Lee Fang: Hillary Clinton Compared AL FROM To 9/11 First Responder -- For Rescuing The Dem Party

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Lee Fang @lhfang

creepy that Hillary compared Al From -strategist behind welfare reform, NAFTA, etc- to 9/11 first responder -- for rescuing the Dem Party

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Lee Fang: In this 2002 speech Hillary called for "more welfare reform," says cuts to police are "unilateral disarmament"

https://web.archive.org/web/20050504101842/http://www.ndol.org/ndol_ci.cfm?kaid=106&subid=122&contentid=250750 …


I would also like to thank Al From for inviting me here today, and especially for bringing the 2002 National Conversation to New York. I hope the Democratic Party will once again follow the DLC lead and bring the Democratic Convention to New York as well in 2004. If I'm ever invited to the Republican leadership Council, if there is such a thing, I'll ask them to bring the Republican convention here as well.

My friend Al From is a "first responder" of another kind -- he was a first responder to the needs of the Democratic Party and what ailed us back in the 1980's. I still remember his trip to Arkansas, his meeting with my husband, his passionate advocacy that ideas really mattered and we had to get back to the idea business and we had to stand for something larger than just trying to win elections and it was that philosophy and that passionate advocacy that brings this huge crowd from all over the country here today. It was a simple idea when you strip it all away. Good ideas, rooted in good values makes for good politics. But it took some convincing for us to drive that home.

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1. Really?…So said Third Way Hillary Clinton ….

[vintx]

2. It's amazing how much this party has changed.

[Kelvin Mace]

3. And HRC supporters get angry when I say I will not vote for her

[Octafish]

4. Al From: One-Percent Solutions for Democracy

What a guy.

[Overseas]

6. Sad K&R. Millions of us want our party to turn away from the old DLC Third Way.

It is too late for business as usual.