Hillary Clinton is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known

I've finally come around, after seeing so many diaries on Daily Kos extolling her deserving qualities and virtues, to realizing that Hillary Clinton really is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known. Laugh all you want, but I can prove that she possesses each of those in abundance.

Kindness

She's extraordinarily kind, for one thing.

“We have to send a clear message, just because your child gets across the border, that doesn’t mean the child gets to stay,” she said. “So, we don’t want to send a message that is contrary to our laws or will encourage more children to make that dangerous journey.”

Clinton said the main reason minors are coming is to escape violence in their home countries, predominantly Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.

Ah, yes, isn't it sad so many parents feel they have no choice but to send their children away on a dangerous journey to the United States to escape violence in countries like Honduras. If only someone in a position of authority could have done something, anything to prevent the rise of this murderous, criminal regime which illegally ousted the democratically elected government, and replaced it with an ongoing horror show:

Honduras suffers from rampant crime and impunity for human rights abuses. The murder rate was again the highest in the world in 2014. The institutions responsible for providing public security continue to prove largely ineffective and remain marred by corruption and abuse, while efforts to reform them have made little progress.

If only someone in our government, rather than sending "$50 million in security aid" to these monsters from 2010-2014, had stood up to these gangsters and mass murderers and said this shall not pass! Alas, there was no one willing to fight for the poor people of Honduras.

A number of Clinton emails show how, starting shortly after the coup, HRC and her team shifted the deliberations on Honduras from the Organization of American States (OAS) – where Zelaya could benefit from the strong support of left-wing allies throughout the region – to the San José negotiation process in Costa Rica. There, representatives of the coup regime were placed on an equal footing with representatives of Zelaya’s constitutional government, and Costa Rican president Oscar Arias (a close U.S. ally) as mediator. Unsurprisingly, the negotiation process only succeeded in one thing: keeping Zelaya out of office for the rest of his constitutional mandate.

Such a pity.

But I digress.

Bravery

I don't want to just refer to Hillary Clinton's self-acknowledged personal bravery under fire. That has been well documented. I'm talking about political courage to stand by what you truly believe even in the face of risking everything you care about most.

And then, of course, there is the issue of her moral courage, which she demonstrated in abundance when she defied the majority of Democratic members in Congress to grant President Bush the authority to go to war with Saddam Hussein's cruel and evil regime in Iraq.

[A] sizable majority of Democrats in Congress voted against the authorization to invade Iraq the following year.

There were 21 Senate Democrats — along with one Republican, Lincoln Chafee, and one independent, Jim Jeffords — who voted against the war resolution, while 126 of 209 House Democrats also voted against it. Bernie Sanders, then an independent House member who caucused with the Democrats, voted with the opposition. At the time, Sanders gave a floor speech disputing the administration’s claims about Saddam’s arsenal. He not only cautioned that both American and Iraqi casualties could rise unacceptably high, but also warned “about the precedent that a unilateral invasion of Iraq could establish in terms of international law and the role of the United Nations.”

Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, stood among the right-wing minority of Democrats in Washington.

The Democrats controlled the Senate at the time of the war authorization. Had they closed ranks and voted in opposition, the Bush administration would have been unable to launch the tragic invasion — at least not legally. Instead, Clinton and other pro-war Democrats chose to cross the aisle to side with the Republicans.

And she didn't back down from the position that her vote on Iraq was the right one, even after the Bush administration's dubious claims that Saddam Husein's Iraq supported Al Qaeda and was chock full of weapons of mass destruction, just waiting to blossom into mushroom clouds over America, was proven absolutely, positively to be pure, unadulterated horsepucky.

Even many months after the Bush administration itself acknowledged that Iraq had neither WMDs nor ties to Al-Qaeda, Clinton declared in a speech at George Washington University that her support for the authorization was still “the right vote” and one that “I stand by.” Similarly, in an interview on Larry King Live in April 2004, when asked about her vote despite the absence of WMDs or al-Qaeda ties, she acknowledged, “I don’t regret giving the president authority.”

I don't care what you say, that took guts, a true profile in courage.

Warmth

Perhaps her best quality, however, is her undisputed charm and grace, and the welcoming, compassionate way she has with ordinary people. For example, just watch her in action, taking the time to generously offer advice to this young woman:

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Or how about the time she calmly and patiently dealt with adversity when confronted by an hysterical, foaming at the mouth eco-terrorist nutjob?

