The official 'listening' pose
Posted on 04/13/2015 7:58:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
For months, only the most progressive Democrats would dare express their reservations about Hillary Clinton in mixed company. Though polls routinely showed that Democrats wanted to see Clinton face a serious primary challenge — the latest via Bloomberg Politics indicating that 72 percent of self-identified Democrats and independents hope Clinton doesn’t benefit from a coronation – only a handful of Democrats would explain why they hoped she should have to fight for the nomination. That changed earlier this year as prominent liberal politicians began to echo their party’s activist base. Increasingly, Democratic celebrity politicians are openly expressing their fear that Clinton is not progressive enough for her party.
Last week, outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid joined 5,000 of his fellow Democratic lawmakers and party officials when he signed a Progressive Change Champaign Committee pledge demanding their party’s 2016 nominee pay homage to a variety of far-left policy priorities. The “Ready for Boldness” pledge would compel the Democratic nominee to promise to expand Social Security, break up major financial institutions, and establish “debt-free higher education.”
“Being bold is the only way I’ve ever known how to win,” Reid said in a statement following his decision to endorse this pledge.
“I think there needs to be a vigorous debate in the whole question of running for president,” progressive icon and Bay State Sen. Elizabeth Warren told CBS This Morning hosts last week when asked if she would endorse Clinton when the former secretary of state made her intention to run for the White House public. “I think everyone who is running for president should be talking about what they plan to do to strengthen and rebuild America’s middle class.”
“I’ll tell you where I stand on all the key issues,” she continued. “It’s up to others to say whether they stand there as well, or if they stand in some different place,” she continued, citing her positions on minimum wage, equal pay and trade as examples.”
“I’d like to see her address all of these issues,” Warren said of Clinton before noting that their party is not a “static” thing. “You know, we have a big debate going on right now with trade within the Democratic Party.”
The latest progressive politician to express their reservations in Clinton’s progressive bona fides delivered perhaps the unkindest cut of all. Despite having served as Clinton’s U.S. Senate campaign manager in 2000, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio refused to endorse Clinton just yet.
“I think like a lot of people in this country I want to see a vision,” De Blasio said of progressives.
“It’s a much different time than 2008,” he added in an interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd. “There are a lot of new issues and new material for Hillary to address.”
Actually, 2016 seems quite a bit like 2008, with the exception that there is no popular alternative to Clinton that unites the left. Though Clinton’s support in polls of Democratic voters remains strong, it is impossible for that to remain the case while the party’s most popular voices refuse to support her candidacy. As Democratic partisans tune into this race, they will begin to look around for an alternative. That alternative’s viability might not matter as much as his or her progressivism.
In the same way that Mitt Romney was never undone by the cast of “also rans,” Clinton will likely survive the challenges she faces from the current slate of Democrats running for the White House in 2016. But while Martin O’Malley, Bernie Sanders, and Lincoln Chafee might be second tier candidates, one or all of them could benefit from an anti-Clinton protest vote. How big that vote will be remains to be seen. But, judging from the current levels of Democratic anxiety, it could be quite significant.
OMG.
De Blasio was her campaign manager for the Senate? And he’s not on board with her??? Really????
And 72% of Democrats want other candidates to run for president???
As of today, it looks like Hillary would get the Democrat nomination by default. Who is going to step forward and unite these various liberal radical Democrats to oppose Hillary???
If they are waiting for a vision it ain’t hitlary.
This is the sort of thing that happens when all the oxygen is preemptively pumped out of the room. The Power Couple has been around so long that the Democrat Party does not have much of a bench when it comes to running national candidates, and both Herself, Madame Benghazi, the Cold & Joyless, and Billy Jeff derive their benefit, such as it is, from the fact they have been so well-known for so long, like forever for a person in their twenties or thirties. Now they have come to believe this is the way it is supposed to be, having no reliable measure of what it was like before Team Clinton came on the horizon.
It's a tough job, but somebody has to do it. So I'll step up to the plate.
My liberal radical platform will be simple, and to the point: A federally-guaranteed minimum annual income of $200,000 for every American.
And how will the country be able afford this? Again, it's simple. I'll just put heavy taxes on the rich. You know, those rich folks who make $200,000 a year or more.
“But while Martin O’Malley, Bernie Sanders, and Lincoln Chafee might be second tier candidates”
Sounds like The Three Stooges to me.
I think you’re giving them too much credit.
Linky no workey.
This is Kabuki theater meant to make us think Hillary isn’t really that Liberal.
The official 'listening' pose
” This is Kabuki theater meant to make us think Hillary isn’t really that Liberal.”
They didn’t waste any time planting the false rumors....LOL.
“The official ‘listening’ pose”
And her eyes are “saying.” FU!
ROTFLMAO! Good point!!!
Jay Leno Turns Obama-Clinton ‘60 Minutes’ Interview Into Cialis Commercial
CBS's 60 Minutes did an absolutely gushing and fawning segment with President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this past Sunday.
It was so bad that Jay Leno and Company turned it into a Cialis commercial on NBC's Tonight Show Thursday
This might work...... (jay leno)
REALITY CHECK
<><> CLINTON SWORE BLOBBIO INTO OFFICE AS HILLARY LOOKED ON.
<><> Blobbio managed Hillary's Senate campaign
<><> then-prez Bill Clinton named Blobbio regional director of HUD (under Cuomo)
<><> Clinton top aide Harold Ickes held Blobbio's Commie hand during Blob's mayoral campaign,
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Blobbio and his lesbian wife are angling for WH jobs (heaven help us). Chirlayne rushed in to help when criticism rained down on Hillary for secert emails and for collecting millions while privvy to us ntl security secrets.
CHIRLANE'S RESUME In 1979, only a few years out of college, she came out of the closet declaring"I Am a Lesbian," in an essay written for Essence magazine, speaking out against the "invisibility" of black lesbians.
Thirty-three years later, avowed lesbian Chirlane surfaced as the wife (the wife?) of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio...who was sworn-into office by Bill Clinton. DeB worked for Hillary's Senate campaign.
Yet, lesbian McCray's life has resisted closer scrutiny. A New York magazine profile describes McCray's 1979 declaration as "a fierce insistence on being heard, damn the consequences." The essay surfaced as a potential campaign issue late in 2012, a month before de Blasio officially announced his candidacy. The New York Observer noted that de Blasio's website made only a passing reference to McCray having belonged to a "black feminist" collective.
A famous New York Post cartoon depicted the Blobs in bed, McCray on the phone saying, "I used to be a lesbian, but my husband won me over," as Blobbio lay beside her clad in sexy lingerie.
"Al, you goin' to the Clinton WH with me and Chirlayne."
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