Maybe Senator Boxer was wrong: "Hillary Clinton’s ‘Progressive’ Persona"
Progressive EVERY day? Maybe not.
https://consortiumnews.com/2016/02/04/hillary-clintons-progressive-persona/
Hillary Clinton’s ‘Progressive’ Persona
February 4, 2016
By Jeff Cohen
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A quick review of Hillary Clinton’s record shows that much of what she gets done is anti-progressive (not unlike President Clinton in the 1990s).
PROMOTING FRACKING WORLDWIDE IS NOT PROGRESSIVE: On behalf of Chevron and other US oil companies, Secretary of State Clinton and the State Department pushed fracking globally, as Mother Jones has documented: “How Hillary Clinton’s State Department Sold Fracking to the World.”
BOOSTING CORPORATIST TRADE DEALS IS NOT PROGRESSIVE: Secretary Clinton repeatedly praised the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) – as it was being negotiated by the US Trade Representative and her State Department – and she recruited countries into the deal. In October, with Bernie Sanders climbing in the polls, Clinton said she no longer supported the pact, and lied about her earlier boosterism.
ENABLING MILITARY COUPS IS NOT PROGRESSIVE: When she headed the State Department, it enabled a military coup in Honduras that overthrew democratically-elected President Manuel Zelaya, a progressive. Clinton was briefed on the dishonesty that allowed aid to illegally reach the coup government.
POCKETING MILLIONS FROM CORPORATE LECTURE FEES IS NOT PROGRESSIVE: When Wall Street, Big Pharma and other corporate interests paid a soon-to-be presidential candidate an average of $230,000 for a speech, did Hillary Clinton think it was for her brilliant stand-up comedy? Or was it more akin to political bribery? Clinton says these firms just wanted to hear the views of a former Secretary of State on our “complicated world” – or about the Bin Laden raid.
But Politico reported in 2013 soon after one of her three speeches to Goldman Sachs: “Clinton offered a message that the collected plutocrats found reassuring, according to accounts offered by several attendees, declaring that the banker-bashing so popular within both political parties was unproductive and indeed foolish.” (Releasing the speech transcripts would help settle the matter.)
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