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200 Reasons Why Hillary Clinton Should Not Be President
Townhall.com ^ | September 27, 2016 | Catherine Dunn

Posted on 09/28/2016 4:08:54 AM PDT by Kaslin

According to many political commentators, there is simply no contest between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. While Clinton may be a flawed candidate, Donald Trump is, on the other hand, “manifestly unfit.” They bolster these claims with listicles of hundreds of supposedly disqualifying things that Trump has said or done throughout his time in public life. Keith Olbermann narrated a list of 176, the Clinton campaign came up with 126, and Slate compiled a list of 191. If you can name a hundred-odd reasons against Trump but only the email scandal and Benghazi against Clinton, then it would seem, mathematically speaking, that Clinton is by far the lesser of two evils.

But this is simply untrue. Not only has Clinton made an equal, if not greater number of errors, her errors are often magnitudes worse than anything Trump has ever said or tweeted.

Compare, for instance, their worst attempts at outreach to Hispanic communities. On Cinco de Mayo, Trump tweeted a picture of himself eating a taco bowl with the caption “I love Hispanics!” Slate, Olbermann, and the Clinton campaign all listed this as a disqualifying offense. How much more disqualifying, then, is Clinton’s involvement in the FALN clemency controversy? When Hillary Clinton was running for senator of New York, she received word that she could win over “strategic communities” if her husband offered clemency to a group of Puerto Rican nationalists imprisoned for terrorism. Sure enough, President Clinton commuted the sentences of 16 unrepentant FALN terrorists soon after. Though Hillary Clinton claimed to have had nothing to do with the decision, she supported it until public outcry shamed her into reversing her position. So on the one hand, you have a candidate who tweeted, “I love Hispanics!” and on the other, you have a candidate who supported and likely encouraged the commuted sentences of 16 radical Puerto Rican terrorists in order to win votes. These are not morally equivalent.

Time and again, Trump’s largely media-driven scandals have only underscored how much more profound the implications are for Clinton’s failings. Trump insulted a Gold Star family? Clinton is being sued by two Gold Star families for defamation of character. Trump claims he was against the Iraq War despite saying, “Yeah, I guess so,” on The Howard Stern Show? In 2008, Clinton claimed she was against the Iraq War despite voting for it. Trump wrote negative tweets about 258 people and organizations on Twitter? Clinton derided 40 million Americans as deplorable, irredeemable, and anti-American. The Trump Foundation gave a suspicious donation to a judge? The Clinton Foundation received donations from Saudi Arabia and Boeing as Hillary Clinton was approving a weapons deal of Boeing fighter jets to Saudi Arabia. These jets were used to kill thousands of Yemeni civilians.

Hillary Clinton is manifestly unfit to be president of the United States. Here are 200 reasons why.

Foreign Policy

1. Called for military action in response to computer hacking

2. Defended an illegal coup in Honduras

3. Claimed it made no difference whether the Benghazi attacks were planned or spontaneous

4. Corrupted a Haitian presidential election

5. Advocated for intervention in Libya, which has since become a failed state

6. Pushed for Libyan intervention based on spurious intelligence

7. Presented a Russian foreign minister with a “reset” button, mislabeled with the Russian word for “overcharge”

8. Called for a no-fly zone over Syria—a tacit declaration of war

9. Legitimized the illegal Honduran coup by organizing elections immediately after

10. Advocated deporting thousands of child refugees, a third of whom were from Honduras

11. Gave military aid to Egypt despite its failure to meet democracy requirements

12. Criticized Obama for withdrawing troops from Iraq, but failed to negotiate an agreement that would have allowed them to do so

13. Sold weapons to Bahrain despite its human rights violations

14. Compared Russia to Nazi Germany

Racial insensitivity

Hillary Clinton...

