Imagine if he had not just his Twitter account at his disposal when he’s angry, but America’s entire arsenal.
Hillary Clinton has found her voice with a major speech on foreign policy in San Diego. The speech is substantive, going through key issues one by one and quoting Donald Trump’s “ideas”, of which she says, powerfully:
Donald Trump’s ideas aren’t just different – they are dangerously incoherent. They’re not even really ideas – just a series of bizarre rants, personal feuds, and outright lies.
Time have the full transcript and here is the video:
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Not sure why so many people see Clinton as some inspiring, progressive liberal. She’s totally illiberal on industry, trade and issues of war, where you’d be hard pressed to find a more vocal hawk among the Democrats. I know I’d pick Bernie Sanders if I had a vote in the States.
@Conor
I’d pick Bernie too, but the reality is it’s going to be Clinton vs Trump. That being so, I’m not sure why many left-wing commentators are spending large amounts of time attacking Clinton and hardly any attacking Trump. Clinton may be far from perfect, but I’d trust her over Trump any day.
Those who are so pro Bernie Sanders the outsider, counter-culture candidate might care to do a little research.
Which Democrat Senator has received the highest contributions from interest groups and lobbyists this year?
Step forward one Bernie Sanders.
Having recently returned from the US and having talked to people out there, I seriously think that in Trump vs Clinton, Trump will win.
The Republican core vote will come round and turn out for him because they hate Clinton, but he also inspires certain segment of the population that feels left behind and ignored by the “Washington Establishment”. People who don’t usually vote will turn out and vote for Trump. These people will be under-represented in the polling figures.
Clinton is both hated by Republicans, and doesn’t inspire soft Democrats who will stay at home rather than vote for her or Trump.
Only Sanders can beat Trump. Watch with interest over the coming weeks as this reality sinks in with the Democrat hierachy.
I made a lousy prediction: Ted Cruz Vs Bernie Sanders for president. I think Corbyn winning changed my perceptions of what activists are like when politics becomes too binary.
Ted Cruz was a smart operator, but why I picked Bernie to defeat Hillary for the Democrat nomination was because Hillary went very hard for the young women vote and the vast majority of them started voting for Sanders. I’ve never really seen someone go hard for a core vote before and fail so badly. Luckily older Democrats have bailed her out.
I hope Hillary becomes president, but her campaign has been a bit of a disaster. Marching left chasing Bernie when people know she isn’t really a leftie. Is it still possible for Bernie to win? I hope not.
I am increasingly of the view that HRC will never be President. Her dreadful approval ratings continue to get worse and worse. The “smoking gun” email from servergate is now in the public domain and it looks very bad for her. And Trump is building his meta-truths with Whitewater, the Vince Foster case, her role in handling Bill’s alleged indiscretions etc etc.
Biden is waiting in the wings. If Warren is his running mate they can bring on board the Bernie-or-bust brigade.
I’d lay money on the inauguration of President Biden next year.
Paul Murray
“I’d lay money on the inauguration of President Biden next year.”
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Trump is the left wing candidate. Trumps economic policies are not as right wing and neo liberal as clinton’s.
Has Clinton released the full text of her Goldman Sachs speech yet ?
Some of Trump’s economic policies are clearly more progressive on jobs, trade etc, but his social policies are fundamentally illiberal. I personally doubt he believes a word of it, but many voters do and he’ll have to implement these things if he reaches the White House, whether he believes in it or not. Hillary Clinton’s better on social policy but pretty damn awful on economic policy, IMO. Truly the capitalist candidate. If the choice is between a corrupt warmongering liar and a nihilistic demagogue with an ego you can see from space, America’s well and truly screwed for the foreseeable.
E mails, emails , emails. Pressure is building, apparently the Democrats are considering an emergency ticket if it all goes pear shaped next month when the report comes out. Jo Biden and Elizabeth Warren, (worries that Sanders would only be a one term President). Must say the latter would have been my person for the job in the first place. Ironically that should be a winning ticket, only issue again both from the North East.
National Security?
