Posted on 10/01/2016 1:06:02 AM PDT by Pinkbell
In the hacked recording of a private conversation with campaign donors in February, Hillary Clinton distanced herself from progressive goals like “free college, free healthcare” and described her place on the political spectrum as spanning from the center-left to the center-right.
Clinton has been inconsistent in the past about espousing political labels. She has at times touted herself as stalwart liberal. For instance, she said last July: “I take a backseat to no one when you look at my record in standing up and fighting for progressive values.” But a few months later, she told a group in Ohio: “You know, I get accused of being kind of moderate and center. I plead guilty.”
The newly disclosed comments came in audio, apparently from hacked emails, that was revealed this week by the Washington Free Beacon, a conservative blog run by a Republican communications strategist. Clinton was speaking at a Virginia fundraiser hosted by Beatrice Welters, the former U.S. ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago, and her husband Anthony Welters, the executive chairman of an investment consulting firm founded by former Clinton aid Cheryl Mills.
Clinton’s opponent at the time, Sen. Bernie Sanders, was pointing to successful programs in Norway and Sweden, which provide universal daycare, family leave, and government sponsored healthcare and college education, as policies that he would seek to adopt.
(Excerpt) Read more at theintercept.com ...
Transcript from site:
CLINTON: It is important to recognize what’s going on in this election. Everybody who’s ever been in an election that I’m aware of is quite bewildered because there is a strain of, on the one hand, the kind of populist, nationalist, xenophobic, discriminatory kind of approach that we hear too much of from the Republican candidates. And on the other side, there’s just a deep desire to believe that we can have free college, free healthcare, that what we’ve done hasn’t gone far enough, and that we just need to, you know, go as far as, you know, Scandinavia, whatever that means, and half the people don’t know what that means, but it’s something that they deeply feel. So as a friend of mine said the other day, I am occupying from the center-left to the center-right. And I don’t have much company there. Because it is difficult when you’re running to be president, and you understand how hard the job is — I don’t want to overpromise. I don’t want to tell people things that I know we cannot do.
Talking About Bernie Voters:
CLINTON: Some are new to politics completely. They’re children of the Great Recession. And they are living in their parents’ basement. They feel they got their education and the jobs that are available to them are not at all what they envisioned for themselves. And they don’t see much of a future. I met with a group of young black millennials today and you know one of the young women said, “You know, none of us feel that we have the job that we should have gotten out of college. And we don’t believe the job market is going to give us much of a chance.” So that is a mindset that is really affecting their politics. And so if you’re feeling like you’re consigned to, you know, being a barista, or you know, some other job that doesn’t pay a lot, and doesn’t have some other ladder of opportunity attached to it, then the idea that maybe, just maybe, you could be part of a political revolution is pretty appealing. So I think we should all be really understanding of that and should try to do the best we can not to be, you know, a wet blanket on idealism. We want people to be idealistic. We want them to set big goals. But to take what we can achieve now and try to present them as bigger goals.
“Free healthcare, free college, etc”
At the end of this....someone has to pay for it. I just can’t see people being that naive or stupid and thinking that you just make it free for people. If it were that easy....I’d be for free Pepsi for everyone.
Read the comments at the site. These “people” are complete loons.
She does “wobble” a lot.
But she is not a “Weeble” as she falls down!
This was “leaked” by Hillary’s campaign manager to attract “Republican” votes. On the one side, you have a well meaning Socialist; on the other you have a dangerous right wing kook like Trump. For everybody else in between , I am your candidate. Triangulation. Smart too because the conservatives will see it as an anti-Hillary leak. take the bait and run with it.
So she views herself as plunking down her fat arse in the middle of the aisle, thereby denying everyone passage without her permission?
Now that is funny!
Only if you can pay the price, is permission granted... modern day Jezebel. The Bush bunch have exposed themselves as her center court jesters.
A lot of small minded people see themselves as the center of the universe. Everything revolves around them.
Evil people see themselves as the victim or they are actually good people who, maybe do some bad things. But, ultimately, they are “good” people.
Criminals feel justified.
It’s all perspective.
Hacking for Hillary - if you’ve ever hacked up any nasty stuff from your innards.
She sees herself wherever she can steal the most state secrets to sell to the highest bidders.
Well she is going to lose Bernie supporters,the right wingers hate her already,and they ALL KNOW she is a lying bitch who will say and do anything to get elected,when she gets elected we will all find out who the REAL Hillary is,just like we did with Obama,except the people who have been dealing with the witch for decades already know what a conniving,decrepit,soulless America,military,police hating bitch she is
Her backside alone can occupy both sides by a wide margin.
One thing I note on DU is that they all think Hillary is too right wing (at least they did while Bernie was still running). Might be useful if we could figure it out to paint Hillary as being more conservative than she really is, so separate her from her base.
Agreed. This is all orchestrated. Why is it the first ones to report it are leftist sites?
If they want a fence we will build a g...d... fence. (GW-McCain)
She has become Mitt Romney! (Without the dynamism.)
She sounds like a RINO republican. Add to the fact she’s a proven neocon war hawk and this is basically a green light for the NRO crowd to vote for her.
I am sooooooooooo tired of listening to all the Clinton crap and her role in the upcoming election, won’t someone PLEASE run over her with a big truck or something?
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