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Armstead

(47,803 posts)
Sat Mar 5, 2016, 02:28 PM Mar 2016

I'd be more inclined to believe what Clinton says -- if she'd said it 20 years ago

All of the crappy conditions she is suddenly so concerned about is just a continuation and worsening of what happened in the 1990's.

Income inequality, Rapacious Corporate Greed and mistreatment of workers, disappearance of meaningful jobs, Wall St. Corruption are NOT NEW. They were moving forward full steam ahead in the 1990's (as well as the 1980's and 00's).

And the policies of the Clinton 1 administration and the DLC Demoservatives were hastening them. They were also glossing them over so that the population suffered cognitive dissonance between what they were seeing and experiencing in daily life and the Rosy Scenerios the Media/Political Establishment were bombarding them with.

And Hillary Clinton was right up there with the Glossers and Propagandists and Enablers.

Bernie Sanders, on the otehr hand, was among the truth tellers back then....same as he is now.

People can change. She's trying to sound like Bernie. But that co-exists with her continuing enabling behavior and propagandizing of old, as she continues to spout the hope-killing, reform-killing lines about being "pragmatic" and Abandon All Hope.

There is just too much cognitive dissonance.



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I'd be more inclined to believe what Clinton says -- if she'd said it 20 years ago (Original Post) Armstead Mar 2016 OP
Did you see how NOW she was always against NAFTA? How can anyone trust anything she says? peacebird Mar 2016 #1
... tk2kewl Mar 2016 #3
It's mind-boggling, isn't it? n/t bvf Mar 2016 #5
They can't. They are reduced to worshipping her. Betty Karlson Mar 2016 #6
I'd be more inclined to believe her bvf Mar 2016 #2
I'd be more inclined to believe her AgerolanAmerican Mar 2016 #4
This libtodeath Mar 2016 #7
That too Armstead Mar 2016 #8
Remember Hillary's inteview with Diane Sawyer? marew Mar 2016 #9
Chump change Armstead Mar 2016 #10
Kicking affer hesring her robotically imitate Bernie tonite Armstead Mar 2016 #11
 

Betty Karlson

(7,231 posts)
6. They can't. They are reduced to worshipping her.
Sat Mar 5, 2016, 02:37 PM
Mar 2016

And like any cult, they are antagonistic toward anyone who doesn't revere their goddess.

 

bvf

(6,604 posts)
2. I'd be more inclined to believe her
Sat Mar 5, 2016, 02:33 PM
Mar 2016

if it weren't for her outright lie about taking sniper fire in Bosnia.

Haven't believed a word coming out of that particular pie-hole since.

 

AgerolanAmerican

(1,000 posts)
4. I'd be more inclined to believe her
Sat Mar 5, 2016, 02:35 PM
Mar 2016

If we had some confirmation that she wasn't saying the exact opposite thing behind closed doors at Goldman Sachs for a quarter million a pop.

marew

(1,588 posts)
9. Remember Hillary's inteview with Diane Sawyer?
Sat Mar 5, 2016, 03:03 PM
Mar 2016

Hillary made the comment during an interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer that she and Bill were "dead broke" when they left the White House. Sawyer, rightfully, pressed Clinton on a reported haul of $5 million in speaking fees.

A few weeks before they left the White House, the Clintons were able to muster a cash down payment of $855,000 and secure a $1.995 million mortgage.

This hardly fits the common meaning of "dead broke." And Hillary is still completely out of touch with the lives of ordinary people.

 

Armstead

(47,803 posts)
11. Kicking affer hesring her robotically imitate Bernie tonite
Sun Mar 6, 2016, 12:07 AM
Mar 2016

Getting all angry about corporate behavior.

Where the hell was she when it mattered? Jeeze, they've been this bad since at least 1980

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