Hillary-phobes: Could Clinton Do Anything Right in Your Eyes?

[Warren DeMontague]

20. I liked her a hell of a lot more before she got to the Senate and tacked hard right.

Somewhere between the IWR vote, "marriage is a sacred bond between a man and a woman" and sponsoring legislation criminalizing flag burning, she lost a lot of my respect.

Still, in 2004 I saw her speak on stage at the march for womens lives in DC. She made a cogent case for reproductive freedom. Unfortunately a year or so later she was in the times talking about seeking "middle ground" with anti-choicers.

Once the right-blowing winds of the post 911 bush years abated, she improved. But "i did the right thing when the polling said it was okay" is not my idea of a leadership profile in courage.

What could she do that would be right? Support a $15 minimum wage. As Sanders has done. Call the drug war a failure, as Sanders has done.

Come out for descheduling cannabis, as Sanders has done. To her credit she has acknowledged verbally that the states that have legalized marijuana should be left alone with that decision (a position which gets characterized as "STATES RIGHTS ZOMG" when it comes from Sanders) but of course that still leaves people like sick medical marijuana users at the mercy of federal law and whoever happens to be interpreting and enforcing it.

She has done some things right, and when she has, Ive given her props.