clock_of_omens said:

Elizabeth Warren.

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BILL MAHER: Let's talk about Hillary Clinton. She's in a bit of a mess because a couple of weeks ago she said when she and Bill left the White House, they were two broke girls. She did. She said, 'We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt. We had no money when we got here and we struggled to piece the other resources for mortgages, for houses, for Chelsea's education. It was not easy.'

And so true. When you emerge from the financial rut, which is the U.S. presidency, talk about a red flag on a resume. When they see that, that you ran the world for 8 years, nobody will hire you.

So, they're trying to keep walking this back. And people say, 'Well, Hillary being out there with her book tour talking about all this stuff, it's going to inoculate her. You know, there is a fine line between inoculate and we're sick of you.

My advice to Hillary: Just go away. Go away for a while. We're going to see each other in a couple of years. A lot. Just go away. Because otherwise, you're going to blow this. (HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, June 27, 2014)

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Dear Secretary Clinton,

Please consider this in the nature of a friendly intervention. You have a money problem. It’s time to deal with it before it gets worse.

Actually, you have two money problems. The first is how you talk about it. The second is how you collect it — or, to be more precise, the fact that you’re still frenetically collecting it.

Let me be clear at the outset: The issue isn’t that you’re rich, or even that you and your husband became rich after leaving office. American voters don’t have a problem with wealthy candidates or even wealthy ex-presidents and ex-officials.

They have a problem with wealthy candidates who are whiny and/or defensive about their wealth; who are greedy and/or ostentatious in their acquisition and display thereof; or whose wealth makes them, or makes them appear to be, out of touch with the concerns of everyday people. Your difficulties, at the moment anyway, appear to be chiefly in the first two categories: defensiveness and greed.

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clock_of_omens said:

Yep, Hilary sucks. I hope a real progressive runs.

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The Ecstatic said:

Both primaries will be cringeworthy.

The Democrats trying to pretend they aren't the establishment by rolling out the next Obama.

And the GOP still trying to reconcile compassionate Christianity with xenophobia and social darwinism.

Regardless of the outcome, I'm pretty sure we'll all be disappointed by the outcome in 2016.

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