Hillary's Dance: The Two-Faced Hypocritical 12-Step

[eridani]

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/04/18/hillarys-dance-two-faced-hypocritical-12-step

5. Free Trade

"This TPP sets the gold standard in trade agreements." ----Hillary Clinton, 11/15/12
"Based on what I know so far, I can’t support this agreement." ----Hillary Clinton, 10/08/15
"I did say, when I was secretary of state, three years ago, that I hoped it would be the gold standard." —Hillary Clinton, 10/13/15

Hillary was FOR, then AGAINST, and then either FOR OR AGAINST the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). According to one account, she has "a long record of verbally criticizing free-trade agreements, but then supporting them when in office."

6. Workers

"If you invest in your workers and in America's future, then we'll stand with you." —Hillary Clinton, 03/01/16

Campaign finance records show that a member of the Walton family donated over $350,000 to the Clinton "Victory Fund." Hillary, a former member of the Walmart Board of Directors, has refused to publicly criticize the company, which pays its workers so little that U.S. taxpayers have to subsidize them with over $6 billion in food stamps and other safety net funding.

7. Prison

"Black lives matter. Everyone in this country should stand firmly behind that." —Hillary Clinton, 07/20/15

Michelle Alexander notes that Hillary called black kids "super-predators" who needed to be brought "to heel," like dogs. To do this, she supported her husband's 1994 crime bill, which was so severe that food stamps were denied to anyone convicted of a felony drug offense, and public housing was disallowed -- at the risk of eviction for entire families -- for anyone with even an arrest.

[Divernan]

1. More of her dance steps re war, environment & banks, from OP link

If, sad to ponder, the presidential election comes down to Hillary Clinton vs. a Republican, we'll be left either way with a business-friendly neocon White House. Given Hillary's past deceits and reversals, it's easy to see why she doesn't inspire trust among the American people.

1. Environment
"I won’t let anyone take us backward, deny our economy the benefits of harnessing a clean energy future, or force our children to endure the catastrophe that would result from unchecked climate change." —Hillary Clinton, 11/29/15
Greenpeace estimates that the Clinton campaign has taken $4.5 million from fossil fuel lobbyists and donors, and Naomi Klein and Grist have reported on all the money received from ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips and other oil sources. In response, Hillary explained, rather incoherently, "I have money from people who work for fossil fuel companies. I am so sick of the Sanders campaign lying about me."

2. War
"Is there really any argument that America must remain a preeminent leader for peace and freedom..?" —Hillary Clinton, 10/31/06
Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, an advisor to the United Nations, called Hillary "the candidate of the War Machine." In her book, "Hillary's Choice," author Gail Sheehy claimed it was Hillary who encouraged the president to bomb Kosovo. Then, as Secretary of State in 2011, she strongly supported war in Libya, a country which today is overwhelmed with crime and joblessness and a lack of basic necessities. She backed the escalation of the Afghanistan war, and in 2012, according to Sachs, she was largely responsible for the obstruction of peace efforts in Syria.

3. Banks
"I'm going to go after big banks that pose a systemic risk." —Hillary Clinton, 02/26/16
Go after their money, that is. In the two years before starting her presidential campaign, Hillary was paid over $4 million in speaking fees from the big financial institutions. As summarized by Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, "Her closeness with big banks on Wall Street is sincere, it's heart-felt, long-established and well known."
Attendees at Hillary's Wall St. speeches referred to her as warm and "gushy" toward her audience, sounding "like a Goldman Sachs managing director," effectively telling them "We’re all in this together." She refuses to release the transcripts of her speeches to the big banks, saying, in a pout, she'll do it "when everyone else does."

[Divernan]

2. "Hillary keeps dancing around reality."

More from the OP link:
"I know how to get things done." —Hillary Clinton, 02/08/16

As noted by John Atcheson, "She only sponsored 3 Bills that became law during her 8 year tenure. One established an historic site in New York, another renamed a Post Office, and the third named a portion of a highway in New York after Timothy J. Russert."

Prime sponsors of bills do the heavy lifting - getting other legislators to co-sponsor; organizing state-wide hearings; recruiting support outside of the legislature.

