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Segami

(14,923 posts)
Wed Feb 12, 2014, 01:22 PM Feb 2014

Krystal Ball To Hillary Clinton: DON'T RUN, HILLARY! [View all]



BAM!!!......



MSNBC’s Krystal Ball gave a compelling case against Hillary Clinton running for President of the US in 2016. As a supporter of Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama, it was evident her conclusion pained her.


“Back in 2008, when all my peers were jumping on the Obama bandwagon, I backed Hillary,” Krystal Ball said. “The country was reeling from a disastrous eight years of President George W. Bush.”


Krystal Ball goes on to describe an America that is dissatisfied with the direction of the country. She says 67% of the country is dissatisfied with the country’s wealth distribution. Krystal Ball’s most damning statement about a Hillary Clinton run in 2016 is rather devastating.



It’s clear now that we have two economies. One for a thin slice of educated elites. And one for everyone else. That is this moment. 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 workers’ rights?


In a time when we are still reeling from a global financial disaster brought on by fool hearted bank deregulation; Is someone who took $400,000 to give two speeches at Goldman Sachs the person we need to wrest control of the asylum back from the banking inmates? Someone who at those paid speeches reassured the masters of the universe in attendance that they were unfairly being persecuted? That in her words, “banker-bashing … was unproductive and indeed foolish?” Someone whose husband by the way did much of the deregulating that got us into trouble in the first place?




A Libertarian Republican like Rand Paul could justifiably run an appealing populist message against Hillary Clinton. That message would take hold especially with the current state of the working poor and the working middle class.



http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/02/12/krystal-ball-hillary-clinton-dont-run/
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