Clinton says being a capitalist likely hurt her among socialist Dems

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Hillary Clinton agreed Wednesday that being a capitalist likely damaged her 2016 campaign because nearly half of Democrats say they are socialists.

"Probably," Clinton said at the Shared Values Leadership Summit in New York City, after being asked whether support for capitalism hurt her at the polls.

"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.'"

The former U.S. secretary of state was challenged from the left during the Democratic primaries by self-described democratic socialist Bernie Sanders, the U.S. senator from Vermont who repeatedly criticized her for being bankrolled by Wall Street and not going after capitalism and with the same hostility as the Democratic grassroots hoped for.

During the first Democratic debate in 2015, Sanders refused to identify himself as a capitalist.

“Do I consider myself part of the casino capitalist process by which so few have so much and so many have so little?” he asked. “By which Wall Street greed and recklessness wrecked this economy? No I don’t.”

Clinton, meanwhile, offered a defense of capitalism, saying: “When I think about capitalism, I think about all the businesses that were started because we have the opportunity and the freedom to do that and to make a good living for themselves and their families … We would be making a grave mistake to turn our backs on what built the greatest middle class in the history.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...ist-likely-hurt-her-among-socialist-dems.html
 
noise said:
“Do I consider myself part of the casino capitalist process by which so few have so much and so many have so little?” he asked. “By which Wall Street greed and recklessness wrecked this economy? No I don’t.”
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Amusing to see her going around believing she's a wise elder statesman when in actuality she just hammers more nails in her political coffin.
We now all know what she said in those highly paid speeches to Wall Street execs, that she has to say one thing out campaigning but don't worry, I've got your back.
No principles whatsoever.
Anyways, nobody's paying attention.
 
aloysious said:
Amusing to see her going around believing she's a wise elder statesman when in actuality she just hammers more nails in her political coffin.
We now all know what she said in those highly paid speeches to Wall Street execs, that she has to say one thing out campaigning but don't worry, I've got your back.

Anyways, nobody's paying attention.
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You paid attention. Hillary is just ruminating about the last election and trying to understand it. No crime. No reason to lock her up or to slam her.
 
what is interesting here is the sheer amount of Dems who consider themselves socialist,
and will not look to capitalism on how to improve one's economic life
 
Nordberg said:
You paid attention. Hillary is just ruminating about the last election and trying to understand it. No crime. No reason to lock her up or to slam her.
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I know. I actually like how she reinforces what we tried to tell her supporters. Makes them look like fools.
Dims, as usual, had some pretty good candidates to start with but they were blown off in favor of a big time grifter.
lol
 
Same old White Liberal blue blood, song and dance ... Capitalism for the lib royal elite, and a welfare state for their peasants.

It's nothing new to the Leftists , Hillbag. :palm:
 
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-him-up/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.29926bf9d576
 
aloysious said:
Amusing to see her going around believing she's a wise elder statesman when in actuality she just hammers more nails in her political coffin.
We now all know what she said in those highly paid speeches to Wall Street execs, that she has to say one thing out campaigning but don't worry, I've got your back.
No principles whatsoever.
Anyways, nobody's paying attention.
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prove your claim idiot
 
noise said:
what is interesting here is the sheer amount of Dems who consider themselves socialist,
and will not look to capitalism on how to improve one's economic life
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because you greedy stupid fuckers keep giving capitlism a bad name
 
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