Bernie Sanders has won several primaries in a row, and now his campaign is going negative about Hillary Clinton. I won’t contend that her record is immaculate, just that it is long and strong.
Clinton has strived and stumbled and prevailed through an extended career like no other politician on the national stage today. Sanders has been around a long while, but he carries a smaller bag of accomplishments. He has a big issue inside his bag, but it’s a one-note issue, and little else accompanies it.
Clinton is a Democratic insider, while Sanders has been an outsider all his career. Outsiders can sit on solitary roosts, but they need help from colleagues to pass legislation.
Clinton has stumped for Democratic candidates ever since her college days. She knows that a sympathetic Congress is needed to move her agenda forward. In March, Clinton raised $6 million to support Democratic national and state candidates; Sanders raised nothing.
As for trust: Clinton is accused of hiding everything, but she is the only candidate who has posted her full tax returns for all to see. Sanders hasn’t.
Not all of Clinton’s decisions have turned out right, but she has been there, making decisions at the time based on information that was available at the time. Other candidates can judge the past from the sidelines and bluster about what they will do in the future but their ambitions are more obvious than their skills.
I want political sense and sensibility to be advanced over the next four years. I want Hillary Clinton to be the next president.
Bob Young
South Portland
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