How can anyone dismiss her after enduring that level of an inquisition intact? Who really thinks they are going to get the better of her in a debate? Certainly not the low energy Jeb who by the way is in a major downsizing of his campaign right now.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/23/us-usa-election-bush-idUSKCN0SH1VZ20151023
The contrast between her and her interrogators in the Benghazi Committee couldn't be more stark.
http://www.dailynewsbin.com/opinion/hillary-clinton-sounds-presidential-today-republican-benghazi-committee-sounds-screwed/22889/
I don't necessarily think it's coincidental that Lincoln Chafee is picking today to end his campaign-for those who knew it had begun.
http://theslot.jezebel.com/lincoln-chafee-drops-out-of-presidential-race-announce-1738243258
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/lincoln-chafee-drops-out-president
After all, he had talked about Hillary's emails. After Bernie rightly said we're tired of the damned emails, Chafee had argued that he wasn't and Hillary had chosen not to answer him. No.
I suspect he saw her home run testimony yesterday as the final no. Meanwhile Josh Marshall has a very interesting piece about the political effects of her testimony that suggests that even some Bernie supporters may have started to consider her after her testimony yesterday:
"I Think We'll See More of This"
"TPM Reader BA checked in mid-day about the events on Capitol Hill ..."
"Re: "It helps her", I think I would add that it's hard for me to imagine any of the Democrats running against Hillary pulling this off as well."
"As an active Democrat who has remained, thus far, undecided, her performance here and at the debate have gone a long way toward convincing me to support Clinton instead of Sanders; even though, politically, my ideals line up more closely with Sanders' democratic socialism than Clinton's quasi-third way centrism."
"If a Democrat wins the 2016 election, her or his main job as I see it will be defending the achievements of the Obama administration, which will surely be under even more sustained attack once he leaves office. Any major expansion to that legacy will need to be incremental given a hostile, partisan Congress that, at least in the House, is pretty much "locked in" by gerrymandering until the next redistricting cycle."
"In that light, I'm increasingly leaning toward Hillary, not so much based on what she believes but on her competence, both as a public official and as a politician who knows how to punch back."\
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/i-think-we-ll-see-more-of-this
I appreciate that because I think BA exactly makes the case for HRC. To actually expand on Obama's legacy will be about incremental change.
I wouldn't say that Bernie isn't competent. But could he have done what she did yesterday? It's clear no other Democrat running could as BA says. She is simply the woman for the job and yesterday is crystallizing this for many.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/23/us-usa-election-bush-idUSKCN0SH1VZ20151023
The contrast between her and her interrogators in the Benghazi Committee couldn't be more stark.
http://www.dailynewsbin.com/opinion/hillary-clinton-sounds-presidential-today-republican-benghazi-committee-sounds-screwed/22889/
I don't necessarily think it's coincidental that Lincoln Chafee is picking today to end his campaign-for those who knew it had begun.
http://theslot.jezebel.com/lincoln-chafee-drops-out-of-presidential-race-announce-1738243258
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/lincoln-chafee-drops-out-president
After all, he had talked about Hillary's emails. After Bernie rightly said we're tired of the damned emails, Chafee had argued that he wasn't and Hillary had chosen not to answer him. No.
I suspect he saw her home run testimony yesterday as the final no. Meanwhile Josh Marshall has a very interesting piece about the political effects of her testimony that suggests that even some Bernie supporters may have started to consider her after her testimony yesterday:
"I Think We'll See More of This"
"TPM Reader BA checked in mid-day about the events on Capitol Hill ..."
"Re: "It helps her", I think I would add that it's hard for me to imagine any of the Democrats running against Hillary pulling this off as well."
"As an active Democrat who has remained, thus far, undecided, her performance here and at the debate have gone a long way toward convincing me to support Clinton instead of Sanders; even though, politically, my ideals line up more closely with Sanders' democratic socialism than Clinton's quasi-third way centrism."
"If a Democrat wins the 2016 election, her or his main job as I see it will be defending the achievements of the Obama administration, which will surely be under even more sustained attack once he leaves office. Any major expansion to that legacy will need to be incremental given a hostile, partisan Congress that, at least in the House, is pretty much "locked in" by gerrymandering until the next redistricting cycle."
"In that light, I'm increasingly leaning toward Hillary, not so much based on what she believes but on her competence, both as a public official and as a politician who knows how to punch back."\
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/i-think-we-ll-see-more-of-this
I appreciate that because I think BA exactly makes the case for HRC. To actually expand on Obama's legacy will be about incremental change.
I wouldn't say that Bernie isn't competent. But could he have done what she did yesterday? It's clear no other Democrat running could as BA says. She is simply the woman for the job and yesterday is crystallizing this for many.
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