3 September 2010
With all due respect to our PUMA friends and the HillBuzzBoys but, from where we stand, this looks like just more of the same for America:
This was uploaded to YouTube on 9/1/2010 with the note, “This is the version to be submitted to NBC’s legal department for approval.” Interesting comments on the page, too.
Video H/T iOwnTheWorld
This is from the transcript for the CNN/YouTube presidential debates, July 2007:
COOPER: Our next question is for Senator Clinton.
(APPLAUSE)
QUESTION: Hi. My name is Rob Porter, and I’m from Irvine, California.
I have a question for Hillary Clinton.
Mrs. Clinton, how would you define the word “liberal?”
And would you use this word to describe yourself?
Thank you.
(LAUGHTER)
CLINTON: You know, it is a word that originally meant that you were for freedom, that you were for the freedom to achieve, that you were willing to stand against big power and on behalf of the individual.
Unfortunately, in the last 30, 40 years, it has been turned up on its head and it’s been made to seem as though it is a word that describes big government, totally contrary to what its meaning was in the 19th and early 20th century.
I prefer the word “progressive,” which has a real American meaning, going back to the progressive era at the beginning of the 20th century.
I consider myself a modern progressive, someone who believes strongly in individual rights and freedoms, who believes that we are better as a society when we’re working together and when we find ways to help those who may not have all the advantages in life get the tools they need to lead a more productive life for themselves and their family.
So I consider myself a proud modern American progressive, and I think that’s the kind of philosophy and practice that we need to bring back to American politics.
COOPER: So you wouldn’t use the word “liberal,” you’d say “progressive.”
From January 2010:
Update: At MichelleMalkin.com Doug Powers writes, “You know it’s been a long year and a half when you can sit back, watch a pitch for Hillary Clinton for president, and fool yourself into thinking that she (and her husband) looks like Reagan compared to Barack Obama.” Read the whole thing.
