NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton launched her presidential campaign in earnest Saturday with a speech and rally in a setting that evoked a revered Democratic past as much as — if not more than — the party's desired future.To explain her vision of prosperity, she cited two voices from the Depression: President Franklin D.Roosevelt and her mother.
Speaking on an island in the East River named for FDR, she echoed some of that president's anti-Wall Street rhetoric, repeatedly criticizing populist targets such as hedge fund managers, tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations that stash profits. "You see the top 25 hedge fund managers making more than all of America's kindergarten teachers combined, and often paying a lower tax rate,'' Clinton said. "So, you have to wonder: 'When does my hard work pay off? When does my family get ahead?'"
And echoing the "four freedoms'' Roosevelt declared in a 1941 speech, Clinton identified "four fights'' she'd wage as president: for equitable economic growth, for national security, for better treatment of children and families and for more efficient and less corrupt government. Against this, she slammed the "new voices" in the Republican field who she said are "singing the same old song, a song called Yesterday."
The Republican National Committee replied that her speech was "chock full of hypocritical attacks, partisan rhetoric and ideas from the past.'' Read More Here
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