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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Purple Haze [View all]Hekate
(90,555 posts)15. My friend, my everlasting thanks for providing us with a well-reasoned, logical, intelligent....
...piece of writing and putting it in the wasteland that is currently GDP.
Your critique of Kissinger does give me pause for thought. Like Hillary, I spent 1968 earnestly working for Gene McCarthy, though in my then-home state of California. Unlike HRC, I didn't later specifically target Kissinger -- I was too preoccupied with Richard Effing Nixon, may he rest in Hell.
So, at what point did this shift for her? And why? Was there a forgetting because she found herself working with him, or because his many heavy books are required reading in foreign policy?
Yes, I'm with her. No, she is far from infallible.
Oh, and here's a DU hear for you --->
~~Hekate
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Kissinger is old news and I don't care what he says or doesn't say about Hillary.
leftofcool
Feb 2016
#1
Both Hill and Bill have been -bragging- about Kissingers association with Hillary.
RiverLover
Feb 2016
#5
To be fair, she propagated fracking OUTSIDE the US. You know, where other people live.
thereismore
Feb 2016
#2
My friend, my everlasting thanks for providing us with a well-reasoned, logical, intelligent....
Hekate
Feb 2016
#15
"I’m troubled by Hillary Clinton’s approach to Henry Kissinger." - BINGO.
Warren DeMontague
Feb 2016
#21
I never had a problem with Hillary going to Flint but I have to agree with former NAACP
Uncle Joe
Feb 2016
#27
K&R. An absolutely fantastic post, as we've come to expect from you, good sir.
bullwinkle428
Feb 2016
#37