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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-27-08 06:44 PM
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Poll question: Which Candidate is Being Advised by the Former Chief Economist of the DLC?
No fair Googling!
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anonymous171 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-27-08 06:45 PM
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1. Hillary is DLC. Doesn't matter who her advisor is.
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Enrique Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-28-08 07:59 AM
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21. they're both DLC
or both non-DLC, if you like.

They are essentially the same on domestic and foreign policy.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-27-08 06:49 PM
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2. Which candidate is CLOSEST to POPPY BUSH, Dubai and Saudi royals, Jackson Stephens and the REST
of the powerful elite cronies who CAUSED MOST OF THE DEEP SHIT WE ARE ALL LIVING THROUGH?
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NJSecularist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-27-08 06:57 PM
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3. Also, which candidate's husband appointed two very liberal justices to the Supreme Court?
Edited on Sun Apr-27-08 06:57 PM by NJSecularist
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slick8790 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-27-08 06:57 PM
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4. It boggles my mind how you could do such an about face in such a short time. n/t
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Exilednight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-27-08 06:58 PM
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5. Hillary has about as much right to claim to Bill's experience as President as Obama does.
Hill is not Bill and being first lady is not an elected position.
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NJSecularist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-27-08 07:01 PM
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6. Yet we've heard over and over again that Hillary is just as Republican as her husband.
Which is it?
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Exilednight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-27-08 07:09 PM
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9. I'll let you decide. She's either responsible for...............
NAFTA, which has destroyed our economy, and the Supreme Court nominees, who aren't all that liberal when it comes down to listening to cases against large corporations, or she stands on her own merits and sbares no responsibility to Bill's accomplishments and failures.
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NJSecularist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-27-08 07:12 PM
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10. Ruth Bader Ginsburg isn't liberal?
Some of you really have no idea what you are talking about..
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Exilednight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-27-08 07:20 PM
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11. NYT magazine wrote an excellent article concerning the Supreme Court..................
and went through each justices case decisions. In deciding over cases of environmental concerns of corporations,and workers rights in the work place Clinton appointees ruled in favor of the corporations in well over 80% of decided cases.

Liberal my ass.
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NJSecularist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-27-08 07:43 PM
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13. Link? n/t
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Exilednight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-27-08 08:18 PM
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17. I read it in the magazine. Google NYT magazine, supreme court, Jeffery Rosen...................
Here's a quick excerpt.

After the election of Bill Clinton, for example, the chamber (a right wing business think tank) endorsed Ruther Bader Ginsburg, who in addition to pioneering achievements as the head of women's rights project at the ACLU had specialized, as a law professor, in the procedural rules in complex civil cases and was comfortable with the finer points of business litigation. The chamber was especially enthusiastic about Clinton's second nominee, Stephen Bryer, who made his name building bipartisan consensus for airline deregulation as a special counsel on the judiciary committee; and who, as a Harvard Law professor, advocated an influential and moderate view on antitrust enforcement.

During Bryer's confirmation hearing his sharpest critic was Ralph Nader, who testified that his pro-business rulings were "extraordinarily one-sided." ANother critic, Senator Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio, said that the fact the chamber was the first organization to endorse Breyer and "the fact that Ralph Nader is opposed to it indicated that the average American has a reason to have some concern." The chamber's impimatur helped reassure Republicans about Breyer, and he he was confirmed with a vote of 87-9. "Frankly, we didn't feel like we had anyone on the court since Justice Powell who truly understood business issues," Conrad told me. "Justice Breyer came close to that."


The article appeared in the March 16,2008 edition of The New York Times Magazine.
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Boz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-27-08 08:03 PM
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16. Some of us know the difference between what were told someone is and what they show they are.
Ginsburg is liberal on ONE issue, all others she has been staunch conservative corpratist.

The problem isn't that we have two parties its that we have four.

The Republicans have the NeoCon minority currently driving the party of fiscal responsibility and not being fiscally responsible.

The Democrats have the Coprporatist making a push to take control of the party of liberal power to the people back to Conservative power for the corporation's as it was under the first Clinton regime.

Both minorities, The NeoCons and the DLC Corporatists have succeeded in masking their intention by saying what the parties want to hear and waving the flag of of party loyalties and planks while DOING completely the opposite of what they claim and just manipulating the information and news that gets to the people.

There is a reason that the pattern is Bush,Clinton,Bush,Clinton and will continue with Bush, Clinton(Chelsea is being groomed, before your eyes, point clap point clap) IF WE LET IT.

We have to take the country back from the Corporatists/Neocons and empower the government for the people, by the people and of the people.

There are two minority candidate tickets within the parties. Coporatist DLC backed Hillary Clinton and NeonCon RNC backed John McCain.

Which are they going to let you choose, unless you choose a different future we will have the same future we live in today drive by fear, unending war fronts, corporate profiteering and diminishing civil liberties.

BECAUSE THEY TELL YOU THEY ARE YOU.
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depakid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-27-08 07:01 PM
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7. Nonsense
Anyone who knows the Clintons recognizes that they consulted each other all the time on policy matters. Two for the price of one, was the quote, I believe.
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Exilednight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-27-08 07:05 PM
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8. I voted for Bill, not Hill. n/t
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-27-08 08:02 PM
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15. WHY? It's all part of the Bush-Clinton dog and pony show where demagogued issues supplant REAL ones
and where Bushes and Clintons have worked together to lead two different parties down the paths set forth by the fascist agenda.
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rpannier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-27-08 07:23 PM
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12. I went with the fluffy bunnies
I read that the Chief economist of the DLC and Fluffy Bunnies are very close and that the Fluffy Bunnies (not to be confused with the un-fluffy bunnies) are in bed with the DLC.
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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-27-08 10:43 PM
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19. How fluffy? n/t
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rpannier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-28-08 07:53 AM
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20. So fluffy that...
if you get within 10 yards of their fluffy-ness you feel instantly relaxed and have an overwhelming desire to touch the fluff.

Unfortunately, once they fluffy bunnies are gone and the hypnotic 'fluff-state' you were in subsides you discover they've lifted your watch, wallet, cell phone and credit cards.
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-27-08 07:45 PM
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14. Which candidate is a member of the DLC leadership?
CLINTON.
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Enrique Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-28-08 08:00 AM
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22. correct
they're both DLC.
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-27-08 08:22 PM
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18. Not the DLC team leader Hilllary Clinton?
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