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chknltl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 12:02 AM
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Why I am against Senator Clinton
Edited on Sat May-24-08 12:35 AM by chknltl
(edited to fix spelling mishap)
Ask any American voter what is wrong with Washington DC and the response nine times out of ten will be LOBBYISTS. I agree to a degree because the lobbyists are doing someone else's bidding and getting paid for it. It is whose bidding they do that has me concerned. Are there any doubts that it is the corporatists who have been behind the terrible damage that has occurred to our Middle Class, to our Constitution, and to our democratic process?

The corporatists have spent the past two decades infiltrating our government through their lobbyists, they now have the best government that money can buy. The return on their investments have been tremendous, especially lately thanks to their tools in the bush crime family. Cheney was nothing more than a corporatist ensuring that his corporation, Halliburton and his buddies's corporations made record breaking profits!

Eventually the American electorate was bound to turn away from those who represented the corporatists over the needs of We The People. Are there any doubts that those who represented the corporatists by and large were in the Republican Party? We see now the erosion of that party as their base leaves them, many are sitting out, many are voting Democrat with the bigger percentage of those crossover voters selecting Senator Obama.

The corporatists knew this was going to happen. They knew that at some point the electorate would be so squeezed that they would want to throw the squeezers out of office. What would YOU do in their position? Would you want your cash cow to go away like that? Of course not, YOU would be about furthering your profits so you would find Democrats to switch to because they would be the next group to take power.

Which of the corporatists are doing best right now? The Oil Industry surely is doing well and the Military Industrial Complex is doing almost as well. Looking at who the Military Industrial Complex has turned to we find Senator Clinton. http://www.thought-criminal.org/article/node/909 I for one am absolutely disgusted by what the bush administration has done to the Middle East. They foster the very atmosphere needed to continue WAR in the Middle East as opposed to repairing the damage done there. The Military Industrialists must be loving this. So who voted for this war? Who saber rattles against Iran? So tell me who Senator Clinton represents? We The People or the Military Industrial corporatists? This is why I am against Senator Clinton.

We hear that Senator Clinton wants to mandate a health care plan. In her plan everyone is covered...in her plan EVERYONE sends money to who???? The Insurance industry. http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/michael-moore-says-insurance-industry-would-love-clintons-healthcare-plan-2008-02-22.html The Insurance industrialists are licking their chops over this. Who is being represented here? Yep, another group of corporatists...supposedly We The People will see the benefits but make no mistake about it, the health insurance industry is about to rake in record profits. To be fair, Senator Obama suffers from the same thing but at least he is not mandating his plan to everyone. The bottom line is that once again Senator Clinton is representing the corporatists..perhaps over the needs of We The People.

Are there any doubts that the Clintons have a larger base of corporatists than Senator Obama? If you agree that the problems in Washington DC are due to the corporatists would it make any sense to send their groomed representative to the White House? I don't think this is such a great idea. The corporatists infiltrated and destroyed the Republican Party...we cheer on their demise but are we going to allow that same thing to happen to our party?

I believe that the only reason Senator Clinton is still in this race is because the corporatists have invested far too much money into her. I don't think that it is about her ego or her need for power, I think it is because those she represents won't let her leave and they are scrambling to get her as much power as they can. I believe that they would settle for a VP slot for her...cheney has shown them that real power can be had in that position. They would use her to hamstring President Obama, they would use her to further their profits.

Of the three candidates who still stand, which one has the most corporatist ties, which one has the least and which one is in the middle. Senator Obama would be the one with the least... The corporatists would be raising their champaign glasses in toasts to each other should Senator Clinton and Senator mCcain be the last two standing.... We The People on the other hand would be fooled.... again.

This is why I am against Senator Clinton. I am against the corporate takeover of our government and I have little to convince me that Senator Clinton has ANY interest in turning that that trend around.

And then there is the Clinton stance on NAFTA and CAFTA....
And then there is the 'mainstream media' corporatists scramble to keep Senator Clinton in the race...
And then there is the Clinton Presidential campaign lately...
And then there is the dividing up of the Democratic Party making things easier for Senator mCcain...
And then there is the notion that Senator Clinton could wind up with the nomination should some 'tragedy' occur to Senator Obama...

I don't hate Senator Clinton...I just want her and her corporatist chums out of We The People's government.

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chknltl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 01:06 AM
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1. Shamelessly kicked
sigh
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calimary Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-25-08 04:14 PM
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18. By me, too!
:thumbsup:
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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 01:07 AM
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2. Excellent research efforts and commentary. K & R. eom
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chknltl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 03:01 PM
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8. Thanks
Not so much research, just looked for links to back up what I felt....there were PLENTY of those links. Typing into google: 'Military Industrial Complex Hillary Clinton' produces quite the cornucopia. To be fair, I wanted to add Bill Clinton with Big Oil to this piece but after researching the links he turned out to be more on our side than the side of the Oil corporatists...credit where credit is due in his case and my opinion of him has gone back up a notch. (Just a 'notch' though!)
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 01:07 AM
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3. There are so many reasons. :)
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chknltl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 03:08 PM
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10. Yes, there are but this is what concerns me the most.
I DO believe that capitalism unrestricted can destroy our democracy, I DO feel that the corporatists are doing JUST that, mostly unintentionally but the results are still there for all to see.
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AuntPatsy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 01:08 AM
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4. Excellent and one that I can agree with....thank you for that.
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chknltl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 04:40 PM
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11. Thanks for checking it out.
::):
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cliffordu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 01:20 AM
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5. Kicked. There should be more of this kind of thing here.
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chknltl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 04:43 PM
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12. Thank you
::):
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ForeignSpectator Donating Member (970 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 03:09 AM
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6. Thought the "Senatot" was intentional... "tot" means "dead" in German... n/t
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chknltl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 04:58 PM
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14. Interesting, but truth is, that was a spelling mishap...
'r' and 't' next to each other on keyboard and happy fingers... I did my spell check prior to adding the title and didn't catch that mishap until after posting. Strangely, even though I edited shortly after posting, the edited version does not jibe with the Greatest Page or GD-P versions.

I swear that I was not wishing for any dead Senators, I would like to see the corporatist backers find other forms of employment though. 'Senatot' (or 'dead Senator'), might be a great name for a hard rock band!

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ForeignSpectator Donating Member (970 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 05:23 PM
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15. I feel the same way, it was just the first split-second reaction I had though...
...reading it with the RFK remarks fresh on my mind.

:hi:
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intaglio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 05:09 AM
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7. Just a Kick
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K Gardner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 03:02 PM
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9. K&R
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 04:44 PM
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13. k&r
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chknltl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 09:46 PM
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16. One last kick by the OP.
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chknltl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-25-08 04:11 PM
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17. Ok last kick
REALLY
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