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Candidate Path

Submitted by john wertz on 2016-10-15 15:28:15

Pros

  • High-level government knowledge from her stint as Secretary of State and Former First Lady
  • Opposes the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
  • In favor of maintaining American influence in the Middle East
  • Opposes Trump's call to ban Muslims from the United States
  • Supports Israel

Cons

  • Known for her mishanlding of Benghazi situation, whereby 4 Americans died. Accusations have been made that this was tied into supplying arms to ISIS, a treasonable offense.
  • Accusations swirling about potential prison-related Secured emails on various non-secured servers outside of the normal national security channels
  • Swirling accusations of malfeasance regarding the Clinton Foundation, including receiving contributions from our enemies
  • Presented detailed plans for regulating Wall Street financial activities; she proposes reining in the largest institutions to limit risky behavior, appointing strong regulators, and holding executives accountable
  • Pro-amnesty - Clinton holds allowing undocumented immigrants to have a path to citizenship
  • Supports Climate Change initiatives
  • Clinton has expressed support for Common Core
  • Directly involved, with her husband, in the Arkansas Whitewater scandle
  • Her economic philosophy on inclusive capitalism is nothing short of socialism, at best.
  • Supports the U.S. Export-Import Bank
  • Has "committed" to introducing a U.S. constitutional amendment that would result in overturning the 2010 Citizens United decision
  • Supports Universal preschool (an international movement to use public funding for preschool (pre-k). More opportunities for government indoctrination
  • Supports the right to same-sex marriage
  • Patronizes minorities as "victims"