http://youtu.be/RddoaBHBe08
Krystal Ball verbalizes what’s on many minds. Personally, I think Elizabeth Warren has more power where she is, so there’s that. If a more progressive Dem can beat Hillary (someone who can win), I’m all for it. But I do want her to run:
I deeply admire and respect Hillary Clinton. I think she is a great intellect with great fortitude. I think she was a strong secretary of state and a hardworking and effective senator. But I have come to a difficult realization: I don’t want Hillary Clinton to run for president in 2016. I hope she does not run, she is not the right person for this moment.
Back in 2008, when all my peers were jumping on the Barack Obama bandwagon, I backed Clinton. The country was reeling from a disastrous eight years under President George W. Bush. We were desperate for competence after his incompetence; for respect for government after his disdain. We needed, in my view, a capable hand. She was well positioned to manage the end of two wars and to regain the international respect that had been lost during the Bush presidency. Clinton was a fantastic fit for that moment but that moment has passed.
Now, we are in a moment of existential crisis as a country. As we recover slowly from the Great Recession, we’ve discovered that we don’t much like what we see. Only 28% of Americans say the country is headed in the right direction. Some 67% are dissatisfied with the wealth distribution in this country. And as corporate profits soar to new heights, working folks get the shaft sharing in virtually none of the gains of the recovery. In fact, 95% of the income gains over the recovery years have gone to the top 1% of income earners.
It is clear now that we have two economies: one for a thin slice of educated elite and one for everyone else. That is the moment we are in now. So I ask you, does Hillary Clinton sound to you like the right person for this moment?
In a time when corporations have hijacked our politics enabling them to reap all the profit without feeling any compunction to do right by their workers, is someone who sat on the rabidly anti-union board of Walmart for six years the right person to restore worker’s rights?
Oh please – not the old “Walmart board” canard again.
My understanding was that Clinton was and is not anti-union – and that she fought for unions at Walmart.
well Krystal Ball, you’re 21 years old, you could change your name from the stripper-name your parents gave you, amirite?
BTW Hillary is demonstrably to the left of Bill.
And Hillarycare would have been a lot closer to single payer (which WAS on her table, not Obama’s) than Obamacare is.
And yeah I am unemployed with a PhD in Biophysics, something which you might think might be in demand. But nooooooo, they’d rather hire Indians who dont know what the square root of -1 means (even though they are attempting optical scattering expts), or who don’t know what an ‘integral’ is even though they are attempting to measure fluorescence energy transfer. Yet these have “PhD”s.
IS it conceivable that Hillary would be less forward with the drone assassination and NSA vacuuming programs than Obama is?
Why yes, yes it is.
And so right after I posted here I get a call with no one on the other end answering, so I trace the call to : 400002 — yes that’s the number, 6 digits not seven and very, shall we say, odd?
Is that the NSA secret number?
And so right after I posted here I get a call with no one on the other end answering, so I trace the call to : 400002 — yes that’s the number, 6 digits not seven and very, shall we say, odd?
Is that the NSA secret number?
What was the area code?
Did you try calling it back?
(Very likely it was from an entity with the ability to mask its phone numbers.)
Who’s the character from that folk tale that Disney made into a racist animated film? Br’er Rabbit. Yeah.