We Need Hillary Clinton

[SecularMotion]

Each and every day, Americans turn on the news and confront alarming stories about an uncertain economy and the instability of the Middle East. While we have made great progress these past seven years, we still have work to do, and we need a leader who will unite our party as one and directly confront these problems.

We need a proud Democrat in the White House who will continue to not only advance our beliefs and policies, but who can realistically navigate the often difficult waters of Washington, D.C.

As a member of Congress, I have seen my share of tough attacks and what Republicans are capable of when it comes to campaigning. Their playbook is ugly. We need a tough competitor. We need Hillary Clinton.

Every four years our great state of Ohio becomes a battleground and is bombarded with negative ads, super PACs and special interests, because no Republican has won the presidency without Ohio. The noise doesn't stop until the last vote is counted on Election Day.

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2016-01-28/only-hillary-clinton-not-bernie-sanders-will-give-democrats-the-2016-win

[bkkyosemite]

1. Senator Sanders can navigate just as well and is qualified just as well..

to be President of the United States.

[JudyM]

18. He has actually proved for years that he can successfully navigate. How has she proved that?

I read the article with an open mind to see if he had some meaningful data. But it was truly just more empty platitudes and the same empty meme of "realistic"... He contributed nothing to advance the dialogue.

[JaneyVee]

4. LOL. You dont even know, you dont even know.

Ive seen some previews of how they will attack him and its brutal and will be a tea party takeover.

[JudyM]

19. You keep saying this without any links.

[frylock]

36. They have nothing.

[cali]

27. Just for you. Hillary Clinton mishandled top secret information.

She endangered the lives of intelligence officers. Hillary Clinton should be indicted, not elected.

Fade out of ominous music. Paid for by the committee of concerned Americans.

And Hillary supporters refuse to even consider that it will be an issue. Infuckingsane.

[frylock]

35. Where? Over at hillaryclintonsupporters.com?

Why don't you share with us what you have previewed?

[livetohike]

8. Welcome to DU! Please tell us Bernie's plans for the Middle East. I haven't heard any of his foreign

policy ideas, so if you know of them, please share.

[frylock]

38. Really? You haven't heard him state that the ME countries need to take on a bigger role..

in fighting Islamic extremists? Maybe try spending a little more time outside of the HRC group.

[oasis]

10. For openers, Bernie needs to find himself a foreign policy adviser. (eom)

[tazkcmo]

13. Like Kissinger? n/t

[JudyM]

20. Ooh, zing!

[oasis]

25. If your candidate somehow finds himself in the General Election

he's going to have to answer that question to the American voter.

In the meantime, you can content yourself contemplating the many goodies arrayed before you with Bernie's domestic agenda.

[merrily]

3. Kudos! Funniest OP subject line in months.

[pinebox]

5. No we don't Need Hillary Clinton. Period. Ever.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

17. Need hillary? Yeah, like a hole in the head... no thanks.

Bernie & Elizabeth 2016!!!

[JaneyVee]

6. K AND R! Supremely qualified.

[VulgarPoet]

7. Ha!

Each and every day, Americans turn on the news and confront alarming stories about an uncertain economy and the instability of the Middle East.

I don't trust her to get us out of a situation she helped to put us in.

[tazkcmo]

14. Bingo! n/t

[TDale313]

9. No. We really don't.

[Dems to Win]

11. Wish these political geniuses would take back the Congress

If they are so sure they know how to win in November, why haven't they been applying that political savvy to winning a majority in the House?

The Democratic Establishment has led us to being the LOSER Party. No majorities in Congress, most state houses and governors are Republicans. In state after state, Democrats have lost so much that Repubs have been able to redistrict Dems out of any hope of winning a majority of House seats. Where is the Dem Leadership in trying to reverse this?

Tim Ryan wants to continue the same old same old with the most Establishment candidate imaginable. No Thanks.

[Armstead]

12. Cowardly Claptrap

Ohhhhhh The Liberal Bogeyman...head for the Hills!

[Broward]

15. This piece contained no substantive policy reason for why we "need" Hillary.

His argument boils down to that Hillary is more electable, which I think is way off the mark.

[jeff47]

21. Instability in the Middle East? You mean something she helped cause?

Gaddafi wasn't exactly a nice guy. But Libya was also not a failed state, creating more instability in the Middle East.

