Subject: CNN and bed-wetting
From: Brent Budowsky <[email-masked]>
To: John Podesta <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 07:44:26 -0400

HRC's appearance on CNN was awful.  She made statements that were untrue and
appeared legalistic, evasive and programmed.  And gave the worst possible answer
on the trust issue when there multiple possible answers that were all better.

I like Dan Pfeiffer, but I told him yesterday that his bed-wetting nonsense was all
wrong and not helpful to Hillary.  When Plouffe said that, he pissed off liberals and
contributed to Republicans winning control of the House and Senate.  And when
I see Dan, Nate Silver and various other insider pundits saying what they are saying,
I have been to enough rodeos to know that thoughts are being planted from the
Obama-Clinton consultant class (not you, and you know who I mean).  This is not
helpful to Hillary, quite the contrary, Bernie has zero chance of being nominated and
Hillary is going to need every liberal supporting her to vote, which is why I am being
very friendly to Bernie and will have some credibility when the time comes to encourage his people to get on the train with Hillary.....

Considering how long the Clinton campaign was planned, this thing is very weirdly
off-key....

And it would not be against her interest for Hillary to support the partial version of
Glass-Steagall offered by Elizabeth and John McCain....if a Republican like McCain 
can sponsor it, she should be able to support it, and it would do wonders to help
her with liberals and trust without any downside from moderate voters except a
few Wall Street donors who might not like it, but if they support her now, they will not
abandon her because of this bill....

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