15. Joked that Mahatma Gandhi ran a gas station in St. Louis

16. Participated in a racist joke about "C.P. Time"--the offensive stereotype that African Americans are frequently late

17. Imitated a “black” accent

18. Produced racially-charged ads against Obama in 2008

19. Asked, “Is it working?” when accused of pandering to the black community

20. Said to a black church on Martin Luther King Day, “The House of Representatives has been run like a plantation—and you know what I’m talking about.”

21. Said black men in hoodies are scary

22. Told Jewish political consultant Dick Morris, “All you people care about is money!”

23. Praised a KKK recruiter as a mentor and friend

24. Said she had experience with men who go “off the reservation”

25. Said Obama wasn’t a Muslim “as far as I know”

26. Told Black Lives Matter activists she would only talk to white people about racial issues

27. Used the racially charged term “super predators”

28. Employed Sidney Blumenthal, who stoked racially charged rumors about the Obamas during the 2008 campaign

29. Had staffers who leaked picture of Obama in a turban

30. Cited assassination as a reason she stayed in the race against Obama

31. Lobbied Congress to expand the drug war and mass incarceration, disproportionately affecting black and Latino populations

Cruelty

32. Yelled at a supporter for questioning her ties to oil companies

33. Accepted millions of dollars from InfoUSA, a company that helps scammers defraud the elderly

34. Tarred as “bimbos” the women who had spoken about their affairs with Bill

35. Called a Gold Star mother a liar

36. Laughed about Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s death

37. Laughed about defending a child rapist

38.  Derided a group of women who accused a senator of sexual harrassment

39. Removed a message from her website stating sexual assault survivors have the right to be believed

40. Told a voter skeptical of her policies, “Why don’t you go run for something then?”

41. Created a work environment so hostile that Secret Service agents reported it was punishment to be assigned to her detail

42. Called Monica Lewinsky a “narcissistic loony toon”

43. Said Edward Snowden should “face the music”

44. Forced military aides to wear business suits instead of their uniforms

45. Alleged to have given Bill Clinton a black eye

Greed

46. Took $28,000 worth of gifts given to the White House back to her home in Chappaqua

47. Accepted and solicited almost $200,000 worth of gifts between her election to Senate (Nov. 2000) and her swearing in (Jan. 2001)

48. Demanded first class tickets on Gulfstream 450s for her speaking appointments

49. Charged children $2,700 to ask her a question

50. Charged $10,000 for a family photo with her

51. Has a history of not tipping

52. Received an $8 million advance for Living History, despite senators only allowing themselves to collect “usual and customary” advances

53. Quoted as saying, “What the **** did we come here for? There’s no money here,” at campaign stop in upstate New York

54. Gave no credit to the ghostwriter of It Takes a Village, as had been agreed

55. Tried to stiff the ghostwriter out of her final $30,000 payment

56. Fundraised instead of visiting Louisiana flood victims

Divisiveness

57. Wondered whether a person could be both a Republican and a Christian

58. Called half of Donald Trump supporters irredeemably racist, sexist, and homophobic

59. Suggested the Donald Trump supporters who weren’t racists were misguided and poor

60. Blamed Republicans when gay activists interrupted Bill Clinton’s 50th birthday celebration

61. Listed Republicans among her enemies

62. Said Republicans don’t care about the Zika virus

63. Referred to those collecting welfare as “deadbeats”

64. Stereotyped stay-at-home moms

65. Blamed rumors of her husband’s affairs on a “vast right-wing conspiracy”

66. Said she felt sorry for ignorant Bernie Sanders supporters

67. Kept a list of political enemies

68. Refers to President Obama as “that man”

Corruption

69. Tapped major Clinton Foundation donor for nuclear security board

70. Approved the sale of 80 Boeing fighter jets to Saudi Arabia as the Clinton Foundation received money from Boeing and Saudi Arabia

71. Failed to disclose a $2.35 million donation from the head of a Russian uranium company while reviewing the sale of Uranium One to Russia

