Hillary Clinton adopts a critical line on banks, big business

[JonLP24]

Source: South China Morning Post

Long viewed as an ally by Wall Street, likely 2016 presidential contender Hillary Clinton has increasingly been taking banks and big business to task while on the campaign trail for Democrats across the country.

Many Democrat strategists see the sharper rhetoric as an effort to win over liberal critics, such as supporters of Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren. This came ahead of today's mid-term elections and as Clinton ramps up her political activity ahead of a probable White House bid.

"Al has pushed for more and better oversight of the big banks and risky financial activity," Clinton said in support of Senator Al Franken in Minnesota in late October.

"There's a lot of unfinished business to make sure we don't end up once again with big banks taking big risks and leaving taxpayers holding the bag," she said.

Read more: http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1631401/hillary-clinton-adopts-critical-line-banks-big-business

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The Clinton campaign is underway.

[msongs]

1. and what did she do about these things while she was a senator? hmm nt

[onehandle]

2. Rec #1 nt

[ALBliberal]

3. "Democrat" strategists....

Drives me insane.

[Fearless]

5. That was my first thought too!

Idiots!

[dflprincess]

4. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.

Her past actions make her current rhetoric very difficult to believe.

[raindaddy]

6. Worked For Obama!

[wolfie001]

36. This! Oh yeah! lol

[Kelvin Mace]

7. Hard to believe you are going to be hard on "big business"

when you keep cashing six figure checks for giving them speeches.

[RufusTFirefly]

9. Hallelujah!! I just KNEW she'd finally come around!

Not.

[on point]

10. All fake image positioning. She is totally DLC turd way republican lite. Not to be trusted.

[sendero]

19. Exactly...

... I care about actions, not talk. If talk mattered Obama would be the greatest president ever.

[brooklynite]

32. Well, then. All you have to do is convince about 20 million Democrats to believe you. Piece of cake

[Odin2005]

11. The pandering by Third-Way tools has begun.

[blkmusclmachine]

12. Yeah, whatever.

[silvershadow]

13. LOL. Whatever. Of course she moves to the left for the primary season. It won't last.

She's not even into true Democratic territory yet, as far as I am concerned. If she is the eventual nominee it will split the party, mark my words.

[silvershadow]

14. Oh, and how ironic...headline says she "adopted" her stance, which would be correct. nt

[davidpdx]

15. Yes, and the "Only Hillary can save us" meme is coming too a screen near you very soon

[Helen Borg]

16. Ahah! Good try...

[Alkene]

17. Blah. Blah. Blah.

Thanks for your input, Hillary.

[woo me with science]

18. We have always been at war with Goldman-Sachs.

[Orsino]

20. Thank you, Sens. Warren and Sanders!

Clinton may be too far compromised ever to change her ways, but I am grateful for even this empty rhetorical shift.

[geek tragedy]

21. This week's edition of "Damned if you do, damned if you don't" nt

[joshcryer]

25. This isn't even new.

She started this rhetoric a year ago. But people are only noticing now. And, of course, they'll forget that she used this same language in the 2007 primaries, but, what can you do.

[Ineeda]

22. Feeling Warren/Sanders breath on the back of her neck.

Good.

[NorthCarolina]

29. Unfortunately for her, she's not as good an actor as Obama.

I do not believe she has the wherewithal, the history, or the credentials to dance the populist schtick in the campaign.

[L0oniX]

23. LMFAO ...leopard spots changed.

[joshcryer]

24. Don't worry, she's an evil, lying, panderer.

Cant take her for her word. She's a woman, after all.

[earthside]

26. Of course, gender had nothing to do with it.

It is being a former director on the Walmart board that has a lot to do with the cynicism towards Hillary.

In other words, it is her record.

[djean111]

27. Has nothing to do with being a woman - where the fuck did that come from?

I am a woman, and Hillary's gender has nothing to do with how I feel about her.
Hopefully, this is not the meme-of-the-week - we all do not love Hillary because she is a woman. For starters, it doesn't explain why some like Warren. Cognitive dissonance?

Anyway, campaign blather at its most obvious.

[earthside]

30. In the post I was replying to.

"She's a woman, after all. : :"

That's where it came from.

Chillax.

[joshcryer]

28. Many decades ago.

As a woman trying to climb the ladder or relevance. It's completely without context and understanding of someone striving to be more relevant. No one ever asks what other route she could've taken, they only bash the route she took.

Go read her thesis. She's still a hippy at her core.

[Ikonoklast]

33. Hippy? She was a Goldwater Girl, the furthest thing from being a "hippy".

Hillary is interested in attaining and holding Power, period. Everything is a means to that end.

[joshcryer]

34. Sure. You must know the transition.

She had a serious hippy phase where she realized that apolitical activism was worthless.

Google "Hillary hippy."

[MynameisBlarney]

31. LOL!!!

[hughee99]

35. I'll bet Clinton and her Wall St. friends will have a good laugh over this statement

in the not-too-distant future. In private, of course.