Even Hillary's Apology Was Untrue

[99th_Monkey]

Even Her Apology Was Untrue
By Mass Southpaw * Friday Feb 26, 2016 * Kos

Because the pundits and fawning media wouldn’t do it, a courageous young activist named Ashley Williams had to pay $500 to ask Hillary to answer for her super-predator “bring them to heel” remarks.

As she apologized yesterday for her poor choice of words, Hillary Clinton said, “My life’s work has been about lifting up children and young people who’ve been let down by the system or by society.”

That’s not true. So let’s look at the children and young people she didn’t lift up.

* She didn’t lift up the children of U.S. families who lost one million jobs because of NAFTA, and the children of families in Mexico who also suffered job loss and lower incomes. “Although unpopular with unions,” she wrote, “Expanding trade opportunities was an important [Clinton] administration goal.”

* She didn’t lift up the children who suffered from extreme poverty, which doubled after welfare reform and tripled in single-mother households.

* She didn’t lift up the children in union families whose backs she did not have when she is said to have never spoken up in support of labor unions while on the board of Wal-Mart.

* She didn’t lift up the children of gay parents who were listening in 2004 when she said, "I believe marriage is not just a bond but a sacred bond between a man and a woman.”

* She didn’t lift up the children whose families fell apart because for-profit prisons do better when more people go to prison. (Despite what’s been said, her campaign continues to benefit from the industry.)

* She didn’t lift up the countless numbers of children killed in the illegal and immoral Iraq War, a war she had to know (we all knew!) was based on lies, was in contravention of international law, and would take place in a country whose population was 50% children.

* She didn’t lift up children in families who are among the 10 million refugees and 250,000 dead because she worked to block a ceasefire in Syria because she cared more about isolating Iran than creating peace.

* She didn’t lift up the children in China who will suffer because her message to China was that human rights issues shouldn’t get in the way of business.

MORE: http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/26/1491271/--Bring-Them-to-Heel-is-also-the-Clinton-Doctrine-for-Foreign-Affairs

[grasswire]

1. Haiti. nt

[Ken Burch]

2. She did a lot of "uplifting" in Honduras, too.

[MisterP]

5. Honduras

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. She was too busy being the kind hearted Abuelita....or something.

[Kensan]

4. When attorneys speak, you have to parse the words...

If you consider those instances in your bullet points, Hillary was speaking the truth. Pallbearers have to lift up children, too.

[Fairgo]

6. well said

[Euphoria]

7. k&r. There are consequences to decisions

and the consequences listed here and further in the article are legitimate reasons to question Clinton's record.