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Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 01:58 AM Feb 2016

How does HRC actually FEEL about the freedom movement leaders who back her?

They are heroes...but it looks as though she thinks they are most useful for doing her dirty work.

Contemptuous attitude towards the giants she thinks she's entitled to stand on.

They deserve better than this from her.

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How does HRC actually FEEL about the freedom movement leaders who back her? (Original Post) Ken Burch Feb 2016 OP
Quite simply, they're paid staff. dchill Feb 2016 #1
How do YOU feel implying that these people are for sale? jsmirman Feb 2016 #7
Disgusted. dchill Feb 2016 #8
I am of the opinion as adults well informed and confident in roguevalley Feb 2016 #12
She loves them until she no longer needs them SoLeftIAmRight Feb 2016 #2
She's planning to no longer need them on 1/20/17, at noon EST. n/t. Ken Burch Feb 2016 #3
I'm hoping it's sometime around the beginning of June. Cassiopeia Feb 2016 #5
They remind me of Tom and Daisy in The Great Gatsby Arazi Feb 2016 #4
No one is forcing them. plus5mace Feb 2016 #6
Not sure if I'd go with "gun to the head" metaphors when speaking of people Ken Burch Feb 2016 #10
she apparently brought them "to heel" grasswire Feb 2016 #9
She will use, abuse, and dispose of them when they are no longer needed. Odin2005 Feb 2016 #11

jsmirman

(4,507 posts)
7. How do YOU feel implying that these people are for sale?
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 02:24 AM
Feb 2016

You know, these people who have done more to advance the causes of equality and justice than you could or would ever do in 5000 lifetimes?

roguevalley

(40,656 posts)
12. I am of the opinion as adults well informed and confident in
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 03:15 AM
Feb 2016

themselves that if they did shit, they wanted to. You can't tarnish yourself in this manner and claim not to be a willing partner. They threw themselves into the slime because they agreed to. Giving them a pass is wrong. It relieves them of having chosen to do this in the first place. They chose it. The consequences are on them.

Arazi

(6,829 posts)
4. They remind me of Tom and Daisy in The Great Gatsby
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 02:03 AM
Feb 2016

craven and shallow. Their wealth shields them from consequences


“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”


These civil rights icons can't go back to who they were before - the Clintons have set them up as easy pawns in their shallow, greedy power games

 

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
10. Not sure if I'd go with "gun to the head" metaphors when speaking of people
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 02:39 AM
Feb 2016

who have actually witnessed assassinations.

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