2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumPositive Hillary Clinton thread
There used to be a tradition on DU where threads were started exclusively to talk positively about our candidates for president. I will start by saying something positive about Hillary Clinton.
Eleanor Roosevelt said "women in politics need skin like a rhinoceros." Hillary is tough and tenacious while remaining temperate.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Fearless in the face of opposition. Relentless in her pursuit of progress.
DanTex
(20,709 posts)MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Hillary has demonstrated her true grit through 30 years of continual GOP attacks. She really is a fighter and she will fight for US!
Evergreen Emerald
(13,069 posts)She understands us common folk, because her success did not come from daddy (like Koch), she fought and worked for everything she has. She will be an excellent President.
lostnfound
(16,138 posts)lostnfound
(16,138 posts)She did a great job parenting (and co-parenting) in spite of intense pressures from outside.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)In some ways she does remind me of Eleanor Roosevelt.
BooScout
(10,406 posts)She is experienced and she is undoubtedly one of the strongest woman I know of. She is pragmatic and never stops striving to make America better for everone. Her stands on the issues are the closest of any candidate to my own.
Hillary has proven again and again that she will not back away from fighting for something she believes in. When Obama took office she traveled over a million miles to restore the reputation of America in the eyes of the rest of the world. She is well known and respected abroad and I cannot think of anyone else I would rather see lead America.
I LOVE HILLARY CLINTON!!!
JackInGreen
(2,975 posts)Tough, a boss (good way) and a tenacious fighter.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)First Female President of the United States!
"Ready for Hillary"!
MBplayer
(73 posts)I'm not a fan of higher taxes on quick trades, cap gains, dividends etc. Prob in the minority here, but I've never understood why people want to nuke the market and their 401ks.
There are a lot of retired/near retired senior citizens who would oppose tax increases on the latter two.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)If you are in the 47% like most of us, Hillary has some help planned for Romney's 53%:
Too many of our major financial institutions are still too complex and too risky. And the problems are not limited to the big banks that get all the headlines. Serious risks are emerging from institutions in the so-called shadow banking system including hedge funds, high frequency traders, non-bank finance companies so many new kinds of entities which receive little oversight at all.
Stories of misconduct by individuals and institutions in the financial industry are shocking. HSBC allowing drug cartels to launder money. Five major banks pleading guilty to felony charges for conspiring to manipulate currency exchange and interest rates. There can be no justification or tolerance for this kind of criminal behavior.
And while institutions have paid large fines and in some cases admitted guilt, too often it has seemed that the human beings responsible get off with limited consequences or none at all, even when theyve already pocketed the gains.
This is wrong and, on my watch, it will change.
http://www.bustle.com/articles/96791-transcript-of-hillary-clintons-speech-on-the-economic-policy-that-would-define-her-presidency-is-simply
MBplayer
(73 posts)You can't really be a D nominee and praise Wall Street. Perhaps she will make some small changes and a token arrest or two, but I don't see her nuking the system. Frankly, we've got blood on our hands at this point, and IMO it's too late to unwind it. Idealistically I'd love to, but reality stinks. The last thing we want to do is threaten the USD's status as World's Reserve Currency. If that falls, then the debt actually matters beyond chicken little partisan politics.
Shadow banking etc probably deserves it's own thread, but I hold the opinion when you place more regulations on FDIC banks, it makes it easier for rogue shadow banking entities to thrive and prey upon the financially uneducated. Sadly, some people won't stop looking for loans/easy money regardless of what government does. If we tighten loan and financing restrictions of legitimate FDIC banks, many will just go across the street and pay some unregulated sleezebag entity 10, 15, 25% vig for that same loan. It's a problem that doesn't seem to have a perfect answer, yet.
mvd
(65,148 posts)Has been a trailblazer for women. Would be the first woman President.