- At a rally on New York's Roosevelt Island, she invoked the memory of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, saying FDR brought "a wider and constantly rising standard of living" to all Americans, a promise, Clinton said, "that still sounds good to me."
"Sketches" is right, there was no really specific nitty-gritty kind of policy ideas she put forth, unlike Bern. I'm not an idealist, but with Sanders I can say he supports universal health care, free college for qualified students, and so on. A person can comfortably say "Well, he'll try to do X and Y, even if he may only get parts of each". I just don't feel that way with Hillary, and I feel baffles that people that consider themselves 'very liberal' would.
I'm. It a HC fan, but her history tells us a lot about her. Most of us know this history. Bernie has to put out specifics because most people don't know him. Last I checked, his website didn't have a lot of specifics. It's great to say I want money out of politics, for example, but it's a much different thing to say , "and this is how I will do it." That's what I'm waiting to hear from all candidates. We will see if any say it. Normally, they don't.say he supports universal health care,
-Knowing some history about Hillary wouldn't necessitate her overtly stating that she supports universal health care. She was one the first to attempt it at the national level. She kinda paved the way.
If the race seems tight (and it probably will be), I'll vote for whoever the Democratic party puts forward, just because the Republican candidate will be scary as hell. But if it isn't tight, I'll vote for somebody outside the two party system. She just said a bunch of things I like to hear, but I've seen enough elections now that I know they don't mean anything. If she truly wants my vote, she's needs to throw real and substantial support into the Represent Us movement. That's my number one issue.
I usually vote in the Republican primary instead for that reason. The Democratic candidate is going to be a right wing but not outright malicious asshat, while the Republicans have a reasonable chance of picking a candidate too nutty to have a chance of winning. That the Republicans loose is much more important than which lesser evil we get stuck with instead.I'll vote for whoever the Democratic party puts forward
This is exactly how I feel. I'm going to be skeptical of any candidate until I hear actual plans or real action from them. I'm thinking this is just her trying to get the far left vote.She just said a bunch of things I like to hear.
To be honest, even though I don't like her, and I won't vote for her (nor anybody running under the two main parties), she likely has the most political pull to get things like this done. While it would be nicer if she could give specifics, and say what kind of legislation she would push, I do think she'd actually be willing to do a lot of these things, especially given her age would probably make her feel less inclined to bend towards all her financiers. Bernie Sanders, on the other hand, while he quite clearly will act towards all these goals, doesn't quite have the same political clout, and I imagine under his administration there'd be a lot more resistance to any legislation he pushes. So while you'd have an idealist (although I still have my issues with some of his ideals) you'd also have someone who's likely not well liked by the Democratic loyalists, and certainly isn't liked by Republicans. I can't see his administration actually being effective in much, except for things that are under direct control of the President like foreign policy, of which he's a bit less outspoken, and what he is outspoken about in that regard isn't always that great.