The news came while many of us were sleeping (or otherwise occupied):
Only one Democratic candidate for president is truly qualified to hold the job: Hillary Clinton.
No contender’s resume can come within miles of matching Clinton’s. She’s ready to take up the nation’s top job on day one and her knowledge of domestic issues and foreign policy is encyclopedic.
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In the 1970s, she became the first woman to chair the board of the Legal Services Corporation, which was created to increase access to legal services for the poor. As first lady, and the lead proponent of a failed attempt to provide access to health care for all that’s not unlike the Affordable Care Act, she learned how Washington, and the special interests that fight to get their hands on the levers of government, work. In the process, she played a key role in the creation of what became the Children’s Health Insurance Program operated by the states.
The plans Clinton has put forward – whether on foreign policy, making college more affordable, addressing climate change or increasing access to health care – display her knowledge of the issues. They are not pie-in-the sky, but achievable. Her health plan, for example, builds on the success of Obamacare. By contrast, Sanders’s health plan, such as it is, was described by Vox founder and health care analyst Ezra Klein as offering voters “puppies and rainbows.” Virtually none of what he has pledged to do is achievable.
Clinton was the first first lady in history to run for elected office and the first female senator from New York. If elected, she would become the first female president. She knows how to get things done in a country with many needs and many threats, the greatest of which is the political dysfunction that has prevented their being addressed. She gets our strongest possible endorsement for the Democratic nomination.
Res ipsa loquiter.