2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary fans have convinced themselves that she is a progressive. You really have to willfully [View all]Boldine
(86 posts)1. Foreign Policy
As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton was reportedly one of the most hawkish members of President Obama's cabinet:
- Pushing for the 2009 troop surge in Afghanistan and US intervention in Libya.
- A vocal proponent of the same drone war that has led to the deaths of 2,400 civilians.
- As SoS she bragged about having presided over the imposition of "crippling sanctions" on the Iranian economy.
- She vociferously defended Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's handling of the assault on Gaza.
- Clinton's vote in favor of the Iraq war, a vote for which it took her more than a decade to express regret, was clearly not a temporary lapse in judgment.
2. Economy
- Clinton has long nurtured close ties to the financial sector. Over the course of her political career, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup have been among her top political donors, in addition to giving heavily to the Clinton Foundation. In October 2013, Clinton received $400,000 to speak at two Goldman Sachs events and delivered what was described as a "reassuring message" to the assembled bankers.
3. Environment
- Clinton took an active role in promoting hydrofracking worldwide through the Global Shale Gas Initiative. - - Clinton's State Department, and in some cases she personally, lobbied on behalf of companies like Chevron. Since stepping down as SoS, Clinton has continued to express support for the practice, which she outlined in a September 2014 speech to the National Clean Energy Summit. She has also remained disturbingly silent on the issue of the Keystone XL pipeline.
4. Civil Liberties
In the Senate, she voted for the Patriot Act as well as its subsequent reauthorization. In an appearance in April 2014 at the University of Connecticut, she defended NSA surveillance and chastised whistleblower Edward Snowden, accusing him of supporting terrorism.
5. Religion
In 2005, she joined a bipartisan group of senators in signing onto the Workplace Religious Freedom Act, which, according to the ACLU, would effectively have legalized discrimination.
Beginning in 1993, Clinton was a member of "The Fellowship," a clandestine and influential evangelical group, which has recruited many prominent figures in business and politics and holds meetings in gender-segregated "cells."
Taken from http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/29052-five-reasons-no-progressive-should-support-hillary-clinton