Hillary Clinton

MrWendel

(1,881 posts) Mon Apr 18, 2016, 01:42 AM Apr 2016

Clinton Snags More Solid Endorsements Ahead of Primaries

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/4/17/1516660/-Clinton-Snags-More-Important-Newspaper-Endorsements-in-Run-up-to-Primaries

By CatM

"You bet your ass I'm qualified." (Not a real quote.)

Connecticut’s Hartford Courant endorses Clinton based on her realistic approach to issues and qualifications:

Hillary Clinton Most Qualified and Effective

...We believe she can do the one thing that President Obama has not done and that Mr. Sanders may not do, with his ambivalent record on guns (including voting against the Brady bill) — use her political skills to get greater gun controls. Dec. 14, 2012, has tragically made that Connecticut's salient issue...

Mr. Sanders is appealing in his promises: Who doesn't want tuition-free universities, single-payer health care and bigger Social Security checks? But the costs are far greater than he's acknowledging. Also, the tax increases required would make Congress keel over. Finally, the quality of his Medicare-for-all system wouldn't match today's. He is idealistic. But he is also unrealistic….

Mrs. Clinton has turned dreams into laws. She has fought for the underclass, championing the causes of women and children around the world. Her grasp of foreign policy is deep — including, through sorry experience, the limits of U.S. power.

Given her resume, few people today are more qualified for the Oval Office than she is.

The Philadelphia Inquirer also endorsed Clinton, citing her experience and realism. However, the endorsement was hardly ringing; it emphasized the editorial board’s dissatisfaction with Sanders’ idealism more than great appreciation for Clinton:

In a Word, Clinton

[P]articularly in contrast with the former secretary of state, [Sanders] has largely downplayed foreign affairs, one of the president's greatest responsibilities. He expresses too much vain hope that other countries will do what they ought to, while Clinton told the Inquirer Editorial Board that "we have to continue to lead the world." She helped do so herself by contributing to the nuclear deal with Iran, a bright spot in President Obama's foreign policy.

Even on his core issues, Sanders can be surprisingly short on the prose behind the poetry. His $75 billion-a-year plan to make public universities tuition-free hasn't attracted a single Senate cosponsor from either party. Asked about the complication that free college doesn't correlate with higher education levels globally, he reiterated the desirability of postsecondary schooling and added, "To me, this is not a complicated issue." Clinton's plan for income-based loan repayment would spend much less public money on students who don't need it: again, less electrifying but more realistic.

[S]elf-inflicted controversies dampen the enthusiasm that should attach to a candidate who is not only thoroughly qualified for the presidency but also historically unprecedented by the long line of men who have occupied it. To paraphrase a Republican, Sanders may have "the best words" in this contest, but HILLARY CLINTON is better prepared to lead her country.

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