{"id":23344,"date":"2013-12-15T10:27:44","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T15:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=23344"},"modified":"2013-12-15T10:27:44","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T15:27:44","slug":"wall-streets-dream-matchup-in-2016-christie-vs-clinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/12\/15\/wall-streets-dream-matchup-in-2016-christie-vs-clinton\/","title":{"rendered":"Wall Street’s dream matchup in 2016 – Christie vs Clinton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sheldon Richman<\/a> says the big money folks on Wall Street know who they’d like to see at the top of the tickets for the 2016 presidential election, and they might just get their way:<\/p>\n

If you share my belief that the major obstacle to the free society is the national-security\/corporate state, 2016 is shaping up to be a year of apprehension. The Wall Streeters, who are among the biggest advocates of partnership between big government and big business, are looking forward to a presidential contest between Hillary Clinton and Chris Christie, a contest the bankers can\u2019t lose.<\/p>\n

They have already discounted any populist rhetoric Clinton may need to fight off a primary challenge from, say, Sen. Elizabeth Warren. As \u201cone well-placed Democrat\u201d told Politico, \u201cWall Street folks are so happy about [having Clinton run] that they won\u2019t care what she says.\u201d<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

In Clinton, then, we have a friend of the bankers and a friend of the military-industrial complex, since as secretary of state she was an advocate of a muscular foreign policy, including intervention in Libya. (When she was in the Senate she voted to give George W. Bush a blank check to invade Iraq, and when she was first lady, she pushed Bill Clinton to drop bombs on the Balkans).<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd if the banking class is delighted with Clinton lately,\u201d Politico notes, \u201cthe feeling appears mutual.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wall Street\u2019s first choice on the GOP side is apparently Chris Christie, the governor of New Jersey. He had his own meeting with the big-money crowd in July 2011. Politico<\/em> calls him \u201cthe candidate with the best chances at winning the support of bankers in the next presidential election.\u201d<\/p>\n

At that 2011 meeting: “Henry Kissinger [!], the former secretary of state, stood and pleaded with the governor to enter the presidential race for the good of his country. Christie would, of course, resist their pleas, becoming perhaps even more alluring to those on Wall Street as a prospect for 2016.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sheldon Richman says the big money folks on Wall Street know who they’d like to see at the top of the tickets for the 2016 presidential election, and they might just get their way: If you share my belief that the major obstacle to the free society is the national-security\/corporate state, 2016 is shaping up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,53,13],"tags":[436,727,768,670,517],"class_list":["post-23344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-politics","category-usa","tag-banking","tag-cronycapitalism","tag-democrat","tag-hillaryclinton","tag-republican"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-64w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23345,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23344\/revisions\/23345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}