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April 13, 2015
An Unabashedly Liberal Hillary Clinton
An Unabashedly Liberal Hillary Clinton
THE ATLANTIC, APR 13 2015, 7:02 AM ET
By PETER BEINART
Every presidential campaign is a bet on the American mood at a given moment in time. I watched Hillary Clintons presidential announcement video alongside the one she issued in 2007, and the speech she gave declaring her senate candidacy in New York in 2000. The upshot: America, as seen by Hillary and the people advising her, is a lot further left than it was a decade or two ago.
Here are some of the phrases that appeared in Hillarys 2000 senate announcement: voluntary uniform rating system for movies and films, welfare, more police on the streets, teacher testing in the face of boycotts, I dont believe government is the solution to all our problems and parents, all parents, must be responsible. The message was pure Clintonism, as developed when Bill ran the Democratic Leadership Council in the early 1990s: To deserve government help, people must be morally responsible. And it came naturally to a senate candidate who, although caricatured as a sixties radical, was better described, by a former White House aide, as a very judgmental Methodist from the Midwest.
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All that cultural conservatism is gone in the video she issued last night. Its not just the image of a gay male couple holding hands while announcing their impending wedding, followed later by what appears to be a lesbian couple. Its not just the biracial couple. Or the brothers speaking Spanish. Its also the absence of culturally conservative imagery: no clergymen, no police, one barely noticeable church. Instead, the video starts with a woman who is moving so her daughter can attend a better school. A bit later it features a woman who after staying home with her kids is going back to work. In both cases, theres no father in sight. Whether or not Clinton and her advisors were trying to showcase single mothers, they certainly werent afraid of being accused of showcasing them. In 2000, in the wake of a welfare reform debate in which single mothers were made symbols of the moral irresponsibility the Clintons campaigned against, these positive depictions would have been unimaginable.
The video Hillary released yesterday was also devoid of soldiers. And it contained no discussion of foreign policy. Compare that to Hillarys 2007 video, the first substantive words of which were: lets talk about how to bring the right end to the war in Iraq and to restore respect for America around the world. Later in that video, she championed her work protecting our soldiers.
More: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/an-unabashedly-liberal-hillary-clinton/390339/
THE ATLANTIC, APR 13 2015, 7:02 AM ET
By PETER BEINART
Every presidential campaign is a bet on the American mood at a given moment in time. I watched Hillary Clintons presidential announcement video alongside the one she issued in 2007, and the speech she gave declaring her senate candidacy in New York in 2000. The upshot: America, as seen by Hillary and the people advising her, is a lot further left than it was a decade or two ago.
Here are some of the phrases that appeared in Hillarys 2000 senate announcement: voluntary uniform rating system for movies and films, welfare, more police on the streets, teacher testing in the face of boycotts, I dont believe government is the solution to all our problems and parents, all parents, must be responsible. The message was pure Clintonism, as developed when Bill ran the Democratic Leadership Council in the early 1990s: To deserve government help, people must be morally responsible. And it came naturally to a senate candidate who, although caricatured as a sixties radical, was better described, by a former White House aide, as a very judgmental Methodist from the Midwest.
(snip)
All that cultural conservatism is gone in the video she issued last night. Its not just the image of a gay male couple holding hands while announcing their impending wedding, followed later by what appears to be a lesbian couple. Its not just the biracial couple. Or the brothers speaking Spanish. Its also the absence of culturally conservative imagery: no clergymen, no police, one barely noticeable church. Instead, the video starts with a woman who is moving so her daughter can attend a better school. A bit later it features a woman who after staying home with her kids is going back to work. In both cases, theres no father in sight. Whether or not Clinton and her advisors were trying to showcase single mothers, they certainly werent afraid of being accused of showcasing them. In 2000, in the wake of a welfare reform debate in which single mothers were made symbols of the moral irresponsibility the Clintons campaigned against, these positive depictions would have been unimaginable.
The video Hillary released yesterday was also devoid of soldiers. And it contained no discussion of foreign policy. Compare that to Hillarys 2007 video, the first substantive words of which were: lets talk about how to bring the right end to the war in Iraq and to restore respect for America around the world. Later in that video, she championed her work protecting our soldiers.
More: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/an-unabashedly-liberal-hillary-clinton/390339/
April 12, 2015
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January 4, 2015
She is a three-year-old mixed-breed. We adopted her from the Washington Animal Rescue League. They think she is part Dalmation and part Pointer. I think there are lots of other breeds mixed in as well. She was rescued from a shelter in Mississippi and brought up to DC. She is a really good girl -- very gentle, happy, and good with kids. Her tail is always wagging!
She's also semi-famous. For the last few weeks while she was in the shelter at the Washington Animal Rescue League, she and her puppies were featured on the Animal Planet Puppy cam. You can still watch her puppies there, but alas Rosie is no longer with them. (While she was in the shelter her name was Ellie Mae, and the animal planet website still shows her old name. But there is another dog named Ellie Mae literally right across the street from us, so we decided to give her a new name.) We did not know she was on the puppy cam until after we adopted her.
Meet the newest member of the Skinner family: Rosie!
She is a three-year-old mixed-breed. We adopted her from the Washington Animal Rescue League. They think she is part Dalmation and part Pointer. I think there are lots of other breeds mixed in as well. She was rescued from a shelter in Mississippi and brought up to DC. She is a really good girl -- very gentle, happy, and good with kids. Her tail is always wagging!
She's also semi-famous. For the last few weeks while she was in the shelter at the Washington Animal Rescue League, she and her puppies were featured on the Animal Planet Puppy cam. You can still watch her puppies there, but alas Rosie is no longer with them. (While she was in the shelter her name was Ellie Mae, and the animal planet website still shows her old name. But there is another dog named Ellie Mae literally right across the street from us, so we decided to give her a new name.) We did not know she was on the puppy cam until after we adopted her.
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