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your right-wing troll/provocateur posing as leftist progressive Clinton lover and Obama critic shtick is getting really, really old and tiresome.
As if HRC would have been any more "progressive" on the issues you listed than Obama is. Keep dreaming! She's the very definition of a DLC-type centrist accommodationist, and she's further to Obama's right on national security issues! Oh, BTW, she's opposed to gay marriage but supports civil unions, just like Obama, so I guess in your estimation that makes her a homophobe who promotes intolerance and discrimination against gays, just like you think Obama is.
And as for "destroying everything the Democratic Party once stood for", plenty have argued that this process reached its peak under President Clinton, when the conservative DLC was running the show and abandoned any pretense of a progressive economic agenda, trashed welfare, went hard to the right on criminal justice issues, and much more. What the Democratic Party stood for during the Clinton presidency was a slightly watered down, more palatable GOP agenda. Republicanism with a smiling face, IOW. Dean, Reid, Pelosi, and Obama may be carrying on that tradition, but they hardly started it.
