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In reply to the discussion: I support Hillary because she can bring change to our country [View all]merrily
(45,251 posts)The media spinners will do their bit, too. And the effort to direct our attention away from her history and breathlessly await her shiny, new campaign rhetoric has been underway at DU for months. But, let's review some highlights
She sat on the board of WalMart, one of the most notorious corporations in the nation. She worked for a corporate law firm. She was a founding member of the DLC in 1985. She urged her fellow senators to vote for the Iraq War. She has pandered to corporations for years, including a relatively recent speech in which she repeated the high tech corp. lie that 350 million Americans don't include people with high tech skills, so we need immigrants from other nations to do American jobs here, just as their countrymen do them overseas.
If campaign rhetoric, tailored to the new mood in the US since Occupy, overcomes her lifetime record, that would be very unfortunate for the Party and for the Nation.
BTW, OT a little, but speaking of populism, have you noticed that Obama's approval ratings have gone up dramatically since he started talking about things free junior college and lowering taxes on the middle class while increasing them on the rich?
Yeah, too bad America just won't elect populists, no matter what, huh?