"Voting Hillary" for Dummies

There is a reason blogging has a lowbrow reputation, and it is mainly because of the poor thought process behind some blog posts. Today's example is from a blog called "The Contrarian Blogger", who can't be much of a contrarian if he is voting for Hillary Clinton.

In a post entitled, "The Moron’s Case For Hillary Clinton…because some of you really are that stupid." On the bright side, the author is correct about his readership being stupid. But I digress...

In this post, he provides a list of Hillary's accomplishments, which is just too precious to avoid comment (my comments are in italics):

• First ever student commencement speaker at Wellesley College. Obama was elected for his speaking abilities too. That was a mistake.
• Distinguished graduate of Yale Law School. Another Ivy League lawyer? Ted Kaczynski was an Ivy League graduate too.
• Editorial board of the Yale Review of Law and Social Action. Edgar Allan Poe could write too, but he would make an awful president.
• Co-founded Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families. Another community organizer? Didn't we get enough of that over the past 8 years?
• Former civil litigation attorney. She also got a child rapist off on a technicality.
• Staff attorney for Children’s Defense Fund. See last comment.
• Faculty member in the School of Law at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Ted Kaczynski was a college professor after he graduated too.
• Former Director of the Arkansas Legal Aid Clinic. She might not have even gone to Arkansas if she hadn't failed the D.C. bar exam.
• First female chair of the Legal Services Corporation. She was appointed by President Jimmy Carter. 'Nuff said.
• First female partner at Rose Law Firm, the oldest and one of the largest law firms in Arkansas. Whitewater! Cattle futures! Fun times!
• Twice named by The National Law Journal as one of the 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America. Translation: "Influential lawyer" means "sold soul to Devil, who is waiting to collect".
• Former First Lady of Arkansas. She married well!
• Arkansas Woman of the Year in 1983. Being First Lady has its perks.
• Chair of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession. Don't forget she's a lawyer!
• Created Arkansas’s Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youth. I bet she did this all by herself, without any help from staff at all...NOT! Remember, this is the same woman who got a child rapist off on a technicality, and then laughed about it afterwards.
• Instrumental in passage of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. Because we have to give welfare to the little people so we can stay in power.
• First Lady of the United States. She married well, redux!
• Promoted nationwide immunization against childhood illnesses. I've advocated for things too. Where's my credit?
• Successfully sought to increase research funding for prostate cancer and childhood asthma at the National Institutes of Health. Isn't it fun to tell the government how to spend money, since none if it is ours anyway?
• Worked to investigate reports of an illness that affected veterans of the Gulf War (now recognized as Gulf War Syndrome). What is "worked to investigate reports"? Mind you, it doesn't mean she actually did any of the actual "work". My money is on staff doing it. "Huma, come in here a minute..."
• Helped create the Office on Violence Against Women at the Department of Justice. About time she did some penance for enabling her rapist husband.
• Initiated and shepherded the Adoption and Safe Families Act. As FLOTUS, she got a bill through Congress which takes children away from their natural parents when they have been in foster care for 15 out of the last 22 months. Why that particular length of time? It was a decision negotiated by politicians. In other words, it was arbitrary.
• First FLOTUS in US History to hold a postgraduate degree. She graduated from law school AND married well!
• Helped create Vital Voices, an international initiative to promote the participation of women in the political processes of their countries. Community organizing, on an international scale!
• Two-term New York Senator and the first ex-FLOTUS in US History to be elected to the United States Senate. She married well, then used her name recognition to get elected to the Senate. Brilliant! 
• Served on five Senate committees: Budget (2001–2002), Armed Services (2003–2009), Environment and Public Works (2001–2009), Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (2001–2009) and the Special Committee on Aging. While in the Senate, she did things senators do.
• Member of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Because we all know how insecure and uncooperative Europeans are...
• Leading role in investigating the health issues faced by 9/11 first responders. After her husband ignored the Al Qaeda issue for 8 years and left the problem to the Bush administration.
• Worked with Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York on securing $21.4 billion in funding for the World Trade Center redevelopment. Because the private sector would never have constructed a skyscraper on New York City prime real estate.
• Former United States Secretary of State. Where she broke the law and used a private and unsecure email server, allowing hackers to access her classified communications.
• Brokered a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas in 2012. Which both sides later violated.

While I kid her, she has done some good things. But there are many people in this country who have done good things, and that doesn't make them qualified for the presidency. All politicians have laundry lists like the one above, but that doesn't qualify them for higher office. Especially when every good thing in that list above does not outweigh her Nixonian behavior, which is conveniently overlooked.