Hillary Clinton’s Message: Yes, the Economy Is Messed Up. But I Can Fix It.

It has been a year dominated by populist rage, embodied in Bernie Sanders’s calls for a political revolution and Donald J. Trump’s angry assertions that the United States, and its workers, are losing badly in the global economy...

...Clinton gave this message: I alone am the candidate who knows how to turn those underlying frustrations... ...voters’ anger, but respond to that anger by pulling the levers of the federal bureaucracy and creating legislation...

...not easy to change Washington, or how corporations behave,”... ...blasting Mr. Trump’s business record, ethics and often-erratic policy positions. “It takes more than stern words or a flashy slogan. It takes a plan, and it takes experience...

...she did not promise to provide free college tuition or to break up major banks; she instead said she would make sure students could graduate without a debt hangover, and clamp down on banks in ways that would probably lead them to shrink...

...propose ripping up trade deals and risking trade wars with the likes of China and Mexico. But she did say her administration would use the tax code to punish companies that outsource jobs...

...proclaim the greatness of the Obama-era economy and pledge continuity. That was a contrast with two other modern-era candidates who ran to succeed a two-term president from their party amid a strong economy, Al Gore in 2000 and George H.W. Bush in 1988...

...business and government have lost sight of our shared responsibility... ...let Wall Street take big risks with unregulated financial activities, they skew our tax code toward the wealthy, they failed to enforce our trade rules, they undermined workers’ rights.”...

Mrs. Clinton thus emphasized policies... ...deal making even in a polarized Congress, or that could be executed through administrative action.

After the first couple of which the sell-out traitorous GOPee stabbed Gingrich in the back so they could turn democratic pork into GOPee pork.

With perv-boy Hastert and closet drunk Boehner as his replacements.

Seems to me it was obvious the GOP leadership has been blackmailed for over 20 years.

Now we can understand their complete lack of will to fight for America.

Instead they just joined in the looting and enriched themselves.

How can that be?

Obama said just a few weeks ago that this was the best economy in the last 40 years.

Obama To Middle America: The Economy Is Doing Great, And If You Don’t Think So, You’re Dumb

06/04/2016 8:31:29 AM PDT · by BiggerTigger · 29 replies

Investors Business Daily ^ | June 3, 2016 | John Merline

If Shakespeare were around today, he’d probably say that “the president doth protest too much, methinks.” How else to describe Barack Obama’s hour-long harangue to an audience in Elkhart, Ind., about how the economy is doing fabulously well, and that the only reason people don’t believe it is because of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh? Obama’s pique is understandable. After all, presidential candidates from both parties are currently running around the country bashing the economy — the one that Obama promised eight years ago would be going gangbusters by now. “People are anxious and uncertain about the economy,” Obama said...

"The Economy Is Better Off Now Than When I Started" - Obama Delivers Remarks On The State
	06/01/2016 1:44:47 PM PDT · by Nachum · 38 replies zero hedge ^ \| 6/1/16 \| tyler durden No fiction peddling will be allowed at Obama's speech taking place in Elkhart right now, where the president is delivering his well-oiled sermon on how "the economy is better off now than at the start" of his presidency.... Just ignore the facts.

Obama Boasts In Britain: I Saved The World Economy As President
	04/23/2016 7:42:59 AM PDT · by Rockitz · 75 replies Breitbart.com ^ \| 23 Apr 2016 \| Charlie Spiering President Barack Obama boasted of his legacy during a town hall in Britain, asserting that he single- handedly saved the world during his presidency. “Saving the world economy from a Great Depression — that was pretty good,” Obama bragged when asked by a student in London what he wanted his legacy to be. He recalled that when he visited London in 2009, the world economy was in a “freefall” because of irresponsible behavior of financial institutions around the world. “For us to be able to mobilize the world’s community, to take rapid action, to stabilize the financial markets, and then...

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It will be interesting to see how Clinton can run against the Obama economy while supporting the Obama legacy.

She slipped up already with her recent Trump bash by claiming she 'can fix the economy, but under Obama the economy has been great, but the economy is in a mess'. Huh?

Clinton can pander and criticize in the same breath.

GHW Bush ran for Reagan’s third term and won easily.

Most people were satisfied with the direction of the country and Reagan was popular.

Hillary is running at a time two thirds of Americans are not satisfied with the direction of the country and Obama is treading water.

She could win if the economy shows an uptick between now and November and conversely - she could lose if there is a crash.

In reading the comments on the times, democrats and liberals have to be THE stupidest, most ignorant hate filled people on the planet.
What is it with people and their “idol” worship.
I swear Hillary could slaughter 20 babies live on broadcast TV and her poll numbers would dip 1 or 2%.
We need this country to unite, and democrats simply do NOT have the capacity to do this because their entire party is about finding a problem, whether real or perceived, and getting people angry to protest and riot. Once that problem is dead, find another and repeat.

How is it any politician, especially Hillary or Bernie, fix, manage, improve, and grow the economy when they don’t know how?

These people have no clue, no idea how the private sector works, yet we as the electorate are willing to give them a huge say in making it work.

Under Obama and his insane policies, small business, the real engine in our economy has stalled , has had either little or no growth. Our GDP is barely positive but in reality negative.

To really have this country moving, we need a 5% GDP for the next five years, minimum, and create about 500,000 a month to have full employment. So how will Hillary and Bill do this? Neither could run a Dairy Queen if they had to.

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