Clinton Speech Fails to Erase Her Long Record as Agent of Corporate Oligarchs

Hillary Clinton’s speech at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) was made to satisfy the U S establishment and its status quo and offered no real hope that she would defy the elites with innovative policies, US analysts told Sputnik.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – On Thursday, Clinton officially accepted the Democratic presidential nomination at the party’s convention in Philadelphia and delivered a speech claiming she was ready to be the next leader of the United States.

"Even if she said anything new, she won't do anything different," Institute of Public Affairs analyst Netfa Freeman said on Friday. "She is an agent of the corporate, oligarchic status quo. Their politicians publicly lie habitually."

Clinton’s long record of 24 years in national US politics had left a long and consistent track record of policy and personal pledges she had failed to honor, Freeman maintained.

"She has lied too many times to ever consider anything she says as remotely trustworthy," he stated.

Freeman said Clinton’s speech should not be assessed by the details of any or all of the policies she had promised to implement, but by the Emotional effect it was likely to have on faithful supporters of the Democratic Party.

"I don't bother analyzing their speeches. They are empty noises designed to placate the masses," Freeman concluded.

Woodrow Wilson Center senior analyst Shihoko Goto told Sputnik that Clinton had succeeded in her main goal of placating a potentially fractious and unruly Democratic Party.

"All worst case scenarios for the convention were avoided," Goto observed. "There were no riots, the Bernie [Sanders] supporters largely fell into place with the party, and Clinton clearly demonstrated that the Democratic establishment is fully behind her."

However, Clinton still faced major challenges on trade issues where she could not hope to reconcile the free trade international agreements she had supported in the past with the blanket opposition to them among the 12.5 million who voted for Sanders, Goto added.

"One big wild card though remains trade. She had been one of the key architects of Trans-Pacific Partnership [TPP] as secretary of state but has essentially turned her back on it," Goto recalled.

Goto predicted that once elected Clinton would drop her opposition to the TPP and again seek to get it approved.

"Politically it would be difficult for her to support it now but if she is elected president, she will need to acknowledge that TPP is critical as a foreign policy tool and rejecting it would hurt US relations in Asia," she maintained.

Goto said current US president Barack Obama might try to rush approval of the TPP through before he stepped down to protect Clinton from the embarrassment of having to publicly support it.

Clinton also reassured foreign allies in her convention speech, making clear her commitment to support the existing alliances including NATO, Goto said.

Clinton will now face Republican nominee Donald Trump in the national presidential elections on November 8.