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Hillary Clinton wrote:It’s hard to know, but I mean if you’re in the Iowa caucuses and 41 percent of Democrats are socialists or self-described socialists, and I’m asked “Are you a capitalist?” and I say, “Yes, but with appropriate regulation and appropriate accountability.” You know, that probably gets lost in the “Oh my gosh, she’s a capitalist!”

Hillary Clinton wrote:It’s hard to know, but I mean if you’re in the Iowa caucuses and 41 percent of Democrats are socialists or self-described socialists, and I’m asked “Are you a capitalist?” and I say, “Yes, but with appropriate regulation and appropriate accountability.” You know, that probably gets lost in the “Oh my gosh, she’s a capitalist!”

flockofseagulls104 wrote:Clinton: Being a capitalist 'probably' hurt me with Dem voters

Hillary Clinton wrote:It’s hard to know, but I mean if you’re in the Iowa caucuses and 41 percent of Democrats are socialists or self-described socialists, and I’m asked “Are you a capitalist?” and I say, “Yes, but with appropriate regulation and appropriate accountability.” You know, that probably gets lost in the “Oh my gosh, she’s a capitalist!”

"Darn, if I only said I was a socialist, I would have won!"

flockofseagulls104 wrote:Clinton: Being a capitalist 'probably' hurt me with Dem voters

Hillary Clinton wrote:It’s hard to know, but I mean if you’re in the Iowa caucuses and 41 percent of Democrats are socialists or self-described socialists, and I’m asked “Are you a capitalist?” and I say, “Yes, but with appropriate regulation and appropriate accountability.” You know, that probably gets lost in the “Oh my gosh, she’s a capitalist!”

"Darn, if I only said I was a socialist, I would have won!"

Bob78164 wrote:

flockofseagulls104 wrote:Clinton: Being a capitalist 'probably' hurt me with Dem voters

Hillary Clinton wrote:It’s hard to know, but I mean if you’re in the Iowa caucuses and 41 percent of Democrats are socialists or self-described socialists, and I’m asked “Are you a capitalist?” and I say, “Yes, but with appropriate regulation and appropriate accountability.” You know, that probably gets lost in the “Oh my gosh, she’s a capitalist!”

"Darn, if I only said I was a socialist, I would have won!"

That's funny. I could have sworn you've written that if the Democrats had nominated Senator Sanders you'd probably have voted for him. --Bob

flockofseagulls104 wrote:What's really funny is for someone to pledge they will do anything they can to subvert the will of the American people even before the elected person took office.

flockofseagulls104 wrote:What's really funny is for someone to pledge they will do anything they can to subvert the will of the American people even before the elected person took office.

Bob78164 wrote:

flockofseagulls104 wrote:What's really funny is for someone to pledge they will do anything they can to subvert the will of the American people even before the elected person took office.

How fortunate for me, then, that I've never done that. What I have done is to pledge to do everything in my power to advance the policy and social goals of the majority of the electorate who opposed Donny, and the plurality who voted to elect Secretary Clinton. Not to mention the goals enshrined in our Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Civil War Amendments.

Donny's presidency was never the will of the American people. Just a minority who happen to live in the right places. And his policy goals are grossly unpopular. Why do you think the Republican Party expects the American people to vote them out of their Congressional offices en masse this November? --Bob

flockofseagulls104 wrote: Hillary is your spokesperson, and she paints you and yours as childish whiners.

silverscreenselect wrote:

flockofseagulls104 wrote: Hillary is your spokesperson, and she paints you and yours as childish whiners.

Spoken by a man who refers to people he disagrees with as bobtel and hockey puck.

tlynn78 wrote:

silverscreenselect wrote:

flockofseagulls104 wrote: Hillary is your spokesperson, and she paints you and yours as childish whiners.

Spoken by a man who refers to people he disagrees with as bobtel and hockey puck.

