Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton encouraged President Barack Obama on Sunday to listen to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D) on trade.
"The president should listen to and work with his allies in Congress, starting with Nancy Pelosi," Clinton said while speaking at a rally in Iowa.
Pelosi took to the House floor Friday to oppose trade legislation Obama had personally lobbied for on Capitol Hill earlier that day.
“We have an opportunity to slow down,” Pelosi said. “Whatever the deal is with other countries, we want a better deal for America’s workers.”
Clinton encouraged lawmakers to work together to "make sure we get the best, strongest deal possible."
"And if we don’t get it, there should be no deal," she added.
Clinton said she wants to "find out what's in it and make it as good as it can be," and pushed for more transparency "so the American people can actually see what will be in a finalized deal."
I need to educate myself on Bernie Sanders a lil. I've heard some really good things about him. Although, I'll most likely be voting for Hillary but still.
Impressive she managed to partially fill a small... something.
I could choose to do passive aggressive comments about all the Republican candidates everyday on this thread like you here with Hillary but I'm choosing to hold off.
Just to clarify on my end...
I don't think Hillary's ideal, and would prefer someone like Bernie, just to correct what you said earlier.
Seeing as Hillary will be the likely Democratic nominee I'm voting for her. I'm not doing a write-in for Bernie in the general that will only help a Republican candidate.
Now that you know my position, what's yours? Who are you voting for?
MIAMI — Jeb Bush, the son and brother of a president, offered himself up as the most accomplished leader in the 2016 field, declared war on Washington’s political culture and insisted that his family name gave him no singular claim to the Oval Office as he formally entered the race for the White House on Monday.
As his mother, Barbara, the former first lady, looked on, Mr. Bush directly confronted the central doubt looming over his campaign: that he presents the latest incarnation of a tired dynasty and is entitled to the Republican nomination by virtue of his surname.
“Not a one of us deserves the job by right of resume, party, seniority, family, or family narrative,” Mr. Bush said inside a community college gymnasium. “It’s nobody’s turn. It’s everybody’s test.”
In declaring his presidential bid before a cheering crowd at Miami Dade College, Mr. Bush promised to remove Washington as an obstacle to effective government and economic prosperity by declaring that “America deserves better.”
Mr. Bush, whose two terms as governor of Florida were marked by the privatization of traditional state services, vowed to “take Washington – the static capital of this dynamic country – out of the business of causing problems.”
Mr. Bush called upon his own record of ambitious, conservative-minded change as Florida’s chief executive. “I know we can fix this,” Mr. Bush said. “Because I’ve done it.”
Mr. Bush, 62, declared his White House ambitions nearly 27 years after his father was elected president, molding a political dynasty that would propel one son into a governor’s office and another into the White House.
But Mr. Bush entered a presidential contest — unruly in size, unyielding in pace and voracious in cost — that is unlike any faced by his father, George Bush, who won the office in 1988, or his brother, George W. Bush, who claimed it in 2000.
In his speech, Mr. Bush offered himself up as a counterpoint to a Republican Party that has struggled to connect with minority voters, costing it the last two presidential elections. He also vowed to remain true to his principles, an implicit attack on his Republican rivals who have changed their views to appeal to the party’s conservative base.
And as the third member of his family to seek the nation’s highest office, he brings to the race a last name that at once burnishes and tarnishes, evoking the nobility of public service and a deep distrust of political entitlement.
Mr. Bush’s campaign highlighted that tension on Monday with the selection of a spare logo, first used in his failed 1994 race for governor, that excludes his surname. It reads simply “Jeb!” And while Mr. Bush’s wife, Columba, and his three adult children attended his speech, his father and brother did not join him for the announcement at the Kendall Campus of Miami Dade College.
Mr. Bush’s advisers and allies once predicted that he would emerge as the dominant Republican in the 2016 campaign, fueled by his record of conservative accomplishment as Florida’s governor, his popularity at the end of his time in office and the fund-raising prowess of the Bush family network. But now they are resigned to a far longer and uglier slog for him in the Republican nominating contest.
“The operative word inside the campaign is patience,” said Al Cardenas, a former Florida Republican Party leader and longtime ally of Mr. Bush. “As people get to know him, things will get better.”
