Arizona
Related: About this forumHillary, the “battle tested” candidate, wins major AZ endorsement.
http://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/editorial/2016/03/18/hillary-clinton-democrat-endorsement/81942298/Editorial: Hillary Clinton has the experience to lead
Editorial board, The Republic | azcentral.com
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Hillary Clinton deserves her due.
Not just because she has risen higher than any woman in American politics, but because she is by far the most experienced candidate of any of those running in either party this year. In fact, she is one of the most experienced people to ever run for president.
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Clinton will win this race because of qualities she showed as a young woman. While Sanders went off into fantasy land, offering free college to students and a single-payer health-care system, Clinton kept it anchored, proposing subsidized college educations while not tossing the entire bill to taxpayers.
Sanders would add $18 trillion in new spending to a government already badly bloated and in need of budget discipline, according to the Wall Street Journal. Sanders disputes that number, but in an age when entitlement reform is an urgent necessity, Sanders wants to expand entitlements.
Clinton is more real. She proposes large spending of her own, $350 billion on higher education, but requires contributions from students, parents and states. She seems to grasp, more than Sanders, that the American treasury is stressed.
On foreign policy, she is far better equipped to lead than Sanders. Her relationships with world figures would be invaluable in framing Americas outreach beyond our shores. She is reticent to put American troops on the in highly charged conflicts in the Middle East, preferring instead to leave the ground fighting to Middle Eastern allies.
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dchill
(38,472 posts)Does The Republic give out Editorial jobs in Dubble Bubble wrappers? Zero education required, must be able to chew and blow.
Raster
(20,998 posts)lack Americans lost half their wealth because of many of Hillary's Wall Street donors.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511528477
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)The South has complained about there North controlling things. The reverse is happening. Maybe. Will be interesting to see if they like what they get!
MADem
(135,425 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Great endorsement in the state's largest newspaper.
lamp_shade
(14,828 posts)bvf
(6,604 posts)from some of DU's "writers."
This is atrocious.
pandr32
(11,579 posts)Carlo Marx
(98 posts)You guys have welded your brain to the "lesser of two evils" platform. The only person able to compete with Trump in the pathology of lies competition is your imperial goddess of triangulation and political expediency.
pnwmom
(108,976 posts)And we don't consider her the lesser of two evils.
We also don't consider her to be Harry Potter the Wizard or any kind of a savior.
She's an extremely capable and experienced human being, with the expected amount of flaws. She isn't perfect and neither is anyone else, including Bernie-so-pure.
catnhatnh
(8,976 posts)from a non-existent Bosnian sniper does not constitute "battle testing", right?
jillan
(39,451 posts)that would be impressive because they actually report news. And they represent Tucson, the blue part of the state.
The Arizona Republic is known around here as the Arizona Republican.
pnwmom
(108,976 posts)Their endorsement is a major one. Democrats in the southern part of the state vote, too.
It's funny how Bernie supporters love to scorn Democrats who live further south.
SandersDem
(592 posts)it was the kiss of death.