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Ferd Berfel

(3,687 posts)
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 10:04 PM Mar 2016

5 Reasons Not to Vote for Hillary Clinton

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/01/5-reasons-not-to-vote-for-hillary-clinton/

1. Money.
Insofar as Heraclitus was correct when he said “Character is fate,” Ms. Clinton can be depended upon to behave like the money-grubbing fiend she’s always been. Unlike Bernie Sanders who grew up in a modest, progressively oriented Brooklyn household, Hillary Clinton grew up in Republican affluence. Not for nothing did she later serve on the Board of Directors of Wal-Mart.

Despite the Vietnam War and civil rights movement nudging her, as a 20-year old, into the camp of the Democratic Party, we mustn’t forget that the accumulation of wealth has always been her primary concern. It’s not her fault. She was raised that way, and her two brothers, Hugh Rodham, Jr. and Tony Rodham, are testimony to that fact. Indeed, compared to Jimmy Carter’s harmless doofus brother Billy, Tony comes off as an avaricious and pathetic con man.

2. Force.
Look at her track record. Whenever and wherever there is an international dispute, her first impulse is to call upon America’s prodigious military might to quell it. In a word, the woman is a hawk. Indeed, why else would the military-minded Republican Senator John McCain have embraced her as he did? If it weren’t for the fact that she behaved like Margaret Thatcher on steroids, why would McCain ally himself with her?
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5 Reasons Not to Vote for Hillary Clinton (Original Post) Ferd Berfel Mar 2016 OP
Mendacity. RiverLover Mar 2016 #1
Ouch! dana_b Mar 2016 #2
LOL regarding Jimmy Carter's brother!! n/t Herman4747 Mar 2016 #3

dana_b

(11,546 posts)
2. Ouch!
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 10:08 PM
Mar 2016

4. Mendacity. While every politician is entitled to lie when it suits them, Ms. Clinton abuses the privilege

5. Personality. As counterintuitive as this seems, Hillary Clinton is a terrible politician. Politics simply don’t come naturally to her. Not only is she incredibly thin-skinned for a public figure, she is suspicious of voters, and uncomfortable around crowds. As someone once observed, “Hillary loves humanity, but hates people.”

She is VERY thin skinned.

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