Hillary Clinton

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{{cquote|The conclusion is inescapable: [[Donald Trump|Trump]]'s mishandling of facts and propensity for exaggeration so greatly exceed Clinton’s as to make the comparison almost ludicrous.|||''Politico''<ref>Kyle Cheney, Isaac Arnsdorf, Daniel Lippman, Daniel Strauss and Brent Griffiths, "[http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/2016-donald-trump-fact-check-week-214287 Donald Trump's Week of Misrepresentations, Exaggerations and Half-Truths]", ''Politico''</ref>}} 

'''Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton'''<ref>Ross, Janell, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/11/19/the-fascinating-history-of-when-hillary-clinton-has-chosen-to-use-her-maiden-name/ "The Complicated History Behind Hillary's Evolving Name"], WaPO 7.25.15.</ref> {{lived|1947|}} is an [[American]] politician, 
confirmed [[Satanism|goat worshiper]]
 a member of the [[Democratic Party]], and the wife of former President [[Bill Clinton]]. Mrs. Clinton was elected [[United States Senate|Senator]] of [[New York]] in 2000, and unsuccessfully ran for president twice, in 2008 and 2016. She was the second-most hated presidential candidate in [[US]] history, slightly behind her 2016 opponent [[Donald Trump]].<ref>[http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/americans-distaste-for-both-trump-and-clinton-is-record-breaking/ "Americans’ Distaste For Both Trump And Clinton Is Record-Breaking"]. ''[[FiveThirtyEight]]''. 5 May 2016. Retrieved on 12 August 2016.</ref> On November 8, she lost the election to Trump (despite getting more votes than he did), ensuring her name will be synonymous with smug incompetence on a massive scale.<ref>[http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/americans-distaste-for-both-trump-and-clinton-is-record-breaking/ "Americans’ Distaste For Both Trump And Clinton Is Record-Breaking"]. ''[[FiveThirtyEight]]''</ref><ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/president The election results according to the AP and NYT]</ref>

Clinton, who evidently does not consider herself a "natural politician",<ref>Gass, Nick, [http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-dem-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/03/hillary-clinton-i-am-not-a-natural-politician-220544 "Clinton: 'I am not a natural politician'"], Politico (03/09/16 10:05 PM EST). Unlike her husband, the genial salesman who could make you see that imaginary monorail.</ref> waltzed into the national spotlight when her husband and then-President Bill [[Nepotism|tasked her]] with [[Universal health care|reforming]] the healthcare system, and has been taking flak from both left and right ever since.{{efn|As Healthcare Taskforce chief Hillary famously said, "I can't be responsible for every under-capitalized enterprise in America." [http://triblive.com/mobile/2029296-96/business-hillary-businesses-clinton-health-job-plan-1993-america-economy] In 2016, candidate Clinton calls attention to learning the struggles of small business entrepreneurs from her conservative Republican father. [https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/small-business/]}} Democrats were unhappy about what they perceived as a "two-for-one" deal. Republicans were appalled both because it cut deep into a controversial issue, and because it was at odds with the [[Kinder, Küche, Kirche|presumed roles of a First Lady]].<ref>Cornwell, Rupert, [http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/bill-and-hillarys-double-trouble-clintons-two-for-the-price-of-one-pledge-is-returning-to-haunt-him-1427937.html "Bill and Hillary's double trouble: Clinton's 'two for the price of one' pledge is returning to haunt him, says Rupert Cornwell"], ''Independent'' 3.8.94.</ref> [[Sexist]] language directed against Hillary is not uncommon, and a disappointingly high proportion of the American political right seems to believe that she [[Pizzagate|dines on babies]] and killed four people with her bare hands in [[Benghazi]]. Not one to pass up a competitive edge, she has been known to use said magic to her advantage. Despite her own modest self-evaluation above, Clinton was so good at getting Republican Senators to walk her way during her time in the Senate that [[Karl Rove]] attempted to forbid Republicans from talking to her. Clinton also joined a congressional prayer group, usually dominated by conservatives.{{efn|In true Republican fashion, she's not beyond manipulating Jesus for political purposes.}} When [[Sam Brownback]] saw her there, he broke down and confessed to hatred and uttering derogatory remarks against her, and asked her to forgive him. She did. The repentance fostered an unlikely relationship that has yielded political bounty (according to some, at least): Clinton and Brownback went on to cosponsor a measure protecting refugees fleeing sexual abuse.<ref>Green, Joshua. [http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/11/take-two-hillarys-choice/305292/ "Take Two: Hillary's Choice"]. </ref>

While there is quite a bit of nonsense in circulation regarding Clinton, there are serious issues that cause many to distrust her. Even as politicians go, Clinton's apparent willingness to act out of political expediency alone is stunning. She's quite amicable with a number of the finance industry's biggest; Lloyd Blankfein of [[Goldman Sachs]], for instance, hired Clinton for at least one private speaking appearance.<ref>Blum, Bill (2 May 2016). [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-blum/hillary-clinton-wall-street-speeches_b_9818398.html "Keeping Wall Street Speeches Secret Speaks Volumes About Hillary Clinton"]. ''[[The Huffington Post]]''. Retrieved on 12 August 2016.</ref> Even among Democrats, there existed serious tension over her presidential bid. Many in anti-establishment, grassroots, or otherwise left-leaning company within the [[Democratic Party]] have expressed serious dissatisfaction with the grip she and other present-day [[Plutocracy|plutonomists]] have on its reins.

==Early history==
[[File:Hillarywatergate.jpg|thumb|Hillary became a member of the impeachment inquiry staff during the Watergate scandal, bringing up charges against [[Richard Nixon|Nixon]] in 1974.]]
{{cquote|I don't recognize this new brand of Republicanism that's afoot now which I consider to be very reactionary, not conservative in many respects. I'm very proud that I was a 'Goldwater Girl'. And then my political beliefs changed over time. But I've always thought that the role of citizen, the role of advocate, were as important in our democracy as running for office.|||1996 NPR interview with Clinton<ref>[http://www.npr.org/2016/03/26/471958017/-goldwater-girl-putting-context-to-a-resurfaced-hillary-clinton-interview "'Goldwater Girl': Putting Context To A Resurfaced Hillary Clinton Interview"]. </ref>}}

Raised in a [[conservative]] household,<ref name="brock-4">{{Cite book |last=Brock |first=David |title=The Seduction of Hillary Rodham |publisher=The Free Press |location=New York |year=1996 |isbn=0-684-83451-0}}, p.&nbsp;4. Her father was an outspoken Republican, while her mother kept quiet but was "basically a Democrat". See also {{Cite book |last=Bernstein |first=Carl |title=A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton |year=2007 |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |location=New York |isbn=0-375-40766-9}}, p.&nbsp;16.</ref> Hillary was a [[Republican Party|Republican]], describing herself as a "Goldwater girl".<ref name=SnopesGoldwater>David Mikkelson. [http://www.snopes.com/goldwater-girl/ "Goldwater Girl"]. ''Snopes''. January 19, 2016.</ref> In fact, she volunteered to campaign for Republican candidate [[Barry Goldwater]] in the U.S. presidential election of 1964.<ref>{{Cite book |author=Middendorf, J. William |title=Glorious Disaster: Barry Goldwater's Presidential Campaign And the Origins of the Conservative Movement |publisher=Basic Books |year=2006 |isbn=0-465-04573-1 }} p.&nbsp;266.</ref> The level of campaigning which Hillary did was not substantial, as she was ineligible to vote due to her age at the time. Contrary to pro-[[Bernie Sanders|Sanders]] memes online, although Goldwater voted against the [[Civil Rights Act]], he did not express any intent to "re-[[segregate]]" the U.S. once he became president.<ref name=SnopesGoldwater/> Goldwater only wanted to [[nuke]] North Vietnam and get it over with rather than a ten-year unwinnable quagmire with boots on the ground.<ref>[http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/goldwater-suggests-using-atomic-weapons This Day in History Goldwater suggests using atomic weapons, May 24 1964]. history.com</ref> But this was a terrible suggestion given the fact that Communist China and the Soviet Union, the North's allies, both possessed nuclear weapons of their own.

A believer in "[[rugged individualism]]",<ref name=SnopesGoldwater/> Rodham's early political development was shaped mostly by her high school history teacher, a fervent anti-[[communist]], who introduced her to Goldwater's ''{{wpl|The Conscience of a Conservative||'',}} and by her [[Methodist]] youth minister, who was concerned with issues of [[social justice]] and with whom she saw, and afterward briefly met, [[civil rights]] leader [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] at a 1962 speech in Chicago's Orchestra Hall.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Troy |first=Gil |title=Hillary Rodham Clinton: Polarizing First Lady |location=Lawrence, Kansas|publisher=University Press of Kansas |year=2006 |isbn=0-7006-1488-5 }}, p.&nbsp;15; {{Cite book |last1=Gerth |first1=Jeff |last2=Van Natta |first2=Don Jr. |title=Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton |year=2007 |publisher=Little, Brown and Company |location=New York |isbn=0-316-01742-6}}, pp.&nbsp;18–21; {{Cite book |last=Bernstein |first=Carl |title=A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton |year=2007 |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |location=New York |isbn=0-375-40766-9}}, pp.&nbsp;34–36. The teacher, Paul Carlson, and the minister, Donald Jones, came into conflict in Park Ridge; Clinton would later see that as "an early indication of the cultural, political and religious fault lines that developed across America in the [next] forty years" ({{Cite book |last=Clinton |first=Hillary Rodham |title=Living History |location=New York|year=2003 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn=0-7432-2224-5 }}, p.&nbsp;23). Several dates have been published for the King speech she witnessed, but for April 15, 1962, as the most likely, see {{cite news|last1=Dobbs|first1=Michael|title=[http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2007/12/hillary_and_martin_luther_king.html Hillary and Martin Luther King Jr.]|work=The Washington Post|date=December 31, 2007}}</ref>

As the director of the student Republican organization in a mock election at Maine South High School in 1964, Rodham argued with Democrats over Vietnam and US nuclear policy.<ref>[https://www.buzzfeed.com/christophermassie/heres-what-hillary-clinton-did-in-her-senior-year-of-high-sc Here’s What Hillary Clinton Did In Her Senior Year Of High School], Christopher Massie & Andrew Kaczynski, BuzzFeed, May 6, 2015</ref><ref name=MSHSSpeech>Speech given at Maine South High School (Park Ridge, IL: 1992). [https://youtu.be/WycwDYlOCDw Available] via [[YouTube]].</ref>  During her Wellesley College years, Clinton says she became "a different kind of Republican". In her freshman year as president of the Wellesley Young Republicans,<ref name="living31">{{Cite book |last=Clinton |first=Hillary Rodham |title=Living History |location=New York|year=2003 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn=0-7432-2224-5 }}, p.&nbsp;31.</ref><ref> [http://archive.ph/ZgOZ "Wellesley College Republicans: History and Purpose"]. Wellesley College. May 16, 2007. Archived from [http://www.wellesley.edu/Activities/homepage/gop/history.html the original] on August 6, 2012.</ref> with this [[Rockefeller Republican]]-oriented group,<ref>{{Cite book |author=Milton, Joyce |title=The First Partner: Hillary Rodham Clinton |publisher=William Morrow and Company |year=1999 |isbn=0-688-15501-4}} pp.&nbsp;27–28</ref> she supported the elections of John Lindsay to Mayor of [[New York City]] and Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke to the [[United States Senate]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Brock |first=David |title=The Seduction of Hillary Rodham |publisher=The Free Press |location=New York |year=1996 |isbn=0-684-83451-0}}, pp.&nbsp;12–13.</ref> Clinton also collaborated with Wellesley's black students to call for changes, such as recruiting more black students and faculty to the school.<ref name=ABC1 />

She later stepped down from this position four years later, as her views changed regarding the [[Civil rights|African-American Civil Rights Movement]] and the [[Vietnam War]];<ref name="living31"/> she left the GOP for good after [[Richard Nixon]] won the presidential nomination. In a letter to her youth minister at this time, she described herself as "a mind conservative and a heart liberal".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bernstein |first=Carl |title=A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton |year=2007 |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |location=New York |isbn=0-375-40766-9}}, p.&nbsp;50.</ref> Bernstein states she believed this combination was possible and that no equation better describes the adult Hillary Clinton.

Rodham was involved in student activism against the war in Vietnam;<ref>Hechinger, Fred M. (June 15, 1969). [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9401E5D6123AEF3BBC4D52DFB0668382679EDE "Mood of Campus Valedictory Speakers Is Somber"]. ''New York Times''.</ref> in contrast to the 1960s current that advocated radical actions against the political system, she sought to work for change within it.<ref name="bg011293">{{Cite news |title=[https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/1993/01/12/hillary-the-wellesley-years/OEapzWGuzSNAFiIHL2zm9K/story.html Hillary: The Wellesley Years: The woman who will live in the White House was a sharp-witted activist in the class of '69] |author=Kenney, Charles |work=The Boston Globe |date=January 12, 1993}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Bernstein |first=Carl |title=A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton |year=2007 |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |location=New York |isbn=0-375-40766-9}}, pp.&nbsp;42–46; {{Cite book |last=Troy |first=Gil |title=Hillary Rodham Clinton: Polarizing First Lady |location=Lawrence, Kansas|publisher=University Press of Kansas |year=2006 |isbn=0-7006-1488-5 }}, pp.&nbsp;18–19.</ref> She worked in the offices of Rep. {{wpl|Melvin Laird||,}} who became Nixon's first Secretary of Defense. As a Yale Law School graduate and a staffer for the House Judiciary Committee, she would help pass the [[Impeachment|articles of impeachment]] against Nixon.<ref>[http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/features/2015-11-05/how-richard-nixon-created-hillary-clinton "How Richard Nixon Created Hillary Clinton"]. (Nov 5, 2015 10:00 AM GMT). ''Bloomberg Politics''.</ref>

