"Uncut" 30 second interview snippet. Hmm...

Post #408,453 by Another Scott 2/29/16 12:17:47 PM 2/29/16 12:17:47 PM Reply	"Uncut" 30 second interview snippet. Hmm... I'd like to see the whole thing. Unfortunately, I couldn't quickly dig it out of NPR's WE Saturday archives, and Google for the quote only goes back 5 days. FWIW. Cheers, Scott.
Post #408,457 by mmoffitt 2/29/16 2:04:31 PM 2/29/16 2:04:31 PM Reply	Interesting. http://www.npr.org/programs/weekend-edition-saturday/archive?date=1-13-1996 returns March, 1995. I'm still looking, but does it matter? She wasn't "proud" to have been a Goldwater Girl, but "very proud". It amazes me how the Clinton apologists will pick at the tiniest of nits in support of her.
Post #408,459 by mmoffitt 2/29/16 2:20:23 PM 2/29/16 2:20:23 PM Reply	Email sent to NPR. I wrote the following to NPR on their site to email them questions: Hello, There are a plethora of links on the Internet to sites with 30 to 35 second excerpts of an interview Weekend Edition conducted with Hillary Clinton on January 13, 1996. Is a full transcript available? I'm sure I'm not the only person to ask and I suppose I could ask the Clinton Campaign, but they seem to be extraordinarily opposed to any sort of transcript release. Thank you in advance. Best regards, ... I'll let you know if they respond.
Post #408,461 by Another Scott 2/29/16 3:17:58 PM 2/29/16 3:17:58 PM Reply	rofl. Nice editorializing. :-) Thanks very much.
Post #408,481 by Another Scott 2/29/16 8:32:36 PM 2/29/16 8:32:36 PM Reply	The Clinton Library has the transcript. Clinton Library: PDF (500 kB with poor OCR) The segment in question is on page 6, but the whole interview is interesting. The whole section in question is (typos mine): SIMON: Would you ever run for office yourself? Do you ever think about that? CLINTON: Oh, I don't think so. No. SIMON: I mean did you ever, back in the '60s, between when, I believe, you were a Goldwater Girl... CLINTON: That's right. SIMON: ... and whatever you became politically. CLINTON: That's right. And I feel like my political beliefs are rooted in the conservatism that I was raised with. I don't recognize this new brand of Republicanism that's afoot now, which I consider to be very reactionary, not conservative, in many respects. I'm very proud that I was a Goldwater Girl. And then my political beliefs changed over time, but I've always thought that the role of citizen, the role of advocate, were as important in our democracy as running for office, and so it's not anything I've ever, you know, seriously considered. I think it's pretty clear what she was saying. YMMV. FWIW. Cheers, Scott.
Post #408,492 by mmoffitt 3/1/16 8:18:58 AM 3/1/16 8:18:58 AM Reply	It's not clear to me that she's disavowing having supported Goldwater. Her "views changed", but in what way and to what extent? She thinks its important to be a citizen advocate, but she doesn't think she'll run for office. That's fine, but doesn't speak to her philosophy. Today she does not want the reinstatement of Glass-Steagall. That's consistent with a Goldwater position. Her support (until she reversed herself for political expediency) for the TPP is also in keeping with Goldwater philosophy. How about her vote on the pro-banking bankruptcy bill? A solid Goldwater thing to do. The vote for the Iraq War? Barry would have certainly approved. There are almost countless examples of how Clinton's political philosophy has actually not changed all that much since she was a Goldwater Girl. I read the whole thing and with regard to the Goldwater Girl comment, I don't see how a fair reading would lead one to conclude that she, in anyway, disavowed her "political roots" being conservative.
Post #408,501 by Ashton 3/1/16 3:16:07 PM 3/1/16 3:16:07 PM Reply	..We never know where ANY one of these, salivating at the lobby to Massive-Power ... really STAND Look at the disappointments of BHO's somewhat schizophrenic support of Patriot-Act like cupidity + euphemism + ƒeare-backed dissembling.. Even though somewhat ameliorated by his consistency in some other crucial areas of wordplay: he had been deceptive in a premeditated mien. Alas, your disdain may well prove to have derived from no exaggeration in your assessment of her inner-demons. Only hindsight could settle such a conjecture. Natch: by then, it's too-Fucking-Late. Catch 2016. AGAIN! (Thus far, I believe that Bernie's blind-spots on some important issues ... do not seem related to the dissembling which can be laid/repeatedly at Hillary's manifest behavior.) ... that is sometimes reminiscent of the jibe at Tricky Dick: being like a $2 bill in the wind. You never know which side will land Face-Up. What if she were more-agile at ..keeeping all those plates spinning in her skit on the burlesque stage-play? Hit that arm doing the twirling? and all the plates hit the stage, at once. Lousy metaphor for human "politics" innit? Feeds the cynic in everyone/maybe IT IS time to bite bullet and voir dire? Jeez ... ... if we really ARE "getting the government WE Deserve.." How/where-to !?! can we even slink away?

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