Mr. Bush made his formal announcement here in the multicultural city that allowed him to escape from his family’s patrician roots in the ivy-covered walls of Connecticut and in the oil patches of Texas. It was Miami that eventually nurtured the political ambitions that had long been a birthright of his clan.
In his speech, he both embraced elements of his heritage and tried to transcend them, portraying himself as an entrepreneurial figure who, in the Bush family way, struck out on his own, built up a real estate business and became a governor who delivered on a promise of sweeping change.
“I said I was going to do these things, and I did them,” Mr. Bush declared in a video released by his political operation on Sunday night. “The result was Florida’s a lot better off.”
Joining a field crowded with governors and senators, he tried on Monday to distinguish himself as an executive animated by big ideas and uniquely capable of carrying them out, pointing to his record in Florida of introducing a taxpayer-financed school voucher program, expanding charter schools, reducing the size of state government by thousands of workers and cutting taxes by billions.
Above all, he offered himself as a messenger of optimistic conservatism, uninterested in the politics of grievance, obstructionism and partisanship that, in his eyes and those of his allies, have catapulted less accomplished rivals, like Senators Ted Cruz of Texas and Rand Paul of Kentucky, to national prominence.
Leadership, he says in the video, is “not just about yapping about things,” an unmistakable attack on his voluble, less seasoned rivals from the Senate.
He adds: “There’s a lot of people talking. And they’re pretty good at it. But we need to start fixing things.”
The risk for Mr. Bush, a cerebral figure who seems more at ease debating the intricacies of education policy with business leaders than electrifying a crowd of voters, is that the charismatic talkers in his party may outshine him before ballots are cast. He has yet to emerge as a front-runner in polls, lagging rivals in crucial states like Iowa, which will hold its caucuses early next year.
Mr. Cardenas said Monday’s speech was only the beginning of a long sales pitch that Mr. Bush must make in states with early nominating contests like Iowa and New Hampshire.
“I consider the early states an asset for most candidates who are introducing themselves, and a burden for Governor Bush,” Mr. Cardenas said. “The reason for that is that since 2006, many of our pundits in the party have not been kind to the Bush family” [...]
Many Republican elected officials who admire Mr. Bush have nevertheless held back from endorsing him, saying he still needs to prove himself as a candidate.
Jeb Bradley, the majority leader in the New Hampshire State Senate, said that Mr. Bush met his three criteria for an endorsement — leadership skills, appealing stances on most issues and ability to win — but that he was still open to backing two other Republicans, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida and Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin.
“I want to see what Governor Bush says in Monday’s speech, see him at a town-hall meeting up here, see what his fund-raising looks like,” Mr. Bradley said.
The announcement of Mr. Bush’s White House run ends an unusual, legally problematic and occasionally comical phase in which Mr. Bush traveled, raised money and campaigned as a full-fledged candidate but insisted, despite all evidence to the contrary, that he was not officially exploring a presidential run.
It was a claim that allowed Mr. Bush to collect vast sums of cash for the political entities that could supercharge his campaign, but it produced several moments of semantic gymnastics. (A few days ago, to the barely suppressed laughter of the reporters nearby, Mr. Bush referred to “election night” and the “campaign that is likely to take place.”)
Despite Mr. Bush’s stumbles so far, his friends and allies said his biggest asset was his unwillingness to transform himself into something he is not.
“I think he needs to put aside the last few months and continue to calmly show a grown-up attitude,” said Barry Wynn, a prominent South Carolina Republican and donor. “The two things that will distinguish him are his stature, that he is a grown-up ready for the presidency, and his consistency, that he’s not changing to make everyone happy.”
“The worst thing for Jeb to do,” Mr. Wynn said, “is give his opponents any opportunity to close the stature gap he enjoys.”
But it remains unclear whether conservative-leaning voters will be as animated by Mr. Bush’s “grown-up” qualities as the party’s donor class, which has formed his core of early support.
“I am going to be who I am,” he said in Europe last weekend, on a trip during which he barely interacted with ordinary people. He seemed content mostly to bat around policy ideas, as he did on Saturday in Estonia with a group of technology executives who briefed him on the digitalization of the country’s government.
“I’m not going to change who I am,” Mr. Bush said as he left the meeting, his last in Europe, and headed home.
I could choose to do passive aggressive comments about all the Republican candidates everyday on this thread like you here with Hillary but I'm choosing to hold off.
