Different Party, Different Year, Same Hillary

[Purveyor]

By Jonathan Allen Sep 5, 2014 12:00 AM ET

The Democratic Party that rejected Hillary Clinton in 2008 is even more distant from her now. It’s more resistant to military entanglements, more leery of Wall Street and more firmly in favor of pot smoking.

And there’s Clinton, still stubbornly centrist to the core, straddling the fence on legalizing marijuana, staying close to her supporters in the world of finance, making clear she’d have armed Syrian moderates when President Barack Obama didn’t -- and all but certain to win the party’s nomination this time.

If this Clinton Paradox seems hard to explain, it’s not, some Democrats contend.

Rather than having fallen in love with Clinton, many of her would-be detractors are motivated by a trio of cold calculations: They want to win, she’s the strongest candidate in an otherwise weak 2016 field, and she might prove better at advancing items on their agenda than Obama, who has struggled to push a legislative agenda since Democrats lost control of the U.S. House two years into his first term.

Clinton could be forgiven for chuckling at the irony. Turns out for a lot of Democrats, Obama’s hope and change was a lot more hope than change -- which was her point all along in 2008.

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-05/different-party-different-year-same-hillary.html

[Stellar]

1. I keep hearing that Clinton is the strongest candidate...

but ever where I go on the net, most people don't feel that way. I keep wondering if media is just out there pushing that narrative.

[antigop]

3. pssst.... don't tell anyone....

Who owns the media?

[Stellar]

4. LOL...that about sums it up.

[antigop]

2. And she is proud of the relationships she has developed with U.S. business leaders..."

That should scare the cr*p out of people.

[blkmusclmachine]

5. To Hillary Clinton, it's still the '90s.

[Earth_First]

6. She forged partnerships with a lot of powerful individuals while at WalMart in the late 80's

while her husband was Governor.

These same individuals have become lobbying power brokers since then and hold massive amounts of authority and capital to influence government.

A populist viewpoint is certain political career demise when your campaign is funded directly by these same individuals.

Hillary knows what she's doing...

Fortunately enough, so do many of us.