Hillary Clinton has always been to Obama's left on economics

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Hillary Clinton has always been to Obama's left on economics

by Matthew Yglesias at Vox

http://www.vox.com/2015/6/15/8779449/hillary-clinton-populist-record

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The truth, however, is that on the kind of pocketbook issues Clinton spent most of yesterday's speech discussing, she's always been on the left wing of the Democratic Party. She's been in the public eye far too long to have avoided inconsistencies over the years. But in positional terms, somewhat to the left of Obama — or Bill Clinton — on economics is where she's been this whole time.

Clinton's voting record was to the left of Obama's

In 2008, both Clinton and Obama spent a lot of time debating a single fateful vote she cast in 2002 in favor of George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq. But if you look at all the votes that were cast during the four years they served together in the Senate, it was Clinton who amassed the more liberal record.

*In the 109th Senate, Obama was the 17th most liberal member (between Chuck Schumer and Tom Harkin), while Clinton was the 13th most liberal member.

*In the 110th Senate, Obama was the 18th most liberal member (again one tick to the left of Schumer) while Clinton was again 13th most liberal.



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[Thinkingabout]

1. I have been pointing out for some time Hillary is a hard core liberal, not too far left but still

Left. You know this does not fit the profile some believe.

[delrem]

2. Repeat after me: "Summers, Rubin, Geithner, Citibank, Goldman Sachs,..."

Good. Do it again.
Now a question: can a $2.5billion campaign funded by investment capital do a total mindwipe of the past, then rewrite history so everyone smiles as they vote accordingly? You betcha!