{{cquote|At the turn of the last century there were all the immigrants and the schools were the place where kids were socialized--where they were given the chance to learn how to fit in and conduct themselves. And I think we're leaving too many kids to raise themselves; it does take a village to raise and teach a child. The public school system has been, I believe, second to the Constitution, the most important institution in making America the great country that we have been over the last 200 plus years. |||Hillary Clinton, Forbes Magazine; Apr 12, 2015 }}
Hillary would do a lot of big-time lawyer stuff while her husband was busy getting elected to things. In 1977, Hillary co-founded Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, a state-level alliance with the Children's Defense Fund. Later that year, President [[Jimmy Carter]] (for whom Hillary had been the 1976 campaign director of field operations in [[Indiana]]) appointed her to the Legal Services Corporation's board of directors. She served in that capacity from 1978 until the end of 1981. Following her husband's November 1978 election as Governor of [[Arkansas]], Hillary became First Lady of Arkansas in January 1979. Bill appointed her chair of the Rural Health Advisory Committee the same year, where she secured federal funds to expand medical facilities in Arkansas's poorest areas without affecting doctors' fees. She finally entered the private sector when President [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]] started zeroing in on the LSC budget.<ref>Barbaro, Michael. [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/us/politics/20walmart.html As a Director, Clinton Moved Wal-Mart Board, but Only So Far], ''[[New York Times]]'', MAY 20, 2007.</ref> Despite being backed by many [[trade union]]s (including those who oppose [[Wal-Mart]]'s anti-union practices), Clinton joined the Wal-Mart Board of Directors from 1986 to 1992 and was present "during a major campaign by the world's largest retailer to defeat labor unions representing its employees".<ref>Zach Gorelick. [http://freebeacon.com/politics/anti-walmart-union-stays-quiet-hillary-gets-big-donation-heiress-alice-walton/ "Anti-Walmart Union Stays Quiet as Hillary Gets Big Donation From Heiress Alice Walton"] (April 13, 2016). ''Washington Free Beacon''.</ref> Although she did not speak out against this practice, Clinton used her role to push for more [[environmentalism]] and to combat sexist discrimination within the organization, albeit ineffectively.<ref>Brian Ross, Maddy Sauer and Rhonda Schwartz. [http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/clinton-remained-silent-wal-mart-fought-unions/story?id=4218509 "Clinton Remained Silent As Wal-Mart Fought Unions"]. (January 31, 2008). ''ABC News''.</ref> In 1991, Clinton was involved in a "Buy America" program with the corporation, while the corporation itself got most of its goods from overseas using cheap, underaged labor from [[Bangladesh]], often under the signage "Buy America";<ref>Good Morning America segment, uploaded onto [[YouTube]] on January 31, 2008. ([https://youtu.be/ZCG1wCEzf00?t=155 2:35–2:60]).</ref> more recently, she has criticized [[Donald Trump]] for similar practices.<ref>{{cite web |title= [https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/755591516995805184 Tweet Number 755591516995805184] |author= Hillary Clinton |date= 20 July 2016|accessdate= 20 July 2016 |quote= If Donald Trump wants to make America great again, he should start by actually making things in America. https://t.co/kKeJadUVce |work= [[Twitter]] }}</ref>

From 1982 to 1988, Clinton was on the board of directors, sometimes as chair, of the New World Foundation, which funded a variety of [[New Left]] interest groups.<ref name="Reviews2016">{{cite book|author=CTI Reviews|title=We the People: An Introduction to American Politics|date=23 July 2016|publisher=Cram101|isbn=978-1-4672-1754-5|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=cSRz5UQyQ9EC&pg=PT371 371]}}</ref>

==Liberal progressivism==
[[File:Hillary Clinton healthcare presentation 53520u (cropped1).jpg|thumb|right|300px|Presenting her healthcare plan to Congress in 1993.]]
Associated with the [[DINO|"New Democrat"]] trend first set forth by her husband,<ref>{{cite news|last1=Norton|first1=Ben|title=[http://www.salon.com/2016/04/20/yes_bernie_sanders_is_not_a_democrat_and_hillary_represents_the_very_worst_of_the_party/ Yes, Bernie Sanders is not a Democrat — and Hillary represents the very worst of the party]|accessdate=July 19, 2016|work=Salon|date=April 20, 2016}}</ref> Hillary is seen as a flip-flopping on a number of issues: whilst she has recently adopted a [[social liberalism|socially liberal]] attitude on topics such as [[same-sex marriage]], Tony Brasunas writes in ''[[The Huffington Post]]'' that Clinton is "generally at home with moderate conservative ideas, such as a hawkish military, strict immigration laws, reduced welfare, ''[[laissez-faire]]'' rules for Wall Street, and international business treaties that favor large corporations".<ref>{{cite news|last1=Author|first1=Tony Brasunas|title=[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tony-brasunas/there-is-a-moderate-republican-in-this-race_b_9704194.html There Is a Moderate Republican in This Race, But She's Running as a Democrat]|accessdate=April 20, 2016|work=The Huffington Post|date=April 18, 2016}}</ref> 

===Self-descriptions===
{{cquote|By the standards of the early 20th century, Clinton's decision to adopt the label "progressive" could mean almost anything. Most likely, it means nothing at all.|||''[[The New York Times]]'', July 2016<ref name="Gage2016" />}}
Clinton describes herself as having the "mind of a [[conservative]] and the heart of a [[liberal]]"<ref name="ABC1">{{cite news|last1=Song|first1=Jung Hwa|title=[http://abcnews.go.com/WN/WhoIs/story?id=3963326 Hillary Clinton: From Goldwater Girl to Democratic Front-Runner]|accessdate=July 19, 2016|work=ABC News|date=December 6, 2007}}</ref> and as "a progressive who likes to get things done",<ref name="Gage2016">{{cite news|last1=Gage|first1=Beverly|title=[http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/magazine/more-progressive-than-thou.html More 'Progressive' Than Thou]|accessdate=July 19, 2016|work=The New York Times|date=January 12, 2016}} [http://archive.ph/xc5Ql Archived] from the original by {{wpl|archive.ph}} on July 19, 2016.</ref> preferring the term "progressive" to "liberal", which Clinton sees as associated with support for "big government".<ref name="ABC1" /> This type of labelling [[Triangulation|creates a compromise]] and makes an appeal to both the left and right wings of the [[Democratic Party]]. It is also a more politically popular phrase to use than "liberal": whilst "liberal" was considered "a term of opprobrium" by the time Bill and Hillary became involved in national politics, the term "progressive" has consistently referred to vaguely positive notions of progress, from Republicans and Democrats alike, although in the modern era it is considered part and parcel of "general leftishness" in American politics.<ref name="Gage2016" /> Clinton has a history of making very liberal public statements on policy and politics. Clinton rates as a "hard core liberal" per the OnTheIssues.org scale.<ref>[http://www.ontheissues.org/hillary_clinton.htm "Hillary Clinton on the Issues"]. ''ontheissues.org''. Retrieved on 31 July 2016.</ref> These metrics rate her as liberal as [[Elizabeth Warren]] and barely more moderate than [[Bernie Sanders]]. While Obama is also pegged as a "hard core liberal", Clinton again was rated as more liberal than Obama.

In response, journalist-blogger Ben Breier argued that those metrics are outdated because the Democratic Party is more left-wing than when she was Senator. Claiming that "removing [[Blue Dog Democrats|Blue Dogs]] and moderates would drastically reduce Clinton's numbers here," Breier found that under these new criteria, Hillary is only more liberal than 12% of modern-day Democrats.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Breier|first1=Ben|title=[https://medium.com/@misterdisco/using-data-to-see-how-liberal-hillary-clinton-actually-is-db94c992d8e2 Using simple data to see how liberal Hillary Clinton actually is]|accessdate=July 19, 2016|work=Medium|date=April 16, 2015}}</ref> It should be obvious why Clinton appears to be less liberal ''when all the moderates are removed''.

===Sanders' comments===
[[File:Bernie Sanders & Hillary Clinton (28250130506).jpg|thumb|right|300px|Senator Sanders' unhappy endorsement of Clinton.]]
{{main|Bernie Sanders#Endorsement of Clinton}}
During the primary campaign, Sanders repeatedly criticized Clinton for her more right-wing views: Hillary has adopted a more hawkish attitude towards the [[War on Terror]], emphasizing increased mass surveillance methods and longer terrorist watch lists to supposedly defeat terrorism.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Kurtzleben|first1=Danielle|title=[http://www.npr.org/2016/06/13/481853366/in-wake-of-orlando-shooting-clinton-suggests-broader-terror-watch-lists In Wake Of Orlando Shooting, Clinton Suggests Broader Terrorist Watch Lists]|accessdate=July 19, 2016|work=NPR.org|date=June 13, 2016}}</ref> She has also:
*Called for more US forces to be deployed in Iraq and Syria to combat [[DAESH]]<ref name="auto2">{{cite news|last1=Roberts|first1=Dan|last2=Gambino|first2=Lauren|title=[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/19/hillary-clinton-isis-strategy-ground-troops-airstrikes-no-fly-zone-syria Hillary Clinton calls for more ground troops as part of hawkish Isis strategy]|accessdate=July 19, 2016|work=The Guardian|date=November 19, 2015}}</ref>
*Voted in favor of the [[Iraq War]]<ref>{{cite news|last1=Golshan|first1=Tara|title=[http://www.vox.com/2016/7/18/12211482/donald-trump-iraq-war-pence Trump on Pence's vote for the Iraq war: "He's entitled to make a mistake" On Clinton: "She's not"]|accessdate=July 19, 2016|work=Vox|date=July 18, 2016}}</ref>
*Voted in favor of the Wall Street bailout measure created in the aftermath of the 2008 crisis ({{wpl|Troubled Asset Relief Program}})
*Opposed breaking up [[Too big to fail|big banks]] by opposing the reinstatement of the {{wpl|Glass-Steagall Act}} (repealed in 1999)
*Voted in favor of the [[PATRIOT Act]]<ref>[http://civilliberty.about.com/od/ussenators/p/hillary_clinton.htm "Hillary Clinton on Civil Liberties"]. ''about.com''.</ref><ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Political_positions_of_Hillary_Clinton&oldid=734283046 "Political positions of Hillary Clinton"]. 13 August 2016 &ndash; via Wikipedia.</ref>
*Been one of Obama's loudest advocates for the [[Trans-Pacific Partnership]]<ref>[http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/feb/05/hillary-clinton/hillary-clintons-revisionist-history-tpp/ "Hillary Clinton says she didn't endorse the TPP trade deal until it was actually negotiated"]. ''PolitiFact''.</ref>
*Supported the use of [[capital punishment]] and harsh sentencing for prisoners<ref>Farias, Christian (28 October 2015). [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-death-penalty_us_56310eb4e4b00aa54a4c48c9 "Hillary Clinton Would Not Abolish The Death Penalty"]. ''[[The Huffington Post]]''.</ref>
*Supported [[Secure the border|improved security along the US border]]<ref>Cabaniss, Will (September 2, 2015). [http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/article/2015/sep/02/11-examples-hillary-clinton-and-bernie-sanders-hol/ "The fact-checker's guide to viral graphics contrasting Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders"]. ''PunditFact''.</ref>
*Not taken a strong stand against the {{wpl|Keystone pipeline}} from its inception until 2015, originally stating she would be "inclined" to sign off on the project if it were in the national interest<ref>[http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/oct/14/hillary-clinton/clinton-says-her-keystone-xl-position-isnt-flip-fl/ "Clinton says her Keystone XL position isn't a flip-flop"]. ''PolitiFact''.</ref><ref>Theodore Schleifer. [http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/22/politics/hillary-clinton-keystone-pipeline-history/index.html "Hillary Clinton's five takes on the Keystone Pipeline"]. ''CNN''.</ref>

On July 12, Sanders reluctantly endorsed Hillary Clinton for President of the United States, claiming that it was better to unite against the then-presumptive GOP nominee [[Donald Trump]],<ref>Roberts, Dan (June 24, 2016). [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/24/bernie-sanders-vote-hillary-clinton-election "Bernie Sanders: I will vote for Hillary Clinton – to stop Donald Trump"]. ''[[The Guardian]]''.</ref> citing some of Clinton's [[left-wing]] credentials:
*Anti-[[poverty]] advocacy
*Support for [[universal health care]]{{efn|This one's incredibly important, because in leaked transcripts of her Wall Street speeches, Hillary voiced support for Canadian style single-payer healthcare, explaining that it cuts cost and increases care, to ''Goldman Sachs''.}}
*Promises to raise the [[minimum wage]] and make higher education tuition-free.
*Campaigning against [[income inequality]]
*Support for renewable energy and concern about [[global warming]] and [[climate change]]<ref>(July 12, 2016). [http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/full-text-bernie-sanders-endorses-hillary-clinton-225416 "Full text: Bernie Sanders endorses Hillary Clinton"]. ''Politico''.</ref>

In return, Clinton admired Sanders for "[bringing] people off the sidelines and into the political process", as well as "energiz[ing] and inspir[ing] a generation of young people who care deeply about our country".<ref>Lee M. J.; Merica, Dan, and Zeleny, Jeff (July 12, 2016). [http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/11/politics/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders/ "Bernie Sanders endorses Hillary Clinton"]. ''CNN Politics''.</ref> For supporting Clinton, many Sanders supporters accused Bernie of being a sellout to the Democratic establishment;<ref>Leupp, Gary (July 14, 2016). [http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/07/14/dont-call-him-bernie-anymore-the-sanders-sell-out-and-the-clinton-wars-to-come/ "Don't Call Him "Bernie" Anymore: the Sanders Sell-Out and the Clinton Wars to Come"]. ''CounterPunch''.</ref><ref>(July 12, 2016). [https://www.rt.com/usa/350829-bernie-sellout-sanders-reaction/ "'Bernie is a sellout': Sanders supporters blast him for endorsing Hillary Clinton"]. ''[[Russia Today|RT International]]''.</ref> [[Jill Stein]] from the [[Green Party]] accused Sanders of attempting to "have a revolutionary campaign [with]in a counter-revolutionary party",<ref>Gass, Nick (July 12, 2016). [http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/jill-stein-no-bernie-sanders-endorsement-225417 "Jill Stein shreds Sanders' Clinton endorsement"]. ''Politico''.</ref> and Trump {{---}} who never sees a [[populist]] bandwagon he can't join – said that Sanders "has totally sold out to Crooked Hillary Clinton".<ref>{{cite web |title= [https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/752859250628648962 Tweet Number 752859250628648962] |author= Donald J. Trump |date= 12 July 2016|accessdate= 25 July 2016 |quote= Bernie Sanders, who has lost most of his leverage, has totally sold out to Crooked Hillary Clinton. He will endorse her today - fans angry! |work= [[Twitter]] }}</ref>

===Connecting with young voters===
: ''Bonus content: [http://creativity-online.com/work/super-deluxe-hillary-clinton--meme-queen-2016/48614 Hillary Clinton Meme Queen 2016].'' Are her memes too ''dank'' for you?
Although the situation is a lot more complicated than "left=young, right=old", younger people are generally more socially liberal and Democrat-leaning than older generations.<ref>Desilver, Drew [http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/07/09/the-politics-of-american-generations-how-age-affects-attitudes-and-voting-behavior/ "The politics of American generations: How age affects attitudes and voting behavior"]. ''Pew Research Center''.</ref> (If you don't believe us, check out [[:Category:Leftists who turned right with age]].) In contrast to the youth enthusiasm the septuagenarian socialist [[Bernie Sanders]] engendered,<ref>Gabbatt, Adam (20 August 2015). [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/20/bernie-sanders-millennials-young-voters "Millennials 'heart' Bernie Sanders: why the young and hip are #FeelingtheBern"]. ''[[The Guardian]]''.</ref> Hillary Clinton always had an image problem with young people; only 26% of young whites have a favorable image of Clinton.<ref>[http://fortune.com/2016/07/12/poll-hillary-clinton-young-voters/ "Poll Shows Hillary Clinton Is Struggling to Convince Young Voters"]. ''Fortune''. 12 July 2016.</ref> While it is true that most millennials had a ''much'' more disfavorable image of Trump overall (polling at 9%), around 40% have expressed sympathy for a third party candidate such as [[Gary Johnson]] and [[Jill Stein]].<ref>[[The Young Turks]] (August 5, 2016). [https://youtu.be/3KBvE5UaHh4 "Poll: #LoserDonald Really NOT Winning With Millennials"]. ''[[YouTube]]''.</ref><ref>Priyadarshi, Mohit (August 5, 2016). [http://www.inquisitr.com/3386862/gary-johnson-jill-stein-now-winning-40-percent-of-votes-among-young-americans-as-third-party-candidates-show-record-surge-in-new-poll/ "Gary Johnson, Jill Stein now winning 40 percent of votes among young Americans as third-party candidates show record surge in new poll"]. ''Inquisitr''.</ref>

