Hillary Clinton Doesn't Listen to Economists

Robert Reich's Blog by Robert Reich | May. 5, 2008 (Opinion)

When asked this morning by ABC News' George Stephanopoulos if she could name a single economist who backs her call for a gas tax holiday this summer, HRC said "I'm not going to put my lot in with economists."

I know several of the economists who have been advising Senator Clinton, so I phoned them right after I heard this. I reached two of them. One hadn't heard her remark and said he couldn't believe she'd say it. The other had heard it and ... Full Story »

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 by Chris Finnie - Oct. 1, 2008

I wondered if Reich would make the comparison between Clinton's remarks and George Bush's well-known penchant for ignoring disagreeable facts. And he does. I saw a clip of this interview last night, and worse than this remarkable statement, was the fact that she called the economists "elitist" about five times in a single sentence. Clearly aimed at Obama, it was as tacky a political performance as I've seen this year. But Reich nails this part of the issue fairly and squarely.

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