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malaise

(269,054 posts) Tue Dec 17, 2013, 08:52 AM Dec 2013

Questions for DUers

Is Hillary Clinton to the right of Obama?
If not, why not?
How will she help destroy the neo-liberal model?
Why is she the front runner by such a distance?

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Questions for DUers (Original Post) malaise Dec 2013 OP

The last one - nothing succeeds like success el_bryanto Dec 2013 #1

Okay. LWolf Dec 2013 #2

Both of them are way to the right of me. hobbit709 Dec 2013 #3

the only question that gets my attention -- and it doesn't apply only to hillary xchrom Dec 2013 #4

el_bryanto

(11,804 posts)

1. The last one - nothing succeeds like success

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Tue Dec 17, 2013, 09:24 AM

Dec 2013

She's seen as the front runner so she is the front runner - particularly right now while the race is entirely hypothetical. In 2005-6 how many people would have predicted an Obama presidential victory over Ms. Clinton?

Bryant

LWolf

(46,179 posts)

2. Okay.

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Tue Dec 17, 2013, 09:26 AM

Dec 2013

No. She's about the same. She's a neoliberal. He's a neoliberal.

She won't "help destroy" the model she is a part of.

She has name recognition and success behind her, and she, and any neoliberal, is more acceptable to the corporate elite.

hobbit709

(41,694 posts)

3. Both of them are way to the right of me.

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Tue Dec 17, 2013, 09:27 AM

Dec 2013

xchrom

(108,903 posts)

4. the only question that gets my attention -- and it doesn't apply only to hillary

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Tue Dec 17, 2013, 09:32 AM

Dec 2013

is will she -- or ANY establishment democrat help destroy the neo-liberal model?

that is an awful thing to think about -- and has me largely turning my back on national politics and focusing on my own back yard -- politically speaking.

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