This election season we have an incredible woman bad ass running for President of our fine nation! Not only is she likely to be the FIRST woman President ever, she is one of the most (if not most) bad ass candidates the Democratic party could ever nominate.
“HARD-CORE” Liberal Record and Platform
Yes, Hillary Clinton is a liberal and has been a liberal. Not only is she a liberal, but based on her record as the 11th most liberal senator, she is clearly to the left of Obama. In fact, she is so liberal that she is rated as a “Hard-core” liberal (along with Bernie Sanders) by the analysts at ontheissues.org. That would make her the most liberal President since Jimmy Carter. If you want a liberal in office that has been proven to represent liberal interests, here she is.
Unprecedented Experience and a Lifetime of Public Service
Hillary just happens to be one of the most experienced and successful politicians to EVER run for office. As written in an excellent post, in her insanely successful career she has been:
First ever student commencement speaker at Wellesley College. Distinguished graduate of Yale Law School. Former Director of the Arkansas Legal Aid Clinic. Former civil litigation attorney. Former Law Professor at the University of Arkansas School of Law. Former First Lady of Arkansas. Former First Lady of the United States, and the first FLOTUS in US History to hold a postgraduate degree. First ex-FLOTUS in US History to be elected to the United States Senate. Elected by the … State of New York to serve two terms in the United States Senate. Former US Secretary of State. GRAMMY Award Winner. Author. Self proclaimed Pantsuit Aficionado. Married to a man named Bill, who plays the saxophone.
Let’s just add that she helped lay the groundwork for the ACA with her efforts in the 90’s with HillaryCare, played a leading role in the development of State Children’s Health Insurance Program, was instrumental in the creation of the Adoption and Safe Families Act and the Foster Care Independence Act, spearheaded investigations into mental illness plaguing veterans of the Gulf War; we now have a term for it – Gulf War Syndrome, helped create the office on Violence Against Women, was instrumental in securing over $21 billion in funding for the World Trade Center redevelopment, took a leading role in the investigation of health consequences of first responders and drafted the first bill to compensate and offer the health services our first responders deserve (Clinton’s successor in the Senate, Kirsten Gillibrand, passed the bill), proposed a revival of the New Deal-era Home Owners’ Loan Corporation to help homeowners refinance their mortgages in the wake of the 2008 financial disaster, and was a major proponent of sensible diplomacy which brought about a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel.
Oh wait, she also co-founded a little organization that has improved lives for nearly 400 million people in over 180 countries through its initiative program. That’s a huge list, and it’s far from comprehensive. In fact I removed a bunch of stuff, just because I wanted to make it more readable.
Fundamentally Honest
According to Politifact HIllary Clinton has the best truth-telling record of any of the 2016 presidential candidates. This has been visualized by the NYT.
Kevin Drum at Mother Jones writes:
Not only do we know there's almost literally nothing to any of these "scandals," we also know exactly how they were deliberately and cynically manufactured at every step along the way. We were there, watching it happen in real time. So not only do we believe Hillary is basically honest, but the buzzwords actively piss us off. Every time we hear a young progressive kinda sorta suggest that Hillary can't be trusted, we want to strangle someone. It's the ultimate proof of how the right wing's big lie about the Clintons has successfully poisoned not just the electorate in general, but even the progressive movement itself.
Think about this. Every email from her time at Secretary of State has been examined word for word by what was basically a team of opposition research opponents, and scrutinized for any issue or inconsistency and this is the best they can come up with.
She ACTUALLY wears “deal with it” glasses IRL
She doesn’t even need the “deal with it” glasses to be photoshopped on (although I did). She ACTUALLY wears “deal with it” glasses throughout the day.
She is a bad ass. Clinton is a bad ass liberal, get sh*t done, take no names, Democrat who can STOMP Donald Trump in a general election.
DEAL WITH IT.