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By MICHAEL HIRSH
June 10, 2014
Bet on it: She wont be trying the Cinderella Woman thing again. Its fair to say that no talking point in Hillary Clintons hyper-organized book rollout this week fell quite as flat as her rags-to-riches tale of starting out on the wrong side of the tracks
at the White House. How she and poor Bill, dead broke, had to labor for days (or was it hours?) at a meager $200,000 a speech before they could afford those multi-million-dollar homes.
It was a very bad start to a critical piece of Clinton profile-building for 2016and does anyone doubt any longer thats what shes up to?because nowhere is Hillary less defined as a candidate than on economic policy. There is good cause for that lacuna: Upon being named President Obamas secretary of state in late 2008, Clinton quite properly kept herself out of domestic-policy issues. She had a free pass from the biggest economic debates of the era, whether on the bank bailouts, the presidents nearly $800 billion stimulus package, the Dodd-Frank financial regulation law, Obamacare or the sluggish housing recovery. And yet it is on economic policynot on foreign policy, on Benghazi, her broader record as secretary of state or even her now-ancient votes as the senator from New Yorkthat she is most likely to build her case for the Oval Office in an era of a chronically wayward recovery and runaway inequality.
To make that case, according to some people familiar with Clintons thinking, she is likely to argue that she was often well ahead on those issues the last time she ran for president in 2007that in fact she was often to the left of the more centrist Obama, who as president has regularly upset his own liberal base for what is perceived as a moderate, Wall Street-friendly response to the financial crisis. She was talking about inequality before inequality was in vogue, says Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress and a longtime close aide and adviser to Clinton.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/hillary-clinton-progessive-107686.html
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Elizabeth Warren will.
That issue is where Hillary's plan to deceive the electorate will fail.
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)believe her. She will do what all politicians do. Make promises during the campaign and then break that promise after being elected.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)because that is really what is in her heart and what she knows a lot about and what she has devoted her life to.
frylock
(34,825 posts)LondonReign2
(5,213 posts)karynnj
(59,474 posts)(Though she did vote no on closure for the one that did pass in 2006.)
The collapse of the economy was not an issue in the primary because, although the recession had started the crash happened in September. Therefore most of those issues were not issues yet - especially the Dodd/Frank legislation that was in response to it.
BOTH Obama and Hillary Clinton ran as progressives in the primary on many issues - including health care. NO ONE could win running elsewise in a Democratic primary that year. (Hillary was always seen as to the left of Bill Clinton, but he was seen as a proudly conservative Democrat.)