2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThis is what a friend is telling me about HRC being a "warmonger"
Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Kosovo, supports military action against Iran, coup in Honduras, should I go on ?
Do you *see* this crazy shit? Coup in Honduras? (Reagan anybody?) Kosovo? Peace keeping efforts in Kosovo, where we did not lose a *single* service member in combat, *and* "who elected her to anything anyway?", when she was first fucking lady.
Holy shit! (Venting is good, lol)
brooklynite
(93,880 posts)MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)DemonGoddess
(4,640 posts)LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)zappaman
(20,605 posts)Of course, the only answer as to why is "she's a warmonger!"
mcar
(42,210 posts)Funny that they all say "within 90 days."
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)to take down a strong and fearless Democrat - one that elected Republicans are afraid of. It's sad that people who should know better, don't know more than what tens of millions of dollars of RW propaganda has seeded in their memories - facts be damned.
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)All the Republican propaganda that points out what a catastrophic mistake we made in invading Iraq, and blasts Clinton for voting for the IWR?
All the Republican propaganda that urges a great reduction in our reliance on military force around the world, and blasts Clinton for not supporting big cuts in the Pentagon budget?
Wow, I've been missing some really interesting Republican propaganda.
The actual Republican propaganda that I expect to see this fall will include attacks on Clinton for -- wait for it -- being a socialist.
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)machine that, as a small example, KKKarl Rove used in New Hampshire to discourage Liberals from voting for Hillary Clinton. Five million dollars worth - and it worked! She lost to her rival by a landslide.
The fruit of the Republican propaganda machine is clearly illustrated in the OP. So yeah, maybe you did miss some really interesting Republican propaganda against Hillary Clinton.
And I doubt, seriously doubt, that they'll attack Hillary Clinton as a "socialist". Their strategy is clearly going to be to suppress turnout for Hillary Clinton among liberals, liberal-libertarians, and the far-left. Together with new voter suppression laws that are going to be used this G.E. for the first time, they're hoping to get a Republican in the White House.
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)As for the "socialist" thing, you're right that it wouldn't make tactical sense for them to press that charge, but I predict that they will anyway. They just can't help themselves.
Clinton and her allies blasted Bernie as calling for too many expensive government programs that would require big tax increases, but she will now find exactly same attack made against her. The effect is harder to predict. Attacks on Clinton as a "tax-and-spend liberal" will resonate with the Republican base but might emphasize, to some of Bernie's supporters, that Clinton, although to the right of Bernie, is still to the left of the extremism that's taken over the Republican Party.
HumanityExperiment
(1,442 posts)AND
http://swampland.time.com/2014/01/14/hillary-clintons-unapologetically-hawkish-record-faces-2016-test/
these are the facts and why that label is accurate
JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)Mika
(17,751 posts)With rainbows and fairies everywhere.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)Grasping at straws: (start quote)
http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/9/hillary-clinton-honduraslatinamericaforeignpolicy.html
"Oh what's this ? Her complete record with links to every horrendous thing she has done including the only time she ever voting against or didn't vocally support military use (bush's 2007 surge) because it was expedient, then to turn around and support Obama's surge just a short time later. This is a woman who praises Kissenger a mentor. Kissenger one of the absolute worst people to ever walk the face of the earth a mentor,alas she has a knack for picking scumbags as mentors, she love Madeline "hotel Rwanda" Albright and even calling Klan leader Robert Bryd a mentor and friend"
http://www.activistpost.com/2015/11/hillary-clintons-war-record-100-for-genocide.html
RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)phleshdef
(11,936 posts)But I wouldn't go as far as to say she is a "warmonger".
Also, the Kosovo operation, which Hillary had nothing to do with, was probably the right thing to do at the time.