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Re: The Hillary Clinton thread
Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2016 11:21 pm
by Defiant
Re: The Hillary Clinton thread
Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2016 11:27 pm
by El Guapo
Yeah it's really hard to see how that could possibly be true for any politician who has run in more than one race. Even if you are literally the worst politician ever, at some point you're going to see a tiny bump in at least one poll.
Re: The Hillary Clinton thread
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 12:18 am
by Anonymous Bosch
Yeah, it seemed a little suspect when I heard it. It struck me as particularly odd coming from MSNBC.
But I believe it was Lawrence O'Donnell who made that particular statement, who's a self-described socialist. So perhaps he felt motivated for a little hatchet-jobbery after 'feeling the Bern.'
Re: The Hillary Clinton thread
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 8:11 am
by LordMortis
Defiant wrote:.... Warren.
What agenda does Obama claim her to have?
He never said. Look for Warren Obama TPP and you're likely to find the interviews. If I have time I will try to find it/them.
Re: The Hillary Clinton thread
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 9:58 am
by Defiant
Yeah, I'm not a fan of Obama's stance on the TPP, but that's one issue among many.
Re: The Hillary Clinton thread
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2016 12:18 pm
by LordMortis
At least we know that Hillary won't be extending all of the "failures of this current administration" this cycle
(How many remember that mantra in 2008 repeated by Clinton and Obama to ad nauseum)
http://usuncut.com/news/the-dnc-opens-t ... t-funding/
Re: The Hillary Clinton thread
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2016 12:53 pm
by Moliere
The Clinton System
It’s an axiom of Washington politics in the age of Citizens United and Super PACs that corporations and the very rich can channel almost unlimited amounts of money to candidates for high office to pave the way for later favors. According to the public service website Open Secrets, in the 2016 campaign, as of October, in addition to direct campaign contributions, Jeb Bush had at his disposal $103 million in “outside money”—groups such as PACs and Super PACs and so called “dark money” organizations that work on behalf of a particular candidate. Ted Cruz had $38 million in such funds, Marco Rubio $17 million, and Chris Christie $14 million.
Yet few have been as adept at exploiting this big-money politics as Bill and Hillary Clinton. In the 2016 campaign, as of October, Hillary Clinton had raised $20 million in “outside” money, on top of $77 million in direct campaign contributions—the highest in direct contributions of any candidate at the time. But she and her husband have other links to big donors, and they go back much further than the current election cycle. What stands out about what I will call the Clinton System is the scale and complexity of the connections involved, the length of time they have been in operation, the presence of former president Bill Clinton alongside Hillary as an equal partner in the enterprise, and the sheer magnitude of the funds involved.
Scale and complexity arise from the multiple channels that link Clinton donors to the Clintons: there is the stream of six-figure lecture fees paid to Bill and Hillary Clinton, mostly from large corporations and banks, which have earned them more than $125 million in the fifteen years since Bill Clinton left office in 2001. There are the direct payments to Hillary Clinton’s political campaigns, including for the Senate in 2000 and for the presidency in 2008 and now in 2016, which had reached a total of $712.4 million as of September 30, 2015, the most recent figures compiled by Open Secrets. Four of the top five sources of these funds are major banks: Citigroup Inc, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase & Co, and Morgan Stanley. The Clinton campaign meanwhile has set a goal of raising $1 billion for her Super PAC for the 2016 election.
Re: The Hillary Clinton thread
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2016 8:51 pm
by Zarathud
Perhaps it will take the Clintons beating the GOP at its own fundraising game to get a bipartisan consensus on limiting money in politics.
Re: The Hillary Clinton thread
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2016 3:14 am
by Pyperkub
Zarathud wrote:Perhaps it will take the Clintons beating the GOP at its own fundraising game to get a bipartisan consensus on limiting money in politics.
Clinton and bipartisan in the same sentence? You have far more faith than I in the GOP with Hillary as President.
Re: The Hillary Clinton thread
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2016 6:53 am
by raydude
Pyperkub wrote:Zarathud wrote:Perhaps it will take the Clintons beating the GOP at its own fundraising game to get a bipartisan consensus on limiting money in politics.
Clinton and bipartisan in the same sentence? You have far more faith than I in the GOP with Hillary as President.
I think it's the fact that, if Clinton wins, the GOP will have to face that either 1. It got beaten by a girl or 2. It got beaten by a candidate that took advantage of Citizens United. The latter is an issue they can do something about for the next election.
Re: The Hillary Clinton thread
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2016 8:09 am
by Rip
raydude wrote:Pyperkub wrote:Zarathud wrote:Perhaps it will take the Clintons beating the GOP at its own fundraising game to get a bipartisan consensus on limiting money in politics.
Clinton and bipartisan in the same sentence? You have far more faith than I in the GOP with Hillary as President.
I think it's the fact that, if Clinton wins, the GOP will have to face that either 1. It got beaten by a girl or 2. It got beaten by a candidate that took advantage of Citizens United. The latter is an issue they can do something about for the next election.
Blaming it on CU is just stupid. Look at all the money Bush has. Lots of money helps win elections, however it doesn't win them. Just ask Romney.
Re: The Hillary Clinton thread
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2016 8:36 am
by raydude
Rip wrote:raydude wrote:Pyperkub wrote:Zarathud wrote:Perhaps it will take the Clintons beating the GOP at its own fundraising game to get a bipartisan consensus on limiting money in politics.
Clinton and bipartisan in the same sentence? You have far more faith than I in the GOP with Hillary as President.
I think it's the fact that, if Clinton wins, the GOP will have to face that either 1. It got beaten by a girl or 2. It got beaten by a candidate that took advantage of Citizens United. The latter is an issue they can do something about for the next election.
Blaming it on CU is just stupid. Look at all the money Bush has. Lots of money helps win elections, however it doesn't win them. Just ask Romney.
So, if the Democrats win the election and the Republicans decide they want to revisit CU, we can hold hands and chant "Republicans are stupid, CU has nothing to do with it" ? And who says politics is divisive?

