{"id":847,"date":"2016-01-14T12:16:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T17:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=847"},"modified":"2016-02-09T15:18:17","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T20:18:17","slug":"not-so-good-things-about-hillary-clinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=847","title":{"rendered":"Not So Good Things About Hillary Clinton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you know me, you know I Feel The Bern and am a Bernie Sanders supporter to the very end (even going so far as to <a title=\"Bernie Or Bust Pledge\" href=\"https:\/\/citizensagainstplutocracy.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">write his name in if he&#8217;s not the Democratic nominee come November<\/a>). And I know it&#8217;s not Bernie&#8217;s style to go on the attack as he&#8217;s never run a negative campaign ad in his life. But since Hillary is going on the attack against Bernie, I thought it well to attack her a bit.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s a list of stuff I compiled that do not paint Hillary Clinton in a good light. I believe she&#8217;s very corrupt, wrong for our country, and here is proof.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hillary_Clinton#Early_life\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hillary_Clinton#Early_life<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>She was a Republican<\/strong> in her younger years. She campaigned for Republican candidate Barry Goldwater (who voted against the Civil Rights Act).<br \/>\nBernie Sanders, however, organized effective resistance to segregation and civil rights violations in Chicago. He marched with Dr. Martin Luther King in his \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I Have A Dream\u00e2\u20ac\u009d speech.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4113521\/democratic-debate-hillary-clinton-september-11\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/time.com\/4113521\/democratic-debate-hillary-clinton-september-11\/<\/a><br \/>\nOn the debate on November 14, 2015 <strong>she invoked the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 to defend herself against the charge that she is too close to Wall Street<\/strong> with taking millions in campaign donations. Nobody in history has defended their campaign donations with a terrorist attack.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressivepress.net\/hillary-clinton-was-a-wal-mart-director-for-6-years\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.progressivepress.net\/hillary-clinton-was-a-wal-mart-director-for-6-years\/<\/a><br \/>\nShe was a <strong>member of the Wal-Mart board of directors from 1986-1992<\/strong>. During this time she remained silent while Wal-Mart waged a major campaign against labor unions.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/politicians\/contrib.php?cid=N00000019&amp;cycle=Career\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/politicians\/contrib.php?cid=N00000019&amp;cycle=Career<br \/>\n<\/a>Many of Hillary\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <strong>top campaign donors are big banks<\/strong>. How can she possibly want to regulate them when they have helped her get into power?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aol.com\/article\/2015\/11\/24\/since-01-clintons-collected-35m-from-financial-businesses\/21272344\/?icid=maing-grid7|main5|dl34|sec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D-1699415919\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.aol.com\/article\/2015\/11\/24\/since-01-clintons-collected-35m-from-financial-businesses\/21272344\/?icid=maing-grid7|main5|dl34|sec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D-1699415919<\/a><br \/>\nAfter the economic crash of 2008, the <strong>Clinton\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s made $26M from banks, insurance companies, etc<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/pacs\/superpacs.php\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/pacs\/superpacs.php<\/a><br \/>\nList of <strong>Hillary Clinton Super PACs<\/strong>: Madam Hillary 2016, Balance of Power PAC, HillaryFTW, Hillary 2016, Faith Voters, BillForFirstLady2016, Arriba Con Hillary, America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Teachers, African Americans for Hillary, Priorities USA Action<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2015\/may\/17\/hillary-clinton-gmo-support-monsanto-ties-spark-ba\/?page=all\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2015\/may\/17\/hillary-clinton-gmo-support-monsanto-ties-spark-ba\/?page=all<\/a><br \/>\nHillary has <strong>accepted money from Monsanto<\/strong> and is on their side when it comes to GMOs.