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Hillary Clinton Declares 2016 Democratic Presidential Bid

Posted by samzenpus on from the throwing-her-hat-in-the-ring dept.

An anonymous reader writes In a move that surprised no one, Hillary Clinton has officially announced she is entering the 2016 race for the White House. According to the Times: "Ending two years of speculation and coy denials, Hillary Rodham Clinton announced on Sunday that she would seek the presidency for a second time, immediately establishing herself as the likely 2016 Democratic nominee. 'I'm running for president,' she said with a smile near the end of a two-minute video released just after 3 p.m. 'Everyday Americans need a champion. And I want to be that champion,' Mrs. Clinton said. 'So I'm hitting the road to earn your vote — because it's your time. And I hope you'll join me on this journey.'"

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  1. Hell No Hillary by klueless · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Please don't vote for Hillary just because she is a woman. We can't continue the oligarchy that is the US government leadership.

    1. Re:Hell No Hillary by ArmoredDragon · · Score: 5, Informative

      unlike most other person running, she isn't overly corrupt and she's not bat shit crazy.

      What the fuck? Whitewater? Travelgate? Filegate? Character assassinations during the Lewinsky scandal? (which she said was a just a big right wing conspiracy right up until Bill admitted to it) Benghazi? Doing official government business on a private email server?

      And those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

    2. Re:Hell No Hillary by Deathlizard · · Score: 5, Informative

      Totally Agree here.

      You have to be Nuts and Stupid to vote for Hillary in 2016. Especially if you're a democrat voting in a primary.

      She is easily one of the most corrupt politicians I've seen in recent memory. Hell, just looking at Wikipedia alone gives me these entries and I've probably missed a couple of them:

      Whitewater Controversy
      FBI Files Controversy
      Travel Office Controversy
      Cattle Futures Controversy
      Email Server Controversy

      The last one is the straw breaker. She knowingly hosted her Email on purpose so that she had full control over what people can see or not see regarding federal government correspondence. Her wiping the box when it was under investigation is no different to what Nixon did with the audio tapes and should disqualify her right there.

      There are better presidential candidates out there. Hell, there are better potential democrat candidates out there.

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    3. Re:Hell No Hillary by anagama · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Why would any Republican be afraid of HRC? She is one in all but name. Iraq War cheerleader, surveillor, wall street's best friend. Seriously, what is there for the GOP to hate policy wise? Yeah, we know they hater her personally, but from a policy perspective, she's the dream GOP candidate.

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    4. Re:Hell No Hillary by anagama · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Well, it's possible. It was during the Clinton administration that regulation of Credit Default Swaps was deemed unnecessary. We all saw how that worked out.

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    5. Re:Hell No Hillary by Lord+Kano · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I don't care about Bill Clinton's consensual sex life.

      I'm not talking about Monica.

      I'm talking about Kathleen Willey, Paula Jones and Juanita Broaddrick, not to mention the other women who recanted their allegations after Hillary's forces put pressure on them.

      She victimized women who were assaulted by her husband.

      That's far worse than Bill's hanky-panky with an intern.

      LK

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  2. Hooray! by Hartree · · Score: 5, Funny

    After almost 7 years of implications that I'm racist when I disagree with the surveillance and foreign policies of the current administration, I can look forward to now being called a sexist instead!

    Free at last!

  3. Dynasties by chihowa · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You know that this period of the US will read about in history books as such an obvious time of corruption. The occurrence of dynasties is not a good sign of a healthy democratic republic. Save the last two terms, there has been a Bush or a Clinton as President since 1989. Counting VP, they've occupied those two offices since 1981. If you start to count Secretary of State and such, these two families have held top offices continuously for nearly 35 years. And the next race may well be a Bush vs a Clinton, again.

    Of the more than 100 million eligible citizens in the US, is the best candidate for President another Bush or Clinton? Really???

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  4. Benghazzzzzzzzi by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nothing came of all the Benghazi investigations, and most of the others. Innocent until proven guilty. And the laws about email at the time were vague. Yes, what she did is a bad practice, but many other politicians made the same error in judgement.

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