"I sometimes think I didn't leave the Republican party" Hillary wrote "as much as it left me"

[peacebird]

Since we're playing with the way back machine and Bernies writings from the sixties, let's have a taste of Hillary....

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/17388372/ns/politics-decision_08/t/reading-hillary-rodhams-hidden-thesis/#.VaUXOWK9KSM


On edit - the purpose here is to show how silly it is to drag out stuff like this from 46 years ago. People grow and change.

[BooScout]

1. She's been a registered Democrat for close to 50 years....

How long has Bernie been one?

[peacebird]

2. I didn't start playing with the way back machine, not sure things written 46 years ago matter much.

People grow. However, here's another snippet for you:


He began to brainstorm what such an ad might look like:
"You have to make it relevant to world events today.
"Maybe you look at the contrast. What year did Hillary write this paper? 1969.
"And where was John McCain in 1969? A POW in Vietnam."

[DanTex]

3. You sure you aren't quoting Elizabeth Warren? Or have "progressives" decided that she belongs

under the bus too.

[peacebird]

4. My post was to show how stupid it is to drag out writings from 46 years ago.

People grow, people change.

[DanTex]

6. OK. Fair enough.

[Wilms]

5. "I sometimes think I didn't lose the Democratic party" Wilms said "as much as it was stolen from me"

^T^H^I^R^D ^W^A^Y

[peacebird]

8. Exactly!

[sufrommich]

7. So your saying that Hillary Clinton decided the 1969 Republican

party was too conservative? Is that a bad thing?

[peacebird]

9. Hi, you must've been typing while I was, please reread OP, I explained why it was posted.

[sufrommich]

10. It seems like it would make more sense to compare what they were

writing at comparative ages. Here's Hillary's commencement speech in 1969:

http://www.sojust.net/speeches/hillaryclinton_commencement.html

[Darb]

11. Are you implying Hillary's comments of the Repube Party from the 60's is equal

to Bernie's ejaculation/cancer/flouride stuff?

[kenfrequed]

12. Obviously not

What she is saying that if you have to dig almost fifty years past a candidates wonderful record in order to find something controversial then maybe you aren't as concerned with who they are today and what they stand for today.

[peacebird]

14. Thank you!

[wyldwolf]

13. Why do you think people are taking a trip in the way back machine with Sanders?

[kenfrequed]

15. Probably because...

They have nothing they can really confront him with in terms of policy.

Sorry, but his record and the legislation he has supported is pretty solid.

[wyldwolf]

16. How about this.

And on... and on... and on...

'Progressives' are masters at digging things up.

In 2003 Josh Marshall of Talkingpoint memo wrote this about Dean supporters. It applies perfectly to Sanders supporter:

There is an awfully distressing tendency among a minority of Dean supporters to serve up no end of lacerating comments about other candidates and then to react with a sort of stunned and outraged shock when anyone criticizes their guy.

If you don't like it in regards to your candidate, perhaps you should ask others in your camp to tone it down themselves?

By the way, if you think Sanders is going to escape the primary season without a lot of scrapes and bruises, you're wrong. There's oppo research a-plenty on him. No one is taking him serious enough yet to reveal it.

[kenfrequed]

17. progressives are masters of digging stuff up?

Your opposition research doesn't seem to be able to put up anything that isn't 40 years old so far.

And the Goldwater girl thing was sort of a contrast to Bernies time in the civil rights movement. You know, we brought that up because of the humongous stink that your people made about the monochromatic optics of his campaign announcement.

[wyldwolf]

18. um, yeah

Your opposition research doesn't seem to be able to put up anything that isn't 40 years old so far.

MY opposition research, lol.

Um, yeah. Opposition research is coming. Have fun with it. I know I will.

[kenfrequed]

21. Or maybe...

You could just choose a candidate based on policies and the issues today?

Wouldn't that be a better choice than trying to go through all this nonsense?


I don't care what dirt is dug up by your candidate or the republican party. I am basing my support on the candidate that has been a lot more consistent on almost every issue I care about. I am sorry you just don't see it that way.

[LWolf]

19. This is a pretty interesting read.

I give her a pass for having been a goldwater girl; it's common for young people to start out with their parents' ideology and then break away from that as they move into a more independent adult life. People grow and change.

It's fascinating to look at the way she has shifted and evolved over the years. Unlike those earliest "coming of age" shifts, she seems to shift her stances, or pretend to shift them, in a continuous process triangulation.

[WillyT]

20. K & R !!!