Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumHillary got the toughest question of the night, and she handled it like a pro.
They throw all this stuff at me and Im still standing, Clinton said. Ive been on the front lines of change and progress since I was your age. I have been fighting to give kids and women and the people who are left out and left behind the chance to make the most of their own lives. Clinton went on to reflect on her time rallying for expanded healthcare coverage as First Lady: Ive taken on the status quo again and again. Ive had millions of dollars spent against me... The drug companies, the insurance companies spent millions against me.
Clinton closed by adding that if it were easy, hey, there wouldnt be any contest. But its not easy... You have to have somebody who is a proven, proven fighter. Somebody who has taken them on and won.
Here she was at her best because she wasnt making any effort to present herself as especially millennial-friendly or fresh. She was presenting herself exactly as she is: a politician whos spent a lot of time in the trenches, whose station and experience in the halls of power you either take or leave.
Much MOre~ https://newrepublic.com/minutes/128367/hillary-got-toughest-question-night-handled-like-pro
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workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Hillary is battle tested and a winner against the worst the right wing can throw against her.
Bernie would be in a world of hurt in the GE that he and his backers could not handle!
Cha
(297,196 posts)riversedge
(70,205 posts)That would be the Bernie fan who made a fool of himself on national TV tonight. Maybe some day he will grow up and learn some manners.
Lisa Bloom ?@LisaBloom 4h4 hours ago
Hillary Clinton is the model of poise, grace and passion for change even when someone just called her dishonest to her face.
#DemTownHall
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CNN Breaking News Verified account ?@cnnbrk 4h4 hours ago
.@HillaryClinton: I've been at the front line of change and progress [for a long time]. #DemTownHall
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Cha
(297,196 posts)Mahalo Hoyt~
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)are still standing.
Standing and proud of Hillary!
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riversedge
(70,205 posts)Cha
(297,196 posts)gwheezie
(3,580 posts)She isn't going to whine, she's going to fight. And when she's done with them, she's going to sit back and say I outlasted all of them.
Cha
(297,196 posts)that ol vast rwinger CT will be crying and plottin just like they did when Obama became President..
She doesn't whine about who doesn't support her.. she get's things DONE.
BlueMTexpat
(15,368 posts)applegrove
(118,642 posts)and nailed her vision and experience each time. I especially liked her Abraham Lincoln answer.
Cha
(297,196 posts)Hillary uses the tough questions as opportunities.. not something to whine about.
Sorry Obama, sorry Bill its Abraham Lincoln, Clinton said.
"And Clinton -- with apologies to Obama and her husband, Bill Clinton -- talked about her real favorite president: Abraham Lincoln.
She said his work in healing the country after the Civil War set the model, and had he not been killed, she suspects the United States "would've been a little less rancorous; a little more forgiving and tolerant."
http://www.wdsu.com/politics/5-takeaways-from-the-democratic-town-hall/37638212
I'm sure they understand!
Mahalo~apple~
Tortmaster
(382 posts)... non-SuperPAC money raised against her in her political career. That's on top of the years and years of free negative advertising on AM radio and Fox News.
Senator Sanders has faced approximately 8 million dollars, and he's been virtually ignored by Fox News and AM radio for his entire political life.
Cha
(297,196 posts)know Hillary will be the one impossible to beat because she is simply the best.
Coolest Ranger
(2,034 posts)that she testified in front of republicans for 11 hours. She endured so much crap from them, the media and she came out like a Queen.
72DejaVu
(1,545 posts)But they never acknowledge that it was the attempt to destroy Hillary that led to the case in the first place.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)!!
is right, flamingdem!
madamesilverspurs
(15,801 posts)The questioner who raised the "dishonest and double-dealing" was quite young. Glad to see the youngest voters participating, but his question did alert to the uncomfortable reality that he had been misinformed. Before she even began to answer I wanted to ask him where I got his information, seeing as how he was clearly too young to have been aware of the circumstances he referenced; and I'm guessing that school classes don't cover the esoterica that tends to get lost in recitations of names and dates, etc.
