The State of Contemporary American Politics

[Chris]

The state of contemporary American politics is, I think, pretty well summed up in Hillary's words taken from her soon to come out book. It consists of name calling, emotional rejection (or approval), and little else. There's little to no rational argument anywhere.

Hillary Clinton calls Donald Trump a ‘creep,’ says her ‘skin crawled’ during debate (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/08/23/hillary-clinton-said-her-skin-crawled-when-donald-trump-stood-behind-her-on-debate-stage/?utm_term=.63d7586722e9)


Hillary Clinton said her “skin crawled” as Donald Trump loomed behind her at a presidential debate in St. Louis, and added that she wished she could have pressed pause and asked America, “Well, what would you do?”

The words, Clinton’s most detailed public comments about what happened during one of the campaign’s more memorable moments, are included in her new book, “What Happened,” which she called an attempt to “pull back the curtain” on her losing bid for the presidency.

Some of the moments during the campaign, she said, “baffled” her. Others seemingly repulsed her: In recounting the October incident, she referred to Trump as a “creep.”

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[texan]

Said the loser with a bimbo attack room on women her husband raped. How about we hit the pause button on her continuous lying? How about we hit the pause button on her, Obama, and the DNC gang raping Bernie Sanders?

This is Texan reminding Clinton to shut up.....rewind sound......This is Texan reminding Clinton to shut up.....rewind sound....This is Texan reminding Clinton to shut up.....rewind sound......This is Texan reminding Clinton to shut up.....rewind sound.....This is Texan reminding Clinton to shut up.....

[midcan5]

Susan Bordo wrote, "I'll leave out Hillary's Wellesley and law school accomplishments...."

• Co-founded Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
• Staff attorney for Children's Defense Fund
• Former director of the Arkansas Legal Aid Clinic
• First female chair of the Legal Services Corporation
• Twice listed by the National Law Journal as one of the hundred most influential lawyers in America
• Worked to keep minors out of prison in South Carolina
• Arkansas Woman of the Year in 1983
• Chair of the American Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession
• Created Arkansas's Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youth
• Led a task force that reformed Arkansas's education system
• Instrumental in passage of the State Children's Health Insurance Program
• Promoted nationwide immunization against childhood illnesses
• Successfully sought to increase research funding for prostate cancer and childhood asthma at the National Institutes of Health
• Worked to investigate reports of an illness that affected veterans of the Gulf War (now recognized as Gulf War Syndrome)
• Helped create the Office on Violence Against Women at the Department of Justice
• Initiated and shepherded the Adoption and Safe Families Act
• Traveled to seventy-nine countries during time as FLOTUS
• Helped create Vital Voices, an international initiative to promote the participation of women in the political processes of their countries
• Helped create the Children's Insurance Program
• Delivered one of the most quoted human rights speeches of all time in Beijing, China
• Served on five Senate committees:
Committee on Budget (2001-2002) Committee on Armed Services (2003-2009) Committee on Environment and Public Works (2001-2009)
Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (2001-2009)
Special Committee on Aging
• Member of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
• Instrumental in securing $21 billion in funding for the World Trade Center site's redevelopment
• Took a leading role in the investigation of health consequences of first responders and drafted the first bill to compensate and offer the health services our first responders deserve (Clinton's successor in the Senate, Kirsten Gillibrand,
passed the bill)
• In the aftermath of 9/11, worked closely with her senior Senate counterpart from New York, Senator Charles Schumer, on securing $21.4 billion in funding for the World Trade Center redevelopment
• Proposed a revival of the New Deal-era Home Owners' Loan Corporation to help homeowners refinance their mortgages in the wake of the 2008 financial disaster
• Brokered a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel
• Brokered a human rights agreement with Burma
• Was the most traveled secretary of state to date
• The Clinton Foundation, founded by her and her husband, has improved the living conditions for nearly four hundred million people in over one hundred and eighty countries through its Initiative program
• Introduced the Family Entertainment Protection Act, intended to protect children from inappropriate content found in video games
• Former U.S. secretary of state
• As secretary of state, made LGBTQ rights a focus of foreign policy
• As secretary of state, worked aggressively on issue of climate change
• Grammy Award Winner
• Author comment: In all of this, Bernie Sanders found nothing around which to rally his supporters.

pps 100. 101 'The Destruction Of Hillary Clinton' Susan Bordo

[Green Arrow]

Hillary is one side of the coin for sure, a major symptom of what's wrong with American politics. Donald Trump is the other side of the coin, an equally egregious blight on our political system.

