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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 08:50 PM
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Clinton: "Why don't we hold these Wall Street money-grubbers responsible for their role.."

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2008/05/clinton_hits_moneygrubbers_at.html

INDIANAPOLIS--Sen. Hillary Clinton appealed directly to Indiana's middle-class voters tonight at a state Democratic Party fundraising event, invoking the Hoosier state's top sporting event as a call to action.

"With the Indy 500 right around the corner, let me ask you Indiana Democrats, are you ready to start your engines and get America going again?"

Paying homage to a state she must win on Tuesday, Clinton said, "Hoosiers are the kind of hard working people that keep this country going and growing. And it is time you had a president who knows that middle-class Americans are the backbone of this economy and the guarantor of the American dream."

Ratcheting up her populist-themed, us-against-them rhetoric, Clinton, who with her husband, former President Bill Clinton, reported earnings of $109 million over the last seven years, said: "Why don't we hold these Wall Street money-grubbers responsible for their role in this recession?"
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tabasco Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 08:58 PM
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1. Was she scolding Chelsea?
:shrug:
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 09:12 PM
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7. She must've been. If the hedge funds aren't "Wall Street money-grubbers" then WHO is??
I guess there's nobody Hillary won't trash if it suits her. :shrug:
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 08:58 PM
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2. Why didn't YOU hold yourself responsible for siding with and protecting BushInc all these years?
Gee, Hillary - you never took on Bush and Rove and would not LEAD any effort to oppose Bush on his policies and attacks on Dems for 7 YEARS!

You expect us to believe you mean to oppose those policies NOW?
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tabasco Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 09:01 PM
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3. Money-grubbing Clintons took $32 million for facilitating uranium deal with murderous dictator
Hill and Bill know all about money-grubbing.



http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/us/politics/31donor.html?_r=3&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=politics&pagewanted=1&adxnnlx=1209952866-sTNBjpH6sYkVReR8WC1V2Q
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Triana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 09:04 PM
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4. Gee Hillary, maybe you don't/won't hold those money-grubbers responsible because...
...you and Bill are ONE Of them!

Pfft!
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wileedog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 09:07 PM
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5. I wonder if she was using that term when she was with Wal-Mart?
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monktonman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 09:10 PM
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6. wonder if she'll loan me a grand or two? n/t
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billyoc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 09:15 PM
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8. Wow. She really said that without her mouth bursting into flames.
I wouldn't have expected that.
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bigtree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 09:27 PM
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9. so those investments of Bill's are the cause of the recession? Ha.
She's opposing the Bush tax cuts and is challenging the oil industry.

Does Obama have any investments?
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John Q. Citizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 09:42 PM
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10. "It's citizens like you who keep the watch spring of America tightly wound'
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MrSlayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 02:31 AM
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19. Yeah she lifted that right out of Chester A. Arthur's stump speech.
Plagiarist.
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kevinmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 09:44 PM
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11. All she has to do is use her Xmas Card list ..... they are all on it, n/t
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Medusa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 09:46 PM
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12. You mean like her daughter?
Another great disconnect from ole' Hillary.
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TragedyandHope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 10:28 PM
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13. Rich People, God Bless Us
:banghead:
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foo_bar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 10:45 PM
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14. I thought that was a code phrase for "Jews"
But how about December 8th, 2006 when Imus himself referred to the “Jewish management” at CBS as “money-grubbing bastards”?

http://www.rogouski.com/blog/cultural-criticism/2007/04/

At this point, the show’s executive producer, Bernard McGuirk, a regular on-air presence, said of the Blind Boys, “Even if you wear a beanie, how can you not love these guys?”

“I tried to put it in terms that these money-grubbing bastards could understand,” Imus replied. “I said: ‘They’re handicapped, they’re black and they’re blind. How do we lose here?’ And then a light bulb went off over their scummy little heads.”

http://www.forward.com/articles/imus-cbs-bosses-money-grubbing-jews/

we need to remind ourselves what anti-Semitism--the real thing--has actually looked like over the centuries. It had (and has) nothing to do with Israel or Zionism, but was rather a prototypical racist stereotyping, by means of which the alleged traits of certain individuals--"money-grubbing," "pushiness," moral degeneracy--are transformed via the alchemy of paranoid fantasy into the collective persona of "Jews" or "the Jew."

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20030505/green

Although the topic was put in the center of their political work rather recently, today`s nazi conception of capitalism associates directly with the ideology of National Socialism and follows the same reactionary and dipolar world view. On the one hand, this view contains the idea of a national economy and it´s “honest, German” labor - the so-called “constituting capital”; and the “money grubbing, Jewish” capital on the other hand.

http://schwerin.blogsport.de/2007/05/20/head-off-to-schwerin-distract-the-nazi-demonstration/

Or maybe Jew is a word we still choke on and don't want tagged to our newest American hero. Danny Pearl was no dirty, money-grubbing, baby-eating, Christ- and Palestinian-killer. He was an everyday "just doing his job" kind of hero.

http://www.thegully.com/essays/US/politics/020301_daniel_pearl.html

"The Jews of Temple Beth Sholom are sinful, greedy, Hell-bound, money-grubbing sodomites; and they have dedicated their synagogue to be a gay and lesbian propaganda mill and recruiting depot, soliciting young people to sodomy."
--Rev. Fred Phelps

http://moose-and-squirrel.com/bozo/bozo.html

You knew who Buchanan was talking about, for example, during the week of the Iowa straw poll when he blamed the farm crisis on "New York bankers" and "the money boys up in New York."

He didn't say "money-grubbing kikes," but it was there, lurking in the subtext.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/09/04/pat/print.html
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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 11:50 PM
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15. wow - are these snips linked from a central reference?
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foo_bar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 01:12 AM
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16. yep, Google
"Money-grubbing" in quotes plus any other keyword or phrase (say "Wall Street") yields a fairly comprehensive catalog of modern anti-semitism. It's not a shocker coming from Hillary as she outdoes Pat Buchanan on the right-wing populism front, but you'd think she wasn't elected to represent Wall Street and all the other benighted streets in Stepping Stone City.
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anigbrowl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 01:40 AM
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17. It's only a matter of time before she tells us to 'kick the bums out'. nt
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boppers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 01:58 AM
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18. Who was it that made insane amounts of money in the futures market?
I forget.
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