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In reply to the discussion: Looks to me like Hillary Clinton's campaign is shaping up to [View all]cali
(114,904 posts)I've repeatedly been cautioned by her supporters here to wait until she unrolls specific policies and not to characterize her campaign so early because it's unfair.
In any case, her Wall Street employers don't believe her populist rhetoric, which I think has been vague indeed.
Her campaign may or may not be off to a good start. That we'll have to see and we won't know for a few wks.
Hillary Clinton sounded like a woman on a mission after her long drive into the heartland: Theres something wrong, she told Iowans on Tuesday, when hedge fund managers pay lower taxes than nurses or the truckers I saw on I-80 when I was driving here over the last two days.
But back in Manhattan, the hedge fund managers whove long been part of her political and fundraising networks arent sweating the putdown and arent worrying about their take-home pay just yet.
Its just politics, said one major Democratic donor on Wall Street, explaining that some of her Wall Street supporters doubt she would push hard for closing the carried interest loophole as president, a policy she promoted when she last ran in 2008.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/hillary-clintons-wall-street-backers-we-get-it-117017.html#ixzz3XTpOHU48