To win progressives, Hillary has to dump Bill

[cali]

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But if Mrs. Clinton plans to continue touting her progressive bona fides, she must account for her husband’s political legacy — which was far from progressive — and then distance herself from it. Otherwise, she may continue to struggle beating Bernie Sanders in other Democratic primaries and — assuming she’s the nominee — getting her base out to vote in November.

Her first concern should be that the percentage of Democrats who identify as liberal or progressive has been rising. According to a Gallup poll taken last year, nearly half of them do. Hillary Clinton — a candidate who has been cozy with Wall Street and has hawkish tendencies — needs them. She can’t afford to look like a half-hearted, or worse, opportunistic progressive.

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Hillary's position has been anything but consistent. At times, Hillary has distanced herself from her husband's North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), something she publicly favored previously. She opposed the Colombia Free Trade Agreement before she changed sides and was in favor. And now she has been on both sides of Trans-Pacific Partnership or TPP.

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speaking of Bill, he bamboozled no Democratic demographic more than black people. Michelle Alexander, author of the best-sellerThe New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, pointed this out brilliantly on her Facebook page recently: “I can't believe Hillary would be coasting into the primaries with her current margin of black support if most people knew how much damage the Clintons have done — the millions of families that were destroyed the last time they were in the White House thanks to their boastful embrace of the mass incarceration machine and their total capitulation to the right-wing narrative on race, crime, welfare and taxes.”

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/02/05/hillary-clinton-progressive-bernie-sanders-debate-msnbc-new-hampshire-column/79845012/

[djean111]

1. IMHO, it was always, and is, too late for that. n/t

[swilton]

2. Totally agree that it's too late to come up with a silk purse