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In reply to the discussion: Not since LBJ [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)I've spoken out about ISSUES. Issues that if I were seeing her handle better, would give me a better feel for supporting her for president. Given her past history on many ISSUES, and the way she's not handling ISSUES like the TPP, H-1B Visas, and her desire to move to a privatized unaccountable email system for herself and presumably other politicians, then I still have many concerns. If on these ISSUES she would now:
1) Come out and say that the practice of H-1B program outsourcing has been abused, and we really don't need to expand this, but we need to work more towards free bachelors degree education for our high tech grads like they get in places like India, and streamline regular immigration processes for them to come here and compete for jobs on an even playing field where they are needed.
2) Come out and say that the TPP agreement is not working in the best interests of Americans and that she's concerned about how it was put together with many corporate leaders writing the details for it for years beforehand, and that it has been done in secret from the rest of us, and that details show processes like the ISDS and Medicare funding provisions show that it is flawed and not deserving of our support. Say something like "Please if you want to help me bring back America in 2016, you will vote these bills down and I'll work to restore American jobs through other means then."
3) ideally she should have done this earlier, but perhaps now she could say that she should have earlier stated that she had a lot of concerns (and be as specific as she can be to all of us or at least some governmental oversight entities), with our IT infrastructure that had her feel the justified need to move to private control of her emails. And recommend ways that she and those helping her with this email infrastructure recommend us doing to improve our government owned infrastructure, so that the system with more accountability could be trusted by all, and not leave us open to those privatizing email and really using it to foster corruption in our government, even if it is not her (and I don't have any specific reasons like the right is trying to claim that she is doing anything corrupt with them either).
If she were to do things like this and perhaps in other areas where there have been questions as to who she really serves, then I'd probably jump in to help campaign for her, and I think many others would too. But she isn't doing this yet, so I still look to those like Bernie Sanders who I do feel is running a decent campaign and championing good positions on issues I care about. I wouldn't elect him for a beauty contest, but I would elect him for being a decent representative of me and 99% of Americans. That is hardly an attack on Hillary Clinton. Just choosing someone now that I believe is working for me. Hillary could change that equation, but time is running out for me on what she could do to show that it isn't just all "talk" that even Obama was guilty of last election in many instances.
If there were other corporate candidates in the nomination process, I would speak out against issues that they supported or didn't support that are at odds with what I perceive I and many Americans want. And I certainly have NO feelings of any kind of representation from those in the Republican Party, which for most of us here goes without saying. I would have concern over Senator Biden as well if he were to run with his past in pushing through the bankruptcy bill, presumably to help the interests of so many "Delaware" corporations that were headquartered in his state then.