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Hillary Clinton and "The Third Way" How America's First Lady of the Left Has Bamboozled Liberals and Conservatives Alike "My subject is Hillary Clinton in her role as America's foremost leftist. This is not an obvious idea to those leftists who identify themselves as radicals. Purists of the creed are likely to regard both Clintons as opportunists and sellouts of their cause. But the left is not and has never been a political monolith, and its factions have always attacked each other almost as ferociously as their political enemies.

It is possible to be a socialist, and radical in one's agendas, and yet moderate in the means one regards as practical to achieve them. To change the world, it is first necessary to acquire cultural and political power. And these transitional goals may often be accomplished by indirection and deception even more effectively than by frontal assault. Political stratagems that appear moderate and compromised to radical factions of the left may present an even greater threat from the perspective of the other side. In 1917, Lenin's political slogan wasn't "Socialist Dictatorship! Firing Squads and Gulags!" It was "Bread, Land and Peace."

Yet Hillary Clinton as America's "first lady of the left," is also not an obvious subject to many conservatives. And since conservative politics begins with the defense of America's constitutional order, this is a far more significant matter. Underestimating the foe on any battlefield can be a fatal fault; in politics likewise............................................"

1 posted on 12/05/2013 1:21:53 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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“We’re big believers in a big-tent party and vigorous debates,” he added."

They sure are. Both the Stalinists and regular Marxists are well represented, just no Americans.

2 posted on 12/05/2013 1:36:26 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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I strongly support democrat infighting, but that article was a little confusing.

I gotta say Bill Clinton and the DLC had a good thing going on there for a while. And then they elected all those more conservative dems to congress (pro-life, etc.)

And then Barack Obama came along and lo and behold they are all under the bus.

Can Hillary Clinton put that humpty dumpty back together? I doubt it.


3 posted on 12/05/2013 1:57:00 AM PST by jocon307
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Hillary Clinton is Americas Elena Ceausceau


4 posted on 12/05/2013 2:16:49 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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*mirth/LOL!*

5 posted on 12/05/2013 2:57:35 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi 8-)
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The bent one's "ex" vs. Fauxcahontas.

Cat fight!
9 posted on 12/05/2013 3:14:37 AM PST by 867V309 (Obama- he's just crazy enough to do it.)
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typical progressive logic

if you oppose raising social security benefits, then that means you are “slashing” them


12 posted on 12/05/2013 3:46:10 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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Oh, wait, Boehner is so sorry of letting Obamacare be a democrat issue that cannot be blamed on the GOP or Bush, that now with Amnesty he is going to correct the record and make Hillary happy.


14 posted on 12/05/2013 3:50:40 AM PST by lavaroise
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The bad fallout and roll-out of Obamacare has fractured the Democratic base and exposed the Democrats movement to the far left.

The mainstream press wants to focus only on the far right, but now the Democrats are heavily exposed and the mainstream press is having a hard time covering for them with the mid-terms coming up.

15 posted on 12/05/2013 4:09:57 AM PST by sr4402
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The president warned the American economy has become “profoundly unequal” and called economic mobility the “challenge of our time.”

He's right, and oh so wrong at the same time. One of the truly great things about the America that used to be was economic mobility. It's well documented that successive generations had a high probability of moving up or down the economic ladder. The English had a rigid set of economic and social classes; we had "shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations."

What Obama and his clique miss is that the more oppressive the economic drag you put on workers, the more difficult you make economic mobility, at least upward economic mobility. The economic friction on savings accumulation (ZIRP to support government waste, taxes, regulation) grows greater every year. Meanwhile, it's easier and easier to move down into the government safety net of economic justice. I mean, with all of the disincentives for industrious behavior, "Why bother?"

20 posted on 12/05/2013 4:42:28 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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Doesn’t matter how much infighting the dems enjoy, in the end they will all come together, obama’s NSA will ensure that.


21 posted on 12/05/2013 4:51:22 AM PST by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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Did you see AD Hill’s column today in The HIll? A must read


24 posted on 12/05/2013 8:46:27 AM PST by ken5050 (Benghazi investigation update: "The plot thickens, like Hillary Clinton's ankles.." (longfellow")
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