72. Exploited the Haitian earthquake to grant favors for powerful donors

73. Granted a meeting with the prince of Bahrain after he donated to the Clinton Foundation

74. Failed to disclose a $500,000 donation from the Algerian government as Algerian lobbyists were granted increased access

75. Approved drastic increases in U.S. arms sales for countries who had donated to the Clinton foundation

76. Failed to disclose millions of dollars in speaking fees from corporations in China, Qatar, and Korea

77. Was apparently unaware that her brothers received hundreds of thousands of dollars from criminals in exchange for President Clinton granting them pardons

78. Sold overnight stays in the Lincoln Bedroom

79. Granted meeting with Johnny Chung after he donated $50,000

80. Described as operating the White House like a subway turnstile: “You have to put in coins to open the gates.”

81. Suggested her daughter may stay on the board of the Clinton Foundation Board after the election

82. Told sources that she might keep Loretta Lynch as the Attorney General

83. Oversaw the State Department as it failed to account for $6 billion

84. Attended Donald Trump’s wedding after he donated to the Clinton Foundation

85. Made $100,000 from a $1,000 investment in cattle futures

86. Waited until the statute of limitations had passed before releasing tax returns that revealed the investment

87. Claimed she was able to pick the right cattle stocks simply by studying the Wall Street Journal

88. Admitted to using the guidance of men for whom her husband had granted political favors, raising questions of a quid pro quo relationship

89. Used 130 forged signatures on petition to get on ballot in Indiana

90. Gave $165 billion worth of arms sales to 20 nations who had donated to the Clinton Foundation

91. Involved in the dismissal of seven travel office employees to replace with friends

92. Supported her husband’s decision to pardon 16 unrepentant FALN terrorists in an effort to curry favor with the Puerto Rican population of New York

93. Frequently meets with billionaire donor George Soros

94. Skipped ethics training course

95. Hired Debbie Wasserman Schultz after she was revealed to have rigged the election against Bernie Sanders

96. Employs Huma Abedin as her top aide, a woman who was listed as an editor for a radical Islamic magazine and who left classified information in her car

97. Used White House dinners to court donors for her Senate run

98. Fired from Watergate investigation for ethics violations

99. Added longtime friend Sidney Blumenthal to the payroll of the Clinton Foundation, paying him $200,000 a year for part-time work

100. Named disgraced former senator Ken Salazar as her White House transition chair

Policy

101. Promised 200,000 jobs in upstate New York, lost 31,000

102. Spearheaded the disastrous health care effort of 1993

103. Dismissed the potentially devastating impact of her health care plan by saying, “I can’t be responsible for every under-capitalized entrepreneur in America.”

104. Ignored warnings that her health care plan wouldn’t work, claiming that critics were just “jealous” they weren’t in charge

105. Seeks to overturn the Citizens United ruling because it allowed a non-profit to produce an anti-Hillary documentary

106. Said she would put her husband in charge of the economy

107. Fought against a $0.62 minimum wage in Haiti

108. Promised to put coal miners out of business

109. Supports sanctuary cites

110. Plans to take 550 percent more Syrian refugees into the U.S.

111. Opposes D.C. vs. Heller gun ruling

112. Said businesses don’t create jobs

113. Promised to use executive orders on gun control and immigration

114. Led effort to regulate video games

Lies

115. Refused to say she would never lie to the American people

116. Claimed she did not know she was voting for war when she cast her vote for the Iraq War

117. Claimed she had never sent or received classified information from her private server

118. Claimed—under oath—that she had no role in the Travel Office firings

119. Claimed she never received a subpoena

120. Opposed TPP after publicly supporting it 45 times

121. Denounced NAFTA after being its champion

122. Voted for a bankruptcy bill she fought as First Lady and then denounced after she voted for it

123. Claimed she and Bill were “dead broke” when leaving the White House

124. Claimed an economist was a Republican in order to legitimize his claim that she would add millions of jobs to the economy

