2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHillary Found Her Footing Thursday Night
Hillary Found Her Footing Thursday NightBy Jamelle Bouie at Slate
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/02/hillary_takes_on_bernie_s_worldview_at_the_pbs_debate.html
"SNIP............
ts taking time, but Hillary Clinton is inching toward a theme. I am not a single-issue candidate, and I do not believe we live in a single-issue country, she said at the close of the Democratic debate in Milwaukee. I think we have to overcome and break down the barriers that are holding people back, whether its poison in the water of the children of Flint, or whether its the poor miners who are being left out and left behind in coal country, or whether it is any other American today who feels somehow put down and oppressed by racism, by sexism, by discrimination against the LGBT community, against the kind of efforts that need to be made to root out all of these barriers. Thats what I want to take on.
Unlike so much of her rhetoric, which hedges and qualifies and tries to place policies in context, this was clear and full-throated. It matches Bernie Sanders intensity without mimicking his message, and more importantly for Clinton and her backers, it stands as an anti-Sanders argument that could actually work.
Rather than contest Sanders on policy or fealty to the Democratic mainstream, she directly addressed his worldview.
For the past month, Clinton has struggled to find a message against Sanders that doesnt alienate his backers or estrange her from the Democratic left. She tried to hit him on single-payer health insurance, calling it an attack on the Affordable Care Act. That failed. She tried to question his integrity on campaign donations. That failed. She slammed him as conservative on guns. That failed. Now, she says hes a weak ally of President Obama. Its still early, but if the pattern holds, that will fail too.
..............SNIP"-
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)Since 2008. Actually, earlier, except for that Muslim Kenyan with that evil Pastor Wright who stole it away from her before.
The idea that someone who has actively sought the presidency for a decade suddenly "found her footing" - my gosh, do you realize just how inept that makes her out to be?
SHRED
(28,136 posts)If she's saying this as a backhanded way to insinuate that Bernie is then it just makes her look petty.
Bad move. Her political advisors dropped the ball here.
tokenlib
(4,186 posts)...she is using words and phrases that she doesn't believe. And it shows..
Fearless
(18,421 posts)AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)It's not working plus it's throwing Obama under the bus.
Punkingal
(9,522 posts)That's what I heard. Nothing against POTUS....it's just that she ain't him, IMO.
earthside
(6,960 posts)... because after reading it, I certainly couldn't figure where Mrs. Clinton had found her footing.
I think we have to overcome and break down the barriers that are holding people back ..."
That's it?
Still no leadership or governing principles, no overarching philosophy, no grand goals to aspire to, no great inspirational message.
Hillary Clinton wants to be president because she wants to be president.
After all this time if she can't 'find her footing' or has not be able to come up with a concise and clearly definable theme -- then she isn't ready to lead this nation.
It is just that simple.
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)riversedge
(70,299 posts)Hillary for SC Retweeted
Hillary Clinton ?@HillaryClinton 21h21 hours ago
"I am not a single-issue candidate and I do not believe we live in a single-issue country." #DemDebate
riversedge
(70,299 posts)Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)Especially since she launched another smear attack that collapsed like a garage sale card table.