HILLARY'S PROBLEM

After an election, the loser gets blasted for "running a terrible " campaign.  It happened to Romney and now it is Hillery's turn.  but I  think her problem is not that she ran a terrible campaign but that she ran a campaign too good for the time.

The media keeps saying that no one knows what the Democratic Party stands for, but it is very simple.  The Democratic Party stands for Fairness and Justice For All.  The Republican Party may claim they are for Fairness and Justice except they can't add the For All.

Thus Democrats and Hillary have supported the cases of women, minorities and the LGBT community.  This can be tricky as some fell she has not done enough for them.   A rebel group of young Latinos seems to like Hillary's views but they just don't trust her (http://www.latinorebels.com/2016/05/11/why-young-people-of-color-are-rejecting-hillary-clinton/).
I hope they like what they got.  If it comes to who I would pick between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on the trust issue, I know who I would pick.  Hint: the name has a W and a C in it.

Hillary tried to adopt where she could, e.g. came out against TPP, but couldn't adopt enough for her principles.  Besides, people felt she was lying about her opposition to TPP.  I ho[e she was.

The news media didn't like her and actually published more negative things about her and fewer positive things about her than for Donald Trump than all other major candidates (https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2016/04/15/media-analysis-shows-hillary-clinton-has-received-most-negative-stories-least-positive-stories-all/209945).  The news media typed her and once you get typed by the media, it is almost impossible to change it.

Consider:  Democrats are FOR an increase in the minimum wage that has remained static since 2009  Republicans are AGAINST it, and some would like to get rid of it.  We are actually living in a Republican "Heaven" age of low wages, and as a result, companies are making a lot of money passing little or none of it on to their workers.  German automobile companies think of the American South as a third world country and are happy to make cars there, even for export.  The BMW Spartanburg, South Carolina, plant is the biggest exporter of cars from America.*  Honda assembles more cars in America than it does in Japan.*

Consider: Hillery has had a lifelong interest in the betterment of children since graduating from law school.  Her first job was with the Children's Defense Fund.  She even published a book, "It Takes A Village To Raise A child."  As a Senator, she worked hard to get a bill passed (Children's Health Insurance Program or CHIP)  to provide health care for 8 million needy children.**  She was a co-sponsor of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the first act President Obama signed into law.

Consider: "White Americans need to do a better job at listening when African Americans talk about the seen and unseen barriers they face every day," she said. "Practice humility rather than assume that our experience is everyone’s experiences."***
Hillary has had a long association with Hispanics going as far back as 1972.
Garry Mauro, one of her first contacts in Texas, told the San Antonio Express in 2008 that back then she had a "cultural affinity with Hispanics," asking questions and listening to their concerns, a dynamic that would be on display again, more than three decades later in Nevada, as she tried to woo an influential Latino activist.***

Consider: And we will defend, we will defend all our rights. Civil rights, human rights and voting rights. Women’s rights and workers’ rights. LGBT rights and the rights of people with disabilities.”

Hillary's speeches seem to have been continually criticized by the press.  I heard a number of her speeches, and they seemed very good to me.  At first, it was that she was too serious, so she smiled more and sometimes even gave her famous belly laugh.

A big issue became Hillary's marriage to Bill Clinton.  Some women, mostly younger, blame her for not getting divorced over her husband's infidelities.  Whatever happened to "Until death do us part." in the marriage ceremony?  There are lots of wives who put up with their husband's infidelities and even married a man they knew beforehand would be unfaithful (an example is Dolores Hope, wife of Bob Hope who stayed married for 69 yrs.).

Hillary was accused of enabling her husband's escapades, but these people don't know about enabling.  If you are going to stay married, you are an enabler.  To divorce is to create a broken family if you think that is good.  I have written about this elsewhere (http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2016/10/enabling.html).

I do not understand so many women's criticism of Bill Clinton in the Monica Lewinski affair as she did come on to him and even tried to get him to get divorced.  In my day she would have been considered a home wrecker.  It seems that women feel that the age of 22 is still childhood.  I have a suggestion, get the statutory rape act extended to whatever age women feel is adulthood.

* https://www.bmwusfactory.com/bmw_articles/bmw-manufacturing-remains-largest-u-s-automotive-exporter/
https://www.cars.com/articles/2012/04/which-foreign-owned-carmakers-build-the-most-in-america/
** http://www.politifact.com/colorado/statements/2016/feb/17/hillary-clinton/hillary-clinton-wrong-sanders-claim/
https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/womens-rights-and-opportunity/
*** https://www.vox.com/2016/2/22/11069158/hillary-clinton-in-harlem
https://www.buzzfeed.com/adriancarrasquillo/hillary-clinton-has-deep-history-with-latinos-and-theres-not?utm_term=.ruxMKv0XPW#.yv38EK3pyl
**** https://www.colorlines.com/articles/every-time-hillary-clinton-mentioned-people-color-during-her-dnc-speech