The Case For Hillary Clinton

hillary-clinton-1754429_640Yes, I am very disappointed in the multiple email scandals Hillary Clinton has been involved in for the last few months and wished she had handled it differently. However, I am still voting for her because the alternative is worse. This country can’t afford to have an uninformed, bigoted, misogynistic buffoon like Donald Trump running the country.

If you need to be reminded of why she would be a better president, here are my reasons:

  1. She is smart and has over 40 years of public service experience.
  2. She has the right temperament and character to act appropriately as president.
  3. She would possibly be the most experienced president.
  4. She has in-depth foreign policy experience gained from being a state secretary. It also helps that she will form better relationships with other countries.
  5. She will appoint responsible, thoughtful judges to the Supreme Court.
  6. With firsthand experience dealing with her hacked emails, I would like to think she would now make cybersecurity a national priority.
  7. She will create better employment opportunities for ex-offenders.
  8. She’ll hold irresponsible gun dealers and manufacturers fully accountable by repealing the gun industry’s unique immunity protection.
  9. She is not going to ban Muslims, or anyone else.
  10. She is not going to build a wall along the Mexican border. Immigration enforcement must be humane and targeted. Hillary will eliminate family detention and close private detention centers.
  11. She is pro-choice.
  12. She doesn’t call black people “the blacks” and doesn’t identify Hispanics with taco bowls.
  13. She wants to address police brutality.
  14. She wants to provide more funding to make sure body cameras are available to every police department across the country to increase accountability.
  15. She wants to address mental health care and drug addiction, especially in prisons.
  16. She believes we should use alternatives to prison for low-level, nonviolent marijuana users, and she will reschedule marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule II substance.
  17. Hillary will invest in STEM and computer science education because we need to prepare our citizens to be more competitive in the global economy, something President Obama has already done well with doing.
  18. Hillary is the only candidate with a plan to expand opportunity in low-income communities and make housing more affordable.
  19. Unlike Trump, Hillary actually has plans for the country’s most pressing issues, such as the economy, terrorism, immigration, minimum sentencing, health care, and gun violence. Again, you may not agree with her plans, but at least she has plans.
  20. It’s about time America has a female president.

Another big complaint about Hillary by some Americans besides that she is corrupt and shady is that she is also cold and unfriendly. This is not a congeniality contest! You are not electing your next BFF. As Oprah said, you don’t even have to like her.  You might think that I am settling for the lesser of two evils by voting for Clinton over Trump.  The sad reality is that all politicians bring some kind of unwanted baggage with them, and in this case, Hillary has a bag of bad emails and Trump has a bag of deplorable behavior.   It’s a matter of how much baggage you are willing to deal with.  I am not a staunch Hillary supporter, but neither Jill Stein or Gary Johnson have proven that they are better alternatives to Trump.

This likeability issue is why George W. Bush was competitive back in 2000 (I say competitive, not elected because he stole the election…). People were saying that Bush was the kind of guy they would want to have a beer with, while Al Gore was robotic and boring because he only talked about lockboxes. If we could go back to the 2000 election knowing then what we know now, there wouldn’t have been a need to recount Florida’s hanging chads because I bet everyone would vote for Gore. The simple fact here is that we need to elect someone to run the country with efficiency, logic and reason, not poor judgment, incompetence, and idiocy.

Let’s not make this same mistake again. Vote for Hillary Clinton.