Quotations From Madame Hillary

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-- by Paul Street

"Hillary Clinton says the damnedest things, some more truthful than others. Below I run through some of my favorite Hillary quotes, adding some critical commentary and a concluding refection “lesser evil” voting."


(Snip)

Mrs. Clinton said something reliably factual at her high school alma mater in Park Ridge, Illinois, a Chicago suburb, during Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign. “I was a [Barry] Goldwater Girl” as a teenager,” she recalled. “But…after leaving Main South [High School], I went to Wellesley [College], still a Republican, but [with] a different kind of attitude….and then gradually over time in college and [Yale] law school I evolved my own political beliefs, which frankly are in some ways neither easily defined, they’re not dogmatically Republican, dogmatically Democrat, [not] easily defined as liberal or conservative…”

This was an honest reflection on her evolution from right-wing Republican (Goldwater in 1964) to centrist “Rockefeller” Republican (pro-Nelson Rockefeller and anti-Richard Nixon in 1968) to centrist Democrat in the 1970s and since. Still, it’s not quite the whole story. There’s an accurate translation of the statement: “I became a neoliberal ‘third-way’ corporatist working in accord with the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) to move the Democratic Party further to the Big Business-friendly right and away from its prior outward commitments to labor unions, working people, the poor, minorities, civil rights, feminism, social welfare, economic regulation, and environmental protection. Bill and I and other such conservative Democrats moved to the right of Rockefeller, Eisenhower and even Richard Nixon on social and economic policy.”

That neoliberal position is the essence of what dollar Democrats like Barack Obama and the Clintons mean when they call themselves “progressives who like to get things done.” It has defined her wealth- and power-serving career in “public service.” That is something Hillary didn’t wish to fully articulate for a very basic reason: it doesn’t fit very well with the fake-progressive populism-posturing Democratic presidential candidates engage in every four years, few more skillfully than her husband in 1992.


http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/29/quotations-from-madame-hillary/

[ChisolmTrailDem]

1. Be careful, I was hidden for posting a Hillary quote. nt

[Darb]

3. How did you like it?

Sucks no?

[AOR]

7. Well...I've never alerted on what anyone posted from any political position...

nor do I take part in juries to silence anyone and never will. Political commentary either stands up to investigation or it doesn't. The readers can decide without the efforts to silence anyone.

[John Poet]

2. ... who supported the neoconservative pro-war foreign policies

of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.

[Darb]

4. Uhh, that's hogwash.

Sell that shit at Bernie Underground, they are buying all that tripe.

[panader0]

5. Those darn facts!

[Darb]

6. So Hillary is in league with Cheney?

Sell that bullshit walkin'.

[PeaceNikki]

8. Pppppppffffffffffffffffffffffffft

Nice source.