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PoliticalMalcontent

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18. Please explain how Hillary is progressive.

Fri Oct 30, 2015, 07:25 PM

Oct 2015

I'm not really seeing it. Maybe it's because Bernie Sanders is in the picture and he's left of Hillary, but a lot of the times when Hillary takes a stance it seems like Bernie has been there for 10+ years already. So I'm curious... What makes Hillary progressive in your eyes?

Perhaps it's akin to an abstract painting where individuals see what they want to see. I'm just looking for an explanation for how I'm seeing such a different picture from everybody else.

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Hillary is PROGRESSIVE, MEGA-QUALIFIED, BRILLIANT, and WILL MOST LIKELY be the Dem nominee. [View all] RBInMaine Oct 2015 OP

she is pathetically out of step DianeK Oct 2015 #1

Pathetically out of step with DU:Progressives aka Bernie supporters ... 1StrongBlackMan Oct 2015 #4

True bravenak Oct 2015 #7

Fact! nt sheshe2 Oct 2015 #11

Especially if you will settle for the status quo aikoaiko Oct 2015 #31

I guess that depends on how ... 1StrongBlackMan Oct 2015 #34

I don't think Hillary will be trying to do anything different from Obama aikoaiko Oct 2015 #36

Well. I'm pretty happy with what President has done ... 1StrongBlackMan Oct 2015 #41

Sure he was awesome compared to Bush, but you cant be happy with 45% of African American babies aikoaiko Oct 2015 #42

That explains her big lead in the polls 72DejaVu Oct 2015 #5

Maybe America needs a dance studio? What was the name of the chain of dance studios? randys1 Oct 2015 #10

+1 sheshe2 Oct 2015 #12

With brogressivies workinclasszero Oct 2015 #28

LOL, and they Bernie supporters treat him like a god jfern Oct 2015 #2

And don't call the hillarians a cult! Doctor_J Oct 2015 #20

Links? emulatorloo Oct 2015 #26

K AND R! Supremely qualified. JaneyVee Oct 2015 #3

Damn, JaneyVee! Kath1 Oct 2015 #27

The most qualified to ever run for President Evergreen Emerald Oct 2015 #6

Please. She is qualified but not overly so. She has like 8 years in the Senate and a term as SoS. TheKentuckian Oct 2015 #22

You are minimizing her experience as SOS Evergreen Emerald Oct 2015 #29

You are drastically minimizing the breadth and depth of experience of a great many TheKentuckian Oct 2015 #35

Qualified? Brilliant? Probably. Progressive? Not so much. The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2015 #8

Bingo. nt SusanCalvin Oct 2015 #32

She calls herself a centrist n/t arcane1 Oct 2015 #9

At times, and then other times a progressive. Seems depends on what's blowing in the wind. EndElectoral Oct 2015 #39

Most Likely? BootinUp Oct 2015 #13

For me what is so very depressing is Hillary is all these things, and ten thousand times randys1 Oct 2015 #14

Bingo. nt SusanCalvin Oct 2015 #33

She's so perfect that everyone is going to line up just to vote for her. I wish her the best Deadman Oct 2015 #15

... ColesCountyDem Oct 2015 #16

You'd think they would try for a few posts... Agschmid Oct 2015 #23

Yup, yup. n/t ColesCountyDem Oct 2015 #24

one out of four. not too good Doctor_J Oct 2015 #17

Please explain how Hillary is progressive. PoliticalMalcontent Oct 2015 #18

You have spunk. NCTraveler Oct 2015 #19

And Bernie is actually ahead of where Obama was at the same time in the 2007/8 cycle... ReallyIAmAnOptimist Oct 2015 #21

Hillary is a progressive in the same way Bristol Palin is a virgin. Scuba Oct 2015 #25

"not an absolute purist" Martin Eden Oct 2015 #30

I understand Hilary's supporters, but for the life of me to label her a progressive seems...uh..new EndElectoral Oct 2015 #37

Dude, my family thinks I'm nuts because I sit in front of the computer laughing my ass off Fumesucker Oct 2015 #38

Um, no. I hate to break it to you, but she's basically a pro-choice Republican. reformist2 Oct 2015 #40

KICK! Cha Oct 2015 #43

ANOTHER hit-and-run post. Ron Green Oct 2015 #44

If she's PROGRESSIVE, then I'm King Of The Hobbits. hobbit709 Oct 2015 #45

Hillaryous OP. PowerToThePeople Nov 2015 #46