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Showing Original Post only (View all)Did you hear Crystal Ball's rant on the Cycle asking Hillary not to run? [View all]
I am speechless and shocked that it came from her. I will post it as soon as MSNBC puts it on the website. It is worth listening to and making up your own mind.
UPDATE
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/dont-run-hillary-dont-run
I deeply admire and respect Hillary Clinton. I think she is a great intellect with great fortitude. I think she was a strong secretary of state and a hardworking and effective senator. But I have come to a difficult realization: I dont want Hillary Clinton to run for president in 2016. I hope she does not run, she is not the right person for this moment.
Back in 2008, when all my peers were jumping on the Barack Obama bandwagon, I backed Clinton. The country was reeling from a disastrous eight years under President George W. Bush. We were desperate for competence after his incompetence; for respect for government after his disdain. We needed, in my view, a capable hand. She was well positioned to manage the end of two wars and to regain the international respect that had been lost during the Bush presidency. Clinton was a fantastic fit for that moment but that moment has passed.
Now, we are in a moment of existential crisis as a country. As we recover slowly from the Great Recession, weve discovered that we dont much like what we see. Only 28% of Americans say the country is headed in the right direction. Some 67% are dissatisfied with the wealth distribution in this country. And as corporate profits soar to new heights, working folks get the shaft sharing in virtually none of the gains of the recovery. In fact, 95% of the income gains over the recovery years have gone to the top 1% of income earners.
It is clear now that we have two economies: one for a thin slice of educated elite and one for everyone else. That is the moment we are in now. So I ask you, does Hillary Clinton sound to you like the right person for this moment?
In a time when corporations have hijacked our politics enabling them to reap all the profit without feeling any compunction to do right by their workers, is someone who sat on the rabidly anti-union board of Walmart for six years the right person to restore workers rights?