To her credit, she handled it well; hell, she's had so much practice batting away mudballs that she could have answered in her sleep. But it's just sad to consider what our young people are being told - or not.
lamp_shade
(14,831 posts)Mahalo to you, too, lamp_shade!
For all the times!
Cha
(297,196 posts)spread so freely on national tv.
Bet, he thought his Gotcha! wouldn't have turned into such an opportunity for Hillary.
They never do.
Mahalo Madame~
Coolest Ranger
(2,034 posts)would so fit in here right about now
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Cha
(297,196 posts)that doesn't stop you from blah blah blah.
You need to seriously start dealing in reality and stop all these ignorant cheap pot shots.
Hekate
(90,674 posts)stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)Coolest Ranger
(2,034 posts)this is the HILLARY CLINTON GROUP, take your dislike of her and go trash talk in General Discussion. I'm so sick of you guys bringing your drama in here
72DejaVu
(1,545 posts)FrenchieCat
(68,867 posts)but let's remember that Howard Dean won the 2004 Iowa caucus and yet the Corporate media did away with him immediately. I mean that same night!
I'm not saying that was a good thing, and he wasn't even my candidate. But it goes to show that all they need to do is fool enough of the people, for long enough.
It appears that if Iowa caucus goers have not learned that lesson by now, maybe they never will!
Obama won in 2008, but he was an extraordinary candidate, not just followed by the young and very liberals, but he was followed by all!
If Sanders and his supporters think that America is going to be chewing at the bits, and jumping up-and-down, to have their taxes raised for healthcare, after witnessing the fight over healthcare for the last five years, that isn't even over, they have another thing coming!
It's one thing to be idealistic, it's another thing to be idealistic about issues that cannot be passed by a gerrymandered Congress. Our government moves very slowly, and if Bernie Sanders wins the nomination, the revolution will not be televised until after president- elect Trump is sworn in. It will be another occupy movement, that will get barely any coverage even then!
If the corporate media can make five people at a Townhall look like a movement, and totally ignore the million men march in DC this summer, They can do just about anything!
However the difference between the occupy movement and the steaks when that happened, and what we stand to lose is quite different. Say goodbye to President Obama's eight years, along with the supreme court that will now be a kangaroo court, hello to wars, wars, wars,and so many benefits that we would lose, but we now take for granted, and that in fact we now complain about as not being good enough.
Only the most qualified woman there ever was running for president can save us now!
Cha
(297,196 posts)Dean lost the Iowa Caucuses in 2004, though. He was out there trying to rev up his supporters because they had lost.
And, after that speech the corpmedia decided to manufacture what happened by turning off the audience sound and just playing his speech 24/7 ad nauseam. As they are wont to do when they want somebody to go down.
The media givith and the media taketh away. Couldn't do that with President Obama though. He's beaten them at their own game.
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2008/01/17/the-battle-cry-that-backfired
I do not think Sanders is going to win the nomination.. so it will be between Hillary and whomever the teabaggers decide to throw out there as the latest sacrificial lamb against our strong Democratic candidate.
Mahalo Frenchie!
oasis
(49,381 posts)"some of my friends say your dishonest".
Hillary snatched that obvious plant and replanted him in the "Garden of Facts".
BlueMTexpat
(15,368 posts)Cha
(297,196 posts)Hillary takes the crap they hand her and turns it around until it's golden!
Mahalo!
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Cha
(297,196 posts)Thank you!
Coolest Ranger
(2,034 posts)if he was a republican plant
Hekate
(90,674 posts)I LOVED that response.
Cha
(297,196 posts)grace and aplomb. That's what President do.. what they should do anyway.
Mahalo, Hekate~
BlueMTexpat
(15,368 posts)have to rush out and clickety-click an instant poll to decide who "won."
Who "won" the town hall is a decision that will be taken by IA Dem voters on 01 February.