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What grace under pressure! But she has always shown compassion and empathy for the plight of others, especially those so different from herself.

“I'm not a ‘super-predator,’ Hillary Clinton,” Williams said. “Can you apologize to black people for mass incarceration?” Williams asks while brandishing a sign that read, “We have to bring them to heel.” [...]

Clinton seemed audibly and visibly irritated, saying she would answer if allowed to speak and then, even more notably, “that no one had ever asked her that before.” Then, Clinton essentially moved on with her regularly scheduled fundraising program. There was no accounting, partial or full, for her 1996 position nor how she arrived at her 2016 stance on criminal justice reform. Moving on.

It just - I don't know - brings a tear to my eyes when Hillary, after it was finally brought to her attention, did the right thing, and apologized for calling young black youth "super predators." I know some might say that she acted only out of political expediency, and her apology came 20 years too late considering the mass incarceration of so many people after her public support and advocacy for her Hubby's "tough on crime" bill, but such people don't know the Hillary Clinton I know. Her own words say it far better than I.

Clinton said she has devoted her life’s work to helping underserved children, too many of whom, she said, are in African-American communities.

“We haven’t done right by them. We need to,” she said. “We need to end the school to prison pipeline and replace it with a cradle-to-college pipeline.”

How can anyone object to that? Her life's work - helping the most underserved children in America? It just goes to show you that Hillary Clinton really is the most ...

Wonderful Human Being

on the planet.

Remember when Hillary said, "We need to end the school to prison pipeline and replace it with a cradle-to-college pipeline.” Well, the minute someone pointed out to her that some of her political contributions came from the for-profit prison industry, which has grown exponentially over the last 20 years, she cut them completely out of her life.

“When we’re dealing with a mass incarceration crisis, we don’t need private industry incentives that may contribute — or have the appearance of contributing — to over-incarceration,” campaign spokesperson Xochitl Hinojosa told ThinkProgress, explaining that Clinton will donate the large amount she has already received from these sources to a yet-to-be-named charity.

How great is that? Sure, she took her time reaching that decision, but to be fair, she had to balance the interests of everyone involved. You can't just make a knee jerk reaction to every little criticism that comes your way.

[Her] decision came after months of pressure from civil rights and immigrant justice groups, who launched online petitions and interrupted Clinton’s public events, demanding she cut ties with the private prison industry.

“Our message was, ‘You can’t be pro-immigrant and still have this blemish on your record,'” said Zenén Jaimes Pérez with United We Dream, one of many organizations that teamed up to press Clinton. “She had [campaign donation] bundlers who worked for the Corrections Corporation of America and Geo Group, which run most of the immigrant detention centers in this country. For me, it was a big deal, because my dad was detained in a Geo facility. She was taking money from a group profiting from my family’s suffering.”

Yet, in the end the money went to a good use - charity. Which charity? I don't know. Maybe her own. Does it matter? After all, she has promised to end the $7 billion to $8 billion private prison industry forever, and her word is her bond.

And speaking of charity, no one does charity better than Hillary, primarily through the Clinton Foundation, one of the most largest and best charitable organizations in the world, which bar none, knows how to deliver the goods to the people who need their help the most.

ANTONY LOEWENSTEIN: Soon after the Haiti earthquake in 2010, the U.S. ambassador at the time—WikiLeaks documents showed this—wrote a cable essentially saying that a gold rush is on, a gold rush meaning for U.S. corporations and others. [...] The solution that the Obama administration gave for Haiti, pushed by Obama, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton and Chelsea Clinton, their daughter, were industrial parks—essentially, places that Haitians can get underpaid and not trained to make cheap clothing for Gap and Wal-Mart that you and I maybe, hopefully, won’t buy in the U.S.

[T]he legacy of the Clinton Foundation—and I examine this deeply in the book—is utterly appalling. There are example after example of the Clinton Foundation funding a number of centers that have been infected by chemicals, which also, I might add, the Clinton Foundation were investing in failed things after Hurricane Katrina, as well, here in the U.S. Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and others—I mean, they’re one example—their solution has primarily been industrial parks.

Who wouldn't want to work at an industrial park, especially one heavily supported by the Clinton Foundation?

