Hillary Clinton at Simpson
A year from today, the new president will be enjoying his or her first full day in office.
When Sec. Clinton was at Simpson College today, I went to the event willing to hear her side of things. I had only seen her once before and had never heard her speak.
Over and over, she attempted to hit the GOP. For someone who preaches inclusiveness and working together, she had some pretty heinous remarks about her peers.
First, she insinuated that GOP candidates hire people to attend their events (because the stories she was hearing on the trail were different from the ones they were reporting on in their stump speeches, even though it’s pretty clear that the voters at either event would have different views of the issues anyway). By that reasoning, Republicans could accuse her of the same. We all know both of those accusations would be ridiculous. The point is that Hillary is the one making them. Joking or not, it takes away from the legitimacy of issues that GOP voters care about and their perspective.
She also addressed that we were losing jobs overseas. The answer to that is to decrease the corporate tax rate and create incentives to come back to the U.S. Not raise the corporate tax rate, already one of the highest in the world, and create more bureaucratic hoops to jump through.
She said that when people accuse her of using the gender card, she welcomes it — “Deal me in!” We should vote for the person most ready to run the country, not based off of what they look like. Every time she says to put a woman in the White House and people cheer, I don’t understand why that can’t be a Republican woman and why we picture exclusively Hillary Clinton and not Carly Fiorina. Carly, in my experience has worked hard not to play the gender card and to actually prove that she deserves the presidency on her own merit and not because she is a woman.
My favorite quotation was that “it doesn’t matter, if someone does something that’s against the law, they go to jail.” It seems as though Hillary got herself into murky water with her email scandal, and some would say she broke the law. Sharing classified documents on a private email address, telling a staffer to remove a high security clearance on a document so that the information was easier shared and sent, and even telling an aide that another staffer ought not be using his private email address to send and receive State Dept. emails.
Hillary’s stop at Simpson was interesting and showed she is an extremely talented speaker, but I expected more.
