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H2O Man

(73,333 posts)
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 09:33 PM Mar 2016

The Lie

I’d like to comment briefly on Hillary Clinton’s description of Nancy Reagan. I found it troubling, for several reasons. The most obvious is that it was an outright lie, which was insulting to a lot of good people. People were suffering and dying during the Reagan era, and the sad fact is that neither Ronald nor Nancy cared in the least. It had to hurt the family members and friends who heard this outright lie today.

A second reason is because of something I noted in an OP on March 1:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511380922

I am convinced that the Clinton campaign has written off the progressives, both in the Democratic Party and Democratic Left. I believe that significant parts of the Clinton campaign are planning to get votes from conservative republicans, if Trump wins their primary.

Today’s incident fits that like a glove.

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The Lie (Original Post) H2O Man Mar 2016 OP
At the potential of alienating the LGBT community? No way. Metric System Mar 2016 #1
Respectfully disagree. H2O Man Mar 2016 #5
She didn't misspeak. NPR just said she meant to reference Alzheimer's Arazi Mar 2016 #23
Yeah, that's my problem with that too. DeadLetterOffice Mar 2016 #41
Yes. She helped hide his declining mental acuity while he was a SITTING PRESIDENT. ebayfool Mar 2016 #128
Seems she still thinks her nomination is inevitable tk2kewl Mar 2016 #143
You clearly don't understand how the Clintons work. BillZBubb Mar 2016 #7
something to be proud of berningman Mar 2016 #11
I agree with you. Once the primary is over, where can they go? Jarqui Mar 2016 #80
I haven't voted for a Clinton since DOMA MNBrewer Mar 2016 #98
Ridiculous. Half of us are voting for Bernie already. DemocraticWing Mar 2016 #119
count one old alienated gay man Lucretius Mar 2016 #94
The Quilt! BallardWA Mar 2016 #114
That makes two of us, Lucretius Laughing Mirror Mar 2016 #155
You know that saying about "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"? Betty Karlson Mar 2016 #201
Is that like the saying that goes "Scorn me once, shame on me, scorn me twice, and I'll . . . Major Hogwash Mar 2016 #206
I think you're right. daleanime Mar 2016 #2
Yep. H2O Man Mar 2016 #19
oooooooooooooooooo... cynical. I like it. yourpaljoey Mar 2016 #3
Thanks. H2O Man Mar 2016 #20
I said that in a few earlier posts today so I fully agree Arazi Mar 2016 #4
Right. H2O Man Mar 2016 #22
she won't get to the mom this way roguevalley Mar 2016 #51
Three of my Hillary-leaning gay friends noiretextatique Mar 2016 #174
Absolutely speaking the language of Compassionate Conservatism. Octafish Mar 2016 #6
Right. H2O Man Mar 2016 #25
I expect I will watch it on TV stage left Mar 2016 #156
She's miscalculating this time. People will not vote for her as they used to do in the past. They sabrina 1 Mar 2016 #118
I'm in upstate NY bread_and_roses Mar 2016 #138
Hi! I'm seeing Bernie signs up here in the middle of FARMS. In the middle of nowhere! But not a sabrina 1 Mar 2016 #204
"Miscalculating" is a Hillary tradition, bvar22 Mar 2016 #166
Clinton does the best by far in the Confederacy Fumesucker Mar 2016 #8
Right. H2O Man Mar 2016 #9
her margins there come from BLACK voters bigtree Mar 2016 #14
Where did I use the term "confederates"? Please be specific. Fumesucker Mar 2016 #21
slick bigtree Mar 2016 #26
You made an accusation Fumesucker Mar 2016 #40
Mmm, the "Confederacy" may be just a shorthand way to say "Southern States," malthaussen Mar 2016 #44
as I think about it bigtree Mar 2016 #71
Well, I tend to understatement. malthaussen Mar 2016 #75
It is a perfectly valid predicate to describe a system emerging from feudalism kristopher Mar 2016 #189
Yep, the whole praising of nancy was part of the campaign. BillZBubb Mar 2016 #10
Yep. H2O Man Mar 2016 #27
I'm not buying this theory BernieforPres2016 Mar 2016 #12
Some do. H2O Man Mar 2016 #31
You're forgetting her ego. Maedhros Mar 2016 #33
we may be over thinking here. I just think she is stupid here roguevalley Mar 2016 #56
Thats a good point. Mbrow Mar 2016 #91
she hasn't writtten off progressives bigtree Mar 2016 #13
She admitted she was wrong because she got busted tularetom Mar 2016 #24
you mean she was corrected bigtree Mar 2016 #29
She said they PIONEERED a conversation that they... DeadLetterOffice Mar 2016 #49
she's admitted she was wrong bigtree Mar 2016 #73
She didn't misspeak. She made shit up. MNBrewer Mar 2016 #99
Wrong? That's A Laugh billhicks76 Mar 2016 #116
I really like and respect you. H2O Man Mar 2016 #34
she apologized and reversed her statement, full stop bigtree Mar 2016 #65
Thank you. H2O Man Mar 2016 #67
A "sorry I got caught lying" skepticscott Mar 2016 #96
You once said "Sanders' campaign admits to lying their asses off in a fundraising email" and.... Logical Mar 2016 #127
That line about the Reagans being strong advocates for stem cells. Loudestlib Mar 2016 #42
She has yet to clarify their record on HIV and AIDS, she needs to do so. In addition she Bluenorthwest Mar 2016 #113
She knew she lied, she just did not plan on being caught so quick. Nt Logical Mar 2016 #126
Yep... WillyT Mar 2016 #15
Thanks! H2O Man Mar 2016 #35
That makes a lot of sense, and the retraction and apology FlatBaroque Mar 2016 #16
And this way, she gets to be all things to all people! (Or so she thinks...) reformist2 Mar 2016 #18
Right. H2O Man Mar 2016 #36
What you say is true but I don't think that's what happened here. JackRiddler Mar 2016 #17
Very good. H2O Man Mar 2016 #38
Oh, sure they do. JackRiddler Mar 2016 #100
republicans will *never* vote for Clinton... TheProgressive Mar 2016 #28
That's simply untrue. H2O Man Mar 2016 #45
That's NY, I guess... TheProgressive Mar 2016 #62
Again, H2O Man Mar 2016 #77
By chance, do you have those 'numbers' from NYS? TheProgressive Mar 2016 #88
Yes but this Primary season druidity33 Mar 2016 #181
Oh, I disagree. malthaussen Mar 2016 #53
I updated my answer below... TheProgressive Mar 2016 #66
Oh sure they will. JackRiddler Mar 2016 #103
A woman who openly embraces war criminal Henry Kissinger farleftlib Mar 2016 #30
Well said. H2O Man Mar 2016 #47
KnR! Dont call me Shirley Mar 2016 #32
Thanks! H2O Man Mar 2016 #48
It does at least suggest something she might be hoping to gain. malthaussen Mar 2016 #37
Right. H2O Man Mar 2016 #52
The difficulty I see with that is... malthaussen Mar 2016 #63
Her attempt at CYA by claiming she was talking about Alzheimers is pathetic. Tierra_y_Libertad Mar 2016 #39
"Pathetic" H2O Man Mar 2016 #54
I'll add "obvious", and "calculated". Tierra_y_Libertad Mar 2016 #59
I agree! H2O Man Mar 2016 #61
Aw, c'mon, don't be shy... malthaussen Mar 2016 #69
I think it was just ignorant pandering ibegurpard Mar 2016 #43
Respectfully disagree. H2O Man Mar 2016 #58
if you're right ibegurpard Mar 2016 #82
Just like Bill praising Nixon and Reagan to the skies at THEIR funerals. n/t. Ken Burch Mar 2016 #46
