Reasons to "hate" Hillary... [View All]

[JackRiddler]

I don't hate HRC. Being against her is equated with "hating" her in a rather transparent rhetorical move that tells us her supporters don't have much else to respond with.

HRC is largely running on the record of the Clinton presidency. Its most important legacy is that Clinton let the first Bush regime off the hook for its crimes, enabling the rise of the current Bush regime. Robert Parry writes:

http://consortiumnews.com/2006/111106.html

“I wanted the country to be more united, not more divided,” Clinton explained in his 2004 memoir, My Life. “President Bush had given decades of service to our country, and I thought we should allow him to retire in peace, leaving the (Iran-Contra) matter between him and his conscience.”

Unexpected Results

Clinton’s generosity to George H.W. Bush and the Republicans, of course, didn’t turn out as he had hoped. Instead of bipartisanship and reciprocity, he was confronted with eight years of unrelenting GOP hostility, attacks on both his programs and his personal reputation. Later, as tensions grew in the Middle East, the American people and even U.S. policymakers were flying partially blind, denied anything close to the full truth about the history of clandestine relationships between the Reagan-Bush team and hostile nations in the Middle East.

Clinton’s failure to expose that real history also led indirectly to the restoration of Bush Family control of the White House in 2001. Despite George W. Bush’s inexperience as a national leader, he drew support from many Americans who remembered his father’s presidency fondly. If the full story of George H.W. Bush’s role in secret deals with Iraq and Iran had ever been made public, the Bush Family’s reputation would have been damaged to such a degree that George W. Bush’s candidacy would not have been conceivable.

Not only did Clinton inadvertently clear the way for the Bush restoration, but the Right’s political ascendancy wiped away much of the Clinton legacy, including a balanced federal budget and progress on income inequality. A poorly informed American public also was easily misled on what to do about U.S. relations with Iraq and Iran.

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Though sometimes the truth can hurt, Clinton and the Democrats should understand that covering up the truth can hurt even more. As Clinton’s folly with the Reagan-Bush scandals should have taught, the Democrats may hurt themselves worst of all when helping the Republicans cover up the truth.

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HRC's record as a Senator (I voted for her in 2000) continues in the same vein: yes votes for USA PATRIOT, Homeland Security and the Iraq war resolution; unstinting support for the 9/11 cover-up, the "global war on terror," and more recently the bellicose posturing toward Iran.

These are the facts that HRC supporters falsely want to hide when they try to characterize opposition to HRC as a function of "hatred."