Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumField guide to defending Hillary Clinton against every fake scandal
Whitewater was the beginning of the Hillary Clinton witch hunt. Hardly anybody understands Whitewater. The claims of honesty and trustworthiness began here. The Clintons lost their investment in the Whitewater Development Company. Their business partner, Jim and Susan McDougal, had a separate investment in another company which also failed. The McDougals retained the law firm that Hillary worked for, Rose Law Firm to handle their legal dealings. The claim is that the McDougals hired Clinton to offset the Clintons losses on Whitewater, which they considered to be a conflict of interest. Ken Starr, the pioneer of the Hillary witch hunts hurled accusation after accusation at the Clintons over this. After wasting 8 years and millions of taxpayer dollars and several independent investigations, a final report was issued in 2000 that stated that there was no evidence that the Clintons had engaged in any criminal wrongdoing. It was BS from the start, but dishonest Republicans keep the story alive today.
Wal-Mart: In 1986, Sam Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart was under pressure, from his wife and his shareholders, to appoint a woman to his Board of Directors. Based in Arkansas, they hired Hillary Clinton, then 40 year old Hillary Clinton. According to fellow board members and company executives, Hillary used her position to champion more women in management and a comprehensive environmental program. Being the least experienced in business at the time, her voice was silenced on Wal Marts anti-unionism stance, and minimum wage was not considered a huge national crisis at the time. Her years on the Wal-Mart board, from 1986 to 1992, gave her an unusual tutorial in the ways of American business a credential that could serve as an antidote to Republican efforts to portray her as an enemy of free markets and an advocate for big government. To say that Hillary doesnt understand business is dead wrong. While she had huge success in creating management opportunities for women at Wal Mart, the main attack line is that she supported low wages, which is not at all true. Looking at her track record in the Senate and as Secretary of State, she has always pushed for equal pay, and is fighting hard for a 40% increase in minimum wage, and for all improvements to middle class life in America.
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Jim__
(14,045 posts)brer cat
(24,401 posts)It is helpful to have this resource handy. It is amazing to me how many people toss these "scandals" around who have no idea what they are talking about. They have just heard something on the news or from one of the haters and assumed it was factual and relevant.
Henhouse
(646 posts)Course this guide will come in handy when Kathlyn Wiley and Linda Tripp come out of the closet to campaign for Trump.....lol
Her Sister
(6,444 posts)Bookmarking to read later. Thanks for posting this helpful guide/list ismnotwasm !
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Squinch
(50,773 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Thanks for this
stopbush
(24,375 posts)half truths coming from the MSM and the RWNM make an exception when the person being lied about is Hillary.
SharonClark
(10,005 posts)Henhouse
(646 posts)That was 1996.
I never thought I'd see the day that people on DU would be the ones diving into that right wing cesspool.
DemonGoddess
(4,640 posts)Lucinda
(31,170 posts)Cha
(295,899 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,916 posts)It went a long way to convince me how thoroughly the Rightwing has infiltrated the left. I abhor conspiracy theory politics, but it's a documented fact that Hillary Clintion has been the target of such attacks for decades. That some on the left not only picks the RW attacks, but enhances them and makes up their own is --disconcerting--
I don't blame the Rightwing for the decisions and opinions of the left. We are presumably compassionate, AND passionately care about the human condition from both social and economic standpoints. We want war to end and the environment to thrive. We want a expanding future for our children's and children's children ect. we want love, peace and happiness and discovery. We want good health. We want freedom of religion or freedom from religion. We want the entire world to thrive thus. This are not just worthy goals, but essential ones.
Yet we see denial of fundamental wrongs. Denial of racism when racism exists. Denial of sexism when sexism exists. Instead of debate, we see defensiveness. Instead of coming together, we let the lies of the right, the misconceptions of the left rip us apart.
This isn't the first time. The very structure of the Democratic Party allows for what is happening, that whole 'big tent' philosophy. What's different this time is back to my original point, how easily some Democrats use and expand on the lies of the right.
Did they really think we wouldn't fight back? Really?