Her pandering to the young led to some awkward moments, to say the least. [[Obama]] likened "Hillary trying to appeal to young voters" to "your relative who just signed up for Facebook. 'Dear America, did you get my poke? Is it appearing on your wall? I'm not sure I'm using this right. Love, Aunt Hillary.'"<ref>Jessie Hellmann. [http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/278286-obamas-last-whcd "Obama teases Clinton: She's like 'your relative who just signed up for Facebook'"]. (April 30, 2016). ''The Hill''.</ref> One of the most cringe-worthy attempts at pandering to young voters was to come later:

{{cquote|I don't know who created '[[Pokémon]] Go', but I've tried to figure out how we get them to have Pokémon Go-to-the-polls.<ref>Natalie Andrews. [http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/07/16/hillary-clintons-campaign-uses-pokemon-go-to-register-voters/ "Hillary Clinton's Campaign Uses Pokémon Go to Register Voters"]. (July 16, 2016). ''Wall Street Journal''.</ref>}}

==First Lady==
[[File:Hillary Clinton Bill Chelsea on parade.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Bill, Hillary, and their daughter Chelsea during Bill's second inauguration celebration.]]
Bill managed to win the election in '92, despite allegations that ranged from sexual assault to drug running to bribery by the Chinese. (<big>"The Clintons are headed for jail soon!"</big> has been a running theme amongst the anti-Clinton bloc for literally decades.) Once installed, he appointed Hillary to head the Task Force on National [[health care|Health Care]] Reform, and she suggested some pretty modest changes.  Republicans accused her of trying to impose a [[Red-baiting|Communist]]-style takeover of the US health care system, and the voters got really nasty about it to the point where she had to start wearing bulletproof vests at some rallies.<ref>Connolly, Katie, [http://www.newsweek.com/health-care-protest-deja-vu-welcome-1994-211482 "Health-Care Protest Deja Vu: Welcome to 1994"], ''Newsweek'' (8/11/09 at 3:27 PM).</ref> They dubbed the reform package "HillaryCare", and her poll numbers sank from the high sixties to the mid-forties over the issue. Clinton's [[Fox News#"Anchor babes"|evil twin]], Betsy McCaughey, arrived from the Netherrealm holding a hit piece in her hand laying out "an ominous Clintonian world of [[Health care rationing|price controls and rationing]]", where Americans could not hang onto their existing doctors or plans.<ref>Bumiller, Elisabeth, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1995/07/12/through-the-gates-of-health/284bd855-ab7a-4921-b846-183e3a992bf9/ "Through the Gates of Health"], [[WaPo]] 7.12.95.</ref> The bill collapsed in the [[House of Representatives|House]] and Senate, thanks to the [[Blue Dog Democrats|southern Democrats]] serving up their own middling bills.<ref>Adam Clymer, Robert Pear, and Robin Toner, [http://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/29/us/health-care-debate-what-went-wrong-health-care-campaign-collapsed-special-report.html "THE HEALTH CARE DEBATE: What Went Wrong? How the Health Care Campaign Collapsed"], ''[[NYT]]'' 8.29.94.</ref> The Republicans used that as a springboard for the midterm elections in '94. ([[Obamacare|See, it's like poetry, it rhymes.]])

She continued to play an insider role after that, though less overtly since she had officially become a liability to the administration. In 1997 and 1999, she advocated for creating the State Children's Health Insurance Program, the Adoption and Safe Families Act, and the Foster Care Independence Act, all of which dealt with healthcare in ways HillaryCare could not. This is a watershed moment in the Clinton saga: she took the Sanders track of fighting the insurance industry for basic healthcare and got her teeth kicked in. Then she became more pragmatic and secretive. Clinton guards her privacy and surrounds herself with a loyal cadre of advisors. For better or worse, it is really the defining feature of her political persona.

[[File:Hrcraad.jpg|thumb|right|225px|The vile witch Hillary Clinton, seen here corrupting the mind of an innocent child.]]

Truthfully, the smear campaign started long before that. After all, she had the nerve to continue working while having a child, having a postgraduate degree, and keeping her maiden name. These were all attack lines used against the Clintons in '92. It was hardly a partisan issue: People hated Nancy Reagan until the day she died (and beyond) because she stuck her nose where it didn't belong. The '80s were when women were first breaking into careers, but the vast majority stayed at home. In the '90s, the "mommy wars" really heated up, and here was someone who epitomized everything that "[[traditional values|values]]" voters didn't like.<ref>Mayer, Jane, [http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/hilary-and-hillary-political-mommy-wars "Hilary and Hillary: Political Mommy Wars"], ''New Yorker'' 4.14.12.</ref>

Basically, the right-wing lost its collective mind during the Clinton Presidency. The greatest hits:

*Majoring in [[lesbian]]ism at Wellesley.<ref>Queenan, Joe, [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/31/books/review/the-truth-about-hillary-many-a-dubious-revelation.html "'The Truth About Hillary': Many a Dubious Revelation"], ''[[NYT]]'' 7.31.05.</ref><ref>Mikkelson, David, [http://www.snopes.com/media/notnews/yokohillary.asp "Yoko Pro Bono"], Snopes 5.11.15.</ref>
*Framing Nixon for [[Watergate]].<ref>Mikkelson, David, [http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/zeifman.asp "Zeitgeist: Hillary Was Not Fired From the Watergate Investigation"], [[Snopes]].</ref>
*Boasting about freeing a child murderer.<ref>LaCapria, Kim. [http://www.snopes.com/hillary-clinton-freed-child-rapist-laughed-about-it/ "Hillary Clinton Freed Child Rapist"], Snopes 5.2.16.</ref>
*Kissing [[Robert Byrd]] (a former leader of the [[Ku Klux Klan]])<ref>[http://www.snopes.com/clinton-byrd-photo-klan/ "Clinton kissing a KKK leader"], Snopes</ref>
*Murdering her lover [[Vince Foster]], then somehow embezzling a small fortune by losing money on the Whitewater land deal<ref>Borchers, Callum, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/05/24/yes-there-actually-are-people-who-believe-the-clintons-killed-vince-foster/ "Yes, there actually are people who believe the Clintons killed Vince Foster"], WaPo 5.24.16.</ref><ref>Foster Anthony, Sheila, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/vince-foster-was-my-brother-donald-trump-should-be-ashamed/2016/05/26/95c684f2-233f-11e6-8690-f14ca9de2972_story.html "Vince Foster was my brother. Donald Trump should be ashamed."], WaPo 5.26.16.</ref><ref>Kendall, David E., [https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/whitewater-was-no-close-call-for-prosecutors/2016/07/10/cf0a23d6-46da-11e6-bdb9-701687974517_story.html "Whitewater was no close call for prosecutors"], WaPo (7/10/16 at 6:16 PM).</ref>
*Firing everybody in the Travel Office to fill it with her friends from Arkansas<ref>Loci, Toni, [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/whitewater/stories/wwtr950227.htm "For White House Travel Office, a Two-Year Trip of Trouble"], WaPo 2.27.95, Page A04.</ref> ("Travelgate").
*Hacking the [[FBI]]<ref>Gerstein, Josh, [http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2010/03/judge-kills-off-filegate-suits-14-years-on-025606 "Judge kills off Filegate suits, 14 years on"], Politico (3/9/10 at 1:56 PM EST).</ref> ("Filegate")
*
Webb Hubbell is Chelsea's illegitimate father
 Forget Webb Hubbell. Chelsea was conceived when Bill forced himself on Hillary in [[Bermuda]].<ref>Kirell, Webster, [http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/13/inside-the-slimy-world-of-chelsea-clinton-conspiracy-theories.html "Hold Your Nose: Inside the Slimy World of Chelsea Clinton Conspiracy Theories"], ''Daily Beast'' (10/13/15 at 4:15 PM ET).</ref>
*The eagle brooch worn by prominent Washington ladies. Some screamed it was proof Hillary was a "6th-level Illuminist Witch."<ref>[http://www.whale.to/b/hilary.html Title:  HILLARY CLINTON WEARS NEW LAPEL PIN THAT ABSOLUTELY PROVES SHE IS AN ILLUMINIST -- CLINTON'S FATAL LEADERSHIP SERIES -- PART 6H], va [[Whale.to]].</ref>
*The [[Christmas]] [[tree]] decorated with crack pipes.<ref>Schoenhopf, Rebecca, [http://wonkette.com/483860/fringe-catholic-nut-job-says-michelle-obama-got-hillarys-christmas-tree-decoration-crack-pipes "Fringe Catholic Nut-Job Says Michelle Obama Got Hillary’s Christmas Tree Decoration Crack Pipes"], Wonkette (9/11/12 at 2:30pm).</ref>
*Ordering a hit out on a [[cat]].<ref>Mencimer, Stephanie, [http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2008/01/did-clintons-try-whack-cat "Did the Clintons Try to Whack a Cat?"], ''Mother Jones'' (1/15/08 at 4:00 AM).</ref>
One relatively-respected outlet in particular, ''The American Spectator'', destroyed itself "investigating" and "exposing" all the nefarious machinations of Bill and Hillary Clinton.<ref>York, Byron. [http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/11/the-life-and-death-of-the-american-spectator/302343/ "The Life and Death of The American Spectator"].</ref>

===On marijuana===
{{cquote|Casual attitudes towards marijuana and minors’ access to cigarettes raise the likelihood that teenagers will make a sad progression to more serious drug use & earlier sexual activity.|||''It Takes a Village'', p. 152}}
Unlike Bill, who "didn't inhale," Hillary Clinton claims she has never smoked [[marijuana|pot]] and wants to "wait and see" 
what the polls say in a year
 what kind of results the legalization for recreational use of marijuana has on states like [[Washington]] and [[Colorado]] before taking a stance on marijuana legalization. Clinton also questions the medical benefits of marijuana, arguing that there has been insufficient research.<ref>[http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/17/politics/clinton-town-hall-what-to-watch/index.html 6 times Clinton sounded, acted like a candidate], CNN</ref>

===Stances on LGBT issues, same-sex marriage===
[[File:Trump clinton.PNG|thumb|right|An unconventional marriage.]]
{{cquote|After many years of working with and listening to American adolescents, I don't believe they are ready for sex or its potential consequences – parenthood, abortion, sexually transmitted diseases – and I think we need to do everything in our power to discourage sexual activity and encourage abstinence.|||—''It Takes a Village'', p. 149}}
When Bill won the Oval Office in 1992, both he and Hillary were more liberal towards the [[LGBT]] community than their predecessors, [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]] and [[George H. W. Bush|Bush]]; the Clintons at least acknowledged that [[gay]] people existed.<ref name=NYT /> That said, there was a lot of room for improvement.

Hillary supported the so-called [[Defense of Marriage Act]] (DOMA), which stated that marriage has historically and religiously been between a male and a female.<ref name=On>[http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Hillary_Clinton_Civil_Rights.htm#Gay_Rights "Hillary Clinton on Civil Rights"]. </ref><ref name=Vision>[http://www.visionandvalues.org/2013/03/hillary-clintons-evolution-on-gay-marriage/ "Hillary Clinton’s Evolution on Gay Marriage | The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College Center for Vision and Values - A conservative think tank promoting truth and liberty through a vision of faith and freedom."]. </ref> Clinton claimed that this was to offshoot any further anti-gay backlash (i.e. to prevent a constitutional amendment limiting marriage to one man and one woman,<ref>"Bernie Sanders Draws Distinction On Gay Rights". ''The Rachel Maddow Show'' (MSNBC: October 27, 2015) [https://youtu.be/y9PRgDzLdx4?t=531 8:51–9:51] '''Hillary Clinton:''' "On [the] Defense of Marriage [Act], I think what my husband believed – and there was certainly evidence to support it – is that there was enough political momentum to amend the Constitution of the United States of America, and that there had to be some way to stop that. And there wasn't any rational argument ... in a lot of ways, DOMA was a line that was drawn that was to prevent going further. It was a defensive action."</ref> a claim many gay activists such as {{wpl|Hilary Rosen}} (a supporter of the Clintons) reject outright).<ref>"Bernie Sanders Draws Distinction On Gay Rights". ''The Rachel Maddow Show'' (MSNBC: October 27, 2015) [https://youtu.be/y9PRgDzLdx4?t=837 13:57–14:30] '''[[Bernie Sanders]]:''' "... it bothered me to hear Secretary Clinton say: 'Well, you know, DOMA really was to prevent something worse'. That just wasn't true. And I think, if you hear today, what many of the gay activists are saying, they will concur with me. {{wpl|Hilary Rosen|Hilary Rosen|,}} who you will have known – and she's a supporter of Secretary Clinton – she said 'Bernie Sanders is right, note to my friends Bill and Hillary: Please stop saying DOMA was to prevent something worse, it wasn't, I was there'."</ref><ref>Lucas Grindley. [http://www.advocate.com/election/2015/10/26/more-activists-dispute-hillary-clintons-doma-history "More Activists Dispute Hillary Clinton's DOMA History"]. (October 26, 2015). ''The Advocate''.</ref>

Furthermore, she supported the "[[don't ask, don't tell]]" policy, claiming that it was a compromise between banning homosexuality in the [[US Armed Forces|military]] and accepting it fully;<ref name=On /> however, in 1999, Hillary claimed she was against the measure, saying that: "Fitness to serve should be based on an individual's conduct, not their sexual orientation."<ref>Adam Nagourney. [https://partners.nytimes.com/library/politics/camp/120999sen-ny-dem.html "Hillary Clinton Faults Policy of 'Don't Ask'"]. (December 9, 1999). ''New York Times''.</ref>

In 2004, on the Senate floor while attacking a constitutional amendment to ban [[same-sex marriage]], Clinton stated:
{{quotebox|"I believe marriage is not just a bond, but a sacred bond between a man and a women. I have had occasion in my life to defend marriage, to stand up for marriage, to believe in the hard work and challenge of marriage. So I take umbrage at anyone who might suggest that those of us who worry about amending the Constitution are less committed to the sanctity of marriage, or to the fundamental bedrock principle that exists between a man and a woman, going back into the midst of history as one of the foundational institutions of history and humanity and civilization, and that its primary role during those millennia has been raising and socializing children."<ref name=On />}}

