Bill Clinton Would Be in Charge of 'Revitalizing the Economy' Hillary Clinton Says, Ft. Mitchell KY
'Bill Clinton Would Be in Charge of 'Revitalizing the Economy' Hillary Clinton Says, Fort Mitchell, KY, ABC, May 15, 2016.
Hillary Clinton has always made known that she wants Bill Clinton to have some kind of role in the White House should she become president, but over the past few weeks she's begun to reveal more about what exactly that would be.
During a campaign event in Fort Mitchell today, the Democratic presidential candidate was more blunt than ever about what her husband's role could be in a future Clinton administration — saying she plans to put the former president "in charge of economic revitalization."
"My husband, who I'm going to put in charge of revitalizing the economy, cause you know he knows how to do it," Clinton told the crowd at an outdoor organizing rally. "And especially in places like coal country and inner cities and other parts of our country that have really been left out."
Clinton made similar remarks earlier this month during her first visit to Kentucky, a state where Bill Clinton remains popular among the largely white, working class voters.
"I've told my husband he's got to come out of retirement and be in charge of this because you know he’s got more ideas a minute than anybody I know," she said, while talking about manufacturing and jobs.
Over the course of the campaign, Clinton has repeatedly said she would seek her husband's advice if she takes office.
Last month on ABC's "The View," she had this to say when asked about how she sees his role: "I think he'll, I hope he'll have a lot of involvement in starting the economy to really take off."
And last year, in an interview on MSNBC, she said this: "He's a great adviser and he knows as much about the economy and job creation as anyone I could talk to."
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May 15, Truthout, - Thomas Frank: Bill Clinton's Five Major Accomplishments Were Longstanding GOP Objectives.-
Thomas Frank, author of Listen, Liberal, discusses the Hillary Doctrine's basis in neoliberalism, how the Democratic Party stopped governing on behalf of the working class and how President Bill Clinton's major achievements actually enacted conservative goals, and ultimately hurt working people.
Mark Karlin: The innovation class, the creative class, the wealthy class, the professional class with Ivy League degrees: How did President Obama become the avatar for believing these groups should be the decision makers in government?
Thomas Frank: Obama thinks such people should be in charge because they came up through the same system as him. "Because he himself was a product of the great American postwar meritocracy," his biographer Jonathan Alter writes, "he could never fully escape seeing the world from the status ladder he had ascended."
Most of our other Democratic leaders (the Clintons, for example) came up the same way and believe the same thing. Indeed, what Alter describes is standard-issue stuff for Democrats these days. The Democrats are a class party in the fullest sense of the phrase, and the class whose perspective they reflect and whose interests they serve is the highly educated, white-collar professional class. Theirs is a liberalism of the rich.
Can you describe a little about what you call "The Hillary Doctrine," including how microlending is a good example of her belief in opening doors of entrepreneurship to solve the world's economic problems?
..You can see the appeal of this movement: It's telling you that the solution to poverty is not unions or government or anything like that, but for everyone to work hard and start their own businesses -- and, incidentally, to extend the reach of Western financial institutions to every village on the planet. A pure win-win. Everyone feels good. Everyone feels virtuous.
Except for the people who live in those countries, of course, because they know it doesn't work. You don't build a country's economy by having everyone buy a goat and sell milk to one another. All these people have to show for this strategy is debt. Some empowerment.
I was captivated by your description of Hillary Clinton being surrounded by a "microclimate of virtue." Can you describe what you mean by that and how it was represented in your section, "No Ceilings," that included Melinda Gates and a panel to show how much women in power "cared" for poor women? I love your sardonic description, "the presenters called out to one another in tones of gracious supportiveness and flattery so sweet it bordered on idolatry."
More, http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/36035-thomas-frank-bill-clinton-s-five-major-achievements-were-longstanding-gop-objectives
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511967219
The GOP certainly dont want to get the blame when things go sour after their policies begin impacting the country.
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Response to appalachiablue (Original post)
Riding a dot com bubble isn't a resume enhancer.
Bill was in charge of ridding our economy of millions of good-paying factory jobs and she wants to put him in charge of the economy.
with Bonnie, you get Clyde; and with Hillary you get Bubba...
WHO are you voting for? Bill or Hillary?
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Does this make sense? She can't manage Economic Revitalization on her own? What is she going to spend her time doing?
while Bill does his Third Term? 
I thought Hillary said ...way back when...when they ran for First Term that she wasn't going to be one of those women who "Stand By Their Man...and Bake Cookies?"
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Why is she running against this?
For the first time this election season, I heard someone on MSNBC discuss Bill Clinton and the Epstein character (plane known as the "Lolita Express"
. This could get really bad really fast.
