Subject: While my pro-Hillary column is most widely read on realclearpolitics.com.....
From: Brent Budowsky <[email-masked]>
To: John Podesta <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 16:10:01 -0400

"You know, I get accused of being moderate and center," Clinton told the audience,
in Ohio today, "I plead guilty."

There is more.  You get the idea.

I tripled fact-checked when I saw this reported on cable because I could not believe
my eyes or ears.

A Clintonian triangulation against liberals at this particular moment in her political
life is not the shrewd strategy I would propose.  If the next 48 hours to a week bring
a story line that Hillary's "banks are robber barons" etc. etc. etc. statements were
not sincere, that they were just insincere tilting left to be followed by a triangulating
counter-tilt back the other way......hell will hath no fury like the reaction from the Democratic base and the words "not trustworthy" will not be a stranger to the chorus
from liberals that will come next.

I must tell you, John, when I see things like this, there are moments when I think
her candidacy was just not meant to be.  I went out on a limb for her today, which
very few Democrats who are not paid by her have done recently as visibly and
strongly as I did today, and if I knew this kind of thing was coming I would never
have done it in a million years.

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