... K & R!

Is an ad about the TPP; the Keystone XL; Reinstating Glass - Steagal... and of course overturning Citizens United. I think that the last issue is the one that is the most likely to be covered in a political ad from Hillary. As for the others, we may be waiting a long, long time...

Earlier on this morning, I saw Papantonio and Ed talk about the deafening silence from Hillary when she was asked about one of the above key issues. I've also watched other videos in which the commentators speculated that Hillary might be getting very scared as to exactly how to respond. After all, she's caught in the horns of a great dilemma on these issues, with her top campaign donors on one side, and the American people on the other.

I was thinking... Maybe the best way for Hillary to respond to these tough questions would be not to take any more speaking engagements with the public, and just blanket the country in warm, fuzzy, feel good ads like this one, riding them as if they were a magic carpet escorting her effortlessly to the Democratic nomination...

No one really gives a shit about TPP if they did there would be massive protest in this country after the Senate voted for it

What about surveillance? What about mandatory sentencing? What about three strike laws?

Do her positions on these issues, that most likely contradict your own, really get trumped by a warm fuzzy?

What candidate is anti-"family strong"? Its really not a bold stand. Her stand on Keystone certainly is bold, why won't she explain it?

Sheesh! Good grief! The Senate did NOT vote on the TPP.

...isn't running her campaign the way you'd like.

You are funny.

for a war that killed them.

She looks fabulous in the opening photograph. This is an outstanding campaign ad. But, I still favor Bernie for the Presidency.

Chelsea looks like her grandmother.

In her autobiography, Living History, Senator Hillary Clinton portrays herself as an advocate for children, a defender of women and human rights. In fact, the Clintons have a long history of sacrificing the rights, even the lives of children, for political expediency. It is time to set the record straight.
[b]I. CLUSTER BOMBS

On September 6, 2006, a Senate bill—a simple amendment to ban the use of cluster bombs in civilian areas—presented Senator Clinton with a timely opportunity to protect the lives of children throughout the world. The cluster bomb is one of the most hated and heinous weapons in modern war, and its primary victims are children.

Senator Obama voted for the amendment to ban cluster bombs. Senator Clinton, however, voted with the Republicans to kill the humanitarian bill, an amendment in accord with the Geneva Conventions, which already prohibit the use of indiscriminate weapons in populated areas.

All senators are expected to inform themselves on the issues before they cast a vote. The evidence is overwhelming. It is hard to believe that Senator Clinton was unaware of the humanitarian crisis when she voted to continue the use of cluster bombs in cities and populated areas. A U.N. weapons commission called cluster bombs “weapons of indiscriminate effect.” For years the international press reported the horrific consequences of cluster bombs on civilians. On April 10, 2003, for example, Asia Times described the carnage in Baghdad hospitals: “The absolute majority of patients are women and children, victims of shrapnel, and most of all, fragments of cluster bombs.” Reporting from a hospital in Hillah, The Mirror, a British newspaper, became graphic: “Shrapnel peppered their bodies. Blackened the skin. Smashed heads. Tore limbs. A doctor reports that ‘all the injuries you see were caused by cluster bombs. The majority of the victims were children who died because they were outside."

Here we see the Clinton co-presidency in action. Great but empty rhetoric with no follow through.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Life_Death_ThirdWorld/landmines.html

It looked like 1996 would be the year of change. A huge international effort to ban landmines yielded some results. Forty-one nations, from Afghanistan to Uruguay, have now stated their support for an immediate and comprehensive ban on antipersonnel mines. Twenty-four nations have renounced use of AP mines. Eleven nations are now destroying part or all of their stocks of antipersonnel landmines. Twenty one nations have prohibited production of antipersonnel mines. In January, Canada suspended all production and use of antipersonnel mines, effective immediately. In April, Germany renounced all production and use of antipersonnel mines, effective immediately. On May 3, the last day of the recent UN review conference, France, Portugal, Malta, Angola, and South Africa called for an immediate ban.

In the US, several high-ranking military officers, both active and retired, called on President Clinton to support an immediate and total ban on landmines, and Clinton had wanted to announce that the US would ban the use of land mines by 1999.

Clinton caves in
But, the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces was strongly opposed to a land mine ban, and Clinton simply caved in and adopted the Joint Chiefs' position. He felt he could not upset the Joint Chiefs and appear to be a weak Commander-In-Chief in an election year. So he accepted the Pentagon plan for continued use of land mines.

In announcing his policy President Clinton failed to fulfill his September 1994 pledge to eliminate antipersonnel landmines. He instead yielded to the wishes of his most hawkish military advisers, while ignoring the protestations of many in the State Department, Agency for International Development, and other branches of government who are most familiar with the humanitarian and socio-economic disaster caused by mines.

Rhetoric but no action
President Clinton's declaration for the elimination of antipersonnel landmines is empty rhetoric until a definitive deadline is added to that goal.

....explains his votes in favor of gun manufacturers and against the Brady Bill.

I actually have a stance on the TPP. I have a stance on Keystone XL as well. Put me in the oval office and I'll reveal them to you."

I think I actually liked "Hope & Change" better.

Hillary chose to stay at Yale taking post grad courses to be with Bill as he finished his last year of law school. Child Defense Fund work was part of her post graduate work as internship. She could have worked for prestigious law firm instead. And indeed she did two years later for the Rose Law Firm. After only two years of work in patent law, as first Lady of Arkansas she became partner of the law firm and sat on the board of Walmart, that doesn't pay a living wage to people like Dorothy.