The media has it in for Hillary.
For 25 years they have been relentless in their hope to destroy her. So they even frame the President's speech last night as a zing against Hillary.
"Just at the moment when Hillary Clinton started tearing into Bernie Sanders' warning that there’s no “magic wand” to fix Washington, President Barack Obama showed up for his State of the Union to brag about how well he’s waved his."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/state-of-the-union-2016-obama-hope-217698#ixzz3x8YRvtQA
As the polls tighten in Hillary Clinton’s primary fight against Senator Bernie Sanders, her language is starting to carry echoes from a similar point in 2008, when Senator Barack Obama started surging.
"In Ames, Iowa, on Tuesday, Mrs. Clinton delivered a thinly veiled jab at Mr. Sanders, suggesting he was making big promises that the realities of divided government would make impossible to deliver on. “I wish that we could elect a Democratic president who could wave a magic wand and say, ‘We shall do this, and we shall do that.’ That ain’t the real world we’re living in!”
It was not the first appearance of the magic wand in Mrs. Clinton’s campaign-trail speech. In February 2008, she used it to to argue that Mr. Obama’s call for unity showed he was naive about the ways of Washington:
“The skies will open, the light will come down, celestial choirs will be singing and everyone will know we should do the right thing and the world will be perfect,” she said archly in Providence, R.I. “Maybe I’ve just lived a little long, but I have no illusions about how hard this is going to be. You are not going to wave a magic wand and have the special interests disappear!”
"Obama has avoided directly intervening in the Democratic primary, even as he and his team obviously prefer Hillary Clinton to Bernie Sanders. But he's surely noticed that the candidates offer two starkly opposed narratives. Clinton's is, "Things are generally good. We need improvements here and there, on family leave and the like, but in general the best course of action is to continue the Obama administration's approach domestically." Sanders's narrative, by contrast, is deeply pessimistic: Inequality's rising, the rich hold all the political power, and only a wholesale political revolution can save us.
"Intentionally or not, the State of the Union served as a stirring endorsement of the Clinton narrative and rejection of the Sanders narrative. Obama emphasized positive trends in the economy and American accomplishments abroad; he readily conceded more work needed to be done, but mostly stuck to the mild policy proposals he's included in his recent budgets. As the leader of the party, he effectively told Democratic voters watching that the authentically Democratic position is that things are looking good and need to be maintained. That's a message that the Clinton camp wants primary voters flirting with Sanders to hear."
http://www.vox.com/2016/1/12/10758880/2016-state-of-the-union-winners-losers-barack-obama
Nicky Haley for her part had a response that has been framed as an attack on Donald Trump. She agrees she meant to do just that:
"Donald Trump was one of the people she singled out as one of the "angriest voices" in the country during her Republican response to Tuesday night's State of the Union, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley acknowledged Wednesday."
"He was one of them, yes. He was one," Haley told Matt Lauer on NBC's "Today." "There's other people in the media, there's people in my state. I think we're seeing it across the country. But yes, Mr. Trump has definitely contributed to what I think is just irresponsible talk."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/nikki-haley-trump-state-of-the-union-2016-217704#ixzz3x8bKmm6j
It's just very interesting to me seeing the fracturing we're seeing in the country. Her talk is only earning her the scorn of the Right this morning.
"Coulter Says 'Trump Should Deport Nikki Haley' After SOTU Response."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ann-coulter-deport-nikki-haley
It will be very interesting to see who the country sees as representing it's General Will come 2017.
General Will being Rousseau's concept.
http://philosophy.eserver.org/rousseau-and-locke.txt
For 25 years they have been relentless in their hope to destroy her. So they even frame the President's speech last night as a zing against Hillary.
"Just at the moment when Hillary Clinton started tearing into Bernie Sanders' warning that there’s no “magic wand” to fix Washington, President Barack Obama showed up for his State of the Union to brag about how well he’s waved his."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/state-of-the-union-2016-obama-hope-217698#ixzz3x8YRvtQA
This 'magic wand' line goes back to what she said about Obama during their 2008 race.
"In Ames, Iowa, on Tuesday, Mrs. Clinton delivered a thinly veiled jab at Mr. Sanders, suggesting he was making big promises that the realities of divided government would make impossible to deliver on. “I wish that we could elect a Democratic president who could wave a magic wand and say, ‘We shall do this, and we shall do that.’ That ain’t the real world we’re living in!”
It was not the first appearance of the magic wand in Mrs. Clinton’s campaign-trail speech. In February 2008, she used it to to argue that Mr. Obama’s call for unity showed he was naive about the ways of Washington:
“The skies will open, the light will come down, celestial choirs will be singing and everyone will know we should do the right thing and the world will be perfect,” she said archly in Providence, R.I. “Maybe I’ve just lived a little long, but I have no illusions about how hard this is going to be. You are not going to wave a magic wand and have the special interests disappear!”
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/01/12/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-magic-wand/
Look, no one has been a bigger Obamabot than me for 7 years-I've defended him against the many who have slurred and lied about him. But did anything like that happen? No. He had a very productive 7 years and he may well prove to be a transformational President but his talk of a post-partisan world did not come to fruition as he acknowledged last night.
The President clearly wants Hillary not Bernie-as Hillary is a continuation of his achievements. Bernie literally wants to overturn the ACA.
"Intentionally or not, the State of the Union served as a stirring endorsement of the Clinton narrative and rejection of the Sanders narrative. Obama emphasized positive trends in the economy and American accomplishments abroad; he readily conceded more work needed to be done, but mostly stuck to the mild policy proposals he's included in his recent budgets. As the leader of the party, he effectively told Democratic voters watching that the authentically Democratic position is that things are looking good and need to be maintained. That's a message that the Clinton camp wants primary voters flirting with Sanders to hear."
http://www.vox.com/2016/1/12/10758880/2016-state-of-the-union-winners-losers-barack-obama
Nicky Haley for her part had a response that has been framed as an attack on Donald Trump. She agrees she meant to do just that:
"Donald Trump was one of the people she singled out as one of the "angriest voices" in the country during her Republican response to Tuesday night's State of the Union, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley acknowledged Wednesday."
"He was one of them, yes. He was one," Haley told Matt Lauer on NBC's "Today." "There's other people in the media, there's people in my state. I think we're seeing it across the country. But yes, Mr. Trump has definitely contributed to what I think is just irresponsible talk."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/nikki-haley-trump-state-of-the-union-2016-217704#ixzz3x8bKmm6j
It's just very interesting to me seeing the fracturing we're seeing in the country. Her talk is only earning her the scorn of the Right this morning.
"Coulter Says 'Trump Should Deport Nikki Haley' After SOTU Response."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ann-coulter-deport-nikki-haley
It will be very interesting to see who the country sees as representing it's General Will come 2017.
General Will being Rousseau's concept.
http://philosophy.eserver.org/rousseau-and-locke.txt
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