Clinton Speaks Briefly with Press on Her New Plane Politico

Hillary kept her sense of humor this morning, as the press joined on on the maiden flight of her new campaign plane. Clinton greeted the 40 or so journalists traveling with her on the Boeing 737 emblazoned with the campaign's 'H' logo and campaign message 'Stronger Together' covering a large space of the aircraft.

The press corps -- having bitterly complained about her lack of press conferences -- didn't know how to respond when Hillary walked to the back of the plane to welcome them.

"I'm thrilled," our candidate said. "No really!f I wanted to welcome you onto the plane. I think it's pretty cool, don't you?"

Not knowing how to casually respond to Clinton, the plane was quiet. "You're supposed to say yes," Hillary smiled.

Hillary Clinton Gets Gored by Paul Krugman New York Times

With Hillary Clinton packing up her new jet plane today -- with press and herself together -- she and her aides should use the opportunity to educate and inquire of the press how they determine stories. The double standard in press coverage is becoming downright alarming.

Increasingly, it’s hard to escape the impression that Donald Trump is being graded on a curve. As Krugman points out, if the Republican blowhard manages to read from a TelePrompter without going off script, the press pronounces that Trump is being presidential. If he flips twice in one day, suddenly suggesting that he wouldn’t send a police force to round up all 11 million undocumented immigrants right away -- deciding to focus on the first 3 million - he’s now moving into the mainstream, even though new polls say over 70% of Americans believe in immigration reform and a legal path for the undocumented to come out of the shadows. The press cares little about what appear to be clear payoffs to state attorneys general to back off investigating Trump University.

Simultaneously, the press assumes that anything Hillary Clinton does must be corrupt, most spectacularly illustrated by the increasingly bizarre coverage of the Clinton Foundation, as AOC has noted.

"Step back for a moment, and think about what that foundation is about", writes Krugman. "When Bill Clinton left office, he was a popular, globally respected figure. What should he have done with that reputation? Raising large sums for a charity that saves the lives of poor children sounds like a pretty reasonable, virtuous course of action. And the Clinton Foundation is, by all accounts, a big force for good in the world. For example, Charity Watch, an independent watchdog, gives it an “A” rating — better than the American Red Cross."'

The situation is so bad that yesterday moderator of NBC's 'Meet the Press' Chuck Todd let a Trump spokesman allege the thoroughly debunked assertion that the Clinton Foundation only donates about 20% of its contributions to charity. The truth about anything Clinton has no place in a media that generally has disliked Hillary Clinton for decades. It's just her reality, and we the voters hear more lies than truth about Hillary Clinton from mainstream media.

Same Day | Two Realities

On Labor Day, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton begin Final Sprint New York Times

Some days, a picture is worth a thousand words. I give you the Hillary Clinton plane and Donald Trump's. Now Hillary is back with the press and Trump is speaking to a couple media embeds. Still, Trump is white boys club all the way in this shot Hillary is of the people. Huma was on board in the front, along with other members of the Clinton team -- judged the most diverse and balanced by skin color, gender and sexual identity than any campaign team in history. And they know her for years -- decades in some cases. Hillary doesn't have to shop for people to fill any quotas. She has staffed her organizations this way for decades.

Trump Says He Would Have Left G-20 Summit in China Over Obama Staircase Flap Washington Post

If you've traveled the world on business for decades with legendary business relations with people in other countries, this Trump comment reminds me of why the man would be an international embarrassment truly capable of launching WWIII. PS: I was considered to be very tough, too. But not stupid and not an ugly American who thinks he is the center of the universe -- the king. ~ Anne

Young Blacks Voice Skepticism on Hillary Clinton, Worrying Democrats New York Times

This is indeed a potentially very serious situation, one exacerbated by the ferocious Democratic primary campaign. I'm struggling that young African Americans really think there is no major difference between Hillary Clinton and Trump. There is absolutely NO comparison about the future of people of color in a Republican Supreme Court. The Black community really needs to have some serious dialogue between older and younger. This is a conversation that needs to happen outside of HWN. We are not qualified -- not having the direct life experience, although Anne did represent inmate interests at Attica prison in a post-riot world -- to attempt the dialogue on this topic. But young African Americans are being very short-sighted in equating Trump and Clinton.

Hillary Clinton Headlines September 5, 2016

Trump Denies He Talked With Florida Attorney General About Donation Washington Post

African Americans worry Trump has awoken a resentment that won't go away Washington Post

The Cowardice of Donald Trump The Atlantic

14 excerpts from the FBI's report on Hillary Clinton Mother Jones

Hillary Clinton, rarely seen, rarely heard Politico

As reporters speculate that Hillary Clinton -- with her extreme dislike of the press -- can't be thrilled that as of Labor Day, they will all board her 'Stronger Together'-wrapped 737 airplane, her staff says the candidate is on board. For the first time in 2016, they will head from New York to Ohio to Iowa.

"She does understand that there is very good reason why it's important for everyone to be together in the thick of a general election,” said her traveling spokesman Nick Merrill. “We're going wrap the plane in blue and get on it together. There's a desire to be efficient and be able to do things a little more impromptu.”

Hillary Clinton's Feminism

Hillary Clinton's feminism: a conversation with Rebecca Traister VOX

VOX's Tara Golshan asks Rebecca Traister this question: From the time Clinton entered politics to the 2016 presidential election, there has been a massive shift in feminism. How has Clinton positioned herself in this shift?

TRAISTER: "I have interviewed her; I have talked to her a bit about this. I can't say with any authority, "well, she learned this from contemporary feminism," but my impression is, like a number of women her age who lived through the women’s movement, [who] were products of the women’s movement, then came to their professional adulthood during a period of anti-feminism — where they were totally vilified — I think it has taken her some time to understand that feminism is back.

Feminism has been re-embraced, popularized, which is often problematic in wide ranging ways. There is more than one generation of women that were totally scarred about what they could actually say: Older women who were at the height of their professional careers in the '80s and '90s. As a teenager I remember it — how vicious the anti-feminism backlash was. Hillary Clinton was the subject and object of so much of it.

My guess is over the years one of her advisers must have whispered to her it’s okay, it’s okay to say it again. Look, she wrote a post for the Toast. Are you kidding? She has been very interested in young feminist writers in a way that suggests to me she understands that there is another media in play and it’s a feminist media."

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National Polls Tighten, Swing States Not Much

Trump cuts into Clinton's lead as crucial stretch begins Politico

“The wildness and unpredictability of the last sixteen months?” said Democratic Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper. “It's only going to increase. It’s not going away. Hold on to your hat."

Clinton’s camp is taking nothing for granted and admit to worrying that if he maintains his current path, he could pare points off battleground states in which Hillary leads on average by about five points.

Clinton aides are concerned about a Trump factor that they cannot control: Donald Trump's past performance has been so extreme, that there is a very low performance bar for him to have a good day. He wins by calmly looking and speaking presidential in Mexico -- even though a tweet storm broke out after he left. Unless he has a total debate stage meltdown, just standing on the same stage as Hillary Clinton will give him a boost. So don't believe assertions that the Clinton folks think the presidential election win is in the bag. They don't.