I'll Never Vote for Hillary Clinton

Blickers wrote:

Hillary is a different person from Bill, but I think they are both on the same page.

I'd say they're in the same book, but Ms. Clinton seems to be reading a more liberal chapter than her husband ever got to.

the difference (to an observer who finds both of them undesireable) is that the supporters of Ms. Clinton say they will vote for whoever the Democratic candidate is in the general election. The supporters of Mr. Sanders say (to a fascinating, if disturbing, degree ) that if Mr. Sanders is not the candidate in the general, they will not be voting Democratic.

It is a striking difference.

You Bernie guys never give Hillary any credit for having done anything good. Surely you don't think she's spent ALL her time figuring how to screw the American people "on the sly"?
Surely she had some time to support helpful legislation as senator, to help broker useful alliances as SOS?
I'm sorry, but it just seems like an open-ended, glaringly incomplete argument.

This is what the conversation feels like, in a way:
"I'm mad as hell at the system, and I'm not going to take it anymore!"
"Well, what can we do about it?
"Nothing! Let the worst of the worst lead the system; I'm going home!"

You're assuming Hillary has done some good. Do you have a concrete example?

From Snopes.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/achievements.asp

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You're assuming Hillary has done some good. Do you have a concrete example?

I'll be more than happy to list a few things, if you tell me the reason you're assuming she hasn't done any good.

snood wrote:

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You're assuming Hillary has done some good. Do you have a concrete example?

I'll be more than happy to list a few things, if you tell me the reason you're assuming she hasn't done any good.

I have no concrete examples of the alleged "good" that you said that people like me have failed to recognize. I'm at a total loss. Nothing comes to mind. I even googled to try and find something to give her credit for ... and found nothing. Maybe you'll have better luck.

“I also hope that we all remember,” Sanders said during his acceptance speech after winning the New Hampshire primary, “and this is a message not just to our opponents, but to those who support me as well. That we will need to come together in a few months and unite this party, and this nation because the right-wing Republicans we oppose must not be allowed to gain the presidency.”

It’s a message that people really should take to heart. In a few months, this will be over and the Democrats will have a nominee who will be pretty good, whether it’s Clinton or Sanders. It’s just not worth causing all this collateral damage by hinting (however unintentionally) that women will never be good enough, no matter what they do, just to score some points that probably won’t even turn into real votes at the end of the day.

Hillary Clinton did sit for an interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer which aired on 9 June 2014, after which she was criticized by some commentators (as she had been before) for not being able to provide a succinct or definitive answer when questioned about her top or proudest accomplishments as Secretary of State. But nothing like the passage quoted above was spoken by Clinton during that ABC interview.

You're clear that that was what was on your link, right?

Maybe that's made it all too easy for some to forget that Hillary has been a leader on the front lines of progressive change for over 40 years. Ever since she went to work at the Children's Defense Fund right out of law school, she's been a tireless advocate for the least fortunate among us. But instead of reciting her entire biography, I just want to focus on one particular example.

There is a special program called Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters, though most just call it "HIPPY." Originally designed in Israel, it's an amazing approach to helping parents prepare their children for school, and for life. And it was first brought to Arkansas by Hillary Clinton.

Hillary has always understood what science keeps telling us: that most of our kids' minds have already developed by age four. That means parents are positioned to be their kids' first teachers.

This isn't actually as daunting as it sounds. All you really need to do is talk and play with them in specific and nurturing ways.

But for a lot of parents, especially those juggling classes, full-time jobs, or both - that's a luxury they just can't afford. To make matters worse, many low-income parents never received much education themselves, so they may feel ill-equipped to provide kids with the proper enrichment.

That's where HIPPY comes in. This program gives parents all the materials they need to prepare them for language learning, math, and science, at every age up until kindergarten.

I first learned about HIPPY from my stepdaughter, Kathryn, who spent many years expanding its curriculum over the country - including in Arkansas when Hillary was working on it there too. Today, it's in 23 states, helping the most vulnerable kids in over 15,000 families nationwide.