Clinton adjusts pitch: I can be a Sanders
"Hillary Clinton wants you to know she’s a more realistic, more savvy version of Bernie Sanders.
She, too, wants to close corporate loopholes, make college and health care more affordable and get tough on Wall Street. Just as Sanders does, except she’d proceed more carefully and practically.
Same with Social Security, and income inequality. Me, too, she said. Just better.
Clinton still faces a big hurdle in trying to get wavering Sanders loyalists into her camp: She’s inexorably tied to a system that Americans increasingly disdain.
She didn’t mention Thursday the $153 million that she and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, earned in speakers’ fees from 2001 through last year, an average of $210,795 per speech, a CNN analysis showed. Hillary Clinton earned at least $1.8 million for at least eight speeches to big banks.
A super political action committee that supports her has benefited from wealthy donors. She noted that Obama’s supporters included Wall Street interests, yet he signed legislation into law that restricts practices in the financial sector.
Come on, said Sanders. “People aren’t dumb. Why in God’s name does Wall Street make huge campaign contributions? I guess just for the fun of it; they want to throw money around,” he said.
She voted for the Iraq War in 2002, a vote Sanders wouldn’t let her forget. She later said that was a mistake, and Thursday she pointed to her four-year stint as secretary of state as evidence of her knowledge and judgment.
Clinton’s challenge is to keep these controversies in the background while continuing to show that she feels Sanders’ eagerness for change, but in a thoughtful way. That’s a tough mission, because Sanders goes from the gut. Clinton goes from position papers."
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