The Herald Bulletin Endorses Hillary
Clinton offers our country clear advantages over Trump in every major area where the president must excel, including foreign policy, the economy and social justice.
Clinton offers our country clear advantages over Trump in every major area where the president must excel, including foreign policy, the economy and social justice.
Vote for Mrs. Clinton because in this election, she alone displays the dignity, the grace, the passion and compassion, the mental acumen, the temperament – and yes, the incredible experience on the national and international level – that will allow America the best opportunity to move forward in how we treat our neighbors here and abroad, and how we will protect ourselves from those neighbors out to not just do us harm, but to destroy our way of life.
In a world and a nation that has historically so cruelly punished women for their gender, it is remarkable that America has finally reached this milestone. And it’s fitting that a woman who has fought so valiantly against that bigotry, for herself and all women, is the one to break through the glass ceiling and become president of the United States. Hillary Clinton has earned your vote.
As a politician, Kaine has elements of Joe Biden’s heart and Barack Obama’s brain: schmaltz in service of political advantage. He has never lost an election—from Richmond City Council, in 1994, to lieutenant governor, in 2001, governor, in 2005, and senator, in 2012. In one of thousands of e-mails released by Virginia’s State Library from his days as governor, Kaine once lamented to aides that, despite a decent record—he cut the budget, expanded early-childhood and technical education, secured funding for higher-education construction, reformed mental-health and foster-care programs, and reduced infant mortality—his term was often described, by the press, as having “no significant accomplishment.”
Animals representing Hillary Clinton and Dems in North Carolina just firebombed our office in Orange County because we are winning @NCGOP
The attack on the Orange County HQ @NCGOP office is horrific and unacceptable. Very grateful that everyone is safe.
Thank you for your thoughts & prayers, Sec. @HillaryClinton.
Just this incident alone proves that Trump is dangerous and unfit to be president. If you’re not voting for Hillary, shame on you.
To all of you who asked why we endorsed — or what right we had to do so — I give you my mother. She grew up under an occupying dictatorship, with no right to an education, no free press, no freedom of religion, no freedom to assemble peaceably, no right to vote. No right to free speech. She raised a journalist who understood not to take these rights for granted.
Thank you for choosing patriotism over party.
From there to here,
from here to there,
he groped me everywhere.
In its comic way, SNL declares that Hillary is now president and Trump had handed her the election. Watch the brilliant skit that had Trump exploded on Twitter.
When I listened to Bill Maher podcast on Saturday morning, I spat out my coffee. He came up with the new acronym for the GOP: “Grab Our Pussies.” Maher quipped, “There’s a lot of things people don’t like about Hillary Clinton, but when she rubs you the wrong way, it’s just an expression.” Watch Maher’s hilarious monologue.
Plenty of the attacks levelled against Clinton over the years have been policy-oriented and substantive, stemming from her mishandling of health-care reform during her husband’s first Administration, or from her initial support for the war in Iraq, or from her use of a private e-mail server while she was Secretary of State—criticisms that could have been lobbed in the same terms at a male politician of similar ambition. But much of what Clinton has had to battle, for decades, is sexism. She has not, as Trump noted, given up, but the fight has been a wearying spectacle, and one that may explain, at least in part, why people complain of Hillary Clinton fatigue.
Hillary has fought her past embarrassment as Talbot wrote:
Clinton’s reputation has also been prone to another unfortunate pattern: she was often more popular when she was seen to be suffering a traditionally feminine humiliation. As First Lady, her approval ratings rose after the Monica Lewinsky revelations and during Kenneth Starr’s investigation of them. In 2008, many people rallied to her after she was excoriated for seeming to tear up at a campaign event. Trump was clearly seeking to humiliate Clinton by inviting women who had accused Bill Clinton of sexual harassment or assault to be his guests at the second debate. But this time it felt like she was long past embarrassment of the sort he was trying to induce—the stakes were too high, and Trump’s insults to women too categorical