The Nation reports that Hillary is currently pandering to we annoying idiots in the leftosphere while reassuring her base of rightwing corporate goons that it's all a ruse:
"Courting elements of the Democratic base while signaling to the corporate right that she won't shake up the system is a tricky juggling act," writes The Nation of Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton.
The article also mentions that she also had some choice words for Russ Feingold when she sought to weaken the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform legislation: "live in the real world."
Rant over the bend...
And just listen to what the Hillary machine is all about, boys and girls:
Her chief strategist, Mark Penn, not only polls for America's biggest companies but also runs one of the world's premier PR agencies. A bevy of current and former Hillary advisers, including her communications guru, Howard Wolfson, are linked to a prominent lobbying and PR firm--the Glover Park Group--that has cozied up to the pharmaceutical industry and Rupert Murdoch. Her fundraiser in chief, Terry McAuliffe, has the priciest Rolodex in Washington, luring high-rolling contributors to Clinton's campaign. Her husband, since leaving the presidency, has made millions giving speeches and counsel to investment banks like Goldman Sachs and Citigroup. They house, in addition to other Wall Street firms, the Clintons' closest economic advisers, such as Bob Rubin and Roger Altman, whose DC brain trust, the Hamilton Project, is Clinton's economic team in waiting. Even the liberal in her camp, former deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes, has lobbied for the telecom and healthcare industries, including a for-profit nursing home association indicted in Texas for improperly funneling money to disgraced former House majority leader Tom DeLay. "She's got a deeper bench of big money and corporate supporters than her competitors," says Eli Attie, a former speechwriter to Vice President Al Gore. Not only is Hillary more reliant on large donations and corporate money than her Democratic rivals, but advisers in her inner circle are closely affiliated with unionbusters, GOP operatives, conservative media and other Democratic Party antagonists.
Isn't keeping company like that the kind of shit that gets you banned at DailyKos?
I encourage everyone to read the article, and if you can somehow keep your gorge down long enough to maintain a useable computer keyboard please explain something to me:
How on Earth is anyone not being paid six figures by a Washington PR firm enthusiastic about this soulless, triangulating corporate automaton?