6 Signs That Show the New Hillary Is Still the Old Hillary
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/six-signs-show-new-hillary-still-old-hillary

1. Expanding Social Security. (sic) As Poole wrote, “What alarmed Social Security activists is that underneath Clinton’s positive language—‘fully support, ‘enhance’ —appears to lie support for policies, including from leading conservatives like Pete Peterson—that would actually undermine Social Security.” Republican Paul Ryan, the House Ways and Means Committee chair, uses the same language to protest the poorest people, but “would reduce benefits for the top 70 percent of wage earners while maintaining benefits for the bottom 30 percent,” Poole said. “The last thing we need right now is to fear a Trojan horse from a presidential candidate who says she ‘fully supports’ Social Security.”

2. Wall Street reformer? (sic) “She’s sort of talking out of both sides of her mouth: She wants to go against Wall Street, but she won’t support [reviving] Glass-Steagall,” Stein said. “Glass-Steagall being the law that separated speculative banking from everyday consumer banking and…prevents banks from taking risks at consumers’ burden… it prevents bailouts from going forward. So, you know, Glass-Steagall was repealed under the Clinton administration and needs to be brought back. But Senator Clinton does not support it.”

3. Criminal justice and prison reformer? During one of the few exchanges on criminal justice—when legalizing marijuana came up—Clinton said, “We have got to stop imprisoning people… We need more states, cities, and the federal government to begin to address this so that we don't have this terrible result that Senator Sanders was talking about where we have a huge population in our prisons for nonviolent, low-level offenses that are primarily due to marijuana.” According to the Marshall Project, an investigative journalism website tracking criminal justice, only a very small percentage of prison overcrowding is due to nonviolent drug offenses. In 2014, only 3.6 percent of people in state prison were there for drug offenses, and 0.3 percent were in federal prison for pot. “As TPM’s Dana Goldstein pointed out, any attempt to cut incarceration by as much as 50 percent—the target of some reformers—will require shorter sentences not just for marijuana, not just for drugs, and not just for crimes considered nonviolent,” the Marshall Project wrote. “But that’s not an easy sell during a highly competitive campaign season.”

4. It’s not just those "damn emails." As Sanders said, enough with covering her use of a private email server while Secretary of State. When asked, Clinton replied, “What I did was allowed by the State Department.” But FactCheck.org has repeatedly noted http://www.factcheck.org/2015/10/factchecking-the-democratic-debate/ “that’s not the full story,” saying she didn’t follow the rules on turning over her records for “nearly two years after she left office.”

5. The outsider: really? It's hard to believe that one of the world's most famous and powerful women sees herself as an outsider in the race. But she does, rejecting moderator Anderson Cooper’s contention that she was asking Democrats to vote for an insider. Clinton replied, “Well, I can’t think of anything that's more outsider than electing the first woman president, but I’m not just running because I would be the first woman president. I’m running because I have a lifetime of experience and getting results and fighting for people, fighting for kids, for women, for families, fighting to even the odds.” Everybody knows Clinton would be the first woman president—it was one of her top rallying points in 2008. And for many women who grew up with her in the 1970s and '80s, this is very compelling: they are tired of waiting for their turn to be in power. But other feminists feel it’s an insufficient selling point, and more yesterday than today.

6. The Trans-Pacific Partnership. At the debate, Cooper cited how Clinton had revised her position on the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement and asked, “Will you say anything to get elected?" She replied no, saying she “hoped” the TPP would be a “gold standard” but the final just-released document did not meet her standards. FactCheck.org, which traces candidate's positions and records, said that Clinton has solidly supported the TPP for a long time. It quoted her remarks from Australia in 2012: “This TPP sets the gold standard in trade agreements to open free, transparent, fair trade, the kind of environment that has the rule of law and a level playing field.” http://www.factcheck.org/2015/10/factchecking-the-democratic-debate/ They cited similar remarks days later in Singapore, but noted that she reserved final judgment in her 2014 book, Hard Choices. “Clinton wasn’t qualifying her support for the plan back in 2012," they wrote. "She didn’t say she ‘hoped’ it would be a ‘gold standard.’ She said it was a gold standard.”