Clinton: It's About 'Hard Choices,' Admits Many of Hers Were Wrong

[RoccoR5955]

From an article on opednews.com

Hillary Clinton has stated many times that being president isn't about grand ideas but about making "hard choices." She even titled her book Hard Choices, and she has used this phrase regularly on the campaign trail.

She's right: making difficult decisions is an essential part of leadership. But making the right choice is what great leadership requires, and even by her own admission many of her choices have been wrong.

The list is as long as your arm, so I am not posting it.
For the entire list, and what Bernie has done on the same issues go here: http://opednews.com/articles/Hillary-Clinton-Says-It-s-by-Tony-Brasunas-Hillary-Clinton_Judgement_Secretary-Of-State-Hillary-Clinton-160504-187.html

In conclusion:

The First Time Matters

When you are President, you often don't get a second chance. Fatal decisions send young Americans to war and often disastrously change the course of world events.

As American voters, our choice is between a corporate-sponsored candidate who apparently will say nearly anything to get elected, and a candidate who speaks with forthright conviction and who has fought his entire career for the middle class, for labor, for women, for gay people, for civil rights and for veterans.

Bernie Sanders is a man of integrity who has demonstrated a profound, consistent moral conviction to do what is right by everyday people . Even Bernie's opponents call him honest, fair, and authentic. There are no Super PACs lurking behind him, no secret donors writing checks for hundreds of thousands of dollars, no free rides in corporate jets to private fundraisers. He brings a simple and sincere commitment to do what is right for the American people and for the planet.

Our choice is not a hard choice at all. In Bernie Sanders we have a leader who has not only made hard decisions throughout his career, but who has made the right decisions.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. Kinda like a surgeon saying "whoops!" too many times.

[dana_b]

3. eek! Yeah, and she will have millions of lives

dependent upon her judgment. Too big of a risk to get it wrong.

[Maedhros]

5. Yep.

[Katashi_itto]

7. The Ben Carson of SOS

[roguevalley]

10. she won't change her mind on things and she won't change positions. She is what she is and to take

her on expecting different this time is the height of insanity.

[JudyM]

2. Choices are indeed harder without a strong moral compass.

When power & favors & money are factors that play so strongly into your decisionmaking you may think it's easier, but it's actually harder - to make the right choices.

[asuhornets]

4. Your words:

"Bernie Sanders we have a leader who has not only made hard decisions throughout his career, but who has made the right decisions."


When? and When?

[RoccoR5955]

8. Follow the link that I posted

It's all there.
I didn't include it because the two lists are VERY long.

[Firebrand Gary]

6. I call BULLSHIT!

Sander's is on record talking about the mistakes he's made in his public career, why don't you look those up and add them to your hit piece.

[RoccoR5955]

9. Oh, I have enumerated the mistakes that Clinton has made

Can you point me in the direction as to where I can find the mistakes that Bernie has made, and what Clinton has done correctly?

[Firebrand Gary]

13. You made the post, you do the additional research.

Although here's just one of them.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/1/23/1473975/-Bernie-Sanders-Voted-YES-To-Deregulate-The-Financial-Market-In-2000-But-He-Still-Can-t-Explain-Why

[RoccoR5955]

15. Oh, you give me one thing

and I am posting something to tell the truth, and now you want me to do YOUR homework when you refute me.
I don't think so.
How is that fair?

[roguevalley]

11. call bullshit. it won't bring back one dead soldier.

[Firebrand Gary]

12. Or people who's lives could have been saved by the Brady Bill?

Nice try.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/oct/13/hillary-clinton/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-voted-against-brady/

[RoccoR5955]

17. Fewer than the decision to go to war in Iraq n/t

[Firebrand Gary]

18. That's really something, you should be ashamed of that comment.

Point being, no one is free of criticism here, even though you like to pretend that Sander's is.

[RoccoR5955]

20. No but some of us think we are.

And they are not me!

[Firebrand Gary]

21. Touche.

[RoccoR5955]

22. Okay, name three then. n/t

[Vattel]

14. Actually I think her choice to support the invasion of Iraq was an easy one. And she still made the

wrong choice.

[loyalsister]

19. Definitely

The real shame is that she had potential to use her experience and history and credibility to be a voice against it and she didn't. I think she was expectinghoping for a "we came, we saw, he died" moment and counted on it being quick and easy as the Bush administration claimed it would be. I don't think she was fooled. It think she thought she would be part of starting a quick and easy and successful war and wanted it on her resume. She's dumb or callous. I think it's the latter.

It was a defining vote and a revealed her callousness and sick ambition.

[Kall]

27. Well

the "we came, we saw, he died" decision was the wrong one too.

[loyalsister]

28. No doubt

Anyone who sees war as easy, fantasy play acting, or a vehicle for their ambition has no business making decisions that put the lives and well being of soldiers and civilians at risk.

[amborin]

16. and cost thousands their lives

[loyalsister]

23. "plain and simple"

How about, "it haunts me to this day and I have a great deal of remorse." Not admitting mistakes is a common political tactic, but I just don't understand how it is this doesn't even seem to bother her except for the problem of it getting in the way of her ambition.

[Jitter65]

24. And he has been wrong also but will never admit it. nt

[RoccoR5955]

25. Sure he has, but that was not my point

How many times has he been wrong about things that concern WE THE PEOPLE?
How much money has he taken from corporations in return for favors?
How many times has Clinton had to "evolve?"
How many lives has this cost?
If she is president, it shall cost more lives, perhaps your's and mine.

[mooseprime]

26. seems like she herself is never on the business end

of all those hard choices.

iraq is now riddled with depleted uranium and toxic burn piles. birth defects, cancer, you name it.

the bald fact of the matter is that common sense told us invading iraq was a huge mistake, and that was before it was proven to have been founded on lies. the whole thing stank from the beginning.

anyone notice the number of defense contractors who donate to the clinton foundation? that whole export-import bank nexus is part of it.

enough death from princess cluster bomb.