The problem is much broader than Hillary Clinton, extending to Team Obama that promised hope and change on the campaign trail, including a break from Clintonite insider coziness. Once in office, Obama chose:
** three successive White House chiefs of staff who'd made fortunes in the financial industry: Rahm Emanuel (amassed $16 million within a couple years of exiting the Clinton White House), William Daley (JPMorgan Chase) and Jacob Lew (Citigroup/now U.S. Treasury Secretary).
** Wall Streeters to dominate his economic team, including Clintonites like Larry Summers as chief economic advisor and Peter Orszag as budget director.
** Monsanto executives and lobbyists for influential food and agriculture posts.
** a corporate healthcare executive to preside over healthcare "reform," while allowing pharmaceutical lobbyists to obstruct cost controls.
** an industry-connected nuclear power and fracking enthusiast as Secretary of Energy.
** two successive chairs of the Federal Communications Commission who've largely served corporate interests, including former lobbyist Tom Wheeler now undermining Net Neutrality.
In 2007, candidate Obama had taken on Hillary Clinton with campaign rhetoric like "I am in this race to tell the corporate lobbyists in Washington that their days of setting the agenda are over." The day after his inauguration, he promised to "close the revolving door that lets lobbyists come into government freely."
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