Hillary Does 'Mad Money' - 3 Takeaways

Key takeaways:

1) She's not that scary, after all. Hillary Clinton may or may not have much use for Corporate America, but she can at least create an illusion of fluency on economic and market issues that's likely as convincing as anything Obama or McCain could muster.

2) Cramer is a heckuva good interviewer. He asks smart questions in a energetic way, and gets smart, energetic answers in return--that even seem semi-candid. Plus, he had her on for 17 minutes, a lifetime in cable-news time.

3) Still, it's not hard to detect in Hillary, just beneath the surface, an overwhelming urge to overregulate.

P.S. Did I hear right, or at around 4:51 does she try to take partial credit for the Internet bubble?

Comments

[Lisa:]

This video format is really sneaky. It looks like YouTube, ie. that it will play without taking you to a different website, but in fact it takes you somewhere else. The "play" button is really misleading - the whole image is just one big link.

2008 Apr 03 10:58 AM

[drmalaka:]

I could only watch half the interview becuase I figured I would go play softball with Cramer. Don't give him props for those questions, if she did not give him those questions then he gave her them prior to the interview for her to answer. This was a complete set up.

There are so many things she said that had no factual or economic basis and he just let her slide on it. Perhaps it has something to do with him being a Bolshivick. The only thing he tried to get her on is her anti NAFTA stance but that was a half hearted effort.

He did not even nail her on her rediculous oil stance, a complete lack of understanding how economics and markets work.

2008 Apr 03 01:25 PM

[Whole Truth:]

Not scary? Wanting to confiscate oil company "windfall" profits not scary? Retroactively change mortgage loan terms not scary? Oppose NAFTA not scary? Tax, tax, tax, spend, spend, spend not scary? Universal health care not scary? (The doctors of the AMA don't agree). Declare defeat in the war on terror not scary? And that's not even counting the fact that she is a "congenital liar", whose policies in practice would not doubt be more liberal than the soft-pedalled ones she campaigns on (especially on financial TV!). "Illusion" indeed - hence #3. Sounds pretty scary to me.

2008 Apr 03 03:45 PM

[deaverb:]

Over regulate is her instinct. How can anyone on the street support her? Makes no sense. On Main Street she is bad, but on the street??

2008 Apr 04 10:00 AM

[USER 118677:]

If she wins, we are DOOMED!!!!! It was softball all the way. Cramer is backing her to the destruction of the USA. He should know better.

2008 Apr 04 12:28 PM

[bill d:]

You left out -"freeze interest rates for 5 years".
That'll sure as hell cool down the housing/mortgage problem as well as most anything else in the economy. Course she didn't say what rate - Maybe a Carter rate - say 19% ???. Bigger clown than her husband.

2008 Apr 04 01:30 PM

[mixter:]

Hillary is a liar and an idiot! People who support her are triple idiots!

Who in their right mind would claim to be a Dim-wit-o-crat after the presidential candidates they have fielded, starting with Jimmy "the wimp" Carter?

2008 Apr 04 05:52 PM

[Michael Riley:]

100 million in three years i wonder how much money they have invested in oil stocks.? Can we have a windfall tax on lying politicians income?

2008 Apr 04 06:16 PM