2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWhy hillary Clinton isn't considered trustworthy.
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If Clinton lived in Gobles, Michigan, had no library card and no Internet connection, we could accept her new-information excuse. But for the past 25 years, Clinton has had some of the best researchers at her disposala private staff, a campaign staff, the wizards at the State Department staff, a senatorial staff, the busy beavers from the Congressional Research Service and the White House staff. And, in fact, every indication and story we know about Hillary Clintons policy work belabors just how much she studies and learns. So if new or better information has been the impetus for her policy shifts, she must concede that she has a fat history of taking the wrong position in the early going and then requiring a re-do. The constant need for re-dos appears to indicate that shed make a lousy surgeon and a bad 3 a.m. president.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/democratic-debate-hillary-clinton-flip-flop-213247#ixzz3tq10neLB
Article citations;
hillary's flip-flop on same sex marriage:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/jun/17/hillary-clinton/hillary-clinton-change-position-same-sex-marriage/
hillary's flip-flop on immigration
http://theweek.com/articles/556421/hillary-clinton-already-crushed-republicans-immigration
hillary's flip-flop on gun control
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/04/1427635/-Hillary-Clinton-s-2008-position-on-gun-control-wasn-t-what-it-is-now
hillary's flip-flop on the TPP
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/oct/08/hillary-clinton/hillary-clinton-now-opposes-trans-pacific-partners/
hillary's flip-flop on mass incarceration
http://www.vox.com/2015/4/30/8522259/hillary-record-criminal-justice
hillary's flip-flop on the Iraq War
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/06/whats-missing-from-hillary-clintons-iraq-war-apology/372427/
hillary's flip-flop on Keystone
http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2015/10/democratic-debate-fact-check-october-000277
peacebird
(14,195 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)I don't trust her any farther than I can throw the Sphinx. Safire was right.
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)In rural alaska with a modem.
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)modestybl
(458 posts)...when she lead him by similar margins she now leads Sanders.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)firebrand80
(2,760 posts)When people hear enough of these fake "scandals," they start to believe that Hillary must be hiding something.
The difference now is that we see the some on the left joining the GOP in their attacks. I'm just glad a majority of Democrats aren't buying it.
Hepburn
(21,054 posts)Yeah, the faking about Monica L. is what lead to impeachment.
emulatorloo
(46,155 posts)While we are at it, do you believe a blow-job is an impeachable offense?
Hepburn
(21,054 posts)She stood by him like the dutiful wife during and after the fact and watched him lie. I could not have done that. A man like that? Wash that man right outta my hair.
emulatorloo
(46,155 posts)I don't have the right to judge Hillary for her decision to stay with Bill. Lots of marriages survive infidelity.
Is lying about sex an impeachable offense? That's what the Republicans and Ann Coulter claimed. But of course they are lying hypocrites.
IMHO Lots of things to go after when it comes to HRC's policies. Need not recycle "monicagate."
Take care and have a great day!
merrily
(45,251 posts)He was impeached for two counts of perjury and one of obstruction of justice. The fact that a Democratic Senate acquitted him does not mean he would have been acquitted in a court of law. To the contrary, almost everyone in the world knows he lied under oath.
You can try to trivialize that however you like, but it ain't nothing.
Beacool
(30,517 posts)Who gives a flying f*ck, other than RW a-holes, and apparently, Left Wing ones too????
Where are we, on a RW site? How low will some of you go to try to push your candidate to the forefront?
It won't work. The only thing you are all doing is pissing Hillary supporters to the point of no return.
merrily
(45,251 posts)except for the stupid personal insults, of course.
Beacool
(30,517 posts)How Hillary handles her marriage to Bill is none of anyone's business. The nerve of some of you.......
comradebillyboy
(10,955 posts)Who will be swayed by blaming Hillary for Bill's infidelity?
baldguy
(36,649 posts)The Berniestas should stop repeating vicious RW conservative talking points while they're claiming to be progressives.
...
baldguy
(36,649 posts)Pot meet kettle.
Bubzer
(4,211 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)Dawgs
(14,755 posts)peacebird
(14,195 posts)artislife
(9,497 posts)Thanks!
Oh. About the talking points. I don't care that Bill cheated on Hillary. They have a different kind of union.
Beacool
(30,517 posts)This place has jumped the shark. It has become another Free Republic when it comes to the Clintons. What's next? Hillary killed Vince Foster or a rehash of Benghazi?
jeff47
(26,549 posts)And forced her to not only vote for the Iraq war, but push many others to vote for it too?
And forced her to call the TPP the "gold standard" in treaties?
Wow...what a terribly weak candidate.
I'm saying that I disagree with the idea that changing policy positions is the reason people don't trust her.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)And then we find the right-wing scandals are actually a minority of reasons people don't trust third-way Democrats, including Clinton.
