Hillary Clinton: An Ideal Democratic Candidate for Our Age (Hillary Group)
Many have criticized supporters of Hillary Clinton for not having sufficient cause to back her candidacy. People have challenged that we believe “she deserves it,” that we are simply dazzled into submission by how much “she wants it,” that we support her only because she’s a woman, that we overplay her experience and that we underplay the ‘damage’ ‘the Clintons’ have done to society, that we are too quick to forgive her her errors. Well I certainly don’t support her because she wants it. Nor do I support her solely on the basis of her experience, though I do believe that commends her. I support her because I think there is a nebula of qualities she possesses that make her an ideal democrat for this political moment.
We live in a time of remarkably complicated foreign policy challenges, when the United States must approach diplomacy with new vigor but when our enemies (who stone gays and sentence women, at birth, to lives of submission and abuse) must be aware that we are unafraid to use force. In such a time a former Secretary of State with a track record of diplomatic success and a reputation for hawkishness is just what the doctor ordered. She’s a student of men like Richard Holbrooke whose foreign policy philosophy, I think, deserves to be put front and center again. The idea that the United States is a broker of peace willing to use targeted force as a mechanism to secure it....
We live in a time when the democratic party is severely diminished in its power, severely outnumbered, outdistricted, and outspent. In such a time I think we need a democrat willing to play hardball, willing to raise funds from a wide and diverse pool of sources and distribute them to a democratic coalition as diverse as the country it seeks to govern. We need a democrat willing to challenge Republicans directly because we have seen the willingness and ability of the right to smear and slander and shape narratives. We need a President who has spent the better part of three decades on the other side of those efforts who goes into the Oval Office knowing the republicans don’t play nice. A President with no illusions about the lack of honor and honesty in GOP politics who has gone toe to toe them and won– many times.
And of course, there are Hillary’s sterling credentials that stand in their own right. A brilliant graduate of the finest institutions of higher learning, a lawyer devoted to rooting out the corruption of Watergate and later to the welfare of women and children, a member of multiple corporate boards learning how private industry functions, a first lady of a southern state with an active policy portfolio focusing on education and human welfare, an active role in two successful Presidential campaigns and a vocal policy advisor in both, a Senator from one of the most populous, geographically and economically diverse states in our union, a Presidential candidate in her own right whose own opponent selected her to become Secretary of State, a Secretary of State with a proven track record of diplomatic success, a global figure who has been the most admired woman in the world for over a decade, a mother, a grandmother, and a democrat.
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