she saw that supporting it publicly was toxic. Her resistance to change had nothing to do with embarrassing President Obama but with the fact that she had participated in negotiating it and had called it the gold standard.

I still do not trust HRC. I credit the progressive movement with forcing her to change her positions and that is the point in being active politically. Politicians rarely change because they want to. They need to either be forced to or be given the right political environment to support changing their once previous bad positions.

both in campaigns and in Congress. You should thank them for paying attention to the American people.

It's hard to really know what Presidents will do considering the evolving political climate. Obama ran for President as anti-gay marriage, then we put all kinds of pressure on him and he's been the best LGBT rights President in history. He's done a couple things I disliked (kicking Jennicet Gutierrez out of the WH pissed me off) but mostly he's responded to pressure.

I think HRC supporters should have been a little more gentle in the primary about reinforcing that she's transparently going to respond to political pressure. Everybody knows that, and we don't have to like it to make it work for the Left.

she is promising certain actions. You can attribute her evil motives however you want if it makes you sleep better. I am not going to argue it with you beyond stating my opinion which I have done.

WTF.... I don't 'thank' someone for doing their job, their only priority is 'paying attention' to the citizens

I would 'thank' them if they went above and beyond, so far I haven't seen much of that from our politicians these past years