Mediaboss Marketing

TIME Politics Hillary Clinton Yana Paskova—Getty Images Former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks to the media after keynoting a Women's Empowerment Event at the United Nations on March 10, 2015 in New York City.

Hillary Clinton does not face a serious primary challenger for the Democratic nomination in 2016, but that isnt stopping some liberals from putting together the trappings for one.

The handful of Democrats who have expressed interest in challenging Clinton Sen. Bernie Sanders, former Maryland Gov. Martin OMalley and former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb are all polling double digits behind her and raising minimal funds. None have the kind of name recognition that could seriously threaten her inevitable march to the nomination.

But thats not stopping some on the left from trying their hand at the classic primary squeeze play of raising issues in the primary in an effort to persuade her to adopt them.

Over the weekend, during his first foray into the early caucus state of Iowa, OMalley called for tougher sanctions on Wall Street and too-big-to-fail banks, and for reinstating Glass-Steagall, a law that separated commercial and investment banking which was repealed in 1999. He also called for strongly supporting the long-embattled Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which was passed in 2010 response to the financial crisis.

Today, most Republicans in Congress are hell-bent on disassembling the Dodd-Frank Act, OMalleys PAC, OSay Can You See, wrote in a press release Monday, along with a link to a petition. And too many Democrats have been complicit in the backslide toward less regulation.

OMalleys populist swing came the same weekend that the Boston Globe featured a splashy package begging Massachusetts Senator and liberal hero Elizabeth Warren to run for president. Democrats need Elizabeth Warrens Voice in the 2016 presidential race, the editorial board urged. (The idea is not totally out of left field, as it were. Though Warren has said repeatedly that she is not running for president, she has been somewhat cagey about it. She studiously uses the present tense I am not running for president and has yet to endorse a Clinton candidacy.)

This week, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee also re-upped its ongoing effort to motivate liberals to challenge Clintons famously Wall Street-friendly economic positions. Liberals should join New Hampshire and Iowa leaders in urging candidates to campaign on big, bold, economic populist ideas, the PCCC urged. The more momentum we get, the more Hillary Clinton and others will take notice.

So whats all this clamoring, calling-to-arms actually add up to?

Liberal optimists argue that its the only thing that will help scooch Clinton to the left at a time when shes already planning her general election strategy. They believe that Clinton will adopt some of their positions in order to win the full-throated endorsement of key liberals such as Warren who shell need to rally the base in 2016.

See the article here:
Round 1: Hillary Clinton vs. Liberal Ideas

Hillary Rodham Clinton this week gave observers a glimpse of some of her talking points in her expected campaign for the 2016 presidency. At an event Monday organized by the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, she discussed income inequality and a need to redevelop Americas cities.

"We need to think hard about what we're going to do now that people are moving back into and staying in cities to make sure that our cities are not just places of economic prosperity and job creation on average," Mrs. Clinton said, the Associated Press reported. "But do it in a way that lifts everybody up to deal with the overriding issues of inequality and lack of mobility.

Clinton has been criticized for maintaining strong ties with the New York financial sector and for not addressing the economic problems plaguing many Americans. On Sunday, a piece by The Boston Globe editorial board critiqued her willingness to tackle issues of economic inequality.

Nothing about her record suggests much gumption for financial reform or tackling the deeply entrenched economic problems that increasingly threaten the American dream, the Globe asserted.

Urban America is important for many progressive politicians, who often rely on the support of metropolitan voters for their election victories. Clinton is expected to announce a presidential campaign next month, and as April draws nearer, some observers say she will be focusing more heavily on these issues.

Her appearance at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, represented another building block for her expected campaign, wrote Laura Meckler for The Wall Street Journal.

In her seven-minute speech, Clinton called for more partnerships between the private and public sectors and policies to improve social mobility.

"A lot of our cities truly are divided, she said according to The Wall Street Journal. They have some of the most dynamic, well-educated, affluent people in the world, and people who are trapped in generational poverty.

Clinton also used the event on Monday to discuss the work of the Clinton Global Initiative, part of the Clinton family foundation. The foundation has come under fire recently after reports emerged that it accepted funding from foreigners with connections to their governments while Mrs. Clinton was secretary of State.

She mentioned the CGI program Job One, which works with companies to find employment for young people who have never had jobs, and a partnership with unions to encourage energy retrofits.

Read the original:
Why Hillary Clinton is making income inequality a theme of her likely campaign (+video)

MidPoint | Ed Berliner commentary, Telling It Like It Is:
Perhaps it #39;s time to lay off the breathless, second by second reporting of everything involving Hillary Clinton and e-mails, at least for a spell. After all, there #39;s a lot funnier material...

By: NewsmaxTV

Read the original post:
MidPoint | Ed Berliner commentary, Telling It Like It Is: - Video

GOP #39;Stay Secretive, My Friends #39; | Campaign 2016 video slams Hillary Clinton - LoneWolf Sager(_)
The GOP released a parody of Dos Equis #39;s "Most Interesting Man in the World" ad campaign. The new video slams Hillary Clinton for being "the least transparent person in the world." - LoneWolf...

By: LoneWolf Sager

Continue reading here:
GOP 'Stay Secretive, My Friends' | Campaign 2016 video slams Hillary Clinton - LoneWolf Sager(_) - Video

Malzberg | Brent Budowsky defends Hillary Clinton but admits she "has problems and might not win"
Brent Budowsky, writer for The Hill and Fmr. Aide to Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, joins Steve to discuss his piece Why Hillary Can Win Big"! Budowsky defends Hillary and says she "is on solid ground,"...

By: NewsmaxTV

The rest is here:
Malzberg | Brent Budowsky defends Hillary Clinton but admits she "has problems and might not win" - Video