It’s amazing how the mainstream press hide the bloody history of Hillary Clinton, including her abuse of children, encouraging millions to vote for her. The establishment has clearly been behind her candidacy.
I predicted she would be the next president years ago, long before she announced her campaign for the White House, based on the massive coverage she got from the corporate media. Such coverage is a strong indicator of who the establishment wants to represent the ruling plutocrats and oligarchs.
I did not foresee Bernie Sanders doing as well as he did against her, but I did write in LUV News the day of his announcement to run for the presidency that Bernie would be like Kucinich, and in the end herd his supporters into the Democratic establishment camp.
With Bernie’s announcement that he will vote for Hillary, he’s taken the full course, encouraging his followers to support the corporate-backed candidate, abandoning his campaign rhetoric as expected. His press secretary has resigned and stated that she will do all that she can to elect a Democrat to the White House.
When the campaign began, I certainly did not see Donald Trump getting the Republican nomination, but his voters are fed up with Republican leaders who sell them out, and are ready to support a maverick, apparently no matter what he appears to represent.
Hillary is pretending to be different from Republicans, even as prominent Republicans tell us they are going to vote for her.
To pull this deception off, Hillary is currently running a campaign spot in my home state of Virginia, 24/7 on the big TV networks. Virginia is a contested state which will not be automatically Republican nor Democrat, hence Hillary’s multimillion dollar campaign here as she ignores most of the South, where she won in the primaries, because she has little chance to win these states in the general election.
In Hillary’s ad, a narrator tells us that when she graduated from law school she could have chosen to make a fortune, but instead went to work at the Children’s Defense Fund, because she cares about children. It is ludicrous to say that Hillary cares about children.
If she cares about children so much, why did she support her husband’s “welfare reform” program, throwing poor children into the streets? The president of the Children’s Defense Fund’s husband resigned from the Clinton administration over that particular cruelty toward children.
If Hillary truly cares about children, why did she support her husband’s deregulating Wall Street, leading to the economic crash of 2008 with the loss of millions of jobs and millions of homes, destroying the security of millions of children?
If Hillary cares about children, why has she supported “free trade” agreements which savage the environment and labor for future generations, making the working class poorer so that her wealthy campaign contributors may enjoy increased profit?
If Hillary sincerely cares about children, how could she have supported her husband’s bombing of Iraq in Operation Desert Fox combined with cruel sanctions from which, according to the United Nations, 500,000 Iraqi children under age five died from a lack of food and medicine?
Or Hillary’s support for the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere leading to the deaths of at least thousands of children?
So the one thing Hillary’s campaign thinks will win over liberals appears to be a damned lie.
As Green Party candidate for president Jill Stein puts it, “What we fear from Donald Trump, we have already seen from Hillary Clinton.”
Jack Balkwill has been published from the little read Rectangle, magazine of the English Honor Society, to the (then) millions of readers USA Today and many progressive publications/web sites such as Z Magazine, In These Times, Counterpunch, This Can’t Be Happening, Intrepid Report, and Dissident Voice. He is author of “An Attack on the National Security State,” about peace activists in prison.
Glad to see Jill Stein’s quote at the end! BTW, you readers do realize that Stein is on the ballot in 47 states, and is contesting the 3 states that are so far making her unavailable to voters wishes.
She has risen from 2% to 7% in the polls in just one month, and is now beginning to get MSM attention – from Fox News and CNN of all places!
This year truly can be the year that the duopoly comes to an end. If she climbs to 15% in the polls, which shouldn’t be hard given the two main vile candidates for that duopoly, she gets included in the debates.
The debates can be where the American people finally get to see who she is and what she stands for. It is an image that stands in stark contrast to the “dark side” candidates.
The “Nader factor” isn’t applicable this year. No party can be “spoiled” by a third party candidate, since if either one of them wins we will be subject to the same abuses of the past, just with different window dressing.
Please work for and vote for Jill Stein in 2016. BTW, I’m not on the Green Party election team, nor do I speak for them officially. These are my personal thoughts, for which I’m paid nothing.
“If Hillary sincerely cares about children, how could she have supported her husband’s bombing of Iraq in Operation Desert Fox combined with cruel sanctions from which, according to the United Nations, 500,000 Iraqi children under age five died from a lack of food and medicine?”
That story has been debunked:
“The claim that sanctions killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children originated in a 1995 letter to The Lancet which, in turn, was based on a Baghdad survey done by Sarah Zaidi and colleagues. After other researchers identified anomalies in the survey data, Zaidi, to her great credit, re-investigated the work from the ground up. Having sub-contracted the original interviews to the Iraqi government, she traveled to Baghdad and re-interviewed many of the original households. When Zaidi failed to confirm quite a few of the reported deaths in these follow-up interviews, she retracted her results.”
http://www.psmag.com/politics-and-law/the-iraq-sanctions-myth-56433