[Tahuyaman]

Hillary is one side of the coin for sure, a major symptom of what's wrong with American politics. Donald Trump is the other side of the coin, an equally egregious blight on our political system. The political process was blighted long before Trump entered the political arena. It's gotten progressively worse with each passing administration. Politicos seem to think being hyperbolic, outrageous and polarizing is the way to inspire unity and optimism.

That's also the mentality of regular people. It's demonstrated here daily.

[Chris]

Hillary is one side of the coin for sure, a major symptom of what's wrong with American politics. Donald Trump is the other side of the coin, an equally egregious blight on our political system.

I can go along with that as he does the , name calling, emotional rejection (or approval).

[Tahuyaman]

We are living in an age where social and broadcast media dominates. The way to get noticed is to be outrageous. Younger people have lost their attention span for anything other than "click bait". Deep thinking and analysis is a dead art. Emotional responses and outbursts are what important now.

[Chris]

The political process was blighted long before Trump entered the political arena. It's gotten progressively worse with each passing administration. Politicos seem to think being hyperbolic, outrageous and polarizing is the way to inspire unity and optimism.

That's also the mentality of regular people. It's demonstrated here daily.

Yes, it has progressed to this, especially the last few election cycles.

[Tahuyaman]

Yes, it has progressed to this, especially the last few election cycles.

It gets worse with each passing cycle. There's always some new hyperbolic BS someone needs to top in order to get noticed.

If one is calm, mature and reasonable he or she is ignored.

[Ethereal]

Compared to her serial rapist, sham husband, Trump is a knight in shining armor.

[Ethereal]

Susan Bordo wrote, "I'll leave out Hillary's Wellesley and law school accomplishments...."

• Co-founded Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
• Staff attorney for Children's Defense Fund
• Former director of the Arkansas Legal Aid Clinic
• First female chair of the Legal Services Corporation
• Twice listed by the National Law Journal as one of the hundred most influential lawyers in America
• Worked to keep minors out of prison in South Carolina
• Arkansas Woman of the Year in 1983
• Chair of the American Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession
• Created Arkansas's Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youth
• Led a task force that reformed Arkansas's education system
• Instrumental in passage of the State Children's Health Insurance Program
• Promoted nationwide immunization against childhood illnesses
• Successfully sought to increase research funding for prostate cancer and childhood asthma at the National Institutes of Health
• Worked to investigate reports of an illness that affected veterans of the Gulf War (now recognized as Gulf War Syndrome)
• Helped create the Office on Violence Against Women at the Department of Justice
• Initiated and shepherded the Adoption and Safe Families Act
• Traveled to seventy-nine countries during time as FLOTUS
• Helped create Vital Voices, an international initiative to promote the participation of women in the political processes of their countries
• Helped create the Children's Insurance Program
• Delivered one of the most quoted human rights speeches of all time in Beijing, China
• Served on five Senate committees:
Committee on Budget (2001-2002) Committee on Armed Services (2003-2009) Committee on Environment and Public Works (2001-2009)
Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (2001-2009)
Special Committee on Aging
• Member of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
• Instrumental in securing $21 billion in funding for the World Trade Center site's redevelopment
• Took a leading role in the investigation of health consequences of first responders and drafted the first bill to compensate and offer the health services our first responders deserve (Clinton's successor in the Senate, Kirsten Gillibrand,
passed the bill)
• In the aftermath of 9/11, worked closely with her senior Senate counterpart from New York, Senator Charles Schumer, on securing $21.4 billion in funding for the World Trade Center redevelopment
• Proposed a revival of the New Deal-era Home Owners' Loan Corporation to help homeowners refinance their mortgages in the wake of the 2008 financial disaster
• Brokered a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel
• Brokered a human rights agreement with Burma
• Was the most traveled secretary of state to date
• The Clinton Foundation, founded by her and her husband, has improved the living conditions for nearly four hundred million people in over one hundred and eighty countries through its Initiative program
• Introduced the Family Entertainment Protection Act, intended to protect children from inappropriate content found in video games
• Former U.S. secretary of state
• As secretary of state, made LGBTQ rights a focus of foreign policy
• As secretary of state, worked aggressively on issue of climate change
• Grammy Award Winner
• Author comment: In all of this, Bernie Sanders found nothing around which to rally his supporters.

pps 100. 101 'The Destruction Of Hillary Clinton' Susan Bordo
She has lots of titles and positions, but precious little in the way of actual achievements. Aside from lining her own pockets, that is.

