Hillary channels Elizabeth Warren in campaign bid

[RiverLover]

Hillary channels Elizabeth Warren in campaign bid

If you close your eyes, you might think Elizabeth Warren is talking.

In her video campaign announcement Sunday, Hillary Clinton unveiled what's expected to be the central theme of her presidential bid: Serving as a champion for "Everyday Americans."

"Americans have fought their way back from tough economic times, but the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top," she said in the short video. "Everyday Americans need a champion and I want to be that champion. So you can do more than just get by. You can get ahead and stay ahead."

Long considered a centrist, Clinton sounded strikingly similar to Warren, the outspoken darling of the left wing, which has been pushing the Massachusetts senator to run for the 2016 nomination. (So far, she has declined.) Warren's main talking point: Give every American a fighting chance.

"America's middle class is under attack. It's in trouble because the game is deliberately rigged," Warren wrote in her memoir, A Fighting Chance. "I am determined -- fiercely determined -- to do everything I can to help us once again be the America that creates opportunities for anyone who works hard and plays by the rules."

Related: Elizabeth Warren: 8 ways to restore the middle class

Warren's proposals to boost middle class prosperity include: Raising the minimum wage, supporting bargaining rights for workers, ensuring workers get overtime pay and creating good paying jobs through investments in roads, bridges, power grids, education and research, among other things.

In an election where every candidate is focused on the middle class, Clinton may have to shift left to appeal to the Democratic base. She and her advisers have been speaking to income inequality and economic mobility gurus, including Joseph Stiglitz of Columbia University and Raj Chetty of Harvard, according to media reports.

Stiglitz, a Nobel-prize winning economist, has argued that income inequality has exploded over the past 30 years. The widening gap endangers economic growth and makes it harder for people to achieve the American Dream...

http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/13/news/economy/hillary-clinton-elizabeth-warren/

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but still....

Run Warren Run!! (Yes there is still a draft movement. Now more than ever!!)

Cross-posted in GD, just for fun.

[NYC_SKP]

1. I am done with Hillary. I was done with her when she carpetbagged into NY state.

There isn't a thing she does that isn't about self promotion.

She doesn't give a flying fuck about the working person.

And I'm sickened that the admins of this site are promoting her before there's even been a primary.

Sickened, and I pray someone else can defeat her in the primary because if she's the D candidate we will have a R president.

And if she should happen to win, we will still sink further, just not as quickly as with an R.

[L0oniX]

3. ^^^THIS^^^

If she is nominated I am done with this party. I will not stand with or for the rich 1% who only care about their power over everyone else.

[RiverLover]

4. This^

And I'm sickened that the admins of this site are promoting her before there's even been a primary.

Yes. Me too. Because its truly sickening.

[Autumn]

5. It's going to be a long season. I plan on doing most of my posting in here.

It doesn't matter what is posted, get ready to be attacked, they are going to use whatever they can to beat us in line. How does it go? The beatings will continue until moral improves. It ain't over till it's over.

[winter is coming]

10. I'm thinking of leaving DU altogether. I'm already sick of the HRC circle jerk in GD,

not to mention the incessant "but the Supreme Court!!" lectures. Not one vote has been cast, not one caucus has been held, yet some are behaving as if the election were next week. Hillary ran a surprisingly clumsy campaign in 2008 and it's entirely possible she'll blow it again. Is our bench truly so weak that she's the only Dem worth looking at? To me, it feels like she's trying to use the Clinton influence to shut everyone else out before the primaries even begin because she's afraid that, given a choice, the electorate won't choose her.

[Autumn]

11. Don't leave. Just ignore the nonsense. You leave, they win.

It gets to bad just come in here. We can discuss what our Liz would do if she were running or what Liz is doing in the Senate where she is looking out for us, the people. Don't let them get you down or chase you out.

[cascadiance]

6. PLUS INFINITY!

Someone working for "every day Americans" does NOT work for H-1B program expansion or work with Obama to push the TPP treaty through congress.

[L0oniX]

2. It's all Hillary campaign bullshit. It's meaningless and only said to get sucker votes.

Even if what she says will be what she does/tries to do the repukes will obstruct it all.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

9. Hillary attempting to channel Elizabeth certainly doesn't come off as natural. Hillary's consultants need to help her work on that.

[Phlem]

7. Obama was all about populism when he was campaigning

Then he won and said "I'm a new Democrat".

They will say anything to get into orifice.

Like I said before, With all the money drowning DC, does one really think it will attract someone who sincerely wants lead and make this country better for all?

I don't think so.