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Clift Defends Hillary Clinton's Wealth: FDR Was Rich & Did Great Things For "The Little People"
Real Clear Politics ^ | 5/30/15

Posted on 05/31/2015 1:41:04 PM PDT by Libloather

On this week's edition of the syndicated public affairs show The McLaughlin Group, panelist Eleanor Clift argued Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's wealth could be good for her.

"This is nice work if you can get it and it’s the way our society works right now," Clift said.

Acknowledging Hillary Clinton "would probably be the richest president ever," Clift likened the former Secretary of State to former President Franklin D. Roosevelt, saying he did great things for the "little people."

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To: Graybeard58

Obviously it is anybody who is “Dead Broke”.


21 posted on 05/31/2015 2:15:53 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: Libloather

FDR did “great things” like the wealth-dividing New Deal, and prolonging the Great Depression.


22 posted on 05/31/2015 2:22:00 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Libloather

Al Capone was “rich”. So was Mitt Romney.


23 posted on 05/31/2015 2:22:14 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Libloather

Clift was senile twenty years ago and mentally defective long before that.


24 posted on 05/31/2015 2:27:57 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Libloather

I think JFK was richest.


25 posted on 05/31/2015 2:34:41 PM PDT by razorback-bert (Due to the high price of ammo, no warning shot will be fired.)
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To: Libloather

She means Munchkins.


26 posted on 05/31/2015 2:35:55 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.)
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To: Libloather
Clift is a horrible ideologue. When Clinton's behavior with Monica Lewinsky became undeniable Clift said:

“”Well, he’s been elected twice with people knowing that he has had affairs. Now is the fact that this woman is 21, I mean she’s still of age I suppose.” Besides, Clift argued, “libido and leadership is often linked.”

The cold hard truth about the behavior of people like Clift is that they are motivated by that which promotes their own sense of self importance. They chose to cover politics because they think it makes them part of ‘what's important’. They gravitate to academia and those politicians who come from academia and who parrot the academies tired old slogans and predictable mantras, and will work tirelessly to protect them from criticism. Why? Principally because this is the ‘important club’ to which they envision themselves belonging, and they must protect its stature (and thus their own stature). They are ‘educated’, generally went to ‘good’ universities and are thus confident in their stature as part of the ‘thinkers’ in America and the world. It's highly elitist, entirely independent of principle, and is truly sad and pathetic.

27 posted on 05/31/2015 3:04:20 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: Libloather

They ought to issue commemorative kneepads for folk like Eleanor Clift and Mara Laiason ..


28 posted on 05/31/2015 3:07:15 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: Libloather; All

Ms. Clift has always been one of the dumbest people ever pretending to be a ‘journalist’


29 posted on 05/31/2015 3:09:44 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: Libloather

Thanks for your generous assessment Eleanor. My “little person” inside feels so much better.

Stupid elitist Bitch!


30 posted on 05/31/2015 3:10:28 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: Libloather

If rich people ‘’do great things for the ‘little people,’’’ as Eleanor Clift assures us, what do we need a Democratic party for?

The Democratic party’s self-declared reason for being is to transfer wealth from the rich to the poor; however, it can only achieve that goal by demonizing the rich to such an extent that it can justify confiscating rich peoples’ earnings.

It’s Republicans who believe the rich do great things for the little people, such as providing jobs and incomes.

If Eleanor Clift and her liberal comrades have decided they want to use the media as a re-education camp in order to inculcate pro-rich Republican principles into Democratic minds in order to promote the wealthy Hillary’s presidential candidacy, wonderful. But then what do we need a Democratic party for, since Republicans are already promoting pro-rich Republican principles?


31 posted on 05/31/2015 3:10:28 PM PDT by Bluestocking
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To: Libloather

Clift has been very stupid for a very long time.


32 posted on 05/31/2015 3:14:42 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: Libloather
Acknowledging Hillary Clinton "would probably be the richest president ever," Clift likened the former Secretary of State to former President Franklin D. Roosevelt, saying he did great things for the "little people."

Did you forget to mention, Eleanor, that Hillary came by her money the old-fashioned way...by massive influence-peddling in exchange for bribes? And did you also forget to mention that FDR did plenty of things for "little people," only he did it with other people's money, not his own?

I wonder why you would have omitted both of those crucial facts, Eleanor?
33 posted on 05/31/2015 3:16:01 PM PDT by Milton Miteybad (I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
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To: Ancient Man

My thought, as well. The hypocrisy is strong with this one.


34 posted on 05/31/2015 3:16:53 PM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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To: Libloather

Didn’t she say she would gladly strap on the knees-pads for Slick?


35 posted on 05/31/2015 3:29:00 PM PDT by Vinnie
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To: Libloather
So, Eleanor Clitt thinks we're little people, huh?
36 posted on 05/31/2015 3:32:55 PM PDT by laweeks
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To: Libloather
Ah, yes. FDR spent his wealth helping 'little people'. Uh, I'm guessing not so much.

I think what Clift really meant was, 'FDR created hugely wasteful pseudo-socialist big government programs that were financed by confiscating $ from ordinary Americans.'

37 posted on 05/31/2015 3:38:59 PM PDT by DJ Frisat (Proudly providing the NSA with provocative textual content since 1995!)
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To: M Kehoe

I’m thinking tall trees and short ropes and I’ll bring the beer and supply the rope!


38 posted on 05/31/2015 3:47:35 PM PDT by lostboy61 (Lock and Load and stand your ground!.)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
"I think FDR was rich before he went to the white house, not because of it. Stupid Liberals."

FDR entered the White House a wealthy man (*) and left it a dead man, so whatever he did (and I disagree with most of it) it didn't result in too much feathering of his own nest.

List of United States Presidents by net worth

39 posted on 05/31/2015 4:02:47 PM PDT by Sooth2222 ("In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve." - Joseph de Maistre, 1753-1821)
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To: hal ogen

Hillary or Clift?


40 posted on 05/31/2015 4:25:25 PM PDT by Aria
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