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PBS NewsHour: Hillary Clinton says she doesn't support Trans-Pacific Partnership (Original Post) portlander23 Oct 2015 OP
What's the old expression? If you don't like the weather... daleanime Oct 2015 #1
Wow! What an impressive display of bravery--AFTER THE TPP PASSED! CoffeeCat Oct 2015 #2
sour grapes much? Keep-Left Oct 2015 #3
Sanders doesn't have a history of flipping on issues. Old Crow Oct 2015 #4
Them's what's called "weasel-words" in the technical jargon. JDPriestly Oct 2015 #5
It takes 10 years to get a Bachelor's Degree if you follow her plan which is, work part time. DhhD Oct 2015 #6

daleanime

(17,796 posts)
1. What's the old expression? If you don't like the weather...
Fri Oct 9, 2015, 08:31 PM
Oct 2015

wait ten minutes. If you don't like Hillary's position, just wait a while.

CoffeeCat

(24,411 posts)
2. Wow! What an impressive display of bravery--AFTER THE TPP PASSED!
Fri Oct 9, 2015, 09:37 PM
Oct 2015

Are you kidding me?

She barely said a word about the TPP, but at the eleventh hour--she says she "doesn't support it" while doing jack shit to fight against it.

She never fought against it or said anything meaningful to turn the tide against it.

Now, when the fight is over, she steps up with her big, brave words--that mean NOTHING.

Woweee! Another insulting display lobbed at the American people from fake, vacuous, corporatist Hillary.

Old Crow

(2,212 posts)
4. Sanders doesn't have a history of flipping on issues.
Fri Oct 9, 2015, 11:28 PM
Oct 2015

Clinton, on the other hand, does have a history of voicing support for liberal causes while looking for votes, then taking a corporatist lean to the right once in office.

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
5. Them's what's called "weasel-words" in the technical jargon.
Fri Oct 9, 2015, 11:45 PM
Oct 2015

Weasel-words.

She said absolutely nothing that means a thing.

No swing there as in

"It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing."

No certainty, no detailed explanation.

And delivered in a very cautious, defensive, deliberately evasive way.

Lots of room for her to change her mind.

This is as much an invitation for more donations from the big corporations as it is a definitive statement about Hillary's views on the TPP.

I do not trust Hillary when it comes to trade or the TPP.

So many issues on which I cannot trust Hillary.

Social Security being at the top of the list.

Free college tuition at state schools also right up there at the top. She wants to means-test it, and kids and families don't need that bureaucracy and all the questions about the family's financial affairs.

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