Clinton has generally been opposed to same-sex marriage, but has supported or has not opposed same-sex [[civil union]]s. Even during the 2008 presidential campaign, Clinton opposed recognizing SSM at the federal level in favor of [[states' rights|letting states decide]].<ref name=Vision /><ref name=NYT>[http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/31/fashion/hillary-clinton-gay-rights-evolution.html "Hillary Clinton’s Gay Rights Evolution"]. ''The New York Times''. 31 August 2014. </ref> In 2000, Clinton stated:
{{quotebox|"Marriage has historic, religious and moral content that goes back to the beginning of time, and I think a marriage is as a marriage has always been, between a man and a woman. But I also believe that people in committed gay marriages, as they believe them to be, should be given rights under the law that recognize and respect their relationship."<ref name=On /><ref name=Vision />}}

In a speech before the [[United Nations]] Human Rights Council in December 2011, Clinton said that "Gay rights are human rights", and that the U.S. would advocate for gay rights and legal protections of gays abroad:<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/clintons-geneva-accord-gay-rights-are-human-rights/2011/03/04/gIQAPUipcO_blog.html "Clinton’s Geneva accord: 'Gay rights are human rights'"]. ''Washington Post''. Retrieved on 31 July 2016.</ref>

{{quotebox|It is violation of human rights when people are beaten or killed because of their sexual orientation, or because they do not conform to cultural norms about how men and women should look or behave. It is a violation of human rights when governments declare it illegal to be gay, or allow those who harm gay people to go unpunished.  It is a violation of human rights when lesbian or transgendered women are subjected to so-called corrective rape, or forcibly subjected to hormone treatments, or when people are murdered after public calls for violence toward gays, or when they are forced to flee their nations and seek asylum in other lands to save their lives. And it is a violation of human rights when life-saving care is withheld from people because they are gay, or equal access to justice is denied to people because they are gay, or public spaces are out of bounds to people because they are gay.  No matter what we look like, where we come from, or who we are, we are all equally entitled to our human rights and dignity.}}

Clinton publicly opposed same-sex marriage until 2013.<ref name="auto">Friedersdorf, Conor. [http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/06/hillary-clintons-gay-marriage-problem/372717/ "Hillary Clinton's Gay-Marriage Problem"]. </ref> In 2013, Clinton stated:{{quotebox|"I support it personally and as a matter of policy and law. Marriage is a fundamental building block of our society--a great joy and, yes, a great responsibility. To deny the opportunity to any of our daughters and sons solely on the basis of who they are and who they love is to deny them the chance to live up to their own God-given abilities."<ref name=On />}}

Many have claimed that Clinton changed her position on same-sex marriage purely for political reasons rather than out of principle.<ref name="auto"/> President Obama has undergone the same "evolution." But, unlike Hillary Clinton, Obama has not contrived revisionist history and outright falsehoods to cover for his prior, anti-gay positions and statements.<ref>[http://www.mediaite.com/online/wapo-fact-checker-gives-hillary-clinton-lowest-possible-rating-for-doma-claim/ "WaPo Fact Checker Gives Hillary Clinton Lowest Possible Rating For DOMA Claim"]. </ref>

===Beijing speech===
[[File:Hillary Clinton at the United Nations Conference on Women in Beijing, China.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Clinton in Beijing.]]
{{cquote|If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, let it be that human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights once and for all.|||Hillary Clinton<ref>[http://eloquentwoman.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/famous-speech-friday-hillary-clintons.html "Famous Speech Friday: Hillary Clinton's "women's rights are human rights" speech"]. (November 11, 2011). ''The Eloquent Woman''.</ref>}}
In 1995, a suburb of Beijing hosted the United Nations Fourth World Congress on Women. As a First Lady, Hillary saw an opportunity to advance the main cause of her career, but she also saw the provocative speech as a way to shape her own identity seperate from that of her husband’s.

While planning the speech, Hillary clashed with White House aides who thought a first lady should not dive into delicate diplomatic issues. Bill Clinton read the speech in its early stages, but his advisers did not. Factions at the [[National Security Agency]] and State Department also pushed back at her trip, fearing Hillary's presence would upset the [[China|Chinese]]. (It did.)

Clinton’s image had already taken a hit in her failed efforts to overhaul health care, and conservatives accused her of advancing a "radical feminist agenda" in Beijing. [[Catholic]] groups called the gathering of 1,500 delegates from around the world an "antifamily" rally.

Aides who traveled with Mrs. Clinton to Beijing remember the staid United Nations delegates pounding their feet as she declared "it is a violation of human rights when babies are denied food or drowned" simply because they are born female, and "it is a violation of human rights when women and girls are sold into the [[slavery]] of [[prostitution]]." After her speech, where she presented a 12-part plan to advance the cause of women, tens of thousands of workers with nongovernmental organizations who were not allowed to attend the conference gathered amid a downpour and the heavy security in Huairou, 30 miles outside Beijing, to hear Hillary deliver a version of the speech.

{{wpl|Melanne Verveer||,}} who served as the ambassador-at-large for global women’s issues at the State Department under Clinton, said that "To this day, people will introduce themselves saying, 'I was in Beijing.'"

At a Clinton Foundation event in New York before her 2016 presidential announcement, Hillary called the Beijing conference "historic and transformational".<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/09/05/20-years-later-hillary-clintons-beijing-speech-on-women-resonates/ "Hillary Clinton&#8217;s Beijing Speech on Women Resonates 20 Years Later"]. ''The New York Times''. 5 September 2015. </ref>

===Yugoslavia===
In 1995 Clinton as First Lady gave support for [[Bill Clinton|her husband]]'s decision to support the [[NATO]] bombings of [[Yugoslavia]], saying that she "urged [Bill] to bomb" via {{wpl|Operation Deliberate Force||.}}<ref>Sachs, Jeffrey (February 05, 2016). [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-sachs/hillary-is-the-candidate_b_9168938.html "Hillary Is the Candidate of the War Machine"]. ''[[The Huffington Post]]''.</ref>

In 1999, Clinton supported the launching of a second war in the region, against the former [[Serbia]]n president and accused war criminal [[Slobodan Milošević|Milošević]]'s earlier complicity in [[genocide]],{{efn|In February 2007, the {{wpl|International Court of Justice}} (ICJ) ruled in the ''{{wpl|Bosnian Genocide Case}}'' that there was no evidence linking Serbia and Milošević to the genocide committed by Bosnian Serbs in the Bosnian war. However, the Court did find that Milošević and others in Serbia had committed a breach of the {{wpl|Genocide Convention}} by failing to prevent the genocide from occurring and for not cooperating with the ICTY in punishing the perpetrators of the genocide, in particular General {{wpl|Ratko Mladić||,}} and for violating its obligation to comply with the provisional measures ordered by the Court.<ref>{{cite web| publisher= World Socialist Web| author= Paul Mitchell| title= [http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2007/03/icj-m16.html The significance of the World Court ruling on genocide in Bosnia]| date= 16 March 2007| accessdate= 9 February 2013}}</ref><ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/27/world/europe/27hague.html?ref=world Court Declares Bosnia Killings Were Genocide]. ''[[The New York Times]]'', February 26, 2007. A copy of the ICJ judgment can be found [http://www.icj-cij.org/icjwww/idocket/ibhy/ibhyjudgment/ibhy_ijudgment_20070226_frame.htm here].</ref>}} saying that "You can't let this ethnic cleansing go on at the end of the century that has seen the Holocaust". Political author {{wpl|Diana Johnstone}} claims that this is one of the first times [[the Holocaust]] was used as a pro-war argument,<ref>Johnstone, Diana (February 26, 2016). [http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/26/hillary-goes-to-war/ "Hillary Goes to War"]. ''CounterPunch''.</ref> however, Hillary was far from the only public figure to invoke the Holocaust as a justification for intervention in Serbia.<ref name="MacDonaldPatman2016">{{cite book|author1=David B. MacDonald|author2=Robert G. Patman|title=The Ethics of Foreign Policy|url=|date=23 March 2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-03381-3|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=HOjOCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT58 58]}}</ref> Vermont senator and former Democratic presidential nominee [[Bernie Sanders]] also supported the campaign.<ref>[http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/bernie-sanders-troubling-history-supporting-us-military-violence-abroad "Bernie Sanders' Troubling History of Supporting US Military Violence Abroad"]. ''Alternet''.</ref><ref>Miller, Will (1999). [http://www.libertyunionparty.org/?page_id=363 "Bernie the Bomber's Bad Week"]. ''{{wpl|Liberty Union Party}}''.</ref>

==Senate term==
[[File:Hrc austin.jpg|thumb|right|300px|During Senator Clinton's trip to [[Afghanistan]], 2003.]]
She ran for a [[Senate]] seat in [[New York]] in 2000 despite never having lived there before and was accused of [[Carpetbagger|carpetbagging]] (moving to the state solely for political gain). She won the election soundly against Rick Lazio, 55% to 43%.

Following the [[September 11]] attacks, Clinton sought to obtain funding for the recovery efforts in [[New York City]] and security improvements in her state. Working with New York's senior senator, Charles Schumer, she was instrumental in securing $21 billion in funding for the World Trade Center site's redevelopment. She subsequently took a leading role in investigating the health issues faced by 9/11 first responders.

On foreign policy, she was much more hawkish, voting for the [[Iraq War]] and supporting the continuing [[Afghanistan War|war in Afghanistan]], one of her main concerns being the condition of women's rights in the country. She also voted for the [[PATRIOT Act]] and its renewal. However, she did express concern regarding civil liberties.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080214165103/http://www.senate.gov/~clinton/news/statements/details.cfm?id=249895 "Hillary Rodham Clinton, Senator for New York: Statement of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on the USA Patriot Act Reauthorization Conference Report"]. ''Senate.gov''. 14 February 2008. Archived from the original.</ref>
{{cquote|I have very serious concerns that the current Patriot Act Reauthorization conference report, which was negotiated largely without the input of Democrats, does not do enough to strike this proper balance. I believe that we can be both safe and free. The conference report falls well short of achieving that goal. I am hopeful that bipartisan negotiations can result in a compromise bill like the one agreed to in the Senate in July, a bill which did a far better job of protecting our civil liberties.|||Hillary Clinton}} 
She was against an immediate withdrawal from Iraq, unlike some liberal activists, putting her in the unique position of having conservatives hate her and many progressives not like her either. She would later oppose the "surge" in Iraq in 2007 and voted for a withdrawal plan that set a deadline which was vetoed by President [[Bush]].

On domestic issues, she sided with the Democrats more. She voted against the Bush [[tax cut]]s, the nominations of [[John Roberts]] and [[Samuel Alito]] to the [[Supreme Court]], voted for the Immigration Reform Act and against the Federal Marriage Amendment which sought to ban [[same-sex marriage]]. In 2007 she voted in favor of increasing the federal minimum wage to $9.50.<ref>Jaffe, Alexandra (30 April 2014). [http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/204772-group-touts-hillary-clintons-minimum-wage-efforts "Group touts Clinton's minimum wage efforts"]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved on 31 July 2016.</ref><ref>[http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=93079 "Hillary Clinton: Hillary Clinton Statement on Legislation to Raise the Minimum Wage to $9.50 Per Hour"]. ''ucsb.edu''. Retrieved on 31 July 2016.</ref> Based on her voting record as a senator, she was consistently on the left of the Democratic party.<ref>[http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/hillary-clinton-was-liberal-hillary-clinton-is-liberal/ "Hillary Clinton Was Liberal. Hillary Clinton Is Liberal."]. 19 May 2015.</ref> She voted for a bankruptcy bill that favored big banks and protected deadbeat dads from child support payments much to the dismay of [[Elizabeth Warren]].<ref>[http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/elizabeth-warren-hillary-clinton-relationship-history Elizabeth Warren's History of Snubbing Hillary Clinton], Eric Garcia, ''Roll Call'', Jun 27, 2016</ref><ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-shadow-banking_us_5696d0fae4b0b4eb759d2606 Hillary Clinton’s Shadowy History With Shadow Banking], ''Huffington Post'', 01/14/2016.</ref>

Clinton voted against Bush's two major tax cut packages, the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 and the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003. She also voted against the 2005 confirmation of [[John Roberts]] as Chief Justice of the United States and the 2006 confirmation of [[Samuel Alito]] to the U.S. Supreme Court, filibustering the latter.

In 2005 she introduced the {{wpl|Family Entertainment Protection Act||,}} which would have made it a federal offense to sell a "mature" or "adult" rated [[video game]] to anyone under seventeen. Her legislation paralleled a [[California]] law struck down by the Supreme Court on First Amendment grounds in the 2011 ruling ''{{wpl|Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Ass'n||''.}} She cited the game ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' as an example of the sort of game she wanted to keep out of children's hands. She continued to push the bill through her first presidential campaign in 2008, but it never passed.<ref>Josh Gerstein, [http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/hillary-clinton-1998-racy-ad-117320 Hillary frowned on racy ads and video games], ''Politico'', Apr. 27, 2015.</ref> 

Looking to establish a progressive infrastructure, Clinton played a formative role in conversations that led to the 2003 founding of the Center for American Progress, shared aides with Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, and advised the Clintons' former antagonist David Brock's Media Matters for America, created in 2004.

She ran for re-election in 2006, spending over $30 million on the race and trouncing Republican John Spencer (not the actor) 67% to 31%, proving she had the seat locked.

==2008 presidential nomination campaign==
[[File:Clinton New Hampshire Victory.jpg|thumb|Hillary's win in New Hampshire, 2008.]]
{{Main|2008 U.S. presidential election}}
Widely seen as the frontrunner for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, her votes for the [[Iraq War]] and [[PATRIOT Act]] made her especially vulnerable to a political outsider who vocally (and [[Triangulation|sufficiently]]) opposed the [[War on Terror]]. They dueled throughout all 50 states in the [[Primary election|primaries]], a first in American history, before she was finally bested by [[Barack Obama]], who then chose her as his Secretary of State. Her stay only lasted until the second term, when she stepped down to prepare for her [[2016 U.S. Presidential Election|requisite presidential run]]. Again seen as an ''heir apparent'', Hillary again faced stiff competition from the left. She's the Democratic [[Mitt Romney]]: unpopular with the base, flip-flops on convenient issues, but you could do worse.<ref group=note>Ex: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCyvyyo6dtQ Slippin' into a fake Southern accent] while campaignin' in the South and claimin' she grew up poor.</ref><ref>Simon, Roger, [http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/hillary-clinton-dead-broke-comment-108204 "Hillary should stop poor-mouthing"'] Politico (06/24/14 05:03 AM EDT). Same with that sob story Romney told about eating cans of tuna and living frugally… off his trust fund's dividends.</ref>

Clinton had been preparing for a presidential run since at least 2003, and during the first half of 2007, she led in all the opinion polls among Democrats running for the party's presidential nomination; after actually having to deny she was a [[lesbian]],<ref>[http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/hillary-clinton-a-lesbian-article-1.246111 Hillary Clinton: I'm not a lesbian], ''New York Daily News''</ref> the [[media]] widely assumed she would win.

