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In reply to the discussion: This is a big part of "why not Hillary?", at least for me... [View all]truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)I loves me that Biden, but he was being all collegial, and a member of the World's Greatest Deliberative Body and stuff, and look what happened.
Yeah, we got an extension of SCHIP, and we got the ACA without a public option, 'cause our leaders gave that away to secure some cross-the-aisle support--that worked well, didn't it? And the tax cuts could have all gone away, all they needed to do was NOTHING, but nooooooo....
I recognize the need to win elections, and I accept that the Opposition is off the deep end, but is it too much to ask that our side actually points that out, instead of kowtowing to it? This is the conclusion of the above article:
"But the really weird part of Hillary Clintons claim that America must get back to telling the story of how great we are to ourselves is how much it echoes the rights attack on Obama. Since Obama took office, a parade of conservative politicians and pundits have accused him of insufficient faith in Americas greatness. Mitt Romney entitled his campaign book No Apology: Believe in America. In 2013, Dick Cheney declared, I dont think that Barack Obama believes in the U.S. as an exceptional nation.
For more than five years, the right has claimed the major problem with American foreign policy is that its not sufficiently grounded in the belief that America is an exceptional nation fated to lift up humanity by spreading its power, as it did in generations past.
Now, bizarrely, Hillary Clinton is leveling the same critique. Which still doesnt make it right."