Naaaaaah. It must be that enormous numbers of Democrats spend all their time watching Fox.
firebrand80
(2,760 posts)I'd be happy to change my opinion.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)But you've made it clear data does not actually affect your opinions.
Bubzer
(4,211 posts)Wait...no, that's Hillary.
Bubzer
(4,211 posts)All those polls your compatriots ballyhoo so much? Well, there have been polls aplenty showing for a long time that a majority of Americans don't trust her. And her tendency to flip-flop more than most other politicians is major reason why.
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)>>>but push many others to vote for it too? >>>>>
I don't doubt you.... I just want a link. Or more specific info.
Thx.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)peacebird
(14,195 posts)firebrand80
(2,760 posts)and I don't think those kinds of things are the reason people don't trust her
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)Remarks cowardly lying bullshit
peacebird
(14,195 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)no matter how many times you deny it.
merrily
(45,251 posts)The marine recruiting officer story is internally inconsistent, too.
Bubzer
(4,211 posts)You really need to engage in some actual "fresh thinking"
firebrand80
(2,760 posts)Joining in on the RW attacks is something else entirely.
But, like I said, it won't work. She still has the support of a large majority of the party.
Bubzer
(4,211 posts)Characterizing them as RW attacks doesn't make it true.
merrily
(45,251 posts)TT
Hepburn
(21,054 posts)...there is something wrong with the Dem party.
JMHO
840high
(17,196 posts)Hepburn
(21,054 posts)When did we stop being FDR Dems?
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)The post isn't about "scandals", fake or otherwise. The post is about policies I and many others find objectionable. But nice try.
zalinda
(5,621 posts)just careful research. Hillary supporters must hate youtube, because Hillary is her own worst enemy. No one has to go to RW sites to find things to post. Every time she says something, all you have to do is go to youtube and find she said the opposite just a few years, months, weeks ago.
It's her own words, coming out of her mouth, that damn her. "We came, we saw, he died. LOL"
Z
Old Codger
(4,205 posts)Pretty hard to ignore facts, but you are doing a great job of it...
modestybl
(458 posts)... it is HRC's ever shifting positions on issues that Progressives have been pushing for years... it is about her DONOR base that she absolutely relies on for her campaign to exist whose interests are NOT the interests of the working and middle classes...
But typical smearing of Progessives by HRC supporters with false equivalences...
MaggieD
(7,393 posts)IMO, it's embarrassing that some segments of the left buys into it.
modestybl
(458 posts)...she has her votes, her speeches, her donor base and even her stunning defense of too-big -to-fail Wall Street banks using 9-11... her ties to these big banks is exactly why nothing will change with her in the WH...
However, the shrill and disengenuous arguments from HRCs supporters only underlines the fundamental weakness of her candidacy...
MaggieD
(7,393 posts)I don't see anything "shrill" about my post, but it is a good example of how his supporters tend to put a smearing spin on things. But whatever, just realize that the majority of Dems just don't buy into the smears on her anymore than they buy into the day in and day out smears on Obama. And are not going to in the future either.
modestybl
(458 posts)The rebuttals of the HRC crowd here just keep making my point for me...
MaggieD
(7,393 posts)That Bernie isn't winning then, huh?
Bubzer
(4,211 posts)If these scandals are fake, and are merely smears, you should be able to provide supportive evidence. I have yet to see a hillary supporter be able to refute those issues with anything substantive.
merrily
(45,251 posts)chervilant
(8,267 posts)The irony is rich. Do you not think that the "RW" is going to intensify their efforts to "bring down" Hillary if she is our party's nominee? There are many more "real" issues Clinton needs to address now in order to circumvent this, so that we don't have to tolerate a Republican POTUS after the next election.
Too many people have heard enough of these "fake" scandals, and they BELIEVE them. Furthermore, in a recent poll by Quinnipiac University, "liar" is the word most associated with Clinton. This certainly doesn't bode well.
I find it most disheartening that Clinton's supporters double down whenever anyone brings up REAL issues (her vote for the illegal invasion of Iraq, the sniper fire deceit, until VERY recently supporting "civil unions" instead of marriage for our LGBT brethren...the list could go on and on).
I may have to vote for Clinton in the primary, and I am well aware of the likelihood that too many people in the US, including the "RW" that so hates her, will be successful in preventing her from becoming our next POTUS. This is a most legitimate concern, no matter how much you want to deny it.
hedda_foil
(16,985 posts)And they believe it despite the fact that she is trusted so little even before the real RW attacks have begun.
This does NOT translate into electability.
chervilant
(8,267 posts)as do I, that this is a critical election in terms of scotching the corporate megalomaniacs' continued assault on our democracy? That, in and of itself, is a deal breaker for me: that Hillary is so closely tied to these hedonistic psychopaths.