Re: The Hillary Clinton thread
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2016 8:43 am
by Rip
raydude wrote:Rip wrote:raydude wrote:Pyperkub wrote:Zarathud wrote:Perhaps it will take the Clintons beating the GOP at its own fundraising game to get a bipartisan consensus on limiting money in politics.
Clinton and bipartisan in the same sentence? You have far more faith than I in the GOP with Hillary as President.
I think it's the fact that, if Clinton wins, the GOP will have to face that either 1. It got beaten by a girl or 2. It got beaten by a candidate that took advantage of Citizens United. The latter is an issue they can do something about for the next election.
Blaming it on CU is just stupid. Look at all the money Bush has. Lots of money helps win elections, however it doesn't win them. Just ask Romney.
So, if the Democrats win the election and the Republicans decide they want to revisit CU, we can hold hands and chant "Republicans are stupid, CU has nothing to do with it" ? And who says politics is divisive?

Won't happen. Even if they lose they won't want to revisit CU.
Are you suggesting that if the Republicans lose the Democrats will suddenly be CU supporters?
Re: The Hillary Clinton thread
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2016 9:29 am
by raydude
Rip wrote:raydude wrote:Rip wrote:raydude wrote:Pyperkub wrote:Zarathud wrote:Perhaps it will take the Clintons beating the GOP at its own fundraising game to get a bipartisan consensus on limiting money in politics.
Clinton and bipartisan in the same sentence? You have far more faith than I in the GOP with Hillary as President.
I think it's the fact that, if Clinton wins, the GOP will have to face that either 1. It got beaten by a girl or 2. It got beaten by a candidate that took advantage of Citizens United. The latter is an issue they can do something about for the next election.
Blaming it on CU is just stupid. Look at all the money Bush has. Lots of money helps win elections, however it doesn't win them. Just ask Romney.
So, if the Democrats win the election and the Republicans decide they want to revisit CU, we can hold hands and chant "Republicans are stupid, CU has nothing to do with it" ? And who says politics is divisive?

