John Negroponte?
Can't pretend this doesn't make me uncomfortable. Mother always said you're judged by the company you keep.
And, before anyone jumps on me, remember there was time when DUers put Negropnte in the same class as Bush, Cheney, etal. so let's not pretend welcoming his endorsement is a good thing.
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/8/11/headlines/clinton_embraces_endorsement_of_john_negroponte
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Clinton Embraces Endorsement of John Negroponte
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton has embraced her recent endorsement by John Negroponte, the former director of national intelligence. The President George W. Bush official also served as U.S. ambassador to Honduras, which was the staging ground for the U.S.-backed Contras in Nicaragua. Hillary Clinton has faced questions on the campaign trail about her own role in Honduras as secretary of state, including legitimizing the 2009 coup in Honduras.
http://wonkette.com/605423/hillary-clinton-touts-endorsement-by-terrible-human-john-negroponte-dont-tout-that-hillary
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Now see here, Secretary Clinton, we are pleased as anything that a whole bunch of Republican foreign policy experts said Donald Trump is too extreme to be president, but do you really have to go around tongue-kissing every last one of them? Especially the murderous bastard ones, like John Negroponte? We know you’re excited to get big foreign policy names, as well as big Republican names to pull over some R’s who are sick and tired of the carnival act their party nominated this year… but could you please remember that one of the top rules in politics, as formulated by the great Molly Ivins, is that you gotta dance with the ones who brung you — and it was Democrats who brung you to the big dance. We’d also prefer you not slow dance with anyone with quite so much blood on his hands, please....
...As Esquire columnist and Donna Rose’s babysitter Charlie Pierce reminds us, plenty of those things Negroponte did while he “served in numerous diplomatic and national security positions starting in 1960” aren’t anything Clinton needs to be shaking hands with, let alone embracing:
In the 1980s, he served as the U.S. ambassador to Honduras. In addition to (at best) covering for that country’s murderous autocrats, he also served the Reagan Administration by helping to turn Honduras into a staging area for American-trained death squads in places like El Salvador and Guatemala. (Remember, Eugene Hasenfus was flying out of a base in Honduras when he got shot down over Nicaragua, which is when the Iran-Contra criminal enterprise began to unravel.)
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something to proof that Hillary isn't "pure" enough. I'd rather have these Republicans endorsing Hillary than have them spreading right wing lies about her. Endorse or attack? Easy choice. Take the endorsement and move on.
HILLARY/KAINE 2016
wrong post. I felt sure I had specifically replied to La Lioness Privanka's post. I usually also add the poster's name to my reply title and did not this time. But after checking, yes I did reply to La Lioness Privanka and not to a post by think. So, La Lioness...I do agree with you. To "think"...I don't appreciate the "Dick Cheney" sarcasm. Hillary isn't "cozying up" to Negroponte, Cheney, deep sixed Reagan, or any other Republican. She is busy fighting all the right wing BS, smears, lies and putting forth her vision for our country. She is our nominee and she is running her campaign very well. Negroponte endorsement was barely a blip on the news cycle. I save my concern and outrage for all the unfair lies and never-ending "investigations" the GOP is throwing at her.
HILLARY/KAINE 2016
wearing white hoods...but no problem there because those have already endorsed Trump). She isn't bringing them to her rallies or hugging them. Let them endorse her and let them try to convince sane Republicans that it is ok to vote country over party. Once she is elected she will have her hands full with the asshole Republicans who will continue waste our tax money investigating emails and blocking any progress they can...just as they have been doing to President Obama. The endorsements of Republicans will be forgotten after she is president and it won't effect how she governs. She has no illusions about what the Republicans are about. When they are endorsing her, they aren't bashing her or spreading right wing lies about her. I'll take that and so should Hillary.
Hillary/Kaine 2016
