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The Florida Sun-Sentinel endorses Hillary Clinton.
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Overall, however, Hillary Clinton is smart, steady and able to rebound quickly from defeat. When her attempt at health care reform failed during her husband's first term, Clinton worked with senators from both parties – Democrat Ted Kennedy and Republican Orrin Hatch -- to create the Children's Health Insurance Program, which cut the uninsured rate of American children in half. More than eight million children have coverage because of the program.
Critics who claim Clinton has no record of accomplishment despite her sparkling resume need to look closer at her record.
She helped secure more than $21 billion for World Trade Center redevelopment. She led investigations into the health problems of 9/11 first responders. She promoted increased National Institutes of Health funding for research into cancer and asthma. She was the principal author of sanctions – particularly on oil imports to the European Union -- that brought Iran to the negotiating table. She helped bring about a 2012 cease-fire between Hamas and Israel that headed off an Israeli invasion of Gaza. She named an "ambassador at large" for women's rights.
"Nearly every foreign policy victory of President Obama's second term," said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., "has Secretary Clinton's fingerprints on it."
Clinton has drawn criticism for not exciting her voters. Unlike her Democratic rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and Donald Trump, however, Clinton is telling voters what they need to hear, not what they want to hear.
Sanders favors a single-payer health care system, breaking up big banks, free college and raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour. His plans for making those happen and paying for them, however, are beyond unrealistic. Even many liberal Democrats understand that Americans don't want this country to be like Denmark.
Critics who claim Clinton has no record of accomplishment despite her sparkling resume need to look closer at her record.
She helped secure more than $21 billion for World Trade Center redevelopment. She led investigations into the health problems of 9/11 first responders. She promoted increased National Institutes of Health funding for research into cancer and asthma. She was the principal author of sanctions – particularly on oil imports to the European Union -- that brought Iran to the negotiating table. She helped bring about a 2012 cease-fire between Hamas and Israel that headed off an Israeli invasion of Gaza. She named an "ambassador at large" for women's rights.
"Nearly every foreign policy victory of President Obama's second term," said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., "has Secretary Clinton's fingerprints on it."
Clinton has drawn criticism for not exciting her voters. Unlike her Democratic rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and Donald Trump, however, Clinton is telling voters what they need to hear, not what they want to hear.
Sanders favors a single-payer health care system, breaking up big banks, free college and raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour. His plans for making those happen and paying for them, however, are beyond unrealistic. Even many liberal Democrats understand that Americans don't want this country to be like Denmark.
Link: [link:http://www.sun-sentinel.com/opinion/endorsements/fl-editorial-hillary-gs0306-20160304-story.html|
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... and it's very encouraging!
Iran deal is because of clinton not kerry or obama
she was primary one who persured obama to intervine in Libya.
this paper clearly is no liberal paper.
saying what we need to hear
