Monday, October 17, 2016

Let's examine Hillary Clinton's Experience


Hillary Clinton's supporters cite Hillary's decades of experience as her qualification for the office of the U.S. President.

Hillary Clinton served as First Lady of Arkansas, First Lady of the United States, 1 1/2 terms as junior Senator from New York, and Secretary of State for President Obama' 1st term.

But what has she accomplished in these 4 posts?

As First Lady of Arkansas, she led a commission to reform public education. Today Arkansas' education system rank #41 in the nation.

As First Lady of the United States, she led a commission to reform the health system in the U.S. The commission's recommendation was so convoluted that no one was able to explain it. Congress on both sides of the aisle rejected it.

As senator, Hillary Clinton sponsored 3 bills that became law:

S.3145 - A bill to designate a portion of United States Route 20A, located in Orchard Park, New York, as the “Timothy J. Russert Highway”.

S.3613 - A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2951 New York Highway 43 in Averill Park, New York, as the “Major George Quamo Post Office Building”.

S.1241 - Kate Mullany National Historic Site Act

Not exactly earth shattering legislation.

As Secretary of state. Hillary Clinton, refused to provide extra security to the Benghazi Embassy when Ambassador Stevens asked repeatedly for it in the weeks leading up to the attack on the embassy, resulting in the death of the ambassador and several others.

For her convenience, Hillary Clinton choose to use unsecured devices to receive and send classified information while abroad. In doing so, she jeopardized the lives of covert agents and collaborators, through whom classified information is acquired, since access to such information is limited and it would be easy for targeted governments or groups to identify the informant.

With Hillary Clinton as President, potential collaborators would be very reluctant to cooperate with us, hampering future intelligence gathering operations.

When confronted about her security violations, she insisted she didn't know that her actions violated U.S. espionage laws. In actuality, everyone with security clearance must be briefed on all security procedures and re-briefed once every year.

As a presidential candidate, she failed to present any new ideas of her own, recycling old party line policies that, after decades, have yet to make meaningful difference in the lives of Americans.

Having that type of experience is worse than having no experience at all. With the latter, at least one can hope for a better outcome.

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