Yep. H2O Man Mar 2016 #60
She is seriously Old Codger Mar 2016 #50
I agree H2O Man Mar 2016 #64
In another post Old Codger Mar 2016 #70
I have been getting H2O Man Mar 2016 #74
On both sides, be it noted. malthaussen Mar 2016 #84
I put nothing past them, nothing!! haikugal Mar 2016 #78
I don't Old Codger Mar 2016 #121
Agree with you... zentrum Mar 2016 #55
Oh, yes, definitely. H2O Man Mar 2016 #68
Quite astute observation you have about Hil pandering to neocon voters. Dont call me Shirley Mar 2016 #57
Per neocons, see: H2O Man Mar 2016 #72
Yes that is my take also... ljm2002 Mar 2016 #76
Right. H2O Man Mar 2016 #79
But it doesn't make any sense whatsoever. longship Mar 2016 #81
Because there's nothing ibegurpard Mar 2016 #87
Pretty much my point. It was an unforced error. longship Mar 2016 #90
It was indeed H2O Man Mar 2016 #170
I agree. MuseRider Mar 2016 #83
Scared patients... TeeYiYi Mar 2016 #97
Powerful. MuseRider Mar 2016 #104
. TeeYiYi Mar 2016 #107
Thank you. H2O Man Mar 2016 #171
I lost an uncle to AIDS. LS_Editor Mar 2016 #85
1986 Kittycat Mar 2016 #129
Thank you. H2O Man Mar 2016 #172
Kicked and recommended! Enthusiast Mar 2016 #86
Thank you. H2O Man Mar 2016 #173
She just desicrated my boy's grave Lucretius Mar 2016 #89
Thank you. H2O Man Mar 2016 #175
I believe Bill encouraged Trump to run in order to weaken Bernie's campaign. Uncle Joe Mar 2016 #92
Except that Mr Trump has been making disparaging and threatening noises towards Hillary. malthaussen Mar 2016 #93
Well Trump couldn't very well avoid doing that as he's running in the Republican Primary. Uncle Joe Mar 2016 #102
Disparage, yes, in the GE, not the primaries. malthaussen Mar 2016 #106
Bill knows Trump well enough to realize his penchant for bluster, and Uncle Joe Mar 2016 #115
i feel like the original plan was for trump to split the repub vote questionseverything Mar 2016 #148
Interesting. H2O Man Mar 2016 #177
I always thought that Hillary matched up well against Jeb, both were establishment Uncle Joe Mar 2016 #198
The Clintons are past masters at manipulating people and groups. Kip Humphrey Mar 2016 #95
Right! H2O Man Mar 2016 #178
My pet CT is that Trump is a stalking horse, that stalked too well. HereSince1628 Mar 2016 #101
I agree. H2O Man Mar 2016 #180
Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain . . . Major Hogwash Mar 2016 #105
The west is the best ..... H2O Man Mar 2016 #182
You are a treasure, Mr. Waterman. bunnies Mar 2016 #108
Thanks, bunnies! H2O Man Mar 2016 #183
Oh! I didn't think of that, for one minute, but yes, closeupready Mar 2016 #109
Thanks. H2O Man Mar 2016 #184
A poem HassleCat Mar 2016 #110
Thanks! H2O Man Mar 2016 #185
Some of you over think things. Beacool Mar 2016 #111
Do you say that to black people?... TeeYiYi Mar 2016 #117
Team Hillary thinks anti gay bigotry is 'different' and they excuse it constantly. Bluenorthwest Mar 2016 #141
Agreed cemaphonic Mar 2016 #131
"This place always feels like being in sixth grade . . ." Major Hogwash Mar 2016 #134
That comment just stinks, it reeks of contempt for LGBT and your own assumed superior status Bluenorthwest Mar 2016 #140
It´s better then the poster Puglover Mar 2016 #153
I understand the outrage, I get it. Beacool Mar 2016 #169
It is par for the course with her noiretextatique Mar 2016 #176
Respectfully disagree. H2O Man Mar 2016 #186
This message was self-deleted by its author Sensitive soul Mar 2016 #112
Thanks! H2O Man Mar 2016 #187
This is my problem.. Hillary could have said so many nice things mountain grammy Mar 2016 #120
Right. I agree. H2O Man Mar 2016 #188
It's insulting to the memory of a lot of DEAD people too. Spitfire of ATJ Mar 2016 #122
And their families. Major Hogwash Mar 2016 #123
Yes, indeed. H2O Man Mar 2016 #190
Yes, it does. senseandsensibility Mar 2016 #124
Right. H2O Man Mar 2016 #191
In other words, Hillary becoming the long-lost "GOP Establishment" candidate Wednesdays Mar 2016 #125
That is an interesting H2O Man Mar 2016 #192
There is a third possibility, perhaps she actually believed the incident occurred. Live and Learn Mar 2016 #130
I guess that it H2O Man Mar 2016 #193
significant parts of the Clinton campaign are planning to get votes from conservative republicans, AlbertCat Mar 2016 #132
Right. H2O Man Mar 2016 #194
It's' not a lie. It's history evolving! Bernblu Mar 2016 #133
Very good! H2O Man Mar 2016 #195
She may be assured that lost of progressives have written her off after her praise for that Betty Karlson Mar 2016 #135
Right. H2O Man Mar 2016 #196
She has lost me, I can tell you. I never thought to find myself LEFT of the Democratic party, but Betty Karlson Mar 2016 #200
Bizarre is what I call it. mmonk Mar 2016 #136
Bizarre, it is. H2O Man Mar 2016 #197
Hillary never speaks off script on something like this. She said what she meant to say. Ford_Prefect Mar 2016 #137
Absolutely...you can bet her statement had been thoroughly vetted skepticscott Mar 2016 #147
As I have said elsewhere a few times, Hillary is a surrogate Republican pretend to be a Democrat. kgnu_fan Mar 2016 #139
K&R Zorra Mar 2016 #142
Yes. Hillary will be far easier to 'work' with than Bernie lunatica Mar 2016 #144
the calculation seems to be that all of us to the Left of her will have no choice GreatGazoo Mar 2016 #145
That seems to be the case, when the AIDS comment is combined with claiming Kissinger as an adviser Babel_17 Mar 2016 #146
A disturbing history of exaggeration and outright falsehoods ... Auggie Mar 2016 #149
Clinton supposedy lost Michigan in part because her peeps crossed over to vote (R). merrily Mar 2016 #150
Good post as usual ladjf Mar 2016 #151
i'm beginning to think the clintons have political alzheimers veronique25 Mar 2016 #152
Sad K&R. But your March 1 post makes sense too... I hope Bernie wins a few more primaries and can Overseas Mar 2016 #154
I think it would besafe to conclude and argue that the "lie" stupidicus Mar 2016 #157
The Lie was for Millennials who are too young to remember. PADemD Mar 2016 #158
+1 nt stage left Mar 2016 #168
Nobody plays both sides of an issue better than Hillary jack_krass Mar 2016 #203
Sec. Clinton deserves a break on this one, seriously... jack_krass Mar 2016 #159
lol! political alzheimers, clinton-style veronique25 Mar 2016 #165
No one deserve a break on this Geronimoe Mar 2016 #199
Message auto-removed Name removed Mar 2016 #160
I don't know if dem leadership has decided they can win without the left or CrispyQ Mar 2016 #161
Hillary lying? Nickel79 Mar 2016 #162
There's Something In The Air...K&R bobthedrummer Mar 2016 #163
I believe that has long been the plan. Trump may well be a Clinton invention. nt silvershadow Mar 2016 #164
At our county assembly today randr Mar 2016 #167
Do you think Clinton supporters would be excusing Bernie? noiretextatique Mar 2016 #179
Sometimes the veil is pulled back... Docreed2003 Mar 2016 #202
Talked with young people yesterday. They see through this. nt kgnu_fan Mar 2016 #205
kick for refreshing memory kgnu_fan Mar 2016 #207
k&r Electric Monk Mar 2016 #208
yes; and there is even an article amborin Mar 2016 #209

