Is Hillary Clinton becoming the candidate of big ideas?-HRC Room

[hrmjustin]

HILLARY CLINTON ROOM

Paul Waldman


Hillary Clinton has long been known as a cautious politician who leaned more toward methodical plodding than grand gestures. She launched her 2000 campaign for the Senate with a purposely low-key “listening tour.” As a senator, she cultivated a reputation as a workhorse who eschewed high-profile media appearances for the mundane work of writing legislation. Throughout, she staked out a place as a familiar kind of Democrat — a little more liberal on social issues, a little more conservative on foreign policy and national security — but nobody’s idea of an ideologically transformative figure.

But now that she’s making her second run for the White House, is Hillary Clinton becoming the Candidate of Big Ideas?


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/06/05/is-hillary-clinton-becoming-the-candidate-of-big-ideas/

[femmedem]

1. Good for her (and us)

The op-out voter registration is a fantastic idea. Bernie's my candidate, but I give Hillary huge credit for this. We have great candidates all around.

[Iliyah]

2. Benghazi, I wished the W's adm was viligant on 911, gee wiz

The investigative committee(s) by design thwarted the 911 investigations. Americans as well as HRC mourn what happened in Benghazi, 4 Americans and (I don't know the number of) Libyan people lost their lives that night. The only purpose of the GOP is to derail HRC's presidential run, and it sucks to high heaven (and using taxpayer's money to boot).

The GOP is by any means necessary are instilling laws to thwart American's right to vote. If Americans can't vote, then the GOP wins, therefore, all this talk about insuring the country's programs that help and benefit Americans don't mean a hell of beans.

HRC is spot on.

[Gothmog]

3. I think that this is a good strategy for HRC

[Cha]

4. People change.. they grow.. from your link, Justin..

"It’s starting to look that way. When yesterday she proposed national automatic voter registration — registering all Americans to vote when they turn 18 unless they opt out — it surprised everyone. While universal registration isn’t an idea no one had thought of before, Clinton took a Democratic priority (expanding voting rights and boosting turnout) and advanced it with an ambitious, national plan that went beyond what most prominent Democrats had advocated before.

We saw something similar on immigration, where Clinton didn’t just support the Obama administration’s position on immigration but went beyond it, proposing that the parents of “DREAMers” be allowed to stay in the country legally. She also called for an end to the “era of mass incarceration,” an era her husband had no small part in creating. She has signaled an intention to go bold in the area of campaign finance, floating the idea of a Constitutional amendment to get so-called “dark money” out of politics (though she has not gone so far as to make formal proposal)."

I was talking to my son yesterday about what's been going down on this board with the misogynistic slur.. so we started talking about Hillary.. and he said..

"That automatic voting proposal is a great idea.. we should have that.." He's leaning Bernie but is looking at what all our candidates have to say.

Mahalo Justin..

[Hekate]

5. It's looking good -- I noticed, and I'm very pleased. KnR