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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The Benghazi attack was not Hillary's fault. Republicans are responsible. [View all]Scuba
(53,475 posts)45. Note that the MSM only attacks Hillary over two issues on which she's clean ....
Neither Benghazi nor her email server are real issues.
Meanwhile, they never mention her IWR vote, her support for fracking or the TPP, her close associations with Pete Peterson and Henry Kissinger, her support for more H1B Visas, etc, etc, etc.
Fact is, America's oligarchs would find a Hillary presidency just dandy.
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/04/wall-street-republicans-hillary-clinton-2016-106070
If it turns out to be Jeb versus Hillary we would love that and either outcome would be fine, one top Republican-leaning Wall Street lawyer said over lunch in midtown Manhattan last week.
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The Benghazi attack was not Hillary's fault. Republicans are responsible. [View all]
cali
Aug 2015
OP
True- but there are plenty enough long time DUers who revved that piece of shit.
bettyellen
Aug 2015
#48
You hit it on the head: blowback. But, the proof is an open secret, right in the pages of the NYT:
leveymg
Aug 2015
#51