H2O Man

(73,333 posts)
5. Respectfully disagree.
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 09:36 PM
Mar 2016

I'd expect Mitt Romney to say that, not Clinton.

Do you find it troubling? Or do you think she merely "mis-spoke"?

Arazi

(6,829 posts)
23. She didn't misspeak. NPR just said she meant to reference Alzheimer's
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 09:53 PM
Mar 2016

problem is Alzheimer's wasn't stigmatized and doesn't fit Clintons actual quote


“It may be hard for your viewers to remember how difficult it was for people to talk about HIV/AIDS back in the 1980s,” Mrs. Clinton, who was attending Mrs. Reagan’s funeral in Simi Valley, Calif., told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell. “And because of both President and Mrs. Reagan – in particular, Mrs. Reagan – we started a national conversation, when before nobody would talk about it. Nobody wanted anything to do with it.

DeadLetterOffice

(1,352 posts)
41. Yeah, that's my problem with that too.
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 10:02 PM
Mar 2016

And I painfully remember the 80's...

PLUS - did anyone in the Reagan family use the word "Alzheimer's" to describe Ronnie when he was still a sitting president? Didn't all that focus on the appalling tragedy that is Alzheimer's Disease happen AFTER he left office?

ebayfool

(3,411 posts)
128. Yes. She helped hide his declining mental acuity while he was a SITTING PRESIDENT.
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 02:01 AM
Mar 2016

She had done some work for Alzheimer's, but that's not being a decent person - that's following her selfish interests. She had no interest in stem cell research until it affect her personally.

So, even Clinton's "apology" is a lie!



 

tk2kewl

(18,133 posts)
143. Seems she still thinks her nomination is inevitable
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 10:21 AM
Mar 2016

A few gay friends have been Hillary supporters. I'm wondering if they are feeling differently now. Referring back to your mobile post: it seems as though Clinton doesn't seem to know how, or care to balance it for the primary, and continues to operate as if she will get the nomination and all those she alienates along the way will just fall in line.

BillZBubb

(10,650 posts)
7. You clearly don't understand how the Clintons work.
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 09:37 PM
Mar 2016

The gay community will get over it and fall in line. Heck many support her even after her DOMA embarrassment. The Clintons are expert at using various groups inside the party.

Jarqui

(10,110 posts)
80. I agree with you. Once the primary is over, where can they go?
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 10:23 PM
Mar 2016

Kind of under the bus for the general election to attract voters who still have a choice.

Trump is clearly a racist. Not many minorities can support him. That's the vast majority of 37% of the country. Let's say they get 73% = 27% of the 37%

That means they only have to get 23.001% of the remaining 63% of the white vote. = 36.5% of the white vote - which is achievable if she moves to the center during the general election.

I suspect that's the big picture strategy. They're bound to have something broken down for the battle ground states - some sort of common winning policies among them.

 

Lucretius

(18 posts)
94. count one old alienated gay man
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 10:53 PM
Mar 2016

I can never ever ever bring myself to vote for her. Think of Martin Delaney, think of Cleve Jones, think of Harvey Milk, think of the quilt and the names project! How could I?

BallardWA

(97 posts)
114. The Quilt!
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 11:57 PM
Mar 2016

Thank you for bringing this back into our consciousness.
My memories of 1984-1986 are centered around St. Vincent's and Lenox Hill.
When I left NY for Seattle, AIDS continued to rage unabated.
The quilt came to my new town, and as I minced my way around the squares
I found the first tangible evidence that those whom we had loved and lost
were not forgotten.

 

Betty Karlson

(7,231 posts)
201. You know that saying about "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"?
Sun Mar 13, 2016, 08:53 AM
Mar 2016

Just wait until this guy here gets his dress on, and then try to piss me off. That scorned woman has nothing on me.

And I'm not that old. I am a Millennial! (But with lost of older friends who sadly lived through the AIDS epidemic.)

Major Hogwash

(17,656 posts)
206. Is that like the saying that goes "Scorn me once, shame on me, scorn me twice, and I'll . . .
Mon Mar 14, 2016, 03:05 PM
Mar 2016

. . . run again, but this time I'll make it rain fire on the entire face of the earth with napalm?"





H2O Man

(73,333 posts)
19. Yep.
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 09:50 PM
Mar 2016

The Clinton campaign seems to take a bit of glee in assuming that we'll be stuck with no where else to go. And they wouldn't care if progressives simply stay home on election day.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
6. Absolutely speaking the language of Compassionate Conservatism.
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 09:36 PM
Mar 2016

Why not? She thinks she has the liberals and progressives in the bag -- they're not gonna vote for Drumpf.

She forgets the middle step: Getting in that position.

H2O Man

(73,333 posts)
25. Right.
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 09:53 PM
Mar 2016

The Clinton campaign assumes we will have no where else to go.

I expect to go to DC to see Bernie take the oath of office.

sabrina 1

(62,325 posts)
118. She's miscalculating this time. People will not vote for her as they used to do in the past. They
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 12:14 AM
Mar 2016

will focus on Congress where a real revolution is now happening. She is behind the times, using old methodologies that don't apply to today's political scenario.

She will not win the nomination anyhow. So it's a moot point. And if she thinks Republicans would ever vote for her, she is dreaming.

I love in a Conservative area of NY State. The people here are not rabid right wingers, but working class, farmers, etc but you cannot mention the name 'Clinton' here. These are the people she is expecting to vote for her? And if they won't, surely she doesn't expect the rabid Right to do so.

bread_and_roses

(6,335 posts)
138. I'm in upstate NY
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 09:13 AM
Mar 2016

Also in a conservative area - Southern Tier. Just giving you a wave & shout-out - glad you're in my state, I didn't know.

sabrina 1

(62,325 posts)
204. Hi! I'm seeing Bernie signs up here in the middle of FARMS. In the middle of nowhere! But not a
Mon Mar 14, 2016, 01:56 PM
Mar 2016

single Hillary or Trump sign. Glad you're here too. I was surprised to find out that Bernie is ahead of Hillary in NY by 2 points last poll I saw. I didn't think he had a chance here, now I'm psyched. Found several Bernie groups within driving distance here too. And found out many of my friends up here are Bernie supporters. I didn't know and never asked, but they volunteered the info which was great.

bigtree

(85,919 posts)
14. her margins there come from BLACK voters
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 09:47 PM
Mar 2016

...highly offensive to describe them as CONFEDERATES.

I'm surprised to find that distortion on a post complaining about 'lies'.

malthaussen

(17,066 posts)
44. Mmm, the "Confederacy" may be just a shorthand way to say "Southern States,"
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 10:04 PM
Mar 2016

... but I agree, rather unfelicitous when referring to black voters.

-- Mal

bigtree

(85,919 posts)
71. as I think about it
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 10:15 PM
Mar 2016

...it's more than 'unfelicitous' to refer to Democrats there as part of the 'confederacy,' obviously an attempt to equate that association with the worst of conservative politics.

malthaussen

(17,066 posts)
75. Well, I tend to understatement.
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 10:17 PM
Mar 2016

There's enough passion and partisanship floating around DU these days to make me even more inclined in that direction.

I'll agree with the unspoken point, however: those who oppose Mrs Clinton would do well to consider that writing off black voters will not win them any friends.

-- Mal

kristopher

(29,798 posts)
189. It is a perfectly valid predicate to describe a system emerging from feudalism
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 06:54 PM
Mar 2016

The slave states had what was essentially a feudal social structure. The legacy of that feudalistic value set still percolates through and permeates the society there.

BernieforPres2016

(3,017 posts)
12. I'm not buying this theory
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 09:44 PM
Mar 2016

Actual Republicans despise Hillary Clinton as much as they do Barack Obama, and she knows it. She will NEVER get their votes. Hillary and the DNC are corporatists who think Bernie supporters have nowhere else to go.

H2O Man

(73,333 posts)
31. Some do.
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 09:56 PM
Mar 2016

But the Goldman Sachs types don't. Do you really think they have more in common with Trump than Hillary? That they would prefer he wins the presidency, rather than Hillary?

 

Maedhros

(10,007 posts)
33. You're forgetting her ego.
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 09:58 PM
Mar 2016

Last edited Fri Mar 11, 2016, 11:38 PM - Edit history (1)

Maybe she believes that if she capitulates enough, and mouths enough conservative platitudes, then she can sway some sector of moderate Republicans to her cause.

Mbrow

(1,090 posts)
91. Thats a good point.
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 10:40 PM
Mar 2016

How many intelligent people in the past have been blind to the trunk barreling down on them till it hits? Honestly I don't think she would win the GE, I hope to hell I'm wrong because While I think she's in the corporations pockets She be a hell of a lot better then tRump.

bigtree

(85,919 posts)
13. she hasn't writtten off progressives
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 09:44 PM
Mar 2016

...and she admitted she was wrong in what she said about the Reagans and AIDS.

I'm sure it fits into this opportunistic rhetoric to call her a liar on this, but her immediate retraction doesn't make for a very good or effective lie, no matter how much it fits into her opponent's campaign strategy to paint her as a liar or unconcerned about these issues.


tularetom

(23,664 posts)
24. She admitted she was wrong because she got busted
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 09:53 PM
Mar 2016

Nobody ever "misspeaks". She lied. She thought nobody would remember. Its a disturbing habit with her. It may in fact be pathological.

bigtree

(85,919 posts)
29. you mean she was corrected
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 09:55 PM
Mar 2016

so what?

