CAN HILLARY SEPARATE FROM OBAMA WHEN THEY AGREE ON SO MUCH? As Democrats try to gear up for 2016 after a resounding defeat in last weeks midterms, many of them profess the opinion that Republican control of both houses of Congress will work to their advantage. In interviews with The Washington Post, numerous Democratic Party operatives said GOP control would make it easier for Clinton to define herself and would remove the temptation to compare or contrast herself with Obama. Obamas legacy is now entirely dependent on the election of a Democratic successor as president who will protect and extend it, not demolish it, said David Brock, a chairman of American Bridge, a super PAC that backs Democrats. Brock, a Clinton ally, said that if the former secretary of state runs for president, she would share along with Obama a common enemy in a Republican Congress that will define politics through 2016. Republicans say that the policy differences between the two are minimal, a point they will attempt to drive home to the public again and again. Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin, for example, ticks off seven issues, including Obamacare, cap and trade, raising taxes on the rich, and the so-called reset of relations with Russia. On these and other issues, there is little to no substantive difference between the two, Rubin writes.
Posted on: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 22:04:34 +0000
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