Haiti's Caracol Industrial Park—the U.S. State Department and Clinton Foundation pet project to deliver aid and reconstruction to earthquake-ravaged Haiti in the form of private investment—is systematically stealing its garment workers' wages, paying them 34 percent less than minimum wage set by federal law, a breaking report from the Worker Rights Consortium reveals. Critics charge that poverty wages illustrate the deep flaws with corporate models of so-called aid.

The failure of the Caracol Industrial Park to comply with minimum wage laws is a stain on the U.S.'s post-earthquake investments in Haiti and calls into question the sustainability and effectiveness of relying on the garment industry to lead Haiti's reconstruction said Jake Johnston of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in an interview with Common Dreams. [...]

Then-U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former U.S. President Bill Clinton attended Caracol's opening ceremony a year ago. “We’re sending a message that Haiti is open for business again,” Hillary Clinton declared upon the announcement of the opening.

It's the type of thing I would expect from Hillary Clinton. Her service to others continues to amaze me. She is always willing to help out a friend in need.

Well, I hope you understand now why I felt it necessary to reveal what I know about the true heart and character of Hillary Clinton. The New York primary is tomorrow. We sure wouldn't want anyone confused about Hillary Clinton's record as a humanitarian and all around do-gooder.

Opposition leaders “said all the right things about supporting democracy and inclusivity and building Libyan institutions, providing some hope that we might be able to pull this off,” said Philip H. Gordon, one of [Clinton's} assistant secretaries. “They gave us what we wanted to hear. And you do want to believe.”

Her conviction would be critical in persuading Mr. Obama to join allies in bombing Colonel Qaddafi’s forces. In fact, Mr. Obama’s defense secretary, Robert M. Gates, would later say that in a “51-49” decision, it was Mrs. Clinton’s support that put the ambivalent president over the line.

The consequences would be more far-reaching than anyone imagined, leaving Libya a failed state and a terrorist haven, a place where the direst answers to Mrs. Clinton’s questions have come to pass.

Whenever push came to shove, Hillary always chose to do the right thing, no mater how difficult the choice:

[A]s union leaders and human rights activists conveyed these harrowing reports of violence to then-Secretary of State Clinton in late 2011, urging her to pressure the Colombian government to protect labor organizers, she responded first with silence, these organizers say. The State Department publicly praised Colombia’s progress on human rights, thereby permitting hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. aid to flow to the same Colombian military that labor activists say helped intimidate workers.

At the same time that Clinton's State Department was lauding Colombia’s human rights record, her family was forging a financial relationship with Pacific Rubiales, the sprawling Canadian petroleum company at the center of Colombia’s labor strife. The Clintons were also developing commercial ties with the oil giant’s founder, Canadian financier Frank Giustra, who now occupies a seat on the board of the Clinton Foundation, the family’s global philanthropic empire.

The details of these financial dealings remain murky, but this much is clear: After millions of dollars were pledged by the oil company to the Clinton Foundation -- supplemented by millions more from Giustra himself -- Secretary Clinton abruptly changed her position on the controversial U.S.-Colombia trade pact. Having opposed the deal as a bad one for labor rights back when she was a presidential candidate in 2008, she now promoted it, calling it “strongly in the interests of both Colombia and the United States.” The change of heart by Clinton and other Democratic leaders enabled congressional passage of a Colombia trade deal that experts say delivered big benefits to foreign investors like Giustra.

Let me put it this way. When New Yorkers go to the polls tomorrow, we don't want them making the wrong choice because they were misinformed about what Hillary Clinton stands for, and what values, like integrity in public service, and transparency and open government, she holds most dear, do we?

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lunachickie's picture

Oh, my, there's more Bern per column inch in this post than should be permissible by general Internet law, lol! My kingdom (what's left of it, anyway) to see you post this on GOS, hahahahahaha!

Seriously, sad but true from start to finish. Points nailed. Anymore, I find her about as appealing as warmed-over leftovers. Which, when you think about it, is as good a description as any other, for the establishment Dem platform today.

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thanatokephaloides's picture

Anymore, I find her about as appealing as warmed-over leftovers.

Most of my leftovers deserve better shrift than this!

Wink

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"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar

"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides

that outweighs all of those other things.

And besides, Bernie supporters are so mean!