The retraction occurred in a matter of hours. Obviously the statement wasn't something she was invested in.

Has Sanders ever said something offensive that he's been compelled to retract?

DeadLetterOffice

(1,352 posts)
49. She said they PIONEERED a conversation that they...
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 10:06 PM
Mar 2016

...actually SUPPRESSED FOR A DECADE and which led to the DEATHS OF MY FRIENDS.

"Misspoke" and "retraction" really aren't gonna cut it for me on this one.

bigtree

(85,919 posts)
73. she's admitted she was wrong
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 10:15 PM
Mar 2016

...you do what you want.

I've also experienced deaths from AIDS among my immediate family and friends.

MNBrewer

(8,462 posts)
99. She didn't misspeak. She made shit up.
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 11:11 PM
Mar 2016

How can you read what she said and not believe that she was actually intending to say what she said? When I read it I thought "no, that can't be right", so I watched the video and saw it for myself. She was convinced that the Reagans were bringing up a conversation about HIV/AIDS in the 1980s.

 

billhicks76

(5,082 posts)
116. Wrong? That's A Laugh
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 12:06 AM
Mar 2016

She wasn't opining on something she didn't know about. She made statements she KNEW were wrong. That's defined as a LIE. And she lies so much she doesn't even know the difference anymore.

H2O Man

(73,333 posts)
34. I really like and respect you.
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 09:58 PM
Mar 2016

So I'm sorry that you find yourself in a position of trying to defend this. I know it goes against your grain.

bigtree

(85,919 posts)
65. she apologized and reversed her statement, full stop
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 10:11 PM
Mar 2016

...I'd give the same for Sanders.

Despite the temptation to respond in kind over the course of the 'liar,liar' campaign here against Hillary, I have not called Sanders' obvious distortions 'lies,' so it's not hard to accept the defense that she's made a misstatement.

I've said this before on one of your threads. My interests don't begin or end with the politics practiced here, especially in elections.

 

skepticscott

(13,029 posts)
96. A "sorry I got caught lying"
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 11:04 PM
Mar 2016

Isn't any kind of apology worth respecting. In no credible way could she have mistakenly believed that what she was saying was actually true.

 

Logical

(22,457 posts)
127. You once said "Sanders' campaign admits to lying their asses off in a fundraising email" and....
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 01:58 AM
Mar 2016

Made a whole post about itl, forgiveness? Bullshit!

 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
113. She has yet to clarify their record on HIV and AIDS, she needs to do so. In addition she
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 11:55 PM
Mar 2016

credited both Reagans for this work and obviously Ron did no Alzheimer's advocacy as he had Alzheimer's and was out of the public eye. He also did no stem cells advocacy, again only she did that. After he was out of the picture. So 'the Reagans' were not strong advocates for those two things and both were villains in the AIDS crisis.

FlatBaroque

(3,160 posts)
16. That makes a lot of sense, and the retraction and apology
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 09:48 PM
Mar 2016

on Twitter will be seen by far fewer eyeballs.

 

JackRiddler

(24,979 posts)
17. What you say is true but I don't think that's what happened here.
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 09:49 PM
Mar 2016

Blathering and pandering, pandering and blathering. She can no longer keep her own bullshit straight. Sort of like Trump, except she gets penalized for it. How unfair!

 

JackRiddler

(24,979 posts)
100. Oh, sure they do.
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 11:14 PM
Mar 2016

I see no gain for her in this transaction. She was totally trying to pander to the Reagan voters, by plan, but what she said was imporovised. And out came this bullshit. Of course if she had any respect for the victims, or any integrity, something would have stopped her. So really it's a combo of sucking up to the right (as you say) and being stupid, and being hollow. A perfect storm. Total meltdown. We may see a chain of these coming up as the campaign veers into damage control. They're fucking up on one of the constituencies they've been treating as if it was their property. Can only hope the machinery unravels fast enough, because Tuesday really is the whole game now.

 

TheProgressive

(1,656 posts)
28. republicans will *never* vote for Clinton...
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 09:55 PM
Mar 2016

I live in a majority republican county in CA. Even in 2006, they were saying that 'Hillary Clinton will take their guns'. This is what they were saying in 2006 -imagine what they are saying now...

H2O Man

(73,333 posts)
45. That's simply untrue.
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 10:04 PM
Mar 2016

As a resident of NYS, I don't need to rely upon my impressions of generic republicans. When Hillary ran for re-election to the Senate, she won a huge percentage of republicans. These included the NRA types.

The republican establishment, by the way, is distinct from the NRA republicans. Their interests and Hillary's have a lot of overlap.

Hence, I stand by what I said, with zero risk of error.

 

TheProgressive

(1,656 posts)
62. That's NY, I guess...
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 10:10 PM
Mar 2016

Yes, rich republicans see Clinton as one of their own - the 1%.

Elsewhere in the country, the 99% republicans, will never, repeat never, vote for Clinton...

As always, mileage does vary...

H2O Man

(73,333 posts)
77. Again,
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 10:19 PM
Mar 2016

the numbers from NYS document that I am correct. Hillary won virtually all the upstate counties, meaning the average, everyday republicans voted for her -- in overwhelming numbers.

I do note that national republican figures frequently try to discount NYS.

 

TheProgressive

(1,656 posts)
88. By chance, do you have those 'numbers' from NYS?
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 10:31 PM
Mar 2016

And, it's obvious that neither of us can predict the future...

But, finally, if it is a choice between Trump and Sanders, Sanders wins.
A choice between Trump and Clinton...?

druidity33

(6,435 posts)
181. Yes but this Primary season
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 06:30 PM
Mar 2016

Hillary has been hammering Bernie on his stance on guns and NRA rating, setting herself up as to his left on the issue. Do you think that will have an affect on conservative Primary votes? Does NY have a closed Primary, I forget...

Living here in Western Massachusetts reminds me in many ways of when i was living in Buffalo, NY (A lot less snow and wind though ). The rural, farming, spacious, small town landscape... reaalllyy has a lot of conservative voters. Voters that hunt and like their guns.



malthaussen

(17,066 posts)
53. Oh, I disagree.
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 10:07 PM
Mar 2016

I think it is a mistake to confuse the rabid, racist base with the greedy corporate tools. The latter are the ones Mrs Clinton would be addressing in this assessment.

-- Mal

 

TheProgressive

(1,656 posts)
66. I updated my answer below...
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 10:12 PM
Mar 2016

In summary, yes, rich 1% republicans will of course vote for her. The rest of the 99% republicans - *never*....

 

JackRiddler

(24,979 posts)
103. Oh sure they will.
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 11:19 PM
Mar 2016

Trump makes it possible. Clinton can sell the war mongering and the pious religiosity and do dog whistles on the social conservatism. But at the same time she has to treat the "fucking morons" of the left and the Democratic base as property. It explains a lot about the dynamics on this site the last few weeks - all the demands for loyalty oaths and the "resistance is futile" invective directed at the Sanders side.

 

farleftlib

(2,125 posts)
30. A woman who openly embraces war criminal Henry Kissinger
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 09:55 PM
Mar 2016

would not blink an eye at whitewashing the disgraceful record of the Reagans on AIDS. Why she continuously kicks dirt in the faces of victims is what is truly troubling.

malthaussen

(17,066 posts)
37. It does at least suggest something she might be hoping to gain.
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 10:00 PM
Mar 2016

Which was my question about the "misstatement." Somewhat Byzantine, but then the Clintons are consummate politicians.

So, your assessment is that this lie was informed more by mendacity than by fatigue or poor preparation? These were not off-the-cuff remarks, so she hasn't that excuse.

-- Mal

malthaussen

(17,066 posts)
63. The difficulty I see with that is...
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 10:10 PM
Mar 2016

... in a matchup of Mrs Clinton vs Mr Trump, surely she already has the support of those Republicans who would be touched by eulogizing Mrs Reagan. So such pandering would seem to be overpreparation; but then, can Mrs Clinton ever feel secure?

-- Mal

 

Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)
39. Her attempt at CYA by claiming she was talking about Alzheimers is pathetic.
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 10:01 PM
Mar 2016

But, certainly not surprising.

