{"id":825,"date":"2015-07-06T15:53:44","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T19:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musingsbymichael.com\/blog\/?p=825"},"modified":"2015-07-07T09:59:38","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T13:59:38","slug":"hillary-clinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.musingsbymichael.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/06\/hillary-clinton\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hillary Clinton is the first woman to run for President in the 21st<\/sup> Century and is the front runner of both parties. She is a self proclaimed liberal progressive and a very smart woman who knows what she wants.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Here are a list of her accomplishments<\/a>– \u201cFirst 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\u2026 State of New York to serve two terms in the United States Senate. Former US Secretary of State. GRAMMY Award Winner.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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While she has done more than some of the other candidates in the political arena, she also has done many things that the other candidates can never touch. Such as being a working partner with her husband, Bill Clinton, both as First Lady of the State of Arkansas and first Lady of the United States. She actually did help her husband with his political aspirations and problem solving. There are other accomplishments, but I think you get the idea.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Her detractors are many, some from the right and some from the left, yet there are real questions that have not been answered such as Whitewater and Benghazi for example.<\/span><\/p>\n

Whitewater<\/a>–<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSince 1978, she and her husband had been partners with McDougal and his wife, Susan, in the Whitewater real estate venture. Why and how did Hillary Clinton take on McDougal and Madison as her client? It seems like a minor question, but in fact goes to the heart of how she conducted herself as a lawyer who happened to be the wife of the state’s most powerful political figure. One issue is whether she sought out business that carried with it questions of conflict of interest. Another is whether McDougal, who was already carrying the bulk of the financial burden of the Whitewater land deal with the Clintons, tried to throw savings and loan work to Hillary Clinton at a time when his thrift was in danger of collapsing at taxpayer expense.\u201d I have to remind everyone that no charges were ever proved. This is troubling to some degree and shows problems with her professional ethics.<\/span><\/p>\n

Benghazi-<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSecretary of State Hillary Clinton testified in front of the House and Senate Committees<\/a> on Foreign Relations regarding the terrorist assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi that left four dead, including U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens. Clinton faced tough questioning on whether the department could have prevented their deaths and why, in their immediate wake, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice mischaracterized the attacks to the press as spontaneous rather than premeditated.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Per Fox News<\/a>– \u201cOne of the problems of course is the fact that Mrs. Clinton setup a private email account while Secretary of State and now fifteen of the emails pertaining to Benghazi are missing. Another of course did she know about how seriously the United States Ambassador to Libya was in danger or was she shielded by her staff from that knowledge?<\/span><\/p>\n

The State Department said Thursday it cannot locate 15 work-related emails from Hillary Clinton’s private server released this week by the committee probing the 2012 Benghazi attacks — indicating she never turned them over, in a revelation the committee chairman described as “significant and troubling.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The emails consist of more in a series of intelligence reports passed to her by longtime political confidant Sidney Blumenthal, officials told The Associated Press.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the least, the existence of the emails turned over by Blumenthal but not by Clinton directly contradicts Clinton’s news conference in March in which she claimed that all work emails from her personal server were turned over to the State Department.<\/span><\/p>\n

The revelation will also raise further questions about the presidential hopeful\u2019s use of a personal email account and server when she served as secretary of state, as well as the decision to wipe the server.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Both Whitewater and Benghazi are troubling in so many ways, yet there are so many qualities that she has displayed that would make her a good President. But, with the questions of her ethics still in doubt it is something that makes me think that the other candidates have better ethics than she does. Only time will tell.<\/span><\/p>\n

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One thing that does trouble me is that people want to have her as President only because she would be the first woman. And to me that is not a reason to elect her at all.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Next week another Republican candidate will be talked about on this blog.<\/span><\/p>\n

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That is my opinion- Jumpin Jersey Mike<\/span><\/p>\n