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iAZZZo

(358 posts)
Sat Apr 16, 2016, 07:32 PM Apr 2016

in honor of newsday's endorsement of hillary clinton this 2016 primary season

[/br]in honor of newsday's endorsement, here's some of pulitzer prize winner jimmy breslin's commentary on hillary clinton from newsday in 2005


COMMENTARY

Where's Hillary on Iraq?
Jimmy Breslin
November 30, 2005

(excerpt)
Hillary Clinton today holds the new North American record for fakery.

She copies. She sneaks and slithers past you with her opinion on a war that kills every day.

Hillary Clinton is in favor of the war and of executions. Sensational!

The other day, when Rep. John Murtha of Johnstown, Pa., called for a withdrawal from Iraq, and obviously did so with half the Pentagon behind him, Hillary said, no, we shouldn't pull out at this time. Oh, it would cause so much violence.

We must stay. It takes a national Alzheimer's for her to be able to try to get away with things like this. If Hillary Clinton wants this war to go on, then she should send her daughter to fight in Iraq.

We have had in New York as United States senators, Robert F. Kennedy, Jacob Javits and Daniel Moynihan. We now have Hillary Clinton blowing on her fingers as she goes about cracking the combination to another safe. If the one hand glistens, it is from the wedding ring that she has used to hypnotize the public so far. Beautiful.


http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/newsday/doc/279954056.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Nov+30%2C+2005&author=Breslin%2C+Jimmy&pub=Newsday&edition=&startpage=A.08&desc=Take+a+stand%3F+Not+our+Hillary
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in honor of newsday's endorsement of hillary clinton this 2016 primary season (Original Post) iAZZZo Apr 2016 OP
So sick of these corrupt propagandist mouthpeices. We need to break up the media congolomerates. GeorgiaPeanuts Apr 2016 #1
Its sort of amazing how irrelevant Bernie Sanders was Onlooker Apr 2016 #2
non-responsive post. nonetheless, will engage with contention about "claim to fame" iAZZZo Apr 2016 #4
Link JonLeibowitz Apr 2016 #3
 

Onlooker

(5,636 posts)
2. Its sort of amazing how irrelevant Bernie Sanders was
Sat Apr 16, 2016, 07:39 PM
Apr 2016

He may have been around a long time, but he was so irrelevant, he never really riled anyone.

When your claim to fame on gay rights is voting against a measure that passed anyway, you know you're pretty irrelevant. No one wrote about Sanders since he was so insignificant, but I suppose that's an advantage now. Imagine if he had accomplished some important things, then you'd see hard hitting articles about his support for toppling Saddam in 1999, his vote for war funding in 2001, his support for the Minutemen, his vote against the Brady bill, his support for states rights, his vote for the stealth bomber, and so on. But, since his votes didn't matter, he was ignored.

 

iAZZZo

(358 posts)
4. non-responsive post. nonetheless, will engage with contention about "claim to fame"
Sat Apr 16, 2016, 08:01 PM
Apr 2016

"When your claim to fame on gay rights is voting against a measure that passed anyway......"

link for sanders's claim supportive of your, "claim to fame on gay rights"

sounds like inference/projection

in the meantime, here's an excerpt from the former sos's commerical "this house"

looks like a republican's commecial, huh?





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