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2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)Chicago Tribune: "Hillary can't win. She's the establishment candidate in year of insurgency." [View all]
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Hillary Clinton, with her massive fundraising, her Democratic Party insider status, the Wall Street speeches bringing more cash, the Clinton Foundation clout, the connections foreign and domestic... is the political embodiment of the establishment. And that spells serious trouble for her, because the American people are in an insurgent mood, fueled by the holes in their bank accounts, all those jobs Bill Clinton sent overseas with his support of NAFTA, and the rifts in what we once called the common culture. It spreads across class lines like fire in a dry riverbed. It won't stop until the weeds are gone.... But the Democrat... turnout in primaries is low. ... She has other problems, including the consensus from primary exit polls that she's considered to be a liar. Young women don't like her much, perhaps because Clinton's old feminist allies tried to shame them into submission. Now Hillary is thought of as some angry grandmother.
She seems overly scripted, stuffy, tired, as if every word she speaks has been poll-tested and run past criminal lawyers. ... Even Democrats who aren't excited by Clinton say that she deserves the nomination.... But Clint Eastwood explained all you need to know about the deserving to a dying Gene Hackman in the Oscar-winning western "Unforgiven." Hackman, shot and on the ground, said he didn't deserve to go that way.
"Deserve's got nothin' to do with it," Eastwood told him.... Deserves have nothing to do with power politics. Timing is everything. And I don't see Hillary winning, because she's the wrong candidate at the wrong time.
Not a fan, but I cannot pass up a good quote from "Unforgiven."
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Chicago Tribune: "Hillary can't win. She's the establishment candidate in year of insurgency." [View all]
Attorney in Texas
Mar 2016
OP
We know exactly what she will be if elected. When the campaign is over she goes back to being the
Cavallo
Mar 2016
#39
Actually we're just staying with American values even as the neoliberals have tried to get rid of th
Baobab
Mar 2016
#33
Well he could pull us out of all the FTAs, WTO, etc. Dubya abrogated treaties I believe.
hedda_foil
Mar 2016
#69
You understand that it was Clint Eastwood's character in "The Unforgiven" who was quoted, not Clint
Attorney in Texas
Mar 2016
#11
Using Clint Eastwood, regardless of whether it is a character or himself, to make a point is
MADem
Mar 2016
#14
Have you seen "The Unforgiven"? Morgan Freeman, Frances Fisher, Richard Harris, Gene Hackman?
Attorney in Texas
Mar 2016
#15
Using Clint Eastwood on a Democratic message board to "prove" any assertion is a strong error
MADem
Mar 2016
#16
OK. I quoted a newspaper editorial, which quoted a movie, in which Clint Eastwood was an actor
Attorney in Texas
Mar 2016
#20
It does have a Twilight Zone feel to it. NOTE: I checked to confirm that Rod Serling was a suitable
Attorney in Texas
Mar 2016
#25
Very. I think it may have to do with the high stress of the campaign. That's understandable.
Attorney in Texas
Mar 2016
#30
LOL!! This isn't an obscure reference...to anyone who has been around for awhile.
MADem
Mar 2016
#47
No, he's touting Sanders so his conservative favorite will presumably face a weaker candidate.
MADem
Mar 2016
#81
this whole discussion is HILARIOUS! I want to believe it's a subtle self parody too nuanced for me
Vote2016
Mar 2016
#78
Why thank you! And thanks for quoting me too (though I'm sure you have your reasons...)
JonLeibowitz
Mar 2016
#76
Thanks! Piketty has been on my reading list for quite some time. What a beast of a project that is..
JonLeibowitz
Mar 2016
#88
It truly was an odd reaction, while totally ignoring the context of the article.
Major Hogwash
Mar 2016
#93
Definitely stuffy and tired. It's as if she's just waiting for the move-in date to arrive.
jalan48
Mar 2016
#24
AWK AWK Eastwood is tangentially attached to the HC critique, ergo all factual assertions
stupidicus
Mar 2016
#26
Republican Operatives Try to Help Bernie Sanders: "We'll win every state if Bernie's their nominee"
Recoverin_Republican
Mar 2016
#70
Chicago Tribune, not surprisingly, is trying to help the Republican cause by boosting the GOP's
Recoverin_Republican
Mar 2016
#80
John Kass endorsed Cruz on page 2 the same day the Chicago Trib endorsed Rubio.
Freethinker65
Mar 2016
#102
Quoting a right wing (editorially) rag that refused to endorse both Clinton and Sanders
book_worm
Mar 2016
#105