"One of Clinton’s biggest strengths [is] her passion for..."

[MannyGoldstein]

"One of Clinton’s biggest strengths [is] her passion for advancing the middle class and renewing American upward mobility"
-- Correct the Record, a group dedicated to defending Hillary Clinton from unfair attacks

If only Hillary had political power the last two decades, the 99% wouldn't have had all our money handed to the bankers.

(Sorry, saw the quote and couldn't resist.)

[pkdu]

1. Political power for two decades?.......

(Cough) Bernie Sanders (cough)

[joshcryer]

2. Decent article, but the last paragraph falls short.

The platform may be updated for the 21st century, but it’s not very different in tone from the policies outlined by Bill Clinton nearly 25 years ago when he first ran for President. The question now is whether that message will still resonate with voters.

That is objectively false as the President does not create the platform, the people do, the elected delegates to the convention. And it will be more liberal than any platform before it, as is usually the case.

[True Blue Door]

3. Her constant siding with Republicans, constant betrayal of other Democrats

perpetual refusal to take responsibility for her own actions, refusal to step away from the Iraq War legacy of crime, etc. etc...Hillary Clinton does not have strengths, only neuroses and albatrosses.

[joshcryer]

5. Link?

[RiverLover]

10. ...

[joshcryer]

12. "You want me to apologize for the fact that the president is an idiot?"

[RiverLover]

13. What?

[joshcryer]

15. Her stance is that she shouldn't apologize for Bush.

Because that's what the people want her to do, grovel.

It is a fact that UN Resolution 1441 required the US to reconvene with the UN to invade, what Bush did contravened international law.

[RiverLover]

24. Thanks. nt

[Bluenorthwest]

18. So you like Warren who WAS a Republican for 25 or 30 years, casting right wing, bigoted votes

for gruesome, middle class gutting, Union busting villains like Ronald Reagan and George Bush? She made millions under Reagan/Bush while the rest of us got trickled down on.

Nothing says 'siding with Republicans' quite like BEING a loyal, decades long Republican donor and voter, like Elizabeth Warren.

[JustAnotherGen]

26. Another +1000

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

36. Why yes, yes I do.

Just like I like lots of former Republicans who started paying attention to politics and switched parties.

[MannyGoldstein]

45. 1. Whose votes resulted in more mayhem: Hillary's, or Warren's?

2. Of those two, who had more power to influence the outcome of their bad votes?

3. Who had access to more and better information around the subjects they were voting on?

[Maedhros]

4. I have seen no evidence for this.[n/t]

[djean111]

6. It is going to be a looooong campaign season.

Wonder if we will soon be seeing trial balloons abut not even having primaries, because Hillary is so very wondrous.

[brooklynite]

11. You DO know that the only people using the term "inevitable" are the anti-Hillary folks, right?

Point to a Hillary supporter who objects to an open Primary.

[djean111]

14. I do not like pointing, but I have seen it expressed that why waste money on primaries

when the money could be used for the actual race, and why give the GOP any ammunition from other would-be candidates.
And the Hillary camp has been pushing the inevitable meme for quite a while.

[brooklynite]

19. Then is should be easy for you to provide citations.

[joshcryer]

32. McCaskill wants that, but it's silly.

Start here at post #10: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025115191#post10

[brooklynite]

38. I see an ASSERTION (without evidence) that McCaskill doesn't want a primary...

...the referenced article only says she supports Hillary.

Care to try again?

[joshcryer]

41. Care you read the link again?

[joshcryer]

31. That is absolutely absurd.

I have never seen a DUer here who has supported that. I have had some indicate it, but after a simple discussion, they realized the folly of the argument.

Start at post 10: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025115191

A closed primary or a simple "consensus choice" destroys the party platform. It wouldn't work even if some top elites wanted it to work.

[Union Scribe]

17. Perhaps you'd like to tell us

about your passion for the middle class as well

[LawDeeDah]

22. bwahahaha! I know what you did there.

[QC]

37. As a matter of fact, he was discussing that issue with Gloria Vanderbilt

just the other day!

[Autumn]

40. Or was it Marie Antoinette ? She of the let them eat cake? I had no idea that Anderson's

Mother posted here

[QC]

43. Sometimes it sounds like lots of Social Register types are posting here,

such as when shrieking mobs of fanbotz surround people who can't afford their mandatory insurance and accuse them of being liars.

[JustAnotherGen]

25. +10000

[MannyGoldstein]

44. Chuck Schumer.

I can look it up for you if you'd like.

[joshcryer]

28. Clinton already backing Ferguson, NYC...

...backs gay marriage, decries income inequality, wants to address student loans, yeah, it's going to be awesome. Absolutely fucking awesome.

[sendero]

7. Laughable..

... and demonstrably false.

[99Forever]

8. So a bunch of yahoos, running under the name...

... Correct the Record, are defending Hillary by lying.

How very Republican of them.

[RiverLover]

9. Why Wall Street Loves Hillary

...While the finance industry does genuinely hate Warren, the big bankers love Clinton, and by and large they badly want her to be president. Many of the rich and powerful in the financial industry—among them, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman, Tom Nides, a powerful vice chairman at Morgan Stanley, and the heads of JPMorganChase and Bank of America—consider Clinton a pragmatic problem-solver not prone to populist rhetoric. To them, she’s someone who gets the idea that we all benefit if Wall Street and American business thrive. What about her forays into fiery rhetoric? They dismiss it quickly as political maneuvers. None of them think she really means her populism.