I've heard worse. On here.

silverscreenselect wrote:

flockofseagulls104 wrote: Hillary is your spokesperson, and she paints you and yours as childish whiners.

Spoken by a man who refers to people he disagrees with as bobtel and hockey puck.

Beebs52 wrote:

tlynn78 wrote:

silverscreenselect wrote:
Spoken by a man who refers to people he disagrees with as bobtel and hockey puck.

I've heard worse. On here.

Oh, like racist, white supremacist, simple-minded Republicans? Like that?

Surely u jest.

flockofseagulls104 wrote:One of the main reasons Hillary lost is that she called half the electorate racist bigots to their face. People don't forget that.

You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?

The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people — now how 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric.

Now, some of those folks — they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America. But the other basket — and I know this because I see friends from all over America here — I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas — as well as, you know, New York and California — but that other basket of people are people who feel that the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they’re just desperate for change. It doesn’t really even matter where it comes from. They don’t buy everything he says, but he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won’t wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroine, feel like they’re in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well.

BackInTex wrote: I wish I had saved what SSS called me on an older version of the board. It was pretty bad. Pastor bad. He's not one to talk.

silverscreenselect wrote:

BackInTex wrote: I wish I had saved what SSS called me on an older version of the board. It was pretty bad. Pastor bad. He's not one to talk.

I honestly don't remember what I said, but if I did say something that went beyond the pale of the normal give and take political banter here and was personally offensive, I sincerely apologize.

BackInTex wrote:

silverscreenselect wrote:

BackInTex wrote: I wish I had saved what SSS called me on an older version of the board. It was pretty bad. Pastor bad. He's not one to talk.

I honestly don't remember what I said, but if I did say something that went beyond the pale of the normal give and take political banter here and was personally offensive, I sincerely apologize.

Bored Admins, someone has hacked SSS’s account.

silverscreenselect wrote:

flockofseagulls104 wrote:One of the main reasons Hillary lost is that she called half the electorate racist bigots to their face. People don't forget that.

Well, you've apparently forgotten what she said. She didn't call half the electorate racist bigots. She called half of Trump's supporters "deplorables," after prefacing it with the phrase, "to be grossly generalistic." Admittedly, that was a very unfortunate choice of words which she got lambasted for, but it's not calling half the electorate racist bigots (and since I doubt many of them were in the audience at the fundraiser where she was speaking, she didn't call them that to their face).

You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?

The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people — now how 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric.

Now, some of those folks — they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America. But the other basket — and I know this because I see friends from all over America here — I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas — as well as, you know, New York and California — but that other basket of people are people who feel that the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they’re just desperate for change. It doesn’t really even matter where it comes from. They don’t buy everything he says, but he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won’t wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroine, feel like they’re in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump both put their feet in their mouths a lot. The difference is that Trump gets much more of a free pass with people like Flock, who can't be bothered with trivialities like facts.

silverscreenselect wrote:

flockofseagulls104 wrote:One of the main reasons Hillary lost is that she called half the electorate racist bigots to their face. People don't forget that.

Well, you've apparently forgotten what she said. She didn't call half the electorate racist bigots. She called half of Trump's supporters "deplorables," after prefacing it with the phrase, "to be grossly generalistic." Admittedly, that was a very unfortunate choice of words which she got lambasted for, but it's not calling half the electorate racist bigots (and since I doubt many of them were in the audience at the fundraiser where she was speaking, she didn't call them that to their face).

You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?

The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people — now how 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric.

Now, some of those folks — they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America. But the other basket — and I know this because I see friends from all over America here — I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas — as well as, you know, New York and California — but that other basket of people are people who feel that the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they’re just desperate for change. It doesn’t really even matter where it comes from. They don’t buy everything he says, but he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won’t wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroine, feel like they’re in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump both put their feet in their mouths a lot. The difference is that Trump gets much more of a free pass with people like Flock, who can't be bothered with trivialities like facts.