Tag: November8th

Hillary Clinton For President

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Charitably, the presidential debates are over and the 2016 campaign season has moved into its final phase. In spite of clear vulnerabilities, most observers (outside of FauxNews and Brietbart) believe that Secretary Hillary Clinton handily won all three debates against republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. That said, WokeCitizen didn’t need to watch the debates to conclude that Secretary Clinton is the clear choice for president on November 8th. We find it difficult to imagine republicans offering America a worse nominee than Trump and the reason to vote against him far outnumber the reasons to vote for Secretary Clinton. That said, those who view a vote for Secretary Clinton as a choice of the lesser of two evils could not be more wrong. When we at WokeCitizen think about it, we can come up with dozens of reasons that HRC deserves our vote. Here are a few in loose order of importance.

15 – Congressional republicans have admitted that their kangaroo-court hearings over e-mails and the Benghazi attack were pursued primarily to do as much political damage to Hillary Clinton as possible. We think such antics deserve neither the favor of credibility nor reward at the ballot box.

14 – We prefer someone who prepares for important events like debates. Maybe it’s just me, but someone’s approach prior to getting a job is an indicator of their approach once they are on the job.

13 – It’s time. Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton will be the first woman to serve as President of the United States, a long overdue milestone for a nation that is over two and a quarter centuries old.

12 – One of her opponents for office has never won an election outside of her small Massachusetts township. One couldn’t recognize the location of a major Middle East flashpoint and couldn’t name one foreign head of state. One has shown himself to be a virulently bigoted, misogynistic, thoughtless megalomaniac with an alarmingly cavalier attitude toward the use of nuclear weapons. Other than Hillary Clinton, there is no reasonable choice for president.

11 – After 30 years of political attacks ranging from the petty to the menacing, her toughness, resilience and grit cannot be credibly questioned.

10 – After serving as First Lady, the Junior United States Senator from the State of New York and Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton is one of the most prepared and qualified presidential candidates in modern history.

9 – Ask Osama Bin Laden if he thinks that Hillary Clinton will be soft on international terrorism. Oh wait, we can’t ask him because she helped take him out.

8 – She is center-left to progressive in her positions on major issues including tax and fiscal policy, climate change, women’s reproductive health, human rights and education access. While many on the left would argue that she is not progressive enough, the alternative would be far, far worse.

7 – She has worked for decades to expand the availability of affordable healthcare to Americans at every socioeconomic level, with particular focus on children’s access.

6 – Her long-standing working relationships with leaders in the international community were instrumental in building a global sanctions regime that helped bring Iran to the negotiating table on nuclear weapons capability.

5 – She has fought for human rights – particularly for women and LGBT persons – both here in America and on the international stage.

4 – She has a complete understanding of legislative processes and has a history of working in a bi-partisan manner in the execution of legislative priorities.

3 – She has far greater facility with all levers of American foreign policy – negotiation, economic support and sanction, military, etc. – than any of her opponents.

2 – The last time a Clinton was president, America experienced the longest peacetime economic expansion in history, unemployment was below four percent and the federal budget was in surplus.

1 – She is more likely to nominate judges in the mold of Earl Warren, Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsberg and less likely to nominate judges in the mold of William Rehnquist, Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia.

Note that our number one reason to vote for Secretary Clinton is the same most important reason to vote against Donald Trump. The next president will nominate two, if not three judges to the highest court in the land, to render decisions that will impact our lives and those of our children and their descendants. The current republican-appointed majority opened the door to our elections being deluged by special interest money and to New Jim Crow voter suppression efforts in republican-dominated states. These and other travesties must be reversed and personal freedom – regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or physical ability – must be affirmed.

The WokeCitizen supports Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton for President of the United States.

