The degree to which candidate Hillary Clinton will have to answer for President Bill Clinton’s mistakes has always, I think, been overstated. The most obvious reason, of course, is that although she shares a name with the 42nd president, she is quite clearly a distinct, separate human with a record of her own that we can evaluate and parse. Another good reason? She’s the one widely expected to be the Democratic nominee in 2016; he hasn’t been on a ballot for nearly 20 years. Still, there’s no point in denying that the leftward drift of the Democratic Party since the ‘90s — most especially and recently on economic issues — will create for Clinton some awkward moments. 

The Democratic front-runner’s speech on the economy is more proof that she’s ready to move beyond Third Way-ism