MineralMan: Hillary is a populist and "Politico" is right-wing

[the county]

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Thu Apr 16, 2015, 09:40 AM
Star Member MineralMan (71,583 posts)

Looks to me like Hillary Clinton's campaign is shaping up to


be a populist campaign. She's hitting the small towns, small businesses and generally talking to ordinary people. If she can pull off the populist meme, she'll go a long way toward enlisting the support of ordinary Americans.

I think it's a good move on her part. The substantive policy statements are never read by most people, but they remember those local campaign efforts. Smart candidate, I think. Populism is the way to go in 2016, with policy statements to reinforce it. Good start for Clinton.

 

Response to MineralMan (Original post)Thu Apr 16, 2015, 09:52 AM
Star Member cali (98,721 posts)
6. I don't see how one can come to that conclusion so early

I've repeatedly been cautioned by her supporters here to wait until she unrolls specific policies and not to characterize her campaign so early because it's unfair.

In any case, her Wall Street employers don't believe her populist rhetoric, which I think has been vague indeed.

Her campaign may or may not be off to a good start. That we'll have to see and we won't know for a few wks.


Hillary Clinton sounded like a woman on a mission after her long drive into the heartland: “There’s something wrong,” she told Iowans on Tuesday, when “hedge fund managers pay lower taxes than nurses or the truckers I saw on I-80 when I was driving here over the last two days.”

But back in Manhattan, the hedge fund managers who’ve long been part of her political and fundraising networks aren’t sweating the putdown and aren’t worrying about their take-home pay just yet.

It’s “just politics,” said one major Democratic donor on Wall Street, explaining that some of her Wall Street supporters doubt she would push hard for closing the carried interest loophole as president, a policy she promoted when she last ran in 2008.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/hillary-clintons-wall-street-backers-we-get-it-117017.html#ixzz3XTpOHU48

 

Response to cali (Reply #6)Thu Apr 16, 2015, 09:59 AM
Star Member MineralMan (71,583 posts)
12. Well, you seem to feel free to come to conclusions early.

You've been doing it for years now, when it comes to Hillary Clinton. My post is about clues she's giving this early in her campaign. It's not about anything else. Like most people, I'm following the campaign and listening and watching to how it's beginning.

What I said was that it seems to me that she's starting with a populist approach. That's not a conclusion about her campaign. It's a conclusion about its beginning, and appears to me to be supported by actual events.

BTW, I don't read Politico. It's a right-wing website, started by right-wingers and run by right-wingers. I'm watching the actual events and drawing my own conclusions from those events. I don't need someone else to tell me how to think about things.

 

[Carl]

If she can pull off the populist meme, she'll go a long way toward enlisting the support of ordinary Americans.

Think about that for a minute rock head. 

[JohnnyReb]

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She will be hard to beat.

[98ZJUSMC]

Thu Apr 16, 2015, 09:40 AM
Star Member MineralMan (71,583 posts)

Looks to me like Hillary Clinton's campaign is shaping up to


be a populist campaign. She's hitting the small towns, small businesses and generally talking to ordinary people. If she can pull off the populist meme, she'll go a long way toward enlisting the support of ordinary Americans.

Ordinary, as in being driven to photo op with this skank.


while inconvenient, actual ordinary people, like lowly community college students are locked down and kept from view.

...and nothing says populist like parking the MysteryMachine in a handicapped spot.  Entitled populist?

I so phucking hate that bitch.

BTW, I don't read Politico. It's a right-wing website, started by right-wingers and run by right-wingers.

Oh, Jesus H. Christ............   

[HawkHogan]

Hilary isn't popular or likable. 

She will run into the same problems as Romney.  The only difference is she hates America.  Romney at least liked it.

[Chris_]

I think Minnesota Moses has frostbite between the ears.

[Chris_]

I wonder how many traffic & parking violations the Klinton Kar racked up on the drive from Chappaqua to Des Moines.