125. Claimed she worked with Republican Tom Delay in the Senate

126. Reneged on promise to disclose conflicts of interest between the State Department and the Clinton Foundation

127. Said her Chappaqua land deal had been legally approved by the Office of Government Ethics

128. Claimed Juanita Broaddrick’s accusation had been proven baseless

129. When asked, failed to tell the FBI she had been briefed on handling classified information

130. Claimed she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary

131. Claimed she helped bring peace to Northern Ireland

132. Claimed she landed under sniper fire in Bosnia

133. Claimed she helped human rights activist Harry Wu be released from prison

134. Reneged on promise to visit Louisiana flood victims at a later date

135. Dismissed Gennifer Flowers’ affair with Bill Clinton as a “whale of a tale”—after Clinton admitted the affair under oath

136. Claimed the VA scandal was not widespread

137. Claimed she had tried to join the Marines

138. Claimed she was the target of sexist attacks by men afraid she would take their position in law school

Email

139. Used an unauthorized and unsecured email account as Secretary of State

140. Had a private server installed in her basement

141. Financed the server with taxpayer cash

142. Sent and received classified information from private account

143. Exposed emails to hacking from foreign nations, as her server was less secure than a gmail account

144. Sent emails from 13 separate devices, while she claimed to have used only one

145. Brought her BlackBerry into secure areas of the State Department

146. Disposed of old devices with a hammer

147. Had certain emails shredded before turning the rest over to the State Department

148. Sent classified emails after leaving the State Department

149. Had lawyers without proper security clearance comb through emails

150. Withheld several thousand work-related emails from the FBI

151. Withheld several emails about the Benghazi attack

152. Had server wiped clean to delete all traces of emails

153. Lost archive of her emails in the mail

154. Blamed Colin Powell for her private email account

155. Was deemed “extremely careless” in handling classified information

156. Was deemed not “sophisticated enough” to understand classified markings

157. Did not know that materials marked “C” meant confidential

158. Did not know that discussion of drone strikes were classified

159. Compromised her account by clicking on a pornographic phishing link

160. Responded, “What, like, with a cloth?” when asked about wiping her server

161. Joked that she liked Snapchat because the photos delete themselves

162. Listed as an insider threat on an Army training presentation

163. Suggested she would not be criticized for her email use if she were a man

Health concerns

164. Collapsed at a 9/11 memorial

165. Suffered a severe coughing fit lasting several minutes

166. Evaded direct question about her health

167. Opened a pre-opened jar of pickles to prove she was healthy

168. Described as “often confused” by friend and aide Huma Abedin

169. Has had three blood clots since 1998

170. Fainted in 2005

171. Fainted in 2012 and sustained concussion

172. Suggested all questions about her health were conspiracy theories

Non-Transparency

173. Went 275 days without holding a press conference

174. Barred reporters from health care task force meetings, violating federal law

175. Coordinates with super PAC Correct the Record, which spends hundreds of thousands of dollars harassing Hillary detractors online

176. Cut off press conference when asked about a poll in which she was losing

177. Coordinated with Democrats in advance of the Benghazi hearing

178. Failed to release Wall Street speech transcripts

179. Locked away senior thesis for eight years

180. Fought “tooth and nail” to avoid sharing plane with press corps

181. Dismissed reporters’ questions and told them to try a cold chai

182. Ignored reporter asking question about ice cream

183. Told reporters to try some chocolate instead of asking her questions

184. Evaded reporter’s question by saying she was going to have pie instead

185. Banned a national pool reporter from attending her events

186. Keeps journalists corralled in a moving rope line

187. Fenced out reporters from fundraisers

188. Scrubbed reference to her role in the Hondoran coup from memoir

189. Shut off the millennium party to reporters, with press secretary Marsha Berry giving the excuse, “It’s closed because it’s closed.”

