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Quite the replete article. I'm surprised to see it on daily kos.
The Definitive, Encyclopedic Case For Why Hillary Clinton is the Wrong Choice
It covers: (with select snippets)
The Definitive, Encyclopedic Case For Why Hillary Clinton is the Wrong Choice
It covers: (with select snippets)
The Definitive, Encyclopedic Case For Why Hillary Clinton is the Wrong Choice
- DOMA and gay marriage
- NAFTA [and TPP] (“She has, in fact, a long record of verbally criticizing free-trade agreements, but then supporting them when in office.”)
- Welfare reform (Hillary: “Too many of those on welfare had known nothing but dependency all their lives")
- Minimum wage
- 2001 Bankruptcy bill (“She did a 180 once she became senator,” he said. “It was galling.”)
- Iraq War
- Reining in Wall Street ("The Glass-Steagall Act that was repealed by Bill Clinton in 1998 is considered to be one of the underlying causes of the financial crisis of 2008.")
- Cluster bombs ("Hillary Clinton voted in 2006 (as this story explains) to let our military continue to use cluster bombs in areas with concentrated civilian populations")
- Other arms sales
- Human rights abroad
- Children from Central America
- The for-profit prison industry
- Death penalty
- Domestic spying
- No Child Left Behind ("as a U.S. senator, she served on the Senate Health, Education and Labor Committee, as a key member shaping the No Child Left Behind Act")
- American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 (“The most absurd corporate tax giveaway of 2005.”)
- Climate change ("She supported the KXL pipeline until she suddenly came out against it last September; She supported offshore drilling until she suddenly didn’t in December; She supported promoted fracking around the world as environmentally safe and still supports fracking in the U.S; She still supports fossil fuel extraction on public lands")
- Coal plants in South Africa
- Healthcare
- Kissinger
- Food
- Guns
- Campaign money ("Hillary Rodham Clinton will begin personally courting donors for a “super PAC” supporting her candidacy, the first time a Democratic presidential candidate has fully embraced these independent groups that can accept unlimited checks from big donors")
- Ethics ("an unusual intervention by the top U.S. diplomat." ... "Total donations by UBS to the Clinton Foundation grew from less than $60,000 through 2008 to a cumulative total of about $600,000 by the end of 2014")
- More on trust
- Ideology