H2O Man

(73,333 posts)
58. Respectfully disagree.
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 10:09 PM
Mar 2016

I find myself in full agreement with the Hillary supporters who like to point out how well-prepared she is.

ibegurpard

(16,685 posts)
82. if you're right
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 10:24 PM
Mar 2016

And I don't think so just because I usually tend to go with the idea that the simplest explanation is the correct one, then that would make her evil.

 

Old Codger

(4,205 posts)
50. She is seriously
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 10:06 PM
Mar 2016

Mistaken, her assumptions are based, as far as I have seen,on her inevitability, she seems ot think that she has been measured for the crown and getting from here to there is a mere
formality.. She, and her cohorts didn't count on anything like what is happening..I seriously doubt she will stay in to the end, but then again if she does and the numbers are totally against her I will be very,very concerned as to what they may have planned.

H2O Man

(73,333 posts)
64. I agree
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 10:11 PM
Mar 2016

on all points.

We are reaching a dangerous point in this election. The news out of Chicago is very disturbing.

 

Old Codger

(4,205 posts)
70. In another post
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 10:15 PM
Mar 2016

I mention the similarities between the trump crowd and the run up by the nazi party and hitler, this is very similar and really startling that it can occur here...

H2O Man

(73,333 posts)
74. I have been getting
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 10:16 PM
Mar 2016

dozens of up-dates on Chicago. Reminds me of '68.

I am hoping that any and all violence can be avoided. But these people feel justified in their violent outbursts.

malthaussen

(17,066 posts)
84. On both sides, be it noted.
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 10:26 PM
Mar 2016

We have people crowing about how wonderful it is that the protesters clashed violently to shut down Mr Trump.

And even worse, and truly dumbfounding to me, we have supporters of Mrs Clinton claiming that the fact that some of the protesters were holding "Bernie" signs is a "win" for Mrs Clinton, which would seem to indicate that they are in more sympathy with Mr Trump and his supporters (whom he has been consistently inciting to violence), than those misguided individuals who seek to silence him.

And we wonder why so many of the young adopt the attitude of "A Plague a' both your houses?"

-- Mal

zentrum

(9,865 posts)
55. Agree with you...
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 10:08 PM
Mar 2016

On this side of the Democratic Civil War now unfolding, she and her surrogates and Super delegates feel "Anybody but Sanders". We are "f#@king retarded" as Rahm said. That faction detests us.

But I also think they are genuinely shocked that we're having the effect we're having. They didn't really see us coming…..and so are floundering. Flip flop floundering.

H2O Man

(73,333 posts)
68. Oh, yes, definitely.
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 10:14 PM
Mar 2016

Late last spring, they mistook Sanders's campaign for a silly attempt at a symbolic run. They had no idea what they were in store for.

ljm2002

(10,751 posts)
76. Yes that is my take also...
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 10:18 PM
Mar 2016

...I had been wondering why she would have said what she said. I could not see what possible political advantage she thought she could gain from it. And then I realized: Of course, this was one of her "pivoting to the GE" moments. She wasn't playing to Democrats at all, she was making soothing noises towards Republicans by spouting revisionist history about their idol, Saint Reagan, and his wife Nancy.

Well Hillary, I don't think it is going to work. And I don't think it will help you in the primaries either.

Dumb.

longship

(40,416 posts)
81. But it doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 10:23 PM
Mar 2016

I mean, she's running for the Democratic Party presidential nomination!

I see zero gain for this. And who in the Sam Hell running for president would express such an easily falsified opinion, especially one at the core principles of ones own party?

It makes no fucking sense. She could have said many nice things about Nancy Reagan with zero political damage. She chose this one.

Why? It makes no fucking sense at all.

ibegurpard

(16,685 posts)
87. Because there's nothing
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 10:29 PM
Mar 2016

Nice to say about Nancy that's not frivolous. Hillary had decided she was going to bolster her standing by giving credit to Nancy for something really serious...was going to look all presidential and bipartisan and shit... and stepped right in it. What I find offensive is that she obviously doesn't even care enough about AIDS OR Alzheimers to have the basic background knowledge necessary to prevent such a gaffe.

longship

(40,416 posts)
90. Pretty much my point. It was an unforced error.
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 10:37 PM
Mar 2016

A rather huge mistake in an election year by a candidate.

H2O Man

(73,333 posts)
170. It was indeed
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 06:13 PM
Mar 2016

an unforced error. But it is particularly brutal. The indifference that so much of our country showed for the suffering of our family members was highlighted by Ron & Nancy. It is hard to put into words how terrible their attitude was. And it is unbelievable that anyone would try to pretend that Ron & Nancy were anything other than pure evil with their smug indifference.

MuseRider

(34,060 posts)
83. I agree.
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 10:24 PM
Mar 2016

As a nurse I recall how upsetting that time was. Scared patients, return patients because we could not heal them. None of us could figure out, once it was a real obvious disease process targeting specific people, why there was no response when people were begging for help. How this escaped her is beyond me.

My brother died of AIDS 20 years after the Reagan administration acted so callously. The Reagan administration's reaction and non action is difficult enough to remember but to have that revised to the good is offensive beyond description and Hillary had to know better than that. She had to.

TeeYiYi

(8,028 posts)
97. Scared patients...
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 11:04 PM
Mar 2016

Your patients were my friends. They were so obviously sicker than anything I'd ever seen,...they were afraid, and desperate...and sick. They were so cold; walking around with blankets. I think they knew they were dying. I didn't... Maybe I did. They had walking pneumonia and Kaposi's Sarcoma... and fear. And a sense of capitulation. They were young. I was young...

I gave them blankets and hugs...and Valium to ease their fears and hopefully to make them just a little more comfortable as they faced their mortality alone. Even with friends and family close by, we all face death alone. My friends had no family close by... they had me, and a few other friends from the gay community...

I remember Wyatt. He wanted so badly just to be home with his mother while he was sick. His family lived just one state over... He never made it home. I held him until the Valium kicked in... He died the next day.

This scourge decimated my community and in the process, the world as I had come to know it.

I hate that a politician brought all of these scars to the forefront, for what?... To pander for votes? To appeal to Reagan republicans who might be on the fence?... So shallow. So hurtful.

TYY

MuseRider

(34,060 posts)
104. Powerful.
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 11:19 PM
Mar 2016

Those were terrifying years for so very many people. ((((Hugs))) to you for helping them. Dying is hard work, especially when you are frightened and no one knows how to make you better or even what it is that you have. You did the work many of us should have been able to and I can't help but think if this had been brought to the attention of our country in a better way we would have done better. We tried in the ICU's but they kept coming back sicker and sicker. Here in the center of the country there were not so many. We saw mostly pneumocystis and we had rarely seen much of that before.

I am so jaded anymore but found this to be like a sock in the gut. All for a few votes.

H2O Man

(73,333 posts)
171. Thank you.
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 06:15 PM
Mar 2016

It brought up a lot of painful memories for a lot of us. I appreciate your sharing your family's experience.

LS_Editor

(893 posts)
85. I lost an uncle to AIDS.
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 10:26 PM
Mar 2016

I am a member of the community she insulted today.

I was already a Bernie Sanders supporter, and after this and her lies about Sanders during the last debate it is very unlikely she will get my vote should she be the Democratic nominee. My state always goes Democratic, and I am beyond disgusted hy her.

I am done.

Kittycat

(10,493 posts)
129. 1986
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 02:11 AM
Mar 2016

I'm so sorry you have to carry that pain.

I lost my uncle, too. I've never gotten over how my family reacted when they found out he was positive. He was the world to me.

H2O Man

(73,333 posts)
172. Thank you.
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 06:16 PM
Mar 2016

I lost a family member, and several friends. And I saw the damage done to other families that I didn't know.

H2O Man

(73,333 posts)
175. Thank you.
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 06:21 PM
Mar 2016

I really appreciate your sharing why this is personal to you.

In the post-Reagan years, I would serve on the board of directs of the largest task force in NYS; it covered thirteen counties. I can say that in my years there, I never heard a single complimentary word on Ron and/or Nancy Reagan. Just the opposite.

Uncle Joe

(58,112 posts)
92. I believe Bill encouraged Trump to run in order to weaken Bernie's campaign.
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 10:41 PM
Mar 2016

Bill does have a good political sense, he knew the nation was angry and ready for a populist rising against establishment politics and economics.

