2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: OK then. A Message to Hillary Supporters... [View all]BootinUp
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does have limited powers. So the first thing is Hillary did not suggest she would force anything on encryption backdoors, and I don't believe a President could either. As to whether its lunacy, I prefer to see/hear/read it debated more on the technical issues. There was a paper posted to DU where they took the negative position. Surely there will be some experts taking the positive side (or maybe not).
If you are talking about Gitmo, again the power of the Presidency comment applies. Before one says that Bernie has a better policy than Hillary I hope they can cite a statement or other action as evidence.
I like her ideas on reform of the criminal justice system.
On regime change, I believe it has been pointed out that Bernie has not said to do anything different on Syria. Has he criticized her or Obama on Libya? I think its mostly rhetoric.
I don't think on actual stated policy (where they both have records of some kind) they are really that far apart on these issues to tell you the truth.