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Robert Reich’s advice to Hillary Clinton: Ride the populist wave
MSNBC ^ | November 12, 2014 | Alex Seitz-Wald

Posted on 11/12/2014 6:16:23 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich is not running for president, but he thinks any Democrat who is – including his “old friend” Hillary Clinton – should worry about Republicans outflanking them on populism.

Reich, now a professor at the University of California Berkeley, first met Hillary Clinton when she was a freshman at Wellesley and they marched in civil rights demonstrations together. He met Bill Clinton around the same time at Oxford, when they were both Rhodes Scholars. He went on to work on both of Bill Clinton’s presidential campaigns, and joined the administration.

In the Clinton cabinet, he was seen as the ideological counterweight to Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, who spent 25 years at Goldman Sachs before joining the administration and then returned to Wall Street afterward.

So, if Hillary Clinton runs for president in 2016, will she be more in the Reich or Rubin schools? “It’s not clear yet. We’ll find out. I think she has that choice,” Reich told msnbc....

(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.com ...


TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues; Parties
KEYWORDS: 2016; cankles; democrats; hellno; hillary; hillary2016; robertreich; saywhat
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Everything is just a tactic to them.
1 posted on 11/12/2014 6:16:23 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She is a grommet


2 posted on 11/12/2014 6:20:47 PM PST by al baby (Hi MomÂ…)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Let’s see...

Hillary makes 250k per speech
Hasn’t driven a car since 1992
Hasn’t flown on a scheduled airline since 1992
Daughter bought a $10m condo in Manhattan at age 32

Yes! She’s “for the people”


3 posted on 11/12/2014 6:21:07 PM PST by nascarnation (Impeach, Convict, Deport)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Unfit to testify, unfit for office.


4 posted on 11/12/2014 6:21:33 PM PST by Ray76 (We must destroy the Uniparty or be destroyed by them.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
In the Clinton cabinet, he was seen as the ideological counterweight

Exactly half a pint.

5 posted on 11/12/2014 6:22:08 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg ("Compromise" means you've already decided you lost.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They have a new P-word. Progressive is out, Populist is in.

I learned this reading DUmp on election night. Along with a lot of new naughty words and combinations.


6 posted on 11/12/2014 6:22:39 PM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

His analysis comes up a little short.


7 posted on 11/12/2014 6:23:18 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Democrats have a lynch mob mentality. They always have.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bill could be a populist. Hillary, not so much.


8 posted on 11/12/2014 6:24:17 PM PST by Hugin ("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!",)
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To: bigbob

“Progressive is out”

That was just a polite way of saying commie b@$#ards anyway.


9 posted on 11/12/2014 6:25:40 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

C’mon, rich white liberals like Hillary play the “I understand the common American” routine their entire political lives and the fools out there believe them! Hillary isn’t going to fundraisers with the common folks in Ohio or Arkansas any time soon. She’s going to the fat cats in midtown Manhattan, Hollywood, the Berkshires in western MA, and Silicon Valley. Hillary could care less about the middle class. She’s not one of us. Expect her to show up also at some Black churches where she can do her little “I ain’t no ways tired” routine complete with a fake northeastern accented, southern drawl. That’ll wow em again!


10 posted on 11/12/2014 6:26:57 PM PST by dowcaet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

LOL...he met her at Wellesley. Yep, that’s a real populist, or is that a code word for Communist?


11 posted on 11/12/2014 6:26:57 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: bigbob
They have a new P-word. Progressive is out, Populist is in.

Parasite is more accurate.

12 posted on 11/12/2014 6:27:35 PM PST by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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To: nascarnation

Not to mention the fact the bitch has been against the best interests of this country since day one yet takes every advantage of it. Like my brother says: 320 MILLION people in this country, and Hillary is the best they can come up with for next POTUS?


13 posted on 11/12/2014 6:27:59 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Not all Muslims are terrorists but all Muslims are potential terrorists.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

HAHAHA!! Yes, because Hillary is such a natural at it! She’s just plain ole downright folksy and whatnot.


14 posted on 11/12/2014 6:28:02 PM PST by cdcdawg
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In other words, “Pretend to be for the people”

POS people, beyond contempt.


15 posted on 11/12/2014 6:30:00 PM PST by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What populist wave?


16 posted on 11/12/2014 6:30:21 PM PST by 98ZJ USMC
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Forget the wave, stick with your broomstick, HillBilly!


17 posted on 11/12/2014 6:30:31 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

One thing to ponder though.

Roll the calendar back to 2007 and everybody was talking the same way about Hillary.

Then an unknown guy from Kenya by way of Chicago snuck in and stole the kishka.

We have to see what the Chicago Mob has in store for 2016.


18 posted on 11/12/2014 6:30:51 PM PST by nascarnation (Impeach, Convict, Deport)
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To: 98ZJ USMC
Beware the Drive-by mantra...
19 posted on 11/12/2014 6:36:05 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Catch a wave and you’re sittin’ on top of the world.


20 posted on 11/12/2014 6:36:14 PM PST by MUDDOG
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