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merrily

(45,251 posts)
7. I have a vision, Autumn. I think you know what it is. You have a vision, too,
Tue Sep 16, 2014, 11:28 AM
Sep 2014

I know what it is. Not in detail, perhaps, but we know. Yet, you have very little info about me and I about you, not even a real surname. No decades of observing each other in the public eye. How much better do we know Hillary's vision than we know each other's? Infinitely better.

IMO, it's shameful that Robinson and others are pretending she's been shrouded in mystery until now, about to spring from the head of Zeus for the first time, fully developed, as did Athena. Just a cipher. No record. No history. No baggage. "Please tell us your vision." "She's going to have to tell America her vision." That's all I am hearing now, much as all I was hearing a couple of years ago was that, if Hillary runs in 2016, no one will even oppose her in the primary. Frickin' brainwashing attempts.

What has happened to journalism in this country is pitiful and, as you said, what has happened to the Democratic Party is heartbreaking to Democrats.

And, lest we forget what has happened to the Party, it was the DLC, which Hillary helped found and spread to Europe. That philosophy spread to and through other think tanks, like Third Way, the Progressive Policy Institute, Center for American Progress and No Labels. And that philosophy has permeated and altered the Democratic Party so much that it is now the New Democrat Party.

No mystery. Still the same Hillary who sat on the board of WalMart, whose full time employees needed Medicaid and food stamps. Still the same Hillary who used the Heritage Foundation plan for America's health care as the model for Billarycare--and still couldn't get it passed.

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Actions speak louder than words. My mind is made up, she may do more harm than good. NYC_SKP Sep 2014 #1
“we can build a growing economy of shared prosperity.” addresses the middle class and the wealthy Autumn Sep 2014 #2
Actually it's a nebulous statement, with nothing concrete to explain how. A political statement. sabrina 1 Sep 2014 #19
Why is Robinson pretending we don't know what Hillary stands for? merrily Sep 2014 #3
merrily there is an old saying, when there is no vision the people perish. Autumn Sep 2014 #5
I have a vision, Autumn. I think you know what it is. You have a vision, too, merrily Sep 2014 #7
Well, she's praising and snuggling up to Goldman Sachs hifiguy Sep 2014 #4
So, like all Republicans and New Democrats since Nixon? merrily Sep 2014 #13
I am sure she has been there. hifiguy Sep 2014 #14
I wonder if Bohemian Grove will finally go co-ed? merrily Sep 2014 #16
Exactly LittleBlue Sep 2014 #18
But it's her turn!!1! tularetom Sep 2014 #6
Every bit as inevitable as she was in Sept. 2006. merrily Sep 2014 #17
Yeah, that didn't work out so well for her, did it? tularetom Sep 2014 #20
Yes. Aw, geez. Another post I have to edit. Second or third today. merrily Sep 2014 #21
I almost lost it yesterday when she stood before the TV cameras up in Iowa ladjf Sep 2014 #8
Yes, using Chuckie's tag line from a horror movie to kinda sorta kick off merrily Sep 2014 #10
She has already told us her vision. Orsino Sep 2014 #9
He is not the only one using that phrasing, though, and not the first. merrily Sep 2014 #11
Ah. Orsino Sep 2014 #12
Yes, that, too, is consistent, as in, merrily Sep 2014 #15
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