Hillary Clinton Is Everywhere, But Still Nowhere To Be Found On Ferguson

[Cali_Democrat]

By Samantha Lachman

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton isn't exactly hiding from the public eye as she plans a trip to Iowa, furthering speculation about whether and when she'll announce plans to seek the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. Yet, Clinton hasn't said a word about protests in Ferguson, Missouri, following the Aug. 9 shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, by a police officer.

Clinton's silence has provoked questions about why she's mum on an issue that other possible 2016 presidential candidates have felt compelled to weigh in on. Those who have spoken on the topic include Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) as well as former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R), Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) and Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D).

It isn't as if Clinton has shied from delving into the politics of the midterm elections as she plans fundraisers for the major Democratic committees. She has critiqued President Barack Obama's foreign policy approach and spoken out about Israel's offensive in Gaza, the downing of a Malaysia Airlines plane in Ukraine, the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and whether Obama should have armed rebels earlier. And she's appeared across a broad array of cable shows to promote her book, Hard Choices.


But Clinton's calculation appears to be that the Ferguson conflict is one too complex, or dangerous, to address. A Clinton spokesperson did not respond to a HuffPost request for comment Tuesday. (Her camp also declined to comment to MSNBC on Monday.)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/19/hillary-clinton-ferguson_n_5691497.html

[Faux pas]

1. Kinda telling

don't ya think? ABHRC

[arthritisR_US]

21. +1. nt

[Louisiana1976]

2. I wonder why Hillary hasn't taken a stand. She should, if she's seriously in the running.

[seveneyes]

3. A wise person will wait for the facts

Emotional outbursts solve nothing.

[brooklynite]

4. Neither is Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, Mike O'Malley, Andrew Cuomo.....

...or any other prospective candidate for President.

[villager]

5. "Bernie Sanders Has a Brilliant Idea: Instead of Giving Police Tanks, Let’s Create Jobs"

from yesterday:

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/08/18/bernie-sanders-brilliant-idea-giving-police-tanks-create-jobs.html

"When you see the kind of force that’s being used in Ferguson it really does make it appear that the police department there is an occupying army in a hostile territory, and that is absolutely not what we want to see in the United States. I think we gotta rethink a lot this heavy equipment that police departments around the country are utilizing..."

etc.

[brooklynite]

6. 8 days later?

[villager]

7. Nice straw grasp! As opposed to Hillary's...?

How long as the "silence clock" been running on her end?

[AtomicKitten]

19. EWarren: “This is America, not a war zone."

https://twitter.com/elizabethforma/status/499904279961149440

This is America, not a war zone. The people of #Ferguson just want answers. We all want answers.

[me b zola]

8. She can't get passed her "kitchen sink" (read southern strategy)

...that she threw into the mix in the primaries of 2008. Why anyone let her off the hook for that shit I will never understand.

[AtomicKitten]

24. I remember that well.

Clinton Campaign Starts 5-Point Attack on Obama
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/26/us/politics/26clinton.html

[cwydro]

9. And when some here asked where was Obama...

they were shouted down.

Why does Hillary have to be different?

Just interested. Personally I think anyone in national office, or aspiring to be, should speak out.

I think this is a national issue.

[Cha]

22. Because President Obama has been right here. I don't care if Hillary weighs in on it or not.

[NightWatcher]

10. Yeah, because that'd make it better

She bears no responsibility for this as she's currently a retired Senator and former Secretary of State.

I hope she doesn't stick her nose into everything between now and the election. I can guarantee you that we'll see enough of Hillary soon enough. I don't want to be sick of her before the election comes.

[JaydenD]

11. and spoken out about Israel's offensive in Gaza ??

when was that?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/13/hillary-clinton-israel-gaza-school-bombing_n_5672881.html

Hillary Clinton Twists Herself In Knots To Avoid Blaming Israel For UN Bombing

Here's Hillary Clinton, on the downing of a Malaysia Airlines plane in Ukraine: "I think if there were any doubt it should be gone by now, that Vladimir Putin, certainly indirectly ... bears responsibility for what happened."

And here's Clinton, on the bombing of a United Nations facility in Gaza: "I'm not sure it's possible to parcel out blame because it's impossible to know what happens in the fog of war."

The two remarks were made less than three weeks apart, and offer a window into how one's view of how the world should be can color how it's seen -- or at least how it's relayed to the public.

[karynnj]

12. In the Goldberg interview - where she is 1000% behind Israel

Note that 100 Senators were in about the same .position. Not a surprising position

[JaydenD]

14. The way it read it seemed like she spoke out against Israel

doing the bombing. I thought that was odd, and wrong.

[NYC_SKP]

13. Just another day in the life. Hillary is about entitlement. Ferguson is about lack of it.

The memes just don't align very well.

The only term these have in common is "inevitable".

Oh my, now I have to stop and think about that.

[markpkessinger]

15. Because it's so hard to be a chameleon . . .

. . . after you've declared yourself on a controversial issue!

[Katashi_itto]

16. She is busy waiting for the "Point Of Maximum Pandering" technically known as P.O.M.P units

then she will leap in as if she's been behind this forever.

[wyldwolf]

17. If Clinton had been out front of this: DU reaction

*what is SHE doing there?

*pandering for votes!

*she'll never get mine! Never never never #@^@@%#%#@#%@^!+!!!!

* She was Goldwater girl. Did you know that?

* And she voted for the Iraq war! This is new information and I'm sharing it! See how SMART I am??

* The is OBAMA'S job! Does she think she's the president?

* She said something different than what Obama said. She's undermining him!

[freshwest]

25. LOL, that's right.

[AtomicKitten]

18. Maybe she can't find an angle whereby she'd be the center of attention.

[NaturalHigh]

20. I don't blame her.

She would be skewered by a lot of people no matter what she said.

[ariesgem]

23. ...

Yet, she'll be sure to make appearances at their churches come election time..