===Primaries and caucuses===
{{cquote|I remember one reporter comparing her to a "late-stage Lenny Bruce," as she increasingly spent stump time pleading her case against her tormentors... The lasting memory of Hillary the candidate was that her whole camp was consumed by tilts against a variety of windmills at the end, especially when the race extended beyond the point of mathematical elimination. There was a lot of fighting for a sake of fighting.|||[[Matt Taibbi]]<ref>Taibbi, [http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/hillary-clinton-is-turning-into-richard-nixon-and-bill-belichick-20150314 "Clinton is Turning Into Nixon and Bill Belichick"], ''Rolling Stone'' 3.14.15.></ref>}}
The race dragged through all 50 states between Clinton and Obama. Clinton placed a dismal third in the [[Iowa]] caucus, shattering the perception she was a shoo-in for the nomination (Obama placed first and [[Fun:Really embarrassing liberals#Sexual antics|John Edwards]] came in second). Clinton won the [[New Hampshire]] primary (a reversal of post-Iowa predictions), which some attributed to sympathy for when she showed a rare moment of emotion during an interview.<ref>[http://www.newsweek.com/hillary-clintons-emotional-moment-87141 Hillary Clinton's Moment], ''Newsweek''</ref> The two had a head to head battle throughout the Democratic primaries, threatening to split the Democratic base as the contest went on and on. Clinton won big states like [[New York]], [[California]], and [[New Jersey]] on Super Tuesday while Obama won more, but smaller states. They roughly shared the popular vote. 

Clinton wasn't prepared for the long slog though, having thought she'd won the nomination by Super Tuesday, and from there, her campaign lagged behind Obama. What cemented it was the book ''Game Change'', where Obama started pulling ahead, and the Clintons went completely batshit off-camera.  Obama won a majority of the contests, but Clinton won just enough primaries to stick in out, namely [[Ohio]] and [[Pennsylvania]]. Bill was livid because it was ''destiny'' that his wife becomes president. (It was pre-ordained! This Obama guy must be cheating!) She became a source of ridicule and was mocked as power-hungry, some pointing out it was almost [[statistic]]ally impossible for her to win now. She made several gaffes like claiming to have been shot at with sniper fire while visiting [[Bosnia]] as First Lady, despite video evidence showing differently.<ref>[http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/03/hillarys_balkan_adventures_par.html Hillary's Balkan Adventures], ''Washington Post''</ref><ref>Harnden, Toby (March 25, 2008). [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1582795/Hillary-Clintons-Bosnia-sniper-story-exposed.html "Hillary Clinton's Bosnia sniper story exposed"]. ''The Daily Telegraph''.</ref> After a swath of [[superdelegate]]s declared for Obama on June 3rd, his delegate wins in [[South Dakota]] were enough to push him over the 2118 delegates needed to secure the nomination. Clinton refused to immediately concede the contest, but on June 7th, she suspended her campaign and threw her support behind Obama.

In an interview with the Sioux Falls Argus Leader editorial board, she brought up the 1968 assassination of presidential candidate Senator [[Robert F. Kennedy]] when asked why she remained in the race. Ostensibly, she mentioned the assassination and her husband's 1992 primary campaign to illustrate that previous primary seasons have run into June. However, one implication of citing Kennedy's assassination and her reasons for remaining in the primary race was the possibility of something bad (very bad) happening to Obama.

An investigation had shown that Clinton mentioned the 1968 assassination on at least four occasions in conjunction with her desire to remain in the primary race. Many [[pundit]]s, however, considered it to be a major blunder wishing the black guy would get shot and the death knell of Clinton's campaign.<ref>[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24796393/ Clinton regrets RFK assassination remark], MSNBC</ref> She "sort of" apologized "in case" anyone was offended.

===DNC 2008===
The moment of truth was scripted at the Democratic National Convention in 2008. Slated as a guest speaker on August 26, everyone was ready for her to filibuster at the podium while her [[PUMA|disgruntled supporters]] made all kinds of trouble. However, these expectations were shattered as she gave a rousing speech praising Obama, ripping into [[John McCain]], and calling for unity in the [[Democratic Party]]. As if the speech wasn't enough, Clinton cemented her intentions firmly by calling for Obama to be nominated as the candidate by acclamation, only adding to the applause. She then pledged her full support to the Obama campaign, erasing any thoughts of ill will from the voters and Democratic Party members' minds. She was rewarded with an appointment as Secretary of State.

==Secretary of State==
[[File:Defense.gov News Photo 100406-D-7203C-002.jpg|thumb|Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State in 2010.]]
In 2009, President Obama chose Clinton to be his Secretary of State (much to the disdain of conservatives and some liberals who hadn't gotten over the primaries). In an attempt to [[manufactroversy|revive]] the beloved Clinton-Obama rivalry from the Democratic presidential nomination, pundits quickly invented rumors of a titanic power struggle between the State Department and the White House.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/16/us/politics/16clinton.html For Clinton, ’09 Campaign Is for Her Turf], ''The New York Times''</ref>  Didn't happen until they started blaming each other for the [[Syria]]n and [[Libya]]n fiascos.<ref>[http://time.com/3097964/hillary-clinton-syria-isis-the-atlantic/ Hillary Clinton Criticizes Obama on Syria Policy], Sam Frizell, ''Time'', Aug. 10, 2014</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5vehtaHSRY Obama Calls Syria Criticism 'Horseshit'], Aug 15, 2014. youtube.com</ref><ref>[http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/04/12/libya-obama-admits-clintons-greatest-moment-was-his-worst-mistake Libya: Obama Admits Clinton's "Greatest Moment" Was His "Worst Mistake], Lauren McCauley, ''Common Dreams'', April 12, 2016.</ref> Clinton's critics frequently bring up the [[2012 Benghazi attack]], which an entirely preventable security shortage could have short-circuited. While much of it is the usual conspiracy-mongering from wingnuts, her handling of the situation was decidedly less than optimal, and much of the conspiracy-mongering could have been headed off if she hadn't completely blown it to start with.<ref>[http://www.factcheck.org/2012/10/benghazi-timeline/ "Benghazi Timeline"]. </ref> She later resigned by the end of Obama's first term and was replaced by [[John Kerry]].

Her lasting accomplishments as Secretary of State were characteristical of a hawkish route.<ref>[http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/06/06/hillary-clinton-and-weaponization-state-department "Hillary Clinton and the Weaponization of the State Department"]. </ref><ref>[http://www.thenation.com/article/left-ought-worry-about-hillary-clinton-hawk-and-militarist-2016/ "The Left Ought to Worry About Hillary Clinton, Hawk and Militarist, in 2016"] &ndash; via [[The Nation]].</ref> Showing she learned nothing from the [[Iraq War]] vote she disavowed during an election campaign, Clinton backed an escalation into the [[Afghanistan War]] despite the power being accumulated by regional warlords due to the conflict. She was a leading proponent for a "humanitarian" intervention against the government of [[Muammar Gaddafi]] in [[Libya]]; she was actually caught [[Sadism|having a laugh]] on-screen upon learning of his death.<ref>FederalJacktube6, (20 October 2011). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgcd1ghag5Y "Hillary Clinton on Gaddafi: We came, we saw, he died"] &ndash; via YouTube.</ref> Said intervention led to the disintegration of the country into rival governments along the coastline, with [[terrorist]] gangs including [[al-Qaeda]] and [[DAESH|Daesh]] setting up shop and taking over cities as the unrest continued for the better part of the decade.<ref>Friedersdorf, Conor. [http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/03/hillary-clinton-marco-rubio-and-the-ill-fated-wars-they-supported/387535/ "Hillary Clinton, Marco Rubio, and the Ill-Fated Wars They Supported"].</ref>
Additionally, the chaos Hillary helped reign in Libya spilled over into [[Mali]], allowing Tuareg and Islamist rebels to seize half the country and prompting a [[French]] military intervention to stop the government from falling to al-Qaeda. 

In October 2009, on a trip to [[Switzerland]], Clinton's intervention overcame last-minute snags and saved the signing of a historic [[Turkey|Turkish]]–[[Armenia]]n accord that established diplomatic relations and opened the border between the two long-hostile nations.

She pressed Obama to arm and train moderate [[Syria]]n rebels.<ref>[https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/1.597362 Hillary Clinton: I Wanted to Arm Syrian Rebels, but Obama Refused] ''Haaretz''. June 6, 2014.</ref> Clinton supported {{wpl|Robert Stephen Ford|Robert Ford's}}<ref group=note>Ford served as United States Ambassador to Syria from 2010 to 2014.</ref> view that if the [[United States]] did not arm them, then extremists would give the rebels money and lure them into their organizations.<ref>[http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33997408 Arming Syrian rebels: Where the US went wrong] BBC News. October 10, 2015.</ref> She endorsed the usage of airstrikes against the Syrian government of [[Bashar al-Assad]] within the Obama administration.<ref>MJ Lee and Dan Merica. [https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/06/politics/hillary-clinton-syria-assad/index.html Hillary Clinton: US should ‘take out’ Assad’s air fields]. (April 7, 2017) ''CNN''.</ref>

Perhaps her most telling decision was to have her State Department enable Obama's expansion of lethal [[drone]] strikes against people said to be terrorists by [[John Brennan]], who later became Director of the [[CIA]].<ref>Arshad Mohammed. [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/07/clinton-defends-drone-strikes_n_1577125.html "Clinton Defends Drone Strikes After Al Qaeda Leader Abu Yahya al-Libi Killed"]. (06/07/2012). ''TheWorldPost'' (Huffington Post/Berggrun Institute, via Reuters).</ref><ref>Adam Entous and David Barrett. [http://www.wsj.com/articles/clinton-emails-in-probe-dealt-with-planned-drone-strikes-1465509863# "Emails in Clinton Probe Dealt With Planned Drone Strikes"]. (June 9, 2016). ''Wall Street Journal''.</ref> Her adoration of [[Israel]], AIPAC, and [[Benjamin Netanyahu]] also led her to block every effort [[Palestinian]]s made at the [[United Nations]] to achieve recognition, even UNSC resolutions declaring Israeli settlements illegal.<ref>[https://www.un.org/press/en/2016/sc12657.doc.htm Israel’s Settlements Have No Legal Validity, Constitute Flagrant Violation of International Law, Security Council Reaffirms]. (December 23, 2016). ''United Nations''</ref>

[[File:Statement from the Communications Director on Clinton's Emails.jpg|thumb|left|Statement from the Communications Director on Clinton's Emails]]

In a prepared speech in January 2010, Clinton drew analogies between the [[Iron Curtain]] and the free and unfree [[Internet]].<ref>Richter, Paul; Pierson, David (23 January 2010). [http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jan/23/world/la-fg-google-china23-2010jan23 "Sino-U.S. ties hit new snag over Internet issues"]. Retrieved on 31 July 2016 &ndash; via LA Times.</ref> Chinese officials reacted negatively towards it. The speech garnered attention as the first time a senior American official had clearly defined the Internet as a critical element of American foreign policy.

During April 2011 internal deliberations of the president's innermost circle of advisors over whether to order U.S. special forces to conduct a raid into [[Pakistan]] against [[Osama bin Laden]], Clinton was among those who argued in favor, saying the importance of getting bin Laden outweighed the risks to the U.S. relationship with Pakistan. Following the completion of the mission on May 2, which resulted in bin Laden's death, Clinton played a crucial role in the administration's decision not to release photographs of the dead al-Qaeda leader.

It was later revealed through her emails that, as Secretary of State, she had supported the Libyan intervention (even though there were major humanitarian concerns),<ref>[https://www.aclu.org/blog/politics-swirling-around-clinton-email-scandal-obscure-real-problems "Politics Swirling Around Clinton Email Scandal Obscure Real Problems"]. </ref><ref> Kovalik, Dan (January 22, 2016). [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-kovalik/clinton-emails-on-libya-e_b_9054182.html "Clinton Emails on Libya Expose The Lie of 'Humanitarian Intervention'"]. ''[[The Huffington Post]]''. ACLU: "... make no mistake, the scandal has highlighted the very real dangers to government transparency that result when politicians use private accounts to conduct official business."</ref> pitched [[Iraq]] as a "[[Corporatism|business opportunity]]",<ref>[http://www.ibtimes.com/campaign-2016-hillary-clinton-pitched-iraq-business-opportunity-us-corporations-2121999? "Campaign 2016: Hillary Clinton Pitched Iraq As 'A Business Opportunity' For US Corporations"]. 1 October 2015. </ref> used the Global Shale Gas Initiative to push [[fracking]] on various countries around the world,<ref>Fang, Lee FangSteve HornLee; Horn2016-05-23T18:36:37+00:00, Steve. [https://theintercept.com/2016/05/23/hillary-clinton-fracking/ "Hillary Clinton’s Energy Initiative Pressed Countries to Embrace Fracking, New Emails Reveal"]. </ref> and that she was the main advocate of the [[TPP]] within the Obama administration.<ref>[http://www.ibtimes.com/hillary-clinton-emails-secret-negotiations-new-york-times-trade-bill-lobbying-2315809 "Hillary Clinton Emails: Secret Negotiations With New York Times, Trade Bill Lobbying Revealed In Latest State Department Release"]. 20 February 2016. </ref><ref>[https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/?q=iraq%7Cbaghdad%7Cbasra%7Cmosoul&mfrom=&mto=&title=&notitle=&date_from=&date_to=&nofrom=&noto=&count=50&sort=0#searchresult "WikiLeaks - Hillary Clinton Email Archive"]. </ref>

In a formulation that became known as "{{wpl|the Hillary Doctrine||",}} she viewed women's rights as critical for U.S. security interests due to a link between the level of violence against women and gender inequality within a state and the instability and challenge to international security of that state.

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==2016 presidential run==
[[File:Hillary Clinton (24007396143).jpg|thumb|Hillary Clinton at an Iowa rally, 2016.]]
{{Main|2016 Democratic Party presidential nomination}}
{{Main|2016 US Presidential Election}}

{{rquote|right|Remember Cool Hillary Clinton, back when she was checking her phone with her sunglasses on like a BAWSE and getting drunk with foreign dignitaries on Instagram and shit? Yeah, that Hillary Clinton is gone, kids. Hopelessly corrupt pander-bot 2008 Hillary is back! And remarkably, she seems to believe—yet again—that her lengthy history of cynical, bought-and-paid-for leadership somehow entitles her to the presidency, as if her entire campaign strategy is “I didn’t betray my principles and sell out every last one of my constituents NOT to be president, you guys!”|[http://www.gq.com/story/least-influential-people-2015 Drew Magary]}}

On April 12th, 2015, she announced another run at the White House. Her campaign was soon riddled with scandal fodder. Most of the information about the Clintons wasn't new (nothing sticks to the Clintons), but it was repackaged and retold for today's audience. In June 2016, she became the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee for president.

