REASON
by Scott Shackford
June 13, 2015

Her big ‘launch’ speech is full of absolutely no surprises

….Hillary Clinton flung heaps of delicious red meat to a crowd of supporters on Roosevelt Island in New York this afternoon. It was a rally to launch her already-launched presidential campaign with a lengthy, if rather vague, statement of her intentions as president. It was not a bad speech by any means, though any libertarian is going to struggle to find much to support in her platform (her immigration position, perhaps). It was full of left populist talking points about how the rich are getting richer and the poor are stagnating and completely unironic complaints about how the Republicans are serving the needs of rich corporations and not the public….She had nothing of any substance to say about foreign policy, despite being a former secretary of state.  She said she’d “do whatever it takes to keep Americans safe,” and spoke vaguely about diplomacy and America being a world leader. READ MORE