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[SFnomad]

1. Too bad you were given a reprieve ... tick tock, tick tock n/t

[imagine2015]

4. Are you throwing Hightower under the bus with other authentic progressives and liberals?

[arcane1]

5. No, it's just playground taunting from immature people using sock accounts.

Which will soon be 90% of the posts here

They no longer have to defend Hillary, and it's a huge relief for them.

[one_voice]

7. Right next to where y'all threw Sen. Warren.

[libdem4life]

16. One minute...hahahaha...speed reader? I'm thinking there's a mouse

running around this here clock...really, really fast. Such a dipsh## internet bully. Make you feel better? Because it doesn't become anyone who claims to be a Democrat. Keep it classy.

[SFnomad]

34. "from her con man spouse" ... do I really need to read it to know it's another article where a

BS cheerleader is crapping all over the carpet around here?

[JoePhilly]

2. More CommonFantasies nonsense.

[brooklynite]

3. Five!

[dflprincess]

6. Jim Hightower is a treasure

remember how everyone here loved him when Bush was president? But now, because he refuses to sell out, not as much.

The truth hurts.

[NanceGreggs]

9. Remember how everyone here loved ...

... Howard Dean, Gabby Giffords, Al Franken, John Lewis, and Liz Warren (among MANY others) before they endorsed HRC over BS?

[swhisper1]

12. I still love them, they had no choice

[NanceGreggs]

18. Right.

[tallahasseedem]

37. OMG...

I haven't seen you around here for a while! Excuse me for fangirling, but I have always loved your posts!

[libdem4life]

21. Only Bernie, a former Independent and a Man of His Beliefs,

could do it. Why do you think no one with any stature in the Establishment ran? The email had gone out. And we all know what it said !!!!!

[dflprincess]

29. +1000

[midnight]

20. In wisconsin when Obama threw workers under the bus, Hightower came to stand with them.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/18/wisconsin-protesters-call-on-obama_n_825361.html

[Go Vols]

41. +1 for truth

[cheapdate]

27. +1. Jim Hightower is a treasure.

[Duval]

32. He is!

We subscribe to his newsletter. He is always a good source of information. He promotes Thought.

[The_Casual_Observer]

8. Hightower would rather Trump, then he would have something to talk about.

[Vogon_Glory]

10. Mr Bill Governed Over 8 Years' Prosperity

While Jim Hightower got whipped by turncoat Rick Perry.

Enough said.

[srobert]

15. 8 Years' Prosperity That Weren't Caused by His Policies.

NAFTA, Most Favored Nations status for China, the repeal of Glass-Steagall, these sorts of things contributed heavily to the decline in prosperity for ordinary working class people in the years that followed after the Clinton Presidency was over. They are largely responsible for the fact that the recovery from the last recession has been so abysmally slow. And for the fact that too big to fail banks could hold the country hostage in response to a recession which they caused.

[Vogon_Glory]

23. I'm sure left-liberals still enjoy that fairy tale

The rest of us remember a Congress and Senate controlled by the Rethuglies while Bill and then Buckaroo Bush were in office, followed again by 8 years of obstruction from President Obama's inauguration on forward.

[imagine2015]

17. Prosperity for the rich. Not so much for working people.

Wages were stagnant, benefits were cut, millions of jobs were outsourced, unions were destroyed.

That continued under Dubya and Obama.

[redstateblues]

30. 8 years of peace and prosperity-

Hopefully we won't have to go through that again. (sarcasm)

[swhisper1]

11. Horrifying

[msongs]

13. "con man spouse". ok you've accused him of committing crimes. got evidence? got a conviction? nt

[Vogon_Glory]

19. Jim Hightower runs the same sort of scam as Pat Buchanan

Jim Hightower runs the same sort of scam as right-winger Pat Buchanan. Both are marginalized failed politicians trying to scam the naive and uninformed that they're still relevant.

[libdem4life]

26. I think what you/we think is irrelevant. What he says is what is relevant.

He's been in the trenches.

You can agree or disagree...but this drivel above is, well, just that drivel. You see,
many, many in the Democratic Party agree. That is relevant...seems you disagree. Well, then OK. But, that's it. You're on an anonymous internet board so what you think or write has a really, really small audience. Hardly matching the overblown hubris.

So take a bit of advice...you only have your opinion...not speaking for a wide swath of some group of people.

[cheapdate]

36. Yeah, what an asshole.

There's nothing more contemptible than someone who runs for office and fails.

[Vogon_Glory]

39. And I'm sure that

Bundy-moll Michele Fiore will take solace in your words of comfort.

[cheapdate]

44. I'm sure in your mind that was a salient

and compelling point.

[Vogon_Glory]

45. Yes, I Know, I'm Wonderful

Thank you for acknowledging my wit and political acumen.

[Attorney in Texas]

24. I have no beef with Bill Clinton. I don't see him as an issue in this election. But don't challenge

people to post evidence of Bill's guilt.

Bill accepted a plea to surrender his Arkansas law license and to accept suspension from the United States Supreme Court bar as part of the agreement to conclude the investigation into his misconduct.

When someone accepts a plea, you look foolish arguing there was no conviction.

[redstateblues]

33. What a fucking pant load that was.

witch hunt

[imagine2015]

25. Ask him. Do you agree that the Wall Street banksters committed crimes? If yes. Got convictions?

Do you agree that George W. Bush committed illegal activity. If the answer is yes why hasn't there been a conviction.

[Duval]

28. Thanks for the reminders.

And yes, he did those things. I don't know which has harmed us most, Dodd/Frank or the Telecommunications Act.

[Octafish]

31. 'Dollar Phil Gramm' and Bill Clinton @ UBS

Dollar Bill Phil" Gramm, The senator who's raising bundles of cash from Wall Street in his bid to be the Republican presidential nominee, likes to tell audiences how tough he is on those who commit "crime in the streets." But when it comes to "crime in the suites," ol' Phil turns into a bleeding heart, knee-jerk defender of corporate muggers.

-- Jim Hightower in 2000

http://www.alternet.org/story/8198/hightower%3A_dollar_bill_phil_gramm

ETA: Phil and Bill now work in Wealth Managenent at UBS.

After his exit from the US Senate, Phil Gramm found a job at Swiss bank UBS as vice chairman. He later brought in former President Bill Clinton to the Wealth Management team. What a coincidence, they are the two key figures in repealing Glass-Steagal. Since the New Deal it was the financial regulation that protected the US taxpayer from the Wall Street casino. Oh well, what are a few hundred million in speaking fees compared to a $16 trillion bailout among friends?



It's a Buy-Partisan Who's Who:

President William J. Clinton
President George W. Bush Heh heh heh.
Robert J. McCann
James Carville
John V. Miller
Paula D. Polito
Anthony Roth
Mike Ryan
John Savercool

SOURCE: http://financialservicesinc.ubs.com/revitalizingamerica/SenatorPhilGramm.html

Some of why DUers and ALL voters should care about Phil Gramm.

Until Panama Papers, the nation's "news media" pretty much never talked about offshoring. Now, perhaps, they'll get to Phil Gramm and Co's work in "Wealth Management" via the offshoring story. After all, what better way to protect your wealth by hiding it where no one knows you have it, let alone can find it?

[Go Vols]

42. +1

[Thinkingabout]

35. Hightower needs to go home.

[tallahasseedem]

38. Imagine...

when these bullshit posts go away...

[ucrdem]

40. Sounds like he's still carrying a torch for Ross Perot.

Another folksy guy with folksy sayin's

[Fumesucker]

43. "We tortured some folks" -Barack Obama