Subject: HRC's Monday speech
From: Brent Budowsky <[email-masked]>
To: John Podesta <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2015 08:38:40 -0400

The best single thing HRC could do---by far----is support the Glass-Steagall bill
by Warren and McCain.  I doubt she will ever do it; which is why I feel such a deep
misgiving about this campaign.  I am watching the Monday speech very closely and believe it is far more important to her campaign than people realize.  She cannot
keep saying she is a fighter second to none for working people and keep repeating
her performance during the trade debate.  And it will not serve to her be bold and
courageous about easy issues like kindergarten and paid leave---wonderful issues
but easy for Democrats---and silent and evasive about hard issues that affect her
sources of money.

Right now the best case I envision is she backs into the presidency without any
meaningful mandate,  low levels of trust and a Republican Congress.  In which case
she will move nominally but not credibly left before the convention, then move right
after the convention, then move further right after the election and call for a new era
of bipartisanship with a Republican Congress-----this is exactly the scenario, while
liberals won't say it as directly as I do, that depresses just enough Democratic turnout
to keep a Republican Congress in a 50-50 country.

I do not know one Democrat who agrees with Dan's bed-wetting nonsense who is
not paid by the Clintons, wants to be paid by the Clintons, or wants a job in a
Clinton presidency.

I could form a government from the Democrats who have told me privately I should
write this column----names you know who Hillary thinks are her staunch supporters---
who feel exactly the way I do, don't have the balls to let me quote them, but urge me
privately to write this myself.

For someone who has been around the highest level of politics for decades as HRC
has, who has had years to plan the 2016 campaign, yet who still has not given a
clear and exciting rationale for why she wants to be president except being elected---
this, for me, has ominous implications.

So I am watching the Monday speech carefully for these reasons, and the only difference between me and others is that I am telling you this far more candidly
and directly than I suspect others who want money and jobs from her are doing.  

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