Just to clarify on my end...
I don't think Hillary's ideal, and would prefer someone like Bernie, just to correct what you said earlier.
Seeing as Hillary will be the likely Democratic nominee I'm voting for her. I'm not doing a write-in for Bernie in the general that will only help a Republican candidate.
Now that you know my position, what's yours? Who are you voting for?
You could choose to do that but it's unlikely you would need to since most of the comments about the Republicans are attacks on them or fairly well thought out opinions. In other words it's a Hillary love fest going on in here and the thread is being managed terribly.
You live in D.C? It does not matter who you vote for D.C has never has voted Republican.
I'm pretty much in the same boat unless Michigan swings back to Republicans. The state seems to flip flop for 5-6 elections cycles it's practically hopeless but not totally.
I already stated my position in this thread but I will give you a quick overview, to early, want to watch debates, I don't make snap judgments. I know quite a bit about politics and based on how things shake out and knowing this Congress there is even a chance I might vote for Hillary. It just depends on who the Republicans nominate. There are a ton of variables going through my head as to why I would choose her over a Rand Paul for example. I am not worried about Hillary as President she won't do anything progressive, she won't be allowed to. My main concerns are who is going to work with Congress and get things moving again.
Does anyone else maybe feel a little uneasy about families having multiple members run for President?
Not really as long as they qualified.
A CNN/ORC and Bloomberg/Des Moines Register Poll shows George W. Bush is now viewed more favorably than Hillary Clinton, and his favorability trumps President Obama's approval.
History usually treats presidents well and over time their approval goes up. So to say G.W. is going to be a drag on Jeb is certainly not the case in recent polling.
I may be the OP but I still am a person with a stance and I can post anything I want about the candidate I am supporting just as any other member can do. I post about her more than other candidates simply because other candidates aren't making the waves and creating as much news as her. It'd be silly to spend time posting about George Pataki and Lindsey ****ing Graham when they are essentially irrelevant to the race. If you don't like that I am Hillary-Posi, tough. You are free to post almost anything you want on any candidate so if you aren't seeing the content you'd like, you can either respectfully PM me or post it yourself.
5 takeaways from Jeb’s big announcement
Bush brings a heavy helping of Latin flavor (and punctuation) to his debut.
1. ¡JEB, the Latino candidate! From beginning to end, Bush’s campaign kickoff bore the stamp of Miami’s Latin flavor. Salsa music intermittently played as guests took their seats in the gymnasium of Miami Dade College in the suburb of Kendall.
2. Jeb wants to be the candidate of reform, not grievance. Bush pushed an image of himself as a fix-it politician who would start an aggressive reform agenda on Day One. “We need a president willing to challenge and disrupt the whole culture in our nation’s capital,” Bush said, zeroing in on education, one of his top issues as governor.
3. Jeb wants to change the legacy script. While his brother oversaw the beginnings of a devastating economic collapse, Bush foisted the legacy of an underwhelming economic recovery on Obama and pointed to his own financial legacy: high bond ratings and low unemployment.
4. Jeb’s stances on immigration and Common Core distance him from the GOP base, but his Catholic faith brings him back into the flock. His son, George P. Bush, highlighted his father’s religiosity, telling the crowd that “faith in God has organized his life and purpose — it has sustained him.” When it came time for Jeb to cast himself as a true conservative who will fight the progressive agenda, he chose to focus on something that underlined his faith and belief in religious liberty, blasting Hillary Clinton for saying that religious belief should come second when it conflicts with federal law.
5. Jeb’s bringing hustle to the game, and trying to shake the entitlement rep. “I will campaign as I would serve, going everywhere, speaking to everyone, keeping my word, facing the issues without flinching, and staying true to what I believe,” Bush promised at the close of his speech. “I will take nothing and no one for granted. I will run with heart. I will run to win.”
Inside the CNN article are the 45 instances, ranging from 2010-2013, where Hillary is quoted at various events pushing the Trans-Pacific Partnership bill. This is the bill Obama wants to pass as a legacy item and the Democrats killed it. Which is a good thing because it's a bill no one has read. The question is why didn't Hillary take a stance on TPP until after it was, for the most part, killed this week? She was for it for years but would not answer a single question about it for months. The answer is simple, she was afraid to take a stance and end up on the wrong side instead of staying what she believes.