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You keep using that word...

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lunachickie's picture

I told you I didn't have a whole lot left these days. Willya take an IOU? Wink

Ha, nicely done. I am in awe. And the comments over there are just priceless. So much denial....holeee shite...

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Thumb's picture

I always think of Hanover Fiste in this scene every time I go to TOP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHgMsvpFm08

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detroitmechworks's picture

Where have all the good comedians gone? Seems that all we're left with is "Shock" humor and general grossness. (I'm looking at YOU Seth Rogen.)

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I do not pretend I know what I do not know.

Thumb's picture

I swear the prosecutor sounds like Patrick Stewart.

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boriscleto's picture

He sold dope dressed up as a nun.

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detroitmechworks's picture

Clearly she's just in shock that so many people want her as president.

/snark

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I do not pretend I know what I do not know.

Lookout's picture

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Such a nice person.

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And her advisors are as wholesome as she is.

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

Thumb's picture

"It's a big club, and you ain't in it."

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"Polls don't tell us how well a candidate is doing; Polls tell us how well the media is doing." ~ Me

Looking on with approval.

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“If there is no justice for the people, may there be no peace for the government.”

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Never read the comic, but have had it explained to me by people who have. Smile

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I do not pretend I know what I do not know.

Just your generic Personification of Death. Obviously he had to leave his scythe at the Security desk.

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“If there is no justice for the people, may there be no peace for the government.”

robed and hooded figure Death is portrayed as a rather fetching young woman, if on the pale side. The ultimate Goth, if you will. Death also had a limited series of its own.
The Sandman series is quite excellent. I highly recommend it.

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You keep using that word...

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Hillbilly Dem's picture

But about the last pic at the end of your post? Fucking Henry Kissinger does not look well. I know he's in his 90s, but damn he looks bad there. Smile

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"Just call me Hillbilly Dem(exit)."
-H/T to Wavey Davey

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There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.

And that so many democrats still support her.

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Especially when it was a republican administration doing those things, the people on TOP were against it then.
But as soon as Obama was s-elected president and started doing those things along with his SOS, that site went quiet.
And how was it legal for her charity to make so much money off the things that her state department approved of?
When she was appointed SOS, Obama told her to leave her charity at home and not use it in conjunction with her duties as SOS

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Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.

WindDancer13's picture

that she ignored:

When she was appointed SOS, Obama told her to leave her charity at home and not use it in conjunction with her duties as SOS

He also said that transparency was of topmost importance. He also told her "No" to Sidney Blumenthal. I am pretty sure there were other things she ignored from him directly and indirectly. And now for the sake of the election, she has to be scraped off of him.

Musing: If his popularity numbers dropped (which could happen if it was revealed that he knew about her secrecy), it might very well do her campaign in.

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Not because she likes his policies. I bet that she does not.
Not because some of those policies were good for the nation. (Like cancelling Keystone)
Not because she has some special connection with the poor or minorities.

The only reason she clads herself in Obama's reign is because by doing so, she cravenly and with malice aforethought, goes after the black vote in this country. If she is elected, they get tossed under the bus like anyone else who might trip her up or complain, or worse, expect her to keep her word.

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WindDancer13's picture

tossed black people aside. WJC's recent speeches are proof of that. But along that line, hasn't the AA community lost a lot under Obama? He did nothing as far as I can tell to reverse WJC's policies.

Which word?

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I meant "her pattern of busing over former friends intact"

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WindDancer13's picture

it would seem to me that anyone who keeps a hit log on everyone would have few friends in truth. I see the loyalty of some more along the lines of the followers of Charles Manson or Jim Jones.

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Sidney Blumenthal
Robby Mook
John Podesta

Admittedly, you may not want to be seen in public with them, but they are her closest fiends and supporters.

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WindDancer13's picture

But then again, I am almost sure that Idi Amin had friends also.

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PastorAgnostic's picture

Although he seems to be running out of uncles to shoot.

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Lady Libertine's picture

pffft what do you want? He's ONLY the President, ya know! He's not a dictator!
/s

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Shahryar's picture

give him time. By the end of his second term he'll have fixed everything.

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PastorAgnostic's picture

Well, that explains why you keep Anthony around to prevent any of those (ahem) rumors about you and Hillary.