I intend to continue to campaign for Bernie, with the fervent hope that he's our next POTUS. Oh, BTW, one of my former art students, who is now a first year student in college (I am SOOOOOOO very proud of her!), has made it clear that she and most of her peers are supporting Bernie. I love that he appeals to our younglings, and that he has helped engage so many of them in the political process!
hedda_foil
(16,985 posts)Actually, I think 2008 was the optimal time to reverse course from the path laid out by the oligarchs, and by voting for Obama, most of us fully expected that major correction to take place. Unfortunately, we misread him. Now, I believe that Bernie's election as President is the only remaining option to restore even a modicum of power to the 99.8%. And I'm very uncertain as to whether it can still be done at all.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Response to Bubzer (Original post)
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Hepburn
(21,054 posts)Bottom line: She has a problem with telling the truth.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Which means they're doing something right.
TIME TO PANIC
(1,894 posts)roguevalley
(40,656 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)CoffeeCat
(24,411 posts)The reason that Obama won the 2008 primary was because he represented the left, and we flocked to him when he ran against Hillary.
I consider myself part of the left and I am very proud of President Obama. Hillary, not so much.
You've highlighted a huge problem with Hillary. Nearly all Republicans consider her the devil; and the left wing of our party doesn't want her as our nominee. So much so, that they're fighting tooth and nail to get Bernie elected. I just read that Hillary is polling at about 6 percent with Independents.
No way in hell can she win a general election.
The centrist faction in the Democratic party cannot carry her over the finish line by themselves.
Say hello to President Trump if Hillary is our nominee.
cali
(114,904 posts)The facts speak for themselves.
modestybl
(458 posts)The "far right" is now the mainstream Repub Party, and they attack pretty much anything Fox News reviles... the "far left" as you would put it, fights for living wage, universal healthcare, strengthening and expanding SS, an FDR style public works program... what 60-80% of Americans support when asked outside of a partisan context, and what HRC opposes and dismisses.
So... the ideology of the Far Right and the New Deal are completely analogous in your mind? Only with a corporatist mentality...
But this is the M.O. Of the HRC campaign... she has the big money and the corrupt Democratic establishment solidly behind her, and an honest politician like Sanders is utterly anathema to their view of how politics should work.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)"Far left."
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)you felt better posting that OP.
CoffeeCat
(24,411 posts)...and made a real impact in helping that to go down in flames.
The TPP is such a horrible piece of legislation. I just read that Mexico has deemed that tuna cans that read "dolphin safe" create a "barrier to entry" for their country. So, ALL tuna-fish companies will be banned from continuing dolphin-safe practices. Hundreds of thousands of dolphins have been saved, but now hundreds of thousands will die.
This is one tiny sliver of what the TPP will do. Hillary called it "...the gold standard of trade agreements" and never fought against in, the way Elizabeth Warren fights against Wall Street.
We need a fighter like Bernie to stop this nonsense. Not someone who throws meaningless rhetoric at a huge problem.
A week before the TPP passed, Hillary came out against it. In effect, she could claim that she was against it, when she stood by and did nothing to help stop it.
Symbolism over substance. So wrong.
comradebillyboy
(10,955 posts)should have under cut the President she served, really? Loyalty has to count for something.
CoffeeCat
(24,411 posts)She's all over the map--making hollow decisions based on what will get her elected.
If the foundation of her decision to be pro-TPP was due to "loyalty" then why did Hillary come out against it?
Clearly, loyalty to Obama is not the common thread here.
The common thread is Hillary being loyal only to Hillary---while saying and doing anything during a campaign, in order to get herself elected.
merrily
(45,251 posts)Bank on it.
questionseverything
(11,836 posts)LexVegas
(6,959 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)and lifelong principles that people are flocking to see and hear and trying to re-weave them as hers. Not sure it's going to work.
merrily
(45,251 posts)Ditto Bernie's drawing crowds of nearly 30,000. However, now that her polls number seem great, she has been moving right and will continue so to do.
George II
(67,782 posts)DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)MaggieD
(7,393 posts)If other people don't it is because the media and lots of extreme leftists and also right wingers have spent a lot of time smearing her to get just that result. I don't buy into that nonsense. The fact that they are so desperate to take down a Dem icon is telling.
morningfog
(18,115 posts)bread_and_roses
(6,335 posts)Extreme leftists where? I am quite sure that i am one of the leftiest people on this board, and there's no way in any reality I could be defined as an "extreme." You will not, for instance, find a post from me calling for the abolition of all private property or the dissolution of all government. THAT's "extreme left - not advocating for universal health care - a standard among other developed countries - or greatly expanding social security, strong public services, FAIR (not "free"
trade, decent wages and the right to organize a union. Even advocating for a guaranteed national income is not "extreme left."
