Queen Hillary Came to Play

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Hillary Clinton crushed it! There is no other way for me to put it.




Her performance Tuesday night at the first Democratic debate was so spectacular as to erase all doubt: Weakened as she may be, there is still fire in that belly, and she will not quietly shift to the side to make room for someone else — not Bernie Sanders, and not Joe Biden should he ever stop this annoying dillydallying and decide to run.

And I don’t consider her performance spectacular simply because of what she did — although she demonstrated a remarkable assuredness and dexterity — but also because of what the others didn’t do.

It seemed as if Clinton was the only candidate on that stage that came to play … and to win.

Days before the debate on CNN (where I am a commentator), I was asked who I thought had the most to gain from the debate. I answered: Bernie Sanders.

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One of the most memorable lines from the HBO series “The Wire” comes when the notorious and eerily unflappable Omar yells to men shooting at him: “You come at the king, you best not miss.”

That line kept replaying in my mind Tuesday night as attacks like Chafee’s missed their mark and Hillary held steady and defiant.

You come at the queen, you best not miss.


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/15/opinion/hillary-clinton-the-queen-came-to-play.html?ref=opinion&_r=1



DSB's Note- Some thirty six hours after the debate this dispassionate observer remains convinced that all our stellar candidates acquitted themselves with aplomb and struck a vivid contrast with their Republican opponents.

Stand straight, look up and not down, look forward and not back, and be proud you belong to the Democratic party, the greatest political party in the annals of history.

[mcar]

1. K&R

Our candidates acquitted themselves well.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. +1

[Bread and Circus]

2. Oh brother...the last two paragraphs... I can't even.

Jingoism in any form makes my skin crawl.

[Nitram]

13. I agree Pan

It actually bothers me more when Democrats do it. The hyperbole is childish.

[cherokeeprogressive]

4. "so spectacular as to erase all doubt"

I've read some funny shit before, and that's some funny shit.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. Do you share or demur from my assessment ...

Do you share or demur from my assessment that all our stellar candidates acquitted themselves with aplomb and struck a vivid contrast with their Republican opponents ?

[cherokeeprogressive]

17. I concur.

But the author's opinion is funny as hell.

[stonecutter357]

5. K&R!

[Laser102]

7. Yes!!!!

[Madmiddle]

8. Hillary is right of center.

Her campaign is in serious trouble after looking like a right wing plutocrat.

[Darb]

9. That's a laughable comment.

Are you inside some sort of bubble?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

12. Some folks come to bring clarity...Some folks come to bring levity...

Everybody should be welcome here.

[Nitram]

21. It's the Bernie Bubble!

That explains a lot.

[workinclasszero]

10. Hillary Clinton crushed it!

Yes she did!

[quickesst]

11. I've observed....

...one ongoing trend. Other than the Clinton group, any pro-Hillary thread is soon mired down into a Clinton hate-fest. The sad part is, so too goes many pro-Bernie threads. They may start out supportive, but soon take the same path of anti-Hillary rhetoric. Priorities?

[Nitram]

14. One reason that is unmistakable is the enormous garish Bernie signatures that acccompany them.

Like this is a junior high school pep rally or something.

[quickesst]

19. My first stop.......

...when I come here is Latest Threads, and without fail, it's the most glaring thing that pops out at me. It's becoming like Groundhog Day, with a side order of substance.

[Island Deac]

15. Left-On!!!

[Android3.14]

16. She does seem to consider herself a monarch

I disagree with DSB's Note. To think all our candidates were "stellar" is obtuse at best. Jim Webb, for example, was anything but stellar. There was a "vivid contrast" with the Republicans, but that doesn't mean the candidates are all qualified to be president.

As for Queen Tapioca, the only reason she received the media attention is because the corporations are supporting her candidacy. She has the debate experience, regardless of her many horrible decisions when she actually had power. The best liars appear confident, and her recent flip-flops are at strong odds to her "evolution", an evolution that appears to be predatory camouflage rather than actual intent to promote progressive values.

During the debate, she found delight in the misfortune of others, expressed a vicious ate-the-canary grin whenever she swindled the moderator and the other candidates for more time. She was appalling, and the paid pundits falling all over themselves to kiss her hand were pathetic.

