Hillary Clinton Shows New Willingness to Tackle Risky Issues

[OKNancy]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/08/us/politics/hillary-clinton-campaign.html

It has been only three weeks since Hillary Rodham Clinton declared her candidacy for the White House, but she already looks more confident than she did during the almost 17 months of her last campaign.

Sure, no serious rival has yet emerged to get under her skin the way Barack Obama did in 2008. But Mrs. Clinton and her team have also shown a determination not to be thrown off course: not by the blowback on her use of personal email while at the State Department, not by reports critical of the Clinton Foundation, nor by congressional investigations of the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya.

Such flare-ups used to make Mrs. Clinton go cold and cautious. Now, she is projecting a scandals-be-damned attitude and barreling ahead with her agenda. In Las Vegas on Tuesday, she was unafraid to court controversy on an issue dear to her — families and children — by saying that she would go beyond President Obama’s executive action on immigration and try to protect tens of thousands of parents who are still facing deportation.

It was a vivid contrast to a low point in 2007, at a Democratic primary debate, when she avoided taking a clear stand on an issue that was similarly divisive among voters: driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants.

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[hrmjustin]

1. Thanks for posting in GD.

[eloydude]

2. And dodging another risky issue: TPP

had to be said.

Considering that she thinks free trade is the greatest thing since sliced bread, she should already know the results of NAFTA was a huge negative for the US, and will even be worse under TPP.

Bernie's right - if Nike is selling shoes here in the U.S. for $320, and the wages in Vietnam are cheap, then it's time to go onshoring to get the Nike shoes down to $99.

[upaloopa]

4. Of course Bernie is right, only he will never be

president so he will have to back Hillary from the Senate in such matters.

[cali]

3. tpp,tpa, raising the Social security cap, keystone

And on and on.

She use the language if obfuscation and is vague on specifics on issue after issue

[BrotherIvan]

5. I look forward to reading her platform