8, June
2016 Hillary Clinton
AP and NBC
News engaged in gross media malpractice by declaring Clinton the Democratic
winner on the eve of the primary in California and contests in five other
states. Although it appears likely the Democratic establishment candidate,
Hillary Clinton has prevailed, she is likely to face a great deal of hostility
from Sanders supports. Her long political career is fraught with missteps. She
got a free pass from media scrutiny beginning with the so-called welfare reform
of 1996 which decimated the lives of millions of women in this country. He
hawkish polices in the Middle East betrayed a lack of concern for the aftermath
of waging war. She failed to pay heed to two of the greatest speeches in the
Senate by Byrd and Kennedy who vigorously opposed the war in Iraq. Afraid of
being left out in the cold, she vigorously embraced the morally bankrupt
polices of Cheney and George Bush and eagerly accepted the bogus presence of
WMD’s. Failing to learn from her tragic mistake, she then went on to support
the removal and assassination of Gaddafi which plunged Libya into utter chaos.
Her more recent misstep was the removal of thousands of emails from her private
server which was akin to the missing 18 minutes of the infamous Nixon White
House tape. In a desperate attempt to establish her foreign policy credentials,
she sited Henry Kissinger as her mentor and supporter ignoring his extremely
dark history supporting right wing dictators in the Americas and the genocide
in Pakistan. The Clinton’s close ties to Wall Street are well known and will
undoubtedly be exploited by the Republicans. She would be wise to extend an
olive branch to Sanders and offer him a major role in the forthcoming general
election failing which she may well be skewered by the demonic Trump.
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