Won't happen. Even if they lose they won't want to revisit CU.
Are you suggesting that if the Republicans lose the Democrats will suddenly be CU supporters?
Not at all. I'm merely suggesting that I will repost this exchange if what I suggest would happen, happens. In which case we'll be the bestest of buddies.

Re: The Hillary Clinton thread
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2016 1:21 pm
by Rip
Re: The Hillary Clinton thread
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2016 1:33 pm
by ImLawBoy
I have no interest in clicking on the link, but the url itself is glorious.
Re: The Hillary Clinton thread
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2016 1:37 pm
by Isgrimnur
It's like someone dumped out a political version of magnetic poetry and just started stringing together a word salad.
Re: The Hillary Clinton thread
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2016 1:50 pm
by Kraken
ImLawBoy wrote:I have no interest in clicking on the link, but the url itself is glorious.
Sex, guns, and rock-n-roll. Needs drugs. (I didn't click it either so I withdraw this post if drugs are present.)
Re: The Hillary Clinton thread
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2016 2:12 pm
by Rip
Well allow me to throw you a few juicy excerpts.
Sally Miller looked on in amusement as the man who would become the 42nd President of the United States slipped into her own frilly black nightgown.
The former Miss Arkansas has never forgotten how her younger lover proceeded to dance around the bedroom, serenading her with his saxophone and reducing her to a fit of giggles.
This playful scene was typical of the laughter-filled nights that ex-beauty queen Miller enjoyed with Bill Clinton during their 1983 affair, she tells Daily Mail Online in an exclusive interview.
The married Governor of Arkansas would frequently adopt the role of entertainer-in-chief to impress his glamorous older woman, a one-time Miss America finalist.
But while his attempts at lovemaking were largely forgettable, Clinton would rarely disappoint when it came to divulging intimate and potentially damaging secrets about his wife Hillary.
'Let's just get down to the facts,' she adds. 'Firstly, Bill didn't mind telling me that Hillary doesn't like sex.
'I take him at his word and he told me she liked females more than men. She was the child of a more progressive community. She was exposed to all the liberals, she was a flower child.
'Hillary does drugs too, that's the only time that she would entertain the idea - again, this is what Bill told me.
'While we were intimately involved he would say things like "gosh you need to come over and teach Hillary a few things".
'He said she probably wouldn't take to that idea much.
Their clandestine meetings typically included Bill goofing around and playing his sax while Miller, a trained singer and musician, accompanied him on her piano.
He would sometimes unwind by smoking a marijuana cigarette. Miller claims that she saw Clinton produce a pouch of white powder on several occasions and snort lines off her coffee table.
'I don't do drugs and I don't smoke. But if you come into my house and say "gosh I've had a bad day" I wouldn't know how to stop you,' said Miller.
'Bill is not the most handsome man. But he makes you feel like your breasts are the right size, your legs are the perfect length, you have an incredible body and on top of all that you're beautiful. There are not many men that can make a woman feel that way.
'Do I make it a point to have affairs with married men, no. But most everyone in Arkansas assumed that their marriage was a business arrangement.
'Bill never sounded like he was in love or locked into a loyal arrangement.'
Re: The Hillary Clinton thread
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2016 2:56 pm
by Jeff V
And we care about this....why? Or are we just supposed to not care about Republican private lives?
Re: The Hillary Clinton thread
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2016 3:03 pm
by Rip
Jeff V wrote:And we care about this....why? Or are we just supposed to not care about Republican private lives?
I don't know that I care as much as find it interesting and enlightening.
Re: The Hillary Clinton thread
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2016 3:06 pm
by Jeff V
I am not a voyeur. I don't find it the least bit "enlightening" about anything, and because it happened how many decades ago it is utterly, absolutely irrelevant.
