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June 12, 2015 at 7:52 pm
Clinton fatigue or not, thinking she has no real business being President isn’t the sole property of the nuts GOP. There are many good reasons to believe a HClinton presidency would be a real setback, essentially a vote for eight years of status quo. Even if the Congress does not change and the GOP remains capable of stifling everything, it would be better to have someone who actually is a populist than her, someone who I’m sure will show us this weekend that her policies will be a faux populism of convenience. Plus, she’s reassure everyone that she’ll be tough on national security because … MANY ENEMIES WORLD DANGEROUS PLACE and FREEDOM ETC.
June 12, 2015 at 11:10 pm
My dear fellow, how dare you think about such topics as “issues” and “policy” and “qualifications,” let alone “right” and “wrong.” They have nothing to do with the kabuki that is contemporary American politics.
Tut, tut, tut.
Thou must getteth with the programme: All stupid, all the time.
Snark aside, Hillary would not be my favorite candidate by any means. But there’s not one declared Republican candidate who would be equal, not to mention superior, to her.
It’s a long way to the nominating conventions, but there is nothing lost in pointing out that “Clinton Fatigue” is a Republican tactic and not much of anything more. Parting the bullshit curtain is the first step to getting to reality.
June 13, 2015 at 3:36 pm
Here we go, from Roosevelt Island, today (and I accept the criticism that I’m someone who adamantly think HClinton has no business being the next President):
Excerpt 1: “That bargain inspired generations of families, including my own. It’s what kept my grandfather going to work in the same Scranton lace mill every day for 50 years.”
Please, that lace mill is gone. It probably disappeared during her husband’s administration or shortly before. HClinton has as much in common with Scranton as I have with Schuylkill County, which is to say – now, is none.
Excerpt 2: “It’s what led my father to believe that if he scrimped and saved, his small business printing drapery fabric in Chicago could provide us with a middle-class life. And it did.
When President Clinton honored the bargain, we had the longest peacetime expansion in history, a balanced budget, and the first time in decades we all grew together …”
Not my experience and what the graphs of economists have been showing over the past eight years. When “President Clinton” was in office, the middle class life disappeared right before my eyes. Bethlehem Steel ceased production in 1995. Bill Clinton was President. Period. I could write pages.
Excerpt 3: “As we have since our founding, Americans made a new beginning.
“You worked extra shifts, took second jobs, postponed home repairs… you figured out how to make it work. And now people are beginning to think about their future again – going to college, starting a business, buying a house, finally being able to put away something for retirement.”
More disingenuous crap. No, WE haven’t figured out how to make it all work. Unless getting by on much less or the generosity of others plus some feeble parts of the social safety net meaning “making it work.”
Excerpt 4: “Let’s provide lifelong learning for workers to gain or improve skills the economy requires, setting up many more Americans for success.”
We’ve been hearing this for decades. Re-training for success. More education. Continuing education for a future for the future skills the future of business needs. Americans aren’t lacking in these “skills.” No data supports this zombie idea that is always trotted out to explain away doing something really substantive and instead coming up with a way to hand more money to community colleges and certification training, neither of which guarantee much of anything in the majority of cases. Unless you mean no job, or a part time/full time job with really lousy compensation and dreadful hours.
Excerpt 5: “No other country is better equipped to meet traditional threats from countries like Russia, North Korea, and Iran – and to deal with the rise of new powers like China.
“No other country is better prepared to meet emerging threats from cyber attacks, transnational terror networks like ISIS, and diseases that spread across oceans and continents.
“As your President, I’ll do whatever it takes to keep Americans safe.
“And if you look over my left shoulder you can see the new World Trade Center soaring skyward.
“As a Senator from New York, I dedicated myself to getting our city and state the help we needed to recover. And as a member of the Armed Services Committee, I worked to maintain the best-trained, best-equipped, strongest military, ready for today’s threats and tomorrow’s.”
Right on cue. MANY ENEMIES WORLD DANGEROUS PLACE and FREEDOM ETC. Cyberwar, too.
Excerpt 6: “I was in the Situation Room on the day we got bin Laden.”
Please, mercy.
Excerpt 7: “Silicon Valley cracked the code on sharing and scaling a while ago.”
The sharing economy. Yes, we know how that works. Liquidate your life in piece work that undercuts wages by bidding everyone against everyone else, through smartphones, while giving a cut to the Silicon Valley. .
No link to the rest of it. Not a bit new on the populist side that hasn’t been given a more thorough treatment by better people, much earlier.