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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"