[Red Oak]

22. I don't need Hillary - I don't trust Hillary.

If she wants my vote and my trust, here are some things she could do:

Give away all the money she made from speaking fees that make it look like she is bought and paid for. Someone gives you a quarter-million for 30 minutes worth of work, it's not just because they like you. They will want a return. Release transcripts of what she spoke about so I can see she is not in their pocket.

Stop her super Pacs. Tell Soros she doesn't want or need his $8M dollars. Tell the other donors the same thing. Don't tell me you believe in campaign finance reform - show me.

I watched the Big Short and Inside job this past week. Damn. Bill Clinton was responsible in large part for decimating the middle class. He was responsible just as much as Reagan, just as much as the Bushes. Hillary was there, too. Likewise Obama. Show me how she would change things. Does she think mistakes were made? How is she going to get jobs to come back to the USA? How does she stop the stranglehold of international finance on the middle class? Will she regulate trade? Put a tax on Wall Street speculation? BTW - If she believes in such a tax, why did she not propose it when she was a Senator? Tell me. Show me how you stood up to Wall Street and made changes that help the middle class.

Given NAFTA and Bill Clinton getting China into the WTO, take a true leadership role in explaining why TPP is good or bad and then use the campaign bully pulpit to make a case. Stop equivocating and parsing. Bill gave us enough "what the definition of "is" is". Enough already. A woman of her intelligence can speak plainly if she wants to. Tell me why TPP will help me or tell me why and how you are fighting against it.

I look forward to Secretary Clinton changing my mind on her truth and honesty as a candidate.

[Motown_Johnny]

23. This assumes that we must stoop to the level of the Republicans.

I disagree.

[Punkingal]

24. No, we don't need Hillary.

[Avalux]

26. We don't need a parent to remind us we can't do something.

That word 'realistically' bites. What is real, anyway? Reality is what we make it - a future with Bernie and all of US working together.

[bowens43]

28. We don't need hillary or anyone like her. she and the other establishment Dems are the problem

not thew solution. Besides that, she is un-electable.

[in_cog_ni_to]

29. Like a hole in the head.

Bernie is more capable of taking on the GOP. No scandals, he's won a ton if elections, he's not connected to corrupt Wall St. And corporations, he's not bought and paid for like HRH, he's the most trustworthy, honest and ETHICAL politician in Washington D.C., he means what he says, he hasn't had to "evolve" on issues for 45 years and he won't take ANY of the RWer's lying bullshit.

No we do not need HRH. She can't and won't win the GE. She has way too much baggage and is part if the problem.

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

[Trajan]

30. Hillary's PRO-LIKUD contingent speaks

This is the bunch who LOVED the Iraq war, no matter how devastating it was to world AND to the region ...

NO FUCKING LIKUDNIKS!

NO FUCKING NEOLIBERALS!

The LAST THING our country needs, is to return neoliberals to a position of power ...

ANY person who supports further bloodshed in the Middle East needs to have their fucking head examined ..

The Middle East needs a Ghandi, NOT a Genghis Khan!

Hillary can go to hell ...

[pandr32]

31. Agreed

We do "need a proud Democrat in the White House" and with Hillary Clinton we will also have a former president (a very successful one) who is also a proud Democrat as the First Spouse, or First Dude, or if one wants to keep the FLOTUS acronym we are accustomed to...First Lord (as in the opposite of Lady).
We do need Hillary Clinton.
There is no-one else who comes close to her qualifications and dedication.

[GoneOffShore]

43. Sure thing...

DOMA, NAFTA, DADT, Welfare "Reform", the list goes on.

I am sorry that I was deceived by Bill the first time around.

[Doctor_J]

32. "Advance our policies and beliefs"

OK.

[hobbit709]

33. To serve as a bad example of a so-called Democrat willing to sell out the people.

[2pooped2pop]

34. To drop out

[GoneOffShore]

42. You win the interweb today!

Perfect!

[TCJ70]

37. To change positions on things at the drop of a poll...n/t

[Jefferson23]

39. There is NOTHING realistic about supporting a politician who takes money from the people

who BLOCK the legislation she claims to support.

Sanders has funded his campaign without that money, why doesn't Clinton?

[frylock]

40. NO WE DON'T!

[GoneOffShore]

41. I need root canal more.

She's done her best to drag the Democratic Party towards the first politician she ever supported - Barry Goldwater.