2016 Postmortem

applegrove

(118,774 posts) Fri Feb 12, 2016, 07:28 PM Feb 2016

Hillary Found Her Footing Thursday Night

Hillary Found Her Footing Thursday Night

By Jamelle Bouie at Slate

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/02/hillary_takes_on_bernie_s_worldview_at_the_pbs_debate.html

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t’s taking time, but Hillary Clinton is inching toward a theme. “I am not a single-issue candidate, and I do not believe we live in a single-issue country,” she said at the close of the Democratic debate in Milwaukee. “I think we have to overcome and break down the barriers that are holding people back, whether it’s poison in the water of the children of Flint, or whether it’s the poor miners who are being left out and left behind in coal country, or whether it is any other American today who feels somehow put down and oppressed by racism, by sexism, by discrimination against the LGBT community, against the kind of efforts that need to be made to root out all of these barriers. That’s what I want to take on.”

Unlike so much of her rhetoric, which hedges and qualifies and tries to place policies in context, this was clear and full-throated. It matches Bernie Sanders’ intensity without mimicking his message, and more importantly for Clinton and her backers, it stands as an anti-Sanders argument that could actually work.

Rather than contest Sanders on policy or fealty to the Democratic mainstream, she directly addressed his worldview.

For the past month, Clinton has struggled to find a message against Sanders that doesn’t alienate his backers or estrange her from the Democratic left. She tried to hit him on single-payer health insurance, calling it an attack on the Affordable Care Act. That failed. She tried to question his integrity on campaign donations. That failed. She slammed him as conservative on guns. That failed. Now, she says he’s a weak ally of President Obama. It’s still early, but if the pattern holds, that will fail too.

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Hillary Found Her Footing Thursday Night (Original Post) applegrove Feb 2016 OP

Wow, that was late. Considering she's been working for the nomination ChairmanAgnostic Feb 2016 #1

Who ever accused her of being a "single issue" candidate? SHRED Feb 2016 #2

I think her footing is in her mouth.. tokenlib Feb 2016 #3

She likes issues so much she holds both sides of the argument on different days! Fearless Feb 2016 #4

She's hugging Obama tight to try to make herself palatable. AtomicKitten Feb 2016 #5

Really? Obama, Obama, Obama.... Punkingal Feb 2016 #6

It is an odd article ... earthside Feb 2016 #7

The US is not an single issue country Gothmog Feb 2016 #8

And a matching tweet...... riversedge Feb 2016 #10

Glad to give it a big 5th REC. riversedge Feb 2016 #9

since she's reinvented herself twenty times in the last three months, this claim is absurd Doctor_J Feb 2016 #11

ChairmanAgnostic

(28,017 posts)

1. Wow, that was late. Considering she's been working for the nomination

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Feb 12, 2016, 07:36 PM

Feb 2016

Since 2008. Actually, earlier, except for that Muslim Kenyan with that evil Pastor Wright who stole it away from her before.

The idea that someone who has actively sought the presidency for a decade suddenly "found her footing" - my gosh, do you realize just how inept that makes her out to be?

SHRED

(28,136 posts)

2. Who ever accused her of being a "single issue" candidate?

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Feb 12, 2016, 07:37 PM

Feb 2016

If she's saying this as a backhanded way to insinuate that Bernie is then it just makes her look petty.

Bad move. Her political advisors dropped the ball here.

tokenlib

(4,186 posts)

3. I think her footing is in her mouth..

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Feb 12, 2016, 07:39 PM

Feb 2016

...she is using words and phrases that she doesn't believe. And it shows..

Fearless

(18,421 posts)

4. She likes issues so much she holds both sides of the argument on different days!

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Feb 12, 2016, 07:41 PM

Feb 2016

AtomicKitten

(46,585 posts)

5. She's hugging Obama tight to try to make herself palatable.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Feb 12, 2016, 07:43 PM

Feb 2016

It's not working plus it's throwing Obama under the bus.

Punkingal

(9,522 posts)

6. Really? Obama, Obama, Obama....

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Feb 12, 2016, 07:48 PM

Feb 2016

That's what I heard. Nothing against POTUS....it's just that she ain't him, IMO.

earthside

(6,960 posts)

7. It is an odd article ...

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Feb 12, 2016, 07:51 PM

Feb 2016

... because after reading it, I certainly couldn't figure where Mrs. Clinton had found her footing.

“I think we have to overcome and break down the barriers that are holding people back ..."

That's it?

Still no leadership or governing principles, no overarching philosophy, no grand goals to aspire to, no great inspirational message.

Hillary Clinton wants to be president because she wants to be president.

After all this time if she can't 'find her footing' or has not be able to come up with a concise and clearly definable theme -- then she isn't ready to lead this nation.

It is just that simple.

Gothmog

(145,553 posts)

8. The US is not an single issue country

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Feb 12, 2016, 08:54 PM

Feb 2016

riversedge

(70,299 posts)

10. And a matching tweet......

Reply to Gothmog (Reply #8)

Fri Feb 12, 2016, 09:04 PM

Feb 2016

Hillary for SC Retweeted
Hillary Clinton ?@HillaryClinton 21h21 hours ago

"I am not a single-issue candidate and I do not believe we live in a single-issue country." #DemDebate

riversedge

(70,299 posts)

9. Glad to give it a big 5th REC.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Feb 12, 2016, 09:02 PM

Feb 2016

Doctor_J

(36,392 posts)

11. since she's reinvented herself twenty times in the last three months, this claim is absurd

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Feb 12, 2016, 09:55 PM

Feb 2016

Especially since she launched another smear attack that collapsed like a garage sale card table.

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