2016 Postmortem
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Hillary Clinton Turns Stand-Up Comic: "Im a Progressive Who Gets Things Done"by Jeff Cohn * February 04, 2016 * Common Dreams
In her speech claiming victory after the Iowa caucuses, Hillary Clinton proclaimed herself a progressive who gets things done. I had to laugh. And it wasnt just because former President Bill Clinton the centrist Triangulator-in-Chief was standing behind her, beaming and clapping.
"Like her husband, Hillary can come off as either centrist or progressive depending on the audience. And depending on the season left-leaning during primary election season, and corporate centrist in office."
A quick review of Hillary Clintons record shows that much of what she gets done is anti-progressive (not unlike President Clinton in the 1990s). For example:
Promoting Fracking Worldwide is Not Progressive: On behalf of Chevron and other US oil companies, Secretary Clinton and the State Department pushed fracking globally, as Mother Jones has documented: How Hillary Clintons State Department Sold Fracking to the World.
Boosting Corporate-Friendly Trade Deals is Not Progressive: Secretary Clinton repeatedly praised the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) as it was being negotiated by the US Trade Representative and her State Department and she recruited countries into the deal. In October, with Bernie Sanders climbing in the polls, Clinton said she no longer supported the pact, and prevaricated about her earlier boosterism.
Enabling Military Coups is Not Progressive: When she headed the State Department, it enabled a military coup in Honduras that overthrew democratically-elected President Manuel Zelaya, a progressive. Clinton was briefed on the dishonesty that allowed aid to illegally reach the coup government.
Pocketing Millions from Corporate Lectures Fees is Not Progressive: When Wall Street, Big Pharma and other corporate interests paid a soon-to-be presidential candidate an average of $230,000 for a speech, did Hillary Clinton think it was for her brilliant stand-up comedy? Or was it more akin to political bribery? Clinton now says these firms just wanted to hear the views of a former Secretary of State on our complicated world or about the Bin Laden raid. But Politico reported in 2013 soon after one of her three speeches to Goldman Sachs: Clinton offered a message that the collected plutocrats found reassuring, according to accounts offered by several attendees, declaring that the banker-bashing so popular within both political parties was unproductive and indeed foolish. (Releasing the speech transcripts would help settle the matter.)
Escalating the Afghan War is Not Progressive: As insider books on the Obama administration have revealed, Secretary Clinton was among the most hawkish of Obamas advisors in country after country for example, vociferously urging the failed and pointless 2009 troop surge in Afghanistan.
Chaotic Military Intervention in the Middle East and Libya is Not Progressive: If not for Hillary Clintons 2002 Senate vote in support of Bushs Iraq invasion, Obama would not have defeated her in 2008. As if having learned nothing from the post-invasion chaos in Iraq, Secretary Clinton was one of the strongest voices in 2011 urging Obama to militarily depose Qaddafi in Libya, a country now in total, deadly chaos.
More: http://commondreams.org/views/2016/02/04/hillary-clinton-turns-stand-comic-im-progressive-who-gets-things-done
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)"He might be a fool, but he's a fool who keeps showing up."
RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)This country would go backwards with her in the lead.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts).. to REALLY build on what Obama's accomplished against all the odds, and not just talk
about doing that, while doing the exact opposite.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)corkhead
(6,119 posts)because we all have the boot of the oligarchy on our necks.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)Oops! People are now drowning by the thousands to escape that country.
bvar22
(39,909 posts)Women could own money and property, drive cars, walk without a male escort, run shops, wear blue jeans, and attend University to name just a few....
but NOT anymore. The fundamentalist, AlQaeda linked rebels terrorists aided by Hillary and Obama have instituted Sharia Law.
Want to know why Hillary destroyed Libya and had Gaddafi tortured and executed?
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MD27Ak01.html
For those who don't know, "Pan-African" means Africa for Africans,
not for Wall Street, Global Banks, or the IMF.
So, Hillary and the Big Bank Gangs had him murdered (he did not and could not threaten the USA),
and let the Black Flag Radicals take over the destroyed country.
Funny, but we don't hear much about the carnage and murder of innocents in Libya anymore.
farleftlib
(2,125 posts)using dinars, the gold-backed currency of Africa, not US petrodollars. Ergo, he had to go.
bvar22
(39,909 posts).
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OH, yeah. We were spoon fed the same old hysterical shit.
EVIL dictator...he's killing his own people.
Doesn't Gaddafi know that killing his people is OUR job?
Same Shit
Different Bag
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Terror! Terror! Terror!
Evil Dictators! Booga...Booga
Terror Drones and Freedom Bombs for Peace!!!
USA....USA...USA
polly7
(20,582 posts)After that, innocents didn't exist. The thousands of African workers tortured, murdered, hung in the streets, fleeing for their lives, all those 'collateral damage' killed by our freedom bombs, and now the thousands trying to escape the hell it's become and sometimes ending up dead on beaches ... move along, look ahead.