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| | ==The inevitable Hillary 2016== | | ==The inevitable Hillary 2016== |
| | + | {{Cquote|every survivor of sexual assault...You have the right to be heard. You have the right to be believed.|20px|20px|Hillary Clinton on Twitter 10:24 AM - 14 Sep 2015.<ref>[https://twitter.com/hillaryclinton/status/643475466490388480 .</ref>}} |
| | :''Main article [[United States presidential election, 2016]]'' | | :''Main article [[United States presidential election, 2016]]'' |
| − | On April 12, 2015, Hillary Rodham Clinton announced her candidacy for the Democratic Party's nomination in the [[2016 presidential election]].<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uY7gLZDmn4 "Getting Started | Hillary Clinton"] (April 12, 2015). YouTube video, 2:18, posted by Hillary Clinton.</ref>
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| | Bill Clinton's deregulation of [[Wall Street]] has been roundly credited with having caused the Great Recession.<ref>[http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877322,00.html Blameworthy: Bill Clinton. 25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis], ''[[Time magazine]]''.</ref><ref>[http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/10/14/448685233/fact-check-did-glass-steagall-cause-the-2008-financial-crisis Fact Check: Did Glass-Steagall Cause The 2008 Financial Crisis?], October 14, 2015. npr.org </ref> In something of an undignified moment, while instructing a group of Arizona partisans how to respond to claims that "the great recession was caused by too much regulation", Hillary was rather unpresidential as she began barking like a dog, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58rLBBpCE2M ARF ARF ARF ARF]. | | Bill Clinton's deregulation of [[Wall Street]] has been roundly credited with having caused the Great Recession.<ref>[http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877322,00.html Blameworthy: Bill Clinton. 25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis], ''[[Time magazine]]''.</ref><ref>[http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/10/14/448685233/fact-check-did-glass-steagall-cause-the-2008-financial-crisis Fact Check: Did Glass-Steagall Cause The 2008 Financial Crisis?], October 14, 2015. npr.org </ref> In something of an undignified moment, while instructing a group of Arizona partisans how to respond to claims that "the great recession was caused by too much regulation", Hillary was rather unpresidential as she began barking like a dog, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58rLBBpCE2M ARF ARF ARF ARF]. |
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| − | Hillary tweeted, "every survivor of sexual assault...You have the right to be heard. You have the right to be believed."<ref>[https://twitter.com/hillaryclinton/status/643475466490388480 Hillary Clinton on Twitter 10:24 AM - 14 Sep 2015].</ref> | + | After Congressional Democrats voted down President Obama's proposal to create a NAFTA-like Pacific Trade Zone with China, Japan, and about a dozen other countries, to no one one surprise Hillary Clinton once again flip-flopped to garner headlines in support of what public opinion polls were saying. CNN reported Hillary had spoken out in favor of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) no less than 45 times prior, an issue which supposedly she now opposes.<ref>Multiple references: |
| | + | *Tapper, Jake et al. (June 15, 2015). [http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCAQqQIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2015%2F06%2F15%2Fpolitics%2F45-times-secretary-clinton-pushed-the-trade-bill-she-now-opposes%2F&ei=wC2CVeupMYO0oQTUj4HYCg&usg=AFQjCNEsFqVDafeOiL3RCS2RkzIM4yx07A&sig2=FjN1zCMVkBdQg3uHQ-cQvg "45 times Secretary Clinton pushed the trade bill she now opposes"]. CNN website/Politics. |
| | + | *Swenson, Michele (June 24, 2014). [http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CB8QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2Fmichele-swenson%2Fnafta-the-transpacific-clinton_b_5523327.html&ei=CzKCVfvNFoq1oQTkg6iQDA&usg=AFQjCNH8zZ2k0O_82qbQ4lDs25S0ZL7LUQ&sig2=PUwH5dxq_fcRw17Tw9x7SQ "NAFTA, the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Clinton Global Initiative"]. Huffington Post/The Blog. |
| | + | *Shreckinger, Ben (February 21, 2014). [http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/02/how-obamas-free-trade-push-could-put-hillary-clinton-in-a-tight-spot/283958/ "How Obama's free trade push could put Hillary in a tight spot"]. ''The Atlantic'' website.</ref> |
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| | + | Speaking to a group of Democratic loyalists in Massachusetts in 2014, Hillary indulged some of the old-fashioned pointless partisanship well known to victims of Clintonism. Hillary Clinton alleged, "Don't let anyone tell you that corporations and businesses create jobs."<ref>[http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CB8QtwIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DPyUoCiWsTfI&ei=xzeCVYujEsTWoASs56HYCw&usg=AFQjCNFbNBSR0hvjFM2Csz0nD8oWQXzRiw&sig2=j25eCvPsMx5f-_-zQjEerg "Clinton shifts left: 'Don't let anyone tell you' that 'businesses create jobs'"] (October 24, 2014). YouTube video, 0:36, posted by GOP War Room.</ref> |
