Re: Hillary Clinton is one of the most conservative candidates the DNC has run in yea
The right called the guy who expanded every single anti-terror measure from Bush other than waterboarding (and failing to close Gitmo), didn't even try to do anything retributive towards those responsible for the housing and stock crises, cronied up with big businesses, etc etc etc......
....a......
....socialist who "hates America".
Part of the reason I'm so disappointed with Obama is that while he was a tad more liberal than I would like in his words, he was pretty close to center in terms of the actions he's actually taken, and as I've noted, there are many actions that were expansions of right-wing Bush policies. If you ignore lofty speeches and focus on his actual behavior as a President, how on Earth does anyone land on "socialist"? Did he fight tooth and claw for single payer? That would be socialist, but he didn't even try. He dropped the public option - which isn't socialism because it isn't government ownership of the means of production - the second it improved odds of getting Obamacare passed. Obamacare being a pretty fat handout to insurance companies that doesn't actually have much in the way of cost-control measures other than hope. That's called crony capitalism, not socialism.
Yet, still, he's a "socialist" who "hates America".
Uhuh. The right has moved farther right, not the other way around. As many on the right have noted, Reagan wouldn't stand a chance in today's world. And he's a supply-sider idiot when it comes to economics.
And now, let's get back to Hillary. She's openly a centrist in terms of so many policy positions. She might as well be a "RINO" Republican. She doesn't even seem to have much in the way of convictions. She'll do whatever gets something accomplished based on consensus opinion, despite being maligned as a big mean liar. As a politican, she seems to be a pragmatist. I don't like her, but I don't think silly claims are appropriate, such as any intimation that she's some kind of far lefty.
Sanders is a far lefty. He told you so, and it's true. THAT is what the far left looks like. Some literally socialist policies, and a whole lot of far left stuff that isn't all that far off. (And yet, even he isn't a truly pure socialist). Neither Obama nor Clinton are anything like Sanders, but they're called socialist? Far left?
Idiocy, I say. Idiocy.