Schumer Endorses Clinton for President in Iowa Speech

[alp227]

Source: New York Times

Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, used a speech to Iowa Democrats on Saturday night to endorse Hillary Rodham Clinton for president, another indication of how quickly the party is coalescing behind the former secretary of state.

Speaking in the state that helped lift President Obama’s campaign and dashed Mrs. Clinton’s hopes in the 2008 caucuses, Mr. Schumer said the time was right that year for Mr. Obama.

“2016 is Hillary’s time,” Mr. Schumer declared at the Iowa Democratic Party’s Jefferson Jackson Dinner. “And our nation will be all the better for it.”

While Mr. Schumer’s support for his former Senate colleague was not surprising, his endorsement one year after the 2012 presidential election underscores how much the Democratic Party elders want Mrs. Clinton to enter the race.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/us/politics/schumer-backs-clinton-for-president-in-speech-to-iowa-democrats.html

[delrem]

1. A fait accompli. Totally 1%

[PoliticAverse]

2. The Democratic senator from Wall Street has picked his candidate. n/t

[davidpdx]

3. Seems like most of the elites have gotten behind Clinton

I'm starting to wonder if she's quietly saying she will run. Apparently we are going to be required to tow the party line three years from the election and pick our candidate (I mean have our candidate picked for us).

People are shitting themselves over Chris "the Crisco" Christie running and possibly winning that we have one and only one savior in the party.

[MADem]

4. Of course she is. And she can wipe the floor with Christie.

Not sure anyone else can. He can bully and blowhard most opponents, but we saw how well that worked when Clinton's senate opponent, Rick "Sleazeball" Lazio, tried to "tough guy" her. She can deliver the stiff arm and hold her own. She's also the smartest person in the room.

I'll support her candidacy wholeheartedly.

[davidpdx]

5. I'm not convinced Christie will run

He may be electable as the governor of NJ, but that doesn't make him electable as president. Again I think people are shitting their pants by claiming that Christie will be the nominee and only Clinton can beat him. He is way too moderate for the Republican party and any running against him is going to tout the pictures and video of him paling around with Obama. What more could the far right haters wish for?

The question is: do we want to put ourselves in a box now by having our candidate hand picked by the party elite on the basis that we think Christie will be the nominee?

My answer is no.

[MADem]

6. He may not get the nomination, but I think he will run.

He's tanned, rested and ready, and half the size he used to be.

And no one is picking HRC based on who her opponent might be. The RNC could run Bachmann, Palin, Ryan or Bozo the Clown. It doesn't matter.

HRC has come to the fore because she's a party leader, she has the support of an enormous segment of not just the party elites, but the rank and file as well, and all polling suggests she's blow-the-doors-off formidable as a candidate against ANY Republican. The small segment of "Hillary haters" within the Democratic party are just going to have to get on the bus and get over it.

I'm happy to get put in that box, frankly. HRC is the best candidate we've got. She is smart as a whip, she's highly experienced, she has friends in high places not just in USA but around the world, this ain't her first rodeo so she won't have a steep learning curve and she can hit the ground running with her value-added "First Gentleman." Plus, the current POTUS and his crew will be of enormous help in generating enthusiasm for her candidacy--after all, she was his SECSTATE.

And it's TIME.

My answer is not only yes, but hell yes--and I hope I win the argument.

We'll know in a few years.

[Sognefjord]

7. Stifles yawn.

[MADem]

8. Go back to sleep--you get an extra hour tonight.

Really, what was that post in aid of? Either contribute or don't, but "stifles yawn" doesn't make you cool--it makes me feel sad for you that you resort to snark so readily.

I'm having a civil conversation, here--you can join it or, like I said, go back to sleep.

[davidpdx]

10. I think many people are putting forward the argument that only HRC could beat Christie

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Furthermore, I don't think you have to be a "Hillary hater" to be against her running. I think your broad brush of people who would like an open nominating process is pretty distasteful. It also sounds like something we've heard before. I'll say the same thing I said in 2008, if she is the nominee I'll support her.

[antigop]

18. david, the "inevitability" and "no one else is electable" meme are alive and well on DU. nt

[davidpdx]

25. Yep

You can say that again.

[MyNameGoesHere]

16. Wait, the party has done away with the primary?

When did that happen? I have searched the news for the past year and there is no mention of canceling the primary process. Please send me the link where it has been canceled and the elites pick the candidate.

[brooklynite]

24. so your view is that nobody can express a preference before voting starts?

Sort of complicates that whole campaigning thing, doesn't it?

[MyNameGoesHere]

27. No I am pointing out that flailing of arms and gnashing of teeth is premature. eom

[davidpdx]

26. Your looking at it right now with the endorsements 3 years before the election

Never has that happened before. All most everybody high up in the D party has endorsed Hillary Clinton. The message is clear "no one run against her".

[MyNameGoesHere]

28. Oh please. Of course people will run against her

we will have a primary and we will have a candidate. Giving up now is just not logical.

[davidpdx]

29. I'm not giving up, I will likely vote for someone else in the primary depending on who runs

I'm just saying I'm sick of the rhetoric three years before the election. Our last presidential election was 362 days ago. People have been pushing this for months already.