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mimi's picture

... it's a good idea to wash one's brain at least once a week. Otherwise it gets stuck and fixated in too much dirt.

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Shahryar's picture

I don't see how this helps the woman who has broken the glass ceiling by already being nominated, months before the convention and a thousand delegates short of the number she would have needed if she weren't already the nominee.

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detroitmechworks's picture

for god's sake don't nominate her.

They'll be all over your TV for MONTHS.

/snark

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mimi's picture

diary dragging with this anti-Our Nominee diary our true Nominee into dirt with overwhelming over-usage of images that just show how blind we are.

Hmm. Too much for my taste, but YMMV.

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The only ceiling that Hillary Clinton ever broke is the ass ceiling.

There's lots of successful women already in politics.

But there's only one who backs every U.S. War Atrocity, backs every corrupt, job destroying, Corporate Trade heist, wants to jail whistleblowers, gets her her advice from Henry Kissinger, and is paid off by both Goldman Sachs and Saudi Arabia.

It's the ass ceiling that has been broken.

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You keep using that word...

mimi's picture

There is no question in my mind that this is tasteless.

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JayRaye's picture

This comment should be deleted.

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It's off to the FEMA re-education camps for you as soon as our Inevitability is Coronated.

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I don't remember when a Democratic presidential candidate who was such a demonstrably bad person was defended so angrily as a good person. As a spouse, parent, friend, etc., Clinton is probably good, but as far as her actions and ethics affect the public, she's the rotten distillation of her class with rank lying and greed as special character defects.

The gap between who Clinton is and who her fans make her out to be is bigger than I've ever seen for a major Democratic presidential candidate; it's amazing how many people are willing to trash their intellectual and moral credibility for someone so undeserving. It wasn't this bad even with a turd like Bill.

It's like a mental disease. I was never a big fan of people's judgment, and seeing so many self-styled liberals invent reasons that Clinton is a decent human being does nothing to change that estimation. Honduras or Syria or Libya or Colombia individually would be enough to demolish that notion.

When was the last time there was such a disconnect between the real character of a Democratic presidential candidate and reality?

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Because that's the only place where truly AWFUL people have been presented as incredibly wonderful by their defenders.

Especially during the so-called "Golden Age" when abuse was rampant in the system and unknown actors were literally killed by directors.

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Specifically of major Dem presidential candidates.

Maybe Lyndon Johnson? I was too small be aware, but that must have been a heavy lift character-wise.

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“If there is no justice for the people, may there be no peace for the government.”

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but became less and less popular by 1968 when he declined to run again.

So Hillary and Trump/Cruz would be, I believe, the least liked nominees ever.

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LBJ was still surfing the Goodwill wave after JFK's assassination. We were a slightly less cynical populace then (don't blame me, I was 11). LBJ's war stance was the beginning of awareness for some.

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Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.

LBJ had many flaws, but greed and celebration of inequality weren't among them. He gave us The Civil Rights Act, The Voting Rights Act, Medicaid, Medicare, enforced Brown v. Board of Education, the War on Poverty, Headstart, among others.

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Negotiate, twist arms, and force deals and compromise on all sides. They hated it, and as a result the conservadumbs ended up banning earmarks. Not only were they an effective way of making deals and getting things done, they made for really attractive alternatives to ear rings and studs.

LBJ had his negotiating skills honed over his entire political career, and he was a master at it. That is what offended the conservadumbs so much.

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....... was never mis-represented to the Clintonian level. He was more of the "I'm a sonofabitch, but I'm your sonofabitch" type, even before the Presidential campaign of 1964.

If you doubt me, check out the various stories about his braggadocio regarding his genitalia (he was fond of showing them off to people, even in the Oval Office, without warning). It is my understanding that these escapades were the origin of the use of "Johnson" as slang for "penis".

one source
another related article from the previous source
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Steven D's picture

in the current political climate with social media and 24/7 infotainment.

Still, the Clintons, since Bill left the White House, have primarily been the ones responsible for doing the most damage to their "brand," even as they have profited greatly by it, both in acquiring their fortune, and in cementing an unrivaled amount of political power among the political establishment of the Democratic party.

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As a candidate Obama was selling bottom up hope and change but it was a serious bait and switch. Starting with Obama's inauguration the disconnect kicked in at dko. He lost my support with his FISA vote while I was canvasing and registering voters. . Even though that opened my eyes his administration was much worse then I ever imagined it would be. At least in the primary he came off as a decent human being.