Although Hillary Clinton has made no formal announcement of her candidacy, the consensus on Wall Street is that she is running—and running hard—and that her national organization is quickly falling into place behind the scenes. That all makes her attractive. Wall Street, above all, loves a winner, especially one who is not likely to tamper too radically with its vast money pot.

According to a wide assortment of bankers and hedge-fund managers I spoke to for this article, Clinton’s rock-solid support on Wall Street is not anything that can be dislodged based on a few seemingly off-the-cuff comments in Boston calculated to protect her left flank.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/11/why-wall-street-loves-hillary-112782_full.html#.VGVtjPnF-Sp

Seems as though ever since Wall Street took over our treasury dept years ago, our "American upward mobility" took a nose dive, at least for the majority..We need to END this, not hand them the fricking keys.

[baldguy]

16. Which is why Elizabeth Warren supports Hillary's candidacy.

[Bluenorthwest]

21. And that is why I don't care for either of them. Liz was a Republican and is way too socially righty

Clinton while a Democrat, is still too conservative for me, I am not surprised the two rich right leaning East Coast white people in their 60's get along and endorse each other. Of course for Warren that's progress, back when I voted for Bill Clinton, and Hillary voted for Bill Clinton, Warren was still a raging Bush supporter and rabid anti choice supply side warrior, hating the gays and loving her million dollar morning in America.

[RiverLover]

29. Not socially right IN THE LEAST today. Unlike Hillary. Reagan began as a Democrat & we know how

that turned out.

[RiverLover]

27. I don't know how many times I have to post this to you. She REFUSES to endorse Hillary.

That letter was a general endorsement supporting a female nominee. She explains that here while REFUSING to endorse Hill~

STEPHANOPOULOS: You've been pretty clear, and we showed it in Jeff Zeleny's piece, that you say you're not running for president in 2016. It seems like you've just affirmed it again. You also signed a letter -- several senators signed a letter earlier this year encouraging Hillary Clinton to run.
So is she your candidate in 2016?

WARREN: You know, all of the women -- Democratic women, I should say, of the Senate urged Hillary Clinton to run. And I hope she does.

STEPHANOPOULOS: You hope she does. And if she does, she is your candidate, you're going to endorse her?

WARREN: If Hillary -- Hillary is terrific.

STEPHANOPOULOS: You know, you've said she is terrific very many times. You say that again in this book, "A Fighting Chance." But this book leaves out something of a pointed criticism from your earlier book, "The Two Income Trap."

There you praised first lady Hillary Clinton for her opposition to this bankruptcy bill pushed by the big banks, but go on to talk about how she, as New York senator, seemed she could not afford that principled position.

Senator Clinton received 140,000 in campaign contributions from banking industry executives in a single year. Big banks were now part of Senator Clinton's constituency. She wanted their support, and they wanted hers, including a vote in favor of that awful bill.

So do you think that -- are you worried that somehow she will bow to big business, those were your words in that book, if she becomes president?

WARREN: Look, I've made it clear all the way through this book and really what I've been working on for the last 25 years, that I'm worried a lot about power in the financial services industry.

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/04/abcs-stephanopoulos-makes-elizabeth-warren

[baldguy]

33. Elizabeth Warren: I hope Hillary Clinton runs for president

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/04/27/elizabeth-warren-i-hope-hillary-clinton-runs-for-president/

"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."

[RiverLover]

34. Not endorsing! Why do you think Stephanopolous tried so hard to get her to say it.

Wanting someone to run along with a bunch of other women is not saying "I endorse her".

Elizabeth Warren Highlights Hillary Clinton’s Goldman Problem

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/10/13/elizabeth-warren-highlights-hillary-clintons-goldman-problem/

[sabrina 1]

46. And that means, 'what' exactly? Did you think that Liberals are going to blindly continue to

support anyone who betrays the principles they CLAIMED to hold once it becomes apparent that they were either lying or were easily led once they reached DC?

Only blind loyalists do that. Most Liberals are far from blind and you should know from posting here at least, that when a politician totally changes his/her views after they have been elected, Liberals will not hesitate to drop support for such a person. Of course they will be attacked by the true loyalists who DO blindly support politicians no matter what they do, but that won't have much effect on those who do not put party before country and support candidates who put their country and the people who elect them FIRST.

I love how people think that they can defend their favorite candidate against justifiable criticism, by assuming that pointing out that the assumed favorite of the critics, is 'just as bad'. I can assure you Warren will lose support the minute she starts acting like many of the other, once trusted, politicians we have to deal with.

[Marrah_G]

20. The primary season is going to be hell here

I hope people try to remember to be kind to one another.

[AngryAmish]

23. Hillary has brought forth innumeral things to nuture us.

We have nothing good to recompense her.

[vt_native]

30. Wall Street and Tar Sands oil

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

35. Bwahahahahah.

Good one, guys.

One of her REAL biggest strengths is her passion for equality for women.

[L0oniX]

39. POTUS dynasties are for the stupid.

[hifiguy]

49. This.

Thank you, L0oniX, for saying something that is not said nearly often enough.

No more Booshes or Clintons, ever.

[Odin2005]

42. I'm sick of hearing about the "middle class". What about the working class?

[11 Bravo]

47. Whew, I was afraid you had fallen ill, or even worse, what with ...

no shit-on-Hillary posts for literally dozens of hours.
Glad to find you in good health.

[hifiguy]

48. Talk about pure, unadulterated

BULLSHIT! I guess that's why she's so buddy-buddy with Blankfein and the rest of the Wall Street vampire squid.

Believe this and you will believe literally anything.