But it looks very good for Hillary in IA, IMO. She shines in town hall situations.
Cha
(297,196 posts)has won in every single one of her debates this year and last.
She seriously outshines her opponents and is the obvious choice for President with her experience, knowledge and mad skills @Demdebates.
Mahalo, BlueMTex!
BlueMTexpat
(15,368 posts)stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)Cha
(297,196 posts)lunamagica
(9,967 posts)I think the question backfired on him BIG TIME! She was able to show how she can handle herself with grace and dignity at all times, and how BRILLIANT she is.
to Hillary.
Go Hillary!
Cha
(297,196 posts)be rude because they asked a valid question like her opponent did.
Hillary is all heart, grace, beauty, and so much aplomb!
Gracias lunamagica!
Coolest Ranger
(2,034 posts)Cha
(297,196 posts)Walk away
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Once again, she proves that she is ready and uniquely able to handle the job. No one else comes close.
Cha
(297,196 posts)opponents crazy with how great she is!
Walk away
mcar
(42,307 posts)She was, as always, intelligent and presidential.
Cha
(297,196 posts)disappointed his "gotcha" only turned into an opportunity.. for her to show her Presidential chops.
Mahalo, mcar~
spooky3
(34,444 posts)To support her over Trump and the 7 dwarfs.
still_one
(92,187 posts)Thank you, Iliyah~
Gothmog
(145,176 posts)Hillary Clinton was great last night
Cha
(297,196 posts)grace cannot be matched.
Hillary's opponents are outmatched.
Thank you, Gothmog~
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Cha
(297,196 posts)Mahalo!
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Governing is another.
I enjoyed how she described everyone as loving her when she is in office.
They hate her when she is running for office.
Recognizing the fantasy that is campaigning and the reality that is governing.
Cha
(297,196 posts)Lorien
(31,935 posts)the whole thing was as fake as she is.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Please delete.
Cha
(297,196 posts)Hillary's Group and try to spread their **********?!!
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)katmille
(213 posts)A "fake Democrat" who is really an Independent, using the Democratic party. Despicable!
Cha
(297,196 posts)show what sour grapes they're made of.. awww. That's so sad.
Ridiculous CT.. you guys have to come up with some less stale lines. All there is to it.
DURHAM D
(32,609 posts)smarty will ask Bernie. Because I am a nice person I want him to have time to rehears his answer.
All my friends say that you are a grumpy old man and you yell at people and interrupt them and won't let anyone else speak. Also, you say the same thing over and over again and have been since long before I was born. They also say that you are a thief and stole Hillary's campaign data as well as her policies and you are some sort of communist who doesn't respect women and POC.
How do you respond to this?
Actually, no need for BS to rehearse... no one who supports Hillary would be this rude.
Hekate
(90,674 posts)...analogy. Please excuse the lack of an exact quote.
There are true liberals who really care about individuals and their troubles, and then there are liberals who care about the masses of humanity. He ended by saying he "hoped" Sanders could tap into that.
To me it was obvious which candidate was which in his mind; and we all know that Hillary, despite being a thoroughgoing policy wonk, excels at listening to individuals in smaller settings, where her warmth and caring shine through.
Bernie pretty much lectures and rants, wherever he is. For those of an age to have grown up with Charles Schultz's "Peanuts," here's a gem from long ago: "I love humanity; it's people I can't stand."
Cha
(297,196 posts)William769
(55,146 posts)Cha
(297,196 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,233 posts)Cha
(297,196 posts)UtahLib
(3,179 posts)I appreciate the fact that she doesn't feel the need to scream and yell to get her point across. And people standing close when speaking to her don't need a spittle guard.
Cha
(297,196 posts)and confident.. doesn't need to shout.
She did such a good job @DemTownHall.. they're all twiiter that it's a vast conspiracy.. nobody could be as great as Hillary!
Yes, she's that good, folks.
Mahalo UtahLib!