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Peter1469
06-14-2015, 09:26 PM
Welcome to Hillary Island, a Pleasant Little Police State (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/13/welcome-to-hillary-island-a-pleasant-little-police-state.html)
The Daily Beast has an interesting take on Hilary's campaign.


For the first big speech of her 2016 campaign, Hillary Clinton turned a little-known strip of New York into a serene summertime autocracy, pleasant and creepy at the same time.


It’s an odd sensation to be sitting on the back of a golf cart, holding on for dear life, as a member of Hillary Clinton’s security team—bald and meat-headed, his blazer straining to remain stitched around his bulky arms—speeds like O.J. Simpson in order to deliver you to a secure location. This can happen, I now know, if you happen to make the mistake of walking down the wrong pathway—of a public park—on your way to a Clinton speech.


“Get in!” he barked. Then, a sigh: “Not your fault.” That’s just the way things are around here.


Here would be Hillary Island—formerly Roosevelt Island—a strip of land located in the middle of the East River between Manhattan and Queens that some 10,000 New Yorkers call home. More specifically, here is Four Freedoms Park—a grassy island enclave named for the Four Freedoms FDR spelled out in his 1941 State of the Union speech: Freedom of speech, of worship, from want, and from fear—where the Clinton team has assembled a red and blue stage, in the shape of an H, for her to pace on as she delivers her first major campaign speech.

(http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2015/06/13/clinton-gets-personal-in-campaign-speech.html)

Clinton formally declared her candidacy for the Democratic nomination almost exactly a month ago, in April, with a 2:15 video. “Everyday Americans need a champion,” she said then. “And I wanna be that champion.”

Lineman
06-16-2015, 01:50 PM
Are all these Hillary threads supposed to somehow cathartically make people change their views of candidates?

Id never vote for her for the simple fact we dont need another member of a wealthy royal family in office

Captain Obvious
06-16-2015, 02:02 PM
Are all these Hillary threads supposed to somehow cathartically make people change their views of candidates?

Id never vote for her for the simple fact we dont need another member of a wealthy royal family in office

Contrary to popular belief, sometimes discussions just happen on discussion forums.

Peter1469
06-16-2015, 03:31 PM
An interesting article coming from The Daily Beast.

Redrose
06-16-2015, 03:52 PM
The Daily Beast makes great bird cage liners. What the birds do to it is very appropriate.

del
06-16-2015, 03:54 PM
Welcome to Hillary Island, a Pleasant Little Police State (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/13/welcome-to-hillary-island-a-pleasant-little-police-state.html)


The Daily Beast has an interesting take on Hilary's campaign.

i thought she was in prison

Peter1469
06-16-2015, 04:10 PM
i thought she was in prison

Headed that way. She had another session with Martha.

Common Sense
06-16-2015, 04:12 PM
Yeah...and that's not a misleading title?

Moved to rants. ;)

Peter1469
06-16-2015, 04:15 PM
Yeah...and that's not a misleading title?

Moved to rants. ;)

Go ahead, if you can move it.

That is the title selected by the liberal magazine, The Daily Beast.

Common Sense
06-16-2015, 04:19 PM
Go ahead, if you can move it.

That is the title selected by the liberal magazine, The Daily Beast.

It wont budge.


Just seems inconsistent is all.


Anyways....

Peter1469
06-16-2015, 04:41 PM
It wont budge.


Just seems inconsistent is all.


Anyways....

Anyways....

Common Sense
06-16-2015, 04:43 PM
Just sayin it's a double standard.

Anyways anyways?

;)

Peter1469
06-16-2015, 05:26 PM
Incorrect, but anyways.

It doesn't really matter. You don't get a vote, and the reasons don't concern you anyway.

Common Sense
06-16-2015, 05:27 PM
I can still be concerned.


...and it is.

del
06-16-2015, 06:11 PM
Yeah...and that's not a misleading title?

Moved to rants. ;)

:rofl:

del
06-16-2015, 06:12 PM
It wont budge.


Just seems inconsistent is all.


Anyways....

it only seems inconsistent but if you look at it, it's perfectly consistent with how it's done here.

del
06-16-2015, 06:13 PM
Incorrect, but anyways.

It doesn't really matter. You don't get a vote, and the reasons don't concern you anyway.

he's absolutely correct, but please continue to piss down his back and tell him it's raining

one finds it amusing

Peter1469
06-16-2015, 06:18 PM
he's absolutely correct, but please continue to piss down his back and tell him it's raining

one finds it amusing

Oh sure.

del
06-16-2015, 06:22 PM
Oh sure.

if it were more obvious, you could see it from space

Peter1469
06-16-2015, 06:26 PM
if it were more obvious, you could see it from space

Oh sure.