Is national (or international!) security enhanced by having a Secretary of State using private emails for important business and taking them away with her afterwards? Not a sin of Trump-like proportions but still a bit of a worry.
If she was called Hilary Smith, Bernie Sanders would have wiped the floor with her already. The ‘superdelegate’ system is a form of institutionalised corruption of the American political system. Let us keep our fingers crossed for California.
@ Tony Dawson
I agree and hope that Bernie Sanders can pull off a victory on June 7th in California. I’d also agree that the Democrats’ ‘super delegates’ system is incredibly unfair but it’s something that was known from the outset I guess.
Both Clinton and Trump are weak candidates. Although, Trump for all his corrosive rhetoric is perhaps less so because he is the antithesis of Clinton in the sense that he isn’t a career politician that doesn’t have any sense of conviction.
I wonder if the Republicans will make their own process a little more skewed in order to prevent a repeat of Donald Trump in the future, or at least try to.
Perhaps Hillary can bet trump, I’m not sure. But Bernie could wipe the floor with him. Democrats look likely to pick the one and only candidate who is not all but certain to beat trump. Maybe they don’t want to win.
I am a typical Liberal melange of idealist and realist , but on what do colleagues above base the certainty Sanders can pull off what H Clinton cannot ?!
She already has a Republicans for Hillary active for her instead of Trump.Many ,like Mitt Romney, amongst the voters , loath Trump, and some can stomach Hillary Clinton , even plus her weaknesses, she can pull those voters . Sanders , never !
Come the election every voter not keen on her because they are to the left of her shall go out in force on her behalf.Workers active in the Democrats amongst union vote. Hispanics en masse, after Trumps rhetoric. African Americans , keen on both Clintons , Harry Belafonte to this day prefers Clinton , ie Bill , even to Obama , and amongst staunch voters in the African American electorate , Bill is known as the first black president ! Similarly , LGBT, and younger voters , even if they are not enthusiastic , shall rally round .
And the reason is a general election is about focus and fear. If she implodes due to the legalities of this inquiry , yes to the truly wonderful VP we now have , for president, the best of the lot of them , for sure ! and with Senator Warren , brilliant .If Hillary is merely criticised and is the indictment free candidate , she can win.
Do not underestimate her or the USA, it loathes extremes even as it seems not to !
I don’t get the support for Hillary Clinton. She is hawkish to the point of flat out war mongering, opportunistic on issues like gay marriage and more than a little economical with the actuality in the honesty spectrum.
I’ve got to admit that if I was American and had to choose between HC and DT I’m not sure I could bring myself to vote at all.
For many years I have liked and admired Scott Adams, creator of the “Dilbert” cartoon strip.
Back in the 1990’s when I lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area, Adams came to a tech company posing as a management guru and got the senior management to construct a “mission statement” that – as Adams planned all along – ultimately was a series of vacuous corporate neologisms that meant absolutely nothing. This incident quickly acquired legendary status among the DIlbert-loving techies who congregated in the brew-pubs of Palo Alto and Mountain View.
Adams explains in the Washington Post why he is convinced that Trump is going to win the election. The arguments he makes strike me as profound and insightful. It is also amusing to apply Adams’ 6 bullet points to the behaviour of both sides in the EU referendum debate.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/03/21/donald-trump-will-win-in-a-landslide-the-mind-behind-dilbert-explains-why/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Kaine
The Democratic Party “platform” (manifesto) is “just fine” with Republican criticisms according to “liberal DemocratS voice”.
“The platform condemns Trump’s statements signaling his willingness to allow the military to conduct enhanced interrogations of detainees that amount to torture.”
Sideline question, what will President Clinton ask her husband to do?
How about Ambassador to the UK? (a post previously held by John F Kennedy’s father).
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=fleetwood+mac+tomorrow&view=detail&mid=6E7B03BEEA04421C28486E7B03BEEA04421C2848&FORM=VIRE
http://www.songlyrics.com/fleetwood-mac/don-t-stop-thinking-about-tomorrow-lyrics/