Plutocrat Or Populist? Actually, Hillary Clinton Is Neither. RW rag tagged her as both.
As America’s biggest political target – a status she is likely to enjoy for the foreseeable future – Hillary Rodham Clinton takes incoming fire of every caliber from all directions. One day her words are ripped from context to depict her as a plutocratic elitist; on another day, she is quoted, selectively, to prove that she is a raving populist. And on still another day last week, when she was campaigning in North Carolina for Senator Kay Hagan, a right-wing rag tarred her as a “plutocratic populist.”
Her partisan critics never worry about such ludicrous contradiction, so long as they can keep pumping out the cheap shots. Having endured the same tactics in the White House, the Senate, and the State Department, in campaigns and in daily life, she must find it all boringly familiar by now.
Now, as she speaks out on economic issues during the midterm campaign, she is portrayed as “copying” the “populist, anti-corporate rhetoric” of Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), courageous scourge of crooked bankers and financial fraudsters.
But the truth about Hillary’s economic outlook is both simpler and more complex. The simple part is that for her entire public career, Clinton has been a consistent advocate for working families and the middle class — notably on issues like the minimum wage, which she fought to raise as a senator. She sponsored legislation not only to raise the wage, repeatedly, but demanded a ban on congressional and executive pay increases until workers’ wages went up first.
http://www.nationalmemo.com/plutocrat-populist-actually-hillary-clinton-neither/
She's not my favorite candidate but I do like how the right hates her so much. On the left, I suspect that both her supporters and critics tend to oversimplify her strengths and weaknesses.
