Posted on 11/03/2013 8:35:41 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
The Senate’s No. 3 Democrat Charles Schumer (N.Y.) endorsed Hillary Clinton for president on Saturday as he urged her to make another run for the White House.
Schumer announced his endorsement at the Iowa Democratic Party’s Jefferson Jackson dinner Saturday, declaring his “full and unwavering support” for the former secretary of State and New York senator three years before the 2016 election.
“Run, Hillary, run. If you run, you’ll win and we’ll all win,” Schumer said, according to excerpts of his speech released by his office.
“2016 is Hillary’s time. And our nation will be all the better for it,” he said. “With a strong platform and with Hillary leading the charge, we will vanquish the Ted Cruz, Tea Party Republicans in 2016 and create a generation of Democrats who will make sure the middle class gets what it needs, our country advances and the torch held by that beautiful lady in New York’s harbor burns more brightly than ever.”
Schumer is the most senior Democrat to officially back Clinton for president, well before she makes a decision on whether she will in fact run.
The endorsement highlights Democratic attempts to coalesce support around Clinton, considered to be the clear frontrunner in the Democratic primary if she does run.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) hinted this past week that she would endorse Clinton if she runs, and all of the Senate’s Democratic women — including several who have been discussed as possible 2016 candidates if Clinton opts out — reportedly wrote a letter throwing their support behind Clinton as well.
The show of force from Schumer and other congressional Democrats is a blow to Vice President Joe Biden, who is also said to have 2016 ambitions.
Clinton said she is still wrestling with whether to run in a September interview with New York Magazine.
“I do,” Clinton said, “but I’m both pragmatic and realistic. I think I have a pretty good idea of the political and governmental challenges that are facing our leaders, and I’ll do whatever I can from whatever position I find myself in to advocate for the values and the policies I think are right for the country. I will just continue to weigh what the factors are that would influence me making a decision one way or the other.”
In his speech Saturday night in Iowa, which holds the first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses, Schumer said that 2008 had been President Obama’s time, when he defeated Clinton in a hard-fought primary. Schumer, Clinton’s fellow New York senator, endorsed Clinton in the primary.
“Suffice to say, in 2008, the time was right for Barack Obama,” Schumer said. “He has successfully navigated this country through some choppy waters and he will continue to do so for the next three years.”
Schumer laid out what he thinks is the best strategy for Democrats going forward, arguing that the Tea Party has successfully tapped into the public’s anger— and Democrats need to do the same.
“Here is the main point where Democrats have failed: We have failed to tap into and to constructively direct the anger and angst in America,” Schumer said.
“We know people are tired and frustrated and angry. The Tea Party’s emergence and strength stems from this anger and if we don’t re-channel that anger into constructive and effect solutions, America will be a different, more sour, less successful place for a generation,” he said.
Schumer argued, however, that a Republican Party dominated by Tea Party conservatives would lead to a Democratic rout in 2016.
“If the Tea Party continues to keep its grip on the Republican Party, I think we can safely predict that they will lose the election dramatically in 2016 just as they lost the election of 2012,” Schumer said.
You got it Chucky! FROM BAD TO WORSE, RIGHT? *wink**wink*
Laughing out loud! Hilliary is the Dem’s Bob Dole and no one deserves it more.
‘Crusty the crusty pantsuit, had a very crusty crotch,
And if you ever saw it, you would see an ugly beyotch.’
Ho ho ho!
Shaddup Schmuckie and eat your peas.
My imagination needs to be bleached after reading that. LOL
I believe that Schumer’s a woman. Hillary, I’m not so sure.
I’d say “her time” was 2008. Her opportunity was stolen from her, or, more accurately, the inept team working for her gave it away. She will simply be too old by 2016. She ain’t aging like Raquel Welch or Sophia Loren, you know, and she didn’t start from where they started...brutal and unfair as it is (I am not young and wrinkle-free either), this matters, and has mattered since 1960.
It’s the holiday season, laplata, when we think warm thoughts of aging lady political hacks in ‘Santa’s Helpers’ teddies, flashing their massive cankles as they put the finishing touches on the First and Best Hope for Mankind, completing its change into a sad, has-been republic, now “socialist paradise” with one-party rule and replacement of a rule of law with a permanent arbitrary and capricious rule by oligarchy—a boot stamping a human face, forever, all over the world.
“If the Tea Party continues to keep its grip on the Republican Party, I think we can safely predict that they will lose the election dramatically in 2016 just as they lost the election of 2012,” Schumer said.”
After the health care debacle, which will only get worse from here, we shall see. Gonna be a lot of very angry people out there, Chucky - and at least some will be Democrats!
I’m wondering if Cruz and Paul were long game brilliant by putting their markers down early. Their positions and actions of this year might look positively prophetic in 2016.
Very well put. It’s such a shame.
Thank God our time here is short.
But I cry for the little children.
Hey PIAPS, the piano called. It wants it’s legs back!
Six trivia questions to see how much history you know. Be honest, it’s kinda fun and revealing. If you don’t know the answer make your best guess. Answer all the questions (no cheating) before looking at the answers .
Who said it?
1) “We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.”
A. Karl Marx
B. Adolph Hitler
C. Joseph Stalin
D. None of the above
2) “It’s time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, and for the few...... And to replace it with shared responsibility,,,,,for shared prosperity.”
A. Lenin
B. Mussolini
C. Idi Amin
D. None of the Above
3) “(We) .....can’t just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people.”
A. Nikita Khrushev
B. Josef Goebbels
C. Boris Yeltsin
D. None of the above
4) “We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own ... in order to create this common ground.”
A. Mao Tse Dung
B. Hugo Chavez
C. Kim Jong Il
D. None of the above
5) “I certainly think the free-market has failed.”
A. Karl Marx
B. Lenin
C. Molotov
D. None of the above
6) “I think it’s time to send a clear message to what has become the most profitable sector in (the) entire economy that they are being watched.”
A. Pinochet
B. Milosevic
C. Saddam Hussein
D. None of the above
Scroll down for answers
Answers
(1) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/29/2004
(2) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 5/29/2007
(3) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007
(4) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007
(5) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007
(6) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 9/2/2005
Wanna know something scary? She may be the next socialist president if you don’t forward this to everyone that you know.
I think the #3 democrat is full of #2.
Hillary 2016, the resume builder, may well end up being the final nail in America’s coffin.
Shankles has to be worried about Obamascare.
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