2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWill Hillary Clinton’s Plan to Have Her Husband Fix the Economy Hurt Her at the Polls?
Emma Niles
TruthDig
Hillary Clinton is dishing out details on how her potential administration would functionand apparently, it includes a lot of help from her husband, former President Bill Clinton.
Aides said Mr. Clintons role would be narrowly defined to focus on hard-hit areas of the country, such as the Rust Belt, and they rejected any implication that Mrs. Clinton would outsource a central part of her administration to her spouse, writes The New York Times, although it adds that her declaration raised questions about how such an arrangement would work in a White House that has long relied on an appointed Treasury secretary and National Economic Council.
So although Hillarys campaign is heavily depending on her husbands legacy to woo the votes of working-class whites (a group she has not done well with), the intense scrutiny of Bills economic record may not help her campaign in the way she hopes.
In a piece published Friday by The Guardian, Thomas Frank summed up the danger of 1990s nostalgia. Look at where we are now: soaring inequality, a recovery that never seems to come, a fraying middle class, a furious public, and improbable protest candidates drawing millions of votes, he writes. But all of it is as nothing, I suppose, when compared to the golden allure of the past.
Everyone should read Thomas Frank's new book.
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Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)More people do NOT want Clintons back in wh.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)NWCorona
(8,541 posts)AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)nc4bo
(17,651 posts)It'll be more of a turn off than having garlic breath on your wedding day.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)totally changed. I was literally shocked when I heard that. Also, IMO, it weakens her greatly, makes it look like she is the front for another term for Bill.
pampango
(24,692 posts)that is deserved or not.
SFnomad
(3,473 posts)a balanced budget. Which one of those did you hate the most?
anigbrowl
(13,889 posts)There were flaws with the Clinton economic model but let's not forget the worst recession since the 1930s that came afterwards.
Cal33
(7,018 posts)They happened under different presidents, so, many do think that the events had different causes.
Arkansas Granny
(31,545 posts)Bill still enjoys quite high favorability ratings.
http://www.pollingreport.com/clinton1.htm
Califonz
(465 posts)The Clintons threw the working class under the bus. They only fixed the economy for the 1%.
Their current bank account balance indicates they were handsomely rewarded for their service to plutocracy.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-15/nafta-20-years-old-%E2%80%93-here-are-20-facts-show-how-it-destroying-economy
That Guy 888
(1,214 posts)You guys need to start putting lipstick on that pig now*! Convince the rest of us that it was a glorious revolution that made those smelly polluting industries go far away, leaving only nice, clean white collar jobs behind. ...And fast food jobs, there has been an increase in the average age of fast food employees. Oh, oh, and "on demand" jobs. It's wonderful to have all that extra time off, wondering how you will pay those bills that don't stop when the work does.
*For the Clintonian Thought Police, a head start to your inevitable claim of sexism.
To put "lipstick on a pig" is a rhetorical expression, used to convey the message that making superficial or cosmetic changes is a futile attempt to disguise the true nature of a product.
from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipstick_on_a_pig my own familiarity with this phrase comes from friends and/or relatives in the financial sector.
ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)Many of Clinton's triangulating third-way policies are at the root of the decline of the working and middle classes and thus the Democratic Party.
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)Instead of crushed unions and off shored jobs replaced with service jobs and the new competitive wages (competitive with 3rd world countries) we've been finding at home.
If this is really what he will be bringing us if Hillary puts him in charge of our economic recovery...we are in deep shit.
Yes, if Bill...I mean Hillary wins this election, we will be right back where we were with Bill as potus. Some people did well under him...those are the ones supporting Hillary today. But the middle class did not, and the poor did not. And he wants to keep on doing the same shit and expecting different results? No, in fact he really liked the results...because look at how he and Hillary embrace their new wealth. Yes, the wealthy did well under Clinton, and will likely do so again...while the rest of us just keep slip sliding away.
And he's trying to blame Obama for our slow recovery and wage losses. So much for building on what Obama has done. There goes Obama under the bus.
My God how stupid can this country be?
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)Hurt her but probably not much.