The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday 7th March 2016
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…and Hillary Clinton once worked for Barry Goldwater
(from Penny on the Standard Open Mike 5 Feb)…”A 1996 NPR interview with Hillary Clinton has recently resurfaced, in which the current Democratic front-runner shockingly embraced conservatism and reiterated how proud she was to support a segregationist presidential candidate.
In the interview, Clinton told NPR’s Scott Simon that her political beliefs were “rooted in the conservatism that I was raised with,” and talked about being a “Goldwater girl” in 1964:
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http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h4011.html
I see this headline in promoted stories in The Brisbane Times this morning.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/77477632/Flag-referendum-vote-and-what-it-means-for-John-Key?cid=outbrain:starter