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Related: About this forumBubba's Toxic Economic Legacy: What Hillary Doesn't want you to remember
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/bubbas-toxic-economic-legacy-when-hillary-brags-about-first-clinton-presidency-legacyBubba's Toxic Economic Legacy: When Hillary Brags About the First Clinton Presidency Legacy, She Doesn't Want You to Remember This
Hillary Clinton recently stated that her husband would be a key player on economic policy. That's not good news.
Over the past several months, Hillary Clinton has been somewhat hesitant to bring up her husbands legacy as president, which, for many progressives, is a vexing reminder of how the Democratic Party embraced neoliberal policies towards the end of the 20th century, under the leadership of the the triangulating Bill Clinton. Faced with the insurgent campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders, Clinton has tried to hype her progressive bona fides, which has meant avoiding some of Bills more despicable policies from the 1994 crime bill and expansion of the war on drugs, to welfare reform and the Defense of Marriage Act. Almost two decades removed from the Clinton administration, there is a lot to find distasteful, and Hillary clearly wants to avoid discussing the worst of her husbands presidency (which, like or not, she played a major role in).
There has been one area, however, where Hillary has been quick to conjure up her husbands legacy: the economy. On Sunday, she even said that she would put Bill in charge of revitalizing the economy as president.
This isnt the first time Hillary has bragged about Bills booming economy, and her desire to emulate it. Take this statement from January, for example:
Im going to have the very best advisers that I can possibly have, and when it comes to the economy and what was accomplished under my husbands leadership in the 90sespecially when it came to raising incomes for everybody and lifting more people out of poverty than at any time in recent historyyou bet.
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Bubba's Toxic Economic Legacy: What Hillary Doesn't want you to remember (Original Post)
Ferd Berfel
May 2016
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Lecherous Willy's toxic trade policies deeply hurt millions of Americans in the 1990s...
NewImproved Deal
May 2016
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NewImproved Deal
(534 posts)1. Lecherous Willy's toxic trade policies deeply hurt millions of Americans in the 1990s...
Nothing to get nostalgic for, Imelda.
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Ferd Berfel
(3,687 posts)2. yep!