[Chris]

It gets worse with each passing cycle. There's always some new hyperbolic BS someone needs to top in order to get noticed.

If one is calm, mature and reasonable he or she is ignored.

For the most part, yes, but you need to remain calm, mature and reasonable to weather the storm.

[Refugee]

It is no longer OK to be white in the west and it’s less to do with supremacy and in America, more to do with a white backlash from those who became the new class of victims during the Obama years.

What you’re seeing now is the angry leftover products of those years, who are more than a bit unhappy at having lost their protector. Yet also, an increasing willingness from the previous frightened silent majority to fight back and I’m seeing this right across the Internet as people start to confront these minority groups. I think it would be a bit harder now to have a repeat of the Ferguson’s and Baltimore’s. Remember the slogan of kill whitey, the riots and looting, with the Sharpton’s and Farrakhan’s egging it all on, whilst a homosexual pot smoking president, who many thought was a God, looked on and giggled?


With the end of the Obama's and Clinton's, hopefully America will now start to distance itself from the stupidity of those years and the hardcore left and their gullible followers will no longer be the mainstream.




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[resister]

Susan Bordo wrote, "I'll leave out Hillary's Wellesley and law school accomplishments...."

• Co-founded Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
• Staff attorney for Children's Defense Fund
• Former director of the Arkansas Legal Aid Clinic
• First female chair of the Legal Services Corporation
• Twice listed by the National Law Journal as one of the hundred most influential lawyers in America
• Worked to keep minors out of prison in South Carolina
• Arkansas Woman of the Year in 1983
• Chair of the American Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession
• Created Arkansas's Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youth
• Led a task force that reformed Arkansas's education system
• Instrumental in passage of the State Children's Health Insurance Program
• Promoted nationwide immunization against childhood illnesses
• Successfully sought to increase research funding for prostate cancer and childhood asthma at the National Institutes of Health
• Worked to investigate reports of an illness that affected veterans of the Gulf War (now recognized as Gulf War Syndrome)
• Helped create the Office on Violence Against Women at the Department of Justice
• Initiated and shepherded the Adoption and Safe Families Act
• Traveled to seventy-nine countries during time as FLOTUS
• Helped create Vital Voices, an international initiative to promote the participation of women in the political processes of their countries
• Helped create the Children's Insurance Program
• Delivered one of the most quoted human rights speeches of all time in Beijing, China
• Served on five Senate committees:
Committee on Budget (2001-2002) Committee on Armed Services (2003-2009) Committee on Environment and Public Works (2001-2009)
Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (2001-2009)
Special Committee on Aging
• Member of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
• Instrumental in securing $21 billion in funding for the World Trade Center site's redevelopment
• Took a leading role in the investigation of health consequences of first responders and drafted the first bill to compensate and offer the health services our first responders deserve (Clinton's successor in the Senate, Kirsten Gillibrand,
passed the bill)
• In the aftermath of 9/11, worked closely with her senior Senate counterpart from New York, Senator Charles Schumer, on securing $21.4 billion in funding for the World Trade Center redevelopment
• Proposed a revival of the New Deal-era Home Owners' Loan Corporation to help homeowners refinance their mortgages in the wake of the 2008 financial disaster
• Brokered a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel
• Brokered a human rights agreement with Burma
• Was the most traveled secretary of state to date
• The Clinton Foundation, founded by her and her husband, has improved the living conditions for nearly four hundred million people in over one hundred and eighty countries through its Initiative program
• Introduced the Family Entertainment Protection Act, intended to protect children from inappropriate content found in video games
• Former U.S. secretary of state
• As secretary of state, made LGBTQ rights a focus of foreign policy
• As secretary of state, worked aggressively on issue of climate change
• Grammy Award Winner
• Author comment: In all of this, Bernie Sanders found nothing around which to rally his supporters.

pps 100. 101 'The Destruction Of Hillary Clinton' Susan Bordo
No verified link, notwithstanding, so sad she will never be POTUS:cry:

[resister]

It gets worse with each passing cycle. There's always some new hyperbolic BS someone needs to top in order to get noticed.