The so called accomplishments of Obama were delusional and flipped decency on it head. And yet the Democrat's insisted he was a 'good person' a victim of the vast RW conspiracy. Everything they condemned when the Bushies were in power was suddenly pragmatic or a victory for compromise. He had too didn't he?

The slick Willie from Hope I never for one minute thought was anything but what he is. I don't think as person The Mad Bomber is a 'good' person even in her personal life. Maybe if your a sociopath like Kissinger or Albright you might think so but this degree of evil nastiness is not just reserved for politics. War criminals and Visigoth pillagers regardless of how they treat their children or pets are not capable of being good people.

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1. when he refused to pressure DINOs on a more reasonable health care bill, or to go out and sell it before "Death Panels" and other over the top attacks took hold.

2. His extension of the horrendous Bush Tax cuts.

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Remember when he wanted to cut benefits using "chained cpi"? Appointed all those rightwing cretins to the catfood commission? Gag. Obama drove me crazy. And I'm convinced Clinton will be even worse.

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Twain Disciple

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no one seemed to be aware? upset? care? about it. I'm on social security and that hit home.

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But that explains only part of pro-Hillary stance. A larger part is their self-righteousness, which I don't understand at all.

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WindDancer13's picture

Obama said:

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Okay, I am not too sure how this one works as I have not used it yet. It may be too subtle, and a lot of people may not know the reference.

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Secret Service agents: Hillary is a nightmare to work with

“When in public, Hillary smiles and acts graciously,” Kessler explains. “As soon as the cameras are gone, her angry personality, nastiness, and imperiousness become evident.”

...Within the White House, Hillary had a “standing rule that no one spoke to her when she was going from one location to another,” says former FBI agent Coy Copeland. “In fact, anyone who would see her coming would just step into the first available office.”

One former Secret Service agent states, “If Hillary was walking down a hall, you were supposed to hide behind drapes used as partitions.”

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"We've done the impossible, and that makes us mighty."

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The one who when you greeted them with the customary and military polite statement "Good Morning, Sergeant Major" would look at you and demand to know what you thought was good about the morning.

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Citizen Of Earth's picture

when she became unhinged and started yelling with hatred streaming from eyes and nostrils.

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Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.

They have to cultivate the persona of being the biggest, baddest SOB in the unit and they
have to distance themselves emotionally from the men because if they order them into battle they want to
not worry about the losses then at that instant.

it's part of why I never made a good fit in the military, but I recognize they need to be able to do that.

HRC has no reason for that, she's just mean.

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detroitmechworks's picture

The BEST Sergeant Majors, who I would have followed through hell and back, didn't rely on that crap. They challenged me, hell yeah, but usually to put "My money where my mouth was"...

Ok, One. I had one Awesome one, and two Jerks during my tenure in the Army, so Grain of salt that one.

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PastorAgnostic's picture

I personally experienced the Mr. Hyde part of her.

Bobby Stevenson was amazingly prescient about Hillary.

Dr. Jekyll's transformed personality, Hyde, was effectively a sociopath—evil, self-indulgent, and utterly uncaring to anyone but himself. Initially, Jekyll was able to control the transformations, but one night in August, he became Hyde involuntarily in his sleep.

In Hill's case, the transformation is bound to come live on TV, after a particularly tough question.

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ppnortney's picture

in many ways, but one with more than just the ability to throw temper tantrums, as CIC she would have the capability to unleash Hell on whoever pissed her off.

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The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. --Aesop

lunachickie's picture

that's the only other business I've ever heard and seen stuff like this:

“If Hillary was walking down a hall, you were supposed to hide behind drapes used as partitions.”

That's been called a lot of things in the last hundred years or so, but when I came in contact with such twaddle-y behavior for a living, we called it the "Call Her Miss Ross" Rule. The ultimate punchline is "Yeah, like she would even look at you, let alone talk to you!", but mostly it was shorthand for "Do Not Make Eye Contact With The Artist" whenever they pass by and have to breathe the same air you do and what-not....

