(Since my daily diaries don’t seem to be getting many views, and I don’t want to clutter the diary list, after today I will only be updating my original 100 Reasons diary. Big thanks to all who have been giving me encouragement to continue by tipping my daily posts!)
60 days til the election, reason #40/100 why we all should vote for Hillary
Throwback Thursday: she was on the debate team in high school. Clearly she knows how to structure an articulate argument and take down an opponent with verbal ninja skill. I am very much looking forward to seeing her debate on the Presidential stage.
59 days til the election, reason #41/100 why we all should vote for Hillary
She sweats the details. In her historic acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention, she said
whether we're talking about the exact level of lead in the drinking water in Flint, Michigan, the number of mental health facilities in Iowa, or the cost of your prescription drugs. Because it's not just a detail if it's your kid, if it's your family. It's a big deal. And it should be a big deal to your president.
This was also one of the many reasons given by former CIA head Michael Morrell for his endorsement of Clinton in an Op Ed in the New York Times.
I spent four years working with Mrs. Clinton when she was secretary of state, most often in the White House Situation Room. In these critically important meetings, I found her to be prepared, detail-oriented, thoughtful, inquisitive and willing to change her mind if presented with a compelling argument.
My training as an intelligence officer taught me to call it as I see it. This is what I did for the C.I.A. This is what I am doing now. Our nation will be much safer with Hillary Clinton as president.
58 days til the election, reason #42/100 why we all should vote for Hillary
Moody's says her economic plan would add 10 million jobs. money.cnn.com/...
Moody's Analytics estimates that if the Democratic presidential nominee's proposals are enacted, the economy would create 10.4 million jobs during her presidency, or 3.2 million more than expected under current law.
The pace of GDP growth would also accelerate to an annual average of 2.7%, from the current forecast of 2.3%.
“The upshot of our analysis is that Secretary Clinton's economic policies when taken together will result in a stronger U.S. economy under almost any scenario," Moody's writes in its report.
57 days til the election, reason #43/100 why we all should vote for Hillary
She has vowed torepeal the Hyde amendment which bans the use of federal Medicaid dollars to pay for abortions, putting up a nearly impenetrable barrier for low income women who may need the medical procedure. Even if she does not succeed in overturning the ban, we can trust that she will defend President Obama's recent move to permanently protect funding for Planned Parenthood.
56 days til the election, reason #44/100 why we all should vote for Hillary
(9/11 edition) This week, WNYC released audio tapes from the weeks and months following the attacks on the World Trade Center. They reveal the junior senator from New York, Hillary Clinton, as a fierce, personally involved champion of her constituents in Manhattan.
As background information for the audios, WNYC wrote:
Of all the varied chapters of Hillary Clinton’s tumultuous 30 years in public life, the story of her response to the Twin Towers attacks is one of the richest in terms of the clues it provides as to what to expect from a Clinton presidency. It reveals elements of her character, of her domestic policy strengths, as well as her tendency to lean towards the hawkish side in international affairs.
Richard Alles was on the smoldering pile on Sept. 12, the day after the attacks, when Clinton turned up and proclaimed: “This attack on New York is an attack on America, it’s an attack on every American. Alles, then a uniformed fire fighter with Battalion 58 in Canarsie, Brooklyn, arrived at Ground Zero 20 minutes after the second tower collapsed and stayed there for two days and nights seeking survivors amid the ruins. What struck him most about Clinton that day, he said, was her “compassion."“She really went out of her way to speak to the first responders on the site to reassure them. I never forgot it,” he said.
Other sources report that she "moved mountains" to secure aid for first responders, injured civilians, and the city of New York, and "doctors who monitored the (Trader Center) workers' health credited Clinton with steering $12-million to a Centers for Disease Control program for that work. "