Hillary Clinton closes with populist fire in Iowa

[riversedge]

Source: The Des Moines Register





Hillary Clinton closes with populist fire in Iowa
Heidi M Przybyla, USA TODAY 7:36 p.m. CST January 31, 2016


Clinton meets with local residents at the Jones St. Java House on April 14, 2015, in LeClaire, Iowa. Charlie Neibergall, AP
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COUNCIL BLUFFS, Ia. ...........................................

In school gyms, college campuses and other venues, the former secretary of state is trying to persuade Democrats she is the heir to President Obama’s legacy and a scrappy fighter who shares their outrage over the struggles of the middle class and the poor.

The balance Clinton wants to strike between pragmatism — she says, unlike Sanders, she can get things done in Washington because she wants to build on Obama’s programs — and her populist message was on display at one of her final campaign stops in Council Bluffs. After praising Obama’s record, Clinton said she’s the candidate most capable of achieving change.

“I don’t want to over-promise and under-deliver,” said Clinton, without mentioning Sanders by name. “I’d rather under-promise and over-deliver.”

Then she pivoted to a list of national priorities, including improving early childhood education, infrastructure and manufacturing jobs. ........................


Read more: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2016/01/31/hillary-clinton-goes-populist-fire-closing-argument-iowa/79615966/

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[azurnoir]

1. oh is she promising to undo the damage done mainly to poor women and children while she was FLOTUS?

[dmosh42]

2. Bought and paid for by Goldman Sachs surely!

[Helen Borg]

3. I don't feel it!

[murielm99]

4. K&R!

Thank you for posting.

Hillary will be our next President, and she will get things done.

[riversedge]

15. Well #ImWithHer and so is The Force

Good buddies.

[elias49]

24. That woman would pull out a light saber if she thought it would garner a vote.

The pandering...it berns.

[Carolina]

29. excellent post

[pandr32]

5. She is tireless

Good thing, because we have months to go.
What a great president she will be!

[riversedge]

7. yes....

For you to pass around if you want....

[Android3.14]

6. If only she voted with populist fire

[1StrongBlackMan]

28. Well ... When she was in the position to vote with "populist fire, she did.

[Carolina]

30. Yeah, I love how

candidate weathervane, the corporatist war hawk, became such a populist after seeing and feeling the response to Bernie.

[Ana Hauhet]

8. I am with her!

thank you

[Gregorian]

9. I hope she's happy. She's going to create a toxic country if she wins.

[SammyWinstonJack]

16. I doubt she cares. Unchecked ego.

[Divernan]

10. "Local residents" my ass - staged photo op all the way, baby!

"Clinton staffers drove 'ordinary Americans' to photo op."

In the OP's posed, stage picture of her in cafe - the young man on her right was identified as the president of Columbia College Young Democrats, driven to cafe by Clinton campaign staffer, Troy Price.
https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=Hillary+cafe+president+college+young+Democrats+staff&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-002

Hillary Clinton’s astroturf candidacy is in full swing in Iowa.

Her Tuesday morning visit to a coffee shop in LeClaire, Iowa was staged from beginning to end, according to Austin Bird, one of the men pictured sitting at the table with Mrs. Clinton.

Bird told Daily Mail Online that campaign staffer Troy Price called and asked him and two other young people to meet him Tuesday morning at a restaurant in Davenport, a nearby city.

Price then drove them to the coffee house to meet Clinton after vetting them for about a half-hour.


Bird himself is a frequent participant in Iowa Democratic Party events. He interned with President Obama’s 2012 presidential re-election campaign, and was tapped to chauffeur Vice President Joe Biden in October 2014 when he visited Davenport.

It’s unclear how many Iowans featured in photographs with Clinton that rocketed around the country on Tuesday were planted.

http://legalinsurrection.com/2015/04/hillary-staged-iowa-coffee-shop-talk-what-about-chipotle/

[frylock]

12. Phony campaign. Phony candidate.

[Bernin]

18. +1000

nail meet hammer.

[blackspade]

11. That counts as populist fire?

What a bullshit headline.

[frylock]

13. Retreating Clinton Campaign Torches Iowa Town To Slow Advance Of Sanders Volunteers

HUMBOLDT, IA—After making sure to douse every home, farm, and business located in the municipality with gasoline, retreating Clinton campaign staffers reportedly set the central Iowa town of Humboldt ablaze Friday to stem the advance of Bernie Sanders volunteers. “Once we received word the Sanders campaign had begun canvassing in nearby Fort Dodge, we only had a matter of hours to burn everything to the ground,” said communications director Jennifer Palmieri, who tossed a lit torch through the window of the town’s hardware store before rushing over to help a group of Hillary for America workers erect a roadblock made of dead livestock to prevent all entrance to and exit from the city. “With so little time left before voting day, we simply can’t allow them to establish a foothold in this part of the state. Besides, you can’t convince anyone to caucus for Bernie Sanders if the civilian population is gone and all that’s left is smoldering rubble.” At press time, Clinton campaign staffers were spotted rigging a nearby bridge with C-4 as they hastily retreated to Algona.

http://www.theonion.com/article/retreating-clinton-campaign-torches-iowa-town-slow-52261

[riversedge]

14. The Onion has a good sense of humor.

[NurseJackie]

17. These are wonderful photos!! Great article too!

HER!

[Bernin]

19. Too bad

it's all scripted and fake...

[LiberalLovinLug]

20. Yet not one photo of her drawing massive crowds like her challenger

Does this even happen with her or has she studied W Bush's strategy of smaller vetted partisan crowds and tight camera angles?

[Bernin]

21. You forgot

to add roping off reporters.

[riversedge]

23. Your post does indeed illustrate it is the silly season

[fbc]

22. And now she's a populist!

A person that stands for nothing can be anything you want them to be.

[riversedge]

25. Yes, she is a populist. Now you know. Good for you.

[Carolina]

31. yep, candidate weathervane

is heeding the populist winds backing Bernie. Not to worry, her true corporatist self won't stay hidden for long

[guillaumeb]

26. What an amazing piece! I am convinced.

When HRC said:

The balance Clinton wants to strike between pragmatism — she says, unlike Sanders, she can get things done in Washington because she wants to build on Obama’s programs — and her populist message was on display at one of her final campaign stops in Council Bluffs. After praising Obama’s record, Clinton said she’s the candidate most capable of achieving change.

Obviously the first, possibly unanswerable, question is: How does she accomplish more than Sanders with a possible GOP House?

Sanders has been talking this populist message for many years. Years that HRC spent speaking to corporate....clients.......? Future employers? ...............Future employers for her daughter?

Still not convinced. Sorry.

[democrank]

27. Today she called herself a "progressive"

What "progressive" would have voted for the Iraq War or hugged Henry Kissinger?

[taught_me_patience]

32. Replies to this thread are nauseating

BS supporters like to crap on everything. Compare to this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511111020

which Hillary supporters stayed out of instead of crapping all over it.

[tabasco]

33. I'd prefer populist deeds. n/t