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2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)NYT: Hillary Clinton, 1 of most broadly & deeply qualified presidential candidates in modern history [View all]
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/opinion/sunday/hillary-clinton-endorsement.htmlFor the past painful year, the Republican presidential contenders have been bombarding Americans with empty propaganda slogans and competing, bizarrely, to present themselves as the least experienced person for the most important elected job in the world. Democratic primary voters, on the other hand, after a substantive debate over real issues, have the chance to nominate one of the most broadly and deeply qualified presidential candidates in modern history.
Hillary Clinton would be the first woman nominated by a major party. She served as a senator from a major state (New York) and as secretary of state not to mention her experience on the national stage as first lady with her brilliant and flawed husband, President Bill Clinton. The Times editorial board has endorsed her three times for federal office twice for Senate and once in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary and is doing so again with confidence and enthusiasm.
Mrs. Clintons main opponent, Senator Bernie Sanders, a self-described Democratic Socialist, has proved to be more formidable than most people, including Mrs. Clinton, anticipated. He has brought income inequality and the lingering pain of the middle class to center stage and pushed Mrs. Clinton a bit more to the left than she might have gone on economic issues. Mr. Sanders has also surfaced important foreign policy questions, including the need for greater restraint in the use of military force.
In the end, though, Mr. Sanders does not have the breadth of experience or policy ideas that Mrs. Clinton offers. His boldest proposals to break up the banks and to start all over on health care reform with a Medicare-for-all system have earned him support among alienated middle-class voters and young people. But his plans for achieving them arent realistic, while Mrs. Clinton has very good, and achievable, proposals in both areas.
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Hillary Clinton is the right choice for the Democrats to present a vision for America that is radically different from the one that leading Republican candidates offer a vision in which middle-class Americans have a real shot at prosperity, womens rights are enhanced, undocumented immigrants are given a chance at legitimacy, international alliances are nurtured and the country is kept safe.
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NYT endorses Clinton. Now comes the scorn from GOPers and Bernie Sanders supporters!!
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NYT: Hillary Clinton, 1 of most broadly & deeply qualified presidential candidates in modern history [View all]
Bill USA
Jan 2016
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Or even George H.W.Bush, the "most qualified" candidate of the 20th century
Art_from_Ark
Jan 2016
#38
NYT: Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction and needs to be taken down
nichomachus
Jan 2016
#2
Uhhhh, No. Sound judgement is a fundamental, absolutely required qualification
kristopher
Jan 2016
#4
More like one of the "most broadly & deeply flawed" candidates in modern history.
EndElectoral
Jan 2016
#11
I'm not trashing Brown. He's a great Senator. Obama has been a good President.
Armstead
Jan 2016
#33
I would have rather seen your daughter and millions of others have more options
Armstead
Jan 2016
#39
She will not withstand the republican attacks as she has too many problems
Rosa Luxemburg
Jan 2016
#28
NYT: erratum. Hillary Clinton one of the most deeply disqualified candidates in recent American
leveymg
Jan 2016
#30