Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumHillary Clinton Just Delivered the Strongest Speech of Her Campaign—and the Media Barely Noticed
Nothing sums up the high-drama, low-substance nature of 2016 race coverage more than the underplaying of a serious speech about the Supreme Court.http://www.thenation.com/article/hillary-clinton-just-delivered-the-strongest-speech-of-her-campaign-and-the-media-barely-noticed/
This is an excellent article - more substantive than most on the subject - and is a very Good Read. But because just about anything laudatory about HRC is shot down quickly or sneered at other than in this group, I am only posting here. Here are a couple excerpts:
Then Clinton worked her way through the Courts docket for this term:
* The Court is reviewing how public-sector unions collect the fees they use to do their work. The economic security of millions of teachers, social workers and first responders is at stake. This is something the people of Wisconsin know all too well, because your governor has repeatedly attacked and bullied public sector unions, and working families have paid the price. I think thats wrong, and it should stop.
* The Court is reviewing a Texas law imposing unnecessary, expensive requirements on doctors who perform abortions. If that law is allowed to stand, there will only be 10 or so health centers left where women can get safe, legal abortions in the whole state of Texas, a state with about 5.4 million women of reproductive age. So it will effectively end the legal right to choose for millions of women.
* The Court is also reviewing whether Texas should have to exclude non-voters when drawing its electoral map. That would leave out, among others, legal residents, people with felony convictions and children. The fair representation of everyone in our societyincluding 75 million childrenhangs in the balance.
Etc., etc., etc. This is definitely worthwhile and only cements my already strong support for HRC.
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)Sometimes her thoughtfulness gets her in trouble with people who want unwavering bumper sticker slogans instead. She is truly someone who thinks things through and connects the dots. That is one of the reasons I support her.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Lucinda
(31,170 posts)riversedge
(70,299 posts)DemonGoddess
(4,640 posts)question everything
(47,534 posts)and is very much a Sanders supporter.
BlueMTexpat
(15,373 posts)Even if she is a Sanders supporter, she is a fair and reasonable one, as are ALL Sanders supporters that I know personally.
I believe that the strident and nasty SBS supporters that I see too often on DU and elsewhere online represent a minority, although a very loud one. Those supporters do not reflect, nor are they representative of, the SBS supporters I know in real life.
Because the Sanders campaign seems to be at least tacitly encouraging the nasties more and more these days, I have grown very disillusioned with Bernie himself. He lost the high ground with me a couple weeks ago and the ground he now occupies is eroding quickly.