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Clinton: 'I'm A Progressive Who Likes To Get Things Done' (VIDEO)
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BySara JerdePublishedOctober 13, 2015, 9:06 PM EDT 827 views
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton identified herself as "a progressive" during the first Democratic debate on Tuesday night in Las Vegas, but she qualified it by saying she's one who gets things done.
CNN debate host Anderson Cooper asked Clinton whether she was a progressive or a moderate after the former secretary of state defended changing her stance on the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.
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Clinton said she didn't "take a back seat to anyone" when it came to progressive experience or commitment.
"I'm a progressive, but I'm a progressive who likes to get things done," Clinton said to applause. "And I know how to find common ground and I know how to stand my ground and I have proved that in every position that I've had."..............
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2015/10/13/the-moment-when-hillary-clinton-won-the-first-democratic-debate/
The moment when Hillary Clinton won the first Democratic debate
Stephen Stromberg October 13, 2015
Clinton: 'I'm a progressive that likes to get things done'
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton defends her "political identity" during the first Democratic debate on CNN. (CNN)
This is the moment when Hillary Clinton won Tuesday nights Democratic debate: Im a progressive, she said, But Im a progressive who likes to get things done. Clinton went on to talk about how she has worked with Republicans to pass the Childrens Health Insurance Program, a bona-fide progressive victory. The message was: The way to advance progressive goals is not to toss off an ideologically satisfying wish-list of grandiose government programs and expect the country to suddenly fall into agreement, it is to admit that policymaking demands a sense of nuance and of the possible. Clinton made the case that she offers much more than political triangulation and an e-mail scandal. She argued that she offers thoughtfulness and competence and that this does not make her an ideological turncoat.
Im not taking a backseat to anyone on my values, my principles and the results that I get, she declared, before saying she would target additional federal spending at people who really need it rather than promising massive expansions of government programs in order to offer benefits to rich as well as poor. Bernie Sanders responded that he would radically raise taxes on the rich to pay for new universal entitlements, which cant justify poorly targeted programs and is beyond politically impossible..........................
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Clinton: 'I'm a progressive that likes to get things done' (Original Post)
riversedge
Jan 2016
OP
Hillary sees issues which needs attention, she will work to get her agenda achieved.
Thinkingabout
Jan 2016
#1
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)1. Hillary sees issues which needs attention, she will work to get her agenda achieved.
the dork knight
(14 posts)2. Hillary is a Realist
Just like Bill, she knows that politics ain't pure. You have to get down and fight!
Kath1
(4,309 posts)3. That is exactly who she is.
That is why I'm for her 100%!
William769
(55,148 posts)4. And she's an actual member in good standing of the Democratic party!
Not all can say that.
fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)5. That can not be said enough times. eom