Hillary channels Elizabeth Warren in campaign bid

[RiverLover]

Hillary channels Elizabeth Warren in campaign bid

If you close your eyes, you might think Elizabeth Warren is talking.

In her video campaign announcement Sunday, Hillary Clinton unveiled what's expected to be the central theme of her presidential bid: Serving as a champion for "Everyday Americans."

"Americans have fought their way back from tough economic times, but the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top," she said in the short video. "Everyday Americans need a champion and I want to be that champion. So you can do more than just get by. You can get ahead and stay ahead."

Long considered a centrist, Clinton sounded strikingly similar to Warren, the outspoken darling of the left wing, which has been pushing the Massachusetts senator to run for the 2016 nomination. (So far, she has declined.) Warren's main talking point: Give every American a fighting chance.

"America's middle class is under attack. It's in trouble because the game is deliberately rigged," Warren wrote in her memoir, A Fighting Chance. "I am determined -- fiercely determined -- to do everything I can to help us once again be the America that creates opportunities for anyone who works hard and plays by the rules."

Related: Elizabeth Warren: 8 ways to restore the middle class

Warren's proposals to boost middle class prosperity include: Raising the minimum wage, supporting bargaining rights for workers, ensuring workers get overtime pay and creating good paying jobs through investments in roads, bridges, power grids, education and research, among other things.

In an election where every candidate is focused on the middle class, Clinton may have to shift left to appeal to the Democratic base. She and her advisers have been speaking to income inequality and economic mobility gurus, including Joseph Stiglitz of Columbia University and Raj Chetty of Harvard, according to media reports.

Stiglitz, a Nobel-prize winning economist, has argued that income inequality has exploded over the past 30 years. The widening gap endangers economic growth and makes it harder for people to achieve the American Dream...

http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/13/news/economy/hillary-clinton-elizabeth-warren/

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but still....

Run Warren Run!! (Yes there is still a draft movement. Now more than ever!!)

[hrmjustin]

1. You do realize these ideas existed before Warren?

[RiverLover]

3. Stop the presses!

Quick, someone tell CNN!

[hrmjustin]

4. Cnn still thinks that the 2012 Race is too close to call.

[Autumn]

6. These ideas existed before Hillary.

[hrmjustin]

7. Indeed!

[RiverLover]

8. They started with FDR

And began to be dismantled when then President who ushered Republican values into the Democratic Party in 1993 under the guise of "centrism" and sadly for US, the country went

[snooper2]

2. She should throw in how broke she was when they left the White House

[kelliekat44]

5. Damned if she does, damned if she doesn't. Whom would you rather she channel? nt

[Wilms]

15. Lyndon Johnson - withdrawing from the '68 election. n/t

[cbdo2007]

9. The idea is sound, but Warren isn't Presidential material - Clinton is.

Warren has only been in the national spotlight now for what 4 years? She's still got plenty of time to run, but running as an unknown in 2016 would be a garaunteed way to fail.

[Wilms]

16. Yeah. That was an epic fail in 2008.

[cbdo2007]

17. Please.....comparing EW to BO is laughable.

BO is one of the most charismatic and inspiring figures of the past 100 years. EW is brilliant and would make great decisions as President, but she is in no way ready for the national stage. That's why the only people pushing for her to run are people on message boards....NOT the influential Dems or the big donors.

[Wilms]

19. EW isn't? Oh. I see.

"Influential Dems or the big donors" would not be interested in Warren.

And, again, that's because...?

[cbdo2007]

21. You can argue with me all day but the fact remains....that EW isn't running in 2016.

So there must be quite a few people who dont' think she can win for whatever reason and aren't pushing her to run. I'm not sure why you feel differently when the facts are right there.

[Wilms]

22. I'm not arguing with you.

I'm just pointing to the obvious reason bankers are backing Clinton, and threatening the Democratic Party with reduced donations if they don't put a lid on Warren.

I'm not sure why you feel differently when the facts are right there.

[brooklynite]

10. There is still a draft movement...there isn't a candidate to be drafted

Every minute you spend trying to get someone who clearly doesn't want the job is a minute you didn't spend trying to find someone who does. Your choice.

[OKNancy]

11. No, Warren is channelling Clinton

you want links?

[cascadiance]

12. Maybe you'd like a link where she's challenging Clinton to take a stance that she questions her on..

Where does Clinton stand on TPP?

Warren wants to know, presumably before she "channels" Clinton, since Warren obviously doesn't support the TPP, whereas Clinton hasn't shown her true sentiments to that corporatist BS!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/09/elizabeth-warren-hillary-clinton-trade-deal_n_7035856.html

[OKNancy]

13. I'm sure we will find out in due time

She hasn't been involved with Obama's administration for several years now.
As she was working on his behalf, she had to support his view.
Additionally, as things progressed after her initial involvement, no one knows what changes were made.
I'm sure Hillary will be asked sooner or later.

[cascadiance]

14. If she thinks that the TPP is a bad idea that she really didn't support, she shouldn't wait...

... to be asked about it. She should come out and make a point about it in her early campaign speeches to make it clear to Americans where she stands on it.

[LordGlenconner]

18. You're right, there is nothing like the real thing

Which makes me wonder why you chose the shitty Justin Timberlake-Beyonce version of the song instead of the real thing, the Marvin Gaye-Tammi Terrell version.

[marmar]

20. Even as Goldman Sachs and Citi stuff her pockets the minute she steps behind the camera.

More platitude-spouting.