After Bernie's announcement, Bill saw the writing on the wall, he knew that as awareness of Bernie and his message grew this could pose a threat to Hillary's chances at the nomination.

Having Trump run as a nationalistic pseudo populist could pull votes from Bernie's authentic progressive populism, both were tapping into anger with the status quo.

The primary difference being Bernie was/is actually going after the powers that be which largely supported Hillary and have long diminished the peoples' voice and economic power.

Trump was playing on appealing to the peoples' more base instincts, scapegoating the weak and most vulnerable while giving lip service about going against the establishment; of which Trump has been a long time member of.

Bernie's message is about uniting the people for the betterment of the whole, Trump is all about dividing the people in service to himself.

Thanks for the thread, H2O Man.

malthaussen

(17,066 posts)
93. Except that Mr Trump has been making disparaging and threatening noises towards Hillary.
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 10:52 PM
Mar 2016

It's not impossible that there is a multi-dimensional chess game going on, but I think that the Clinton camp did not take Mr Sanders seriously until recently, and so urging Mr Trump to run would be more along the lines of hoping to sow disruption in the GOP camp.

-- Mal

Uncle Joe

(58,112 posts)
102. Well Trump couldn't very well avoid doing that as he's running in the Republican Primary.
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 11:16 PM
Mar 2016

I don't believe Bill thought that Trump actually stood a legitimate chance at winning the Republican nomination until the corporate media kept him front and center in the American Peoples' consciousness 24/7 regardless of his utterances.

I believe that Bill was thinking the Republicans' overwhelming, well financed establishment powers would ultimately insure Jeb Bush as their nominee.

Even if Bill thought that Trump stood a small chance of winning the Republican nomination, he knew, especially after 2008 that the most immediate and critical obstacle was in winning the Democratic Nomination.

However Trump is in fact a corporate media creation, he's their monster, they never called him out about his absurdities or lack of substance, they never held him to account, they glamorized him for far too long.

Bill knew Bernie and his powerful message; that this threatened the DLC/Third Way stranglehold on the party, I have no doubt he saw Sanders as the greater threat even as the corporate media conglomerates ignored Bernie for so long.



malthaussen

(17,066 posts)
106. Disparage, yes, in the GE, not the primaries.
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 11:27 PM
Mar 2016

See, promising to indict Mrs Clinton if he is elected is not a tactic that I think Mr Clinton would favor. Mr Trump has basically had little to say about any Democrats other than the current administration, but what he has said suggests that he is not following a script produced by the Clinton machine. OTOH, they were (and apparently are) friends, which is somewhat puzzling as well.

But basically, I don't think that the Clintons were so prescient as to see that Mr Sanders was a genuine threat to their hegemony. If they thought the GOP establishment would secure the nomination for Mr Bush, why would they have not been equally sure the Democratic establishment would secure the nomination for Mrs Clinton? Especially as that is still the position of those who support that establishment?

-- Mal

Uncle Joe

(58,112 posts)
115. Bill knows Trump well enough to realize his penchant for bluster, and
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 12:01 AM
Mar 2016

I never meant to imply that Trump is following a script produced by the Clinton machine at least not entirely. I have no doubt during their telephone conversation just before Trump; announced that he didn't disclose to Bill his desire whether real or not to indict Hillary, as he took encouragement from Bill.

The Republican establishment machine has much more money than the Democratic version, not to mention the corporate media is most certainly in the Republican corner first and foremost, while only relying on the Democratic like as a fall back position, but the corporate media conglomerates were more afraid of Bernie winning than Jeb Bush losing.

Bernie announced up front that he wasn't playing by the standard rules of the game, knowing Bernie's history and consistency, Bill knew this was a threat to Hillary if the message got out to too many people. Especially considering the vast quantities of money the Clintons have made from speaking fees to Wall Street, the primary villains of the Great Recession.

I have no doubt the corporate media conglomerates knew this as well, that's precisely why they blacked out coverage of Bernie so drastically from the day he announced through most all of last year.

This is also why the corporate media conglomerates incessantly promoted Trump whether the coverage was warranted or not, as a means to diminish the quantity and quality coverage of Bernie and his message.

When Bernie talks substantial policy and issues, he still doesn't get near the coverage of Trump just selling steaks, the corporate media conglomerates in their absurdities created Trump, like I said he's their monster.

questionseverything

(9,631 posts)
148. i feel like the original plan was for trump to split the repub vote
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 12:37 PM
Mar 2016

allowing an hc win

but i don't think anyone factored in trump getting this much support or that trump may actually start believing his own stuff or how much trump would like the attention

H2O Man

(73,333 posts)
177. Interesting.
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 06:23 PM
Mar 2016

At the time Trump entered, I believed that his mission was to knee-cap Jeb Bush's campaign ....which, of course, he did. I suspect that it was the way in which his campaign caught on that convinced him to really go for the ultimate victory.

Uncle Joe

(58,112 posts)
198. I always thought that Hillary matched up well against Jeb, both were establishment
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 07:08 PM
Mar 2016

candidates, the Iraq vote would be moot as would Wall Street and super-pacs.

In addition too many people remembered the disastrous tenure of Bush the Least.

The same can't be said for a Bernie/Hillary match up, Bernie's strengths are diametrically opposed to Hillary's weaknesses in regards to the mood of the country.

After the Occupy Movement made its presence known, I believe Bill saw the writing on the political wall in regards to status quo politics and economics, he recognized the potential political threat of Bernie's message should it take hold.

The corporate media conglomerates did as well, I believe they saturated coverage of Trump and blacked out Bernie from the very beginning because they knew "some of" Trump's message also pulled from Bernie in regards to free trade, corruption of government due to mega-bucks and waging war, as I posted above because they feared a Bernie win more than a Jeb loss.

So the corporate media conglomerates were willing to take a gamble that Bernie would would lose and fall out of the race and that Trump would implode on his own, thus paving the way for establishment candidates to win out.

There is also the possibility that at least some of the corporate media conglomerates didn't really believe Trump to be anti-establishment and that his "populism" was just lip service to get elected. Trump has certainly benefited from the status quo.

Kip Humphrey

(4,753 posts)
95. The Clintons are past masters at manipulating people and groups.
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 10:55 PM
Mar 2016

BUT, it won't matter in this race. Let's just look at what has happened in the last 24 hours:

1. Bernie achieves 5,000,000 individual contributions - a new record
2. Bernie wins an Hispanic debate drawing a standing ovation at his close
3. A group of protesters (many of them Bernie supporters), saying "Enough is Enough!", interrupted a Trump bigot fest in Chicago and shut it down, providing a real-world demonstration of how Bernie's revolution works and how successfully it can get things done (in this case, citizens shutting down unwelcome bigoted speech in their home town)

PLUS,
Bernie beats Trump, Cruz and Rubio decisively in the GE.


WIN! Bernie WIN!

H2O Man

(73,333 posts)
178. Right!
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 06:26 PM
Mar 2016

Things are changing in the socio-political landscape .....and in general, it's the Washington "insiders" who are the last to recognize it while the shift is under way.

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)
101. My pet CT is that Trump is a stalking horse, that stalked too well.
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 11:14 PM
Mar 2016

The effect could be similar.

The RNC is too mainstream to go with a candidate inciting violence. But that doesn't mean Trump can't leave and take his hot teaheads with him.

H2O Man

(73,333 posts)
180. I agree.
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 06:27 PM
Mar 2016

I think he entered the primary to knee-cap Jeb. But the response he got convinced him to go for the whole ball of wax.

Major Hogwash

(17,656 posts)
105. Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain . . .
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 11:21 PM
Mar 2016

And all the children are insane . . . all the children are insane

In solidarity, H20 Man.

H2O Man

(73,333 posts)
184. Thanks.
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 06:44 PM
Mar 2016

When we consider her campaign's tactics -- and utter contempt for the Left -- it is difficult to come to any other conclusion. Her campaign shows far more respect for republicans in general, and rarely insults them in the open manner they show disdain for progressives.

 

HassleCat

(6,409 posts)
110. A poem
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 11:37 PM
Mar 2016

Wait, wait. You must wait.
Not yet time to triangulate.
One day after convention night,
Is soon enough
To veer to the right.

Beacool

(30,244 posts)
111. Some of you over think things.
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 11:42 PM
Mar 2016

She goofed and apologized. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Not everything is a calculated conspiracy. This place always feels like being in sixth grade, the same level of maturity.

