Rahm Emanuel jumps on the Hillary Clinton bandwagon

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

Rahm Emanuel jumps on the Hillary Clinton bandwagon

BY PHILIP RUCKER
May 9 at 8:08 am

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel officially backed Hillary Rodham Clinton’s prospective presidential campaign on Friday, calling the former secretary of state “a champion for the American people.”

Emanuel, a former political adviser to President Bill Clinton and White House chief of staff to President Obama, has signed up with Ready for Hillary and will host two Chicago fundraisers for the pro-Clinton superPAC on June 5.

“Hillary is smart, she’s determined, and most importantly, she is a champion for the American people,” Emanuel said in a statement released Friday morning by Ready for Hillary. “I’m proud to make my s

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[mercymechap]

1. Watch......

as the Republicans scramble to find stories to try and bring Hillary down.....

[tularetom]

2. They might not need any stories

A Rahm Emanuel endorsement isn't going to do her much good among actual real Democrats.

I've voted in every presidential election since 1964 but if Hillary is the best the Dems can put up, I may sit out 2016.

[vi5]

3. Same here

I don't expect a hard left firebrand. I was happy with the Barak Obama that ran both for the Democratic nomination and then for President. I don't think at any point he was a hard left radical liberal and I didn't expect him to be. All I expected was full support and endoresement of the most basic of Democratic party platforms.

Then he won and gave the keys to the house to Rahm, Larry Summers, Tim Geithner, Arne Duncan, Gates, etc. and communicated with those selections as to where he actually stood.

Clinton has much more of a record of being cozy with those folks than Obama did so I have no reason to believe she'd govern in any more progressive a way than Obama did.

[UncleTomsEvilBrother]

4. Weird how some things happen.

I have a friend in her 40s who's never voted in a General Election. She says voting for Hillary would be the first vote she would ever willingly cast for President.

[mercymechap]

5. Emanuel's endorsement

isn't going matter....it certainly won't hurt her, and if Hillary wins the nomination, she is better than any clown the Republicans put up.

[Evergreen Emerald]

8. Sit out? You only need to think of the Supreme Court or look at the house

to see what an ill advised decision it would be to sit out the election. This attitude is what keeps the republicans in the senate and house mucking up any potential change. And what puts radicals like John Roberts in a position to impose his radical changes to our democracy.

[tularetom]

9. I'm in a very blue state, my presidential vote is inconsequential

[mercymechap]

12. It's a good thing

that more people in your state don't feel the way you do.

I'm in a red state, and I would vote for Mickey Mouse before I would sit one out and let Republicans have my vote.

[heaven05]

17. wrong!

[Pisces]

15. Ho hum what a bore this campaign against Hillary on DU has become.

[Proud Public Servant]

6. Great! Can't wait for the Lieberman endorsement! [nt]

[Gidney N Cloyd]

7. “Hillary is smart, she’s determined, and most importantly, she's my ticket outta here."

[newthinking]

10. Unfortunately I would not call that a "ringing endorsement"

Rahm is more of a liability then help at this point

[frylock]

11. well that makes a Clinton nomination all the more appealing!

[winter is coming]

13. I hope she has enough sense to scrape him off. n/t

[McCamy Taylor]

14. It's official then. Clinton/Castro is my ticket.

[Pisces]

16. Couldn't agree more. I said this to my husband months ago.