How Exactly Will Hillary Be Better For Corporate America Than Obama Has Been?

[McCamy Taylor]

No generalities please. Give us specific predictions so that we can check back in 2018 and see if your fears were proven correct.

I for one do not see how she can possible be any better for corporate America than our current president has been. The health insurance industry got the law they wanted---no single payer option and everyone has to buy a(n overpriced) policy whether they want it or not. BP is still in business. No one's been held accountable for oil price fixing. And just how many banksters have done the perp walk?

Come on. Tell us how Hillary is going to widen the gap between the richest and poorest Americans that Obama has trimmed---oops. My bad. That gap just keeps growing and growing.

[MannyGoldstein]

1. The fear is that she'll be little or no better at working for the 99%

Which is a pretty horrific scenario.

[Enrique]

2. they are the same, for all intents and purposes

the animosity of the 2008 primaries was absurd, given how similar their policies were.

[William769]

3. It's known as the republican syndrome.

Just the mere mention of the Clinton name and you will get the foaming at the mouth, rabid eyes, incoherence & the list goes on but you get my gist. republicans have infected a many good Democrat's with it also. It's a infection that spreads like wildfire.

It's like Pavlov dog theory.

[cantbeserious]

4. Would That Also Be Known As The DLC Syndrome

eom

[blkmusclmachine]

5. If these people are the best we can do, the DEM Party is absolutely lost.

[YOHABLO]

6. Oh hell, the country's lost anyway .. we're never going to get a ''Bernie Sanders'' elected.

[RobertEarl]

7. She's been traveling

Making lots of global contacts. She is well prepared to get the best bang for the buck for our corporations. And she has a daughter who seems to be a 1%er, or soon to be, so there is family knowledge there of how to rise above and become super rich.

Don't you worry, Hilliary knows who butters her bread. She'll be the queen of corpotocracy!

[Egalitarian Thug]

8. Better for corporate parasites? I don't know, that's a really tough standard. She might allow

executives above Director level to slaughter 3 homeless people a week, in any manner they choose, for a small fee...

Re-authorize slavery, as long as it's not determined by race or sex?

[mattclearing]

9. Let's not find out. n/t

[Douglas Carpenter]

10. I suspect a Hillary presidency wold be a continuation of Obama policy of service to corporate power

probably no better - probably no worse - I think most of their policies including support for the surveillance state - support for the same sort of foreign policy - moderate reductions in social safety net - and more or less the same relatively enlightened social issue policies.

Of course if she does become President somewhere around 40% of Americans will still believe that the White House is being occupied by a radical un-American left-wing socialist.

[winter is coming]

11. 40% of Americans will likely believe that any Democrat (and some Republicans)

are radical un-American left-wing socialists. So we might as well go with a left-winger.

[Douglas Carpenter]

13. I remember them saying that about McGovern more than 40 years ago - of course McGovern was no

radical un-American left-wing socialists either - but at least he was New Deal Democrat who wanted to reduce military spending and eradicate poverty. Now for the last 40 years the Democrats keep moving farther and farther to the right - seemingly thinking that at some point no one can accuse them of being radical un-American left-wing socialists - but the right-wing keeps saying it and somewhere around 40% or more of the American population keep believing it - Contrast that with Barry Goldwater who ran in 1964 and was denounced by most mainstream Republicans as an extremist right-wing nut - but by the end of his career - poor old Barry Goldwater was drummed out of the conservative movement because he was considered too liberal. The conservative movement stood its ground and kept pushing the envelope of the right as far as they could. The liberal movement have continually tried to appease the right-wing and now that what was once considered conservative is now considered liberal and what was once considered liberal is only far fringe left. What if the liberal movement had stood its ground and stood for principles rather than never ending attempts to get the right-wing to stop calling them names.

[bhikkhu]

12. I think Hillary would do a great job

as did her husband. And I don't really get all the negativity (assuming the OP is responding to Obama-hating Hillary-haters). I vote party line because the Democratic party has the best social platform and goals, and the most competent economic goals. We need both.

I appreciate the difficult line Obama has walked, and if Hillary has to walk the same line, I expect the same stable economic growth, and the same criticisms.