If one is calm, mature and reasonable he or she is ignored.Like Ben Carson, my first choice.

[Tahuyaman]

On the subject of contemporary politics, is anyone going to read Hillary Clinton's next unreadable exposé?

[Green Arrow]

I probably will just for entertainment purposes. I'm curious to see how she's going to spin her loss.

[Chris]

Susan Bordo wrote, "I'll leave out Hillary's Wellesley and law school accomplishments...."

• Co-founded Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
• Staff attorney for Children's Defense Fund
• Former director of the Arkansas Legal Aid Clinic
• First female chair of the Legal Services Corporation
• Twice listed by the National Law Journal as one of the hundred most influential lawyers in America
• Worked to keep minors out of prison in South Carolina
• Arkansas Woman of the Year in 1983
• Chair of the American Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession
• Created Arkansas's Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youth
• Led a task force that reformed Arkansas's education system
• Instrumental in passage of the State Children's Health Insurance Program
• Promoted nationwide immunization against childhood illnesses
• Successfully sought to increase research funding for prostate cancer and childhood asthma at the National Institutes of Health
• Worked to investigate reports of an illness that affected veterans of the Gulf War (now recognized as Gulf War Syndrome)
• Helped create the Office on Violence Against Women at the Department of Justice
• Initiated and shepherded the Adoption and Safe Families Act
• Traveled to seventy-nine countries during time as FLOTUS
• Helped create Vital Voices, an international initiative to promote the participation of women in the political processes of their countries
• Helped create the Children's Insurance Program
• Delivered one of the most quoted human rights speeches of all time in Beijing, China
• Served on five Senate committees:
Committee on Budget (2001-2002) Committee on Armed Services (2003-2009) Committee on Environment and Public Works (2001-2009)
Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (2001-2009)
Special Committee on Aging
• Member of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
• Instrumental in securing $21 billion in funding for the World Trade Center site's redevelopment
• Took a leading role in the investigation of health consequences of first responders and drafted the first bill to compensate and offer the health services our first responders deserve (Clinton's successor in the Senate, Kirsten Gillibrand,
passed the bill)
• In the aftermath of 9/11, worked closely with her senior Senate counterpart from New York, Senator Charles Schumer, on securing $21.4 billion in funding for the World Trade Center redevelopment
• Proposed a revival of the New Deal-era Home Owners' Loan Corporation to help homeowners refinance their mortgages in the wake of the 2008 financial disaster
• Brokered a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel
• Brokered a human rights agreement with Burma
• Was the most traveled secretary of state to date
• The Clinton Foundation, founded by her and her husband, has improved the living conditions for nearly four hundred million people in over one hundred and eighty countries through its Initiative program
• Introduced the Family Entertainment Protection Act, intended to protect children from inappropriate content found in video games
• Former U.S. secretary of state
• As secretary of state, made LGBTQ rights a focus of foreign policy
• As secretary of state, worked aggressively on issue of climate change
• Grammy Award Winner
• Author comment: In all of this, Bernie Sanders found nothing around which to rally his supporters.

pps 100. 101 'The Destruction Of Hillary Clinton' Susan Bordo



You missed one: • She lost to Trump and now wonders what happened.

[Refugee]

You missed one: • She lost to Trump and now wonders what happened.

And rumour has it she was going to spread her own wealth around instead of everyone else’s, I think, maybe, perhaps . . .
Improved health for 400 million people world wide (really?), but couldn’t solve the epidemic obesity problem in her own country . . .

Anyway, that’s not the point, on to more serious matters :)


Six reasons for Refugee POTUS!


:applause:


19631


Don’t need a script writer, Teleprompter, or signs for people to clap when giving a lecture.

‘Working for us’ by actually helping to spread the wealth around by paying taxes instead of accumulating more wealth.

Travelled to many countries at his own expense and not out of the public purse.

Never managed to change the earth’s climate, but still working on it, ditto feeding the world and making poverty history, populations colour blind, engineering equality . . .

Previously worked to keep criminal minors in prison, instead of out and causing more crime on the streets.

Never had anyone say I’m, ‘unethical and dishonest’ (Watergate).



Cry your heart out Hillary :smiley_ROFLMAO: