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2016 Postmortem

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19. Oh I see: the word pragmatism has been usurped.

Thu Jan 14, 2016, 04:25 PM

Jan 2016

I hadn't realised that; thanks for the warning.

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I've never thought of Hillary as a pregmatist [View all] Rosa Luxemburg Jan 2016 OP

This is not inconsistent with HRC underthematrix Jan 2016 #1

Hillary is consistently inconsistent. Divernan Jan 2016 #2

Repeating something over and over again doesn't make it so. underthematrix Jan 2016 #3

She's not a weather vane. She's a Whirling Dervish. cherokeeprogressive Jan 2016 #4

She is the ultimate pragmatist. It's a lot easier to go along Skwmom Jan 2016 #5

That's an opportunist you are defining. She is that too, by the way. Betty Karlson Jan 2016 #12

The reason I use pragmatist Skwmom Jan 2016 #16

Oh I see: the word pragmatism has been usurped. Betty Karlson Jan 2016 #19

As the saying goes Rosa Luxemburg Jan 2016 #8

A person can be more than one type of -ist at a time, consider HereSince1628 Jan 2016 #7

Hillary can do almost anything her donors want if elected . daybranch Jan 2016 #10

I wasn't at those speeches and didn't read transcripts of them... HereSince1628 Jan 2016 #11

There are different kinds of pragmatists. Baitball Blogger Jan 2016 #9

ambitious and opportunistic are adjectives that come to mind. Hiraeth Jan 2016 #13

Yes Rosa Luxemburg Jan 2016 #14

DUMB AND DUMBER DESERVE WHAT THEY GET. HARD TO PITY STUPID. Hiraeth Jan 2016 #15

Opportunist not a pragmatist Ferd Berfel Jan 2016 #18