[[Bernie Sanders]] was her chief rival for the Democratic nomination before finally withdrawing in July and endorsing Clinton's presidential candidacy:<ref name="auto1">Hanrahan, Tim. [http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/07/12/full-speech-bernie-sanders-endorses-hillary-clinton-for-president/ "Full Speech: Bernie Sanders Endorses Hillary Clinton for President"]. ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' blogs.</ref>

On November 8th, 2016, Clinton lost the key states of [[Wisconsin]], [[Michigan]], and [[Pennsylvania]] by razor-thin margins, causing her to lose the [[Electoral College]] to [[Donald Trump]].

===Foreign policy===
{{cquote|[[Mexico|Mexican]] government policies are pushing migration north. There isn't any sensible approach except what we need to do simultaneously, you know — secure our borders, technology, personnel, physical barriers if necessary, in some places.|||
President Trump
 Hillary Clinton<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uXJ1mgkyF0 Hillary Clinton says US need to secure borders, and illegals should be deported and build a wall], Council on Foreign Relations.</ref>}}
With the possible exception of, say, [[John Kerry]], the Secretary of State is little more than a consigliere. HRC was no exception.<ref>[[Glenn Greenwald|Greenwald, Glenn]], [https://theintercept.com/2016/03/10/hillary-clinton-stalwart-friend-of-worlds-worst-despots-attacks-sanders-latin-american-activism/ "Hillary Clinton, Stalwart Friend of World’s Worst Despots, Attacks Sanders’s Latin American Activism"], ''The Intercept'' (3/10/16 at 5:13 a.m.).</ref><ref>Attiah, Karen, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/04/19/hillary-clintons-dodgy-answers-on-honduras-coup/ "Hillary Clinton’s dodgy answers on Honduras coup"], [[WaPo]] 4.19.16. Yep. she probably lied about not being involved in the Honduras coup.</ref> Historically, she has been a hawk.<ref>Lander, Mark, [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/24/magazine/how-hillary-clinton-became-a-hawk.html "How Hillary Clinton Became a Hawk"], ''[[NYT]]'' 4.21.16.</ref><ref>Heilbrunn, Jacob, [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/06/opinion/sunday/are-neocons-getting-ready-to-ally-with-hillary-clinton.html "Are Neocons Getting Ready to Ally With Hillary Clinton?"], ''NYT'' 7.5.14.</ref> She pushed for a no-fly zone over [[Syria]]<ref>Johnson, Adam, [http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/12/hillary-clintons-insane-plan-for-a-no-fly-zone.html "Hillary Clinton’s insane plan for a no-fly zone"], Al-Jazeera (12/29/15 at 2:00 am ET).</ref> and using ground troops against [[DAESH|Daesh]].<ref name="auto2"/><ref>Wright, Bruce, [http://www.ibtimes.com/hillary-clinton-flip-flopping-ground-troops-fight-isis-us-sends-troops-iraq-clinton-2206261 "Hillary Clinton Flip-Flopping On Ground Troops To Fight ISIS? Before US Sends Troops To Iraq, Clinton Says No To Deployment After First Saying Yes"], ''International Business Times'' (12/01/15 AT 11:40 AM).</ref> Even though Hillary says she strongly backs the nuclear deal,<ref>David E. Sanger and Amy Chozick, [http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/10/us/politics/hillary-clinton-backs-iran-nuclear-deal.html "Hillary Clinton Backs Iran Nuclear Deal, With Caveats"], NYT 9.9.15. Mrs. Clinton’s speech, at the Brookings Institution, amounted to an endorsement of the deal struck by President Obama and her successor, John Kerry.</ref> she would enact new sanctions on [[Iran]]<ref>Richardson, Bradford, [http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/266173-clinton-calls-for-new-sanctions-on-iran "Clinton calls for new sanctions on Iran"], ''The Hill'' (01/16/16 06:20 PM EST).</ref> (following in the footsteps of {{wpl|Madeleine Albright||).}} More disappointingly, her campaign has accepted money from [[military industrial complex|Boeing]] through her Foundation.<ref>Helderman, Rosalind, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/for-hillary-clinton-and-boeing-a-beneficial-relationship/2014/04/13/21fe84ec-bc09-11e3-96ae-f2c36d2b1245_story.html "For Hillary Clinton and Boeing, a beneficial relationship"], WaPo 4.13.14.</ref><ref>[http://www.salon.com/2015/12/26/is_hillary_clinton_a_neoconservative_hawk_what_iraq_and_libya_decisions_tell_us_about_her_foreign_policy/ Her foreign policy is neoconservative because she is herself a neoconservative]</ref> and has befriended [[Henry Kissinger|some of the worst]] [[despot]]s around the globe.<ref>Greenwald, Glenn (March 10, 2016) [https://theintercept.com/2016/03/10/hillary-clinton-stalwart-friend-of-worlds-worst-despots-attacks-sanders-latin-american-activism/ Hillary Clinton, Stalwart Friend of World’s Worst Despots, Attacks Sanders’s Latin American Activism]. ''The Intercept''.</ref>

A simple scorecard assembled by {{wpl|Global Zero}} compared Clinton's foreign policy statements to three remaining Republican candidates for president at the time. On every issue that Global Zero measured, Clinton is indicated as far less hawkish than all three of those Republican candidates: she supported a diplomatic solution to the crisis surrounding North Korea's nuclear weapons program when John Kasich was the only Republican to do so and supported bilateral negotiations with Russia to reduce nuclear weapons to the measly sum of 1,000 each.<ref>Fisher, Max (April 27, 2016). [http://www.vox.com/2016/4/27/11504272/hillary-clinton-hawk "Is Hillary Clinton really the foreign policy super-hawk she is portrayed to be?"]. ''Vox''.</ref><ref>[http://www.globalzero.org/race-to-zero/candidates The scorecard], now whittled down to Clinton v. Trump</ref>

===Criminal justice===
[[File:Democratic Party presidential primary results by county by popular vote margin 2.svg|thumb|right|275px|Clinton easily won the black counties of the [[Deep South]] during the 2016 Democratic presidential primary.]]
{{cquote|The 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act... stopped the revolving door for career criminals with its "three strikes and you're out" provision.|||''It Takes a Village'', p. 124}}
{{cquote|(Reform) the “strike” system to focus on violent crime by narrowing the category of prior offenses that count as strikes to exclude nonviolent drug offenses, and reducing the mandatory penalty for second- and third-strike offenses.|||hillaryclinton.com}}
On the campaign trail, she successfully presents herself as a friend to [[African American]]s. Black politicians and pastors are endorsing her, she has a huge lead with minorities, and her husband was often called the first black president. However, some critics like to bring up her quote, as First Lady, about young, impoverished black children who had to turn to crime: "They are often the kinds of kids that are called ‘super-predators.’ No conscience, no empathy. We can talk about why they ended up that way, but first we have to bring them to heel."<ref>The Young Turks, (11 February 2016). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rM156wa780 "Why Do African-Americans Support The Clintons?"] &ndash; via YouTube.</ref> The Clinton "tough on crime" policies were disasters for black communities, and they used the Republicans' dog whistles to sell it.  

Today's critics fail to understand that these were policies that the black community ''actually wanted'' at the time. Like many tough-on-crime policies that have been passed in the U.S. since the late 1960s, the law enjoyed the support of many black activists and political leaders, who saw it as an imperfect but necessary measure to combat pervasive violence in poor black urban neighborhoods. Gang violence was out of control in the early 90s, and there was a perception that no one seemed to care until Bill Clinton was elected. In general, this is why older (the most reliable block of primary voters in the electorate of any race) black voters refused to hold it against Hillary, even with the [[dog whistle]]s and the mass incarceration.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Neyfakh|first1=Leon|title=[http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2016/02/why_many_black_politicians_backed_the_1994_crime_bill_championed_by_the.html Black Americans Supported the 1994 Crime Bill, Too]|accessdate=July 18, 2016|work=Slate|date=February 12, 2016}}</ref>

==Scandals, both real and imagined==
[[File:HillaryWitch.jpg|thumb|right|Even multiple GOP-led Benghazi witch-hunts failed to save America!]]
{{cquote|She's just a devil woman, with evil on her mind<p>
Beware the devil woman, she's gonna get you from behind</p>|||Cliff Richard, political analyst}}

{{cquote|At this stage, we don't want to know whether Hillary slept with Vincent Foster. We want to know if she killed him...Clinton is the most unpopular First Lady ever; and, more substantively, she is the first First Lady to stand before a grand jury... Everything she touches turns out to have the word gate tacked on to the end of it: Cookiegate, Cattlegate, Travelgate, Fostergate, Whitewatergate; and now Thankyougate.|||Martin Amis<ref>Amis, review of ''It Takes a Village'', ''The Sunday Times'' March 1996.</ref>}}

==="Vast right-wing conspiracy"===
{{cquote|The great story here, for anybody willing to find it and write about it and explain it, is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president.|||Hillary Clinton on NBC's Today Show in 1998<ref>Condon, Stephanie (February 3, 2016) [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary-clinton-the-vast-right-wing-conspiracy-is-even-better-funded-now/ Hillary Clinton: The vast, right-wing conspiracy" is "even better funded" now]. ''CBS News''</ref>}}
The "vast right-wing conspiracy" is a slightly overblown [[snarl word]] created by Clinton during the ongoing investigation of her [[Bill Clinton|husband]]'s improprieties (alleged and real) during his administration. It is also known under the somewhat more sober codename the {{wpl|Arkansas Project|"Arkansas Project" or the "Editorial Improvement Project"|.}}

The term referred to a loosely-aligned group of [[conservative]] [[lawyer]]s and [[journalist]]s, some [[neoconservative]]s, and some of the [[Religious Right]], whose primary mission seemed to be retaliation for [[George H.W. Bush]] losing his reelection and the premature end of Bill Clinton's term in office by any means necessary. Insofar as there was truly a [[conspiracy]] in the accepted sense of the word, rather than a mere confluence of obvious interest, it centered around the funding activities of conservative banking heir [[Richard Mellon Scaife]], political pressure groups such as [[Newt Gingrich]]'s GOPAC, and conservative media outlets such as Matt Drudge's online [[Drudge Report]], the Scaife-funded ''American Spectator'' magazine and [[conservative talk radio|talk radio]] host [[Rush Limbaugh]]. 

However, there was considerable independent pressure from other conservative voices, and despite the defection of prominent supporters such as [[Arianna Huffington]] (admittedly a class act even as a Newt Gingrich supporter) and David Brock<ref group=note>Having a change of heart, he authored ''{{wpl|Blinded by the Right}}'', switched sides and is now the proprietor of [[Media Matters for America]].</ref> (one of its slimiest perpetrators, turned [[liberal media]] activist), much "VRWC" [[spin]] continues unabated today,<ref>Horowitz, Craig. (May 19, 2006) [http://nymag.com/news/politics/17073/ The Trouble With Hillary]. ''New York Magazine''</ref> keeping alive a period in American politics which many, both inside and outside the [[United States]], consider highly distasteful and even dangerous.

===Whitewater===
This scandal has been forged to the suicide of White House lawyer [[Vince Foster]] by avid Clinton scandal-mongers. No evidence has ever been found.<ref>Morganthau, Tom, [http://www.newsweek.com/night-foster-died-184870 "The Night Foster Died"], Newsweek (7/16/95 at 8:00pm).</ref> Whitewater turned out to be just a garden variety real-estate deal gone bad, though {{wpl|Whitewater controversy#Convictions|some of the nicest people from Arkansas went to jail|.}}

===Foundation===
The Clinton Foundation, originally issued a Tax ID number to build and maintain the Clinton Presidential Library, has evolved into an octopus of global front groups and is a lightning rod for roughly half of the Clinton Conspiracies. Take the issue of Uranium One, which from all superficial appearances, is quite the sordid tale. The latest chapter occurred when the [[Russia]]ns, who needed and obtained Clinton's approval, took control of a massive [[uranium]] company around the same time that a bank with strong connections to the Kremlin made heretofore undisclosed donations to the Clinton Foundation.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html "Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal"]. ''The New York Times''. 24 April 2015. </ref> Hilariously, this scandal was so unfounded that [[Fox News]]'s Shepard Smith debunked it, much to the horror of Fox viewers.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/11/15/fox-news-shepherd-smith-debunks-his-networks-hillary-clinton-scandal-story-infuriates-viewers/?utm_term=.04b22ee87ca9 Fox News’s Shepard Smith debunks his network’s favorite Hillary Clinton ‘scandal,’ infuriates viewers]. ''The Washington Post''. 15 November 2017.</ref> Her foundation also accepted donations from [[oil]] companies who were lobbying for more favorable oil policies.<ref>[http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/oil-companies-donated-clinton-foundation-while-lobbying-state-department-2348832 "Oil Companies Donated To Clinton Foundation While Lobbying State Department"]. ''International Business Times''. 5 April 2016. </ref>

Early in her campaign, it was revealed that the Foundation had taken donations from  [[Algeria]], [[Saudi Arabia]], [[Kuwait]], the [[United Arab Emirates]], [[Oman]], and [[Qatar]] while she was Secretary of State. These countries also bought guns from various military contractors who had also donated to the Clinton foundation.<ref>[http://www.ibtimes.com/clinton-foundation-donors-got-weapons-deals-hillary-clintons-state-department-1934187 "Clinton Foundation Donors Got Weapons Deals From Hillary Clinton's State Department"]. ''International Business Times''. 26 May 2015. </ref>  89% of Clinton Foundation money goes to charity, including worldwide treatment of [[AIDS]].<ref>[https://www.factcheck.org/2015/06/where-does-clinton-foundation-money-go/ Where Does Clinton Foundation Money Go?]. ''FactCheck.Org''. 19 June 2015.</ref>

===KKKlinton===
Following [[Donald Trump]]'s shiftiness on whether he should or should not disavow former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the [[Ku Klux Klan]], "[[Professor of nothing|Dr.]]" [[David Duke]], after he had received the support of such a wonderful gentleman, a 2004 photograph of Hillary Clinton kissing former KKK member [[Robert Byrd]] emerged on social media, as well as a 2010 speech Clinton gave after Byrd's death.<ref name=Byrd>Dan Evon. [http://www.snopes.com/clinton-byrd-photo-klan/ "Bye Bye Byrdie"]. (March 2, 2016). ''Snopes''.</ref>

This would have been an ordinary [[tu quoque]] fallacy if it were not for the fact that Byrd left the Klan after only a year of membership and completely disavowed his former membership (spending most of his life apologizing for his brief stint as a member of the KKK) and has been congratulated by the [[NAACP]] for his support for civil rights. In contrast, David Duke continues to be involved in [[white nationalism|white nationalist]] politics through {{wpl|National Association for the Advancement of White People|his own racist organisation|.}}<ref name=Byrd /> Furthermore, Byrd actually endorsed Obama for president.

This line of attack is similar to how some people call Clinton "Goldwater Girl", despite her being one only an extremely short time of her teenage years, and her harsh denouncement of the Republican party as the party of "racists" after the 1968 Republican National Convention.