So much drama......



TeeYiYi

(8,028 posts)
117. Do you say that to black people?...
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 12:08 AM
Mar 2016
re: Some of you overthink things.

Your dismissal of the feelings and experiences of LGBTs who lived through the scourge and decimation of the onslaught of AIDS in the early 80s during the Reagan era is palpable.

TYY
 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
141. Team Hillary thinks anti gay bigotry is 'different' and they excuse it constantly.
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 09:42 AM
Mar 2016

They are hypocrites of the first and worst sort. They exploit issues that deserve the finest quality advocacy.

cemaphonic

(4,138 posts)
131. Agreed
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 02:43 AM
Mar 2016

What advantage could possibly come of a glaringly obvious misstatement that you have to immediately retract, and risks alienating a key constituency? It was an embarrassing gaffe that she took back, and apologized for, not some nefarious ploy.

Major Hogwash

(17,656 posts)
134. "This place always feels like being in sixth grade . . ."
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 05:21 AM
Mar 2016

Don't know why you still come here then, if that's how you truly feel.

 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
140. That comment just stinks, it reeks of contempt for LGBT and your own assumed superior status
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 09:39 AM
Mar 2016

The fact that Team Hillary has spent months now parsing every word Bernie says to find something at which to take offense does not motivate me to extend even the slightest quarter to your candidate for this horrific statement.

Either she did it on purpose as the OP thinks and that's awful. Or she did it out of ignorance about the single largest public health crisis of her own lifetime, a crisis which took place while she and her husband were holding extremely high offices. Either way what she said was simply not true and her 'I misspoke' tweet insufficient correction and nonexistent apology.

I recommend that your cohort here move carefully and with great respect.

Puglover

(16,380 posts)
153. It´s better then the poster
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 01:18 PM
Mar 2016

that posted ¨ ¨ repeatedly regarding this whole thing last night. I wonder if Skinner will have a comment about that?

Beacool

(30,244 posts)
169. I understand the outrage, I get it.
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 05:42 PM
Mar 2016

She goofed royally. I don't know if she forgot about their legacy or confused it with Nancy's advocacy for stem cell research. Either way, this habit on DU of making everything some evil conspiracy is tedious. She screwed up, she apologized. I'm sure that it will be brought up again and she'll apologize again. What else is she supposed to do about it? Goodness knows that we have all said stupid things in our lives.

noiretextatique

(27,275 posts)
176. It is par for the course with her
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 06:23 PM
Mar 2016

Last edited Sat Mar 12, 2016, 07:03 PM - Edit history (1)

This is not my first time a the rodeo. I know how the Clintons operate. So do a lot of other people.

H2O Man

(73,333 posts)
186. Respectfully disagree.
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 06:51 PM
Mar 2016

I do not believe that Hillary says anything publicly, during a primary season, that hasn't been thought out beforehand. Especially so when the remarks are prepared for a high-profile event. I find it curious that anyone -- particularly her supporters -- would claim that she speaks off the cuff, without giving thought to what she is saying, especially at a high profile events.

While you and I may disagree on what candidate we support in the primaries, I hold you in high regard, and definitely respect your opinion. I wish that you would consider engaging in more conversations about "primary issues," including on the OP's I post.

Thanks!

Response to H2O Man (Original post)

mountain grammy

(26,571 posts)
120. This is my problem.. Hillary could have said so many nice things
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 12:32 AM
Mar 2016

and she did. She should have said nothing, NOTHING, about AIDS. She was giving a eulogy and had to say good things, but if you can't say something good, say nothing.. you know, like Nancy and Ronnie did while thousands were dying.

Really, how can this be "misspoke?" How does one who was a living, breathing adult living during that time say what Hillary said? It really is something a Republican would say.

H2O Man

(73,333 posts)
188. Right. I agree.
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 06:53 PM
Mar 2016

And I understand that funerals are very different settings than any other event. I always make a conscious attempt to set differences aside at funerals. But this crap seemed purposeful to me.

Major Hogwash

(17,656 posts)
123. And their families.
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 01:47 AM
Mar 2016

Who have a lot of surviving members still living in New York, Florida, Ohio, Illinois, and California.

As well as in Rhode Island, South Dakota, and Oregon.

And those are states that have yet to vote this primary season.
And just some of the relatives I have spread out clear across this great country of ours.



senseandsensibility

(16,713 posts)
124. Yes, it does.
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 01:54 AM
Mar 2016

Very troubling and sad, but hardly the first evidence that "Hill" has written off the progressives. We are "retards" to her and her cohorts.

Wednesdays

(17,249 posts)
125. In other words, Hillary becoming the long-lost "GOP Establishment" candidate
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 01:55 AM
Mar 2016

despite having a (D) after her name.

H2O Man

(73,333 posts)
192. That is an interesting
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 06:57 PM
Mar 2016

way of describing the situation. I think that a lot of Democrats believe that to be the case.

Live and Learn

(12,769 posts)
130. There is a third possibility, perhaps she actually believed the incident occurred.
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 02:25 AM
Mar 2016

It isn't more reassuring but it is possible. I am still bewildered by her sniper fire recall which she would have known there was footage of if she was attempting to lie.

H2O Man

(73,333 posts)
193. I guess that it
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 07:01 PM
Mar 2016

is possible, in theory, that she was confused, and really believed that Nancy was an advocate for those suffering and dying at the time. Maybe she thinks she remembers Barbara Bush stacking sand bags in New Orleans in 2005, during Katrina, too. But I'd put that way to the bottom of possibilities.

 

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)
132. significant parts of the Clinton campaign are planning to get votes from conservative republicans,
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 03:06 AM
Mar 2016

HA!

I hope that's their strategy!

It's not like conservatives have a pathological hatred of anything Clinton that has been steeping for over a decade now or anything....

H2O Man

(73,333 posts)
194. Right.
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 07:04 PM
Mar 2016

It's also important to look beneath the surface. The Bush and Clinton families, for example, have a close friendship. The truth is that Hillary is far more comfortable, in private, hanging out with the Bush family, than with any of us on DU. I don't think that Hillary's supporters here like to think about that. But it is definitely true.

 

Betty Karlson

(7,231 posts)
135. She may be assured that lost of progressives have written her off after her praise for that
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 07:21 AM
Mar 2016

selfish hypocrite Nancy Reagan. May she rot in Hell for all the callous disregard she had for gay people. And may Clinton see the light - this immoral operation has to end. This is just sick and sickening.

H2O Man

(73,333 posts)
196. Right.
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 07:06 PM
Mar 2016

She continues to make it more difficult for progressives to actually vote for her, should she win the nomination.

 

Betty Karlson

(7,231 posts)
200. She has lost me, I can tell you. I never thought to find myself LEFT of the Democratic party, but
Sun Mar 13, 2016, 08:50 AM
Mar 2016

after this campaign, either the party will have left Third Way, or it will have left me. Someone will be parting ways.

mmonk

(52,589 posts)
136. Bizarre is what I call it.
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 07:29 AM
Mar 2016

At least that was my first impression upon hearing about it. I went through a massive teeth extraction yesterday morning (my dentist said I still had time to get to Bernie's rally downtown) and I actually felt bad (too much trauma for one day). Exhausted, I snoozed and then check out the days event. I thought there has to be some kind of catch. Then I began wondering if she lost her mind. Still very bizarre.

Ford_Prefect

(7,828 posts)
137. Hillary never speaks off script on something like this. She said what she meant to say.
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 08:46 AM
Mar 2016

She has indeed calculated herself into this corner intentionally. Your previous post on her campaign tactics, strategy and proponents was very insightful. I have wondered for some time at the pattern of similar republican sounding commentary on her part and by her shills. Especially since it has repeated so often.

I have said elsewhere that they are using this campaign to denigrate the progressive wing in order to silence it, not only during the primaries but in future. There can be no other explanation for the repeated dirty tricks during caucuses and primary voting. She has built the machine exactly as it is to do exactly what we see them doing. The degree of control exerted on the ground during primary voting and caucuses has made that clear.

