Posted on 09/11/2015 1:56:50 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
For nearly a quarter-century, Hillary Rodham Clinton has played an outsized role in the nations consciousness as an advocate and a political survivor. Her presidential campaigns favorite way to describe her is as a fighter.
But something surprising has emerged in public opinion about the former first lady, senator and secretary of state. Asked to name something tangible that Clinton has actually accomplished, many voters come up blank.
In polls and focus groups, Republicans are sensing a vulnerability in Clintons record that could compound the difficulties she is facing with the controversy over her decision as secretary of state to use a private e-mail account and server rather than a government one.
When Bloomberg News posed the question in May to a focus group of 10 Iowa Democrats, they praised Clinton for strength, experience and competence but could not recall a single thing she had done.
Some Democrats say that they have only a vague sense of Clintons actual accomplishments. Liberal activist Arnie Arnesen was the Democratic nominee for New Hampshire governor in 1992, and she often crossed paths with the Clintons as Bill Clinton made his first bid for the White House. But all these years later, Arnesen said: I dont really know Hillary. I know Hillary under Clinton. I know Hillary under Obama. And in the Senate she was a workhorse, not a show horse. What does that mean? It means she didnt take a leadership role....
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Even the left knows the game is up.
OK. Standard question. Who exactly makes your picture reality? The Democrats she colluded with or the Republican Lesser evil/no matter what accessories that knew all about her criminal activities and sat silently?
Hillary Clinton in the White House: purposes-— to extend a third term to Bill, and to extend the Marxist-socialist legacy of Obama.
No one can do it all, and Hillary has spent her life in pursuit of private, not public accomplishment. Her risky, secret private email system demonstrates her priorities: Hillary uses her time and public office to amass personal power, wealth, and adulation. She maintains the outward appearance of “public service” (Travel, meetings, campaigns) as a means to that end.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB120277819085260827
Good list, then there was the pardoning of terrorists so that she could win a senate seat in NY.
“...........On Aug. 7, 1999, the one-year anniversary of the U.S. African embassy bombings that killed 257 people and injured 5,000, President Bill Clinton reaffirmed his commitment to the victims of terrorism, vowing that he “will not rest until justice is done.” Four days later, while Congress was on summer recess, the White House quietly issued a press release announcing that the president was granting clemency to 16 imprisoned members of FALN. What began as a simple paragraph on the AP wire exploded into a major controversy.
Mr. Clinton justified the clemencies by asserting that the sentences were disproportionate to the crimes. None of the petitioners, he stated, had been directly involved in crimes that caused bodily harm to anyone. “For me,” the president concluded, “the question, therefore, was whether their continuing incarceration served any meaningful purpose.”
His comments, including the astonishing claim that the FALN prisoners were being unfairly punished because of “guilt by association,” were widely condemned as a concession to terrorists. Further, they were seen as an outrageous slap in the face of the victims and a bitter betrayal of the cops and federal law enforcement officers who had put their lives on the line to protect the public and who had invested years of their careers to put these people behind bars. The U.S. Sentencing Commission affirmed a pre-existing Justice Department assessment that the sentences, ranging from 30 to 90 years, were “in line with sentences imposed in other cases for similar terrorist activity.”..................................
And all this is off the top of our heads. Imagine what a real researched list of accomplishment would look like.
In truth, she probably accomplished more than anyone since Reagan. Perhaps more.
All of it bad/evil/anti-American of course, but accomplishments regardless. So People clueless to thinking of anything? I don’t buy it.
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