2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: What specific POLICY POSITIONS show Sec. Clinton to be "Not Liberal" or "Not a Democrat?" [View all]Zen Democrat
(5,901 posts)She's for fracking
She's for privatized prisons
She's against marijuana legalization
She's one of the responsible parties for the Iraq War with her ill conceived vote
She's against the reinstatement of Glass-Steagall (famous post-Great Depression legislation)
She's very pro-military, apparently wanting to be a "Golda Meir" president (from several sources)
She has stated a willingness to compromise on Social Security and on late-term abortions (which are often the most medically necessary "life of the mother" abortions)
She is FOR keeping the death penalty.
She doesn't have a big picture and her driving principle as a candidate is her "experience," which is not that overwhelming.
She accomplished next to nothing as a senator.
She caused problems for Obama as Secretary of State, and had no great achievements, while John Kerry has excelled.
I don't blame Hillary for Benghazi, but overall, Libya has been her baby and now it's ISIS Land.
Hillary is known as a harsh infighter who jettisons friends who dare oppose her. Ask Bill Richardson. Ask the old members of the White House Travel Office, who were eventually reinstated against her will.
She sat on the board of directors of Walmart for years. That's enough to disqualify her right there!
What has she ever really "got done?" I can't think of anything.
She lied the first time I ever heard her speak. It was on 60 Minutes in early 1992 just after the 12-year affair with Genifer Flowers exploded in the media. "I'm not sitting here some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette," Hillary famously told Steve Kroft. If fact, she was doing just that, and she knew she was. She lied because she had to, in order for Bill's campaign to continue, but she lied.
I voted for Bill Clinton twice and was sorry to see him leave office. Hillary has never been a fave. I thought Hillarycare was a convoluted mess with too many moving parts to work. She developed the plan in secret - just like Cheney did with the oil companies and energy policy.
As a woman, I'm embarrassed at how often and brazenly she and her surrogates play the "woman" card. It's inappropriate in these modern times.
She's shrouding her highly-paid speeches to Goldman-Sachs in secrecy, and refuses to release transcripts, which we know exist. This country has had enough of Wall Street Treasury Secretaries.
Of course I'll vote for her if she's the nominee, because she's worlds better than anything the Republicans will offer. But she's not nearly the democrat that Bernie is. Bernie is a real new-dealer. He'll get the country moving again. Hillary is status quo, laissez faire, and a Third-Wayer and that is a Democrat with an asterisk. The asterisk says * Believes that Democrats should move to the right to capture votes from the center.
Bernie is actually the only classic Democrat in the race.