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Must Read: "THE FUTURE OF AMERICA IS BEING WRITTEN IN THIS TINY OFFICE"
http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/hillary-clinton-policy-agenda/SEPTEMBER 21, 2016
THE FUTURE OF AMERICA IS BEING WRITTEN IN THIS TINY OFFICE
Its time to get interested in what Hillarys policy team is up to.
"One of Jake Sullivans favorite stories about Clinton comes from August 2011, when she was still at the State Department.
The recession was over but employment was sluggish, and Obama had asked his Cabinet secretaries to pass along ideas they might have for boosting job creation. Most sent short notes. Clinton submitted a 12-page single-spaced memo,[3] complete with references. (Classic Hillary, was one reaction from within the White House.)
To map out her 2016 agenda, Clinton created a process akin to a college seminar, complete with required reading. She hauled around issue binders and cross-examined the experts who rotated through Brooklyn to brief her."
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"In Sanders, Clinton drew an opponent whose ideas were even more grandiose than hers. Pretty much anything that Clinton wanted to do, Sanders also wanted to do, but on a bigger scale.
Then, after Clinton clinched the nomination, policy dropped out of the conversation almost completely.
She's got people that sit in cubicles writing policy all day, Trump told a reporter. It's just a waste of paper. In early September, the Washington Post reported that Trumps policy advisers had quit en masse because not only had the campaign failed to pay them, but he had also made it clear he wouldnt be requiring their services to prepare for the presidential debates."...
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"..More than one person pointed out that her policy views are often incorrectly assumed to be identical to her husbands. Hillary is not Bill, Bernstein says. I dont think she has ever been where he is on trade. He adds: I remember talking to her in the 1990s. She recognized that these trade agreements are often just handshakes between investors. I dont think her husband would have said that.
One longtime Clinton aide told me, The idea that she's some kind of conservative and not progressive is ridiculous.
Lengthy excellent read. What it tells us about the Job of being President of the USA is that Donald Trump is way out of his league.
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Must Read: "THE FUTURE OF AMERICA IS BEING WRITTEN IN THIS TINY OFFICE" (Original Post)
misterhighwasted
Sep 2016
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underpants
(182,627 posts)1. I love behind the scenes stuff
Thanks
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)2. Me too. I appreciate the listing of Hillary's "Seven Pillars"..
Meanwhile, TV News ....
There's an obvious reason why her message, her Platform has been censored from day one.
No one could compete with her bright mind.
They had to pull her down and shut her up just to level the playing field for an opponant.
She will be a Great American Madam President.