{"id":90526,"date":"2016-03-21T09:01:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T17:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=90526"},"modified":"2023-09-04T17:49:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T01:49:11","slug":"hillarys-vulnerabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=90526","title":{"rendered":"Hillary’s Vulnerabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Luke Lea writes<\/a>: Clinton\u2019s vulnerabilities in the fall:<\/p>\n

Her embrace of Merkel<\/p>\n

Her embrace of Al Sharpton<\/p>\n

Her vote on Iraq<\/p>\n

Her advocacy of Eqyptian intervention<\/p>\n

Her advocacy of Libya intervention<\/p>\n

The Bengazi thing (thought personally I think this is a distraction).<\/p>\n

Her advocacy of Syrian intervention<\/p>\n

Her Ukrainian intervention<\/p>\n

Her position on illegal immigration: no wall needed, no such thing as an illegal immigrant basically<\/p>\n

Her history in favor of Nafta, Gatt, WTO, etc..<\/p>\n

Her careless attitude towards US national security. as evidenced by her private email server, which she justified as a matter of \u201cconvenience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her and Bill\u2019s foundation accepting large donations from Saudis and other dubious Islamic sources in Middle East.<\/p>\n

Dependence on the donor class, including Goldman Sachs, the poster boy for Wall St. misbehavior<\/p>\n

Her once saying, \u201cFuck them!\u201d in reference to Bill\u2019s blue-collar constituency during his first term as President<\/p>\n

Her enabling of Bill\u2019s past sexual assault history, including credible accusations of rape; and her defense of a rapist back in Arkansas<\/p>\n

Her failure with healthcare reform during Bill\u2019s first term, a complete Rube-Goldberg disaster<\/p>\n

Her full backing of the Obama administration, including bad relationship with Israel while she was Secretary of State<\/p>\n

Her infatuation with Saul Alinsky back in her college days (including her honors thesis).<\/p>\n

Her complete lack of any major achievements on her own, riding her husband\u2019s coattails into national prominence, in contrast to a real female leader like Margaret Thatcher.<\/p>\n

Can readers add to this list of vulnerabilities that Trump might exploit in the fall?<\/p>\n

You have to feel sorry for, as well as worried about, for poor Israel, finding herself in the middle of an Islamic world seething in violence and hatred and basically at war with the West. The long-term survival of the state seems no longer quite the sure thing, or even the desirable thing, it did in the latter decades of the 20th century. Giving all Israeli Jews dual American citizenship would reduce American Jewish anxieties, which means a paranoia driven neo-conservative foreign policy might lose some of its steam. America would become world Jewry\u2019s final refuge, their New Jerusalem, in case all else fails. But to prepare the ground American Jews need to be less hostile to the interests of working-class Americans, especially on the issues of trade and immigration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Luke Lea writes: Clinton\u2019s vulnerabilities in the fall: Her embrace of Merkel Her embrace of Al Sharpton Her vote on Iraq Her advocacy of Eqyptian intervention Her advocacy of Libya intervention The Bengazi thing (thought personally I think this is … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hillary-clinton"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90526"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151036,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90526\/revisions\/151036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}