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In reply to the discussion: Please say no to Hillary Clinton in 2016! [View all]BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)I'm NOT centrist, but I'm NO loser, either. So far, SoS Clinton has got everything in place to win the White House, and that's all that matters to me - WINNING. All my hopes and dreams of moving this country forward on a more progressive path will be dead and buried if we can't get a Democrat into the White House and win back the Senate in 2016 (we'll have to wait for 2020 to have a chance to win back the House when it's time for Republicans to gerrymander again and we can stop them).
Also, for the left-leaning Indies who wax poetic over FDR, please stop doing that history revisionism and CYA. In his time, FDR was constantly attacked by people from his left flank. Constantly. FDR was attacked for being too close to Wall Street, that his New Deal was too pragmatic and didn't go far enough, and he was criticized for "preferring conservative rather than liberalism". Do any of these ring a bell?
Now, all of a sudden, FDR's become the Left's shining beacon of liberalism? Give me a break.