Hillary Clinton Just Gave The Best Speech Of Her Campaign

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Hillary Clinton Just Gave The Best Speech Of Her Campaign

by Zach Carter at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-new-hampshire-speech_us_56bb9b20e4b0b40245c51d06?utm_hp_ref=politics

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But her concession speech Tuesday proved an unexpected high point. Unapologetically fiery (gasp -- she yelled!), Clinton made an assertive case for a host of progressive policies. The speech eschewed her typical critique of Sanders as a candidate too left-wing and impractical to be president in favor of a shared vision of a more liberal future.

"Here's how I see it: A president has to do all parts of the job for all Americans to make sure nothing holds you back," Clinton said. "Not debt, not discrimination, not a deck that's always stacked for those at the top."

"When people anywhere in America are held back by injustice, that demands action," she continued. "That is why I believe so strongly that we have to keep up with every fiber of our being the argument for, the campaign for human rights. Human rights as women's rights, human rights as gay rights, human rights as worker rights, human rights as voting rights, human rights across the board for every single American. Now, that is who I am. That is what I've always done."

Clinton spent most of last year ignoring Sanders in her speeches, instead pitching to voters her resume and experience -- a strategy that proved ineffective during an election in which voters from both parties have expressed deep unrest with the political and economic status quo. But in January, Clinton began attacking Sanders, claiming he took a "hands-off" approach to financial reform and blasting his single-payer health care reform plan. She painted Sanders not merely as an impractical idealist, but as a policy lightweight calling for things that cannot work.



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[Bread and Circus]

1. It only took Bernie Sanders winning a state for her to embrace her inner progressive...

[djean111]

8. I don't believe she has an inner progressive - she just has an inner desire to be president,

and if that takes sounding like a progressive, parroting the very things she has been jeering at - that is what she will do.

[arcane1]

11. Agreed, that progressive is entirely on the outside. A facade, if you will n/t

[Ron Green]

2. Which is it? Appropriating his ideas, or saying they can't be done?

Steal the Bern!

Repeal the Bern!

[AtomicKitten]

3. #StealTheBern

[TheBlackAdder]

6. "STEAL THE BERN" Now that is F-N funny! Listening to her speech, I got that impression too! nt

[arcane1]

4. "She convincingly borrowed a page from the Sanders playbook" indeed!

[Red Oak]

5. Did Bernie give her a transcript of one of his speeches?

And it was the best speech of her campaign?

Says something, that.

[TheBlackAdder]

9. I can't believe how some people like to be played time and again in that manner! It is unfathomable!

[Punkingal]

7. I didn't think it was a good speech.

I thought it was desperate and phony.

[restorefreedom]

10. because it was bernie's!

if THIS hillary had been around at the beginning, and if she really meant what she said, and if people felt she meant what she said, her campaign might be in a completely different place now.

but coulda woulda shoulda.....

[earthshine]

12. I agree with the posts above. She's speaking Bernie's ideas ...

and it seems to be just skin deep.

Do Hillary supporters not see this? Why vote for Bernie light, when you can have the real thing.

[farleftlib]

13. Yes and it was entitled #Stealthebern

She steals from the best.