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In reply to the discussion: If HRC runs in 2016, who should be the pro-worker, pro-peace, pro-justice candidate in the race? [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Don't mistake me for an Obama apologist...especially after all the threads I started here calling for a progressive primary challenger in 2012.
You can't seriously argue that HRC would have ever been to Obama's left as president, though. There's no basis at all to think that, based on what she defended in the Nineties(like her unquestioning approval of the welfare "reform" bill).
Participation in the Clinton Administration would pretty much ensure that anyone who did so(with the possible exception of Robert Reich)would never be a progressive as president. And even with Reich...they might have got to HIM too, if he ever ended up in the White House.
And, in particular, it would have been impossible for HRC to work for ANY progressive policies if she'd been elected on a "keep the troops there" platform on Iraq, since not de-escalating that war at all would have made all liberalism, even the small amount Obama gave us, impossible. Her willingness to consider bombing Iran, a step that could only right-wing, anti-humanist and anti-democratic consequences, would also have been a major impediment to HRC's ability to bring in any progressive possibilities. War and social justice do NOT mix.
HRC may be her own person, but her own person is a hardcore militarist...she had her hands all over the all-but-fascist coup in Honduras, for example, and she's just as obsessed with turning Cuba back into a U.S. colony as Dubya was...her Miami Cuban relatives make sure of that(and the fact that she has those relatives should scare the hell out of you...that's the community that cheered when the Cubana jet full of innocent people was blown up for no reason).