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By Noam Scheiber
Were three years from the next presidential election, and Hillary Clinton is, once again, the inevitable Democratic nominee. Congressional Republicans have spent months investigating her like she already resides in the White House. The New York Times has its own dedicated Clinton correspondent, whose job it is to chronicle everything from Hillarys summer accommodations (CLINTONS FIND A NEW PLACE TO VACATION IN THE HAMPTONS) to her distinct style of buckraking (IN CLINTON FUNDRAISING, EXPECT A FULL EMBRACE). There is a feature-length Hillary biopic in the works, and a well-funded super PACReady for Hillarybent on easing her way into the race. And then there is Clinton herself, who sounds increasingly candidential. Since leaving the State Department, Clinton has already delivered meaty, headline-grabbing orations on voting rights and Syria.
Yet for all the astrophysical force of these developments, anyone who lived through 2008 knows that inevitable candidates have a way of becoming distinctly evitable. With the Clintons penchant for melodrama and their checkered cast of hangers-onone shudders to consider the embarrassments that will attend the Terry McAuliffe administration in VirginiaClinton-era nostalgia is always a news cycle away from curdling into Clinton fatigue. Sometimes, all it takes is a single issue and a fresh face to bring the bad memories flooding back.
...On one side is a majority of Democratic voters, who are angrier, more disaffected, and altogether more populist than theyve been in years. They are more attuned to income inequality than before the Obama presidency and more supportive of Social Security and Medicare.1 Theyve grown fonder of regulation and more skeptical of big business.2 A recent Pew poll showed that voters under 30who skew overwhelmingly Democraticview socialism more favorably than capitalism. Above all, Democrats are increasingly hostile to Wall Street and believe the government should rein it in.
...Which brings us to the probable face of the insurgency. In addition to being strongly identified with the partys populist wing, any candidate who challenged Clinton would need several key assets. The candidate would almost certainly have to be a woman, given Democrats desire to make history again. She would have to amass huge piles of money with relatively little effort. Above all, she would have to awaken in Democratic voters an almost evangelical passion. As it happens, there is precisely such a person. Her name is Elizabeth Warren...
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115509/elizabeth-warren-hillary-clintons-nightmare
This guy NAILS it!!
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)I will support them. And I hope we can all support Hillary if she is the nominee.
TheBlackAdder
(28,211 posts)RiverLover
(7,830 posts)But laughter is good for the SOUL.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)brooklynite
(94,727 posts)Sen. Elizabeth Warren says she hopes Hillary Rodham Clinton runs for president in 2016 the latest in a series of declarations of support by the Massachusetts Democrat, who some have speculated could seek the Oval Office herself.
"All all of the women Democratic women I should say of the Senate urged Hillary Clinton to run, and I hope she does. Hillary is terrific," Warren said during an interview broadcast Sunday on ABC's "This Week," noting that she was one of several senators to sign a letter urging Clinton to run in 2016.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/04/27/elizabeth-warren-i-hope-hillary-clinton-runs-for-president/
RiverLover
(7,830 posts)We have this opportunity to convince her to run.
We've got retired women in Iowa working on this, a pretty active group in New York, a leader in Connecticut, somebody on the ground in Florida. People who have popped up and asked how they can help all over the map. We are also going to ramp up our focus on the early states, Iowa and New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada and raise money to hire state coordinators and build stronger local teams in those places.
And we are going to focus on an aggressive media[strategy] and doing a lot of video and we will get them to Warren and to the public about why people are calling on her to run."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/11/18/how-elizabeth-warren-is-already-influencing-the-2016-race/
brooklynite
(94,727 posts)RiverLover
(7,830 posts)http://www.thenation.com/blog/184657/did-elizabeth-warren-just-change-her-tune-running-president
brooklynite
(94,727 posts)SidDithers
(44,228 posts)then complain when someone else posts something that's 7 months old?
Sid
RiverLover
(7,830 posts)& everything else it said. Nothing has changed in a year.
brooklynite
(94,727 posts)"I don't think so," she tells PEOPLE in an interview conducted at Warren's Cambridge, Massachusetts, home for this week's issue.
http://www.people.com/article/elizabeth-warren-interview-youtube-treasury-secretary-hillary-clinton
Now, if you want hand your hat on that, be my guest.
FWIW, My article, which dates only six month back, is her acknowledgement that she encouraged Clinton to run, which is pretty much what she said at the private lunch I was at with her in September.
Marr
(20,317 posts)Hillary your choice for the Presidency. I'm surprised to see this silly assertion still being repeated.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)RiverLover
(7,830 posts)Guess this is why all the hIllary fans are so touchy.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)Last edited Mon Nov 24, 2014, 04:27 AM - Edit history (1)
What a marvelous first sentence.
The entire absurdity of the corporate con game/charade, summed up in one perfectly revealing clause.
"Once again..." after losing last time.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)Wall Street got paid.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)or any challengers at all, for that matter.
YOU HAVE TO SUPPORT HER IN THE PRIMARIES YOU HAVE NO CHOICE NO CHOICE SHE'S INEVITABLE
JUST LIKE LAST TIME
DFW
(54,436 posts)THREE years away from the next presidential election? So this was written over a year ago.
And why is this a nightmare for anyone? If Hillary gets the nomination with Elizabeth Warren whispering in her ear the whole time, I can live with that.
True Blue Door
(2,969 posts)Only the desire to lead and the talent for leadership can do that.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Of course the Third Way and their disciples fear Warren, so I guess it makes sense.
Donald Ian Rankin
(13,598 posts)Yes, *if elected*, Warren would probably make a better president than Clinton.
But Warren would be even less likely to win than Clinton, and the odds are already against Clinton - since the war, the only time a party has held the presidency for more than 8 years in a row was Reagan/HW Bush - every other time, the electorate has decided that 8 years was enough.