Hillary Clinton;s Cup of Coffee Yields Pot Joke
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Hillary Clinton;s Cup of Coffee Yields Pot Joke - Video
Mrs Clinton warned that once in power Republicans would try to restrict abortion rights and mount a discriminatory and insulting effort to block legislation guaranteeing equal pay for women.
Mrs Hagan is depending on a large turnout among women and African-Americans to see off a challenge from Thom Tillis, the Republican speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives.
Many in the crowd wore Ready for Hillary teeshirts and Hillary 2016 campaign buttons urging their heroine to again run for president. Mrs Clinton gave them no outright confirmation but as is her wont she dropped a few suggestive hints of her ambitions.
She joked that a month after the birth of her first grandchild, Charlotte, I still have that grandmother glow.
But she added that theres nothing that gets your mind concentrated more about the future than the birth of a new child - a line that sparked cries of Run, Hillary, run! from some in the crowd.
Mclean Harper, a Clinton supporter who attended the rally with her wife, Riki Harper, said afterwards: I feel like we will be able to look back at this and say: we saw the President right before she was elected.
Mrs Clinton and Mrs Hagan spoke for a cumulative 34 minutes but neither one mentioned President Barack Obama, whos low approval ratings are seen as a drag on Democrat candidates.
Mrs Hagan, who was first elected in 2008, the year Mr Obama led a wave of Democrats to victories across the US, has studiously avoided any association with the current occupant of the White House.
While the President has largely stayed on the sidelines during this years election, Mrs Clinton has criss-crossed the country in support of Democrats candidates.
Larry Sabato, director of University of Virginia Center for Politics, said Mrs Clinton was campaigning so vigorously partly to build up goodwill in the party ahead of the 2016 election.
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Standing a few feet from Ms Mannlein-Hochman, Riki Harpers face darkens as she remembers the day in 2008 when Mrs Clinton admitted defeat.
The 39-year-old was in a noisy Florida restaurant and barely able to hear as Mrs Clinton conceded she was unable to break that highest, hardest glass ceiling that kept women from the White House.
"I just felt so lost," Mrs Harper remembers. "I wasn't for Obama then and I'm still not really now. I thought it was Hillary's time."
Some Hillary loyalists vented their anger by forming a group called PUMA (Party Unity My A**) and refusing to accept anyone but Mrs Clinton as their party leader. Others went out to actively campaign for John McCain in 2008.
Most, like Mrs Harper, grudgingly cast their ballots for Mr Obama, if only to keep Sarah Palin from becoming vice-president. But as they watched the current president lurch through crises at home and abroad, many returned to a persistent conclusion: Hillary would be doing this better.
Hillary Clinton addresses her supporters as her daughter Chelsea and her husband Bill Clinton watch in 2008 (AP)
Lee Calvert, a 51-year-old gay man wearing a teeshirt emblazoned with a Hillary H wrapped in a rainbow flag, said he felt Mrs Clinton would have been stronger on foreign policy than the current occupant of the Oval Office.
He sort of steps back and hes more professorial, Mr Calvert said. I think Hillary Clinton would have been more forceful.
Like many others in the crowd, he said Mrs Clinton would be an even stronger candidate in 2016 than she was in six years ago, brushing aside concerns about her age - 67 - or that her political skills had rusted over time. If she wants to run, its hers. The only thing that will stop her is herself.
Both he and his friend Mark Donahue, who wore a matching shirt, said they had donated to the Clinton campaign in 2008 and were prepared to do so again.
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Hillary Clinton's 2008 supporters see a second chance to make history
Hillary ClintonsOctober 24speechsupporting Martha Coakley, the Massachusetts Democratic gubernatorial candidate, covered standard progressive themes urging a larger state, as well as this attention-grabbing remark:
Dont let anybody, dont let anybody tell you that, ah, you know, its corporations and businesses that create jobs. You know that old theory, trickle-down economics. That has been tried, that has failed. It has failed rather spectacularly.
The New York Times didnt see anything alarming in the statement, calling it a variation on a popular [Elizabeth] Warren theme.
But this attitude shocked many people in the trenches, those pulling the economic wagon, those looking for work. The condescension in the way Clinton articulated it was noteworthy also, and the blogosphere lit up brightly.
Official portrait of former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Most people who hold jobs or are looking for work do so at, you know, businesses, which, as it happens, are often incorporated. People were not amused.
Naturally its being said that Clintons statement wastaken out of context, that she was talking about corporate tax breaks or something. Perhaps she was referring to her speaking bureau or toChelseasformer employer NBC News? Perhaps those corporations and businesses arent creating jobs, and thats her reference point.
Policies that flow from disdain for private enterprise will likely advance a trickle down federal government, and, unfortunately, trickle up poverty, if that term is going to be dredged up again.
A Google Google search of Hillary Clintonbusiness jobs is kind of funny, in that most of the initial hits were from right of center venues. This reflects the New York Times-style attitude that there was nothing to see here, the other worldly viewpoint that sees business and enterprise as an aberration, a wart, and that the normal and preferred iswhat? The eeriness echoes President Obamas You didnt build that. Somebody else made that happen, which enjoyed renewed attention this week in the wake of Clintons remark.
The only way that the un-self conscious utterance of a statement like Clintons makes much sense to an outside observer who has to earn a living is to use Occams Razor. Its easiest toacknowledge that a sizable chunk of the left wing does not care much for free private enterprise and actually does prefer that the state be in charge of lives. They really mean what they say.
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Hillary Clinton: Businesses Don't Create Jobs (Just Speaking Fees)
On the campaign trail, President Obamas status as the Democratic Partys No. 1 rock star has been supplanted by a power couple kicking off their political comeback tour.
While Mr. Obama has been a rare visitor on the stump over the past few weeks, Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton are in demand, parachuting into battleground states and rallying support for Democrats in key races.
Last week alone saw Mrs. Clinton campaign for candidates in Minnesota, North Carolina and elsewhere, while the 42nd president is lending a hand to Democrats in tight contests in Kentucky, Louisiana, Arkansas and Wisconsin, to name just a few.
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By contrast, Mr. Obama has done just two campaign events thus far rallies for Maryland gubernatorial hopeful Anthony Brown and Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn. A planned campaign stop for Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy was scrapped last week amid the Ebola crisis.
The White House said Wednesday that the president will head to Wisconsin Tuesday to stump for Mary Burke, the Democrat challenging incumbent Republican Gov. Scott Walker, and trips to relatively friendly political ground in Maine, Michigan and Pennsylvania in the campaigns final days are also possible.
Political analysts say the presidents status as something of a pariah in the years hottest contests comes from a combination of factors, including low approval numbers and the fact that many tight races are being fought in Republican-leaning states where Mr. Obama is even more unpopular.
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On the other hand, Mrs. Clinton is seen as the partys future, as she is miles ahead of all potential Democratic rivals in the partys primary process. She has yet to officially declare whether she will run in 2016.
Her husband remains his partys top weapon on the trail, with approval ratings in the mid-60 percent range, recent polls show, and his record in the 1990s leads many voters to hark back to a time of economic prosperity.
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