HRC on global warming

She says the right thing

Posted by David Roberts at 5:04 PM on 15 Feb 2007

Hillary Clinton says the two questions she's asked most often by young people are about stopping genocide in Darfur and about stopping global warming. Here she is at a town hall meeting in New Hampshire:

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wow

If she's able to stay this on-target, saying things that don't threaten anybody yet still have actual content and address things that matter, she might actually have more of a shot than I thought.
(Note that I personally would love to see her as prez, I've just been concerned that she wouldn't be able to convince the rest of the country of her sterling characteristics.)

Also, let me just say I like her a whole lot better in adult-colored pantsuits than in those disastrous pastel girl-suits she wore when Bill was campaigning. Not that that's the measure of a politician, of course, but the pastel did grate on me, because I could tell she hated it.

by willa at 7:27 AM on 16 Feb 2007

I find her very hard to listen to...

I know Nader is persona non grata round these parts, but it's hard for me to deny his charge that HRC panders to and flatters her audience, whether it AIPAC or a bunch of greenie college kids.

While listening, I kept thinking about that post Dave put up, where the AEI guy claimed basically that the Dems had no serious plan to confront global warming.

I guess all mainstream candidates pander and flatter and quietly sell out; nothing special against HRC. Sure would be nice, though, if a straight talker had a shot.

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by Tom Philpott at 9:10 AM on 16 Feb 2007

It's the environment, stupid

I firmly believe that global warming as a political issue will be second only to Iraq in the 2008 presidential race. I know that Clinton's camp has said basically the same thing in conference calls to donors. While she may not be my 1st choice among the declared hopefuls, I am heartened at her recognition of this. The other side of it is that it's easy to talk a good game during the campaign. Let's hope that whoever occupies the white house in 2009 follows the talk with meaningful action on this issue.

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by Doug Snodgrass at 4:38 AM on 18 Feb 2007

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