190. Had a campaign staffer who reportedly threatened the Laugh Factory over comedians making fun of her

191. Censored and suppressed release of The Path to 9-11, which exposed that President Bill Clinton had an opportunity to kill Osama bin Laden and didn’t take it

Miscellaneous

192. Called a psychic to the White House to help her commune with the spirits of Eleanor Roosevelt and Mahatma Gandhi

193. Suggested that the government fund fun camps for adults

194. Suggested that vaccines may cause autism

195. Claimed Vladimir Putin was the “godfather” of the alt-right

196. Believes aliens have visited earth

197. Made money from pollution

198. Consistently hours late for campaign events

199. Compared video games to lead poisoning

200. Defended Martha Stewart’s criminal acts by suggesting she was held to “another standard” because she was a woman

As Trump said at the debate, Clinton has a great deal of experience, but it's the wrong type of experience for our country. Clinton is simply unfit to be the leader the United States.


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1 posted on 09/28/2016 4:08:54 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

I admire them for being able to narrow it down to only 200 reasons.


2 posted on 09/28/2016 4:11:05 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: Kaslin

#37

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCDzRtZLUkc


3 posted on 09/28/2016 4:15:24 AM PDT by petercooper (Make America Normal Again!)
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To: Kaslin
I know 33,000 reasons.

I'm betting that Obama, on his last day, does some clever thing so she can never be tried for anything....similar to what was pulled for Bubba.

4 posted on 09/28/2016 4:22:53 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (that's)
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To: petercooper

Same Youtube video, just shorter


5 posted on 09/28/2016 4:23:54 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Oh I didn’t know you had it there.


6 posted on 09/28/2016 4:27:23 AM PDT by petercooper (Make America Normal Again!)
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To: petercooper

Only 200? I would guess there are hundreds more.


7 posted on 09/28/2016 4:30:05 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: Kaslin

Reason #1: Organized crime has enough power in the demrat party. In fact, organized crime is the face of the demrat party. They have a black face and now a white face as their representatives.


8 posted on 09/28/2016 4:30:18 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
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To: petercooper

It’s #37


9 posted on 09/28/2016 4:30:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

The link


10 posted on 09/28/2016 4:34:58 AM PDT by petercooper (Make America Normal Again!)
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To: Kaslin

Hillary lied, people died.


11 posted on 09/28/2016 4:35:25 AM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: Kaslin

I am going to go with what Trump said. She has 30 years of experience . . . ALL BAD.


12 posted on 09/28/2016 4:35:58 AM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: Kaslin

Thank you for whomever did all of the work compiling this list with reference articles linked. This post is worth bookmarking to share as frequently as possible.


13 posted on 09/28/2016 4:38:11 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: petercooper

Yes the link.


14 posted on 09/28/2016 4:39:10 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Yes!

At least you’re getting lots of bumps!


15 posted on 09/28/2016 4:44:44 AM PDT by petercooper (Make America Normal Again!)
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To: Neoliberalnot
The # 1 reason is already there which is about Foreign policy and is: Called for military action in response to computer hacking

Your reason is about the rat party period, not Hillary Rotten Clinton.

16 posted on 09/28/2016 4:46:26 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

mark


17 posted on 09/28/2016 4:53:46 AM PDT by combat_boots (MSM: We lie to you sheep at the slaughterhouse to keep you calm during slaughter)
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To: Kaslin
200 Reasons Why Hillary Clinton Should Not Be President

Only 200?

18 posted on 09/28/2016 5:01:47 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Kaslin

How about:

Because she’s a woman.

Note: If she claims so strongly (and her supporters passionately agree) that one of the major reasons why she should have the position is because she is female, then it stands to reason it can be argued that she should not for that very same ludicrous reason.

Just as valid to claim someone deserves the office strictly because they are male. In other words; nonsensical.


19 posted on 09/28/2016 5:02:08 AM PDT by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the muzrims trying to kill them)
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To: Kaslin

#45 is, actually, a good thing and. . I applaud her for it.


20 posted on 09/28/2016 5:04:57 AM PDT by McBuff
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