On Meet the Press Sunday, Chuck Todd challenged Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta to defend a long list of Hillary policy flip-flops on same-sex marriage, immigration, NAFTA, the Iraq war, Cuba policy, criminal sentencing.
“How [can] progressives believe these are changes of conviction and not simply changes of convenience because the Democratic electorate has changed?” asked Todd.
“I don’t think there’s anybody who’s been more consistent in her entire career. … [Hillary has] made her priorities clear, her values clear,” said Podesta, before conceding that “You know, times change.”
“A decade ago, I think a lot of people had a different view on marriage equality,” said Clinton’s campaign chairman. “Today, the country has shifted. … I think circumstances change. This isn’t 1992. It’s not 2008. It’s 2015, and she’ll take positions that are consistent with a long-term, longtime set of values that have made her a progressive in the best sense of the word.”
Podesta used the LGBT issue as an example of where Hillary Clinton has not just followed the majority of Americans’ opinions but “gone further” than them in saying “we need to protect the LGBT community in the workplace.”
