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She is liberal in some respects and very conservative in others.
If she is elected, NAFTA will continue essentially unchanged to the detriment of American workers.
Pension law will not be changed, and corporations will be able to promise the sky and then deliver hot air to their employees at the end of their employees' careers.
Hillary will "review" the scope of the illegal powers that Bush has claimed, and she will make a big show of relinquishing a few of them, but she will keep some of them, and she will not tell us until after she has been elected which ones she will keep.
We will leave Iraq at a speed that Hillary's corporate minders agree to, but don't count on our leaving the Middle East until she has "dealt with" Iran.
Hillary will talk a lot about energy independence and alternative energy development, but she will defer to the big energy companies with regard to how government subsidies for energy development are spent. Don't want to offend anyone you know, especially not anyone with lots of money.
The pharmaceutical companies and big insurance providers will sit at the table and "negotiate" a health insurance plan that will mostly insure that us little guys pay the maximum in premiums and those big guys provide the minimum in benefits. (The public insurance alternative will be underfunded and not provide adequate care to those of us who are poor or in the lower middle class. Wouldn't want to have to raise taxes on the rich, you know. Of course, everyone will have the "freedom" to choose their own plan, so the rich will continue to have great coverage if they need insurance at all.)
Ask, don't tell will continue to be the policy for dealing with GLBTs in the military. Just don't get caught being what you really are.
The religious right will be given a hand out without concern for protecting the religious freedom of the third parties for whose benefit the tax funds they receive are supposed to have been budgeted.
The corporations will continue to pay their CEOs however much they can possibly wrench up without concern about the shareholders' interests.
Social Security will continue to exist, but as the inflation that inevitably follows the folly of war grows to unparalleled levels, the method for determining cost of living increases will be changed, and many elderly will find themselves literally out in the cold or be forced to rely on their children and the largess of strangers for survival.
American jobs will continue to be outsourced. The name, Clinton, will continue to be very popular in India, China and elsewhere.
Taxes will have to increase -- and to be "fair" they will increase on "everyone" equally, meaning the lower and middle classes will pay through the nose while big corporations and those whose income is considered to be capital gains pay relatively little compared to their incomes.
College tuition will continue to rise, but student loans will be be available -- and not dischargeable in bankruptcy. In fact, the current oppressive bankruptcy laws will continue to benefit the credit card companies, banks and collection agencies. Again, have to be fair to everyone, especially those who write big checks to Hillary's campaigns.
Habeas corpus will be "restored" but with certain limitations that did not exist before Reagan.
Birth control will be funded by the US government, but abortions will not, and if Roe v. Wade is overturned by the Court Bush has appointed, well, what can a poor girl do? Amending the Constitution to guarantee a woman's right to choose won't be the priority of a Hillary presidency.
Schools will continue to test and test instead of teaching critical thinking. Don't want to be soft on teachers, you know.
Oh, and welfare reform, remember that wonderfully liberal Clinton "compromise" with the right -- as inflation increases and the job market worsens, it will become more and more difficult for the single mothers with several children, the mentally ill, the physically disabled and the simply unemployable to survive.
And, Homeland Security will continue to be well funded and privatized. The rise in the unemployment statistics that would result from defunding the national obsession with spying on ourselves would look really bad. It will just be easier to keep people busy snooping on each other. The worst criminals in the country do their dirty deeds in corporate offices far from the nosy eyes of Homeland Security.
If you really like the scenario I have depicted, vote for Hillary. But please don't pretend you are voting for a liberal when you do. You will only be fooling yourself. Hillary is getting all the press coverage for a reason -- she is the most conservative of the Democratic candidates. The moguls that own the MSM know who she is and what she stands for. She is, for them, the least likely threat to their power, their money and their ideology.
I want a liberal who will stand up for liberal ideals. My candidate is John Edwards. I understand he gave a great speech in Des Moines on corporate responsibility and regulation. Check out his website. He is ready to be president. Kucinich, Obama, Biden, Richardson, Dodd. They are all great too and any one of them is more liberal than Hillary. So don't settle for a cheap imitation when you can have the real thing. Forget about Hillary if you want a liberal in the White House.
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