05-10-2015, 04:16 PM
(04-21-2015, 03:48 PM)kandrathe Wrote: I saw “Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich,” by Peter Schweizer is being released. I suspect it will be met with our usual bi-polar zeal with those against her still against, and those for her pointing to a vast right wing conspiracy, defaming the author, and shrugging it off.
IIRC there was quite the commotion when Primary Colors came out. It was fictional, nudge nudge wink wink, but Bill Clinton still won the contest for that year.
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Speaking of elbows, there is her telegraph to the Elizabeth Warren wing of the progressives in her selection of Gary "Scourge of Wallstreet" Gensler as her campaign's chief financial officer. She needs to run hard to the left now to reassure her base, before she runs hard to the middle after she gets the nomination.
Yeah, Warren hasn't thrown her hat into the ring, but never say never at this point. It's still relatively early in the pre-show.
Listing some of the confirmed names so far from the big 2 party:
Dems:
-Hillary Clinton
-Bernie Sanders
Reps:
-Ted Cruz
-Marco Rubio
-Ben Carson
-Carly Fiorina
-Rand Paul
-Mike Huckabee
Sanders dropped the P word, Plutocracy, that's different. Not sure how much traction that will get, but definitely different. I will not underestimate Clinton, but the brand name is a double edged sword. From the Reps side, I dunno, not exactly excitement generating, or not well known enough. Rubio is telegenic though, but we'll see if that's enough.
Problem is, do you ever get the feeling of watching a contest, and at the end you suspect that what you've just watched was a contest between cola X, and soda y, but they're actually both made by the same company?
