She remembered traveling to Indonesia early on in her tenure as secretary of state, and a television host asking her how she and Obama overcame their differences.
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Hillary also liked President Obama’s TPP trade agreement, which she dubbed the “gold standard” before she caved and opposed it. In her memoire Hard Choices, she calls the deal “a strategic initiative that would strengthen the position of the United States in Asia”.
Clarke then introduced Bill Clinton, who outlined Hillary’s campaign, focusing on equal pay, reproductive rights, criminal justice reform, and sustainable energy, while taking a few indirect shots at her Democratic Primary opponent, Bernie Sanders.
Former President Bill Clinton greets a crowd in Cincinnati.
“Almost want to apologize?!” exclaims Wilmore.
Without mentioning Bernie Sanders, who is Jewish, Levine said, “This is not a time for learning on the job-especially when it comes to the challenges facing Israel”. Expect this little skit to hurt Hillary Clinton in the minority-dominated New York Democrat primary next week. Here’s Hillary Clinton’s entire appearance at the Inner Circle show.
Mr. Clinton is absolutely correct, the vicious drug world results in millions of Americans being harmed.
In short, Clinton demonstrated a common-sensical, pre-Black Lives Matter understanding of criminal justice, and quickly had to backtrack.
“I know those young people yesterday were just trying to get good television”, Clinton said on Friday. The intensifying women’s-rights rhetoric over pay equity, which Clinton has embraced, has also taken a more comprehensive view of who matters.
Mayoral aides added that the skit was not meant to offend and pointed out that it was far from the only risque joke during a night on which reporters put on a show to roast politicians and then the mayor returns the favour.
Bill Clinton was an eloquent advocate for free trade, as a candidate in 1992 and as president. Not because he can be wooly-headed or off message on occasion, or because he reminds us of the endless Clinton vulgarities – the money-grubbing, the sexual misbehavior, the lies, and the stealing of mementoes from the White House. Clinton stayed in the race until June, months after Obama’s allies started calling on her to drop out. To him, the TPP was one more example of the downside of globalization and a potential cudgel against Clinton in their contest for the Democratic nomination. “That’s what Hillary wants to do again”. In particular, the former president – despite his rhetorical gifts – has had great difficulty reconciling Black Lives Matter with the 1994 crime bill he and his wife embraced.
Importantly for Clinton’s campaign, black voters are nearly twice as likely to select her among the array of remaining presidential candidates as the person who would do most to promote racial equality. Yet as first lady, Hillary Clinton cited tougher sentencing rules as one of the bill’s main advantages, and after it passed, the administration bragged about making prison terms longer.
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And as economic power has become more concentrated, so too has political power.