So where's the "extreme left" on this board or among Bernie supporters posting here? The very term makes me LOL in this context.
elljay
(1,178 posts)After decades of observing American politics, I fully expect just about every politician to flip-flop when expedient. The system is set up such that large donors and institutions have disproportionate influence over our leaders and it is clear that positions will change according to their requests. The media, both right and pseudo-liberal, have been on Hillary's case for 30 years and it is difficult to not let all of that advertising permeate one's thoughts. However, she is no less trustworthy than most others; we've just been deluged with the message that she is. That being said, I am voting for Bernie because I agree with his positions, and believe he is the rare politician who is honest and not beholden to the special interests. If he is not the Democratic nominee, I will gladly vote for Hillary as there is absolutely no doubt that the Supreme Court nominees from a Clinton administration will be highly superior to those from a Trump administration. Spend a few minutes thinking about Trump appointees.....it is scary.
merrily
(45,251 posts)becomes POTUS.
The SCOTUS is no longer a no-fail shibboleth. We had New Democrat President Clinton appointing a corporatist like Breyer and New Democrat President Obama appointing Kagan and also considering nominating a Republican and the next thing to a Republican, IMO, Cass Sunstein. (Breyer and Kagan both joined the Republicans in invalidating a portion of ACA, rather arbitrarily, IMO.)
http://www.salon.com/2010/03/26/court_3/
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=863294.
On the other hand, two of the most liberal Justices in the entire history of the SCOTUS were Warren and Stevens, nominated by Eisenhower and Ford, respectively. Warren had made his national political bones as AG of California, implementing internment of the Japanese and, to a much lesser extent, Germans and Italians. Kennedy, nominated by Reagan, has a number of times crossed over to vote with the Justices nominated by Democrats, including in the gay rights/equal marriage cases. On those, he has seemed a lot less shaky than Kagan, who before Obama nominated her, had stated flat out that there was no constitutional right to equal marriage.
So, it appears New Democrats are not necessarily reliable when it comes to nominating Justices likely to make liberal decisions and not even necessarily reliable when it comes to nominating Democratic Justices. On the other hand, it seems sitting on the SCOTUS bench can change Justices as it did Warren and Stevens. If New Democrats and DINOs want to keep using the SCOTUS to scare liberals into voting LOTE, they need to stop considering Republicans and corporatist DINOs as SCOTUS nominees.
However, no one is advocating electing a Republican President because you confused SOTU and SCOTUS or for any other reason. This is a primary. We are choosing between one Democrat or the other. And, when it comes to nominating a Justice likely to decide as I hope, New Democrats have proven unreliable. And that is another reason why Sanders, not Clinton, is my primary candidate. As discussed elsewhere, fewer Republicans, Indies and Democrats who flat out hate Sanders is another, as it portends a better shot in the general. http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=878212
See also: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=853599 (SCOTUS POTUS).
turbinetree
(27,546 posts)Honk--------------------for a politcal revolution Bernie 2016
merrily
(45,251 posts)they can stop with the politics of instilling terror over the Supreme Court. I'm over it.
turbinetree
(27,546 posts)from a very longtime ago, if you don't walk the walk or talk the talk, you are just another plastic hypocrite.
Did you read Ian Millhisers book on the Injustices, it nailed everything
Honk-------------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016
merrily
(45,251 posts)Maybe if live to 346.....
turbinetree
(27,546 posts)I think it's a very good book about the U.S Supreme Court
take care talk to you soon
Honk--------------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016
merrily
(45,251 posts)turbinetree
(27,546 posts)Honk---------------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016
Babel_17
(5,400 posts)askew
(1,464 posts)telling lies.
99Forever
(14,524 posts)....gotta blow in the wind.
Never saw so many panties get in such a bunch before. The weird part it's all over Hillary. WTF
FloridaBlues
(4,668 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)Nitram
(27,741 posts)It should read, "Why Hillary Clinton isn't considered trustworthy among Republicans and some Bernie supporters."
merrily
(45,251 posts)Denying it doesn't change it.
merrily
(45,251 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)The inability to change opinions leaves one stuck in yesterdays.
bvar22
(39,909 posts)She has only changed her campaign rhetoric, which is one BIG reason she is afraid to debate Democrats who KNOW her record.
I fully expect a Full 180 spin if she gets elected.
d_legendary1
(2,586 posts)Or so we're told.
olddots
(10,237 posts)to follow the path of oligaechy .
Beacool
(30,517 posts)Furthermore, I don't give a rat's tail end what any of you here may think about it.
Hillary WILL be the nominee. No matter how low some of you go to try to trash her. She will be the nominee for the simple reason that she has the support of the majority of Democratic voters. Therefore, the only thing these endless anti-Hillary posts have achieved is to anger her supporters and firm up their support for her.
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Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)It's really getting annoying to have to fight for every vote just because she wants to be President so bad.