Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumPhiladelphia Daily News endorses Hillary Clinton
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/4/22/1518774/-Philadelphia-Daily-News-endorses-Hillary-ClintonDN editorial: Hillary Clinton deserves Democratic nomination
Despite being polar opposites politically, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are two sides of the same coin; noisy, radical curmudgeons who embody many people's disaffection with the political status quo. In both cases, their followers project far more on to them than they offer or could ever deliver.
And then there's Hillary Clinton. She's is a canvas, too, but many project either far less on to her than what she might deliver - or they project their negative feelings about her husband, or her power. She's the anti-Bernie; called by many a "bad candidate," "unlikeable," even "unqualified."
A key fact is that people have described her this way for decades: When she attempted the massive job of reforming health care - as first lady. When she ran for and won the U.S. Senate, where she was more effective in eight years than Sanders has been in his 26 years in Congress. When she first ran for president against Obama. When she became Obama's secretary of state, logging in nearly a million miles of travel and restoring the credibility of the U.S. foreign policy. And again as presidential candidate . . . one who, by the way, has won nearly 700 more delegates toward the nomination than her rival.
Her time on the national and international stages has given her stature and authority, especially among other world leaders. Her deep knowledge of policy is informed by homework, just as her pragmatism has been shaped by consistent opposition.
She's not without flaws, but if we're grading against the curve of her political rivals, she still gets high marks.
She also has been consistent and explicit in her message that women's rights are human rights.
While we're on the subject of gender . . . Being a woman doesn't make Hillary more qualified. But it makes her candidacy more compelling at a time when the battles over women's health and women's rights are still being played out as if Congress and other leaders were living in another century. In a world fraught with dangers terroristic, environmental and economic - men in power in this country still spend far too much time obsessing over control of women's bodies and their health choices. And we're not talking only about abortion, but about contraception contraception - and proper access to health care.
Sen. Bernie Sanders holds many progressive views that we share, especially on income inequality, minimum wage, and use of military force as a last resort. His passion and idealism have connected with young people. But his ideas come without practical plans, and he lacks a track record of being effective and productive with who don't share those ideas.
Voters have their pick of noisy curmudgeons this cycle.
You want radical, though? Come Tuesday, that's what a vote for Hillary is.
livetohike
(22,145 posts)in PA on Tuesday .
Iamaartist
(3,300 posts)Cha
(297,323 posts)Thank the Universe! have fun voting on Tuesday!
livetohike
(22,145 posts)materials yesterday (he's the Judge of Elections at our polling place). Really feeling good about Hillary here in PA.
Curmudgeons! Best description ever. Wonder if the author reads DU 😊
Cha
(297,323 posts)to campaign for him @ one point.
I should have been more specific about what was being said around here awhile ago.. that "BS and trump were two sides of the same coin" and now the Papers are saying it.. this is the second one I've seen, anyway.
PA!
stopbush
(24,396 posts)Another honest winner.
Cha
(297,323 posts)WOW! This is what some peeps here saying awhile ago and now the Papers are saying it.
The longer this goes on more and more are seeing it.. Thank the Universe!
Mahalo Iaaa~
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)The comments on the Philadelphia Daily News website have been taken over by the hordes, but the endorsement was a good one!
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Walk away
(9,494 posts)the type of people who are drawn to follow the Trump/Bernies of the world. I prefer to vote with the other critical thinkers who support Hillary Clinton too!
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)======================================================
HILLARY'S MEDIA ENDORSEMENTS (Total: 64)
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The Arizona Republic,[g] Phoenix, Arizona[1,204]
The Barre Montpelier Times Argus, Montpelier, Vermont[1,205]
The Boston Globe[g][1,206]
The Buffalo News[1,207]
Charlotte Observer[1,208]
Chattanooga Times Free Press[1,209]
Chicago Sun-Times[g][1,210]
The Cincinnati Enquirer[1,211]
City Newspaper, Rochester, New York[1,212]
The Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, Mississippi[1,213]
Concord Monitor, Concord, New Hampshire[1,214]
The Conway Daily Sun, Conway, New Hampshire[1,215]
Corpus Christi Caller-Times[1,216]
The Dallas Morning News[g][1,217]
The Day, New London, Connecticut[1,218]
The Des Moines Register[1,219]
Detroit Free Press[1,220]
The Detroit News[1,221]
Falls Church News-Press, Falls Church, Virginia[1,222]
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth, Texas,[1,223]
Foster's Daily Democrat, Dover, New Hampshire[1,224]
The Gazette, Colorado Springs, Colorado[1,225]
Hartford Courant[1,226]
Houston Chronicle[g][1,227]
Idaho Statesman, Boise, Idaho[1,228]
Iowa City Press-Citizen, Iowa City, Iowa[1,229]
Indy Week, Raleigh, North Carolina[1,230]
Jackson Advocate, Jackson, Mississippi[1,231]
Jewish Herald-Voice, Houston, Texas[1,232]
The Keene Sentinel, Keene, New Hampshire[1,233]
Las Vegas Sun[1,234]
Miami Herald[1,235]
The Michigan Daily, Ann Arbor, Michigan[1,236]
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript, Peterborough, New Hampshire[1,237]
New York Amsterdam News[1,238]
New York Daily News[g][1,239]
New York Observer[1,240]
The New York Times[g][1,241]
Newsday,[g] Melville, New York[1,242]
Omaha World-Herald[1,243]
Orlando Sentinel[1,244]
The Palm Beach Post, West Palm Beach, Florida[1,245]
Philadelphia Daily News[1,246]
The Philadelphia Inquirer[g][1,247]
The Plain Dealer,[g] Cleveland, Ohio[1,248]
Portland Press Herald, Portland, Maine[1,249]
The Portsmouth Herald, Portsmouth, New Hampshire[1,224]
The Post-Standard, Syracuse, New York[1,250]
The Post-Star, Glens Falls, New York[1,251]
The Providence Journal, Providence, Rhode Island[1,252]
The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon[1,253]
Rochester Times, Rochester, New Hampshire[1,224]
Rolling Stone[730]
Rutland Herald, Rutland, Vermont[1,254]
The St. Louis American[1,255]
St. Louis Post-Dispatch[1,256]
San Antonio Express-News[1,257]
Sioux City Journal, Sioux City, Iowa[1,258]
South Florida Gay News, Wilton Manors, Florida[1,259]
Star Tribune,[g] Minneapolis, Minnesota[1,260]
Storm Lake Times, Storm Lake, Iowa[1,261]
Sun-Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale, Florida[1,262]
Tampa Bay Times[g][1,263]
Times Union, Albany, New York[1,264]
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BERNIE'S MEDIA ENDORSEMENTS (Total: 13)
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Addison County Independent, Middlebury, Vermont[528]
Daily Hampshire Gazette, Northampton, Massachusetts[529]
Quad-City Times, Davenport, Iowa[530]
Ring of Fire, radio program[254]
Seattle Weekly, Seattle, Washington[531]
The Arab American News, Dearborn, Michigan[532]
The Daily Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, Iowa[533]
The Daily Iowan, Iowa City, Iowa[534]
The Nation, magazine[535]
The Recorder, Greenfield, Massachusetts[536]
The Seattle Times, Seattle, Washington[537]
The Stranger, Seattle, Washington[538]
"Watan News", Washington, D.C.[539]
kstewart33
(6,551 posts)Just a thought.