2016 Postmortem

Larkspur

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1. Disagree with Markos. HRC said that TPP was the gold standard in free trade deals until

Tue Jun 21, 2016, 02:48 PM

Jun 2016

she saw that supporting it publicly was toxic. Her resistance to change had nothing to do with embarrassing President Obama but with the fact that she had participated in negotiating it and had called it the gold standard.

I still do not trust HRC. I credit the progressive movement with forcing her to change her positions and that is the point in being active politically. Politicians rarely change because they want to. They need to either be forced to or be given the right political environment to support changing their once previous bad positions.

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Markos: Hillary Clinton 'pivots' to GE by affirming same great liberal policies from primary [View all] BootinUp Jun 2016 OP

Disagree with Markos. HRC said that TPP was the gold standard in free trade deals until Larkspur Jun 2016 #1

Politicians "change" when they see something will have enough votes BootinUp Jun 2016 #2

FDR.....Now make me do it! charlyvi Jun 2016 #3

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This has all been argued back and forth ad museum. FACT: BootinUp Jun 2016 #5

'thank them'? HumanityExperiment Jun 2016 #8

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