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It's supercali-frack-ilisti-carpetbag-idocious
Even the sound from her is something quite atrocious
If you say it loud enough, you'll sound bragadocious
Supercali-frack-ilisti-carpetbag-idocious

Um diddle, diddle diddle, um diddle ay
Um diddle, diddle diddle, um diddle ay

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PastorAgnostic's picture

how retro.

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That sure does describe some of her outfits she wears at times.

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Hillbilly Dem's picture

This, despite the fact that I'm Irish and don't have a drop of Latin blood in my veins. She's just like my abuela, dammit!!

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"Just call me Hillbilly Dem(exit)."
-H/T to Wavey Davey

detroitmechworks's picture

who don't bat an eye at wholesale murder and slaughter, or deporting children, cozying up to rich psychopaths, and imprisoning minorities.

It must have been a much harder world about 50-60 years ago.

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Citizen Of Earth's picture

with cyanide pills. Sieg Heil, Hellery!
That is all I can divulge at this time. Hahahha.

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Alison Wunderland's picture

for foodtasters is going to be so high the WH will have to convert the East Wing to a funeral parlor just to keep up.

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Citizen Of Earth's picture

Check with Bill, he is in charge of hiring interns.

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thanatokephaloides's picture

This will all end in a subterranean bunker complex with cyanide pills. Sieg Heil, Hellery!

You forgot something:

"Good afternoon, Counselor Godwin!

Wink

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"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar

"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides

But I woke up this morning and found I was now a 22 year old who has lurked on the gos for 40 years but just HAD to become a member today just so I could explain, in detail, why I wholeheartedly support the woman who thinks I am clueless (smile)

No but seriously.. Who are those fake declaration diaries aimed at?

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Orwell was an optimist

WindDancer13's picture

to keep anyone from straying from the herd.

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If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass

PastorAgnostic's picture

The only way that the orange satan can maintain his new income stream.

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Alison Wunderland's picture

I TL;DR'ed the essay, and thank goodness I did, because I woke up this morning a 22-year old ingenue, full of dreamy aspirations of becoming a Hellerite for Life. I've already sent out resumes. Since my mind is a complete blank slate, I feel I stand a good chance. I'm just hoping my fifty years as a die hard Leftie isn't held against me. I mean, if my heroine can change her mind again and again and again, why can't I? Right?

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WindDancer13's picture

number of times you used the words "evolved" and "experience" and how few times you used "judgment" and "ethics" in those resumes.

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If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass

shaharazade's picture

Or is it a ferret? The hippy house and menagerie across the street had 4 ferrets lining in a back yard ferret house/pen with an elaborate tunnel system of plastic piping that connected them to the main house. My grandaughter would say when we took a walk "Lets go look at the hippy weasels' I learned to love the cute hippy ferrets even though they stunk to high heaven. Course I'm Welsh and the Welsh put them down their pants for sport, known as ferret legging.

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riverlover's picture

I am in love with your grand-daughter, in a not-carnal way. Aren't they cute? (from me, with none).

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thanatokephaloides's picture

No but seriously.. Who are those fake declaration diaries aimed at?

Markos Moulitsas Zuniga.

Either aimed at him or written by/for him, one.

Smile

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"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides

lunachickie's picture

strokery.

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prfb's picture

of this piece on TOP were how many seemed to miss the satire of the thing.

"Hey, the author is just discovering how great our woman is!"

I'm beginning to postulate a group distinction based on humorlessness...

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riverlover's picture

Republicans less than Hillarians less less than Sandersnistas. Or whatever we're calling each other today, bros and ---s. I had not realized that sideways carats means end break or something. It was better off with math symbols. ;(

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Steven D's picture

on purpose.

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shaharazade's picture

of the Hiilbots failed to see the ironic, snark going on. Did my heart good to see the most moronic party royalists falling all over themselves to tell you how they were glad you saw the light. Lordy. What a deluded site that is. How come I idiotically stayed there for 10 plus years fighting the idiocracy that has prevailed for at least the last ? years.I must have been a Stockholm Syndrome sufferer or a contention addict as now it just bores the hell out of me. Good for you it was like the confuse a cat Monty Python skit.

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JayRaye's picture

that I ever took that TOP crap so seriously. Never bother with the comments any more, just more of the same crap, day after day. How boring!

But I do rec the Bernie diaries just cause I'm glad to still see them on the rec list, even after everything that Boss Koss has done to knock them off!

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