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Clinton: Being a Capitalist Probably Hurt Me in 2016 Because So Many Democrats Are Socialists
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Posted on 05/02/2018 2:55:43 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Clinton: Being a Capitalist Probably Hurt Me in 2016 Because So Many Democrats Are Socialists

BY: David Rutz May 2, 2018 5:14 pm

Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that being a capitalist probably hurt her cause in 2016 because so many Democrats in the party today are socialists.

Her interviewer at the Shared Values Leadership Summit quipped Clinton might have been the first presidential candidate since World War II who had to stand up and announce she was a capitalist.

"Did it hurt you?" he asked.

"Probably," Clinton said. "It's hard to know, but 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.'"

Clinton fought off a surprisingly sturdy challenge from Democratic Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) for the 2016 Democratic nomination. Sanders won primaries and caucuses in 22 states, and he came close to pulling off an upset in Iowa, losing by less than half a point to Clinton.

She has laid blame on numerous factors for her eventual general election defeat at the hands of President Donald Trump, Sanders and his diehard supporters among them. Sanders ripped Clinton as beholden to Wall Street interests during the primary, and she wrote his attacks did "lasting damage" to her.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinton; hillaryblamegame; hillaryclinton; hillarylost; hillarysocialist
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To: Sub-Driver

She’s actually a kleptocrat, not a capitalist.


41 posted on 05/02/2018 3:27:43 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Interesting Times

The Pantsuited Don...


42 posted on 05/02/2018 3:28:06 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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To: Sub-Driver

She’s actually a kleptocrat, not a capitalist.


43 posted on 05/02/2018 3:28:21 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Sub-Driver

Anyone who is not for outright nationalization of all business qualifies as a capitalist, I guess.


44 posted on 05/02/2018 3:29:29 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Pearls Before Swine

I give her credit in being able to invent and reinvent excuses/lies that she actually believes. Furthermore, most government types are pure Capitalists for themselves and Socialist for everyone else. That’s how they become filthy rich beyond most American’s dreams. Clinton thinks her money is legit and she is a Capitalist of the level of self made men and women of vision/invention who WORKED their butts off. Clinton wealth is all criminal and dirty enough to put ALL Clintons in prison.


45 posted on 05/02/2018 3:30:00 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Sub-Driver

Hillary, being yourself definitely hurt you in 2016. Too many people, including Dems, can’t stand YOU.


46 posted on 05/02/2018 3:31:38 PM PDT by Cecily
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To: Pollster1

Thank you for being quantitative and keeping track. I’ll accept #102 instead of my wild numerical guess.


47 posted on 05/02/2018 3:34:02 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ("Married with children.")
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To: Sub-Driver

It’s always something.


48 posted on 05/02/2018 3:34:59 PM PDT by xone
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To: Sub-Driver

Capitalism: send your capital to Hillary in exchange for political favors.


49 posted on 05/02/2018 3:36:02 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: Sub-Driver

i read somewhere recently that hillary rodham described herself as a “Misanthrope” in one of her wellesley papers.
yea, that is a character attribute that i feel would fit in quite well as the president of the USA..
Thank god did we dodge a bullet....


50 posted on 05/02/2018 3:37:17 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: Sub-Driver
Clinton: Being a Capitalist Probably Hurt Me in 2016 Because So Many Democrats Are Socialists

Well...

I mean, if they believed there was no intent, I guess they'll believe anything...

51 posted on 05/02/2018 3:39:40 PM PDT by Magnatron
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To: Sub-Driver

After actually reading the a bit of the article she probably has a point...her democrat party has gone over the deep end.
It will be an interesting 2020 campaign for sure.


52 posted on 05/02/2018 3:42:46 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: Sub-Driver

We really need this nut cake to run again in 2020. She wants to run, I’m sure. She’s like a female version of Captain Queeg.


53 posted on 05/02/2018 3:51:23 PM PDT by Flick Lives
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To: Sub-Driver

I think Hillary has fallen one too many times.


54 posted on 05/02/2018 3:54:41 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: WayneS

She outdoes herself every day.


55 posted on 05/02/2018 3:56:00 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: Sub-Driver

[ Clinton: Being a Capitalist Probably Hurt Me in 2016 ]

Ah. The Clinton Foundation.


56 posted on 05/02/2018 3:59:57 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

She hasn’t been a capitalist since 1965. This new excuse is maybe the funniest.


57 posted on 05/02/2018 4:03:28 PM PDT by Defiant (I may be deplorable, but I'm not getting in that basket.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Clinton: Being a Capitalist Probably Hurt Me in 2016 Because So Many Democrats Are Socialists

She might be a capitalist with her own ill-gained wealth, but with everything else she is a crap-weasel commie.


58 posted on 05/02/2018 4:18:34 PM PDT by Iron Munro (The art of government is to take money from one to give to another - Voltaire)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Actually, leftists love taxes on income. As trust funds types don’t work - or at least the ones I know don’t - they don’t have wages as you or I do. It depends upon how you define “the wealthy”.


59 posted on 05/02/2018 4:23:06 PM PDT by theoilpainter
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To: Sub-Driver

ROFLMAO! HILLARIOUS...that is why Hillary puts the Hilarious in Hillaryous Rotten Criminal.

What a PUTRID POS. 1/2 The Greatest Crime Couple in the HISTORY of this fabulous republic.

Where’s the BARF ALERT?


60 posted on 05/02/2018 4:24:27 PM PDT by PGalt
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