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Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumClinton endorsed (Vermont's Times Argus)
Bernie Sanders appears poised for a runaway victory in the Vermont presidential primary on Tuesday, an extraordinary outcome in an extraordinary year during which he has mounted a serious and substantive challenge to the front-runner, Hillary Clinton. This paper, nevertheless, endorses Clinton for president.
This endorsement rests on Clintons breadth of experience and her proven commitment to those many issues where she shares a progressive outlook with Sanders. The very notion of political experience has taken on a negative connotation in this surprising year because voters associate it with compromise and corruption. But outsider status, which Sanders has always enjoyed, does not automatically confer wisdom or ability. Clintons experience as a hard-working, policy-oriented senator and a secretary of state who restored the good name of the United States weighs heavily in her favor.
The contest between Clinton and Sanders has been framed as a choice between pragmatism and idealism, between incrementalism and boldness. Framing it that way oversells what Sanders offers. Fighting for health care reform, as Clinton has done for a quarter century, has been an exercise in idealism. It has been a long, difficult fight against powerful entrenched interests. The Clinton administration didnt succeed in the 1990s. The Obama administration has made significant progress, and Clinton is right to underscore the importance of that victory.
Its easy to hold out the promise of grand solutions. On Sanders part these would include a Medicare-for-all, single-payer health care system and free college for everybody. These are lofty and worthy goals; Medicare-for-all was Ted Kennedys idea. But Clinton is willing to be square with the American people in acknowledging that getting to those goals would be a step-by-step process, requiring the kind of painstaking work she did as a senator.
http://www.timesargus.com/article/20160228/OPINION01/160229683/0/SEARCH
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Clinton endorsed (Vermont's Times Argus) (Original Post)
ismnotwasm
Feb 2016
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UtahLib
(3,179 posts)1. Truth telling wins. nt
SunSeeker
(51,502 posts)2. Well said. Thank you. nt
Stuckinthebush
(10,835 posts)3. I'm sure something is wrong with this newspaper
Republican owned?
In the tank for Wall Street?
Clinton is blackmailing them?
They hate good ol Bernie?
sheshe2
(83,633 posts)4. KnR~
shenmue
(38,506 posts)5. A Vermont paper endorsing Clinton?
Some of the Bernbots are going to be ticked off tonight!
asuhornets
(2,405 posts)7. Tonight and tomorrow...n/t
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)6. Good endorsement.
brer cat
(24,513 posts)8. K&R