Different Party, Different Year, Same Hillary
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The Democratic Party that rejected Hillary Clinton in 2008 is even more distant from her now. It’s more resistant to military entanglements, more leery of Wall Street and more firmly in favor of pot smoking.
And there’s Clinton, still stubbornly centrist to the core, straddling the fence on legalizing marijuana, staying close to her supporters in the world of finance, making clear she’d have armed Syrian moderates when President Barack Obama didn’t -- and all but certain to win the party’s nomination this time.