It would be just for show.

in supporting reinstating Glass-Steagall

My fear is she will evolve again in a couple of weeks when this ploy does not work.

The refusal to provide specific answers to a whole host of questions all this time was strategic.

As this idiocy drags on, expect similar strategically timed single topic announcements, timed to get the press and look all powerful and decisive.

Contrasted with Bernie, who has never been on the fence, will answer any question any time, and who doesn't treat us like a bunch of children or a bunch of gullible suckers.

We don't have time for this shit.

I, an old political wonk, never even thought of that but it makes perfect sense.

Go figure.

as being an "impressive response"?

Someones' Busted! The games played here are so fascinating. Must be hard to keep things straight though.

Thanks for catching this one.

Thanks.

BaZinga!

Why are you replying to your own OP? It's not like you were adding anything to it...

of her explanation: She doesn't like the pipeline, no, but she doesn't pretend to consider it a major environmental disaster in itself. She wants that issue put to bed because it is distracting attention from the enormously larger problem of the exploding climate catastrophe.

The attitude of someone who needs to clear the decks and focus the troops in preparation for the real battle.

she can bring it back to the table. To hell with the millions of Americans who depend on water from the Ogallala aquifer, which also provides irrigation for farming in 8 states (1/4 of US farmland). Its not a major environmental disaster waiting to happen, no. How many Transcanada pipelines have leaked? All of them?

IF she's in office. God help us.

(ETA: What I wrote above about what I believe Hillary will do if elected is my opinion on an opinion board.)

Its called logical reasoning, deductive reasoning, or simply my opinion on a discussion board. I'll amend my post to help make that clear.

Therefore I oppose the distraction

QED

and not something to 'sweep the decks of' temporarily so that a candidate doesn't have to 'deal' with it until, as she said EARLIER, AFTER the election. That is what people want to know about presidential candidates, where they actually stand on major issues like this.

Calling it a "distraction" allows her to put it back in later as part of a trade of some kind. Whether that trade is really a good idea or environmentally beneficial is an open question.

I prefer being solidly and directly against it.

That sounds like a way of downplaying it to me and giving herself wiggle room. I just don't trust her.

She's a liar.

I really can't give her any credit for it. I'm glad she evolved again, but some of the other candidates in this race opposed it from the beginning. They're the ones who will get my props.

...it's also about who is consistent. If you look at that metric, Bernie Sanders wins hands down, it's no contest. He is on the right side of the issues I care about, and he has not had to change is positions.

If Hillary Clinton had only changed her positions on a couple of issues, that would be one thing. But that is not the case. Her whole M.O. is to "evolve" when it is convenient to do so -- i.e., when the political winds have changed.

I don't hate Clinton although I don't really like her that much either. I will almost certainly vote for her if she is the Democratic nominee -- I sure as hell don't want a Republican lunatic in the White House, and their candidates this year are all lunatics as far as I can tell. But dayum, I hope Bernie gets the nomination. I would so much rather have him as our President than another 3rd Way politician.

Go Bernie Go!

his supporters like to wear, masquerading as political commentary.

anything at all. Doesn't matter what camp you might be in.
Simply amazing and stupifying.
DU sure is not the place it used to be long time ago.

I want my DU back.

and I seriously don't remember you. And primaries always look like this on DU or weren't you here in 2008? Besides, in case you haven't noticed, in 2015, we're a hair's width away from storming the fucking Bastille.

trying to win, or how the camps interact

people get frustrated with vagueness

policies of unimpeded environmental destruction for profit.

The subject will be revisited later.

So, I'm not convinced.

That announcement.Hillary will pretend to be a populist style candidate but yet her rhetoric will only go as far as her Wall St. Mafia contributors will allow. I don't believe her BS.
My position would be the same if she was running unopposed