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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,708 posts)
Sat May 30, 2015, 10:27 AM May 2015

Hillary Clinton’s Strong Start





On Thursday, some of Hillary Clinton’s top campaign officials held a briefing for about three dozen members of the 2016 hack pack. Their message was a positive one. “The view inside the campaign is that voters are concerned about kitchen-table issues Clinton wants to talk about, rather than media reports and Republican attacks on the [Clinton] foundation, the officials said,” Vox’s Jonathan Allen reported. “There’s no conflict between her promise to represent ‘everyday Americans’ and the access big donors have had to Clinton and her husband over the years, they said, arguing that voters will trust her to represent them in the White House.”

That was partly spin, of course. There is no end in sight to the stories about the finances of the Clinton Foundation, the Clinton e-mails, or the activities of some of the Clintons’ associates. But as spring rolls into summer, Team Brooklyn has successfully accomplished its two initial goals: heading off the possibility of a serious challenge for the Democratic nomination and surviving a barrage of negative publicity that was inevitable at some stage, and which was, therefore, best confronted early on.

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For Clinton’s campaign team in Brooklyn Heights, that means things are on track. Of course, they won’t necessarily stay that way. The campaign is just getting started, the country is more or less equally divided, and winning a third term of office isn’t easy for any party. Now it’s up to Clinton to finish up her “listening tour,” lay out her policy platform, and take it to the Republicans.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/at-this-early-stage-hillary-clinton-looks-strong

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Hillary Clinton’s Strong Start (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth May 2015 OP
Looks like there's great concern about the attacks on her finances, foundations, and influence. NYC_SKP May 2015 #1
Can you please recommend my thread, brah, I like to make the Greatest Page. DemocratSinceBirth May 2015 #2
You made it there! MoonRiver May 2015 #5
TY DemocratSinceBirth May 2015 #6
Creepy FlatBaroque May 2015 #3
Everyday I wake up I thank God that I am alive and get to share an era with her. DemocratSinceBirth May 2015 #4
Lol FlatBaroque May 2015 #7
 

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)
1. Looks like there's great concern about the attacks on her finances, foundations, and influence.
Sat May 30, 2015, 10:45 AM
May 2015

I've said before, you can run multiple international foundations, or you can be Secretary of State, but you can't do both.

And you SURE can't do both AND take huge speaking fees AND run for president.

We'll look back on her candidacy and say...



The objective facts about Hillary Clinton:

-- Runs multiple global family foundations.
-- Service as US Secretary of State.
-- Takes huge speaking fees (often from orgs that benefited from SOS actions)
-- Runs for President

Runs as a "champion of the people"? Bullshit, she's a champion of outsourcing, of big energy, of anybody but the bottom tier working class members of the United States.

Fuck that shit.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,708 posts)
4. Everyday I wake up I thank God that I am alive and get to share an era with her.
Sat May 30, 2015, 12:27 PM
May 2015

What a wonderful time to be alive.

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