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(NaturalNews) Many on the political Left are worried that the coronation of Hillary Clinton to be the next Democratic presidential nominee isn’t going as planned, and that she could, as happened in 2008, miss out on what would probably be her last shot at becoming the first female president.
Over at Politico – a far-Left political news site that regularly praises Clinton – they are obviously worried. A series of Clinton tone-deaf moments, mistakes and other gaffes led the site to offer some official, unofficial campaign advice in a piece headlined, “6 Moments That Could Haunt Hillary Clinton.”
“Her record so far is mixed,” Politico reported. “On economic issues, centrist Democrats are relieved Sanders’ stadium crowds of true believers have not sent her lurching too far leftward — Clinton is not proposing to reinstate Glass-Steagall; she does not advocate for universal free college or a single-payer health care system; and she does not support expanding Social Security benefits for all.”
And yet, the campaign advice is nevertheless forthcoming.
1. Combating the world’s biggest terror army: Last month at the Democratic debate, Clinton said, “We are finally where we need to be” on fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, in a bid to defend the “Obama-Clinton foreign policy.”
Republicans of course pounced on that statement, essentially claiming that the U.S. is nowhere close to being a force for ISIS to reckon with. Later, her campaign manager and longtime friend John Podesta, tried to clarify her statement, saying she was only referring to the United Nations resolution on the start of Syrian peace talks.
Yeah, not so much.
2. GOP is my enemy: During campaign stops, Clinton has often touted her past ability to reach across the aisle and work with Republicans, especially post-9/11 when she was a U.S. senator from New York. But during a recent debate when she was asked which enemy she is “most proud of,” she mentioned the National Rifle Association, drug companies and “probably the Republicans.”
At the time, Vice President Joe Biden was considering a presidential run and responded that he did not consider Republicans enemies but instead “friends.” Clinton’s inclination to pick up Obama’s historic animosity towards the GOP will turn voters off, who will see constant combat with a Republican-held Congress as the same old Washington politics they are sick of.
3. Poking fun at breaking the law: As regards her use of a private email server while secretary of state and, more specifically, in response to a question about whether she wiped her server before turning it over to federal investigators, she feigned ignorance and responded, “What, like with a cloth or something?”
Democratic strategists expect the Republican nominees to be all over that one, as it goes to the issue of trustworthiness, while projecting an air of arrogant elitism.
4. She wants our guns, too: The issue of guns – more specifically, gun control and gun bans – is one that Clinton has waded into purposefully and forcefully. Like Obama, she has yet to meet a new gun restriction that she doesn’t like. Like Obama, the Second Amendment, to her, is a recommendation, a suggestion – not a hard-and-fast inalienable right on the level of the remainder of the Bill of Rights.
Her campaign says she will stick with her positions of universal background checks before gun show purchases and an assault weapon ban.
5. Charter schools: In the past Clinton has supported charter schools. but that policy position changed last month during a campaign stop in South Carolina. “They don’t take the hardest-to-teach kids, or, if they do, they don’t keep them,” she said. “And so the public schools are often in a no-win situation, because they do, thankfully, take everybody, and then they don’t get the resources or the help and support that they need to be able to take care of every child’s situation.”
The GOP candidate will seize on that flip-flop – and successfully, since school choice is a political winner.
6. #NotMyAbuela: Ever tone deaf, Clinton’s campaign released a list of “7 things Hillary Clinton has in common with your abuela,” a reference to her being a grandmother, which she likes to talk about. The listicle went viral, but in a negative way; “#NotMyAbuela” popped up with tweets like, “#NotMyAbuela because she didn’t have to live in poverty with 14 kids and suffer because over half were separated over a border.”
While the Beltway crowd and Politico see this as a negative pandering attempt to get the Hispanic vote, the vast majority of the country is fed up with Obama’s unlimited immigration.
And we haven’t even touched on Benghazi yet, when, during a Senate hearing on the matter, she exploded with this retort, “What difference, at this point, does it make?” when asked to explain why she and Obama lied about a video having caused the Sept. 11, 2012 attack.
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Sources:
Twitter.com/hashtag/NotMyAbuela
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