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« on: March 15, 2016, 04:32:21 PM »

This week's jewels from Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton:

  • "Libya was a different kind of calculation and we didn't lose a single person. We didn’t have a problem in supporting our European and Arab allies in working with NATO."
  • "When before nobody would talk about it [HIV-AIDS], nobody wanted to do anything about it, and that too is something that I really appreciate with her very effective, low-key advocacy, but it penetrated the public conscious, and people began to say, 'Hey, we have to do something about this, too.'"
  • "We're going to put a lot of coal companies and coal miners out of business."

Is she losing it? Has media coverage been fair? Thoughts?
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« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2016, 04:35:40 PM »

I support her, but I don't know what is going on with her this week, arguably the most important week since the week of ST.
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« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2016, 04:40:30 PM »

Her remarks about HIV/AIDS were unforgivable.  The other two are just WTF is wrong with you? level gaffes.
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« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2016, 05:15:07 PM »

Hillary needs to say less and let the other "more radical" candidates burn their own candles out.

She is in the box seat for both contests.
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« Reply #4 on: March 15, 2016, 05:18:18 PM »

Hillary needs to say less and let the other "more radical" candidates burn their own candles out.

She is in the box seat for both contests.

Her foreign policy is certainly more radical than Bernie's or Trump's.
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« Reply #5 on: March 15, 2016, 05:27:47 PM »

She is losing it. She will be a disaster in the general.
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« Reply #6 on: March 15, 2016, 05:41:48 PM »

Given her track record in the primary, I worry about the gaffes Clinton might make in the general election. That being said, I doubt very seriously that any missteps on her part will hurt her any more than Trump's deliberate fascist rabble-rousing will absolutely destroy him.
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« Reply #7 on: March 15, 2016, 05:43:24 PM »

Truth is, nobody will remember these gaffes come November.
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« Reply #8 on: March 15, 2016, 05:50:05 PM »

Truth is, nobody will remember these gaffes come November.

The Reagan won't probably won't be forgotten. It was amazingly bad.
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« Reply #9 on: March 15, 2016, 05:51:21 PM »

Truth is, nobody will remember these gaffes come November.

The Reagan won't probably won't be forgotten. It was amazingly bad.
Literally no one cares about that outside of the daily kos.  No one is talking about it now and they definitely won't be in November.
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« Reply #10 on: March 15, 2016, 06:01:53 PM »

I was genuinely curious to see how right-wingers viewed her Reagan gaffe; i.e. whether her comments were even wrong in the first place.  I guess the above post provides an inkling.
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« Reply #11 on: March 15, 2016, 07:17:03 PM »

What's wrong with the first one? It's completely true. The Libya intervention is a model of success.

Second one is a clear gaffe, and she quickly apologized.

Third one should have been said better... but it's not like coal country is going to vote for the Democrat anyways. She's talked about how it's going to be a slow transition and how we'll take care of them during the transition.
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« Reply #12 on: March 16, 2016, 12:45:44 AM »

These gaffes had a lot of impact it seems.
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« Reply #13 on: March 16, 2016, 06:50:44 AM »

What's wrong with the first one? It's completely true. The Libya intervention is a model of success.

You might want to check with Ambassador Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods, or Glen Doherty on whether or not Hillary's comment was "completely true".
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« Reply #14 on: March 16, 2016, 07:01:26 AM »

Better for her to say something objectively and factually wrong and then correct herself than express an awful opinion (like Trump does often) or continue to be willfully ignorant (Trump's anti-vaccine hysteria, which will literally kill small children over the next few years if it hasn't already).
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« Reply #15 on: March 16, 2016, 07:02:57 AM »

The Libya intervention is a model of success.

A model of success just like Hillary's vote for the Iraq war, and her supporting arming the Syrian Jihadists. In all 3 cases it was a model of success for ISIS.
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« Reply #16 on: March 16, 2016, 07:15:18 AM »

Let's not forget her telling a crowd "where was Bernie Sanders when I was fighting for Universal Healthcare in the 90s," when in fact he was behind her at a speech supporting it and thanked him specifically for being there (and its on video which makes it even more agonizingly delightful)
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« Reply #17 on: March 16, 2016, 09:13:06 AM »

Libya intervention was justified and successful, in my mind. We didn't invest in it, but we were able to prevent a massacre, it was cheap, no American lives lost, and Libya has held free democratic elections. And for all the news about Benghazi, people forget how its people turned on extremists and showed they stood with America with mass demonstrations of empathy and support after that attack. Our objectives were achieved.
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« Reply #18 on: March 16, 2016, 09:16:39 AM »

What's wrong with the first one? It's completely true. The Libya intervention is a model of success.

You might want to check with Ambassador Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods, or Glen Doherty on whether or not Hillary's comment was "completely true".

Did those men die in the intervention? She was clearly referring to the military operation.
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« Reply #19 on: March 16, 2016, 09:22:18 AM »

Truth is, nobody will remember these gaffes come November.

The Reagan won't probably won't be forgotten. It was amazingly bad.
Literally no one cares about that outside of the daily kos.  No one is talking about it now and they definitely won't be in November.

I can affirm this. This is an issue for the gay community and latte liberals, but they'll be voting for her anyway, out of fear of Trump if nothing else. It was bad, wrong, and embarrassing, but it  wasn't a campaign-destroying gaffe on par with Romney's 47%, Dukakis in a tank, or McCain's "Fundamentals of our economy are strong".
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