HRC "clarifies" position on coal extraction

[The Blue Flower]

She misspoke. Glad she cleared that up. Should play very well in CA.

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/05/03/backtracking-clean-energy-clinton-turns-chameleon-coal

[Yurovsky]

1. She's got plenty of time to contradict herself yet again...

that weathervane is going to need plenty of WD-40 between now and November...

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. She needs to hire better CYA writers. The crew she has now is amateurish.

[Sparkly]

3. She repeatedly has to clarify all her positions because

people keep taking bits and pieces out of context to twist their meaning, and then act outraged.

Her proposals are all here: https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/

On climate change and clean energy: https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/climate/

On coal specifically:

Revitalize coal communities. Building a 21st century clean energy economy will create new jobs and industries, protect public health, and reduce carbon pollution. But we can’t ignore the impact this transition is already having on coal communities. Hillary’s $30 billion plan to revitalize coal communities will ensure coal miners, power plant operators, transportation workers, and their families get the respect they deserve and the benefits they have earned; invest in economic diversification and job creation; and make coal communities an engine of US economic growth in the 21st century, as they have been for generations.

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. ...she sometimes forgets who she is pandering to.

[Sparkly]

5. Did you read her proposals?

(Why am I even asking? )

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. All I see there is standard political sales pitch.

There are no specifics there. (And in fairness, that is not unique to her)

[Sparkly]

9. Plenty of specifics.

Link at the bottom of the page is this factsheet for even more: https://www.hillaryclinton.com/briefing/factsheets/2015/07/26/renewable-power-vision/

[floriduck]

10. How Hillary inserts foot into mouth. Amazingly stupid.

[Sparkly]

11. Who or what is stupid?

She's saying exactly what she has said before and written on her issues statement.

We DO want to get away from coal and move to clean renewable energy.

...and...

We DO want to help the people who've worked in coal to thrive in new jobs.

[basselope]

13. And she is well known for following through on her issue statements.

Oh wait..

[Sparkly]

14. Yes, she is in fact.

Thanks.

[basselope]

16. LMAO!!!

She has a record of complete failure. Utter and complete.

An abysmal record as senator and an even WORSE one as Secretary of State.

[Sparkly]

20. You read different newspapers and websites than I do, I guess.

[basselope]

21. I read the ones with facts.

[Buzz Clik]

7. +1

[Vinca]

12. So let's assume I'm a coal miner and go to her site and read her position.

What, exactly, does "revitalize coal communities" mean? Does is mean coal mining goes away and new jobs come in? She needs to say something a bit more specific and meaningful to the guy trying to feed his family. The ordinary political blah-blah-blah will not cut it this year. People have heard it before and they're sick of it which is why Bernie and, heaven forbid, Trump are doing so well.

[Sparkly]

15. "Why Bernie and Trump are doing so well"

She is doing better than both of them.

[Vinca]

17. Which is why she didn't get to the magic number weeks ago?

You need to face reality. Yes, she is far better than Trump, but that doesn't mean voters like her any better. This isn't going to be a cake walk. She's going to need a whole lot of the "hold your nose" vote.

[Buzz Clik]

6. Bernie needs to take WV by an enormous margin.

His stances on energy will ensure that won't happen.

Sanders's inability to understand that repeating three points over and over ad infinitum is a losing formula and how he got to this place.

[Eric J in MN]

18. Bernie Sanders said at a rally in WV that he knows global warming is a controversial topic there,

...but he's going say the same thing in WV he says in VT and CA: that global warming is real and requires action.

[Buzz Clik]

19. Yeah. Good.

And y'all think he's the one to win the GE.

[Ino]

22. "what I said was totally out of context for what I meant"

But people misused her comments against her. The misunderstanding of her self-described "misstatement" is THEIR fault!

She's so mealy-mouthed. Could anyone be more transparently false?!