Re: The Hillary Clinton thread
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2016 3:29 pm
by ImLawBoy
You're dead wrong, Jeff. Based on this stunning new information, I really think we should impeach Bill Clinton again.
Re: The Hillary Clinton thread
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2016 12:02 pm
by Jeff V
ImLawBoy wrote:You're dead wrong, Jeff. Based on this stunning new information, I really think we should impeach Bill Clinton again.
Sure, why not? It was obviously so very devastating to his career last time we spent millions to do so.
Re: The Hillary Clinton thread
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2016 1:59 pm
by Archinerd
Sounds like Rip is back to the old habit of writing Clinton fan fiction again.
Re: The Hillary Clinton thread
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2016 2:25 pm
by Kraken
While out drinking with a friend last night, I broached politics, and we discovered that we both like Bernie. I was surprised because my friend is quite wealthy, at least by my standards; I'd guess that he makes $250,000 a year, and he's currently on a sabbatical because a stock investment paid out so bigtime that he doesn't need income for six months. Yes, he lives in a big house in an expensive town and has to support three children and an ex-wife, but he's still doing very well for himself.
I had hoped he might offer to pick up the check considering I only make $9,000 a year. No such luck, although he did cover the difference when I came up $2 short for my half. But I digress.
We also discovered that we share such a low opinion of Clinton that, in a Clinton vs. Trump matchup -- well, we only avoided the discomfort of admitting the temptation to vote for Trump by observing that, as Massholes, we can safely stay home from the polls in November.
Nevertheless, we like to treat our votes as if they matter. I can't support Hillary, but I don't hate her enough to vote for an odious alternative. My friend was less forgiving. I see a lot of hatred for Clinton but with this guy it's like she'd kicked his puppy or something.
He considers Clinton the biggest threat to his personal interests. Sanders would tax the crap out of him but use the money to build a better society. Clinton would also tax the crap out of him, but she'd use it to support the status quo. Trump would not tax the crap out of him. Between Clinton and Sanders it's not how much of his money they're going to take but how they're going to spend it. Neither Clinton nor Trump are going to spend his money constructively, so he'd rather pay less and take his chances with the crazy.
Re: The Hillary Clinton thread
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2016 2:34 pm
by LordMortis
Kraken wrote:Between Clinton and Sanders it's not how much of his money they're going to take but how they're going to spend it. Neither Clinton nor Trump are going to spend his money constructively, so he'd rather pay less and take his chances with the crazy.
Absodamnedlutely! And I'm not even wealthy.
(Though I still don't subscribe to FREE COLLEGE FOR EVERYBODY!!)
Re: The Hillary Clinton thread
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2016 2:50 pm
by Rip
In one major poll, Bernie Sanders is now leading Hillary Clinton nationally. In most others, he’s not far behind from the former Secretary of State. Vermont’s Senator already has an “edge over Clinton in matchups with GOP opponents,” dispelling Clinton’s electability myth. In an average of national polls, Bernie Sanders is less than eight points from Hillary Clinton, after being over 50 points behind in 2015. In addition, there’s only one person capable of challenging a Republican in 2016 without James Comey declaring national security was jeopardized by a private server.
Bernie Sanders is the only Democratic candidate capable of winning the White House in 2016. Please name the last person to win the presidency alongside an ongoing FBI investigation, negative favorability ratings, questions about character linked to continual flip-flops, a dubious money trail of donors, and the genuine contempt of the rival political party. In reality, Clinton is a liability to Democrats, and certainly not the person capable of ensuring liberal Supreme Court nominees and President Obama’s legacy.
http://www.salon.com/2016/02/19/hillary ... t_the_gop/

