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Op-ed: "Hillary's problem isn't your obsession with her emails"
Many people here will agree with this!
Hillary's problem isn't your obsession with her emails
9/9/2015
Have I mentioned recently that the 2016 presidential race is kind of insane. And no, this post isn't about Do....that guy. We've talked about him enough for now. But what about the insane number of candidates? Every day I'm jolted by the thought of someone I completely forgot was even running....George Pataki? Lindsey Graham? Jim Webb? Jeb Bush? And what about those crazy voters? While most folks are still locked into their ideological boxes, a lot of voters have reached the conclusion that if America's problems are to be solved, it won't happen with your garden-variety blow-dried American politician. Better to elect a doctor who thinks Obamacare is worse than 9/11!
Anyway, all of this makes 2015-16 a terrible, terrible time to be Hillary Clinton.
As it probably should be, in a way. It's not that she's too old or, heaven forbid, that she's a woman. On the age front, a dude whose five or six years older -- Bernie Sanders -- is tearing it up on the campaign trail, and on the gender front, it's embarrassing in 2015 that America has never had a female president. But this particular 68-year-old woman is just too closely associated with all of the bad things that our perhaps crazy-like-a-fox electorate is worked up about. Income inequality? Her husband fostered that with a pro-Wall Street agenda that included repealing the Glass-Steagall Act, setting the stage for the 2008 economic crisis. Ditto for mass incarceration. As a senator, Hillary Clinton voted to authorize the horribly ill-conceived invasion of Iraq. Her conversion on the 2016 campaign trail toward a more progressive agenda is a good thing, but a lot of Democratic voters are asking themselves, why vote for a convert when we can have the real thing? Even with her tack to the left, executives at Wall Street's Goldman Sachs said they'd be equally happy with Clinton or Bush. Makes you think, doesn't it?
And that's not her only problem. In most long-lasting marriages, opposites attract, so is it really a shock that the wife of the greatest natural-born politician of the 20th Century is stiff and wooden out on the trail? And there's the troubling matter of ethics. The obscene amount of money that both Clintons have been paid by corporations and by international interest groups to give short uneventful speeches may be legal, but that doesn't dispel the notion that to get rich in America in 2015, who you know matters more than what you do. The whole Clinton Foundation thing, although it's surely done some good works, still comes off as a little dodgy -- politically connected folks making too much money, huge donors with a little too much interest in who becomes our 45th president.
What I'm trying to say is that if you're looking for reasons not to vote for Hillary Clinton...they exist. And every day, in the comments on this blog and in occasional emails, I hear from people who indeed have no intention of pulling the lever for Hillary '16 -- and yet they only occasionally mention the many issues above. They just want to talk about one thing.
The emails.....
....Big Snip....
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/Hillarys-problem-isnt-YOUR-obsession-with-her-emails.html#L4e27D7u9FJ7dcJ0.99
9/9/2015
Have I mentioned recently that the 2016 presidential race is kind of insane. And no, this post isn't about Do....that guy. We've talked about him enough for now. But what about the insane number of candidates? Every day I'm jolted by the thought of someone I completely forgot was even running....George Pataki? Lindsey Graham? Jim Webb? Jeb Bush? And what about those crazy voters? While most folks are still locked into their ideological boxes, a lot of voters have reached the conclusion that if America's problems are to be solved, it won't happen with your garden-variety blow-dried American politician. Better to elect a doctor who thinks Obamacare is worse than 9/11!
Anyway, all of this makes 2015-16 a terrible, terrible time to be Hillary Clinton.
As it probably should be, in a way. It's not that she's too old or, heaven forbid, that she's a woman. On the age front, a dude whose five or six years older -- Bernie Sanders -- is tearing it up on the campaign trail, and on the gender front, it's embarrassing in 2015 that America has never had a female president. But this particular 68-year-old woman is just too closely associated with all of the bad things that our perhaps crazy-like-a-fox electorate is worked up about. Income inequality? Her husband fostered that with a pro-Wall Street agenda that included repealing the Glass-Steagall Act, setting the stage for the 2008 economic crisis. Ditto for mass incarceration. As a senator, Hillary Clinton voted to authorize the horribly ill-conceived invasion of Iraq. Her conversion on the 2016 campaign trail toward a more progressive agenda is a good thing, but a lot of Democratic voters are asking themselves, why vote for a convert when we can have the real thing? Even with her tack to the left, executives at Wall Street's Goldman Sachs said they'd be equally happy with Clinton or Bush. Makes you think, doesn't it?
And that's not her only problem. In most long-lasting marriages, opposites attract, so is it really a shock that the wife of the greatest natural-born politician of the 20th Century is stiff and wooden out on the trail? And there's the troubling matter of ethics. The obscene amount of money that both Clintons have been paid by corporations and by international interest groups to give short uneventful speeches may be legal, but that doesn't dispel the notion that to get rich in America in 2015, who you know matters more than what you do. The whole Clinton Foundation thing, although it's surely done some good works, still comes off as a little dodgy -- politically connected folks making too much money, huge donors with a little too much interest in who becomes our 45th president.
What I'm trying to say is that if you're looking for reasons not to vote for Hillary Clinton...they exist. And every day, in the comments on this blog and in occasional emails, I hear from people who indeed have no intention of pulling the lever for Hillary '16 -- and yet they only occasionally mention the many issues above. They just want to talk about one thing.
The emails.....
....Big Snip....
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/Hillarys-problem-isnt-YOUR-obsession-with-her-emails.html#L4e27D7u9FJ7dcJ0.99
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http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2015/09/08/hillary_clinton_makes_another_bid_for_female_voters_with_a_birchbox_style.html
A 'thx box' with make up, and swag... Because everyone knows women care more about getting a cute pink pantsuit emoji than any silly old politics stuff....
A 'thx box' with make up, and swag... Because everyone knows women care more about getting a cute pink pantsuit emoji than any silly old politics stuff....