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/article\/hillary-clinton-ethics-investigation-son-in-law-marc-mezvinksy-favor\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.people.com\/article\/hillary-clinton-ethics-investigation-son-in-law-marc-mezvinksy-favor<\/a><br \/>\nShe <strong>could face ethics charges<\/strong>. Her son-in-law, a hedge fund manager, asked for a special favor when she was Secretary of State. Not to mention her email server which the FBI is currently investigating.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/foreign-governments-gave-millions-to-foundation-while-clinton-was-at-state-dept\/2015\/02\/25\/31937c1e-bc3f-11e4-8668-4e7ba8439ca6_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/foreign-governments-gave-millions-to-foundation-while-clinton-was-at-state-dept\/2015\/02\/25\/31937c1e-bc3f-11e4-8668-4e7ba8439ca6_story.html<\/a><br \/>\nWhen she was Secretary of State, the Clinton Foundation <strong>accepted millions of dollars from foreign governments<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/clinton-foundation-donors-got-weapons-deals-hillary-clintons-state-department-1934187\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/clinton-foundation-donors-got-weapons-deals-hillary-clintons-state-department-1934187<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2015\/05\/hillary-clinton-foundation-state-arms-deals\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2015\/05\/hillary-clinton-foundation-state-arms-deals<\/a><br \/>\nWhen she was Secretary of State, <strong>Clinton Foundation donors got weapons deals from the State Department<\/strong>. Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a list of some countries and the amount of money they gave:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Saudi Arabia $10M-$25M<\/li>\n<li>United Arib Emirates $1-5M<\/li>\n<li>Qatar $1-5M<\/li>\n<li>Algeria $250k-500k<\/li>\n<li>Bahrain $50-100k<\/li>\n<li>Kuwait $5-10M<\/li>\n<li>Oman $1-5M<\/li>\n<li>Morocco $1-5M<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/06\/donald-trump-donations-democrats-hillary-clinton-119071\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/06\/donald-trump-donations-democrats-hillary-clinton-119071<\/a><br \/>\nShe <strong>received a lot of money from Donald Trump<\/strong> and has been personally close to him; even attending his wedding in 2005.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2015\/10\/05\/flashback-in-2008-hillary-clinton-spoke-out-against-feds-setting-blanket-rules-on-guns-video\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2015\/10\/05\/flashback-in-2008-hillary-clinton-spoke-out-against-feds-setting-blanket-rules-on-guns-video\/<\/a><br \/>\nShe committed yet another flip flop. She was <strong>against some of the Executive orders<\/strong> Obama recently enacted. She was against taking federal action on guns in the past.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/02\/08\/hrc-inner-circle-lobbyists\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/02\/08\/hrc-inner-circle-lobbyists\/<\/a><br \/>\nA lot of <strong>her top advisers lobbied against Obamacare and Dodd-Frank<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/observer.com\/2016\/02\/why-wall-street-gives-hillary-clinton-millions-of-dollars\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/observer.com\/2016\/02\/why-wall-street-gives-hillary-clinton-millions-of-dollars\/<\/a><br \/>\nShe <strong>made millions of dollars in paid speeches<\/strong> to Goldman Sachs, etc. As Secretary of State <strong>she helped UBS settle a lawsuit with the IRS<\/strong>. Afterward Bill Clinton received $1.5 million from speeches and UBS started giving to the Clinton Foundation.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/clintons-own-water-pollution-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/clintons-own-water-pollution-scandal\/<\/a><br \/>\nDuring the Clinton years in Arkansas, Tyson leaked sewage into a Arkansas river, polluting water for many people. Bill Clinton acted after 17 months of initially being informed. Yet Hillary criticized Governor Snyder for inaction in Flint, Michigan. Both Bill Clinton and Rick Snyder deserve scrutiny for their inactions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you know me, you know I Feel The Bern and am a Bernie Sanders supporter to the very end (even going so far as to write his name in if he&#8217;s not the Democratic nominee come November). And I know it&#8217;s not Bernie&#8217;s style to go on the attack as he&#8217;s never run a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,59,16,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bernie-sanders","category-hillary-clinton","category-information","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":863,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}