Too Many Reasons To List

We’ve seen enough, haven’t you? Though we will be treated to one more inane spectacle on Wednesday, we can’t imagine hearing anything from any presidential candidate – democrat, republican, libertarian, green, whatever – that would compel me to vote for someone other than Hillary Rodham Clinton. To be frank, we haven’t been undecided about this election since the likelihood of the republican and democratic nominees became apparent. As the Libertarian and Green Party nominees have absolutely zero chance of becoming president and have not proven themselves to be serious candidates, they aren’t worthy of serious consideration in my opinion. This leaves Secretary Clinton, who fortunately is the most qualified candidate by several orders of magnitude, and Donald Trump, for whom the description of less worthy is a euphemism. Actually, any remotely aware people of basic human decency blessed with a requisite compliment of properly-firing brain synapses can be forgiven for considering the possibility of a Trump presidency to be an existential threat to this republic. As we go into the home stretch of this campaign season, I think it important to consider the reasons that a vote for anyone but Hillary Rodham Clinton is a vote for a more precarious American future. Frankly, we have a hundred reasons why the republican nominee should not be allowed anywhere near the White House unescorted. We think that the top 20img_0554 are as follows:

20 – His political coalition consists of a significant number of people who are rightly and correctly considered “deplorable” in both perspective and in behavior.

19 – From his attacks on former President Clinton’s infidelity, to his impugning of Secretary Clinton’s veracity, to his agitations over US trade policy, his hypocrisy and duplicity is nothing short of breathtaking.

18 – So many times, in so many ways, he confirms that his quest for the presidency is far more about confirming his greatness than it is about making America great again.

17 – He is proven to be an alarmingly consistent liar, which we cannot expect for him to reform once he takes the oath of office. Indeed, there is an over 70% chance that taking the oath of office would be an act of perfidy on his part given his track record.

16 – His obsessive need to personally attack any and all critics through social media indicates a psychological malady that could impair his ability to function and comport himself properly as president, particularly in foreign policy.

15 – In his attacks on military veterans and their families, he confirms a debilitating lack of understanding of what constitutes strength, heroism and patriotism.

14 – His refusal to make public his income tax returns indicates a high likelihood of significant conflict between his personal interests and those of the majority of Americans.

13 – Contrary to his criticism of foreign-made products and the impact of imported goods on American jobs, he has time and time again purchased and sold foreign-made products in his own business activities.

12 – He has a documented track record of stiffing small businesses.

11 – We can imagine what someone who loses almost a billion dollars of his own money in one year could do to our economy in four years.

10 – His campaign seeks voter support through appeals to fear, resentment and bigotry.

9 – The last time republicans were in control of all three branches of government, they set the stage for a total vapor-lock of global capital markets and the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.

8 – As evidenced by his intention to incarcerate a political opponent as would a third world dictator, he either has no working knowledge of the Constitution of the United States of America, or has no intention of acting within its requirements.

7 – His obsequious behavior toward authoritarian foreign “leaders” like Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un indicate a dangerous nescience about their threat to global security and attests to his own authoritarian proclivities.

6 – Even if one were to completely discount the allegations of sexual abuse brought to light so far, his well-documented history of misogyny and sexism renders him unfit to propose, assess, implement or advance policies related to the health and well-being of American women.

5 – His disparagement of America’s generals and his claim to know more about ISIS than those generals are indicative of a dangerous combination of profound ignorance and virulent megalomania.

4 – We’ve seen no evidence that he has ever given a tinker’s damn about working people in his 70 years on this earth. Only a galactic moron believes that he will care about working people on November 9th regardless of whether he wins or loses on November 8th.

3 – While advantageous for him personally, economic policy based on tax cuts for America’s most wealthy citizens has already proven to be a failure.

2 – Whether it is management of the legislative process, the formulation and execution of foreign policy, the development, execution and management of fiscal policy, or any other executive branch activity, he not only has no experience whatsoever, he hasn’t bothered to develop a remotely credible understanding of such essential activities. We cannot think of a major party candidate who is, and who proves himself to be, so profoundly unqualified for the office of President of the United States – in modern American history.

1 – The next president will nominate at least two and potentially up to four Supreme Court justices. He already has said that he would select Supreme Court justice nominees in the mold of Antonin Scalia. We want to see the next president select nominees who are closer in judicial perspective to Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

You may have 20 different reasons for doing everything in your power to keep the republican nominee from becoming President of the United States of America and we doubt that we could argue against any of them even if we wanted to. But the fact that you have 20 reasons – or even one really, really good one – should compel you to get yourself to your designated polling place as soon as possible.