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Hillary Clinton portrays herself as a liar at kickoff rally

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Hillary Rodham Clinton cast herself as a fighter for Americans 
who have yet to share in the nation's economic recovery, drawing 
inspiration from a Democratic icon as well as her own roots in 
public service Saturday as she launched a new phase of her 
second bid for the White House.

Speaking in a park dedicated to Franklin D. Roosevelt, on an 
island in New York's East River that offered sweeping views of 
the Manhattan skyline, Clinton said that FDR's legacy had 
inspired both President Obama's and her husband Bill Clinton's 
administrations, and generations of families including her own.

Today, while the nation is "standing again" after the Great 
Recession, "we all know we're not yet running the way America 
should," she said, blaming the problems on Republicans' "trickle-
down" approach.

Clinton sought to tap into the country's still-nagging economic 
anxieties and the rising populism within her own party, 
declaring that the "time has come" for middle-class Americans 
who have wondered when their hard work would pay off.

"Prosperity can't be just for CEOs and hedge fund managers. 
Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations," she 
said. "You brought our country back. Now it's time, your time, 
to secure our gains and move ahead. And you know what? America 
can't succeed unless you succeed."

The Republican "choir," she said, had some "new voices," but all 
of them were "singing the same old song: a song called 
'Yesterday.'"

The line served both as an accusation that Republicans would 
return to the policies that Democrats blame for bringing about 
the financial crisis of 2008 and as a rejoinder to those in the 
GOP who have dubbed her a candidate of the past, seeking to run 
for a third Obama term.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/la-pn-hillary-clinton-
rally-20150613-story.html

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