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Sun Jul-24-05 05:31 PM
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C-span alert - Hillary Clinton on the Dem agenda, starting now |
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for the next 1.5 hr, remarks from the Aspen Institute's recently
06:30 PM EDT 1:25 (est.) Speech Democratic Party Agenda Aspen Institute Hillary Rodham Clinton , D-NY
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Ian David
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Sun Jul-24-05 05:54 PM
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1. If we elect Hillary, she will rid the world of Evil Videogame Programmers |
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Now, if she'd also promise to eliminate ATM fees, well... Why Not Hillary?
I hope to god Rockstar Games writes Grand Theft Auto Capital City and includes a Hillary-like character in it.
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Sun Jul-24-05 05:56 PM
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Sun Jul-24-05 06:12 PM
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3. Oh, this was the "Alfred E. Newman" speech! n/t |
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Sun Jul-24-05 07:14 PM
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4. This was a speech for the oligarchy, complete with implicitly... |
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trickle-down economics: not one word about what she would do for those of us who have already been flung into inescapable poverty by Bush, his skyrocketing healthcare costs, his oil price gouging and his outsourcing. In fact, listening to Hillary -- and I turned on the TV as soon as the OP alerted me to her speech (of which I missed only about three minutes) -- I was once again reminded of my harshest criticism of today's Democratic Party: that (thanks to the class conflicts of the Vietnam era) it has totally lost its working-class and blue-collar roots.
That said, I will add that Hillary is indeed a much more compelling speaker than I had realized: interesting delivery that is clearly her own style, a unique combination of relaxed and pointed. Even though you know she is giving a speech to a huge audience, it often feels as if she is addressing a small group -- an intimate quality I have not seen in a major political figure since Robert F. Kennedy or maybe John V. Lindsay. And despite my criticism of Hillary's very obvious utter lack of empathy with working families and the poor, her basic economic hypothesis -- that the ultimate wellbeing of America depends on the wellbeing of its workers and students (and if that reality is not again recognized there will be disaster) -- is surely my own. But she would restore that wellbeing by trickle-down means -- by surrender, by allowing the oligarchy to grow even richer, by not punishing it for its ever more obscene greed. Thus I am increasingly convinced such restoration will require much more than just a change of administrations.
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Sun Jul-24-05 07:15 PM
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5. More endless war. More bloated military. More corporate perks |
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Edited on Sun Jul-24-05 07:16 PM by leesa
We know the DLC/RNC mantra.
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Sun Jul-24-05 07:43 PM
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6. Hillary and the Democratic Party Agenda...what a laugh. |
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Ok, I'm mad at her because I heard she is supporting Roberts. Yeah, Hillary really is a fine example of a Democrat...thats why she supports an anti-choice freak for SCOTUS...nothing says a Democrat, like a women willing to sell out, so she can get the votes of so-called "pro-lifers".:argh: :grr: :mad:
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