Ain't one scintilla of heavy-lifting required for the 3 bills which Hillary prime-sponsored. These "naming" bills are automatically passed as courtesies among legislators. What the hell was she doing for 8 years?

[Scuba]

3. Yet some people still don't trust her. Weird.

[pdsimdars]

4. And the "bottom line", rubber meets road, etc.

[athena]

5. This kind of attack

against the person who is likely to be the Democratic Party's nominee is not appropriate for a site that calls itself "Democratic Underground."

Go ahead and post this stuff on Free Republic. That's where it belongs.

[nc4bo]

6. Attack = Truth? Since when? nt

[athena]

7. You're trying to destroy the likely Democratic nominee.

And you know it.

It's a shame that this kind of right-wing smear against the likely Democratic nominee is still tolerated on DU.

ETA: Calling Hillary a hypocrite is not the truth. If you can't discuss facts without name-calling, then clearly your facts are not strong enough in themselves.

[nc4bo]

8. She hasn't been nominated yet. This is what the primaries are all about.

There are facts everywhere on DU........have you bothered to read them or did you dismiss them as RW too?

[athena]

10. You're dreaming if you think Hillary is not the likely nominee.

And you know very well that this kind of attack on Hillary is designed to hurt her chances in November.

But go ahead. Every country gets the president it deserves. In the end, if the majority of Americans are so misogynistic that they would rather destroy themselves with President Trump than elect Hillary, then President Trump is exactly what they deserve.

I have read plenty of facts and have made up my opinion based on those facts. It is Bernie supporters who refuse to read the articles I post. It is Bernie supporters whose trust in their candidate is so weak that they are afraid to read anything that does not agree with their position.

[nc4bo]

11. LOL! You are going to hear a hella lot worse in the GE than anything said on DU. Be ready for it.

Hillary did this to herself, she and she alone owns it!

[athena]

12. Attacking someone with smears, and then claiming she did it to herself is disingenuous.

Furthermore, it is not a logical argument.

If I call you names, I can't claim you did it to yourself. Everyone is responsible for their own behavior. The person who gets mud thrown at them is not responsible for the mud-thrower's despicable actions. Using your logic, murderers should go free because the victims "did it to themselves". Just as a crime says more about the criminal than it does about the victim, the smears against Hillary say more about the smearers than they do about Hillary.

Really sad, what passes for discourse these days on DU.

[nc4bo]

13. LOL! nt

[athena]

14. "LOL" is not an argument.

Once again, you are only displaying that you have no arguments.

[nc4bo]

15. Since your fingers seem to be malfunctioning, small sample . Have a cup or urn of coffee,

Put your feet up and grab a bottle of aspirin and have a really, really swell day.

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Because Hillary Clinton is a flawed candidate that needs lots of help from outside sources.

By hook, by crook, by schemes, scams, tons of gray areas. There will be scandal after scandal in a Clinton, II WH but it's not to late to change course.

Too late is during the GE when there will be no refund, only buyer's remorse.

My condolences.

[Octafish]

9. She was on the board of anti-union Walmart for SIX YEARS.

Greg Palast talked about it.

But first, let's stop at Wal-Mart. Read an official biography of the Senator and you'll find her six-month stint on a child-protection task force. Yet you won't find her SIX YEARS on the board of directors of Wal-Mart Corporation. She may have earned a Grammy for "It Takes a Village to Raise a Child." But it takes a Governor's wife to provide cover for Wal-Mart's profiteering off systematic wage-enslavement of children in its factories in South America.

Sam Walton called Hillary, "My little lady." Sam paid her an eyebrow raising sum for a director - equal to 60% of her entire not-insubstantial salary as a lawyer. By contrast, Wendy Diaz (her real name), a 13-year-old in Honduras, was paid 25 cents an hour to make shirts for the "little lady's" label.

Hillary's rake-in was made possible by Wal-Mart's 100% union-free operation and out-sourcing of 100% of its manufacturing, some to prison factories in China. Now, you could say that Hillary couldn't hear the screams of the kiddies in Kamp Wal-Mart in Honduras. After all, she relied on the intelligence provided her by the President (of Wal-Mart).

SOURCE: http://www.gregpalast.com/hillarys-mother-fing-tour-business/