Friday, March 13, 2015

On Thursday morning March 12th, Smirking Chimp's blogger Ted Rall wrote an article titled, "Her Bad! Again, Hillary Reveals Her Terrible Judgement." Rall informs the reader of Hillary Clinton's many indiscretions, her poor judgement, and poor political decision making. He doesn't think highly of Clinton or her political decisions. The author wants to inform the public about Hillary Clinton because of the possibility of her running in the next presidential election. He stated, " ..Whether a person with such bad judgment should be trusted with nuclear launch codes at 3 am." He makes a valid point in his article.

As Secretary of State in 2009 she opted to use a private email account with her personal one and not use an official .gov one issued by the State Department. There have been many scandals with government officials deleting emails, partaking in illegal activities and there was a regulation that required government employees to keep their all of their emails. Clinton had made a statement that she "doesn't want her personal emails made public" however the author under covers the irony of her statement. She voted for the USA Patriot Act, which authorized the NSA to intercept everyone's phone calls, emails and everything else.

She was one of the many senators who voted with Bush to invade Iraq even though, she was one of six senators that had read a secret 96 page National Intelligence on Saddam Hussein's Weapons of Mass Destruction programs. It was clear there was no solid evidence of Weapons of Mass Destruction and yet, they still invaded Iraq. "I thought I had acted in good faith and made the est decision I could with the information i had.. And I wasn't alone in getting it wrong. But I still got it wrong."

I agree with Rall and his point. It makes me, as a future voter and as a concerned citizen question if she's qualified to be the next president. I think Rall did a great job informing the public in an easy to read article.

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