{"id":13501,"date":"2016-04-19T13:35:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T18:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/?p=13501"},"modified":"2017-06-27T09:20:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T14:20:41","slug":"dishonest-hillary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2016\/04\/19\/dishonest-hillary\/","title":{"rendered":"Dishonest Hillary"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"hilary\"<\/a>We\u2019ve all heard the attacks on Donald Trump, but the Democrats aren\u2019t necessarily innocent either. We call Abraham Lincoln \u201cHonest Abe,\u201d so why not call Hillary Clinton \u201cDishonest Hillary\u201d? It\u2019s suiting since the term \u201cdemagoguery\u201d and \u201cuntrustworthy\u201d pops up with her name. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hillary Clinton has had a long run in the political atmosphere of the U.S which is dotted with suspicious activity and raises ethical questions.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s begin in the 1990s. Hillary Clinton in 1993 supported universal health care so much that it earned a title of \u201cHillarycare\u201d during Bill Clinton\u2019s presidency. Her plan was that businesses would provide health care for their workers. Currently, Clinton receives millions of dollars from health insurance companies. Where was the transition from fighting health insurance companies to collaborating with them?<\/p>\n

That isn\u2019t evidence for misdeeds or bribery for her to support health insurance companies. But to say a company contributing that much money has absolutely no effect on a candidate is na\u00efve and speculation arrives on the hidden agenda of these companies. It\u2019s dirty money, or more accurately called \u201csoft money\u201d where any amount of money can be donated to a candidate.<\/p>\n

During a majority of the Democratic debates, like on Tuesday October 13, Clinton has said that the drug and health insurance companies were her enemies even though she was and still does receive donations from them.<\/p>\n

Actually, that was banned. No company is allowed to give massive amounts of money to a candidate \u2014 unless of course the company claims itself as an individual and then <\/i>contributes. That is currently being allowed, and what politician would crack down on that when they\u2019re currently benefitting from it? Regardless, she is also receiving funds from other large corporations. According to Opensecrets.org, Clinton receives hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations from contributors such as Goldman Sachs, 21st Century Fox, Lehman Brothers, and many others.<\/p>\n

On the BBC\u2019s article \u201cU.S Election: Who\u2019s Funding Trump, Sanders, and the Rest?\u201d it lists Clinton at the top due to her good standing with lawyers, bankers, health insurance companies, and pharmaceutical companies.<\/p>\n

Money aside, Clinton has suspicious activity when it comes to issues like the Benghazi attacks. The former Secretary of State not only lied to the public about prior knowledge of possible terrorist attacks, but she also failed to act in supporting the U.S Consulate in Libya with reserve forces. The case was more or less dropped due to the extreme political nature.<\/p>\n

Do we allow our political leaders to get away with criminal activity since they\u2019re in a presidential race? Apparently the answer to that is a \u201cyes\u201d since it\u2019s currently happening.<\/p>\n

Whatever the case, Clinton failed in her duty as Secretary of State to properly defend or prepare the consulate.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve all heard that argument time and time again, why is it so important for Hillary to follow communication protocol? I suppose it isn\u2019t important if you don\u2019t mind our next president using a less secure personal email to send messages of top security to and from contacts.<\/p>\n

Those issues aside, what about Clinton\u2019s social stances? She\u2019s a champion for gay rights, or is she? She wasn\u2019t in support of her husband signing the \u201cDon\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell\u201d military act, but she supported DOMA (\u201cDefense of Marriage Act\u201d). She didn\u2019t support marriage equality during her run for office in 2008 either \u2014 she only halfway supported same-sex unions.<\/p>\n

Her supporters now would respond that she has truly changed on this issue and \u201ccame around\u201d or \u201cevolved\u201d on her stance. It appears to be quite convenient during the 2016 presidential race seeing as how marriage equality was signed into law in 2015 without her support. And that\u2019s demagoguery, Clinton\u2019s favorite word for attacking her opponents; it\u2019s when a politician supports an issue only when it\u2019s popular. Now that LGBT rights are viewed favorably by a majority of the country, so does she.<\/p>\n

Her more recent suspicious activity comes as recent as April 7, 2016 during another fundraiser in Colorado, a local reporter said Hillary Clinton used a \u201cstatic noise machine\u201d to prevent the press and public from hearing her speech.<\/p>\n

A CBS reporter recorded the sounds before and after the machine was on and there was a distinct interference during her speech. It may have been a private event, but most candidates who have private fundraisers allow time for reporters to ask questions and\/or record the event. If Clinton had nothing to hide in her speech, why stop the public from hearing it?<\/p>\n

All of these examples have been dismissed and brushed aside. But seeing as how there are a dozen instances where Hillary Clinton has been stuck in a questionably moral or ethical situation, that isn\u2019t usually an ideal candidate for being president of the U.S. One day, these issues will catch up to her. The uncertainty is, will they catch up when she\u2019s president, or when she loses the race? That is up to the American people.<\/p>\n

Ehron Ostendorf<\/strong>
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We\u2019ve all heard the attacks on Donald Trump, but the Democrats aren\u2019t necessarily innocent either. We call Abraham Lincoln \u201cHonest Abe,\u201d so why not call Hillary Clinton \u201cDishonest Hillary\u201d? It\u2019s suiting since the term \u201cdemagoguery\u201d and \u201cuntrustworthy\u201d pops up with her name. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hillary Clinton has had a long run in the political atmosphere of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2041],"class_list":["post-13501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tartan-news","tag-ehron-ostendorf"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5s3vR-3vL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13502,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13501\/revisions\/13502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}