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| | Vladimir Putin refers to the "zone of chaos" Hillary Clinton and the [[Obama administration]] have created in the Middle East. The ''Cairo Review'' notes, | | Vladimir Putin refers to the "zone of chaos" Hillary Clinton and the [[Obama administration]] have created in the Middle East. The ''Cairo Review'' notes, |
| | {{quotebox|"Despite Hillary Clinton’s reputation as a [[liberal]], the record suggests her presidency would push America toward a more [[militarist]]ic approach to the Middle East...From Afghanistan to Western Sahara, she has advocated for military solutions to complex political problems, backed [[authoritarian]] allies and occupying armies, dismissed [[war crimes]], and opposed political involvement by the [[United Nations]] and its agencies.... she made a concerted effort to distance herself from Obama’s Middle East policies, which—despite including the bombing of no less than seven countries in the greater region—she argues have not been aggressive enough.... a look at the positions she has taken on a number of the key Middle East policy issues suggest that her presidency would shift America to a still more militaristic and [[interventionist]] policy that further marginalizes concerns for [[human rights]] or [[international law]]." <ref>[http://www.thecairoreview.com/essays/hillary-the-hawk/ Hillary the Hawk], By Stephen Zunes, The Cairo Review of Global Affairs, Winter 2016. </ref>}} | | {{quotebox|"Despite Hillary Clinton’s reputation as a [[liberal]], the record suggests her presidency would push America toward a more [[militarist]]ic approach to the Middle East...From Afghanistan to Western Sahara, she has advocated for military solutions to complex political problems, backed [[authoritarian]] allies and occupying armies, dismissed [[war crimes]], and opposed political involvement by the [[United Nations]] and its agencies.... she made a concerted effort to distance herself from Obama’s Middle East policies, which—despite including the bombing of no less than seven countries in the greater region—she argues have not been aggressive enough.... a look at the positions she has taken on a number of the key Middle East policy issues suggest that her presidency would shift America to a still more militaristic and [[interventionist]] policy that further marginalizes concerns for [[human rights]] or [[international law]]." <ref>[http://www.thecairoreview.com/essays/hillary-the-hawk/ Hillary the Hawk], By Stephen Zunes, The Cairo Review of Global Affairs, Winter 2016. </ref>}} |
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| − | Speaking to a group of Democratic loyalists in Massachusetts in 2014, Hillary indulged some of the old-fashioned unprovoked, pointless partisanship and divisiveness well known to the victims of Clintonism. Hillary Clinton alleged, "Don't let anyone tell you that corporations and businesses create jobs."<ref>[http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CB8QtwIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DPyUoCiWsTfI&ei=xzeCVYujEsTWoASs56HYCw&usg=AFQjCNFbNBSR0hvjFM2Csz0nD8oWQXzRiw&sig2=j25eCvPsMx5f-_-zQjEerg "Clinton shifts left: 'Don't let anyone tell you' that 'businesses create jobs'"] (October 24, 2014). YouTube video, 0:36, posted by GOP War Room.</ref>
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| − | After Congressional Democrats voted down President Obama's proposal to create a NAFTA-like Pacific Trade Zone with China, Japan, and about a dozen other countries, to no one one surprise Hillary Clinton once again flip-flopped to garner headlines in support of what public opinion polls were saying. CNN reported Hillary had spoken out in favor of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) no less than 45 times prior, an issue which supposedly she now opposes.<ref>Multiple references:
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| − | *Tapper, Jake et al. (June 15, 2015). [http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCAQqQIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2015%2F06%2F15%2Fpolitics%2F45-times-secretary-clinton-pushed-the-trade-bill-she-now-opposes%2F&ei=wC2CVeupMYO0oQTUj4HYCg&usg=AFQjCNEsFqVDafeOiL3RCS2RkzIM4yx07A&sig2=FjN1zCMVkBdQg3uHQ-cQvg "45 times Secretary Clinton pushed the trade bill she now opposes"]. CNN website/Politics.
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| − | *Swenson, Michele (June 24, 2014). [http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CB8QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2Fmichele-swenson%2Fnafta-the-transpacific-clinton_b_5523327.html&ei=CzKCVfvNFoq1oQTkg6iQDA&usg=AFQjCNH8zZ2k0O_82qbQ4lDs25S0ZL7LUQ&sig2=PUwH5dxq_fcRw17Tw9x7SQ "NAFTA, the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Clinton Global Initiative"]. Huffington Post/The Blog.
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| − | *Shreckinger, Ben (February 21, 2014). [http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/02/how-obamas-free-trade-push-could-put-hillary-clinton-in-a-tight-spot/283958/ "How Obama's free trade push could put Hillary in a tight spot"]. ''The Atlantic'' website.</ref>
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| | ===Wikipedia darling=== | | ===Wikipedia darling=== |