===But her emails===
Long story short, most politicians are technophobes. Some of the State Department's emails contained highly-classified information that was sent from an insecure server. Later on, somebody dug up a policy, blew some dust off it, and discovered that what everyone was doing was against official regs, effectively saying "Hey, stop using your smartphones and go back to using state email".<ref>Gerstein, Josh, [http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2016/04/september-trial-set-for-alleged-email-hacker-guccifer-221947 "Trial set for suspect who allegedly hacked Bush family, Sidney Blumenthal"], Politico (4/14/16 12:39 PM EDT). The email address (hdr22@clintonemail.com) surfaced after [[Romania]]n hacker Guccifer broke into former White House advisor Sidney Blumenthal's AOL e-mail account (Fucking AOL? ''Really?'') and leaked screenshots of his inbox.</ref><ref>Zapotosky, Matt, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/romanian-hacker-who-revealed-private-clinton-email-address-admits-series-of-high-profile-intrusions/2016/05/25/693cca66-21c0-11e6-8690-f14ca9de2972_story.html "Hacker who revealed Clinton email address admits to other intrusions"], WaPo 5.25.16.</ref><ref>[http://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/bulletins/2013/2013-03.html NARA Bulletin 2013-03 re: Guidance for agency employees on the management of Federal records, including email accounts, and the protection of Federal records from unauthorized removal], 9.9.13.</ref> This memo was about as popular as the plague and went conveniently ignored.<ref>Halper, Evan, [http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-state-department-audit-clinton-emails-20160525-snap-story.html "Hillary Clinton broke the rules for using private email, State Department says "], ''L.A. Times'' (5/25/16 at 1:17 pm).</ref>

{{wpl|BlackBerry|BlackBerrys}} caught on with politicians back when they were the top mobile company. That peculiarity never really went away.<ref>Kang, Celia, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/blackberry-remains-official-washingtons-smartphone-even-as-its-makers-fortunes-decline/2012/04/03/gIQA7QuztS_story.html "BlackBerry remains official Washington’s smartphone even as its maker’s fortunes decline"], WaPo 4.3.12.</ref> Obama was granted a secure BlackBerry as he requested, as was {{wpl|Condoleezza Rice||,}} the previous SoS. Clinton was repeatedly denied one as it was too much of a security risk, and they wanted to phase it out.<ref>Hattem, Julian, [http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/273324-nsa-dismissed-clinton-request-for-secure-blackberry "NSA dismissed Clinton request for ‘secure’ BlackBerry"], ''The Hill'' (3/16/16 at 06:04 PM EDT).  Obama got one because, well, he's the President and thus the boss of the [[NSA]].</ref> (In exchange, the NSA offered her ''this'' monstrosity.)<ref>Whittaker, Zack, [http://www.zdnet.com/article/nsa-wanted-hillary-clinton-to-use-this-secure-windows-phone/ "NSA wanted Hillary Clinton to use this secure Windows phone"], ''Zero Day'' (3/23/16 at 12:43 GMT).</ref> She could have had two devices, one for state.gov (which, based on the Mills deposition, can be accessed from State-issued mobile devices)<ref>Brody, Ben, [http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-05-31/ex-clinton-aide-mills-says-she-didn-t-think-e-mails-may-be-lost "Ex-Clinton Aide Mills Says She Didn’t Think E-Mails Might Be Lost"], Bloomberg (5/31/16 at 2:54 PM PDT).</ref> and one for her private email. That would have given her more protection since she could say everything on her private server is personal; everything on the state.gov server is 'work.' Clinton stupidly used only one of each (at home!),<ref>O'Harrow Jr., Robert, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/how-clintons-email-scandal-took-root/2016/03/27/ee301168-e162-11e5-846c-10191d1fc4ec_story.html "How Clinton’s email scandal took root"], WaPo 3.27.16.</ref> because didn't want to have to partition conversations between different devices and addresses.

Even the State Department IG report mentioned how inadequate their digital infrastructure is: For example, [[Colin Powell]] justified his use of a private email address, saying, "State's system at the time was inadequate."<ref>Karen DeYoung and Greg Miller, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/hillary-clintons-new-unlikely-ally-in-email-controversy-colin-powell/2016/02/04/6d0bcc30-cb82-11e5-a7b2-5a2f824b02c9_story.html "Hillary Clinton gains a new unlikely ally in email controversy: Colin Powell"], [[WaPo]] 2.5.16.</ref> State's email has been hacked extensively by [[Russia]], and they didn't get around to scrubbing it for months (perhaps Russia is still balls-deep in the network as we speak?). There is also no money to fix it. One of Clinton's email exchanges in 2011 concerning how inadequate State Dept. technology was. The Department's Director of Policy Planning wrote to Clinton and her aides:

{{quotebox|I’m sure you’ve thought of this, but it would be a great time for someone inside or outside to make a statement/ write an op-ed that points out that State’s technology is so antiquated that NO ONE uses a State-issued laptop and even high officials routinely end up using their home email accounts to be able to get their work done quickly and effectively. Further cuts to the State’s budget just make matters much, much worse. We actually need more funds to significantly upgrade our technology.<ref>Jones, Susan, [http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/clinton-2011-responded-email-about-hacking-concerns-and-woeful-state-dept "Clinton, in 2011, Responded to an Email About 'Hacking' Concerns and 'Woeful' State Dep't. Technology"], CNS News (3/17/16 at 10:19 AM EDT).</ref>}}

And Clinton agreed. They discussed a strategy to get more funding to improve things, but didn't want to go public with it out of fear of alerting enemies to another snafu. It doesn't seem to be an isolated issue: [[John Kerry]] was caught still using a private email account in December 2015.<ref>Schmidt, John S., [http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/kerry-used-private-email-to-send-clinton-now-classified-info/ "Defense Secretary Conducted Some Official Business on a Personal Email Account"], ''[[NYT]]'' 12.6.15.</ref> There's a long ''[[Daily Show]]'' segment (actually, several segments) covering in detail the complete inadequacy of the computer systems at the Department of Veterans Affairs and how it's made their job effectively impossible and defied any attempts to fix it.<ref>Lilley, Kevin, [http://www.armytimes.com/story/entertainment/2015/08/06/jon-stewart-vs-va-how-tv-host-raged-against-red-tape/31207623/ "Jon Stewart vs. VA: How TV host raged against red tape"], Army Times (8/6/15 at 1:27 p.m. EDT).</ref>

Slashing government funding has consequences, even if they're not immediate. In retrospect, it was brilliant on Republicans' part, because she [[Self-fulfilling prophecy|gets blamed]] for a lot of the fallout, e.g. cutting funding for embassy security after Clinton warned them that it would affect national security (but that's another topic.)

So why not just use a state.gov address? Well, here's where FOIA may come into play.  Clinton is a [[Paranoia|paranoid]] person,<ref>Glenn Thrush and Maggie Haberman, [http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/hillary-clinton-media-105901 "What Is Hillary Clinton Afraid Of?"], ''Politico Magazine'' May/June 2014.</ref> mostly because she has been under constant scrutiny for the last quarter-century. Most of those investigations have included [http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/?s=foia+hillary+clinton FOIA requests.] The Freedom of Information Act can perform its transparency function only when government employees follow the email guidelines.<ref>[http://www.newsweek.com/hillary-clinton-email-private-server-top-secret-362822 "Hillary Clinton's Emails: What You Need to Know"]. 13 August 2015. </ref> Clinton supporter and former Governor and senator of [[Nebraska]], Bob Kerrey, is disturbed by the email scandal: "It is about wanting to avoid the reach of citizens using FOIA to find out what their government is doing, and then not telling the truth about why she did."<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/04/us/politics/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton.html "Early Missteps Seen as a Drag on Bernie Sanders’s Campaign"]. ''The New York Times''. 4 April 2016. </ref>  Though she likely hasn't done anything [[crime|criminal]],<ref>Kirkland, Allegra, [http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/fbi-probe-hasnt-found-intent-clinton-emails "Reports: FBI So Far Finds No Malicious Intent In Clinton Email Probe"], TPM (5/6?16 at 10:18 AM EDT).</ref> her subsequent improper deletion of 30,000 emails violated the {{wpl|Federal Records Act||.}}<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/26/us/politics/state-department-hillary-clinton-emails.html "Hillary Clinton Is Criticized for Private Emails in State Dept. Review"]. ''The New York Times''. 26 May 2016. </ref> The [[FBI]] conducted a criminal investigation into this matter, and it appears that the use of the private server violates several federal criminal statutes.

On July 5, 2016, FBI director James Comey issued a statement that said that Clinton's use of the server was "careless", but that no criminal charges had been recommended:<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/05/fbi-no-charges-hillary-clinton-email-investigation FBI director recommends ‘no charges’ after ending Clinton email investigation], ''[[The Guardian]]'', July 5, 2016.</ref> 

{{quotebox|Comey said that the FBI could not find a case in the past that would support bringing criminal charges based upon the facts. The bureau did not find clearly intentional and willful mishandling of classified information or vast quantities of materials, or indications of disloyalty to the U.S. or efforts to obstruct justice.}}

More or less torpedoing the idea that blanket punishments should be applied severely and across all avenues of life.

Just days before election day, Comey thought that it would be a swell idea to forego the Justice Department's standards of election non-intervention to inform Congress of the discovery of new emails that could be "pertinent" to their previous investigation. This spurred a week-long media speculation-fest on what the emails could be, though they mostly turned out to be duplicates.<ref>[http://www.newsweek.com/what-fbi-found-emails-anthony-weiner-laptop-517652 "Here's What the FBI Found in the Emails on Anthony Weiner's Laptop"] ''Newsweek'', November 6, 2016.</ref>

===Hillary and big $$$===
From 2013 to 2015, Hillary Clinton made $2.9 million on 12 speeches to big banks<ref>Jilani2016-01-08T18:28:57+00:00, Zaid JilaniZaid. [https://theintercept.com/2016/01/08/hillary-clinton-earned-more-from-12-speeches-to-big-banks-than-most-americans-earn-in-their-lifetime/ "Hillary Clinton Made More in 12 Speeches to Big Banks Than Most of Us Earn in a Lifetime"]. </ref> and $225,000 from a single speech for Verizon Wireless<ref>Norton, Ben. [http://www.salon.com/2016/04/13/hillary_clinton_rakes_in_verizon_cash_while_bernie_sanders_supports_companys_striking_workers/ "Hillary Clinton rakes in Verizon cash while Bernie Sanders supports company’s striking workers"]. </ref> although there is nothing illegal about former Secretaries of State earning money on the speaking circuit. And according to sources in the industry, there is nothing unusual about someone with the name value of Hillary Clinton being able to charge so much.<ref>Devine, Drew Griffin, David Fitzpatrick and Curt (20 April 2016). [http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/20/news/economy/hillary-clinton-goldman-sachs/index.html "The truth about Hillary Clinton's Wall Street speeches"]. </ref>
It was later revealed that Hillary and her husband have raised over $3 billion over 41 years in charitable and campaign donations. The majority of the money ($2 billion) has gone to the Clinton Foundation.<ref>Gold, Matea; Hamburger, Tom; 19, Anu Narayanswamy Published on Nov; 2015. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/clinton-money/ "41 years. $3 billion. Inside the Clinton donor network."]. </ref> Her campaign has also accumulated $6.9 million from fossil fuel donations.<ref>[http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaign-updates/hillary-clintons-connection-oil-gas-industry/ "Hillary Clinton’s Connections to the Oil and Gas Industry"]. </ref><ref>[http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/04/01/how-hillary-clinton-bought-the-loyalty-of-33-state-democratic-parties/ "How Hillary Clinton Bought the Loyalty of 33 State Democratic Parties"]. 1 April 2016. </ref> The Hillary Victory Fund, a joint fundraising committee, has funneled $60 million in donations through 33 state-affiliated Democratic parties.<ref>[http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/clinton-fundraising-leaves-little-for-state-parties-222670 "Clinton fundraising leaves little for state parties"].</ref> This tactic had previously been used during her 2008 campaign run for the Democratic presidential nomination.<ref>Kopp, Emily. (June 10, 2017). [https://theintercept.com/2016/06/10/hillary-clinton-used-leadership-pac-as-slush-fund-in-2008-09/ Hillary Clinton Used Leadership PAC as "Slush Fund" in 2008-09]. ''The Intercept''.</ref>

To her credit, she called for more financial regulations after the [[Great Recession|2008 financial crisis]],<ref>{{cite news|last1=Carroll|first1=Lauren|title=[http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/jul/15/hillary-clinton/hillary-clinton-says-she-called-wall-street-regula/ Hillary Clinton says she called for Wall Street regulations early in the financial crisis]|accessdate=18 July 2016|work=Politifact|date=July 15, 2015}}</ref> but these regulations have been considered as weak tweaks and not an overhaul.<ref>Kwak, James. [http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/10/hillary-clintons-wall-street-plan/409873/ "Hillary Clinton's Weak Plans for Changing Wall Street"]. </ref> Her refusal to reinstate Glass-Steagall was criticized by Democratic presidential candidate Martin O'Malley.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Qiu|first1=Linda|title=[http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/oct/22/martin-omalley/omalley-hillary-clinton-doesnt-want-reinstate-glas/ O'Malley: Hillary Clinton doesn't want to reinstate Glass-Steagall]|accessdate=July 18, 2016|work=Politifact|date=October 22, 2015}}</ref>

To the delight of her non-wingnut detractors,<ref>[https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/724251400553828352 "Glenn Greenwald on Twitter"]. </ref> [[Koch brothers|Charles Koch]], the GOP billionaire mega-donor, intimated on ABC's ''This Week'' that "it's possible" Hillary Clinton would be a better president than anyone in the GOP field.<ref>News, A. B. C. (25 April 2016). [http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hillary-clinton-president-gop-pick-charles-koch/story?id=38622141 "'Possible' Clinton Could Be Better Than GOP Pick, Koch Says"]. </ref> Clinton tweeted that she didn't want his endorsement. Meanwhile, she also began a full-bore campaign to solicit money and support from right-wing Wall Street Republicans, including [[Jeb Bush]]'s former finance chair.<ref>[http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/hilary-clinton-bush-donors-222872 "Hillary forces target Bush donors"]. </ref>

===Israel===
Clinton has been described as "a staunch supporter of [[Israel]] for her entire career" by her own Super PAC<ref>[http://correctrecord.org/hillary-clinton-on-israel/ "Hillary Clinton on Israel"], via ''Correct the Record''. Info on ''Correct the Record'' can be found [http://www.factcheck.org/2016/01/correct-the-record/ here].</ref> and has even been willing to implicitly criticize Obama's position on Israel<ref>[http://matzav.com/hillary-clinton-breaks-silence-on-us-israel-tensions-under-obama-calls-for-return-of-%E2%80%98constructive%E2%80%99-relationship/ "Hillary Clinton Breaks Silence on US-Israel Tensions Under Obama, Calls for Return of 'Constructive' Relationship"]. ''Matzav''. </ref> in general and on Israel's prime minister, [[Benjamin Netanyahu]], in particular. One particularly hideous statement of hers came when she justified Israel's attacks on civilians in Gaza (i.e. a UN school housing refugees), claiming it "was impossible to know what happens in the fog of war", in sharp contrast to the Obama administration's condemnation of the "disgraceful" shelling when the UN found there to be no [[Hamas]] equipment or military activity near the school.<ref>[http://www.tikkun.org/nextgen/stephen-zunes-on-hillary-clintons-record-on-foreign-policy "Stephen Zunes on Hillary Clinton's Record on Foreign Policy"]. ''Tikkun''. </ref>

