2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Black Lives Matter! Period. Therefore I Have Altered my Primary Intentions. [View all]BlueMTexpat
(15,365 posts)rather than taking quick pot-shots - can find some stands listed on her campaign website. See, e.g., the "Four Fights" where she addresses the same issues as does Bernie Sanders. https://www.hillaryclinton.com/the-four-fights/economy-of-tomorrow/
Insofar as BLM issues are concerned, check this out: http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/hillary-clinton-yes-black-lives-matter
Hillary has a very long track record of actually working on the ground with civil rights issues, not simply in giving speeches. She specifically opted to work for change within the system, which is always much more difficult to do than flame-throwing and revolutionary rhetoric. At Wellesley, she organized a two-day student strike and worked with Wellesley's black students to recruit more black students and faculty. While she leaned Republican - back when there were actually some decent GOPers, e.g., John Lindsay, Nelson Rockefeller - she broke with the GOP for good over "veiled racist messages" at its 1968 Convention.
In the summer of 1970 she was awarded a grant to work at Marian Wright Edelman's Washington Research Project, where she was assigned to Senator Walter Mondale's Subcommittee on Migratory Labor. There she researched migrant workers' problems in housing, sanitation, health and education. Edelman later became a significant mentor. See Marion Wright Edelman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Wright_Edelman
Full disclosure: I was a student of Ms Edelman's husband Peter at Georgetown Law in the 80s. [Law was a third career for me.]
The list of Hillary's accomplishments - not simply the offices that she was elected or appointed to - goes on and on. And on. That is why I am one of her staunch - and proud - supporters. She will be an excellent President.
Too many here wish only to detract from her long and effective humanitarian and civil rights record or to leave impressions which have scant relationship to the truth of who and what Hillary is.