Re: The Hillary Clinton thread
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2016 2:56 pm
by Defiant
"Clinton can't win the White House"
"Trump can't win the Presidency"
"There's no way Cruz can win the race"
"Sanders is far to left wing to win the race"
At this rate, we're going to have a vacancy for four years.
Still, at least one of the three branches of government will be filled.
Re: The Hillary Clinton thread
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2016 3:20 pm
by hepcat
Rip wrote: and the genuine contempt of the rival political party.
Holy crap, I can't recall the last time this happened with any other candidate!
...oh wait...an hour ago.
Re: The Hillary Clinton thread
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2016 3:32 pm
by Rip
hepcat wrote:Rip wrote: and the genuine contempt of the rival political party.
Holy crap, I can't recall the last time this happened with any other candidate!
...oh wait...an hour ago.
A sentence fragment without the rest of the sentence is meaningless.
Please name the last person to win the presidency alongside an ongoing FBI investigation, negative favorability ratings, questions about character linked to continual flip-flops, a dubious money trail of donors,
Re: The Hillary Clinton thread
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2016 3:37 pm
by hepcat
You seriously think the other candidates, even within their own party, aren't contemptuous of their rivals?
Although I'm guessing you were just looking for an excuse to quote that section again.
Re: The Hillary Clinton thread
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2016 3:41 pm
by Rip
hepcat wrote:You seriously think the other candidates, even within their own party, aren't contemptuous of their rivals?

I think none of them meet the other characteristics mentioned.
Regardless it isn't my opinion it is that of a leftwing rag you guys love to refer to.
In fact it is one of the five most liberal.
http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter- ... 011-3?op=1
The Hillary Clinton thread
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2016 3:44 pm
by Zarathud
How about...Bill Clinton...if you believed all that in 1992.
Hillary has survived 20 years of this partisan mud slinging, don't forget. And e-mail scandals are MUCH less interesting. No one cares.
Re: The Hillary Clinton thread
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2016 3:45 pm
by hepcat
Rip wrote:hepcat wrote:You seriously think the other candidates, even within their own party, aren't contemptuous of their rivals?

I think none of them meet the other characteristics mentioned.
Which would probably explain why I
only quoted the part about contempt.
Regardless it isn't my opinion it is that of a leftwing rag you guys love to refer to.
Oh boy, he's back to referring to everyone as "you guys" again! I love it when he does that.
We need to remember to lump him in with hardcore right wing extremists more often.
Re: The Hillary Clinton thread
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2016 3:49 pm
by Rip
hepcat wrote:Rip wrote:hepcat wrote:You seriously think the other candidates, even within their own party, aren't contemptuous of their rivals?

I think none of them meet the other characteristics mentioned.
Which would probably explain why I
only quoted the part about contempt.
Regardless it isn't my opinion it is that of a leftwing rag you guys love to refer to.
Oh boy, he's back to referring to everyone as "you guys" again! I love it when he does that.
We need to remember to lump him in with hardcore right wing extremists more often.
Which is why I said sentence fragments taken out of context have no meaning.
Re: The Hillary Clinton thread
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2016 3:52 pm
by hepcat
Then we've been taking you out of context for the last 10 years, my friend.
p.s. This may be my favorite quote from you for this week:
Regardless it isn't my opinion it is that of a leftwing rag you guys love to refer to.

Re: The Hillary Clinton thread
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2016 4:03 pm
by Rip
hepcat wrote:Then we've been taking you out of context for the last 10 years, my friend.
p.s. This may be my favorite quote from you for this week:
Regardless it isn't my opinion it is that of a leftwing rag you guys love to refer to.

Don't know what to say. It isn't my opinion, but their basis for it is accurate. I just still believe that Hill has a better chance than Bern. Thus my delight that many liberals are beginning to feel otherwise. I'm certainly encouraging every dem I know to vote for the bern.
Re: The Hillary Clinton thread
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2016 4:06 pm
by LordMortis
hepcat wrote:
Regardless it isn't my opinion it is that of a leftwing rag you guys love to refer to.
That's a little misogynistic way to refer to Clinton, isn't it?
Re: The Hillary Clinton thread
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2016 4:08 pm
by hepcat
Rip wrote:
Don't know what to say. It isn't my opinion, but their basis for it is accurate.
But you don't agree with it, got it.
I love that he affectionately refers to her as "Hill" now.