In November of 2015, she published an article in ''{{wpl|The Forward|The Jewish Daily Forward|'',}} declaring her strong support for Israel and declaring that "fighting for Israel isn’t just about policy — it’s a personal commitment to the friendship between our peoples."<ref>[http://forward.com/opinion/national/324013/how-i-would-rebuild-ties-to-israel-and-benjamin-neta/ "How I Would Reaffirm Unbreakable Bond With Israel — and Benjamin Netanyahu"]. ''forward.com''. </ref> Clinton omitted all reference to Israeli settlements in the West Bank as well as the siege and bombings of Gaza.<ref>[http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/11/palestinians-in-occupied-territories-need-protection.html "OPINION: Palestinians in occupied territories need protection"]. ''aljazeera.com''. </ref> In her ''Open Letter to Hillary Clinton from a Young Palestinian Feminist,'' about the ''Forward'' piece, Layali Awwad wrote, "when you chose to speak about my homeland, not once did you mention Israel's human rights violations against Palestinian women and children." In her widely circulated letter, Awwad asked, "Did you know that half of Palestinians are women and girls? Did you know that like our brothers, we also live under military occupation and that Israeli settlers steal our land?"<ref>Layali Awwad Student, Kenyon College (9 November 2015). [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/layali-awwad/hillary-clinton-palestine_b_8513966.html "Open Letter to Hillary Clinton from a Young Palestinian Feminist"]. ''huffingtonpost.com''. </ref>  At AIPAC 2016, Hillary attacked racist antisemitic lunatic [[Donald Trump]] for his antisemitic [[dog whistles]], seizing on the opportunity to pander to Trump's right-wing supporters by attacking his promise to allegedly "stay neutral on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict". She also denounced the {{wpl|Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions}} movement (as she has done before),<ref>Jacobs, Ben (7 July 2015). [http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/07/hillary-clinton-anti-israel-boycott-bds-movement "Hillary Clinton condemns anti-Israel boycotts as 'counter-productive'"]. ''The Guardian''. </ref> endorsing an even stronger and more hawkish alliance with Israel.<ref>[http://www.juancole.com/2016/03/hillary-clinton-goes-full-neocon-at-aipac-demonizes-iran-palestinians.html "Hillary Clinton goes full Neocon at AIPAC, Demonizes Iran, Palestinians"]. ''juancole.com''. </ref><ref>Goldberg, Michelle (21 March 2016). [http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/03/hillary_clinton_s_aipac_speech_was_a_symphony_of_craven_delusional_pandering.html "Hillary Clinton's AIPAC Speech Was a Symphony of Craven, Delusional Pandering"] &ndash; via Slate.</ref>

===Being wrong about Nancy Reagan and AIDS===
[[File:Reagans with the Clintons.jpg|thumb|right|Reagans with the Clintons in 1987.]]
[[LGBT]] activists and their allies, especially those who lived through the terror-filled decade of the 1980s, were outraged and furious<ref>[https://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/dan-savage-clinton-crediting-nancy-reagan-for-helping-aids-victims-is-a-fcking-lie/ "Dan Savage: Clinton crediting Nancy Reagan for helping AIDS victims is a ‘f*cking lie’"]. </ref> when Hillary Clinton took the occasion of Nancy Reagan's funeral to state:
{{cquote|It may be hard for your viewers to remember how difficult it was for people to talk about [[HIV/AIDS]] back in the 1980s. And because of both President and Mrs. Reagan – in particular, Mrs. Reagan – we started a national conversation, when before nobody would talk about it. Nobody wanted anything to do with it.|||Hillary Clinton on MSNBC}}
It seems, however, the [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]] White House laughed about AIDS<ref>[http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2014/12/flashback-reagan-white-house-thought-aids-was-pretty-hilarious-1982 "Flashback: The Reagan White House Thought AIDS Was Pretty Hilarious"]. </ref> and would not publicly address it, much less authorize sufficient funding for treatment or a cure,<ref>[http://sfaf.org/hiv-info/hot-topics/from-the-experts/2011-02-reagans-legacy.html "Reagan's Legacy - San Francisco AIDS Foundation"].</ref> at a time when tens of thousands of gay men were being stricken by this severe and then-fatal disease.<ref>[http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/Reagan-s-AIDS-Legacy-Silence-equals-death-2751030.php "Reagan's AIDS Legacy / Silence equals death"]. </ref> There is no evidence that Nancy Reagan cared about the plague taking so many young lives; her silence was deafening.

Hillary Clinton's praise for Nancy Reagan elicited an immediate and angry backlash on social media, and several hours later, she "apologized" on Twitter for having "misspoken". This apology caused more anger, with long-time activist [[Dan Savage]] decreeing: "Not. Good. Enough."<ref>[https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2016/03/11/23698621/hillary-clinton-the-reagans-particularly-nancy-helped-start-a-national-conversation-about-hiv-and-aids "Hillary Clinton: "The Reagans, particularly Nancy, helped start 'a national conversation' about HIV and AIDS.""]. </ref> Hillary followed with issuing an apology, noting that the national conversation on HIV and AIDS was started by "generations of brave lesbian, gay, bisexual, and [[transgender]] people, along with straight allies, who started not just a conversation but a movement that continues to this day"<ref>{{cite news|last1=Clinton|first1=Hillary|title=[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hillary-clinton/on-the-fight-against-hiv-and-aids_b_9450474.html On the Fight Against HIV and AIDS — and on the People Who Really Started the Conversation]|accessdate=July 19, 2016|work=The Huffington Post|date=March 13, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Clinton|first1=Hillary|title=[https://medium.com/hillary-for-america/on-the-fight-against-hiv-and-aids-and-on-the-people-who-really-started-the-conversation-7b9fc00e6ed8 On the fight against HIV and AIDS—and on the people who really started the conversation.]|accessdate=July 20, 2016|work=Medium|date=March 13, 2016}}</ref> but failing to address the issue of the Reagans' terrible record in acknowledging the AIDS [[epidemic]]. This is not so much a Clinton scandal as a personal shortcoming, i.e., a not uncommon failure to remember recent history. The offended community would doubtless be less offended were Clinton now president, by comparison.

===Courting the paranormal vote!===
In 1996, it was reported that Clinton talked with the dead, notably [[Mahatma Gandhi]] and Eleanor Roosevelt, with the help of "Mystery School" founder Jean Houston.<ref>[http://www.cnn.com/US/9606/22/hillary.book/ "CNN - Book says Hillary talks to dead - June 22, 1996"]. </ref><ref>[http://skepdic.com/houston.html "Jean Houston and The Mystery School - The Skeptic's Dictionary - Skepdic.com"]. </ref>  Clinton confirmed the talks but downplayed them as a somewhat common [[thought experiment]]. On her talks with Eleanor, "I occasionally have imaginary conversations with Mrs. Roosevelt to try to figure out what she would do in my shoes. She usually responds by telling me to buck up or at least to grow skin as thick as a rhinoceros." Clinton wrote.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/24/us/white-house-plays-down-a-new-age-visitor.html "White House Plays Down a New Age Visitor"]. ''The New York Times''. 24 June 1996. </ref> Hillary and her husband now joke about "communing with the dead",<ref>roosevelt Islander, (17 October 2012). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvIQrYe0Iz4&feature=youtu.be&t=1m15s "President Bill Clinton Visits Roosevelt Island Today"] &ndash; via YouTube.</ref> and sites like WND take them literally.<ref>[http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/eleanor-roosevelt-talked-to-hillary-this-week/ "Hillary ‘talking to famous dead American’"]. </ref>

In 2016 it was reported that Clinton believes [[extraterrestrial]]s have ''likely'' visited [[Earth]].<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/11/us/politics/hillary-clinton-aliens.html "Hillary Clinton Gives U.F.O. Buffs Hope She Will Open the X-Files"]. ''The New York Times''. 11 May 2016. </ref> Her in-depth knowledge about [[Ufology|UFO terminology]] and willingness to disclose information the US government is supposedly withholding has gained her the confidence of Joseph Buchman and other believers in [[Area 51]] conspiracies.

===Other woo===
Hillary's friendship with Dr. Mark Hyman has led her to rely on him concerning health matters, despite his history of advocating an [[alternative medicine]] called "functional medicine".<ref>Gorski, David. (April 21, 2014) [http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2014/04/21/bill-and-hillary-clinton-embrace-functional-medicine/ "Bill and Hillary Clinton embrace the quackery that is functional medicine"]. ''ScienceBlogs''.</ref>

In 2008, Clinton responded to a question about the causal relationship between [[vaccine]]s and [[autism]] by promising to invest in research on possible environmental causes of autism, including vaccines.<ref>Cohen, Rebecca. (February 3, 2015) [http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/02/hillary-clinton-vaccine-tweet "Hillary Clinton just said all kids should get vaccinated—but she wasn't always so certain"]. ''Mother Jones''. Retrieved on 31 July 2016.</ref> She openly stated that it was unknown whether or not vaccines can cause autism despite the claim being thoroughly debunked at that time.<ref>Allen, Arthur (August 2, 2005). [http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2005/08/sticking_up_for_thimerosal.html "Sticking Up for Thimerosal"]. 
Retrieved on 31 July 2016 &ndash; via Slate.</ref>{{efn|What would [[Donald Trump]] have to say about autism and vaccines? That they are unrelated? No such luck.<ref>Entis, Laura. (February 16, 2017) [http://fortune.com/2017/02/16/donald-trump-autism-vaccines/ Donald Trump Has Long Linked Autism to Vaccines. He Isn’t Stopping Now That He’s President.] ''Fortune''.</ref>}}

===The Clinton hate mill===
{{cquote|Everything about this campaign, and everything about this candidate, was rotten from the very start. Mrs. Clinton has the most unappetizing combination of qualities to be met in many days’ march: she is a tyrant and a bully when she can dare to be, and an ingratiating populist when that will serve. She will sometimes appear in the guise of a “strong woman” and sometimes in the softer garb of a winsome and vulnerable female. She is entirely un-self-critical and quite devoid of reflective capacity, and has never found that any of her numerous misfortunes or embarrassments are her own fault, because the fault invariably lies with others. And, speaking of where things lie, she can in a close contest keep up with her husband for mendacity. Like him, she is not just a liar but a lie; a phoney construct of shreds and patches and hysterical, self-pitying, demagogic improvisations.|||[[Christopher Hitchens]], ''No One Left to Lie To'', p. 148.}}

One reviewer of ''No One Left to Lie To'' said Hitchens "is appalled by virtually everything the President (Clinton) does."<ref>Lehrman, Karen. (May 9, 1999). [http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/05/09/reviews/990509.09lehrkt.html 10,000 Things I Hate About You]. ''The New York Times''. </ref> This variety of wild polemic has become quite popular in American politics, and there is a plethora of anti-Clinton literature made for readers who already dislike the Clintons.<ref>Lozada, Carlos. (October 7, 2016) [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/book-party/wp/2016/10/07/these-books-will-help-you-hate-hillary-clinton-but-only-if-you-already-do/ These books will help you hate Hillary Clinton. But only if you already do.]. ''The Washington Post''.</ref>

==Republican nicknames==
*HillDog
*Crooked Hillary<ref>{{cite news|last1=Buchanan|first1=Neil H.|title=[http://europe.newsweek.com/why-do-so-many-liberals-fall-crooked-hillary-smear-479824 In Opinion: Why do so many liberals fall in with the "Crooked Hillary" smear?]|accessdate=July 19, 2016|work=Newsweek|date=July 17, 2016}}</ref> 
*Killary Klinton<ref group=note>Referencing either [http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/bodycount.asp the Clinton Kill List], [http://www.snopes.com/clinton-byrd-photo-klan/ "Clinton kissing a KKK leader" (note the K's)], discredited [[Benghazi]] nonsense or [[Hillary Clinton#Liberal progressivism|Clinton's alleged hawkishness]] in military affairs.</ref>
*[[Shill]]ary<ref>{{cite web|title=[https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/468q6h/why_are_people_referring_to_fmr_sec_clinton_as/ Why are people referring to Fmr. Sec. Clinton as Shillary?]|website=/r/OutOfTheLoop|publisher=Reddit}}</ref>
*[[Godwin's Law|Hitlery]]
*Hildebeest
*Hilla the Hun
*The Butcher of Benghazi
*The Bitch of Wall Street
*Wicked Witch of the West Wing

==See also==
*[[Bill Clinton]] - her infamous husband.
*[[Barack Obama]]

==Videos==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Hpce0faSaFA DNC in a nutshell.] {{---}} "They're shouting boo-urns."
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgcd1ghag5Y "We came, we saw, he died!"] {{---}} No wonder Americans voted for the other guy.
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=135&v=eY9zpv7nZYo "I don't believe you change hearts."] {{---}} Jokes aside, Hillary's downfall was that she doesn't have the patience for the emotionalism which passes for politics.

==External links==
*[http://i.imgur.com/sOzIBPY.jpg Jinkies!]
*[http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/256655-hillary-i-dont-sweat-because-im-a-robot Hillary Clinton: "I don't sweat... because I'm a robot."]{{onion}} 
*[https://i.redditmedia.com/Sp3cjK_lFFyVgG3MTvly2BN4XwGXHov6W5EecYRV3YA.png?w=1024&s=07cc4da28ea4706d9b981658c183d897 Even in Hillary's own subreddit, Bernie gets twice as many upvotes every time he Tweets.]
*[https://twitter.com/CNN/status/796466143301136384 Hillary Clinton's planned celebration party had confetti cannons filled to look like broken glass, symbolizing the glass ceiling] - #PrematureCelebration
*[http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/1992/05/hillary-clinton-first-lady-presidency?src=longreads&utm_content=buffer53b0a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer What Hillary Wants], ''Vanity Fair'' (from 1992)
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20080526161406/http://men.style.com/gq/features/landing?id=content_6249 The Hillary Haters], ''GQ''
*[http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/11/21/quiz-which-election-does-this-hillary-clinton-speculation-belong-to/ Which election does this Hillary Clinton speculation belong to?], ''Washington Post''
*[http://wikipediocracy.com/2015/08/05/hillary-yoghurt-rodham-clinton-wikipedia-and-titles/ Hillary Yoghurt Rodham Clinton] on ''Wikipediocracy'', a fun article relating to article titles on [[Wikipedia]]
*[https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/ WikiLeaks's searchable archive on her State Department emails]
*[https://youtu.be/zGnbg7mttVE Hillary Clinton - GOAT Edition] – a copious amount of Clinton [[goat]].

==Notes==
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==References==
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