Hillary Clinton
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Hillary opposes TPP
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/hillary-clinton-says-she-does-not-support-trans-pacific-partnership/
I am only posting this here because I don't post things in any of the other threads anymore. If anyone wants to post it elsewhere feel free.
stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)riversedge
(70,206 posts)I just logged on a bit ago and saw the TPP notice and then saw this. te he.
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Paul Kane @pkcapitol 35m35 minutes ago
Clinton's announcement against TPP (nod to labor) lands minutes before Biden takes stage to talk to labor leaders at White House summit.
riversedge
(70,206 posts)umm. wonder what 'moved' means???
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Mark Ramos @MRMark5 22m22 minutes ago
Heh. #shotsfired RT @Acosta: !!! Biden jokes at WH summit moments ago: "If I don't move I'll be demoted to Secretary of State or something."
msrizzo
(796 posts)I don't get it either except that it seems to be a jab at HRC.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)One of the major legs of the Party is Labor, still.
Hillary's 'opposition' is confirmation of what she has said all along.
You can bet the majority of our DU'ers will not believe her or the facts, it never mattered which side she came down on...
However, from PBS link:
Tommy2Tone
(1,307 posts)If she was against it then she should have come out earlier. I believe her to be sincere but I fear it will come across as something else.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Despite the propaganda we will hear, Hillary has always said she would weigh in on these issues when she felt it was appropriate.
She worked for President Obama and was a loyal and effective Secretary of State. TPP and Keystone are issues that will be resolved by Obama and Congress. Her opinion matters no more than anyone else's except for a few (since she isn't a voting member of Congress like some).
She is not running against Obama. She is definitely not running as a third term of Obama. She does not have to agree with everything Obama does now, especially this far out from her Cabinet association.
Can she possibly damage her relationship with the Democratic base by agreeing with the Democratic base on these issues? A portion of the base won't be happy with her until she is dead and buried so nothing she says matters, but most Democrats should be reassured a bit she is not the centrist corporate ogre she is portrayed as being.