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Luminous Animal

(27,310 posts)
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 03:31 PM Mar 2016

Now trending on twitter #HistoryByHillary

Last edited Sat Mar 12, 2016, 05:10 PM - Edit history (1)

https://twitter.com/hashtag/HistoryByHillary?src=tren

2 events sparked this; 1) The flat out Nancy Reagan comment, and 2) her first statement regarding the Chicago protests in which she credited "melting hearts in the statehouse" in South Carolina for taking down the confederate flag. Lots of people remember the flag came down not by legislative action but this way:



A third event happened today. She says, ""I don't know where he was when I was trying to get health care in '93 and '94,"…

Um, Hillary… literally standing right behind you.

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, 1993 Clinton and Sanders appear at Dartmouth in 1993 to promote an overhaul of health care



http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4536221/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-1993

Apparently, she also forgot about this:



And this (via BMUS)

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Now trending on twitter #HistoryByHillary (Original Post) Luminous Animal Mar 2016 OP
Note to Mrs. Clinton nichomachus Mar 2016 #1
But really, is there anything more wonderful than sweet Clinton desperation? Barack_America Mar 2016 #2
selective amnesia. Blows the mind. Problably PTSD from sniper fire in Bosnia roguevalley Mar 2016 #5
I was thinking ... fierywoman Mar 2016 #16
her mama died of alzheimers. I also know that extreme stress can make you go nuts. I'll join you the roguevalley Mar 2016 #19
That was funny. DaveT Mar 2016 #18
Great stuff BernieforPres2016 Mar 2016 #3
It's problematic when she makes forgetful remarks pertaining to her own experiences. JimDandy Mar 2016 #9
I think they're just stupidity, not dementia BernieforPres2016 Mar 2016 #14
I agree passiveporcupine Mar 2016 #25
Message auto-removed Name removed Mar 2016 #4
It's fascinating -- in a car wreck sort of way RufusTFirefly Mar 2016 #6
Kick. Luminous Animal Mar 2016 #7
Will she announce her engagement to hootinholler Mar 2016 #8
Add this video to the collection, where Bernie really was in 1993: beam me up scottie Mar 2016 #10
Thank you. Luminous Animal Mar 2016 #11
You're welcome, and here's a well deserved kick/rec! beam me up scottie Mar 2016 #12
K/R UglyGreed Mar 2016 #13
K and R bigwillq Mar 2016 #15
She is such an annoying opportunistic liar. Joe the Revelator Mar 2016 #17
She doesn't seem to remember we are living in the internet age, we have access to photos & videos peacebird Mar 2016 #22
Of course, like all of her lies, Unknown Beatle Mar 2016 #32
Who da Fuck is staffing this person? truebluegreen Mar 2016 #20
ATTENTION CLINTON SUPPORTERS: Indepatriot Mar 2016 #21
She's just getting ready for her career after politics..... daleanime Mar 2016 #23
K & R FlatBaroque Mar 2016 #24
What amazes me is that she lies prolifically to win an election passiveporcupine Mar 2016 #26
And look who issued the corporatist rebuttal against Bernie: Dennis the Pedophile Menace Hastert! forest444 Mar 2016 #27
it's in the top 10 now dana_b Mar 2016 #28
Noting that the Twitter page, #HistoryByHillary SoapBox Mar 2016 #29
Her Ghandi "joke" from the 90s dana_b Mar 2016 #30
Vaguely! SoapBox Mar 2016 #31
here: dana_b Mar 2016 #33

Barack_America

(28,876 posts)
2. But really, is there anything more wonderful than sweet Clinton desperation?
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 03:41 PM
Mar 2016

And a Clinton campaign in clear meltdown?

fierywoman

(7,641 posts)
16. I was thinking ...
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 05:29 PM
Mar 2016

... early onset dementia. Some DUer will probably get this comment obliterated to DU black hole in space hell. Oh, well.

roguevalley

(40,656 posts)
19. her mama died of alzheimers. I also know that extreme stress can make you go nuts. I'll join you the
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 05:34 PM
Mar 2016

my friend. I don't expect this to last either

BernieforPres2016

(3,017 posts)
3. Great stuff
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 03:47 PM
Mar 2016

This statement today in direct contradiction of her handwritten note from Hillary (vintage 1993 when she was still using Rodham) in that picture, combined with her comment on Nancy Reagan yesterday, suggests that Hillary should be given a mental acuity test to see if she's still all here.