I have family members and close friends who are caught up in the cult of personality who really should know better. They do not see the avalanche behind the glowing image of the first woman president nobly striving against the uncivilized foe. Quite how they lost perspective is not for me to say. Some of them are very smart people indeed who really ought to be able to see past the posturing, rhetoric and fear mongering. To hear some of them mouthing all manner of excuses for her double talk turns my stomach. To see the fear in their eyes over the possibility of another Republican president when they are passionately trying to elect one is even more disturbing.

 

skepticscott

(13,029 posts)
147. Absolutely...you can bet her statement had been thoroughly vetted
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 12:20 PM
Mar 2016

by her stable of handlers, and that they were and are sure that it would do her more good than harm with potential voters. That is the one and only calculation. Truth is incidental.

kgnu_fan

(3,021 posts)
139. As I have said elsewhere a few times, Hillary is a surrogate Republican pretend to be a Democrat.
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 09:21 AM
Mar 2016

She was groomed by Kissinger. Beware.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
144. Yes. Hillary will be far easier to 'work' with than Bernie
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 11:39 AM
Mar 2016

for the establishment Republicans. So much easier to work with than Donald Trump that many will vote for her over Trump if it comes to that.

You have amazing insight H2O! I had not thought of that.

GreatGazoo

(3,937 posts)
145. the calculation seems to be that all of us to the Left of her will have no choice
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 11:43 AM
Mar 2016

so they instead target what they see as winnable conservatives.

It is as if the whole nation is one big swing state and she wants to be conservative enough to get to a safe 60+% right before the GE.

Babel_17

(5,400 posts)
146. That seems to be the case, when the AIDS comment is combined with claiming Kissinger as an adviser
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 12:00 PM
Mar 2016

People are looking hard at her statements, and seeing a pattern.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2016/03/11/hillary_clinton_praises_reagans_for_starting_a_national_conversation_about.html

In a Democratic debate last month, she proudly cited the praise of ghoulish war criminal Henry Kissinger, underlining every doubt that progressives harbor about her foreign policy.

Auggie

(31,067 posts)
149. A disturbing history of exaggeration and outright falsehoods ...
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 12:41 PM
Mar 2016

breaks my heart to see her and Wasserman-Schultz in control.

Thank goodness for Bernie.

merrily

(45,251 posts)
150. Clinton supposedy lost Michigan in part because her peeps crossed over to vote (R).
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 12:46 PM
Mar 2016

In every election, it's the party's right, not the party's left, that crosses over to vote for Nixon, or for Bush or whomever and then blames the party's left for losing the election.

That said, if Republicans want to help elect a Democrat, I won't be mad.

BTW, about 25% of Vermont's registered Republicans vote for Sanders for Senator. So, the Democratic Sssssocialissssst is quite capable of attracting Republican voters.

ladjf

(17,320 posts)
151. Good post as usual
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 12:53 PM
Mar 2016

If clintons strAtigy is alway the result of a calculation, She might consider using some good decision-making software. At least it would be consistent.

 

veronique25

(74 posts)
152. i'm beginning to think the clintons have political alzheimers
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 12:58 PM
Mar 2016

to say that the reagans began a national dialogue about hiv is the complete opposite of the truth

hillary is now running as a liberal republican (and trump is running as a conservative southern democrat)

because of these two political inversions, there is only one candidate who represents the social, economic, and cultural equality of the american people.

win or lose, bernie's america rules!

hillary voters: come on over!

we welcome you!

the agony of democracy is persuading people to vote for their best interests
-- jefferson

Overseas

(12,121 posts)
154. Sad K&R. But your March 1 post makes sense too... I hope Bernie wins a few more primaries and can
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 01:28 PM
Mar 2016

change her mind.

We need progressive change for the safety of our planet and to rebuild our long neglected infrastructure and our declining quality of life.

Republicans are beginning to admit that Trickle Down was a sham. All Democrats need to build on that.

Trump's gotten people mad about trade-- I hope she can admit that NAFTA failed to do what it was promoted to do and instead has led to countries being sued for strong environmental laws, with corporations gaining more power than countries. But she promoted the even-worse TPP as Secretary of State. But if she can evolve on other issues, I hope she can evolve on this one too.

I wish she would realize that a majority of us want our tax dollars going to universal health care. That it was instituted in other countries because they knew that industrialization would bring about more health problems and quickly changing economies would create more financial insecurity so at least we could provide some security for our fellow citizens through universal health care.

 

stupidicus

(2,570 posts)
157. I think it would besafe to conclude and argue that the "lie"
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 02:20 PM
Mar 2016

at the very least shows the likelihood of her paying more lip service to LGBT issues than anything else because that dark chapter of the Raygun legacy should be news to no one that cares about the issue and lived through it.

I don't think that they've "written off" the progressives of which you speak, I think her conduct and that of every DLC/3rdway leader conforms to their goal of supplanting them with corporate dollars/support implemented long ago, with more conservative voters in tow -- and particularly those that loathe or are in fear of republican excesses these days.

In other words, our disagreement lies largely about when the "writing off" occurred. You seem to think it occurred recently and this example id a manifestation of it. I think it happened a long time ago, and this example is just one of many on a long list that occurred in a closer temporal proximity

PADemD

(4,482 posts)
158. The Lie was for Millennials who are too young to remember.
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 02:29 PM
Mar 2016

The apology was for those too old to forget.

 

jack_krass

(1,009 posts)
203. Nobody plays both sides of an issue better than Hillary
Sun Mar 13, 2016, 10:43 AM
Mar 2016

She's almost got it down to an artform.

 

jack_krass

(1,009 posts)
159. Sec. Clinton deserves a break on this one, seriously...
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 03:21 PM
Mar 2016

Its not an easy thing, pandering to every interest group, every socioeconomic status, every political psersuasion, every race, every demographic, every industry in existence.

Facts and figures get confused and mixed up, left gets crossed up with right, etc. Seriously, Im amazed at how well how she keeps it all together!

 

veronique25

(74 posts)
165. lol! political alzheimers, clinton-style
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 04:41 PM
Mar 2016

it's beginning to appear like the only thing 'progressive' about the clintons anymore -- is their 'political alzheimers'

 

Geronimoe

(1,539 posts)
199. No one deserve a break on this
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 09:32 PM
Mar 2016

39 million people have died in part because the Government refused to listen to the Academy of Science who said early in Reagan's Presidency that $ 2 billion was needed to address HIV/AIDS. He provided less than $20 million.

Response to H2O Man (Original post)

CrispyQ

(36,231 posts)
161. I don't know if dem leadership has decided they can win without the left or
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 04:16 PM
Mar 2016

if they are certain we will fall in line again, like we have so many times before.

Every time she opens her mouth, I wonder if the close pin will hold long enough for me to vote for her, if she gets the nom.

 

Nickel79

(81 posts)
162. Hillary lying?
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 04:18 PM
Mar 2016

Say it ain't so! After observing her performance in the primaries thus far, it's absolutely astonishing to me that she's even competing with Bernie. There is absolutely nothing "progressive" about Hillary--she's a republican in my book.

randr

(12,408 posts)
167. At our county assembly today
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 05:26 PM
Mar 2016

I had a conversation with a Hillary supporter. That is exactly what she is hoping for. They think Trump has destroyed the Republican Party and that many centrist conservatives will vote for Hillary.
It is hard for me to wrap my head around the notion that Democratic supporters of Hillary would rely on Republicans to save the day for their choice of candidates.
With history on our side we will prevail outside of what the established political insiders think.

noiretextatique

(27,275 posts)
179. Do you think Clinton supporters would be excusing Bernie?
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 06:26 PM
Mar 2016

If he made such an egregious "mistake"? We need only look at ghettogate for an answer. He was relaying comments made to him by a BLM activist, and just look at how it got blown out-of-proportion. And by some of same people how are now defending Clinton.

Docreed2003

(16,817 posts)
202. Sometimes the veil is pulled back...
Sun Mar 13, 2016, 09:55 AM
Mar 2016

I think Sec Clinton said exactly what she meant to say with this comment. It was a prepared remark and it clearly was no misstatement. Sec Clinton contorts and twists to a given scenario, but I think this is one time where the real HRC is shown in full view. There's no other explanation for this. It's a disgusting and insulting statement, one which brought back severe hurt and harm to a huge segment of our community. There's no explanation for this statement other than its how she truly feels. Only with the blowback on this has she backtracked, and the excuses are embarrassing. She's apologized, and that's all well and good, but it doesn't change the fact that this was a planned comment and, I believe, one that highlights the real HRC

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