Here's a sample:

-Well no one else is running

-Only Clinton can beat Christie

-It's her time

-The "Hillary haters" will just have to get over it

Yes, these are from DU not the media.

I fully support a primary and deride anyone who doesn't. I'm only pointing out how UNdemocratic this kind of attitude is.

[FarPoint]

11. She has been our Lady in Waiting....

Hillary Clinton is almost over qualified to become President! It's a shame that women must repeatedly over achieve to become recognized.

That all said....I'm ready to roll outwith the campaign as soon as she gives us the go ahead!

I've been ready for Hillary for many years!

[MADem]

19. Working twice as hard to get half the credit....

But it's her time. She's earned this shot.

I'll work my ass off for her, as will POTUS and the Dem leadership.

We're going to hear from a few more folks before she announces--but the endorsements will pile up as the weeks and months go on, and it will be pretty obvious that she's the front runner. She deserves to be--she's most certainly over qualified, but ya know what? This country not only deserves, but NEEDS, an over qualified POTUS to handle some of the shit we have to deal with!

[FarPoint]

21. Imagine....

Hillary will be a two-term President! I can see it. I'll work my butt off too! I'm ready.

[MADem]

22. +1,000 !!!! nt

[JDPriestly]

34. I would wait and see. There are a lot of potential scandals in her background.

For example, she was on the Walmart board back when, and their low pay, dependence on government subsidies to keep their employees alive, Republican ties, extreme wealth, and discrimination against women in their workforce are not pretty things to be associated with.

Benghazi has legs even if they are wobbly and lie with every step.

Hillary has a lot of problems. There is a landslide of support for her among party Democrats, but whether she can win over enough non-Democratic-faithful is a big question in my mind. Obama beat her. I think she is beatable. Her temper is a problem for her. It really shows in her voice. She is a big condescending and arrogant. She is probably a nice person if you know her, but I see a lot of problems with her candidacy.

[MADem]

37. Oh please--just stop with that horse shit. That's been asked and answered.

Did you know she was the TOKEN woman on that board?

Did you know she singlehandedly forced that board to create the first "environmentally sustainable" Walmart, with natural skylight lighting and ... RECYCLING ... of bottles, used oil, etc. .... BEFORE it was fashionable? It cost a bundle and they griped but it is--to this day--the MODEL for sustainable box stores.

Did you know she pushed for more women in management jobs?

And the fact that Walmart is "doing better" in many areas--particularly hiring vets, and increasing full time workers--is helping their reputation. That Walmart experience is a net "plus" for HRC--it shows the business sector that she's not a dunce when it comes to business issues.

You need to read this article to get the full picture of this "asked and answered" topic:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/us/politics/20walmart.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Walmart was BETTER because HRC was on that board. As usual, she leaves stuff in better shape than she found it.

Benghazi is falling apart--check the headlines this past week.

She has NO problems compared to her likely opponent. People on the right can throw mud on her, but she's got a better teflon pantsuit than Saint Ronnie had.

None of those "concerns" are news and the media KNOWS it--they've covered it all, it's done, finished, over. The idiots on the right will spit them out like the matter, but they don't and they won't. Those people aren't going to vote for her anyway.

[JDPriestly]

39. Her ties to India and to bankers will mean trouble for her.

No one thought when John Edwards announced he would run and began his campaign that his problems would emerge. In fact, his problems started while he was starting his campaign from what is said in the press.

There is something about Hillary that makes me think she has a problem.

[Beacool]

31. If she does choose to run, there will be many of us.

Our engines are idling, waiting to roar to life as soon as she gives the word.

[JDPriestly]

33. Why do you like her so much?

Do you like her affinity for India?

Or maybe her close relationship with the bankers?

The Benghazi baggage (relevant or not, it has emotional clout)?

Or maybe her mannerisms?

Will just any woman do?

Do you really agree with her foreign policy?

Is it her stances on economics?

Do you like her close relationship with Robert Rubin?

What do you like about her?

[Beacool]

36. I like her because I know her, it's as simple as that.

She's a terrific person. She's as smart as people think she is, very disciplined, hard working, she has a terrific sense of humor and is caring.

[MADem]

38. +1,000 nt

[theHandpuppet]

35. +1

Well said, MADem.

[Le Taz Hot]

9. LOL!

And in other news . . . water is wet.

[Renew Deal]

12. If anyone runs against Hillary, it's just the race for VP

Kind of like Biden

[Wilms]

13. As has Jamie Dimon and Lloyd Blankfein. n/t

[BeyondGeography]

14. It's 2013, ffs

Ass kisser.

[L0oniX]

15. The Bilderberg Group also endorses Hillary?

Bilderberg 2013: Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, David Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger in attendance.

Disclaimer: This may be bullshit.

[cosmicone]

17. I'm 100% for HRC

She is manifestly electable and if she picks Julian Castro as her running mate, she may even carry Texas.

[hrmjustin]

20. I stand with Hillary in 2016.

[Agony]

23. Great! her campaign slogan will be "Hoping for Change? Good Luck!"

with that...

[gopiscrap]

30. isn't it a little early to be making endorsements for 2016?

[JDPriestly]

32. Predictable!

[Perseus Ortiz]

40. Schumer is a great Senator

and he endorsed a great Democrat. Cheers.

[gopiscrap]

41. welcome to DU