September 13, 2016
IT'S ACTUALLY BILL'S 7TH:
Republicans Say Hillary Clinton Is Running for Obama's Third Term. Yes, Please. (Jonathan Chait, 9/13/16, New York)
One of the phrases that keeps cropping up in Republican election rhetoric is that Hillary Clinton is "running for Obama's third term." Oftentimes it is used as though the distastefulness of such a scenario is self-evident. "POTUS making no bones about it: Hillary running for Obama's third term," gloated Republican senator John Cornyn during Obama's convention speech. Republican strategist Scott Reed argues that GOP members of Congress may have abandoned their nominee 20 years ago, but "Dole was running in '96 against an incumbent with a 4.5 percent growing economy and world peace. Clinton is now running for Obama's third term." This is a bizarre line of reasoning to use against a popular, historically successful president. A third Obama term sounds awfully good, and not just in comparison to the unthinkable alternative.
To make this argument really resonate she needs to sound more like him, pushing freer trade, entitlement reform, amnesty and killing Salafi.
Posted by Orrin Judd at September 13, 2016 4:58 PM