To recap, Clinton voted to invade Iraq, backed job-killing trade agreements
To recap, Clinton voted to invade Iraq, backed job-killing trade agreements, suggested that black women on welfare were “deadbeats” who were “sitting around the house doing nothing,” called for “more police” and “more prisons” and “more and tougher prison sentences for repeat offenders,” and bases not only her campaign finances but her entire social universe on and amid the superrich who she resides among in Westchester and the Hamptons — because she is a realist who can get things done.
Or because she had to do it this way because she is a woman. Or both.
No matter Sanders’ legion of women supporters, including many outspoken socialists. This argument renders those women invisible in an effort to inoculate pro-Clinton women’s arguments from criticism. The fact that a Sanders supporter might also be a big fan of Elizabeth Warren, and in many cases initially lobbied for her to run for president, is also an automatic nonstarter, as Rebecca Traister made clear: “spare me the wistful paeans to Elizabeth Warren…citing a fondness for her as a get-out-of-sexism card is a dodge.”
Ad hominem attacks against Sanders supporters are on the rise after Iowa, and they are increasingly unkind. Clinton partisans are likely motivated by uncomfortable data points: 86-percent of women under 30 caucusing in Iowa said they support Sanders.
And so the sexism argument doesn’t wash. But since opposing Clinton necessarily entails some unsavory or unfortunate motivation, there are other arguments to pursue. Like that young people, God bless them, are innocent of how the world works.
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There is no doubt that Clinton has faced sexism. And the online harassment that many women face, for many reasons, is atrocious, and anyone who has been so attacked no doubt has a right to be angry. Sexist internet trolls are deplorable. But here, I’m addressing credentialed commentators like Michelle Goldberg, who suggested that it was sexist of me to argue that Clinton might lack feminist credentials because she has stoked racist tropes about black women to defend swiping welfare from poor mothers.
Many Clinton partisans have sunk into a very sad and cynical muck. It is unfathomable to portray personal offense taken on behalf of one of the most powerful human beings on earth as more consequential than that human being’s track record helping to launch a war in Iraq that has killed hundreds of thousands people.
http://www.salon.com/2016/02/05/dems_stop_lying_to_yourselves_about_hillary_sure_she_get_s_done_atrocious_s_that_is/
The article also doesn't mention her support
with all the republicans and against democrats on her Senate vote Supporting cluster bombs banned by most of the world
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/12/21/425303/-
Nor does it mention that she likes Kissinger's praise who supported Apartheid and would be arrested for crimes against humanity in many countries.
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