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St Louis American endorses Hillary Clinton
If Americans selected their president on the same basis they choose candidates for most important jobs, based on tangibles such as competence and experience, then there would be no controversy surrounding the 2016 presidential election.
Only one candidate on the ballot has served in the U.S. Senate and as a member of the U.S. president’s cabinet. Only one candidate has negotiated complex bipartisan legislation in the Congress as well as sensitive international agreements with potentially belligerent foreign nations. Only one candidate has gone through two terms in the White House as the president’s closest and most trusted advisor. Hillary Clinton is, by objective and tangible measures, undoubtedly one of the most competent and experienced individuals who ever sought a first term as U.S. president. Without hesitation she has our endorsement, as well as the endorsement of nearly every African-American elected official in the state of Missouri and countless black clergy and civic leaders.
But, in fact, we do not select our presidents based on their competence and experience. We speak from experience. Hillary Clinton also was the most competent and experienced candidate in the 2008 presidential election, but we endorsed Barack Obama in the Democratic primary and, of course, he won the nomination and the general election. Like a majority of Americans, we were energized by Obama’s message of change and overwhelmed by his brilliance as a thinker and his eloquence as a public speaker. We were motivated, too, by the innovative ways he engaged new Americans and brought so many new people, especially so many African Americans, into our partisan political process for the first time. Needless to say, we also could not resist helping to elect our nation’s first black head of state.
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While our personal feelings about the unequal distribution of wealth and the unhealthy concentration of largely unbridled power in banks, corporations and the super-wealthy are very closely aligned with Sanders’ thinking, we do not believe in the ultimate viability of his candidacy or the practical fulfillment of his most compelling policy positions. It would be exciting to see Sanders elected as governor of a liberal state and push his positions in an environment where he is likely to find a sympathetic legislature. However, even if a majority of Americans were to elect him over a Republican rival – which we find much more doubtful than Clinton’s chances in the general election – a Republican-dominated Congress, as well as many Democrats, would stonewall and scorn him and his efforts, perhaps even more than they have obstructed and ridiculed Obama.
http://www.stlamerican.com/news/editorials/article_2cb93092-e648-11e5-b400-67f166cc0ab3.html
Only one candidate on the ballot has served in the U.S. Senate and as a member of the U.S. president’s cabinet. Only one candidate has negotiated complex bipartisan legislation in the Congress as well as sensitive international agreements with potentially belligerent foreign nations. Only one candidate has gone through two terms in the White House as the president’s closest and most trusted advisor. Hillary Clinton is, by objective and tangible measures, undoubtedly one of the most competent and experienced individuals who ever sought a first term as U.S. president. Without hesitation she has our endorsement, as well as the endorsement of nearly every African-American elected official in the state of Missouri and countless black clergy and civic leaders.
But, in fact, we do not select our presidents based on their competence and experience. We speak from experience. Hillary Clinton also was the most competent and experienced candidate in the 2008 presidential election, but we endorsed Barack Obama in the Democratic primary and, of course, he won the nomination and the general election. Like a majority of Americans, we were energized by Obama’s message of change and overwhelmed by his brilliance as a thinker and his eloquence as a public speaker. We were motivated, too, by the innovative ways he engaged new Americans and brought so many new people, especially so many African Americans, into our partisan political process for the first time. Needless to say, we also could not resist helping to elect our nation’s first black head of state.
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While our personal feelings about the unequal distribution of wealth and the unhealthy concentration of largely unbridled power in banks, corporations and the super-wealthy are very closely aligned with Sanders’ thinking, we do not believe in the ultimate viability of his candidacy or the practical fulfillment of his most compelling policy positions. It would be exciting to see Sanders elected as governor of a liberal state and push his positions in an environment where he is likely to find a sympathetic legislature. However, even if a majority of Americans were to elect him over a Republican rival – which we find much more doubtful than Clinton’s chances in the general election – a Republican-dominated Congress, as well as many Democrats, would stonewall and scorn him and his efforts, perhaps even more than they have obstructed and ridiculed Obama.
http://www.stlamerican.com/news/editorials/article_2cb93092-e648-11e5-b400-67f166cc0ab3.html
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A.P. - John Doe, an American from St. Louis, has endorsed Bernie Sanders
for president.
