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In Hillary Clinton's America, there's room for equality, diversity and pick-up trucks
The Guardian & Observer ^ | April 13, 2015 | Megan Carpentier

Posted on 04/19/2015 8:34:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Unlike in her last campaign, Hillaryland 2016 is a sunny, optimistic place where you can reinvent yourself, and she can, too.

Hillary Clinton has represented many things to many people over the years, including feminism supposedly run amok. Between now and 575 days from now, though, she represents one big thing: the best chance to elect a woman to the highest political office in the world.

As such, Clinton has galvanized not only the people who voted and worked for her in 2008 but also – and importantly – more than a few who broke for Barack Obama way back then.

Is being a symbol enough to win in 2016?

Because, whether she wants to be or not, Clinton is as much a symbol as she is a politician: all complaints to the contrary about Sunday’s campaign announcement video, which featured more speaking time by “everyday Americans” than the candidate herself, Clinton has already run on her biography, her record, her policy positions and what kind of president she’d like to be.

But what she originally lacked during the 2008 campaign (and realized too late, led astray by a male-dominated campaign team that thought she had to show toughness) was the acknowledgment of that one thing: what she was doing, and what she represented, was also historic because she is a woman, and plenty of voters liked that.

She still is; they still do....

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues; Parties
KEYWORDS: clintoncash; clintonfoundation; feminism; hillary; pages; peterschweizer
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Meh.
1 posted on 04/19/2015 8:34:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This article is a completely fabricated crock of manure, a figment of the Guardian’s fevered imagination. But then, what can be expected of the leftist rag?


2 posted on 04/19/2015 8:36:12 PM PDT by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

New Headline “Hillary Clinton - easily led astray by men”


3 posted on 04/19/2015 8:37:16 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad (Impeach Sen Quinn)
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To: John Valentine
Is being a symbol enough to win in 2016?

Only if her 2 million fictitious Twitter followers have voter fictitious registration cards. That ought to be doable for Democrats.

4 posted on 04/19/2015 8:38:09 PM PDT by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hillary will have to withdraw from candidacy and ‘for the good of the nation’, Elizabeth Warren will take her place.


5 posted on 04/19/2015 8:50:09 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Once again the Guardian proves my theory that the Guardian is produced as part of a work-therapy program for London’s Bethlem Hospital for the Mentally Gaa-gaa.


6 posted on 04/19/2015 8:53:38 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Darth Obama on 529 plans: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Butch will stay out of prison long enough to run?


7 posted on 04/19/2015 8:56:08 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

blah.. blah... blah....


8 posted on 04/19/2015 8:57:30 PM PDT by zzeeman ("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.")
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To: KarlInOhio

Comments are already closed...


9 posted on 04/19/2015 8:58:40 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad (Impeach Sen Quinn)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Still is?? I’ve yet to be convinced she ever WAS.


10 posted on 04/19/2015 8:59:23 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

My bet is with each passing week she will get
younger and better looking, her speech will improve
along with her coherency, timed just for the
campaign season.

Bet ya.


11 posted on 04/19/2015 9:01:02 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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My bet is with each passing week she will get younger and better looking,

Or at least the MSM will slather more and more vaseline on their lenses until any Hillary appearance will look like a commercial for cataract surgery.

12 posted on 04/19/2015 9:10:29 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Darth Obama on 529 plans: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.)
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Seriously, these people plan years ahead.
It is not impossible that they have made
Hillary up as older looking in anticipation
of the coming run so she can time her
“rejuvination” to coincide with the
close of the campaign.

I trust them not, not EVER.


13 posted on 04/19/2015 9:15:47 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: KarlInOhio
Or at least the MSM will slather more and more vaseline on their lenses until any Hillary appearance will look like a commercial for cataract surgery.

OMG! That is FUNNY!!!!

14 posted on 04/19/2015 9:25:37 PM PDT by Aria
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

the guardian is a worthless piece of trash

This tripe actually passes for editorial comment, eh?

https://youtu.be/o0LDAO2elYQ


15 posted on 04/19/2015 9:25:57 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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It’s as if the rats and MSM expect us to accept that the “candidates” are totally fabricated - their policies, their looks (Hillary’s blue contacts), their gestures, their tones of voice, their past. And we’re supposed to vote for whoever does the best acting job.

Oh look, Hillary has “pivoted” and now likes people with crummy jobs and no money. Ignore what you read before. She has “evolved”.

They don’t even try to hide it anymore.


16 posted on 04/19/2015 9:31:33 PM PDT by Aria
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Dykes and pick-up trucks, yeah I can see it.


17 posted on 04/19/2015 9:34:27 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You should barf alert that thing.


18 posted on 04/19/2015 11:11:33 PM PDT by exnavy (Freedom is not free.)
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To: John Valentine

Actually... the unions are working on that as we speak.


19 posted on 04/19/2015 11:12:48 PM PDT by exnavy (Freedom is not free.)
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To: exnavy

I broke the H> code!

Hideous Vagaga


20 posted on 04/20/2015 4:35:21 AM PDT by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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