It seemed like she was wearing an outfit designed for someone else to be someone else.

“That’s not say that she’s not preferable to Donald Trump, because at this point, I would vote for Mr. T. over Donald Trump.”




Mr. T......................... Pretty Said..........
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"She doesn't have the courage of her convictions"' (Original Post) Ichingcarpenter May 2016 OP
This is the same Clinton Rules BS - just in a hipster package. Gomez163 May 2016 #1
Yes you are right............ Jon Stewart is what? Ichingcarpenter May 2016 #10
A few months to a year from now, Clinton is going to look worse than Nixon did when he left office. CentralCoaster May 2016 #24
Thanks. NewImproved Deal May 2016 #2
Health Care Plan was a Big Lie and Cover Up. Baobab May 2016 #11
Huh?????? hedda_foil May 2016 #19
It was a cover up of GATS. GATS (1994) was actually making affordable health care impossible. Baobab May 2016 #20
Thanks for clarifying, Baobab. hedda_foil May 2016 #22
How could the US perpetrate the idea that private for profit healthcare and high priced drugs were Baobab May 2016 #21
Marriage inequality used to be one of her convIctions. Orsino May 2016 #3
Her only convictions are about power and legacy. KPN May 2016 #4
which convictions? Clinton Campaign to Republican Donors: Hillary Shares Your Values azurnoir May 2016 #5
Clinton believes she is above ALL laws. haikugal May 2016 #6
Globalism, lowering all wages so they are all the same, the lowest common denominator Baobab May 2016 #23
She believes very strongly... Jester Messiah May 2016 #7
Look how many she says I vs us or we? Ichingcarpenter May 2016 #8
That was interesting. Ed Suspicious May 2016 #13
The thing is Ichingcarpenter May 2016 #14
But, she makes up for it with ruthless ambition. K&R Tierra_y_Libertad May 2016 #9
She doesn't have the courage to HAVE convictions. morningfog May 2016 #12
Good to see you again, Iching. nt VulgarPoet May 2016 #15
Wouldn't she first have to HAVE convictions? Lizzie Poppet May 2016 #16
FBI is working on that. JustABozoOnThisBus May 2016 #17
Boom! Lizzie Poppet May 2016 #18

Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
10. Yes you are right............ Jon Stewart is what?
Tue May 10, 2016, 01:07 PM
May 2016

He is the best in field on observations of WTF is going on

You really need to step back ............ on your observations of reality

I could turn you on but your mind is not ready for it.


They don't pay you enough for your posts and your logical corruptions of reality.

 

CentralCoaster

(1,163 posts)
24. A few months to a year from now, Clinton is going to look worse than Nixon did when he left office.
Tue May 10, 2016, 05:28 PM
May 2016

She's a trainwreck, buddy.

Baobab

(4,667 posts)
11. Health Care Plan was a Big Lie and Cover Up.
Tue May 10, 2016, 01:08 PM
May 2016

of the WTREMOVETHISO GeREMOVETHISneral AgreeTHISTOOment on TraTHISTOOde in SerTHIS2vices which is an attack on public services globally

Baobab

(4,667 posts)
20. It was a cover up of GATS. GATS (1994) was actually making affordable health care impossible.
Tue May 10, 2016, 05:11 PM
May 2016

by giving corporations entitlements to "progressive liberalisation" of services.

Think of it this way, if healthcare, education, etc, worked and were affordable, how could they be crapified and their millions of high perceived value jobs turned into bargaining chips in the globalization game?

They couldn't be.

Also, they needed "crises". Healthcare crisis, education crisis, IT crisis.

Crisis = suspension of common sense.

Baobab

(4,667 posts)
21. How could the US perpetrate the idea that private for profit healthcare and high priced drugs were
Tue May 10, 2016, 05:16 PM
May 2016

the ONLY possible future if the US itself gave our own people some special deal. While people in other countries were dying because they couldnt afford an eleven cent drug, marked up to $500.

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.405.5725

Orsino

(37,428 posts)
3. Marriage inequality used to be one of her convIctions.
Tue May 10, 2016, 12:39 PM
May 2016

Therefore, I mistrust most claims of conviction. Not just hers, since so many poluticians have "evolved" on this and other issues.

azurnoir

(45,850 posts)
5. which convictions? Clinton Campaign to Republican Donors: Hillary Shares Your Values
Tue May 10, 2016, 12:43 PM
May 2016

Indeed, Jeb Bush, along his father and brother, have vowed not to back the presumptive Republican nominee, Donald Trump. Assuming no third party candidate emerges to soak up the fundraising dollars of former Bush backers, Clinton is positioning herself as the deserving recipient.

In doing so, her campaign is signaling to Republican donors that, as Ben White puts it, Hillary "represents your values better than Trump."

This is a striking admission — one that comes in the midst of an ongoing contest with an opponent, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who has questioned Clinton's commitment to progressive causes and has criticized her for caving under the temptations of corporate cash.

Rhetorically, Clinton has agreed with the notion that money is corrupting. So much so, in fact, that in 2008 she attacked then-Senator Obama for his reliance on money from employees of oil companies. But she has also argued, sometimes in the same breath, that she is above the laws of political gravity.

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/05/09/clinton-campaign-republican-donors-hillary-shares-your-values

Baobab

(4,667 posts)
23. Globalism, lowering all wages so they are all the same, the lowest common denominator
Tue May 10, 2016, 05:22 PM
May 2016

And letting corporations move their highest skilled, lowest paid employees around at will.

That effectuates a huge global redistribution of wealth upward and also some downward away from the privileged indigenous workers in the developed countries. Workers from poor countries like Africa and South Asia can travel to the developed countries and work for less. Which increases the total efficiency.

(Mad) Michael Moore believes that too.

Read pages 278-279 in here:

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTRANETTRADE/Resources/C13.pdf

 

Jester Messiah

(4,711 posts)
7. She believes very strongly...
Tue May 10, 2016, 12:54 PM
May 2016

that she should be the president. That's about all I've been able to nail down so far.

Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
14. The thing is
Tue May 10, 2016, 01:36 PM
May 2016

everyone should analyse speeches and the candidates use of their ego vs appealing to the masses.

Give her a check from the banks and she can sell a Yugo

 

Lizzie Poppet

(10,164 posts)
16. Wouldn't she first have to HAVE convictions?
Tue May 10, 2016, 01:42 PM
May 2016

Other than "money is awesome" and her own personal advancement, that is...

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