Hillary Clinton: I Totally Didn't Mean to Say That Businesses Don't Create Jobs or Something

You didn't build that.

What she'd said:

"Don't let anybody tell you that corporations and businesses create jobs," Clinton had said at the rally in Boston, where she appeared on behalf of gubernatorial candidate Martha Coakley along with Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a populist, anti-Big Banks crusader who has become the wished-for candidate from some progressives for 2016.

She now says she meant something else.

"Trickle down economics has failed. I short-handed this point the other day, so let me be absolutely clear about what I’ve been saying for a couple of decades," she said. "Our economy grows when businesses and entrepreneurs create good-paying jobs here in America and workers and families are empowered to build from the bottom up and the middle out -- not when we hand out tax breaks for corporations that outsource jobs or stash their profits overseas."

Not even all Democrats are convinced:

But some Democrats who back Clinton said privately she appeared to be trying too hard to capture the Warren rhetoric and adjust to the modern economic progressive language -- much in the way President Barack Obama did during a campaign rally in 2012, when, discussing businesses' relationships to the infrastructure of cities, he said, "You didn't build that."

Mary-Katharine Ham wrote this up last night.

She included Charles Krauthammer's observation:"It does show you how much the Democrats overestimate her skill as a politician."

If course, that didn't stop the media's previous darling.

posted by Ace at 12:37 PM

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