Top Clinton campaign advisor: Hillary’s campaign will focus on “helping working families succeed, building small businesses, tackling climate change & clean energy.”

From John Podesta, a top advisor to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, comes this Tweet outlining what the focus of Clinton’s presidential campaign will be.

As noted by Judd Legum of ThinkProgress, the very mention of global climate change as a top of the list agenda item for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign is unprecedented, as no other major presidential campaign has ever made combating climate change a central issue.

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13 thoughts on “Top Clinton campaign advisor: Hillary’s campaign will focus on “helping working families succeed, building small businesses, tackling climate change & clean energy.”

  1. what a bunch of BS, the clintons focus on building their bank accounts byt leveragin foreing countries.

  2. Judging by the lack of comments, there doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of enthusiasm for Hillary here.

    1. Denis, to paraphrase the lyrics from an old tune; “Oh, it’s a long, long time from April to November.”

      1. If you thonk that there is not any enthusiasm now, wait a year, it will get worse. She is a witch!

  3. It’s a nice start. Very simple and populist message. One that resonates with most people.

  4. She feeds at the Corporate Trough which is bad for Climate, ALL workers, elderly, sick, disabled, poor.
    “Building small businesses”, “Working Families”, “Clean Energies” All tired old BS catch phrases. I’ve been voting Dem in all local, state (including walkers re-call), national elections for 41 years. I am a women. I am tired of the lies. It will take a lot of convincing to get me out to vote 4 her, or anyone that tethers themselves to wall street.

    1. I expect Senator Warren to serve as a vocal conscience during this campaign season. I am hopeful she holds Hillary’s feet to the fire in a way no Republican will be able to.

    2. Barbie D., your rejection of Senator Clinton is based entirely upon “guilt by association.” She was an attorney representing her clients including the 1% or Wall street.

      And your “..bad for Climate, ALL workers, elderly, sick,, disabled, poor..” is a unsupported and unfair continuation of the GOP lies, misogyny, and “mob” justice. As one proof, she was the “center left” wife of a center right” Democratic president who tried to advance affordable health insurance for “…ALL workers, elderly, sick, disabled, poor…” long before it was popular.

      Her term and wide acceptance as a Senator by the people of New York as well as her appointment by President Obama as Secretary of State is an indication of her intelligence, her versatility, and her dedication to serve her country and its people.

      Simply put, you are not only wrong, but reckless in your “painting with a broad brush” known as a “smear.”

      1. Duane12, …continuation of the gop lies, misogyny (Misogyny definition, hatred, dislike, or mistrust of women, or prejudice against women), and mob justice? I Normally don’t waste time on trolls but here’s a short read for you from a left of left publication. If you really are a Dem the state party should be read your comment loudly at the convention. You are what’s wrong with the party in Wisconsin. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/05/hillary-clinton-goldman-sachs-private-equity-white-house-2016

        1. Duane12 in neither a troll nor what is wrong with the Party. He’s just a thoughtful individual who sees value in keeping the last remaining branch of federal government. The real 2016 battles are for statehouses and select U.S. Senate seats.

          There are so many DPW missteps to choose from but I’d say they relied too much on a single-type of donor/supporter and their politicians didn’t change redistricting rules when they had the chance. They squandered their own time in state leadership and then failed to unify under a smart, strong economic-centered policy platform appealing to working families and the business community coming out of the recession. Seems harsh to lay this all on a commenter at BB but whatever.

  5. Barbie, while I agree with you, Duane’s not a troll.

    Sec. Clinton was awol when it came to attacking Social Security. I still expect her to support a “balanced federal budget,” which is the height of fiscal irresponsibility.

    “Demand Leakages: The 800lb Economist in the Room”

    I can’t say I’ve seen anyone in the deficit debates talking about the demand leakages. Not a mention in the mainstream press, financial news media, or any of the thousands of economic reports? That’s like discussing the right horsepower for a truck or an airplane without any consideration of the weight of the vehicle.

    Demand leakages are unspent income. For a given currency, if any agent doesn’t spend his income, some other agent has to spend more than his income, or that much output doesn’t get sold. So if the non government sectors collectively don’t spend all of their income, it’s up to government to make sure its income is less than its spending, or that much output doesn’t get sold. This translates into what’s commonly called the ‘output gap,’ which is largely a sanitized way of saying unemployment.

