It’s doubtful she has suddenly become a protectionist or that, as president, she won’t find a few way to support a different version of the TPP.
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Although Clinton hedged her opposition to the deal, her comments are likely unwelcome at the White House amid its aggressive push to finalize it. Clinton’s opposition represents her biggest break yet with the White House.
Clinton aides know she must tread lightly when it comes to criticising Obama, given that much of her strategy relies on the still-loyal coalition of African-Americans, Latinos, women and younger voters that twice elected Obama. Clinton’s move was viewed by the pundit class as a sign of his political seriousness and his willingness to jettison liberal positions in a move to the political center.
“And, under this agreement, we, rather than countries like China, are writing the rules for the global economy”, said Obama when addressing United States business leaders. “… I totally understand why the Obama administration felt as though they did what they did under the circumstances. So I actually think that she was treated as she should’ve been treated”.
Furthermore, the upcoming congressional hearing where Clinton will testify about the American lives lost at Benghazi will certainly be more evidence for her team to offer regarding Republican-inspired attacks.
Clinton’s campaign and the Obama administration have always said the time would come when she would outline her own policies and deliver criticisms, implied and direct, of the president. Yet her soft role on the TV show “Saturday Night Live” with an equally benign, and not very amusing, skit suggests that Clinton might be approaching the sort of tanking favorable ratings and desperate countermoves that could leave her flat as a New Hampshire pancake. That’s a suggestion that has been put to Obama, too, as a follow-up to other executive actions in 2013. “I don’t believe it is going to meet the high bar that I have set”.
A potential exception is Vice President Joe Biden, who has yet to say whether he will join the race. There’s plenty more evidence out there that liberals like – if not love – Clinton, and would be fine voting for her.
“Never met her before, she’s awesome”, Trump said, adding “but that’s my relationship with Hispanics”. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), a staunch opponent of the agreement, for the Democratic nomination.
The chairman said the leaks were created to “selectively mischaracterize” the interview in order to help Clinton.
Hillary Clinton rolled out her long-awaited plan to reform Wall Street on Thursday, announcing in a Bloomberg op-ed that she wants to crack down on abuses and tax certain kinds of “high-frequency” trading. What should anyone expect a would-be President Clinton to do about TPP? She tells audiences Obama does not get enough credit for that task but often leaves mention of the president at that. Deportations? The administration’s record rate of sending undocumented immigrants home was unnecessarily “breaking up families”, she said. In reality, she’s just anxious about the polls.
Her turnaround, clearly aimed at left-leaning Democratic voters, is all the more surprising because she can’t even have reviewed the treaty, as it is not yet public.
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Gowdy said the emails indicate Blumenthal lobbied aggressively for USA intervention in Libya, raising the possibility of a no-fly zone long before the idea was officially under consideration.
