{"id":692,"date":"2015-04-15T18:59:51","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T23:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=692"},"modified":"2015-04-15T18:59:51","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T23:59:51","slug":"hillary-watch-ctd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/04\/15\/hillary-watch-ctd-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Watch, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continuing our watch on Hillary’s run<\/a>, a visit to Ballotpedia<\/a> is essential:<\/p>\n

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Interestingly, she’s listed as opposing higher taxes on the wealthy, free trade, a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens, and is against maintaining sovereignty from the U.N; she’s neutral on expanding the military.\u00a0 This makes her, in my eyes, a little less liberal than I had expected.\u00a0 Of course, she is a Clinton, and no doubt her husband is advising her in how to be in sync with the voters, which is an admirable strategy, I suppose, but it makes my skin crawl – but then, I voted for old Bill twice, with my skin in full crawl.\u00a0 But by this I mean I do not know if the positions listed by Ballotpedia are honest representations of her opinions, or just the opinions she’s put out for the electorate to digest.<\/p>\n

Of course, she’s the only declared candidate for the Democratic nomination.\u00a0 Jonathan Chait has published a longish article<\/a> explaining why he believes she’ll both win the nomination and the election, based on the growing Democratic party (although recent polls of voters casts some doubt<\/a> on that), the liberal youth, her personal popularity, Obama’s recovering economy, and finally:<\/p>\n

The argument for Clinton in 2016 is that she is the candidate of the only major American political party not run by lunatics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sadly, I have to disagree.\u00a0 I shan’t call my fellow citizens lunatics, I’ll just note that they seem to have a lot of fallacious assumptions about reality, government activities, and, oh, a lot of other things, which I shan’t go into here.<\/p>\n

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Continuing our watch on Hillary’s run, a visit to Ballotpedia is essential: Interestingly, she’s listed as opposing higher taxes on the wealthy, free trade, a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens, and is against maintaining sovereignty from the U.N; she’s neutral on expanding the military.\u00a0 This makes her, in my \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":694,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}