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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWho's Ready for Hillary?
I found this an instructive read about HRC as a primary candidate several months ago. It's still instructive.
http://www.thenation.com/article/191281/whos-ready-hillary#
Kathleen Geier:
Frustrated voters are demanding change, but nothing in Hillary Clintons history suggests that she is capable of delivering it. Clinton has far more in common with the Rahm Emanuel/Andrew Cuomo wing of the party than with Elizabeth Warren or Sherrod Brown. Not only is she Wall Streets favorite Democrat, drawing hefty donations from the finance industry, but she has supported many of the destructive neoliberal economic policies that ushered in the crisis, such as financial deregulation and free trade. She spent years on the board of the most viciously anti-labor employer in the country, Walmart, and never once spoke up in favor of unions. She voted for the odious 2001 bankruptcy bill, which made it harder for Americans to shed impossible debt. She not only supported welfare reform but advocated tougher work requirementsa position that put her at odds with most Democrats.
And thats just her domestic policy. Clintons neocon-friendly foreign-policy record is even worsenot only her vote in favor of the Iraq War, but her advocacy of drone strikes and her saber rattling over Syria. There are also serious concerns about her executive competence: her leadership in the 1993 healthcare-reform effort and her own 2008 presidential campaign does not exactly inspire confidence.
And thats just her domestic policy. Clintons neocon-friendly foreign-policy record is even worsenot only her vote in favor of the Iraq War, but her advocacy of drone strikes and her saber rattling over Syria. There are also serious concerns about her executive competence: her leadership in the 1993 healthcare-reform effort and her own 2008 presidential campaign does not exactly inspire confidence.
Jamelle Bouie:
The problem with Clinton has nothing to do with process and everything to do with substance. As others in this forum have noted, Hillary Clinton is a triangulating corporate Democrat who forged her political identity against a relentless, ideologically driven GOP and built her core support among the wealthy elites of the Democratic Party. The former makes her suspicious of (if not hostile to) the left on foreign and domestic policy, while the lattercoupled with her time as New York senatormakes her receptive to the failed ideas and expertise of Wall Street.
Doug Henwood:
Hillary (and she has clearly rebranded herself as just a first name) embodies the New Democrat politics of the 1990s that now seem hopelessly obsolete, no match for a world of chronic economic stagnation, polarization and climate catastrophe. She was very much a partner in inventing that ideologybusiness-friendly, hawkish, tough on unions and the poorwith her husband. The Clintonites purged the Democrats of their social-democratic wing, consolidating the victories of the Reagan Revolution. At this point, its hard to say what Hillary or the Democrats stand for, other than being protectors of the status quo. But even that isnt so clear, given that some neoconsworried by the possible ascendancy of Rand Paulstyle neo-isolationism in the GOPhave been making very pro-Clinton sounds over the past few months. She does, after all, love a good military intervention.
Of course, it's long, and includes some support for Clinton as well; I don't discount that support, or the reasons behind it, but it's weak. Not enough, in my opinion. The reasons to support are not nearly strong enough to overcome the reasons not to, at least for me. I am not ready for Hillary.
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Who's Ready for Hillary? (Original Post)
LWolf
Apr 2015
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DURHAM D
(32,610 posts)1. LOL Stopped reading at
more in common with Rahm Emanuel.
Hillary is the reason he was fired from the Clinton WH because he was running his own agenda.
Should sound familiar to Obama supporters.
LWolf
(46,179 posts)2. Of course you did.
Why acknowledge opposing points?
DURHAM D
(32,610 posts)3. You are just being silly. nt
LWolf
(46,179 posts)5. Of course I am. nt
99Forever
(14,524 posts)4. K&R and...
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)6. LOL. "reasons to support are not nearly strong enough to overcome the reasons not to"
How about the fact that every single Republican will be disastrous to our country.
LWolf
(46,179 posts)7. She's not running against Republicans.
She's announced her candidacy for the primaries.
Since every Republican will be disastrous, why not nominate the best candidate possible to elect in the GE? A neo-liberal is not the best we can do.