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Jarqui

(10,123 posts)
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 09:08 PM Jan 2016

Clinton: “We are on the right path, my friends. We just have to stay on it.”

In Iowa, Hillary Clinton Defends A System Everyone Else Is Trashing
Her pitch: Bernie Sanders is a pie-in-the-sky, tax-raising radical and she is a battle-tested leader and defender of Obamacare.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-iowa-campaign_us_56ae969de4b077d4fe8e970f


Direction of Country
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/direction_of_country-902.html

Right Direction: 29.7% Wrong Track: 63%

Look at the graph for how long people have felt that way.

This is what you call an out of touch politician.

People keep telling me she is smart but I cannot say I agree.

Trump (much as I can't stand him) and Sanders represent the different direction people (or Trump's loonies) want. Hillary doesn't.

Hillary is closer to "Leave everything alone. It's fine. We don't want a big squabble in Washington. I'll tweak a few policies to the right and we'll carry on."

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tk2kewl

(18,133 posts)
18. well, we do know who her friends are
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 11:16 PM
Jan 2016

and i'm sure her friends agree that we're on the right path for them

onecaliberal

(32,826 posts)
3. Highest poverty rate in history.
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 09:17 PM
Jan 2016

26 million uninsured. 62 people with the wealth of 3.4 billion. Crumbling infrastructure. Millions working 40+hours a week still can't feed their family.how can anyone calling themselves a democrat say we are on the right fucking path.
I hope all decent, caring people soundly reject this woman and her dangerous failure of an agenda.

Peregrine Took

(7,413 posts)
5. Oh Lord, I hope not....
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 09:18 PM
Jan 2016

Imagine a WH full of her Wall Street buddies, Bill's cronies, Chelsea with her future ambitions....UGH!

reformist2

(9,841 posts)
7. She has terrible political instincts. Her positions are correct in the moment, but wrong years later
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 09:21 PM
Jan 2016

She can read poll results, but she never seems to have a clue which way the wind is blowing.

Has she ever staked out a position that wasn't popular and stuck with it??

The last time she did anything bold was with health care, but that was over 20 years ago, and she's long since abandoned her viewpoint on that one.

 

davidn3600

(6,342 posts)
8. Question is...who are her "friends" she's referring to?
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 09:25 PM
Jan 2016

It's not the common working American, that's for sure. I think most of the working folk would say we are on the WRONG path.

Ferd Berfel

(3,687 posts)
9. He's on the right track - for her - for sure
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 09:25 PM
Jan 2016

I'm on the Left track and she's disappearing down a long dark tunnel


Jarqui

(10,123 posts)
11. She won't like the track those speaker fees are on if she doesn't win the primary
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 09:27 PM
Jan 2016

It'll be a BIG Wall Street crashing cut in pay

Jarqui

(10,123 posts)
16. For sure. The only think it will rattle is her ego
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 09:34 PM
Jan 2016

Apparently, no one can figure out where tens of millions of their money got to.

Jarqui

(10,123 posts)
13. I don't think he did such a bad job. And I like him
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 09:30 PM
Jan 2016

Hillary's leaning right but with her, you can't be sure where she's going because she'll say anything

Bernie's going for progressive stuff I've been for my whole life and he's been honest.

NowSam

(1,252 posts)
15. Its just that this path keeps going around in circles.
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 09:32 PM
Jan 2016

and I can't keep up with Ms. Clinton's changing of positions on every issue. If this circular path is the only choice then I will sit quietly by the side of the road. If the choice is still open when it rolls around to California voting I will vote for Bernie because I believe in his message. If that isn't the choice I will look at the bottom of the ticket and see if there is any ray of hope. Come on Iowa. It is now or never.

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