[Nitram]

20. Only hard core Bernista's endlessly repeat the matra of...

... "the only reason she received the media attention is because the corporations are supporting her candidacy." You can repeat a lie as many times as you want, it doesn't make it true. I fail to see how otherwise intelligent people can ignore 48 years of liberal activism.

[SwampG8r]

22. And

You can call the truth a lie but that doesn't make it one.

[Android3.14]

23. Liberal activism?

There isn't any Clinton liberal activism. Your comment must be a joke.


The thing I've found is that HRC supporters are either unethical, unintentionally ignorant or willfully ignorant about her voting record, financial owners, and vicious hunger for power.

[Nitram]

25. Android, an obsession with the Bernista "corporatist" meme seems contagious...

...among your cohorts. Have you ever had a look at Clinton's actual life and record? Or would that be too much work?

[Android3.14]

27. Please, give me the example in her life when she wasn't being a corporatist

Let's start with this.

[Nitram]

28. Be glad to. (thanks for confirming my thesis with another corporatist meme)

1. In her junior year at Wellesley, Rodham became a supporter of the antiwar presidential nomination campaign of Democrat Eugene McCarthy

2. Following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Rodham organized a two-day student strike and worked with Wellesley's black students to recruit more black students and faculty

3. During her second year at Yale Law, she took on cases of child abuse at Yale-New Haven Hospital.

4. She interned at the Oakland, California, law firm of Treuhaft, Walker and Burnstein, well known for its support of constitutional rights, civil liberties, and radical causes.

5. Her first scholarly article, "Children Under the Law", was published in the Harvard Educational Review in late discussing the new children's rights movement.

6. Rodham maintained her interest in children's law and family policy, publishing the scholarly articles "Children's Policies: Abandonment and Neglect" in 1977[77] and "Children's Rights: A Legal Perspective" in 1979.

7. In 1978 Clinton was chair of the Rural Health Advisory Committee, where she secured federal funds to expand medical facilities in Arkansas's poorest areas.

8. In 1985, she introduced Arkansas's Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youth, a program that helps parents work with their children in preschool preparedness and literacy.

9. From 1987 to 1991, she was the first chair of the American Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession, created to address gender bias in the legal profession and induce the association to adopt measures to combat it.

10. In January 1993, President Clinton appointed Hillary Clinton to head the Task Force on National Health Care Reform, hoping to replicate the success she had in leading the effort for Arkansas education reform. The recommendation of the task force became known as the Clinton health care plan, a comprehensive proposal that would require employers to provide health coverage to their employees through individual health maintenance organizations.

11. Along with Senators Ted Kennedy and Orrin Hatch, she was a force behind the passage of the State Children's Health Insurance Program in 1997, a federal effort that provided state support for children whose parents could not provide them with health coverage, and conducted outreach efforts on behalf of enrolling children in the program once it became law.

12. As First Lady she promoted nationwide immunization against childhood illnesses and encouraged older women to seek a mammogram to detect breast cancer, with coverage provided by Medicare. She also successfully sought to increase research funding for prostate cancer and childhood asthma at the National Institutes of Health, worked to investigate reports of an illness that affected veterans of the Gulf War, which became known as the Gulf War syndrome, helped create the Office on Violence Against Women at the Department of Justice, initiated and shepherded the Adoption and Safe Families Act, and in 1999, she was instrumental in the passage of the Foster Care Independence Act, which doubled federal monies for teenagers aging out of foster care.

13. In a September 1995 speech before the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, Clinton argued very forcefully against practices that abused women around the world and in the People's Republic of China itself, declaring "that it is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights".

14. As a Senator, Clinton voted against President Bush's two major tax cut packages, the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 and the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003. Clinton voted against the 2005 confirmation of John G. Roberts as Chief Justice of the United States and the 2006 confirmation of Samuel Alito to the United States Supreme Court.

15. In March of that 2007, she voted in favor of a war-spending bill that required President Bush to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq by a deadline.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton

[oasis]

18. "Came to play.....and win"

Time to get out the good china.

[tularetom]

24. You know what amazes me?

That this thread isn't filled with responses containing the little icon, because if you can read this without wanting to barf, you are delusional.

Sorry, this is NOT serious journalism. This hack should be writing in Teen Idol magazines, not the NY Times.

Gotta be because it was posted before the crack o dawn and very few people actually read it.

[Nitram]

26. Cute.