    And with the private sector necessarily pro cyclical, the (whopping) private sector spending gap in this economy can only be filled with by government via either a (whopping) tax cut and/or spending increase (depending on one’s politics).

    So wherefore the ‘demand leakages?’ The lion’s share are due to tax advantages for not spending your income, including pension contributions, IRA’s and all kinds of corporate reserves. Then there’s foreign hoards accumulated to support foreign exporters. And it all should be a very good thing — all of that net unspent income means that for a given size government, and a given non government rate of credit expansion, our taxes can be that much lower. Personally, I’d rather have a tax cut than a policy to get other people to spend their unspent income or borrow more. But that’s just me….

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/warren-mosler/demand-leakages-the-800lb_b_1646916.html

    If Sec. Clinton’s the Dem’s nominee, the Dem strategy, same for both of Obama’s terms, will be to hammer liberals and progressive on the Supreme Court nominations.

    That’s why it’s so important for Dems to either nominate someone else, or through a competitive race to the nomination to really lock her in on key positions. The former is very tough, the latter imho is even tougher. Also, if Dems nominate someone else, where’s the guarantee that they might cave just as quickly as Sec. Clinton?

    Every Dem in D.C. should be talking about giving teachers twenty-years for doing exactly what banksters did, who weren’t even indicted ,”The Biggest Outrage in Atlanta’s Crazy Teacher Cheating Case”

    “That’s the proper backdrop to the news of convictions in the Atlanta test cheating case. Eleven educators were found guilty of racketeering charges — something typically reserved for organized crime — for feeding students answers to standardized tests, or changing test sheets after they were turned in. …

    If you don’t remember these kinds of creative prosecution strategies during the financial crisis, that’s probably because no prosecutor ever used them. Teachers ordered to falsify tests and the superiors who demanded it, amid desperation to save schools from destruction, deserve no mercy from the court. Bankers who ran a criminal enterprise to engage in the largest consumer and investing fraud in world history deserve our thanks.

    We can debate the reasons why. Federal money from the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law has been tied to standardized testing. Schools that fail to meet performance levels can be shut down. Atlanta’s school superintendent implemented even more rigorous rules than the feds: Any principal not meeting achievement targets within three years would get fired, and teacher evaluations, along with bonuses, were based in part on test scores.

    None of this excuses the misconduct, it sets a context for it. And it matches almost precisely what went on at every level of the mortgage market before, during and after the housing bubble. Mortgage brokers used Wite-Out and exacto knives to falsify income tax data for unqualified borrowers to get them into loans. They employed Coke vending machines as light boards to trace forgeries, putting people into garbage loans they didn’t purchase. The loans got sold to Wall Street banks, which routinely lied to investors, who purchased bundles of mortgages packaged into securities, by telling them that the loan quality exceeded underwriting standards.

    You don’t have to consider the Atlanta teachers innocent to know something has gone terribly awry in the country when filling in bubbles on Scan-Tron sheets can get you 20 years, but stealing people’s homes and defrauding pension funds can’t get you indicted. The only way you could see what the justice system has granted bankers as in any way commensurate with what it does to ordinary people is if you grade on a curve.

    http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2015/04/03/Biggest-Outrage-Atlanta-s-Crazy-Teacher-Cheating-Case#sthash.uC1fOx8g.dpuf.

    1. Thanks, John, for correcting the name calling.

      I know what it is to be poor as a child in the “great depression” experiencing the results of the first Wall Street failure. One could say I was born a “Roosevelt Democrat” and I am proud to this day to remain so updated with new needs and problems. Accordingly, I support the candidacy of Secretary Clinton absent Senator Warren.

      I also have experienced fear and felt the hatred of a name calling, white gang as I and my black buddy ran for our lives in a large southern city back to the safety of the train station in the early 1950’s. This was several years before the “name callers” began bombing churches and assassinating whites and blacks who associated with each other.

      While I can overlook the ignorance of name calling, I will continue to speak out against the hatred exhibited by some against fellow Democrats. I thought we were a party of inclusion?

      BTW, I have over 4500 comments and topics on a national blog, none classified as a “troll” or “trolling.”

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