There has been a lot of commentary on her hugging the President so tight 'he could hardly breath.'
Not surprisingly many Hilary hating pundits suggest this is hypocritical-this is an old meme. The Clintons are never sincere about anything, allegedly.
They point to what he said about Obama then as compared to now. Right, she was less complimentary to him when she was running against him for the same job. That is shocking. Surely you'd expect her to say the same thing about him now that she served as his Secretary State for four years as then.
When has anyone ever praised their primary opponent? But Hillary should have, I guess.
But, yes, she did hug the President tightly, and don't kid yourself, he appreciated it. It's what she should do and he is happy for her to do it.
This is for his legacy as well. He needs her to grab the baton from him. Hillary's 2016 candidacy most resembles the Gore candidacy of 2000.
In both cases you had a two term Democratic President who was popular with his base and under who the economy had grown strongly.
Gore like Hillary this year had tremendous, virtually unanimous party establishment support, and like her this time around, he had a populist firebrand challenger in Bill Bradley. Both had so much support it was almost as if they were an incumbent President.
What Gore ended up doing was letting Bradley push him to the Left. Much more than Hillary has let Bernie do. Gore also acted sanctimonious about Clinton's scandals, etc. He kept a very popular President at arm's length.
"An artifact from the 2000 campaign, days before the election: the New York Times reports that President Bill Clinton, now a lonely figure, has been shut out by his hand-picked successor, Al Gore. “He doesn’t call, and President Clinton doesn’t know why.” The President worries that the Vice-President has been captured by his advisers, Robert Shrum and Carter Eskew, who have led him to embrace a directly populist message that runs in contradiction to the accomplishments they shared. Clinton believes that the advisers have “coached all the fight out of him.” Gore did not set foot in the White House during the whole summer when George W. Bush surged. The Gore campaign tried to get the White House not to release photos of the two men standing together. The choice was strategic. The Vice-President’s press secretary said, “This is something Gore is going to do on his own.”
"A couple of months earlier, as his term as President was ending but one of history’s great economies was still booming, Clinton had made a monarch’s entrance at the Democratic convention in Los Angeles. As he walked toward the stage, through the tunnels of the Staples Center, the cameras tracked him, broadcasting his image around the world: proud and energetic, a basically optimistic man who believed that he had delivered, as he put it, “this moment of unprecedented good fortune.” The enthusiasm that greeted him was more deeply felt than what greeted Gore and Joe Lieberman, the less inspiring nominees. Perhaps Hillary Clinton has noticed the parallels between that moment and this one. It seems, at least, like she has absorbed the insight that her husband would impart to the Times two months later: if you’re campaigning to replace a popular President of a country in a strong position, don’t run against him. Don’t mess it up."
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/hillary-clintons-new-progressive-alignment?intcid=mod-latest
She is doing the right thing in framing her campaign as preserving, consolidating, and building on the President's successful agenda.
Obama has been spoken of by many liberals and Democrats as a historic and transformational President. If so, then presumably they'd like to see the President's legacy upheld and expanded on rather than torn down so Bernie can reinvent the wheel. '
If you believe Obama's years are successful then you want Hillary Clinton not Bernie Sanders.
Joy Reid made the point last night on MSNBC at 6 pm-Steven Kornacke was the host-that the same white liberals supporting Bernie were the same ones in 2011 talking about primarying President Obama.
Hillary is smart for hugging Obama. Much smarter than Bernie who is hugging Cornell West. Bernie had a big crowd in Birmingham last night, it's true. But the best I could see it was a very white crowd. Clearly Cornell West is doing his job.
Not surprisingly many Hilary hating pundits suggest this is hypocritical-this is an old meme. The Clintons are never sincere about anything, allegedly.
They point to what he said about Obama then as compared to now. Right, she was less complimentary to him when she was running against him for the same job. That is shocking. Surely you'd expect her to say the same thing about him now that she served as his Secretary State for four years as then.
When has anyone ever praised their primary opponent? But Hillary should have, I guess.
But, yes, she did hug the President tightly, and don't kid yourself, he appreciated it. It's what she should do and he is happy for her to do it.
This is for his legacy as well. He needs her to grab the baton from him. Hillary's 2016 candidacy most resembles the Gore candidacy of 2000.
In both cases you had a two term Democratic President who was popular with his base and under who the economy had grown strongly.
Gore like Hillary this year had tremendous, virtually unanimous party establishment support, and like her this time around, he had a populist firebrand challenger in Bill Bradley. Both had so much support it was almost as if they were an incumbent President.
What Gore ended up doing was letting Bradley push him to the Left. Much more than Hillary has let Bernie do. Gore also acted sanctimonious about Clinton's scandals, etc. He kept a very popular President at arm's length.
"An artifact from the 2000 campaign, days before the election: the New York Times reports that President Bill Clinton, now a lonely figure, has been shut out by his hand-picked successor, Al Gore. “He doesn’t call, and President Clinton doesn’t know why.” The President worries that the Vice-President has been captured by his advisers, Robert Shrum and Carter Eskew, who have led him to embrace a directly populist message that runs in contradiction to the accomplishments they shared. Clinton believes that the advisers have “coached all the fight out of him.” Gore did not set foot in the White House during the whole summer when George W. Bush surged. The Gore campaign tried to get the White House not to release photos of the two men standing together. The choice was strategic. The Vice-President’s press secretary said, “This is something Gore is going to do on his own.”
"A couple of months earlier, as his term as President was ending but one of history’s great economies was still booming, Clinton had made a monarch’s entrance at the Democratic convention in Los Angeles. As he walked toward the stage, through the tunnels of the Staples Center, the cameras tracked him, broadcasting his image around the world: proud and energetic, a basically optimistic man who believed that he had delivered, as he put it, “this moment of unprecedented good fortune.” The enthusiasm that greeted him was more deeply felt than what greeted Gore and Joe Lieberman, the less inspiring nominees. Perhaps Hillary Clinton has noticed the parallels between that moment and this one. It seems, at least, like she has absorbed the insight that her husband would impart to the Times two months later: if you’re campaigning to replace a popular President of a country in a strong position, don’t run against him. Don’t mess it up."
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/hillary-clintons-new-progressive-alignment?intcid=mod-latest
She is doing the right thing in framing her campaign as preserving, consolidating, and building on the President's successful agenda.
Obama has been spoken of by many liberals and Democrats as a historic and transformational President. If so, then presumably they'd like to see the President's legacy upheld and expanded on rather than torn down so Bernie can reinvent the wheel. '
If you believe Obama's years are successful then you want Hillary Clinton not Bernie Sanders.
Joy Reid made the point last night on MSNBC at 6 pm-Steven Kornacke was the host-that the same white liberals supporting Bernie were the same ones in 2011 talking about primarying President Obama.
Hillary is smart for hugging Obama. Much smarter than Bernie who is hugging Cornell West. Bernie had a big crowd in Birmingham last night, it's true. But the best I could see it was a very white crowd. Clearly Cornell West is doing his job.
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