The way Clinton treated Obama in 2008 was a disgrace

[DirkGently]

47. The truth is that she ran to Obama's right and remains there.

I guess you could cherry pick a sub-issue somewhere, which is fine, but that doesn't change the "truth" of her overall position in the Democratic Party or the country. And she certainly isn't to the Democratic left on health care, arguing that single-payer is not even worth trying for.

Hillary is to the far right of the Democratic Party -- hawkish, unenthusiastic about financial or banking reform, and among the last to call for marriage equality, to oppose Keystone or question the TPP.

And there's nothing wrong with being a conservative Dem. That's where the Clintons made their bread and butter in the 90s, and where the Third Way movement they were part of defined itself.

The problem is that Hillary's trying run on the idea that she's part of the progressive policies Dems liked about the Obama administration, when her record and even her talking points show she's right about where she was in 2008 -- readily persuaded to wars in the Middle East and convinced Wall Street can pretty much police itself.

We're back where we were in '08, with Hillary arguing that the progressive candidate is engaging in wishful thinking and her conservatism is more pragmatic. But she knows that the bulk of the party doesn't want to swing back to the right, so she's trying to portray herself as "more Obama" than Sanders, which is pretty specious given she dismissed Obama on exactly the same grounds she's now trying to dismiss Sanders.