http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-scheer/go-ahead-back-hillary-cli_b_8272802.html
Go ahead and support Hillary Clinton, those of you for whom having the first female president is the top priority.
Just admit that you will be voting for someone to be president of the world's most powerful nation who has not only been profoundly wrong on the two most pressing issues of our time--economic injustice and the ravages of unbridled militarism--but, what is more significant, seems hopelessly incapable of learning from her dangerous errors in judgment.
Like her husband, she is certainly smart enough to avoid advocating what President Obama has aptly termed "stupid stuff." However, the good intentions of the Clintons are trumped by opportunism every time.
But it is in matters of economic policy--driving this election--where the failure of the Clintons is the most obvious, and where Hillary Clinton seems to be even less conflicted than her husband in serving the super rich at the expense of the middle class.
A continued deep deception in such matters was once again on full display in her major policy statement printed Thursday on Bloomberg. In an article headlined "My Plan to Prevent the Next Crash," Hillary began by blaming it all on nefarious Republicans led by President George W. Bush.
One key piece of that betrayal was the reversal of the New Deal wall between commercial and consumer banking, codified in the Glass-Steagall Act, which Franklin Roosevelt had signed into law. When Bill Clinton betrayed the legacy of FDR by signing the so-called Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999, he handed the pen used in the signing to a beaming Sandy Weill, whose Citigroup had breached that wall and commingled the savings of ordinary folks with the assets of private hustlers--a swindle made legal by Clinton's approval of the legislation.
Instead, Clinton blamed Republicans for the fact that "In the years before the crash, as financial firms piled risk upon risk, regulators in Washington couldn't or wouldn't keep up." How convenient to ignore that Citigroup, the result of a merger made legitimate by her husband, was one of the prime offenders in piling up those risks before taxpayers provided $300 million in relief.
Go ahead and support Hillary Clinton, those of you for whom having the first female president is the top priority.
Just admit that you will be voting for someone to be president of the world's most powerful nation who has not only been profoundly wrong on the two most pressing issues of our time--economic injustice and the ravages of unbridled militarism--but, what is more significant, seems hopelessly incapable of learning from her dangerous errors in judgment.
Like her husband, she is certainly smart enough to avoid advocating what President Obama has aptly termed "stupid stuff." However, the good intentions of the Clintons are trumped by opportunism every time.
But it is in matters of economic policy--driving this election--where the failure of the Clintons is the most obvious, and where Hillary Clinton seems to be even less conflicted than her husband in serving the super rich at the expense of the middle class.
A continued deep deception in such matters was once again on full display in her major policy statement printed Thursday on Bloomberg. In an article headlined "My Plan to Prevent the Next Crash," Hillary began by blaming it all on nefarious Republicans led by President George W. Bush.
One key piece of that betrayal was the reversal of the New Deal wall between commercial and consumer banking, codified in the Glass-Steagall Act, which Franklin Roosevelt had signed into law. When Bill Clinton betrayed the legacy of FDR by signing the so-called Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999, he handed the pen used in the signing to a beaming Sandy Weill, whose Citigroup had breached that wall and commingled the savings of ordinary folks with the assets of private hustlers--a swindle made legal by Clinton's approval of the legislation.
Instead, Clinton blamed Republicans for the fact that "In the years before the crash, as financial firms piled risk upon risk, regulators in Washington couldn't or wouldn't keep up." How convenient to ignore that Citigroup, the result of a merger made legitimate by her husband, was one of the prime offenders in piling up those risks before taxpayers provided $300 million in relief.
