The Real Hillary Clinton

[marmar]

via truthdig:



The Real Hillary Clinton

Posted on Apr 24, 2016
By Lila Garrett


Recently in the presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton supporters have complained vociferously that Bernie Sanders is being too critical. In reality, he’s been far too polite. He’s obviously uncomfortable insulting his opponent, shooting from the hip, using sarcasm instead of facts. Clinton’s comfort zone is all of that. Her sarcasm slops over the brim, and facts vanish like so much fairy dust. She dismisses the effective Sanders, with the solid progressive agenda, as a dreamer, while she, the proud warrior, paints herself as the pragmatist.

Enough of this. Let’s meet the real Clinton.

She has been running hard as an anti-gun candidate. Really? Then why, in 2008, did her then-opponent, Barack Obama, refer to her as “Annie Oakley”? Clinton was far more lenient on gun control at that time then Sanders ever was. If he’s pro-gun, why does he have a D- rating from the National Rifle Association? And in case you think she has completely turned around on the issue of guns, on March 19 she was given a whopping fundraiser by John Forbes, a major lobbyist of the NRA.

Not only is Clinton not the progressive she claims to be, she has consistently supported the agenda of corporations wishing to overrule government decisions (witness her strong previous support of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which gives corporations exactly that power).

Her foreign policy, endorsed not just by Henry Kissinger and neoconservative Robert Kagan, is lauded by Dick Cheney. Remember him? The Dr. Strangelove of the Bush administration? ...........(more)

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_real_hillary_clinton_20160424

[djean111]

1. Truth.

Although I would not be surprised to see this alerted on - because, nowadays, anything negative about Hillary, no matter if facts and links abound, has been labeled a RW smear.

Anyone who takes the time to read this, and still wonders why so many of us just absolutely cannot support her, is, IMO, pretty damned delusional.

[Baobab]

4. We have to understand how many trillions of dollars are made on war, drugs, health insurance, predat

predatory banking. Then we will understand why there is all this faux outrage.

Bernie is standing between them and their prey!

[Kip Humphrey]

2. Hillary supporters: What's it like to be in bed with Kissinger, Kagan, and Cheney?

Just wondering since most of you used to hate these guys and now you get to defend them???

That must be awkward.

[Scuba]

3. Hmmm. This is either ...

Sexist, or ...

A right-wing attack, or ...

An even-handed analysis of Hillary's actual record.










You be the judge.

[Baobab]

5. The right wing arent attacking her.

That's the whole point. The right are saying vote for her.

So left wing people need to vote for Sanders.

[JaneyVee]

6. Let me guess...

None of this article on the "real" Hillary Clinton touches on her decades of work in the field of civil rights, womens rights, or her philanthropy, her humanitarian work, her work running a global charity that fights world hunger and AIDS, etc etc etc. Or the fact that everyone she meets says she is the warmest, most compassionate person. Or that shes named most admired woman in the world 20x. etc etc etc

That article isnt the real Hillary Clinton, it is cherry picked propaganda. No thanks.

[marmar]

7. "Or the fact that everyone she meets says she is the warmest, most compassionate person."

Umm, I've heard quite a lot of the opposite. Maybe everyone she meets for a photo op.

[reddread]

8. you have some time to fill us in?

links seem to go a long way around here.
or just tell us all about it?
her humanitarian efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Honduras, Haiti, Saudi Arabia and Egypt
speak volumes, themselves.

[silvershadow]

9. K&R.

[Octafish]

10. Don't forget David Koch.

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/04/24/its-possible-koch-brother-says-hillary-clinton-might-be-best-choice-him