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Progressives really, really, really wanted to hear from Hillary Clinton on the events in Ferguson, Mo., where an unarmed black teenager was shot and killed by a white police officer on Aug. 9, sparking days of unrest in that small city outside St. Louis and elsewhere.
Al Sharpton said he wanted to smoke Clinton out on Ferguson and suggested that if she ran in 2016, he would be a thorn in her side on civil rights issues.
MSNBC host Chris Hayes thought it was bizarre that Clinton hadnt at least weighed in with a statement on the incident, even though she hasnt made a habit of offering up opinions on much of anything outside of formal interviews and speeches. (She didnt release a statement on the beheading of Jim Foley by ISIS, for instance)
Well, she finally addressed Ferguson on Thursday, during a prepared speech, and it turns out that her comments were among the most substantive compared to what other political leaders have said.
Whereas most Democrats and Republicans, and eventually President Obama, addressed the militarization of the police, Clinton actually went there on an issue that most avoided: racism and the criminal justice system.
At her speech at the Nexenta OpenSDx Summit in San Francisco, she said we cannot ignore the inequities that persist in our justice system. And then she did what few of her prominent fellow white Democrats have done in the context of Fergusonshe acknowledged the well-known statistics that show that blacks get treated differently than whites when it comes to everything from traffic stops to sentencing. But rather than just listing the statistics, she got personal by asking whites to put themselves in the shoes of black Americans:
Imagine what we would feel and what we would do if white drivers were three times as likely to be searched by police during a traffic stop as black drivers instead of the other way around. If white offenders received prison sentences ten percent longer than black offenders for the same crimes. If a third of all white men just look at this room and take one-third went to prison during their lifetime. Imagine that. That is the reality in the lives of so many of our fellow Americans in so many of the communities in which they live.
Her statements in many ways echo those of Sen. Rand Pauls who also imagined himself as Michael Brown, mouthing off at a cop as a teen, but with a very different outcome based on race. Both Paul and Clinton went further in their statements than Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Obama, who in his third statement on Ferguson, touched on black crime rates, and only allowed that there might be sentencing disparities and differential treatment for blacks in the criminal justice system. Paul and Clintons boldness on racism and the criminal justice system is a risky and bold move, given the wide divide in how blacks and whites think about and experience race. Yes, its easier for whites to talk about racism than it is for blacks (witness Obama), but in asking whites to change their thinking about race and to essentially imagine themselves as black, both Paul and Clinton are doing something that has rarely been done in national politics in the last decade. Progressives, fueled by buyers remorse over Obama, are set on portraying Clinton as too moderate, ignoring, for instance, that she actually ran to the left of Obama on health care, and has spoken out, in formal settings, on voting rights as well. Some progressives noticed her comments on Ferguson, but even as they praised her, they questioned her motives:
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U.S. Sen. Rand Paul speaks at the Defending the American Dream Summit sponsored by Americans For Prosperity at the Omni Hotel Aug. 29, 2014, in Dallas, Texas. Mike Stone/Getty Images
Marking another milestone on his warpath against Hillary Clinton's status as the early 2016 Democratic presidential front-runner, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., took advantage of a friendly audience Friday to knock the biggest blemish on her record as secretary of state: the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist strike at a U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans.
"If she wants to be commander in chief and she cannot protect our embassies, I don't think that she could or should be," Paul said at a Dallas summit put on by Americans for Prosperity, an influential conservative organization backed by the billionaire industrialist Koch brothers. "I think it precludes her from ever being considered as commander in chief."
It's an opportune moment for Paul, who's not been coy about his own White House ambitions. A lurching investigation into the attack stands to dig a thorn in Clinton's side as she mulls whether to accept her well-groomed slot for the Democrats' top pick to succeed President Obama.
Some damning testimony from a prior series of congressional hearings, in which it was stated that requests for bulked-up security in Benghazi were routinely ignored, colors the former secretary of state as incompetent at worst and aloof at best. In her new memoir, "Hard Choices," Clinton deemed it the "biggest regret" of her tenure at the State Department.
Attempting to stifle critics from within Clinton's circle who believe the slow-go approach to probing Benghazi is motivated by politics, Paul told the hugely receptive crowd: "Yeah, politics is what happens to discuss whether people are fit for office. There will be a discussion over the next four years - whether Hillary Clinton is fit to lead this country."
Wielding his anti-interventionist policies, which have attracted many fans of his libertarian hero father, former Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, the younger Paul compared Benghazi to the 1993 mission in Mogadishu, Somalia, in which 18 members of the United States military were killed. Shortly following the tragedy, then-President Bill Clinton successfully urged the resignation of Defense Secretary Les Aspin.
"He ignored the request, and he resigned ultimately in disgrace," Paul said. "I think, had Hillary Clinton worked for Bill Clinton, she'd probably have been fired."
Paul has long been a mouthpiece against Hillary Clinton's foreign policy. On "Meet the Press" last Sunday, he predicted she'd drive away voters by being "a war hawk."
"I think that's what scares the Democrats the most, is that in a general election, were I to run, there's gonna be a lot of independents and even some Democrats who say, 'You know what? We are tired of war,'" Paul said last week. "We're worried that Hillary Clinton will get us involved in another Middle Eastern war, because she's so gung-ho."
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Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addresses the American Jewish Committee Global Forum on May 14, 2014 in Washington, DC. The AJC held the form to discuss topics related to the Jewish communities all around the world. Alex Wong, Getty Images
As investigation into the deadly Sept. 11, 2012 attack on a U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya crawls on, Democrats are starting to sweat that the biggest blemish on Hillary Clinton's record as secretary of state could resurface smack in the middle of the 2016 presidential cycle.
Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., who's chairing the special committee House Republicans constructed to continue an already lengthy probe into the terrorist strike that left four American diplomats dead, has said he expects the investigation to wrap by the end of 2015, which happens to be prime campaigning season. He told the New York Times the dawdled nature of the investigation isn't politics-driven.
"I promised the family members of the four slain and my colleagues on both sides of the aisle the investigation would be serious and fair," Gowdy said. "Nothing would undercut both of those promises like an orchestrated timing."
Phil Singer, a former Clinton campaign aide, argued otherwise: "If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it probably is a duck," he told the Times. "It's hard to look at the timing and think it's simply a coincidence that it would wrap up in the heart of the presidential campaign."
Democrats have called the new panel itself redundant, given that there have been seven separate committee investigations into Benghazi already. Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, the panel's top Democrat, told the Times: "The question now is what is left to investigate, and I do not think we need until 2016 to answer it."
In the forefront of the inevitable thorn in Clinton's side is some damning testimony in prior hearings from State Department officials. For instance, Gregory Hicks, the second-ranked diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, testified that his requests to deploy additional military resources in Benghazi to address heightened security issues were repeatedly denied.
Should the investigation lurch on through next year, it does stand to pose some serious cleanup for Clinton, who's been manning the frontline of Democrats' top-billed picks to succeed Mr. Obama for years.
Republicans have been building their case for months: Former Vice President Dick Cheney speculated in May that Clinton "clearly bears responsibility for whatever the State Department did or didn't do" in Benghazi. He also prophesized it would be "a major issue" for a future White House bid.
The wildly varying accounts of how administration officials reacted in the wake of the strike also provided some fodder.
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