More Reasons Not to Vote for Hillary #3-4-5

Well now that I'm rolling on this I might as well add a few other easy ones.

How about her lack of will to restore the civil liberties Bushco stole from us? Amongst the many criminal acts perpetuated on America by the Bush Administration, stealing our civil liberties might be the worst. It stains all that America stands for and the entire reason we have been considered a beacon of light and hope for other countries.

Hillary had an opportunity to stop them cold in their tracks but true to Clinton form she basically gave the finger to liberals and libertarians alike (possibly hoping to have such power to herself if she and her supposed inevitable campaign were to steamroll into the Presidency?).

From Jeffrey Rosen at the NY Times:

In the Senate, Mr. Obama distinguished himself by making civil liberties one of his legislative priorities. He co-sponsored a bipartisan reform bill that would have cured the worst excesses of the Patriot Act by meaningfully tightening the standards for warrantless surveillance. Once again, he helped encourage a coalition of civil-libertarian liberals and libertarian conservatives. The effort failed when Hillary Clinton joined 13 other Democrats in supporting a Republican motion to cut off debate on amendments to the Patriot Act.

That wasn’t the first time Mrs. Clinton tacked to the center in a civil-liberties debate. In 2005, she co-sponsored a bill that would have made it a federal crime to intimidate someone by burning a flag, even though the Supreme Court had struck down similar laws in the past. (Mr. Obama supported a narrower bill that would have satisfied the Constitution.) And Mrs. Clinton opposed a moderate proposal by the United States Sentencing Commission that would have retroactively reduced the draconian penalties for possession of crack cocaine — a proposal supported by Mr. Obama, and by liberal as well as conservative judges.

Or there's the shadiness of her past. Like when she goes out and touts her "35 years of experience" and proclaims herself a fighter. She neglects to mention that some of the fights she has taken up have been pretty disgusting in nature. Like attacking a 12 year old rape victim as if she asked for it.

According to Glenn Thrush at Newsday:

Hillary Rodham Clinton often invokes her "35 years of experience making change" on the campaign trail, recounting her work in the 1970s on behalf of battered and neglected children and impoverished legal-aid clients.

But there is a little-known episode Clinton doesn't mention in her standard campaign speech in which those two principles collided. In 1975, a 27-year-old Hillary Rodham, acting as a court-appointed attorney, attacked the credibility of a 12-year-old girl in mounting an aggressive defense for an indigent client accused of rape in Arkansas - using her child development background to help the defendant.

-more at link above-

Or how about the fact that she is sponsored by FOX's Rupert Murdoch and supported by nutcases like Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh?

Hell this doesn't even broach her positions on the war or healthcare but if you see slime on the top of the water usually you refrain from even jumping into the pool.

-Rp