Darrell Delamaide's Political Capital: Clintons expert advisers are no match for Warrens passion
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) Elizabeth Warren may have some shortcomings as a politician but she doesnt need 200 experts to tell her what to think about inequality and the plight of the middle class.
The Massachusetts senator, who continues to appeal to Democratic progressives despite her repeated rejection of any interest in running for president, has grappled with these issues her whole career and has very clear and passionate convictions about what this country needs.
In the meantime, Hillary Clinton, now widely treated in the mainstream press as the presumptive Democratic nominee as though she were an incumbent, has reached out to 200 policy experts, the New York Times reports, to tell her how to address the anger about income inequality without overly vilifying the wealthy.
With due respect to all those experts, there is no way to do that. The wealthy in this country, and particularly the Wall Street bankers, have a certain amount of vilification coming to them and lets not quibble about what may be too much.
This weekend, the Worker Families Party in New York, a progressive party that has its own ballot line in the state, voted to urge Warren to run for president, becoming the latest liberal group to call for an alternative to Hillary Clinton.
The party, which played a role in building the momentum for Bill de Blasios successful run for New York mayor, had backed Clinton in her two campaigns for the senate in New York.
Now, however, the party considers a Warren run would be the single best shot at making sure working families issues are front and center in the national political debate, state director Bill Lipton told the New York Post.
While Clinton and her experts try to figure out a way to please everybody, the former secretary of state is assembling a juggernaut staff to further discourage Warren or any other potential challenger from even thinking about entering the race.
And to avoid some of the pratfalls of her 2008 presidential campaign, the Washington Posts Dan Balz notes approvingly, Clinton is going to make John Podesta the chairman of her campaign.
Podesta was Bill Clintons chief of staff in the White House and lately an adviser to President Barack Obama while in the meantime founding and running the Center for American Progress, a centrist think tank that has been scrambling to update Bill Clintons tired notions of triangulation for the 21st century.
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Darrell Delamaide's Political Capital: Clintons expert advisers are no match for Warrens passion