">Posted on 09/23/2014 9:13:31 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
When Hillary Clinton rubs shoulders with financial executives and philanthropic giants at the Clinton Global Initiative's meeting this week, it will underscore the tension between her elite connections and populist image likely to feature in her expected 2016 presidential campaign.
Seen by liberal critics as a close ally of the global elite, she will have to appeal to middle class voters after facing criticism this summer that she is out of touch.
Clinton drew the ire of progressives and Republicans alike in June by saying she was "dead broke" after leaving the White House as first lady in 2001. And to her populist critics, nowhere is the tension between her status as an emblem of the elite and the need to connect to voters more apparent than in New York, where this week's meeting takes place.
It is a city where she appears with high-profile billionaires, but also a city led by progressive hero Mayor Bill de Blasio, her one-time campaign manager.
"If you look at her track record from the past, it is out of step with the current Democratic Party. Not on social issues, but definitely on economic issues, so we're going to be watching very carefully," said Charles Chamberlain, executive director of liberal group Democracy For America.
"There's no question the de Blasio wing of the party is ascendant," Chamberlain added, calling Clinton a leader of Democrats' "Wall Street wing" and saying her appearances with financiers are concerning.
Clinton represented New York as a U.S. senator, and both her 2016 campaign and that year's Democratic convention could be based here.
This week's annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative boasts celebrities like actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon alongside business titans like Alibaba's Jack Ma and Goldman Sachs' Lloyd Blankfein.
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"> Well, now, there's a charming thought. It's either the foaming-at-the-mouth lefties or a corporate communist, or somewhere in between. I'm checking "none of the above".
She’s the the American Jacques Sarkozy... with all the arrogance and no real charm.
bump!
Clinton Global Money Laundering Initiative
Who says it's your own fault if you haven't succeeded by age 35. Oh, the humanity….
Rub shoulders with that drunken bag lady? I would rather bump uglies with Natalie Maines.
Clinton’s ‘elite’ image: A feral boar and a bloated heifer.
That image is a perfect representation of Hil’s legacy. May it follow her everywhere.
‘Who says it’s your own fault if you haven’t succeeded by age 35.’
Hell, I was damn successful at 35, it was after O’bumbler got elected at when I was 41 that things got crappy.
’ May it follow her everywhere.’
I would prefer that she got a raging infection and died, but that’s just me. I mean, people die all the time. It might as well be people that you hate!
Jacques?
Who was that horror movie character that said”I’m back” and resembles Hillary with big cheeks and a round face? That is the face we need to put on a bumper sticker..with “ready for Hillary”.
Does somebody have a suitable picture?
A couple of idiot political suck-ups. Jack Ma, OTOH, heard him on Rush this week and he was fantastic. Guess he's covering himself by cozying up to the Clintons.
“What difference does it make?” Now? Quite a bit, hills ole girly.
The “image” of being elite. Really? An absolute incompetent gutter sucker of political money and lies. Still having her papers sifted and screened for content lest we “learn” anything more.
She thinks she can be President? How they have fallen— to refer to financiers for her campaign as being the “DeBlasio” wing... this happens to be Communist financiers.
” Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon alongside business titans like Alibaba’s Jack Ma and Goldman Sachs’ Lloyd Blankfein” a bunch of moron whore’s if there ever were any.
Lloyd Blankfein? Good Lord. Tumor head Jack (chicom cutout) Ma— who is fading fast.
Where is Riady, Hills, or John Wong? This stinks to high heaven, worse than climate “change” whores.
She’s like All Gore without the personality.
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