JimDandy

(7,318 posts)
9. It's problematic when she makes forgetful remarks pertaining to her own experiences.
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 05:04 PM
Mar 2016

Remarks such as the Nancy Regan AIDS remark are not as problematic, in a mental health way. I was not concerned when a relative I ended up caring for started to get confused regarding events or details of others lives. But when that relative started to forget or incorrectly recall events she had personally experienced or details of her family life, that's when it became clear we were dealing with dementia.

Hillary Clinton has now made a number of "forgetful" unmanaged remarks that have people questioning her memory. It's probable that Clinton's lapses are just due to tiredness, or the confusion of a busy, long life that involved routinely interacting with an large number of people. On the other hand, clearly her advisers, her campaign team and even the DNC have been intent on limiting her exposure to the public and managing every appearance and utterance of hers that they can. For all our sakes, I don't want any of the reasons for that kind of tight management of her to be the same as the ones Ronald Regan's team probably had when they managed him in the last year or two of his presidency.

BernieforPres2016

(3,017 posts)
14. I think they're just stupidity, not dementia
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 05:15 PM
Mar 2016

Twenty years ago, you could smear a political opponent and it would stick for a couple of days. By the time it was refuted you were on to another smear. That's the way the Lee Atwater smears worked and Clinton's people like Sid Blumenthal, James Carville, John Podesta and David Brock (first against the Clintons, then for them) learned from him and replicated it.

Now in the age of social media, the internet, YouTube, etc., when Hillary throws out a smear it boomerangs and hits her in the head almost before she gets the words out of her mouth. She knows Bernie Sanders never opposed single payer. He's advocated for it since he was in the U.S. Congress in 1990 and I'm sure long before that. She is just angry that he is embarrassing her over her ties to big money and closing on her in the polls.

Hillary shows plenty of mental acuity in the debates. The smears she has dropped in the last 2 debates were obviously planned in advance and carefully scripted.

passiveporcupine

(8,175 posts)
25. I agree
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 06:00 PM
Mar 2016
Hillary shows plenty of mental acuity in the debates. The smears she has dropped in the last 2 debates were obviously planned in advance and carefully scripted.


There is nothing accidental about her words. They are calculated to reach some people who will never hear the rebuttal. Some of it will stick and some of it will win her votes and that's all she cares about. But sometimes she takes it so far it really bites her, like the Reagan remark.

And the good thing about social media, is that it's becoming harder and harder with each generation to be able to use lies to win votes.

Response to Luminous Animal (Original post)

RufusTFirefly

(8,812 posts)
6. It's fascinating -- in a car wreck sort of way
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 03:57 PM
Mar 2016

Perhaps all that Bosnian sniper fire traumatized her to such an extent that it damaged her memory.

Or maybe the health care photos are faked. Just more dirty tricks from those horrible BernieBros!

Unknown Beatle

(2,672 posts)
32. Of course, like all of her lies,
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 07:08 PM
Mar 2016

she'll just say she misspoke. That's her go to line when she is caught lying, "I misspoke".

Nope, she lied. Maybe she should say, "I mislied".

 

truebluegreen

(9,033 posts)
20. Who da Fuck is staffing this person?
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 05:44 PM
Mar 2016

And has something actually happened to her memory, other than its inconvenience?

daleanime

(17,796 posts)
23. She's just getting ready for her career after politics.....
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 05:54 PM
Mar 2016

writing Texas textbooks, said with love and appreciation for all the hard working Texans who are fighting to restore sanity to their government.

passiveporcupine

(8,175 posts)
26. What amazes me is that she lies prolifically to win an election
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 06:02 PM
Mar 2016

Yet her supporters still believe her campaign promises...even those that were driven by shadowing Bernie's success.

forest444

(5,902 posts)
27. And look who issued the corporatist rebuttal against Bernie: Dennis the Pedophile Menace Hastert!
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 06:16 PM
Mar 2016

An unwitting, yet almost perfect, metaphor for our long-running health care debate. Integrity versus degeneracy.

SoapBox

(18,791 posts)
29. Noting that the Twitter page, #HistoryByHillary
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 06:26 PM
Mar 2016

is hilarious!

Anyone can read...it's chalk full of crap that she has said.

Flippy Floppy, Shape Shifting...Camp Weathervane is a mess.

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