Hillary Clinton Turns Stand-Up Comic: "I’m a Progressive Who Gets Things Done"

[99th_Monkey]

Hillary Clinton Turns Stand-Up Comic: "I’m a Progressive Who Gets Things Done"
by Jeff Cohn * February 04, 2016 * Common Dreams

In her speech claiming victory after the Iowa caucuses, Hillary Clinton proclaimed herself “a progressive who gets things done.” I had to laugh. And it wasn’t just because former President Bill Clinton – the centrist Triangulator-in-Chief – was standing behind her, beaming and clapping.

"Like her husband, Hillary can come off as either centrist or progressive depending on the audience. And depending on the season – left-leaning during primary election season, and corporate centrist in office."
A quick review of Hillary Clinton’s record shows that much of what she gets done is anti-progressive (not unlike President Clinton in the 1990s). For example:

Promoting Fracking Worldwide is Not Progressive: On behalf of Chevron and other US oil companies, Secretary Clinton and the State Department pushed fracking globally, as Mother Jones has documented: “How Hillary Clinton’s State Department Sold Fracking to the World.”

Boosting Corporate-Friendly Trade Deals is Not Progressive: Secretary Clinton repeatedly praised the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) – as it was being negotiated by the US Trade Representative and her State Department – and she recruited countries into the deal. In October, with Bernie Sanders climbing in the polls, Clinton said she no longer supported the pact, and prevaricated about her earlier boosterism.

Enabling Military Coups is Not Progressive: When she headed the State Department, it enabled a military coup in Honduras that overthrew democratically-elected President Manuel Zelaya, a progressive. Clinton was briefed on the dishonesty that allowed aid to illegally reach the coup government.

Pocketing Millions from Corporate Lectures Fees is Not Progressive: When Wall Street, Big Pharma and other corporate interests paid a soon-to-be presidential candidate an average of $230,000 for a speech, did Hillary Clinton think it was for her brilliant stand-up comedy? Or was it more akin to political bribery? Clinton now says these firms just wanted to hear the views of a former Secretary of State on our “complicated world” – or about the Bin Laden raid. But Politico reported in 2013 soon after one of her three speeches to Goldman Sachs: “Clinton offered a message that the collected plutocrats found reassuring, according to accounts offered by several attendees, declaring that the banker-bashing so popular within both political parties was unproductive and indeed foolish.” (Releasing the speech transcripts would help settle the matter.)

Escalating the Afghan War is Not Progressive: As insider books on the Obama administration have revealed, Secretary Clinton was among the most hawkish of Obama’s advisors in country after country – for example, vociferously urging the failed and pointless 2009 troop surge in Afghanistan.

Chaotic Military Intervention in the Middle East and Libya is Not Progressive: If not for Hillary Clinton’s 2002 Senate vote in support of Bush’s Iraq invasion, Obama would not have defeated her in 2008. As if having learned nothing from the post-invasion chaos in Iraq, Secretary Clinton was one of the strongest voices in 2011 urging Obama to militarily depose Qaddafi in Libya, a country now in total, deadly chaos.

More: http://commondreams.org/views/2016/02/04/hillary-clinton-turns-stand-comic-im-progressive-who-gets-things-done

[Ed Suspicious]

1. Whenever I read that, "I’m a Progressive Who Gets Things Done" I think of -

"He might be a fool, but he's a fool who keeps showing up."

[RobertEarl]

2. Backwards

This country would go backwards with her in the lead.

[99th_Monkey]

3. Totally. Americans are so hungry to engage & build a future we truly believe in.

.. to REALLY build on what Obama's accomplished against all the odds, and not just talk
about doing that, while doing the exact opposite.

[arcane1]

4. She's a progressive who gets conservative things done. She just forgot that one adjective :)

[corkhead]

5. ...unlike all other progressives who can't get anything done...

because we all have the boot of the oligarchy on our necks.

[WillyT]

6. HUGE K & R !!! - THANK YOU !!!

[LittleBlue]

7. She did well in Libya

Oops! People are now drowning by the thousands to escape that country.

[bvar22]

9. Before Hillary, Libya was th most advanced nation in North Africa.

Women could own money and property, drive cars, walk without a male escort, run shops, wear blue jeans, and attend University to name just a few....
but NOT anymore. The fundamentalist, AlQaeda linked rebels terrorists aided by Hillary and Obama have instituted Sharia Law.

Want to know why Hillary destroyed Libya and had Gaddafi tortured and executed?

” For all his dictatorial megalomania, Gaddafi is a committed pan-African - a fierce defender of African unity. Libya was not in debt to international bankers. It did not borrow cash from the International Monetary Fund for any "structural adjustment". It used oil money for social services - including the Great Man Made River project, and investment/aid to sub-Saharan countries. Its independent central bank was not manipulated by the Western financial system. All in all a very bad example for the developing world.”

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MD27Ak01.html

For those who don't know, "Pan-African" means Africa for Africans,
not for Wall Street, Global Banks, or the IMF.

So, Hillary and the Big Bank Gangs had him murdered (he did not and could not threaten the USA),
and let the Black Flag Radicals take over the destroyed country.

Funny, but we don't hear much about the carnage and murder of innocents in Libya anymore.

[farleftlib]

10. Plus he was going to trade his oil

using dinars, the gold-backed currency of Africa, not US petrodollars. Ergo, he had to go.

[bvar22]

12. I wonder why very few people asked the pertinent question:

Why Libya, WHY now?
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OH, yeah. We were spoon fed the same old hysterical shit.
EVIL dictator...he's killing his own people.
Doesn't Gaddafi know that killing his people is OUR job?


Same Shit
Different Bag

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Terror Drones and Freedom Bombs for Peace!!!
USA....USA...USA

[polly7]

11. We only heard about them long enough to get in to bomb them.

After that, innocents didn't exist. The thousands of African workers tortured, murdered, hung in the streets, fleeing for their lives, all those 'collateral damage' killed by our freedom bombs, and now the thousands trying to escape the hell it's become and sometimes ending up dead on beaches ... move along, look ahead.

[Vinca]

8. She's many things, but progressive isn't one of them.